1919
One of '19's bachelors who has been identified with the White Plains, New York, school system for many years has made news recently for Hanover.
Howard S. (Teto) Webster, perennial visitor to the Campus, class of '19, came back to Hanover this year for a quiet wedding and honeymoon in October. He and his bride, the former Mrs. Shirley Eas'y Ellis of White Plains, were married on Saturday, October 20, 1945, at the Church of Christ, the Rev. Chester B. Fisk officiating. Mrs. Del Ives served as matron of honor, and Max Norton as best man. After a week's sojourn at the Inn, the couple re turned to White Plains.
Says Max Norton: "It was a real pleasure to have had a small part in this big event. Mrs Webster is very attractive, and we all will be looking forward to greeting Teto and his bride at our next Reunion."
If Teto saw plans for conversion of North and South Fayerweather to apartments for young married students, he may have been tempted to try for another degree at Dartmouth.
Max adds: "The following members have been recent visitors to Hanover: Ray Adams of Springfield, Vermont, who spoke at the local' Rotary Club dinner; Bob Smith of Providence, Rhode Island, who visits us periodically. He is' in the investment business; Lt. Col. Jigger Merrill who anticipates reasonably soon being released from active duty; Gene Neeley's daughter and her husband (Mr. and Mrs. Locke) who spent a night at the Hanover Inn and whom I had the pleasure of taking for a bit of a tour about the campus the following day. It was good to see Mrs. Locke and get first-hand information about her dad.
Commodore Paul Halloran was over here over the weekend, and it was a real pleasure to visit with him about his experiences and accomplishments.
Ralph Meader was recently elevated to rank of captain in our Navy. Congratulations! Few reach such rank in the Navy who were not Annapolis graduates. Ask Commodore Paul Halloran.
"Batch" Batchelder, who has travelled much of late, writes:
The first person we saw when we drove into the Emma Willard School at Troy to enter our daughter there was Stew Russell who was there for the same purpose.
At Hanover recently, I had nice talks with Max Norton and John Williams. It was the weekend of the Penn game and so Bill McCarter was in Philadelphia.
On Monday, Phil and Helen Bird and I did a little reunioning. They had come in the previous day from Fred Balch's party in Philadelphia following the Penn game.
Phil is building a rendezvous for our '19 brethren near Harding Beach in West Chatham, Mass. It will be open for business next summer.
Chet Gale, securities expert with Trubee, Collins, and Co., of Buffalo, reports on a week's fishing trip at his Club in Western Quebec, where with Emily, Chet Jr. and Dick, seven years old, he found more activity than during a Bear Raid on the Market. What with teaching the boys how to handle fly rods, casting rods and (ram rods after duck shooting) Chet had to return home for a rest. He reports that the duck, partridge, speckled and grey trout were delicious. Chet's comment on President Dickey is well worth while. "Dickey looks enough like 'Hoppy' to be his son. The Trustees must have figured if he looks like 'Hoppy,' he will fill the bill and be another great leader."
Bill Stedman and Red Colwell were among those present at New Haven where warm weather did very little to assist in making an average football game look exciting. Yale did not fumble and made fewer mistakes in other departments. Frost and Alexander seemed to stand out on the Dartmouth team.
Russ Potter heads a new committee at the New York Dartmouth Club, "Public Relations."
Louis Munro has finally found a home in Locust Valley, L. I., and moved Harriet and family from Cohasset to a point not so far removed from the New York office of Doremus and Co.
'Buster" Professor Harwood L. Childs has returned to Princeton after. serving two years in the office of War Information. We judged that he will again fill the chair of Associate Professor of Politics at the University.
Larry Eastman has also assumed new rank in the Navy. He was promoted to captain from commander. Congratulations!
Tracy Kohl still holds forth at Plains Hotel, Cheyenne Wells, Colorado Byron Long, recently released from active duty as an army captain* has returned to his lumber business, c/o E. Hines, Pacific Coast Lumber Co., Portland, Oregon Col. Will I. Levy is now at the St. Regis Hotel in New York Walter Aylesworth is back in Princess Anne, Md., where he is practicing his profession as an engineer.
Clifford Belknap, Captain, Engrs. AUS has transferred from Newton Center, Mass., to St. Johnsbury, Vt., and John Berry recently with the War Production Board in Boston has joined Emory-Waterhouse Co. of Portland, Maine.
In looking through the fine report covering '19's 15th Reunion, edited and published by Jim Davis, we note 106 men present and 53 wives. Prominently featured in Pictures by McCrillis, Bresnahan and others, are Jock Murray, Norm Jeavons, Cotty Larmon, Bob Procter, Stew Russell, Rock Hayes, Art O'Neill, Jack Clark, Chet Gale, Burp Austin, Jim Davis, Max Norton, Bill Eddy, and Del Ames. What a list; and most of them due to return to Hanover for our 25 th in June 1946.
The January Class Notes will tell a story of Reunion Committees, of coming events, and why no one can afford to miss this great opportunity to gather as a Class once again on the old Campus.
Soon comes a definite Date. Please save it.
Dartmouth Night in New York brought eighteen members of the class together; with- out question the largest single delegation of Alumni from any class to attend the festivities.
Ex-club President Batchelder, Jack Moriarty, and Red Colwell were among the early arrivals and discussion of Reunion in June produced several ideas which will be worked out by the Reunion committee.
George Rand, Fat Jackson, and Mai Drane spent part of the evening looking for Brother Dekes from other classes.
Mose Robinson, Jack Clark, Art O'Neil, Bill Smith, Bri Greeley, Louie Munro, Hal Davidson, Hal Parsons, and Bill Hooven were found among the milling horde not far from the Club Bar.
It was a real treat to welcome Commander Henry Siegbert, just released from his duties as a Naval Officer and on terminal leave. Heinie spent most of his war days in staff work in Washington and on ship-board in the South Atlantic.
Bill McCarter, as main speaker of the evening, followed Tuss McLaughry and gave a graphic and interesting story of Dartmouth's War Days, Dartmouth's present situation and a view of the future. With all of the poise and humour of a finished after-dinner speaker, Bill dispelled any misgivings about the financial set-up at Dartmouth and we can congratulate the College administration, as well as ourselves, that things are prospering beyond expectation.
Art O'Neil led the singing without .the help of Jack Clark.
News comes from Holyoke, Mass., of the Twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Stu and Dot Russell. Dr. Fred Celce, Mal Drane, and George Rand' can personally vouch for the fact that Dot and Stu entertain royally as the perfect hostess and host.
Incidentally, Fred Celce was Stu's best man twenty-five years ago and George Rand one of the ushers.
Phil Bird has sent us the latest 1919 Dartmouth news fom Boston, following Dartmouth Night in that city.
The Rock Hayes and the Chuck Eatons are among those who special-trained to the Dartmouth- Cornell game in Hanover.
Announcement of the wedding of Mrs. Madeline Phinney Mack and Art Havlin was read with great interest in the local papers recently. They will make their home in Weston. Arthur recently purchased a new home which Jim Davis and Rock Hayes visited with Art after a golf match. They were.not aware at the time that the wedding was planned. Darn smart of Art Havlin, for keeping it secret from Hayes and Davis. They have more ideas per minute that would wreck a well planned wedding—ask Bird, he knows.
Jack Clark and Elizabeth phoned for Boston hotel rooms recently and were seen touring the country side in the vicinity of the Framinghams and Lincolns. The Binghams and the Davises were in conference with them upon one occasion at least, and it develops that Jack's Company, General Motors, is opening an assembly plant at the old Framingham airport. Jack's duties are not clear at the moment but he is duly welcomed as a New Englander after so many years a resident of New Jersey.
King Cole, the former Fall River newspaperman was checked in through Phil Bird's store and Rock Hayes. He was missing a big celebration of Dartmouth night in Washington, D. C., his present- home town, and hoped to tie in with the Boston group. For some reason or other Boston Alumni failed to make much of the evening this year.
The Phil Birds have finally moved out into the country. Wellesley Hills is the locale and with labor as scarce as it is, any visitors are really on a spot.
John and Mildred Chipman have dropped their New Orleans drawl and settled on a delightful multi-acre farm in Norwell, Mass. John is out of gold braid and back in frozen foods.
Jigger Merrill is another World War II officer seen recently in civvies. Back at his old stand with Equitable Life Assurance Society, he is once again in the competitive field of strikes, high pressure and public relations. Fresh from Memphis.
Speaking of multi-acre properties, the Chuck Eatons have just that in Cohasset. Since Hugo's Lobster palace in that section burned down, it leaves Eaton's Acres as one of the most accessible places on the south shore. With Munro now on Long Island, this is an oasis. Chipman's Norwell Manor is but a few kilometres cross country if the Eatons don't answer.
Secretary, 103 Aviemore Drive, New Rochelle, New York
Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
