1918
18's COCKTAIL PARTY AFTER THE HARVARD GAME IN HANOVER AT THE GREEN LANTERN INN, QN MAIN ST. (a BLOCKS SOUTH OF THE INN-$1.00 PER HEAD) NOVEMBER gth SPECIAL TRAIN FROM BOSTON. HORS D'OEUVRES AND SET-UPS PROVIDED. BRING YOUR OWN POTABLES—write Eddie Ferguson for details, phone Stumpie Barr when in Hanover. Also CLASS DINNER BOWLING AND FUN IN N. Y. WED. DEC. 18TH at Dartmouth Club.
George M. Davis, President of New Rochelle Board of Education, was one of the principals at the Fifth District Conference of N. Y. State Board of Education. At the Inn this summer were Tommy O'Connell, Katherine and Bill Mudgeit,Ellis Hatch and his family, Harvey Hood, Grace and Bill Deak, Helen and Nipper Knapp, Olive and Tommy Groves '18s own Joe Seacrest was one of four honor recipients from the Nebraska Alumni Assn. for distinguished service to the community. Joe is co-publisher of the Nebraska State Journal, has his own broadcasting company, is prominent in civic affairs and active interest in Nebraska schools, a charter member of the U. of Nebraska Foundation, Board of Trustees, and an outstanding citizen. Joe's picture was in the newspapers last spring for his splendid record. Joe and Dave Garratt exchanged correspondence on fund-raising and Joe claims to have learned a good deal from Dave The fraternal affairs which the newspapers referred to was undoubtedly Joe's Masonic work, particularly the Scottish Rites Masonry which in 1941 honored Joe with the 33rd degree The class extends their sympathy to Dick Aishton, on the loss of his father, who was a very prominent and much beloved figure in the railroad world from coast to coast.
Col. Hort Chandler, appointed assistant president of the New England Gas and Electric Association. .... Jake Bingham spotted Frank Clahane up at Concord last summer Recent visitors to Concord were Leon D.odge and his son Douglas George (Fat) Rowell lately has served in the role of Asst. Attorney General of the commonwealth of Mass Bill Sanderson is Editor of the Peri-scope, house organ of Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard. And we want to say right here and now that his daughter Shirley did attend the famous Banana Reunion Hubie McDonough has assumed this fall the sub-Mastership of Manchester, N. H., Central H. S.—continued, . coaching this year but threatened to give it up in the future (if Manchester citizens will permit.)
There's a new daughter, Catherine Francis, in the Dave McCoy family born on July 15 GeorgeHull is still Price Comptroller for the French Mission and also representing the manufacturers in Washington, D. C., for OPA and CPA matters, following government contracts, etc. Said he saw HortKennedy when he was in Paris in February Charlie McCarthy's daughter entered Mass. State at Amherst this fall, and Charlie '48, has returned to Dartmouth—both were in the Navy Miriam and Tom Campbell were in N. Y. in October and says, "Hugh Whipple, the Medina mudlark, spent a. week in Denver recently, selling the locals off- grade sulphur to throw at our noble allies, the Roosians—if and when—B. H. Cunningham (guess that's our Johnny) and truck tycoon Hilliker had lunch with Whip while here."
From Fat Sheldon, "Sorry to have missed the Re- union but just couldn't change son David's mind on marrying 'the girl' on June 29—will make the 30th—second son Roger now completing studies at Hanover." .... Si me Gordon says daughter Ruth is a Senior at Wheaton and engaged to a '46 man. ... .Tom Proctor, Darlington, Md., says he's still engineering for Glenn L. Martin and running the farm on the side—aches to see some 'lBers. .... And from good old Eddie Garvey (Cairo Hotel, Washington, D. C.)—"Ex-Navy now, Ernie! and with War Assets Industrial Property Disposal Division—like Washington enough to settle here." Gene Clark reported, "No atomic energy" in response to the Pomonok party Herb Duffill, "Can't come, am taking guests home for dinner that night." .... Eddie Butts scribbled, "Marge and I were tempted to come on from the coast to the Pomonok party." .... From Cliff Meredith, "Thanks for the invite to Pomonok anyway, but won't make it this year—doing okay and feel better than when west." .... Dora and Don Snyder wrote in, "Mighty sorry to miss Pomonok—we are taking Don (just discharged from the Marines) back to finish up at Colgate. Since the party last year we well realize what a good time we will miss." .... Those at Pomonok will long remember the gorgeous balmy evening in the twilight under the huge spreading trees—all embellished with plentiful cocktails, delightful conversation, soft accordion music and Irishman Cap Hanley winding up the 18th green with his customary neat par.
A delightful luncheon was enjoyed by the writer with Fred Cassebeer when we lunched with BobFish. Fred judged a National Gladiola Show in Binghamton, N. Y., to which people travel from coast to coast. Fred was heard to pose the question to Professor Fish, "What's the solution to mounting labor costs and falling profit margins?" To which the Professor replied, "Get in there and do more work yourself and wait on the customers." Bob is a bit of a Churchill oil painter at times; at other times generously lending advice to the local hospitals on administration problems. Bob also has spoken to business groups on the dignity of labor and its greater respect in our economy, and at other times is neatly disposing the U. S. stand as a paragon of virtue in trying to block a historically justifiable Russian claim to the Dardenelles Moving from Tucson in the hot summer months to the north of Arizona and up 8000 feet, Bob and Mildred while in New York singed their finery under the calcium lights of Broadway, taking in all the shows and tasting the flesh pots in the Latin Quarter and along Broadway, winding up with professor's remarks, "Gee, you people live in a wicked city."
From the Captain of '18's Tennis Team, King Gustaf, Stanley Jones—"I send in this small item with great temerity, insomuch as it involves a couple of Psi U's—among other people. This will most certainly bring down the wrath of Fat Sheldon on your head, and I tremble for, your safety. Also, I am afraid it will increase his racial hatred for me, and for others of that misguided group. Doesn't he know about the Anti-Bias Law? Or the FEPF? Hmm
"Even at the risk of all this and since you are forever screaming for notes, I feel it is my duty to report that Al Sibbernsen, The Great Dane, was in New York last week, accompanied by his wife Grace, the peppery Field Marshall. A dinner was held, at which Tobe Morey and Minetta, E. Earley and myself were present. As Tobe put it: 'Being with Al is like getting a big draught of fresh air right off the plains I don't know when I have seen any man looking so healthy! (Gee, Fat, I'm sorry. Morey said it, not me. Be BIG, will you, Fat? Overlook it.)
"Sibb has 800 rich black acres of Nebraska farmland under intensive cultivation. He raises several hundred lambs and hogs each year. The OPA has driven Al off the beef cattle. Said he: 'All the farmers are damn sick of the constant juggling with the natural laws of supply and demand. A controlled economy in meat has never worked before, and it never will. The directives I get from Washington each month—each one contradicting the previous one—would fill an ash can—and that's just what they do!'
"Sibb has one of the model farms of- the state, being among the first to adopt soil conservation and other measures to save the land. 'Even so,' says Al, 'millions and millions of acres of fine farmland wash away in the rivers every year. They can never be replaced and it breaks your heart to see it.' Al's two boys, one a Marine fighter pilot on the carrier Franklin and the other a sailor in the Merchant Marine, are both back helping the old man out. One gathers this is O.K. with the old man. It was swell to see him, and Grace, again. They make New York City an even more uncomfortable place in which to live than it is—and it's bad enough right now." (Fat, I promise you I won't do this again. From now on, the only news of Psi U's you'll get from me will be their obituaries. So help me!)
Grace and Al Sibbernsen drove east through Canada, down through Hanover, where Al slinked in and out of the Psi U house—stopped off to visit Elizabeth and Dave Skinner, drove out to see Lena and Lew Pounds—and with a dozen nylons under his arm, Al was heard to remark, "Seems to me we birds on the farm have the roastbeef; fellas in the midwest have all the new cars—and you b—here in New York have all the nylons." .... NipperKnapp threatened to take in the Penn game, saw Ted Hazen's boy in delivering young Nipper at Kimball U.—has a boy going to Hanover as a Senior—and just out of the Marines after three years Cort Hon didn't come to Pomonok because of attendance at the National Stationers Association (the convention of the decade), and Cort has the easy job of arranging hotel accommodations. ... . From Roger Warner, Alexandria, "Like war or matrimony, restoring an old house is supposed to be dangerous, we are in the midst of it. The house in Claresdor, (looks like) Vt., dates back from 1797." .... Denver partner of Haskins and Sells, our own Freddie Carlton was in N. Y. on a flying trip—-daughter at Wellesley, son at Kimball U A note from Chuck Palme?s secretary (Atlanta, Ga.), said Chuck couldn't come to Pomonok because he was in Europe Had a delightful luncheon with Charlie Kozminski (who had seen Syl Morey and Al Gottschaldt) who is building up a travel agency in Chicago. In his family were 2 or 3 generations of traffic agents for the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique. Charlie was in _ New York trying to hook up with the Dutch, Belgian or French airlines as general agent in Chicago.
Secretary, 74 Trinity Place, New York 6, N. Y.
Treasurer, Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, N. H.
