1914
RANDOM NOTES THROUGHOUT A HOT SUMMER
May 2.—Nice letter from En. Voorhees—regrets that every time he plans to meet with 1914, something interferes.
May 7—Through Rufe Sisson, a long letter from Carlton Wicker who is in construction and crushed slag, stone and gravel at Buffalo, N. Y. Has been run down but now O.K. Two daughters, one of whom is headed for Cornell to study engineering and architecture. Active in local Dartmouth affairs including two dinners a year and annual inter-collegiate golf party. Also helping University of Buffalo in drive to raise three million dollars.
May 4.—Short letter from Hal Pease, who is interested in going to Hanover Holiday (wonder if he made it)—" Everybody alive and kicking, mostly kicking." Bad news today in that word received of the death of Lize Wheelock's father at Auburn, Mass. Rev. Albert H. Wheelock for half a century was a Congregational minister and for forty-four years was Chaplain of the Massachusetts State Grange. The sympathy of the class surely goes to his widow and two daughters as well as our own classmate, Lize.
May 5.—A letter from Myron Files, Professor of English at Tufts, is always something to read and reread. His rare humor and homespun philosophy should be recorded more often. Myron just had a birthday.
'"You confound me, readily, since I am lazy and anti-social in some points of the compass though I move about lively enough in my own paddock I want, like you, to have a place up in Maine, but unlike you, a place on the coast where I could spend vacations and later, if I hang on long enough, a few retirement years If I can hoe a garden and row a dory, there is little else that I could ask for. I note with interest that some sensible men of 1914 are retiring to Maine and Vermont farms in the 50's rather than waiting for thrombosis to topple them at the office desks. It means, mayhap, that we are realizing that the American symbol should not be the eagle but the mud turtle. I'm for the low tensioned mud turtle and have liked my teacher's life for that reason among others." Myron is teaching some four hundred students in one course which sounds like quite a chore. He suggests as the new modern curriculum: "Teach enough physics so that when we get atomized we'll know what happened, enough history so that we will know why it happened, and enough philosophy and religion so we'll have the benefit of any consolation there may be."
May 7.—Swell letter from Charlie Faxon. Charlie is living with his sister in Chestertown, N. Y., where he takes an active interest in the American Legion and Masonic affairs. Has been a member of the Dartmouth Club of New York City ever since it started and recently helped to re-organize the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Glens Falls, where he sees JimShields and Larry Barsaloux.
May 15.—Another letter from Myron forbidding me to print anything he said in the last letter, promised to come to see me (but up to September 7, have not seen him). Reports that Jack Harris's daughter is being married on May 31. Marjorie Noyes Harris to Garfield Somerby Chase. Jack's older daughter is married to a surgeon, recently an army captain, and they have a baby. Jack is Comptroller of the Dewey-Almy Chemical Company. "I've seen some interesting articles on advanced accounting problems he has contributed to professional journals." Clipping from Jack Fergu- son 'l5: He states that directors of the United States Hockey League, today, elected a successor to Paul W. Louden of Minneapolis, who resigned because of the pressure of personal business. Another clipping from the same source, May 11, from Tulsa has long story on the dedication of the Pensacola Dam across the Grand River. Jack wrote at the top, "Engineered and built under the supervision of Bill Hollway."
May 24.—Bi1l Washburn writes from San Francisco that he expects to be in Hanover for the Alumni Council Meeting, then on to New York City for three or four days to the American Medical Association Meeting. He also asked for Elmer Robinson's address. "I did a lot of cutting on him, once, and understand he still survives the ordeal." Short letter from Squint Herlihy and Bill Fletcher's secretary. Bill recently spoke to the Delta Tau Deltas at the University of Maine.
June I.—Just got back from week-end in Maine, with nice batch of mail. First, HughMacKinnon writes from Laramie, Wyoming, and includes a nice colored snap-shot of himself. Looks like the same old Mac, perhaps a little older. He includes a program of the commencement faculty recital to be held May 31. Second number is "Chorale Prelude on 'Dundee' . . . MacKinnon."
A lot of appreciative thank-you notes from wives of classmates who have been memorialized with a volume placed in Baker Library. Nice letter from Ted Main, also a copy of Gainesville Daily Sun, with front page news.
Professor P. O. Yeaton, Head Professor of Industrial Engineering and for twenty years a staff member of the College of Engineering Faculty at the University of Florida, will retire under the provisions of the Teacher Retirement System at the end of the 1947 spring semester .... the retirement of Yeaton concludes a career of thirty years in the engineering education field. In the ten years previous to his services at the University, Yeaton was on the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Lowell Textile Institute, for two and eight years respectively .... he earned 8.5., 5.8., and B.S.M.E. degrees. He is a member of many professional societies and fraternities."
June 6—Gordon Sleeper writes that after 21 years in Scarsdale, he has moved to Huntington, L. I. Moved last October. "Young Gordon is finishing his first year at Dartmouth, Phyllis, her second year at Wellesley, Drew, now 17, has just won his letter at track in Huntington High School. He looks good in the 100 and 220 yard dashes.".... Bert Woods' new address is R. 4, Box 749, 2001 North Santa Rosa Boulevard, Tucson, Arizona.
June 26.—8i1l Breslin writes, "Jack Conners and his able assistant or lieutenant should be in a diplomatic field when they acknowledge your alumni fund check, they make you think that you alone kept the bad bankers from closing down on the mortgage and taking the college away from the students." Bill continues with three stories, none of which can be proven sufficiently or edited to 'fit this column, but they are good. He does add, however, this paragraph which might apply to all of you. "At our last class dinner, I said that everyone should try to be present at each gathering, because when they miss it they deprive many of the pleasure of seeing them. That is true, and we missed seeing your genial countenance at our last dinner.... it was George Ray Wicker, or some other Eccy prof who once said, referring to Andrew Carnegie, 'the garrulousness of old age,'. It is creeping upon me." ....
Just got word that Jack Conners had been elected to the Alumni Council as a member at large tor three years, beginning July ist. An honor well deserved for a swell job well done. Congratulations to Jack, the Class and the College.
Word just received of the death of HerbBartlett, in Los Angeles, California. Most of us have not seen Herb for many years but his loss is felt and the sympathy of the class is extended to his family in this hour of mutual bereavement.
June 30.—A1l set for vacation. Leaving tomorrow. Had a short note from BurrellWright in Indianapolis, and a clipping from the New York Times, which informs us that James P. Margeson Jr., Vice-President in charge of Mining and Distribution of Potash, has been elected Executive Vice-President of the International Minerals and Chemicals Corporation. A Wah-Hoo-YVah of our own for Jim Also had a letter from BenQuarles, on stationery headed Quarles Prescription Pharmacy. Ben writes that his fiftyeighth birthday was one of the most pleasant that he had ever had. He served overseas in World War I, later studying pharmacy at the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1921, and two years later received the degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist. He writes, "I do not run a drug store, but I do have an office and a prescription laboratory, all of my work has to come through the physicians." His wife died in 1943, but he has one daughter, Constance Ann, who graduated two years ago from Mt. Holyoke College, Cum Laude. Constance is now studying medicine at Howard University. This month's picture is of Ben and Constance. Note that Ben's hairline is invisible in the distance Also had a nice letter from LewDillingham in West Lebanon. Lew spends a lot of time worrying for fear we will quote him.
July 20.—Just got an enclosure from the Dartmouth Co-op, signed "Bob," meaning Bob Hogsett. Bob's mother was recently very sick in Ohio. We do not know the outcome, but hope she has improved. His son and family are living in New Jersey, where he has just started in as Assistant to the Vice-President of the American Lead Pencil Cos., in Hoboken. Bo apparently has two grandchildren. He hopes to get up to Hanover this fall to see some games. He ends with, "give my best to all the boys." .... a short letter from W. L.Eager, enclosing the Thanksgiving Day menu which he enjoyed as a patient in Oak Hill Hospital, before he was released to inactive duty. The outside of the menu contains an air photo of the enormous Oak Hill Naval Hospital at Oakland, Cal., and the second page was headed by the Medical Officer in command, Capt. Arthur H. Deering, now Admiral. If this is the way Art feeds his men, we hope we get an invitation to dinner.
July 22.—Got a letter today from EllsworthBuck, who is leaving with Mrs. Buck, their daughter, and their daughter-in-law, the moment Congress adjourns, for a seven-week automobile trip through France. As a member of the Committee on Education and Labor, he expects to glean some valuable information as to labor conditions in that troubled country.
In closing, word has been received of the death on July 24th of Bill Taft, at Peterboro, N. H. Bill will be greatly missed, as he has been a regular attendant at most Dartmouth functions in the east, and a frequent visitor at Hanover. To his wife and two sons go the heartfelt sympathy of all of us. Formal notices of Herb Bartlett's and Bill Taft's death will be found in In Memoriam.
For once we are flooded with news. We are way over our quota and must stop here. It looks like next month will have to be condensed, as this one has.
PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST: Ben Queries '14 and his daughter, Constance Ann, a graduate of Mount Holyoke who is now studying medicine at Howard University, are aiming to keep everyone healthy.
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