1917
Our Society Column takes precedence over other news this month for the unique reason that two of our number have taken wives unto themselves,—Len Reade and Chan Steiger. From the Columbus, Ohio, Citizen, SearlesMorton sends the clipping headed "Society Highlights" which says that on Saturday morning, January 11, "Lovely Riverside Church in New York City was the scene of the marriage of Laurene Shaw, daughter of the Sterling G. Shaws, to Leonard James Reade of Weehawken, N. J. The wedding breakfast was held in the exclusive Gotham Hotel after which Mr. Reade and his bride went to The Cloisters at Sea Island, Ga., for their honeymoon. The new Mrs. Reade graduated from Ohio State University where she became a member of the Delta Zeta Sorority and Phi Epsilon Omicron, honorary, and received her master's degree at Columbia University. Until her marriage she was a member of the staff of the Good Housekeeping Institute." The news of Chan's marriage to Hazel Clark was variously reported, but principally in the announcement from the bride's mother, Mrs. Edward Pemmington Clark. The wedding took place January 3 in Springfield, Mass., and we understand that the former Miss Clark has done an outstanding job of teaching music in the Springfield schools. To Lew and Chan our heartiest congratulations, and to their brides, our cordial welcome to the class group.
The picture this month is frankly promotional. Although you may be able to distinguish familiar bald heads, as we can, it is intended to show a typical scene at Hanover at our Silver Jubilee Reunion and to refresh your memory of the cool clear atmosphere, the green campus and foliage, the familiar surroundings, and, best of all, the faces and figures which your life has lacked these past five years, or longer. If you will dwell upon it for a moment, you will find it irresistible,—the sincere individual interest, the informal warmth of old friendships, the increasing strength and joy of being together again. So make your tentative plans now, and the firm resolution that come June 20, 21, and 22, you will be there at our Thirtieth. It will be good, too good to miss, and, to judge from most of the letters from the gang, it will be a buster.
The New York Times carried a fine likeness of the Rt. Rev. Don Aldrich in its January 27 issue and the Herald Tribune, too, reported at length Don's appointment as Dean of the Princeton University Chapel. The announcement was made by Dr. Harold W. Dodds, President of the University. Don assumed his new duties on January 30. As you will recall, he resigned the strenuous Michigan Bishopric last September for reasons of health, but he is now assured that he will be able to assume the responsibilities of the more limited work. Before assumption of his new office, he resigned from the Princeton Board of Trustees, of which he has been a member since 1938.
Our "Washington Correspondent," - WillFitch, attended the holiday luncheon of the Dartmouth Club of Washington to which undergraduates are specially invited, and reports:
An event which reflects great credit on our class. After the lunch was over and an excellent address of welcome to the undergrads had been made by George. Morris 'll, the guests of honor were invited to stand up and identify themselves and their dads, if present. At one point, a good looking young man, named Hartshorn, arose and introduced himself as Bill Hartshorn, class of '45, and the following members of his family, who arose in turn and took a bow: Bob, of the class of '50; Elden, now at Exeter but entering Dartmouth next year in the Class of '51; and Pappy Hartshorn, of the class of 1917. When Pappy arose he received the biggest ovation of the day. Pappy was our good friend and classmate, George E. (Creeper) Hartshorn. His son, Bill, had a distinguished combat record during the war as a pilot with the Bth Air Force, while son Elden, served with Patton's army with the ground forces.
A similar holiday luncheon was held in Cleveland at the University Club at which Babe and Bob Goss, Bill and and John Sewall, and Vin and Jay Smith were present.
We took the occasion of a brief stop-over in Akron to call Bill Sewall and as a result went out to the delightful home of the Squire of Hudson for a delicious dinner and equally pleasant evening with Bill and Sally and Cynthia. The Sewall home is most attractive, and warm in its welcome to travelling '17ers. Since our last visit Bill and Sally have taken a lovely old home on an elm-shaded street in town. It is a swell hideaway for a gentleman who has to go to Akron daily for business purposes. The wonder of it is that the rest of the Goodrich executives have not seen the light and emulated the Sewall example. The dinner was fresh from the Sewall locker and tickled the traveller's palate as none other since way back. And Cynthia's ceramics studio in the basement reminded us again of how much of the artist's self often goes into the attractive gifts which are displayed and admired in the shops. John is hard at it as an engineer in special aerodynamics research at Langley Field, Va. In addition to discussing the best gang of guys in the world and Reunion plans in some detail, the evening was spent recalling last summer's vacation with many a smile, and planning next summer's in Chatham, come August.
With a "Here's one for your short story reading," Baldy Trier sends a thriller from his own pen entitled, "Their F (r)ight For Life," relating a most unusual and harrowing fishing trip in Canada by Baldy and a friend. We would have difficulty summarizing it ade quately in this space, so we are passing it on to Bill for his fuller and more complete recounting in a future issue of The Sentry. You, therefore, have a real yarn coming your way. Meanwhile we will only say that we are glad Baldy is still with us on this planet.
A letter from Alden Vaughn via Karl Koeniger proves that although we seldom hear from him, Alden is not forgetting. He is teaching at Blake School, a boy's country day school in Minneapolis, and quite apparently enjoying the strenuous work. Arranging and supervising athletic events, preparations for exams, picking prize winners, and advisor's work for the sophomore class, as he modestly lists some of his activities, "Just keep me going even in my sleep." But Alden exemplifies our deep-seated envy of his profession, for he confides that in the very thick of things he and Lehrma get a real pleasure from looking ahead to the balmy salt sea breezes of the good old summer time at their cottage in Pocasset on Cape Cod.
Russ Fisher is back in the travel business at his old stand in Wilmington, Del., after a very considerable wartime detour. Way along at the first of it when travel promised to be done entirely in uniform, Russ went with Dti Pont. Later he changed to the Dravo Corp., as induction manager and assistant security manager. Then followed a tour of duty with Bellanca Aircraft as plant security manager. Subseqently he signed up with Red Cross and spent some time in Guam with a naval operation base. But all that is past now, and we are glad with him that he is back home in Wilmington with Mary and their children permanently and that the travel business is definitely looking up.
Although our modest and genial moneybags might never have gotten around to telling us, we have learned that as of the first of the year Don Brooks became General Patent Attorney for the Texas Company and Texaco Development Corp. Congratulations, Don, and more power to you. An awe-inspiring title from our humble lay point of view and we promise to try to be duly respectful.
Vi?i Smith is no longer with the Ohio' Electric Manufacturing Cos., Cleveland. He recently formed his own company and is now president of Speed Control Corp., Wickliffe, Ohio. Vin did not say that convenience had anything to do with the change, but he did remark that the new set-up was a cinch. Instead of battling Cleveland suburban and metropolitan traffic twice a day, he now has only a leisurely eight mile cross-country drive between home in Gates Mills and the office. He is planning to be in Hanover in June, and was delighted that son Jay is now looking toward college at Dartmouth.
Don Brooks and Gene Towler had lunch with Red Wendell recently on the occasion of one of Red's infrequent trips east. "He is the picture of health and Denver very obviously agrees with him." .... Searles Morton, our busy Columbus attorney, said he might go to Florida for a few days in February, "If X can get away." A card from Sunny Sanborn expresses real surprise, "Just a minute ago and right down in front of the office building I ran into Monk Wells whom I haven't seen since God knows when and who has changed so little it was possible to recognize him immediately. He knew me too, if I may say so modestly." We were sorry to learn that the occasion for Monk's Boston visit from Washington was the fact that his father, who is eighty-five, had fractured a vertebra.
The Boston Herald of January 6 carried a very attractive picture of Frances 0. Emery, daughter of Forrey, and the news of her engagement to Edward Crawford Hills of Cleveland. Frances is a provisional member of the Junior League, a graduate of Dana Hall, and of Smith College '46. Mr. Hills is a graduate of University School, Cleveland, and Dartmouth '44, where he was a member of Sigma Chi. After three years' service in the army he is now at Tuck School doing graduate work.
A PICTORIAL REMINDER OF HIS 25th REUNION, shown above, ought to be all any 'l7er heeds to bring him running up to Hanover this June to become a part of 1917's 30th anniversary of graduation.
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