1918
HOLY CROSS GAME, Oct. 9-1918 Highball Party, Graduate Club, Hanover, after the game (Tues. Columbus Day makes it a great weekend). Charge—s1.00 each for pretzels, soda and steward, but 8.Y.0.L. Please notify Stumpie (D. L.) Barr Hanover, N. H. in advance. The class thanks you, Stumpie, for making the arrangements.
HARVARD FOOTBALL GAME, Oct. 23dinner at the University Club the night be- fore—room 304. Call or write Dick Cooley, 34 Newberry St., Boston. Also cocktail party at the Hotel Commander, Cambridge, immediately after the game. Call or write HortChandler, Cambridge Gas Light Cos., Cambridge, Mass. Be sure and send back return cards so we know where we stand. Thanks, Eddie Ferguson, for making these arrangements.
'18 CLASS DINNER. N. Y. City, Dartmouth Club, Friday, Oct. 29, night before Yale game. Although comments were made in the notes
about every one at reunion, it was necessary for the reunion issue to delete a good deal of it. The writer, after a delightful dance with Helen Cousens at reunion, and even before the social amenities could be carried out, was addressed by husband, Lew, "You so and so, I'll bet you didn't even thank her for the dance.". ... In front of his son, Bob Shirley, Lew gave father Tom such a dressing down for paying his son only $2 a week to mow all the lawns that Bob's salary has increased to $3 a week . . . . an alarm was sent out to '18 circles that good old Lymie Black from Seattle would be East this fall to take in some football games, but, says Lymie—"some of us have to keep our noses to the grindstone to keep our stomachs in the right curvatures,so we cannot come." With a family of 4 children, Lymie still has 2 daughters in college
Late into the night, music and dancing went on for the celebration of Ann and Johnny Johnston's 25th wedding anniversary on Aug. 28—among the many guests making merry were Miriam Morrison and Evelyn andPete Colwell. A few weeks earlier, nature boy Dan Shea able appraiser of stocks, blondes and female figures, as guest of Johnny and Ann Johnston, described the moonlight dance on the dewy lawn, in bare feet, put on by our Johnny and Ann and Miriam Morrison. Shea was silent on his own doings and referred to all this as a member-guest golf tournament. Shortly after, Shamus received this MiddleAged Spring Song from Johnnie Cunningham:
I bought a new hat and I bought a new tie ... . and out I stepped so eager and spry .... I marched up Fifth and I minced down Park .... Ready and set for a wild little lark .... I thought I looked dashing, soigne and neat .... From the tip of my crown to the soles of my feet.... I leered and I beamed and I beamed and I leered .... But I might just as well have been sporting a beard .... The ladies (dad-dart-'em) refused to be fooled .... And I returned home decidedly cooled .... There was spring in the street .... There was spring on the lea ... . But dammit to hell—it's no longer in me.
As No. 2 man in the WAA and responsible for assets running into 8 billion, Rear AdmiralPaul Mather stands up beautifully under tlie pressure. Paul's record was such that the Democrats and Republicans alike confirmed his reappointment in the Senate without a squawk.
The class extends sympathy to Bob Nims on the loss of his wife, Florence, last May And another sad announcement: Dorothy Hilliker, socially prominent Denverite, died Aug. 17..... To you also, Chuck, the class extends sympathy In his famed column Make Mine Manhattan
(Insurance Advocate) Dusty Rhodes touched on the nostalgic feeling of his trip to reunion with Stan Jones, Danny Shea and the writer and returning with "Red Hurlbut Mr. Big of Genl Motors Foreign Div., and his charming Texan Missus (Nancy) as hosts. ".. .. Genial farmer Al Sibbernsen was unstinted in praising Tom Shirley and Eddie Ferguson (as were all 'iBers) for the wonderful time in Hanover. On way to reunion Sib missed his plane in Chicago and stood there grinning while it took off with all his baggage. Said Sib after reunion, "I rode over to Poultney with NormKnapp, spent Sunday night with him, then caught the plane west on Monday noon, and was back ploughing corn Wednesday morning. Norm and I even agreed that those college years were the outstanding ones of a lifetime. ".. ..
In Hanover during the summer months were Carol and £m Morse and Ellen andFloiimond Duke, Rose and Bill Christgau (no doubt seeing son Bill, working at the Inn) and Siberian mustached, George VonKapff Chaunce Hood spent his Hanover reunion in Dick's House with pneumonia (can you ever forget thoughtful Bill Christgau getting signatures of all the class to a friendly message to cheer up Chaunce and wife Caroline?), but recovered fast and was on the firing line before competition could nibble away any of his clients. With customers such as G.E., RCA and othet big names, Chaunce has the thrill of buying all the steel for his company, and being sales organizer as well. Oldest boy is now at William and Mary and Caroline and Chaunce plan to fatten the budget for a trip, down to see Bill next spring Said Dan Gray (Lorraine Creamery, Lorraine, Ohio), after reunion "I sure would have liked to have seen Lewis Lee. I'm happy to have been at a reunion and now I can read '18 notes with a much more personal feeling. The committee in charge of reunion did a wonderful job."
The great Cloak and Dagger man of the OSS who parachuted into Austria just in time to be taken prisoner (tough Sgt. in the Army unable to get his mouth around the name DuSossoit, merely called him Dusty Sikes), bought himself a big farm in Hanover Center. Duke and his attractive new bride, Ellen Hess, Editor of McCall Magazine after a fashionable wedding broadcast by Walter Winchell over the radio, and attended by such notables as Bruce Barton, Dan Shea and Stan Jones, are enjoying seeing the jail keeper locked up. The office secretary announced to Duke that Baron Kreuger was calling. Could it be his old jail keeper who had imprisoned him during the war? Sure enough, Duke recognized him instantly—he was in this country now with his son, and heeded work. "Couldn't I be your butler?" asked Kreuger. "I've had enough butlers in my life in Germany, so I know how to act."
Last June, as the curtain was about to fall on two of the greatest years of the Alumni Fund, uhich able Dick Holton handled for the entire college, Dick was still out on the firing line before the deadline encouraging everyone in the class to give at least something. No man ever gave so much and so well as Dick. From Jack Slabaugh after reunion: "Boy, what a reunion, I don't believe Judywill ever forget it." Did you know that StewTeaze has a youngster 4 years old and is also a grandpa? Simon Legree Horr compels his beautiful young daughter to slave by posing at $lO per hour, and is counting the days to his retirement. Thelma and I went to Vassar and duly witnessed Thelma Jr. receiving her B A. We were told of the under-grad at reunion who wanted so much to meet the lovely Judy Slabaugh (wasn't she pretty?) and willing iBcrs guided the chap to judicious papa J May I have a date with your daughter tonight?" asked the student, and continuedI am the roommate of Eddie Ferguson's son"—the great Jack bellowed "So what!" (Reports had it that the date finally came off.)
I was an embarrassing moment in Ciro's, when Gene Markey and wife Myrna Loy, sat between ex-wives Hedy LaMarr and Joan Bennett.... Priscilla and Tom Shirley enjoy very much having Freddie Carleton's attractive daughter at Wellesley put up at their home occasionally 'Twas au revoir to lovely Germaine and sturdy Hort Kennedy when, after a delightful little cocktail party at the Stan Jones, attended by Shamus Shea and the Earleys, in gracious French fashion, Stanley kissed Germaine on both cheeks, as they sailed back to Paris on July 23.
Shamus Shea, admirer of nature les femmes and their charms, merely remarked that nature had been at its best along the sand dunes of Westhampton where he spent his summer weekends Janet and Jules Van Raalte, who also bid farewell to Germaine and HortKennedy as they sailed for Paris, said son Johnny had a wonderful time in Holland, Belgium, Switzerland; was in Milan during a Communistic uprising, and on the train from Lucerne met the Vice-Pres. of Switzerland, who taught him how to drink wine Kathand ED Young announced the engagement of their attractive daughter Carol GeorgeDaniels is top psychiatrist at the N. Y. City famed Medical Center
1918 expressed gratitude to Charlotte E. Ford in the Hanover "Ad" Bldg., who's noted for her efficient handling of affairs of all classes. In August she wrote us:
"Don Barr appeared at my desk a few minutes ago, with a broad grin on his genial countenance, and presented me with a lovely silver fork, in my silver pattern, with my particular kind of F engraved on it, as a gift from the 1918 Reunion Committee. I was-quite overcome (1) with appreciation and gratitude, for I really have done nothing for 1918 'beyond the line of duty' and (2) with admiration for the sleuthing abilities of the class for finding out my silver pattern My very grateful thanks to the class." She further added, "John O'Gara looked very fit indeed for a man attending his 30th reunion. But inasmuch as 1918 was my own class in college, all 1918 men would look young to me. By all rights, John should live to be a very young looking old man. I've just returned from spending a week-end with his mother—who at age 88 looks younger than I feel."
Russ Smith is now with Credit Men's Fraternity, 354 4th Ave. NYC, doing personnel counselling Doc Hal Ellis, way from California, was in N. Y. in Aug. with wife Helen and children, Marjorie and young Hal Bennie Mugridge, with leg in cast since Jan., and who couldn't attend reunion because of a speech he was making for Radio Corp., now makes his home at Asharoken Beach, near the fashionable Huntington Crescent Club on Long Island. Out of the cast now, but with a brace, Bennie was able to dismantle on the beach right near his newly built home and slip into the water during the torrid heat of Aug Lovely Susan Shirley daughter of Tom and Priscilla (we missed you, Priscilla, at reunion), had a swanky wedding in Newton at reunion time Winifred and Spike Puryear enjoyed an extended vacation last summer and had a delightful rest Steve Mahoney said that the youngest reuners were farmers Henry Madison Cameron and contour plougher Al Sibbernsen Tom Proctor looked rugged and youthful at reunion Johnnie O'Gara called up and thanked the N. Y. steering comm. for making it possible to have Bob Fish drive with him and Mouse to Hanover. "Truly Bob is one of the great men of our times, and we enjoyed him immensely" said John Said EricBall, "Dartmouth is indeed fortunate to have another excellent Judge like Don McCauley." Laura, Don's lovely wife, remarked at reunion "I simply adore evening gowns and brought my best one to reunion. However, I lay down to take a nap and next thing I knew it was morning and the dance was over. " . Who has the youngest baby in the class? Olive andTommy Groves' Nicky is 3 Mabel and MarshLeavitt have a 9-month older—but Marciaand Fred Cassebeer sent out a card introducing the newest Cassebeer seedling—John F. blossomed 6/13/48—color: pink and white; size—almost 8 lbs. " ....
Eddie Felt's daughter and Swede Bennett's son Huntley, started following in the tracks of John O'Gara at Macy's training course this fall Hort Chandler's son, Harvey, '49, was Mgr. of Intramural athletics 'Twas a free-wheeling, jet glider that Stan Jones and Dan Shea drove in from reunion, piloted by Minetta Morey zooming along at a smooth 50 to 60 per Hort Kennedy's boy is now at Duke U.
Secretary, 74 Trinity Place, New York 6, N. Y. Treasurer, Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, N. H. Memorial Fund Chairman, Gibson Island, Md.
