1919
Proof that we have been conscious of many worthwhile objectives of the Ciass and College for the past thirty days prior to the February 10 deadline for news to the MAGAZINE, is supplied by acknowledgement of correspondence from the following who directly or indirectly contacted the Secretary in January and early February.
We appreciate hearing from you:—Jim Wilson, Batch Batchelder, Bob Stecher, Oscar B. Lewis, Jack McCrillis, George Rand, Nick Sandoe, Jim Capps, H. M. Chadwell, Bill Eads, K. B. Johnson, Jigger Merrill, Wm. Thompson Smith, Jim Stone, Murray Hawkins, Howard Wright, Jim Davis, Rock Hayes, Bunny Collins, Max Norton, Bill McCarter, Louis Munro, Spider Martin, Red Colwell, Ray Adams, "Rip" Pierce, San Treat, Bill McMahon, and Fat Jackson.
Just to keep us informed about Reunion Plans, we shall have back with us this coming June 18, the following classes: 1908, 1913, 1918, 1933, 1943, and 1944. We are to hear more about plans for our class as the time draws near to look over the tires, have the car checked and fill up with gas and oil to make that trip to Hanover. Jack McCrillis has various activities planned, which will no doubt include a get-together at some common meeting point with our friends and contemporaries of that hard-hitting, go-getting Class of 1918.
What challenge shall we issue to them for what prize—where? Golf, swimming, baseball, tennis or just attendance? Suggestions will be considered by the Reunion Committee.
Frederic S. Balch, President of the Schuylkill Paper Co. of Philadelphia, made 1919 news in the Quaker City when he put on a fine class dinner January 15, at the Union League Club there. Fred, who assumed duties as treasurer of Phil Bird's Skinhead Society (and never collected a dime of dues), has kept his heart and hand outstretched to Dartmouth with enviable consistency. Fred married Jane Ross in 1925, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, and entered College from Penn. Charter School, Phila. He joined Chi Phi and the U. S. Naval Reserve and is now the proud father of two boys, Holland S„ 18, and Fred Jr., 14. With Fred at the class dinner were seven whose names and brief histories follow.
Thomas L. Hapgood, director of Coordination and Planning, Veterans' Administration in Philly. Tom, who was discharged as a full Colonel in 1946, entered Dartmouth from Technical High School in Oswego, New York, became a Sigma Phi Epsilon and married Dorothy Winier in Forest Hills, Long Island, in 1926. A boy and girl, Tom Jr., 11, and Dorothy, 21, complete the family.
Ralph Hayes, telephone engineer, lives with his bride Gladys in Swarthmore, Pa. Their daughter Betty, now Mrs. Charles Nelson, is an only child. "Sparks" or "Hazy" (take your choice) attended Phillips Academy before Dartmouth, became a Phi Kappa Psi, and in 1922 graduated from M.I.T., as an electrical engineer. Hayes ended War I as a Naval Reserve Lieutenant and War II was discharged as a Captain in 1946, with numerous citations.
Adelbert C. Hazen—"Doc" was bom in Brooklyn, attended Manual Training High there and went Tri Kap at Dartmouth. "Doc," whose first wife Marian died in 1935, has a daughter Eleanor and two sons, Bob and Bill. Bill, the 14-year-old, should look forward to Dartmouth soon. "Doc" is Sales Engineer with G. M. Truck and Coach Division and lives in Philadelphia with his wife Vivien.
Ernest R. Leonhard of Bristol, Pa. is vice president in charge o£ sales with the Paterson Parchment Paper Co. Tome School launched Ernie into Dartmouth, where he was a Phi Delt and Dragon; also an Ensign, Naval Aviation, War I. His wife Kathryn and daughter Elizabeth complete the Leonhard family.
Gordon A. Meader is an accountant with the Concord Food Company of Concordville, Pa. Gordon came to Hanover from Brookline High School, Mass., and entered War I, where he served as Second Lieutenant in the Army Signal Reserve Corps. His wife, Amelia Tranger of Philadelphia, became Mrs. Meader in 1930. No children listed.
Dr. Denis Timothy Joseph Sullivan of Darby, Pa., came to Dartmouth from Concord High School in New Hampshire, and took up the study of medicine. He graduated in 1921 from University of Pennsylvania as an M. D. A recent class notes story of "Denny" recites his many honors in the field of medicine as well as his place of high standing in our class where he competes with (Bill) Wm. G. McMahon for the greatest number of children. There are seven in one family and eight in the other and we're not sure which. A short cheer for both "Denny" and "Bill." "Denny" was Alpha Kappa Kappa and Gamma Alpha, and in War I was a hospital apprentice in the Naval Reserve.
Milton Tucker, "Tuck," is an architect in Philadelphia who came to Hanover from Milton, Mass., High School and went in U. S. A. Ambulance service during War I. He married Ruth Adele Lawlor in Allentown, Pa., and has a brother Ralph, who was Class of '25 in Dartmouth.
Murray Hawkins, 609 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, has reported a visit to the East via Cleveland, Ohio, where he expects to contact Raible and Stecher about March 3, and will be in Boston and Hanover about March 5.
Jim Stone brought his family down from Bridgewater, Mass., to New York City during December and made a round of theatres and night clubs.
Bill, William T. Smith of Larchmont, New York, has recently returned from a four months mission in Japan where he helped make a study of Japanese industrial facilities and developed recommendations for future economy in that troublesome group of Islands.
Ret Moxon of South Weymouth, Mass., has a daughter Dorothy in Wellesley as a freshman. Ret expects to be with us next June.
Jack. McCrillis and H. M. Chad-well were pal J bearers at services held for Harold E. Nichols who died at home in December. Harold who had rheumatic fever as a child succumbed to a resultant heart condition following a relatively short illness. Our sympathies were extended to his family.
Jim Stone's older son Alan is in class of '46 M. I. T. after three years in the Navy. His second son Edward is a sophomore at M. I. T Jim and Bunny Burnett both expect to be present at Reunion.
Jack McCrillis' son John is a senior at Kimball Union Academy. He played varsity football and won letters in two other sports. John is also among the top few in scholastic honors.
The Springfield Press of Sringfield, Pa., reports L. Hapgood will head the 950 th Infantry Division of Eastern Pennsylvania. Tom is a Colonel and doing his part to encourage and assist military training.
Bill Cunningham, in his syndicated column of January 10, has written a fine story of James Francis O'Neill, Dartmouth and now officially Police Chief of Manchester, N. H., who is the National Commander of the American Legion.
George Rand has recently seen Russ Potter, Art Brentano, Walter Cooper and Fred Balch all of whom he says, are looking fine.
Bob Stecber, as president of American Rheumatism Assn., must forego Reunion in Hanover in order to preside at the Annual Banquet of his Association to be held in Chicago, June 19.
Jim Wilson has a daughter Barbara, who will graduate from Emma Willard in June, the week before Reunion, which will permit Jim to stay on and be with us.
Bill Eads has sent on a letter from Fort Smith, Ark., which he received from K. B.Johnson, resident of Dallas, Texas, and here reproduced to prove the fact that we were once young with young ideas.
"By now, you must have thought that your letter to me had been sunk—without any survivors. 'Twan't so, though; it merely got caught in a clutter. I knew where it was, all the time, but I could never get to it (it seemed). Now, however, I'm up for a breather.
"Let's get rid of the financial end first: no enclosure (not yet, that is). According to habit (and finances), I pretty generally ride on to the end of the line before pulling the cork on my checkbook, but—always I aim to get there before the doors of the vault are closed on the Alumni Fund. I don't do this because I want to get my money's worth in Fund mailings but, primarily, because it takes a little longer than usual for me to declare a surplus for this event.
"This year is going to be no exception. Our younger son, Dean, is off to the University of Texas this coming semester. That'll be quanity X, till I get the financial equation worked out. For now, then, that takes care of matters (4) and (3). "As for (2): I now doubt. (He refers to June 1948 and Reunion in Hanover.)—Ed.
"That, then, leaves only (1), and—what's there to say! If it's current, it's mostly factual—and thereby pretty dull. Perhaps, at the age we're all getting to be, something nostalgic might have a little more flavor (and bring some of us back to our long-ago youth), so—how about my recalling the first time I went out with an actress (Boy! Did I feel a man of the world, in my junior year!)
"Jim Wilson (stem-winder that he was then; he's grown corpulent since; takes Saturday afternoon naps now) came to the decision that we were going to have new furniture in the house, in time for prom, so—he and I put the heat on the brothers. (The drum player in the SAE Jazz Bandsame name as mine but no kin—must have shuddered when he saw us at his door on several successive times but, by the third time, his reach for his checkbook was automatic!)
"Well—we got it all up. and Jim appointed me to go down to Boston and buy it (at some wholesale house that, I think, Rog Goodnow gave us a line on). John Wood '22 (he's president of Brooks Bros., now) decided to come along just for the ride, and we took the 2 A.M. train out of the Norwich and Hanover station.
"With our purchasing all done in the morning, we had the rest of the day to kill, till we caught the train back in the evening, so we decided to take in a matinee (this should make it a Wednesday, shouldn't it?) I've forgotten the name of the musical—but not that of the girl (it's Ann Sands). Boy, was she keen-looking (as I remember the phrasing at that time!); front-row chorus; brunette, with the swept-back wavy hair-do that looked so luscious in those days.
"I'd read about the technique, so I told John I was going to send my card (I must have had one, I guess) backstage and ask if we could meet her after the show. I'm damned if I know how I got the right girl, but I did—and she sent back word: yes.
"Callow-youth stage-door johnnies were we, as we waited for her to come out (and probably our tongues were pretty dry as we tried to think what to say)! Well, she was pretty nice, and real friendly. Would she have dinner with us (I said rather breathlessly) ? 'l'm sorry, but I can't,' she replied. 'My mother and I always have dinner together, but—wouldn't you like to walk to my hotel with me?'
"The Georgian was only two blocks away—and that was where we parted! Whatever visions we had, now blew away—but what did that matter; we'd met an actress; we were men-of-the-world (how big that feeling is, when you're young!). John and I returned to Hanover mentally twirling cane's J,
"That's all; it's not much of a story. I did see her again, though (a couple of times). When I was in Springfield, as a cub on The Republican, a couple of years later, I went (again) to a musical comedy in which she was playing—and by now she was the ingenue. "Robby" Robinson '18 (Robinson Reminders) was with me this time but he didn't stay when she and I (now) had an aftertheater bite at the Bridgeway. There's still once again, in New York. By one of those strange, devious events, by which such things occur, I discovered that a young doctor (living next door on 48th Street) was a friend of hers. For the third time, we met—and that's the end; she married someone (I don't know whom).
"The telling of this tale has rolled back the years (instead of 50—as I am now—I was, for the time being, back when I was 20 instead)."
A nominating committee has just been appointed by Bob Stecher and will report nominations in time to elect class officers next June when we will have an official class meeting in Hanover. E. E. Martin (Spider) will act as chairman of this committee. Greif Raible (Rabbi) and James C. Davis (Jim) will render their report soon.
Wednesday, February 4, found 600 attending the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Assn. of Boston at the Hotel Statler. Dr. John Sloan Dickey gave the main address of the evening and stressed the fact that competition for admission to the College is becoming tougher each year. Our class was represented by the following members, a smaller representation than last year due, no doubt, to stormy weather: Phil Bird, Guy Cogswell, Herb Fleming, Jock Murray, Nock Wallis, Elmer Wheeler, R. A. Hayes, Leland Bixby, Bunny Collins, Ray Hinds, John Shelburn, Jim Davis, Art Havlin.
Arthur C. Havlin of Weston, assistant treassurer of the Boston Edison Company, will direct the service division of the 1948 Greater Boston Red Cross Fund.
Secretary, 103 Aviemore Drive, New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H. Class Agent, 37 Lansing Rd.. West Newton, Mass.
