1919
Winding up the report on lgers attending the Big Green games and social activities connected with them, let's go back a moment to the day of the Harvard game, when Pauland Catherine Halloran staged a fine party at their home, Oran Hall (get it?), near Ossining, N. Y. The game was, of course, satisfactory, and everyone present had a fine afternoon and evening. Present were WillLevy, with Constance, Win Batchelder and Harriet, Harry and Lil Colwell, Bri andAdele Greeley, Ken and Marge Huntington, and that sterling representative of one of the older classes, Bob Colwell 'lB, with Evelyn.
Those taking in the Columbia fracas included Ed and Jessie Fiske, with their two daughters, Nick and Dot Sandoe, the ClarenceButtenwiesers and many other whose names, unfortunately, are mislaid. The post-game festivities were tremendous, however, with the Buttenweisers staging a cocktail party in their New York apartment, and the Dudensings a similar do in Bronxville. A few classmates made both, by fast work, and both parties topped off a fine day for the Big Green and the local lgers.
Heading the list at Hanover for the Cornell game were a couple of gents whose names do not appear often in these notes, namely, Jack Ross from Portland, Ore. and Pete Grey from Chatham, Mass. Both wrote in swell letters to your struggling secretary, of which more later. Dr. Fred Celce from Holyoke was reported in the crowd, and others spotted on this great day for Tuss McLaughry and Herb Carey, were the MorrisFreedbergs, from Salem, Mass., the Bresnahans, Dudensings, Colwells and Buttenweisers.
Princeton came as somewhat of an anticlimax after taking the Cornell boys, and my report on it is very meager. Dan Featherston was there and Casey Bevan, but the rest of the gang attending must have been in hiding. So much for a good football season and a lot of fun for lgers before, during and after the games.
The number one man of the class at the moment is Stew Russell of Holyoke, Mass., who well deserves his place in the Wah Hoo Wah column of this issue of the MAGAZINE. Stew had two signal honors conferred on him during November. First he was elected a trustee of Mount Holyoke College for a ten year term and later in the month received the William G. Dwight award for distinguished service to his home city. This award was established by the Transcript-Telegram as a memorial to its late editor and publisher. The basis of it is defined as "distinguished service to Holyoke over a period of years," rather than a single contribution to the life of the community. Stew has been active in Community Chest work, and is president of the New England Association of Community Chests and Councils. He also served as president of the Holyoke Boys Club, chairman of the local Red Cross Chapter, has been a leader in the Boy Scout movement, directed a $350,000 drive for a new Y.M.C.A. and recently led a successful campaign to raise $1,600,000 for a new Holyoke Memorial Hospital. Some guy, this Russell—some of us knew him when he was a buck private in the A.E.F., 26th Div.
The long silent Ken Johnson finally came through with a fine letter. Ken has been associated with the Veterans Administration"in Dallas, Texas, and more recently is located in Arlington, Va. Quoting,
"I yet have a wife back in Texas; a younger son attending the University of Texas after a round trip hitch-hike between Dallas and Lassen Volcanic National Park in California where he had a working vacation for the summer in the classification of yardman scrubber (a method of pursuit which had occupied him the previous summer at Yellowstone National Park). I have an older son now living in Chattanooga who, in collaboration with his wife (an ex-co-ed of the University of Texas) anticipates introducing me into the grandfather group around this side or the other of New Year s Day.
Ken, as he says, was "finally flushed out of the thicket of silence" by the Class Birthday card and some Bulletins, which come out of Hanover periodically, and go to class officers, agents, etc. Your secretary forwards them to various members of the class anyone who would like to receive one please advise—they are an informative and amusing commentary on the Hanover scene.
The champion post-war traveler of the class, Bob (Squirt) Paisley, has been flying all around the Far East since Labor Day, with stops in Calcutta, the Philippines and Tokyo. (Hattie reported him in the latter around Oct. 8 and still hoped he would be back to take in one o£ the games.)
Doctor Denny Sullivan corrects the report concerning the Penn game—he and FreddieBalch were there with families. Denny states "No other news except that my daughter Denise Therese will be married to John Paul Jones of San Francisco and Manila P. I. on Dec. 28. Reception at the Bala-Cynwyd Country Club in Philadelphia at x P.M. Any and all Dartmouth men in this territory, or en route to other points, will be welcome!" A very large order, Denny, the latter.
Jack and Doris Ross were East for some weeks and, as mentioned, were back in Hanover for the Cornell game, after seeing the Columbia game on television. Their two daughters graduated from Oregon State. Jack states, "The College looks wonderful and I got myself a big thrill just walking around." He ran into Cotty Larmon and Toni (mustachio) Bresnahan. This was the first time Jack had seen the Big Green in action since 1934, and he was properly impressed.
Pete and Mrs. Grey spent the same weekend in Hanover to visit their son Spencer (1951) and take in the game.
Their older son Bob "who started out with the class of 1946 but eventually graduated from the University of Chicago after the war, was married last Sept. 10th to a very charming young lady from Stavanger, Norway. Her name is Andi Byrne and she is the daughter of a Norwegian father and an American mother. She was born and brought up in Norway but has been in this country for the past four years attending Bryn Mawr and the Garland School The last Cornell game I attended was the 1940 fifth down job. Having pulled the boys through that one, I suppose I can take credit for helping them through another tough one this year."
Vaughn Little, the former tennis flash, has a swell new job as national representative of National Transitads, with headquarters at 366 Madison Avenue, New York City.
The Dartmouth Alumni Association of Long Island is headed by no other than EdWarnke, who has done a great deal of work for the organization over the years, and is now really setting a pace for other alumni organizations. Ed states:
"We have gone all out this year and to our knowledge are the first Alumni group that ever had the pleasure of sponsoring a Dartmouth var- sity event. On February 27 we are bringing the basketball team to Long Island to play Hofstra College of Hempstead. We have taken over Hempstead Gardens and will stage the game at that locale In March we will play host to the Glee Club somewhere in Garden City. Oh, yes, I do work for a living, but I like this doing something for the College arid, our community". All class and Alumni groups could stand a few more Ed Warnkes.
In the New York news—Lou Munro, V.P. of Doremus and Company has been elected president of the Harvard Business School Club of N. Y. for the coming year, (no comment.) Headline in the New York Times "Stay in your own backyard" Ivy teams warned. Eisenhower backs McCarter's plea at Columbia's award dinner for athletes." Bill was guest speaker at the annual Varsity C Club dinner and urged the Ivy League teams to retain their own rules and maintain their academic standards.
Banker Budd Welsh of Morristown, N. J., had a chat with Fred McCrea on a recent visit to San Francisco and spent a weekend with Murray Hawkins while in California.
'l9 Fathers of Dartmouth sons—don't forget that the annual Father and Son dinner will be held as usual this year—date to be announced, but it will probably be late in February or early March.
How do you feel about staging an off-year reunion—summer or winter—many classes are doing it with marked success. Let's hear some opinions on this—pro, con or neutral??
Several members of the class have purchased rare books .(cost approximately ten dollars) for the Baker Library as a memorial for a departed classmate who was a particular friend and whose memory they wish to perpetuate. They suggest that others might wish to do the same. For details, contact Prof.Jack Williams, Hanover, N. H., who is helping in this most important class affair.
One of our most prominent Vermont lgers, Hal (James Harold) Stacey of Windsor, has recently been elected a director of the Central Vermont Railway. There are authentic rumors in Vermont political circles that Hal may be the next Governor of the Green Mountain State—Vermont lgers take notice.
See you in February.
TOASTING A COMING VICTORY: The 1919 Class Luncheon at the Outing Club, which was held before the Holy Cross Game October 7, was a success too. Standing (left to right): Bill Allen, Dick Dudensing, Ken Huntington, Jock Murray and Rock Hayes. Seated: Spike Dudensing, Edna Murray, Marge Huntington, and Alice Earle Hayes.
Secretary, 1273, North Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H. Memorial Fund Chairman, 2 Park Ave., New York 16, N. Y.
