1918
On this, the beginning of our 13th year in editing these notes, we thank you for the pleasure of reuning with friends each month and for the conscientious way you voluntarily send in news regularly about classmates and they about you, for the enjoyment of all.
A delightful cocktail party was given in Hanover last May by Polly and Prof. Ed Booth (Secretaries Meeting) in their charming house east of the gym. Those enjoying the Booths' graciousness were Edith and Dick Holton (his room at the Inn always a welcome oasis), Priscilla, Betty, Bob and Tom Shirley, Thelmaand Jack Slabaugh, Margaret and Rolf Syvertsen, Ethel and Stump Barr and the Earleys.
Luke and Ed Healey may fly north next spring with the birds from St. Pete, Fla., if Jim Carpenter (Kaylan Cutlery sold) again promises to leave Miami early enough to attend the next spring N. Y. City party
With the expiration of his present term, G.O.P. Congressman Jay LeFevre may not be a candidate again (Mildred and daughter Elaine both fine now) If you want to see a lovely old New England homestead, write for the spring issue of Vermont Life and see the article by Roger Warner of the exquisite old farm he and his wife Laura have recaptured, the house that young John Haven started in 1797 Frances and Em Salisbury (Em is one of the respected Sales Mgrs of the country) enjoyed a wonderful time in Arizona last March. Good-looking son Jimmy and pretty bride Audre were classed in the Minneapolis society columns as one of the smart weddings that took place in May
Jmogene and Charlie Kozminski were in N. Y. over July 4th attending the gala ceremony of the first sailing of the Arnold Bernstein S.S. Cos., of which Charlie is western passenger agent. Charlie directs the cruises has been to Europe 22 times Helen and Henry Oppenheim had a wonderful rest in Daytona, Fla., last winter. Says Henry, "Good news! Am back to work again—still have to take it easy." Sy Syvertsen, liaison officer between the College and the Navy, was on a 6-wks cruise on the mighty battleship Mo. last summer was host to Edith and Dick Holton at dinner aboard ship.
Dan Shea's sisters, Lil (a crack fisherman) and Pat (a champ golfer), came up from Miami and visited Dan last summer.
George M. Davis had a grand N. H. vacation in Aug., expects, with Evi, to have a swell Hanover safari Oct. 21 (Lehigh) and Nov. 11 (Columbia) at Ken Huntington's farm near the College—having vacationed last summer at Indian Lake, the 369 th Base Depot made up entirely of officers and personnel in the Concord, N. H., area activated July 13 with Col. Hort. Chandler as executive officer. Newspaper pictures showed Hort running things and his many admirers hope to see him some day sporting the star of a Brig. General.
Visitors at Hanover since our last issue were Barbara and Harvey Hood, (in Europe 8.15 to 9-15) Gabriel and Don Bliss, Lucy and Al Piper, Mary and Tom O'Connell, Dora and Don Snyder,Ken Jones, Dotty and George Davis, Mouse and John O'Gara and Johnny Cunningham all the way from Denver for a Council meeting. The class extends sympathy to Spike Pur year, whose wife Winifred passed away last May, and to Lewis Lee, whose wife Marion, beloved by all the class, passed away in June—and to Marty Straus, whose son, Martin 111, was drowned in August Les Granger again made a remarkable address at the National Conference of Social Work last April Speaking of the great honor that has come to our classmate, Rev. Clint Carvell (at the head table celebration of 25 years of service, showing Clint's fine looking mother sitting beside him), the Lawrence, Mass. paper had a fine editorial about Clint.
The thoughtful Hal Doty, on the board of the daily Dartmouth and Aegis of our day, the only one of our class we can discover who possesses bound volumes of The Dartmouth, went to the expense of sending them to us for our enjoyment; and said, "The reason I held up sending them sooner was that I wanted both my sons to see them first. The younger got home from college in June, but my older boy who visited us this year with his two children, didn't get here till late July." Thank you, Hal, for the use of these, which all of us can enjoy.
That wonderful Harvard week end is only a couple of weeks away! Oct. 28th. What a party they had last year! This year it promises to be bigger and better. Night-before '18 Dinner, Room 304 University Club—Major Domo, Dick Cooley, 34 Newbury St., Boston. '18 Cocktail party right after the game at the Hotel Commander, Cambridge; Boston Alumni dinner dance at the Copley Plaza, tables for '18 reserved if notified in advance {write Hort Chandler, 727 Mass. Av., Cambridge, if you'd like to attend). Those present last year were the Barrs (on the Cape last summer), the Cdrpenters, the Cooleys, Davis es, Fergusons (they're crazy about son Ben's new wife Nancy), the Harvey Hoods, the Chance Hoods, the CortHorrs, the Johnstons, Ken Jones, the Miners,Ro wells, Sandersons, the Willands, Christgaus,Mahoneys, Whipples and the Chandlers, also the Shirleys, Tripps, Groves, George Kapff, Sig Judd and 'Big Trout' Lou Cos us ens and Helen. 1918 class dinners in N. Y. City, Thurs. Nov. 2 (Yale game Nov. 4); also Dec. 7 and Jan. 11, Dartmouth Club, N. Y. City. Out-of-towners (Fat Sheldon, Bob Fish,Paul Mather, Dick White, Ed Felt) can tell their wives of these important biz trips they must now make to N. Y. Thelma and Jack Slabaugh live on a very friendly street in Akron and 2 or 3 times last summer they had a lobster party on the back lawn with perhaps 35 neighbors and their children. Pretty daughter Judy is now in training at Mass. Gen Hospital.
Peggy and King Rood's daughter Margaret was married in a beautiful service Sept. 9 Freddy Samuel's son Frederick, 6 toot 2 inches, 195 pounds, is headed for Dartmouth "if he can get in", says Sammy who spent a year in Japan for I T & T Cos.; put on 15 pounds to his pint-sized weight. Freddy played the organ at Wilder Church (down the river) and worked his entire way through college later went to France in the 2nd Dartmouth unit in World War I.
Last reports from Doc Joe Quincy he was coming along fine,—had seen Edith and DickCooley, (at their swanky Newbury St. store), and said Joe, "I had hoped to be in Hanover last June but Sally at that time was graduating from Secretarial School." . . . While VanVanßaalte was on the coast, bidding hard for a Sheraton Hotel job, son Johnny was learning the investment business at Goldman Sachs in N. Y. City—both, with Janet, enjoyed a delightful weekend this summer at Westport where they saw Judge Max Spelke '16. Oma and Ned Ross's brilliant daughter Oma (all A's) was granted one of the highest scholarships given out by Vassar. A former neighbor in Arizona, learning of this and seeing that Oma was also valedictorian of her class, will also send her $10 a month for the next 48 months. Spud Richmond's plant in Garden City gave her a job last summer, all making it possible for her to show her stuff to the citizenery of Garden city, whose PTA also awarded her $200 The Andy Rosses and Syl Moreys, and the Ned Rosses, enjoyed Mary Olive, Stan and Nancy Jones, who rented a house there in Garden City for the summer while Nancy continued her studies at Hofstra College, preparing for more A's in her work back at Columbia n0w..... At the Syracuse N. Y. annual Convention of N. Y. State insurance agents, Pete Col-well enjoyed a visit with Jim Carpenter (the Miami night watchman) and with Dusty Rhodes, whose column "Make Mine Manhattan" in the InsuranceAdvocate, has an army of ardent followers.
Bee and Al Gottschaldt gathered in their summer crop of delicious highly-polished purple avacados down at their cocoanut grove tropical gardens and both are happy in their Florida way of lire (3656 Palmetto Ave.). Their nice daughter Kay visited Hanover last summer, also sisters Mary Louise and Helen (Mrs. Gus Pratt). That annual receiver of winning Attendance Cup, (N. Y. City spring dinner), Hort Chandler, was in Chicago last spring, managing a luncheon for his New Eng. Gas & Electric Assn. which was attended by the most active security house analysts and partners in Chicago, and whom should he enjoy seeing but Hi Belding, whom he hadn't seen since 1916 (5 to 7 grandchildren and drinks Coca Cola). Also enjoyed running into Ed Healey and wanted to look up Cort Horr Marjorie and AlRice had a pleasant summer in their lovely old home on the Cape (except that Marj. had her gall bladder removed by the chief of staff of the New Bedford Hospital: surgeon Curt Tripp) daughter Rosemary came back again to I Remember Mama on Broadway. Son Roger worked at the Bankers Trust, last summer; was elected last year by the student body as a member of the Maroon Key at Colgate; married pretty redhead Aug 19 and took her back for senior year. Cute way it happened too: Papa Al, at his bridge club last spring somehow had left his pipe at a neighbor's home. Roger, then home from Colgate, listlessly granted he might go to the house and pick up his Dad's pipe keyed up alert when Al told him there was a pretty redheaded girl he might meet. It took a half hour to find the pipe. Now the bride has a fine job as secretary to one of the professors, and they're living in Vet Village Last June, Al Zulick, the ex-roomy of Ed Garvey, Al Piper and FrancisChristy, (to the latter of whom he wrote this letter), said, "I'm back home after 69 days in the hospital, 4 operations on the bay window, all due to a couple of beers quaffed with the balding beauties of '18 at the Commodore last April, but if my recuperation continues at my present rate, after losing 50 lbs., I'll be there next spring" got a wonderful cheery letter from good old Gus (AlGustafson) Al Piper was out at Yellowstone Park last summer—Rear Admr. Paul Mather was an interim appointee (by Pres. Truman) to the Federal Maritime Board and still continues to render distinguished service to the countiy. Eat Rowell's Smith daughter Dorothy and wife Marion were out in California for weeks last summer.
One of the fashionable weddings at Greenwich, Conn., was May 13 when Katink and Chris Christy's son Christopher was married. Now bride and groom are spending 2 years at Ann Arbor studying Conservation, and, said the philosophical, genuine classmate of ours"they may not make much money but they'll be happy and have a lot of fun." .... At Daytona Beach last spring were Isabel and Johnny Simmons Virus X knocked Johnny out from attending Commodore party last April; swears he'll be at the next StewTeaze, on '18's tennis team, was an invited umpire at the Forest Hills matches last Aug. Minetta and Syl Marcy enjoyed a nice summer vacation at Lake George, son Clayton, still with the famous industrial designer Raymond Loewy, is giving a lot of thought to entering naval aviation. Lenah and Neil Sheldon were looking over Alaska last June—had a nice visit with Kay and Bill Mudgett "in their beautiful home at Palo Alto,"—also tried to look up Frances and Em Salisbury. Fat's son Roger, at Oxford was doing some guiding around Cambridge; went to Holland with the swimming team; is also manager of the ski team Bill Wright's son, young Bill, who did a splendid job in football and track last year at Andover, showed his old love for Stanford U. and is now on the coast.
The following appeared in the Elko County (Nev.) newspapers "Republicans of Nevada mein Las Vegas gave one individual a tremendous ovatiof .... thft was William B. Wright.. Past Pres of American Natl. Livestock Assn. and recognized as a very able man by those who know him... - friends say he has never been serious about the proposition (running for the ienate) that is, not until the Republican Convention and the ovation. The applause which followed his laying down of the gavel as the temporary state chairman would have been sweet music to iny man's ears, but it meant more than that to JC right. He's been a firm believer in the fact that the country needs a change, that things are done for expediency and not for the best interests of the country, that things are done to get votes and for that alone ..." ... Walt Nelson, a firm believer in rugged Americanism, (Asst. V,PJ Mortgage Dept famed East River Svgs. Bank, N. Y. City), had his picture in the N. Y. papers, elected Commander of the Minuit Post, American Legion the formal induction took place at a Statler Hotel banquet last June A nice card from XommyBryant with the philosophy that he enjoys the flowers and the rough (and the fairway at times) and isn't out for a low score, even though Pixie and Butch are always chiding him. On that day they d all made the water hole without one of two Spaulding blackdots going to the ducks.....A grand letter from that star salesman of the Republic Corp.: Grizzy Grisivold (was capt of our class golf team) giving thanks for the happy time he had at the April '50 Commodore party, says in part ". . . . among all the others, I especially enjoyed seeing Eddie Felt, Chris Christgau, Gerry Geran, and I did so miss Ty Tyrrel, A nice card "Om Red Wilson whose smart daughter Judy, with other Putney, Vt., school mates, helped farmers in Norway last summer—later went to Paris— After attending a meeting of Investment Bankers at white Sulpher in May, Peg and I stayed over a day for some rest and relaxation. We were delighted to meet up with Harvey Hood and his attractive wife Barbara, whom we discovered vigorously basking in the spring sunshine enjoyed a pleasant but all too brief visit with them "
At the Anne and Johnny Johnston garden party, (Rye, N. Y. last June) under dogwoods and flaming azalea bushes, were Evelyn and Pete Colwell, Dottie and George Davis, Ruth and Curt Glover, Miriam Morrison, Dan Shea, Mary Olive and Stan Jones and Edith and Dick Holton. In their beautiful garden, a perfect spot for an outdoor supper party, a superb charcoal steak was enjoyed by all. We can't tell the name Stanley Jones gave Johnny's prize gourmet, heirloom cheese, which Anne had been bedding down for days with old Port wine.
Secretary, 74 Trinity Place, New York 6, N. Y.
Treasurer, Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, N. H.
Memorial Fund. Chairman, Gibson Island, Md.
