1918

Orchids to Henry Oppenheim for being elected not only Treas. of the famed Oppenheim & McEwan Cos., Albany, N. Y. (wholesale grocers) but also made Honorary Treas. for life of the D. alumni in that area No one enjoyed an operation so much as did BillChristgau at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Nov. and no one was enjoyed more than Bill by those on the Hanover scene. A Rube Goldberg sketch of extensive pipes and rubber tubes and copper leaders and gutters was sent to us by Chris and we would have given anything if we could have seen him prowling through the halls of the hospital, in friendly spirit, to visit someone, kimona on, sheltering a protruding Aladdin's lamp which persisted in dingdonging and embarrassing him no end (except with the nurse who broke into hysterics). Extremely enjoyable was his stay with Ethel and Stumpie Barr and his visit with Duke (squire of Huntington Hill), who himself dropped into the hospital for a brief reaming out.

George's fine son, Skip Stoddard, publicist of the Hospital now, just built a house beyond the athletic field and backs up to Velvet Rocks (to us, Balch Hill). Chris had a splendid visit with Jean and Ed Booth, Sy and Margaret Syvertsen. Limping along for his first walk down into town, Bill met his old physics prof, and with great gusto stopped him and rung his hand, and said, "you remember me, I was one of your outstanding students," to which he replied, "No, I don't seem to remember you you must have been one of the poorer students." While in the hospital, Chris wrote to Spike Puryear, Jim Carpenter, and had the pleasure of hearing from "Pathfinder" (cemetery plots at special prices) Mahoney and the "Bard of the Prince George Hotel," Gerry Geran also thoughtful guys to write him, among others were Bennie Mugridge and Chaunce Hood.Hal Doty was transferred from Rent Control to Air Forces at Wright Field—yes sir, no foolin'; 't was in the paper "Newton golfer Richard L.Cooley, golfer for 25 yrs. gets hole in one aced the 125 yd. hole with a No. 5 iron at the Wellesley Country Club, "Lantern-jawed Bill Montgomery, ex-roomy of Howard Cann, Paul Mather,Bob Pish and John Dessau, and Gen. Mgr. of famed insurance firm, Bruce, Dodson, Kansas City, reports daughter Maria, Wheaton grad, now airline stewardess, daughter Ferrol grad of U. of Rochester, now teaching school in Kansas City and 3rd daughter Terry still at school BennieMugridge thoughtfully sent Al Gottschaldt (1103 Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Miami, 32, Fla.) the name of a most prominent citizen of southern Florida. "Who will aid you in every way possible" our pleasure was to send him a possible lead, and, says Al (Vice Pres., Newman, Lynde, & Associates), "we'll be happy to welcome any $50,000 accounts." .... In the Oct. 17 hurricane, Becky and Al's botanical garden grounds were ravaged by the gale

Did you see this newspaper heading? "147 Freshmen on Scholarship List average grant $85O by Dartmouth College. "Our gifts to the alumni fund are going direct to needy students. Think of the good fortune Dartmouth College has had to have a man like Dick Hoiton working on the alumni fund! No Dartmouth man could do more for Dartmouth College than has Dick. Sure, if a man makes more money, Dick grades 'em up; asks for bigger contributions. He asked you and he asked me to give more money to Dartmouth. Isn't that why it's our privilege to swell our chest among Dartmouth alumni when we know that '18 ranks 3rd out of 66 classes for the largest total dollar gifts to Dartmouth?

Eddie Butts is going great guns out in San Francisco. "I have expanded. I am now Edward Butts Sales C 0.," says Ed Listen to this from Henri B. van Zelm. "From reading the MAG, would seem that all you N. Y. City slickers do is dance, raise hell, and in general live a hedonist's existence; we work up here (Hartford, Conn.). Elsa and I just completed 20 yrs. in the engineering business together, she being the brains and me running the slide rule. Daughter Nancy working in 2nd Natl. Bank, New Haven." (signed "Mustache drooping a bit")

Maid's night out (whose?) Thurs., Jan. 11 and Thurs., Feb. 15, 1918 dinner D. Club N.Y. City. Hanover holiday (Wash. bd. Feb. 22) will see 1918's Father and Son dinner the night after: Fri., Feb 23, at Hanover. Those expected are Bill Pepin, Russ Howard, DonScully, Hal Doty, Fred Carleton, Dick Aishton, Ray Smith and Herrn Smith, DaveSkinner, Tomie O'Connell, Red Hulbert,Harvey Hood, Ted Hazen, and Jo Flo Duke all of whom have sons at Hanover as well as Gene Peppard's and King Rood's boys (2 of the 61 '18ers deceased.).... Armed with a wonderful letter of release from Pres. Truman, '18 gained while Wash. D. C. lost. It was announced in all newspapers that Rear Admiral Paul Mather would join the DeLaval Cos. of which George Stoddard is Pres '18ers are proud of Paul and sent many clippings with his picture. The fire control apparatus and precision gear and equipment dept., in which George himself had started in '38, had been reactivated and grown into a substantial business, including parts of turrets, radar, etc., and Paul was the ideal man for the setup, and we congratulate Paul—and the DeLaval Cos. and George Stoddard. Welcome to New York, Paul (with charming wife Mary and family Paul stays in Wash, over the weekends and Mondays, then his schedule calls for him to be here the rest of the week for a while, with eventual permanent residence in N. Y.).

Gerry Geran wrote, "last Sunday evening the great Helen Keller was dining a few tables from me, and just two nights later I shook hands with my old friend Charlie Chaplin. He recalled our meeting at Leßourget fiying field in Paris in 1921 when he was taking his first air trip to London, and I was taking mine to Amsterdam. He also remembered our 2nd meeting in front of Maxine's in the Rue Royale at two in the morning, after the showing of his film The Kid at the Trocadero." .... "Whose memory is faulty? In current column of MAG you say Gris-wold was Capt. of our golf team. Eddie Emerson was our capt. of the varsity golf team. Did we have a class team too?" (AlGottschaldt). And from Grizzy Griswold "don't dare to call on a customer for fear he will want to give me an order am looking forward to N. Y. dinner next spring again." .... class dues are piling in this year everyone seems to want'a belong with so much going on.

What a man! Hal Ellis's (Chico, Calif.) son Hal is a 3-letter man in high school and a whale of a basketball player, but Stanford's got him (tell him to look up Bill Wright's boy Bill) A wonderful postcard from Hort Kennedy, saying he never in the world can ever repay the wonderful letters he received from '18ers when he was going through his long hospital siege more than a year ago. .... Yes sir, the Ray Darts have settled down for permanent retirement at La Jolla, Califbought a house and, says Ray, "Bob Fish and Mildred stopped in, and they look fine" Last score of class dues paid was 160 against •43 yr. ago (D. L. Barr, Hanover, N. H., wants your dues) Martha and Lang Robinson drove all the way from Springfield, Ill., to the Mich, game, and add, "Martha and X joined our daughter Sally in Scotland last May and had 3 months touring England, Scotland, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland and France; we returned in August but Sally stayed over for the Edinburgh Festival and just got back to Wellesley for her senior year." .... A warm welcome card came in from grand friends of all: Rose and Eric Ball.

Marjorie and Phil Boynton's son John was engaged Oct. 29 daughter Barbara moved from Concord, N. H., to Needham, Mass., and son-in-law Dick Brown saw a good deal of Eddie Ferguson. The Browns, Philip and Peter, can't miss Dartmouth with all the green influence around them. Walt Fuller, old roomey of Hal Eastman (Hal's theory is to buy the 2nd best stock in each industry and he knows what he's talking about; he's an Accountant), still is at the same store in Amesbury, Mass., and, since all 5 children have children of their own, Ethel and Walt have had a chance to slow down a bit. . ,

A circular letter to their friends comes from Edith and Rev. IVail Wiley, who are bringing great influence to bear on the religious lite of Istanbul, Turkey, " it is Census Day in Turkey and the entire population of the whole country is required to remain indoors from 6:30 a.m. until the gun signal releases us lstanbul expects to count one million people .... after a year of trying for permission to enter (an Armenian pastor living with us), we received from the Iranian govt, a categorical refusal, from now on to be given to all religious leaders, allegedly the effort to keep Communism out of the country. Census Day is Sunday, and preacher and congregation had to stay at home whether they.liked ft or not For the 3rd year, m Oct. we gathered a congregation of 250 to 300 people from among Protestants in the city in one of the Armenian churches for the celebration of world wide Communion Sunday. Parts of the service were carried on in as many as six languages lurKis , Armenian, Greek, English, German and Hungarian Last Aug. we spent 8 days in the Black Sea coast town of Sile..... A Joyous Christmas and a New Year busy with fulfillment of the dom of God around you!"

Betty and Beckie Bemis, attractive daughters of Bill Bemis, both at Vassar, may enjoy their spring vacation in Florida with their dad. Last year '18ers who were guests of handsome Bill and pretty Becky were Beckie and Al Gottschaldt, Mary Ellen and JimCarpenter and Slim Phil Sanderson ('taint no squeeze, honestly Bill) At the close of the Lame Duck Bist Congress, Congressman Jay LeFevre will retire to New Paltz, N. Y., with Mildred, and says "back to the old stand of selling lumber and oil." Congratulations, Jay, for the fine job you did for all or u5..... Rev. Clint Carvell, the old roomey of Walt Wiley, George Daniels, Larry Wallis,.Dick White, Ray Barrett and Les Brown, states that daughter Virginia is doing Social work in Presbyterian Hospital in N. Y., son Frank working in a bank in Somerville, Mass., son Kenneth studying at Duke U. for forestry degree and son Richard at A.I.C., Springfield, Mass., playing football Sad for '18ers to pick up their N. Y. newspapers on Dec. 1 and find dateline Nov. 30th, "Lewis Hughes Lee, 55, Advertising and Public Relations Executive, and Veteran of Two World Wars—died today in United Hospital. His home was at 20 Sussex Gardens, Rye, N. Y." Lewis had a lot of friends in the class and in the college, and he will be missed. At the funeral were Andy Ross, Syl Morey, Jack Storrs, JohnnyJohnston and Pete Colwell.

Those '18 gatherings around Boston are practically made by Edith Cooley, one of the most successful women merchandisers in the country. Their Cooley's Inc. at 34 Newbury St., Boston, is worth a visit by all 'lBers ever in the East. People order from their gift shop from coast to coast, and this is a business that Edith fought for in the depression days, and hung on to it Barmaid Harriet, at the University Club in Boston, was made an honorary member of the class of '18 (at the Harvard-D game) upon promising that she would serve the '18 class next year. Said DickCooley, "I think Bennie Mugridge and DickHolton can tell you more about that part of it for me, I realized early that I was decidedly out of training for that sort of party.".... And good old leather merchant Cous; was he high? .... Alert Sham us Shea, who had to chop wood and keep the woodbox filled in his youth, got a cheerful note from Bob Fish when sending him clippings from newspapers about the post-pregnancy plasma cure for arthritis—also Moody's eagle eye caught the clipping in the Nov. newspapers that "Harvey P.Hood was elected Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, for 3-year term." Anything that Harvey is on will be run soundly Brilliant student, Oma Ross, at Vassar (mother Oma, also, is very active in P.T. affairs was top brass at polls on election day) finds it tough going there, and says, in part "....I am taking tennis, working with a Girl Scout troupe and or course I have to wait on tables, so of course I'll be a good waitress if nothing else." Daddy (Ned) reports that weekends see the Vassarites headed for New Haven and Princeton, and when asked if they row across the Hudson to West Point, Ned replied, "Not so much; after all the West Pointers haven't a nickel and the boys over there clean the girls when they come over"

A nice note from successful lawyer PaulErwin in Phila., " At the Penn game Mary and I had the pleasure of sitting between Charlie Weston and Dave McCoy. That was the first time I had seen Charlie since '18. He never attended a reunion yet. He is a solid D man and rooted for the team like an undergrad. Now there is a fellow who travelled 300 miles from his home in southern Virginia to see the game and he sure is in the pink of physical condition. Dave, one of the really youthful looking members of our class, was accompanied by pretty wife Betty. They were up from Wash. D. C , also travelling a greater distance than the New Yorkers would have had to travel to cheer for the Dartmouth in the game against the one team that has had the jinx on us for the past 8 years." '18 up—next year; everybody to Phila. seen at the Yale game were the sturdy HoZions Edith and Dick, Ruth and CurtGlover, Jay LeFevre and Ev Young, Evie and Pete Colwell, Ann and youthful Howie Park, Dot and Steve Mahoney, Janet, Johnny and Van VanRaalte (we're missing you, Van), and of course your reporter Bill Christgau.... then at the Columbia game were Jean and EdBooth, Doc Ed McDowell and pretty Hazel, with a party of 8, Alberta and Amos Blandin,sturdy Edith and Dick Holton again, ReedMontgomery, Chaunce Hood and his son, Pegand Sy Svertsen, Ethel and Stumpie Barr, Patand Killer George Stoddardas well as Dartmouth rooter Miriam Morrison, as much amember of the class as anyone. Also therewere Fat Sheldon and that sturdy father offour children, 2 sons and 2 daughters, BillRe illy of the Lowell Courier-Citizen and exroomy of Charlie Benesch, Lewis Lee, andBob Williams.

In the hurricane at the Princeton-D. game, the sturdy rock of Gibraltar, Dick Holton, was there and said he saw Pres. John Dickey, his wife and son. It has been reported that Judge Harry Collins went down in a special Pullman train which sat on the siding and they listened to the game on the radio. Steve Mahoney in his pullman Caddie set out with Bill Christau made Glen Ridge, N. J. came back to the D Club and saw it on radio One of the great honors coming to Tom Bryatit is to be made Pres. of the Lansdowne (Pa.) Allied Youth Council. Says Tommy " some 50 organizations in town 7 yrs. ago got together to form a coordinating body to direct all their activities in developing a community summer, winter, year-round recreation program for youth in out-of-work and out-of-school time I realize my children were helped and since we have built on the pasture land and cut down the woods that Pixie roamed on, some of us feel we must, even if artificially, replace what we have taken from the kids. The program has certainly paid off because the number of kids getting into trouble has become almost nil. This has given real purpose, Tommy says, to his work and family life and a great satisfaction. "When playing golf with my son Tom the other day, I clipped his outdriving me by getting my first two birdies since taking up the erratic game of gotf!."

Woody Hulbert says, "still Director of boys' work at Somervile, Mass., YMCA. Son Richard now senior at Harvard is on a Harvard national scholarship (good for 4 to 7 yrs.). Won Phi Beta Kappa junior year, plays on Varsity soccer team, also debating team, and preped at Andover. Daughter Carol soph at Wheelock for Kindergarten teachers, preped at Northfield. Cliff (my wife) and I felt sorry for Harvard when we beat them. Since our children have been away, Cliff has taught H.S. handicapped pupils in their houses." Isn't that a wonderful record of achievement for any family! Congratulations, Woody RuHesse, old croney of Fred Cassebeer, a stalwart at Macy's, took a turn of a week at St. Luke's Hospital in Nov. trying out cortisone for arthritis, and said "well, it may have done me some good but I didn't come out dancing." .... Bob Shirley, son of Priscilla and Tom, tipping the beam at 208 and playing football regularly, still grinds out 2 to 3 A's in his subjects at H.S.; but as good as he is, Betty is the whiz—gets all A's how do you explain it? Tom didn't get all As at Hanover. In fact his father accused him of sawing off the branch he was sitting on while pruning apple trees. But he's a good-looking guy, and it you think that's true you should see his stunning mother!

Eddie Felt saw the great Tom Shirley in Dec. at Buffalo; said Eddie "Tom's a smart fellow. He saves his clients' money on their telephone bills-splits the difference and the telephone company likes him too." Then Eddie got to telling about a flock of Mallard ducks sent George Stoddard to his farm in Dutchess County, and for a while they thought it was cute to feed the ducks on the front porch, until finally they noted a beautiful Jackson Pollack surrealist design all over the porch, forcing them completely to abandon the porch to the ducks. That recalled to Eddie a duck he may have sent to the Stoddards at Xmas; one he had heard about: one that had come across some acetylene compound in the backyard, and once it entered the duck's digestive system, it blew up in a thousand directions And grouse hunter Al Rice (in the Catskills) remarked those grouse sure are smart; when they go a'roaring up off the ground, they make sure to get a tree or a companion between them and your gun".. ..

Secretary, 74 Trinity Place, New York 6, N. Y.

Treasurer, Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, N. H.

Memorial Fund Chairman, DAVID L. GARRATT Gibson Island, Md.