1917
We have a picture of Don and Francis Aidrich taken at their lovely summer home at Dennis, Cape Cod, and we hope there will be space to print it next month. Elsie and I spent the month of July at Martha's Vineyard and stopped over to see the "Bishop" and had a lovely day. Also visiting Don andFrancis was their daughter Susan, husband John Verderey and their two children. John is Head Master of Wooster School at Banberry, Conn. Wooster is regarded as one of the really fine smaller preparatory schools in the East.
A lovely letter from Mott Brown, who, incidentally, is one of my best contributors to the Class Notes, writes as follows: "Rog Carol Stone dropped in a few weeks ago and visited with Fran, but I was then touring the mid-western states as is my wont. I wrote Rog urging him to pay the Cape another visit, but in his letter he says, 'Like the Red Sox, it'll probably be next year.' About his own son Bill '50, he says, 'Bill was snapped up quickly by Uncle Sam. He got so much service advice he didn't know what to take and what to discard, so ended up by waiting for the draft. He went in last October, so if things stay in their present state, he should perhaps be out by his next birthday (August 24, 1952). . . .
"That is about all there is to tell, except that I might add that I have had very enjoyable and leisurely telephone chats with Bill Eaton and Bill Sewall in recent weeks. The regret is that they were not nice cool chats sitting on respective suburban terraces for which I can vouch in the case of both Bills. But the fact of the matter is that _ it was warm and humid in the hinterland this summer, and unnecessary exertion came hard. If I interpreted the signs correctly, however, long after I have gone back to Ohio and points West, back to work, that is, you will be seeing both Bills enjoying themselves at class reunions and sitting in the stadia enjoying the games. Wise hombres, those two, having fall business mostly on week-ends and mostly where the Big Green plays."
Larry Nourse contributes the following: "I haven't any news of myself. One incident is worth noting, however. We are building an 18-room new school, results of years of work, one day while walking around the new gym with the architect, I saw a stranger come in and hang around. As I had been bothered with all kinds of salesmen I wasn't very cordial. Finally the stranger came and introduced himself as a '17 classmate, Em Ward, whom I hadn't seen since Hanover days. He was in town to see his daughter at Wheaton College. I'm more careful about salesmen now.
"Mrs. Nourse is really news. She has been visiting in Thailand, Siam, where our daughter Pat has been working in U.S. Embassy and recently married Joey Keys, Vice Counsel. Mrs. Nourse had a 'royal progress' of four or five days stay-over on the way at London, Paris, Rome, Cairo and Rangoon. She got there just in time to be in the two-day revolution in Siam."
The following note from Bill Sewall: "I'm suddenly reminded also of a serious omission and that is failure to advise you that we have a third grandson, by name William Grier Sewall, born in March and reported fat and healthy. We are hoping to see him on our Virginia trip, but his pictures make him out a very personable young man. He should be about the class of 1973."
The Willoughby (Ohio) News Herald notes that Kent Smith has recently been made chairman of the board of the Lubrizol Corporation and Vincent K. Smith, assistant secretary.
Bruce Ludgate has just been the recipient of a great honor as recorded in the Philadelphia Inquirer; namely, Bruce has become one of the board of directors of the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia.
Pete Olds has apparently recovered from his efforts for the 'l7 Fund drive and writes that things are going very well up New England way.
The Don Brooks' were in Hanover for their son Bill's graduation, as were the O'Neills, the Walt Sissons and Bob Boynton.
Note that the Cornell game reunion is definitely off as we were unable to obtain satisfactory accommodations for the group.
"Skinny" Sturtevant quotes: "Have just received a short letter from BruceLudgate. He and Florence are planning a trip to the West Coast this summer to see her family. Bruce's father died on January 18, after a short illness. Also Bruce, on May 23, was elected a director of the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia," along with former Justice Owen J. Roberts, Harold Stassen, Theodore Roosevelt 3rd, and others whose names are well known.
"Howard Buffinton and I, with an A.M.C. party took a stroll up Monadnock a couple of weeks ago. The Springfield Republican sent along a staff photographer to take pictures for a vacation rotogravure spread. On reporting, the scribe's first question was, 'Do you plan to rope up for the climb?' ("We damned near did, for we hit fog and rain, and down timber with visibility minus 5 ft.). The reporter was an ex-G.I., and thought the initial pace was pretty slow, but when he got back to his car, after about ten up, down, and thru the mud miles, he commented, 'The thing that gripes me is that two old men, twice my age, walked the tail off me.' He looked at the Dartmouth contingent as he said it."
Walt and Phoebe Walters have been in Europe practically all summer and expect to return about October 16. Walt's primary object in going to Europe is to deliver several lectures in France, Spain and England.
Porter Perrin, who has been on the faculty of the University of Washington in Seattle for several years, is still alive and kicking and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer quotes that the Professor is an outstanding authority on the English language who might be called a "radical grammarian who has written several best selling grammars." Note Jim Rubel.
Sam White still flits back and forth between Alaska and Seattle, and visits Porter occasionally.
Bob Scott, from Hunting Hill, New Haven, Conn., reports Ralph Britton has been transferred from the Housing Authority to the National Production Authority in Washington.
Ned Dewey, another outstanding member of the 1917 intelligentsia, sends in the following:
"It may help you to fill up space if I report to you that I have sold my home in Riverside, Conn., and have moved back temporarily to a four-thousandacre estate near East Brady, which was purchased by my father in 1901. I grew up here as a boy and it is fun to be back. I hasten to add, however, that I have not retired and that I shall continue as director for the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, a job I have held for the past ten years. I have moved our editorial and research staff to East Brady, but I am continuing to maintain our general offices in New York City. This fact means that I have to go East at frequent intervals, but I think, all things considered, there will be advantage in the change. East Brady is on the Allegheny River about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh. More specifically it is about 20 miles East of Butler on Route 68. Any of the fellows who are in this neighborhood will be very welcome guests."
The Luman Howes of Montpelier, Vt., announce the marriage of their daughter Priscilla to Carl R. Triebs, June 2, 1951. Mr.Triebs received his Ph.B. degree from theUniversity of Chicago and did graduate workat Harvard before joining the Armed Forces.Priscilla graduated from Vassar in 1950 andcompleted a year as a student teacher at theBrearley School in New York.
During the last Fund drive, Albert Osborn,brother of our own Paul Osborn, sent in thefollowing interesting comment.
"Thank you for your very kind letter of May 31. It gives me real pleasure to see Paul's name listed in the 1917 group and enclose a small check herewith. You make me feel awfully good when you say that he is well remembered by many in the Class for that was his whole life, one might say, for my folks received his diploma after he was killed in France in June, 1917. But it is good to think that he enjoyed Dartmouth so much. I like to look at your Class Notes now and then as I see names he used to talk about, so and so was a great guy, and another who was a great guy. To him, everyone in 1917 was a swell chap, best class that Dartmouth ever had, etc. He just ate up college life and isn't it wonderful that he did, as for most it is just the beginning, but for him—well, it was his whole life. Thank you again for your kind letter."
We are starting off a new year. I hope you will cooperate and send in some news of your various summer experiences. We are getting nearer to reunion time, so let's get acquainted with each other through the class notes. Glossy pictures are always welcome.
Secretary, 408 Frelinghuysen Ave., Newark 5, N. J. Treasurer, 9 Park Terrace, Upper Montclair, N. J.
