1915
Howie Fuller must have many demands on his time in the performance of his duties as administrator of the Veterans Hospital at Buffalo, N. Y. This is a tremendously large institution, caring for the physical infirmities of our veterans. But somehow Howie finds time to head up the editorial board of the Buffalo VAH News, a weekly magazine of some 12 to 14 pages which must do as much good for the patients' morale as the medical staff does for their bodies.
Stick Parnell now in winter quarters in Manchester, N. H., stirred up some excitement two days after Christmas by having his oil burner explode at 9:00 P.M. and set fire to the chimney. This is not so good with the outside temperature at zero. However the repairmen had a new burner installed and running by 4:00 A.M. According to Stick, it's the firemen, not the fires, that do the damage. Oily soot was tracked over the Parnell orientals and ground into their wood floors.
After being injected full of small pox, plague, typhus, typhoid, paratyphoid, cholera and yellow fever (Wow!), Charlie and SusanGriffith flew out of Idlewild via Air France on January 24 for Paris, where they hoped to have a visit with Jiggs Donohue. Paris is merely the first stop on a trip extending all the way to the Philippines. Charlie has promised to send us bulletins of his experiences from time to time which will be passed on to you through these pages.
Spud and Pearl Whiteley recently took their most extended vacation in 27 years by motoring through the southern states, where they particularly enjoyed Williamsburg, Va. On their return through Washington, Spud missed seeing his three-year roommate Freddy Pearce, who was also on vacation. Spud finds that the demands of his candy business leave him altogether too little time for his pet avocation which is Y.M.C.A. work.
A fine newsy letter comes from Jack Ferguson as follows:
"No sooner do you get the class properly notified in the MAGAZINE of the address that we have carried for the last 13 years, than we move. We are still in the city, but have gotten out a bit farther where the oak trees are more numerous. There are 15 on the lot by Madelon's count, which is always accurate in such matters.
"Here is a bit of news regarding the recent trip that Madelon and I took to western Canada and way stations. We took off by train December 15, travelled leisurely through St. Paul and Moosejaw to Calgary, where we spent three pleasant and profitable days. We moved on to Vancouver, travelling through the Canadian Rockies by daylight and they were gorgeous with the deep cover of dazzling snow. Vancouver was dull and drippy and after a short business session, we left the same night for Portland. We went through Seattle and Tacoma during the night, and I wished that I might have had opportunity to see Mac McCarthy,Chuck Ingram and Ralph Emerson while I was so close to them. We reached Portland December 23, drove to Salem and moved in with our daughter Pat, her husband Bob Friess and their three sons John 7, Chris 4 and Bobby 2. It was a happy gathering and Christmas with them was a treat I will never for get. Our visit was soon over and we took the Union Pacific up the Columbia and overland to Cheyenne, where a lay-over gave us a few minutes to talk to John Loomis and exchange New Year's greetings. Then on to Denver, where we spent the night. I phoned Phil Alexander, who was the only Denver member of the class with whom I was able to make contact. And so back to Tulsa, where we arrived 15 minutes before the New Year blew in."
Prexy Jack Mason attended the mid-winter session of the Alumni Council in Hanover in January where he saw Jack Bowler, FletchLow and Warren Montsie, and stayed over for a few days' rest. He reports having had lunch in Boston with George Simpson and ChanFoster on two occasions. Someone presented Kay and Jack with a 30-pound turkey for Christmas. As we go to press, they are still having turkey soup.
The normal quota of Fifteeners at the Boston luncheons seems to consist of Sid Bull,Nature Boy Clough, Chan Foster, WaltMeader, Kike Richardson and George Simpson. In the abnormal category (and no deliberate insult is intended) we should add ATedShea and Duke Sullivan.
Do You RECALL?
Department of Nostalgia, continued: Remember the concert given by Alma Gluck in Webster Hall during our undergraduate days? The lady stayed over in Hanover the following day and was shown the College and otherwise squired around the village by a half dozen or so willing swains who were the envy of the entire student body. Some crass, materialistic and money-mad junior took her picture posed on the steps of the White Church and did all right for himself financially at ten or 15 cents a copy. Less than a week later many Hanover hearts were broken by the announcement in the newspapers of her engagement to some lucky guy whose name I forgot many years ago.
Back in November, Hal Claflin had the somewhat unique experience of attending a meeting of a club which had not convened since 1910. The event was a dinner reunion of the Perseverance Club, a group of boys who attended the same grade school and high school in East Orange, N. J.
Word comes that Johnnie Johnson figura- tively thumbed his nose at Joe Stalin by boarding the good ship Stella Polaris at New Orleans on January 6, for that round-the-world cruise. One other Dartmouth man is aboard, Lawrence Doty '17.
Dud Woolworth was in the hospital for two months last fall due to an arthritic condition and, we are sorry to learn, is back in the hospital again with the same trouble. As most of you know, Dud is one of the outstanding contract bridge players of the country and for several years has conducted a column on the subject in one of the Buffalo papers.
Bill Huntress was admitted to Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Mass., on January 12. As this is written (end of January) his progress is considered satisfactory. All Fifteeners wish him complete and rapid recovery. How about dropping both Bill and Dud a card?
Dale and Bessie Barker are acquiring January suntan in Florida.
LATE NEWS
We learn that Justin McCarthy is located temporarily in New York City where he is knocking himself out by working five days a week and then flying to Jacksonville, Fla., the site of his next project, for conferences on Saturdays and Sundays. As soon as the present school year is ended, Justin plans to move his family from the West Coast to Jacksonville for the duration of the project. Justin Jr. '51 has been confined in Dick's House for several days as a result of an automobile accident on icy highways but we understand is again back in circulation.
From Buster Sawyer comes the following information about Howard Jr. '45:
"He has escaped with a whole skin so far, but has been up and down the Korean peninsula from Changwon in the south to Anju in the north. His mobile surgical hospital has moved and moved, and he has been with them throughout. If he has been ill I haven't heard of it. I believe he has seen one flush toilet since August 1, had a variety of food, learned to use chopsticks, and should be a first class First Aid man by now. From his remarks he didn't think the country worth much before the war, and I guess nobody thinks it worth much now. It is kind of tough being the little fellow whose home is the battle ground between a couple of silly big ones, and they have my sympathy.
"At Xmas time we had Howard's wife Anne and his two youngest boys with us, as well as my daughter and her year old daughter, for her husband has recently gone to Korea and she is pleasing us with her presence until he returns. We are just the oldsters holding the fort, but feeling good at being worth something still."
Buster pays the following tribute to another one of our famous classmates:
"Jack Bowler has finished a term as President of the New Hampshire Medical Society just recently, and I want to say I admired his ability to measure up to the office. He was a fine presiding officer, a good speaker, a good executive, and put some good country horse sense into the problems he met, which were plenty. We should be proud of him and recognize the value of his services."
Fifteens' most eligible bachelor, Jack Healy, is in Quebec City on a business assignment which may stretch out for a month or more. Thus far the mercury has dropped no lower than minus 25. We trust his freshman French has not atrophied as it might come in handy socially.
Change of Address: John L. Ferguson, 3534 South Zunis Place, Tulsa, Okla.
BUSY WITH BOOKS: Walter O'Keefe 'l5/ Sales Manager of the Institutional Department and Vice President of the Literary Guild of Doubleday & Company, directs the sale of the total output of the firm to schools, colleges, libraries and various divisions of the government. Under his aegis are 36 full- time representatives, each of whom travels 30 to 40 thousand miles a year, handling some 1200 to 1300 titles in the Doubleday catalogue, the reprint lines and the book clubs. The institutional field on which Mr. O'Keefe keeps his practiced eye includes approximately 1500 colleges and universities in the United States, and we imagine that the situation in Hanover has something more than routine interest for the sales boss.
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