1918
Never more deserved tribute was paid than to our George Moulton Davis in the Wah Hoo Wah column of the July ALUMNI MAG. This great tribute was a total surprise to George who has been a loyal Member of the New Rochelle Board of Education for 24 years. "The Board did not want his exemplary services forgotten and therefore resolved to name the school after him. His name will be carved in enduring stone on the building, so that teachers can point to it and tell their students that the name of George M. Davis symbolizes the highest ideals of American citizenship." Needless to say, Dottie and daughter Betty-Anne were rightly proud. You have brought great honor to Dartmouth College and to our 1918 class, George. We congratulate you.
Bill Montgomery, big wheel of Bruce Dodson Co., Kansas City, Mo., managed last summer to take the whole family (wife Eva and 3 daughters) up to the North West and State of Washington and had a wonderful time.
Steve Mahoney graciously accepted the leadership of 'lB's 35th Reunion in June '53 and instantly sparked the procedures with appointment of several committees. There were 3 meetings in New York this summer (one, the hottest day in July, none of us could get in the Dartmouth Club until we located a necktie for Eric Ball), and a full-dress gathering of all '18 committees took place before Duke's cocktail party and luncheon at the Holy Cross game Sept. 27 (story in Nov. MAG). . . . Through the generosity of the loyal 300 '1Bers who keep ever alive their interest in Dartmouth College and in 1918 affairs, some 150 others in our class who in the past have not received the ALUMNI MAG will from now on begin to receive it. A week or two ago you received in the mails a flyer giving details of '18's greatest reunion, the 35th, and the first and only time we'll reune with our pals in neighboring classes of 1917 anc' ' 1919. That's June 19, 20 and 21, 1953, just 8 months hence.
The many friends of Ethel and StumpieBarr will be happy to hear a report we received that Stumpie has become "Portfolio Mgr. of Investors Mutual Fund in Minneapolis (where Frances and Em Salisbury are) with some $400,000,000 in assets. Wonderful, Stumpie. Congratulations. How we'll all miss 'em when we go to Hanover.... Through Stumpie's diligent efforts over the years, it has been possible for the class to have cash on hand as of last August 1 of $1789.18, after paying all bills. The ALUMNI MAGAZINE subscriptions for the past year cost .$849.94, which will be upped another $400 or so now that all classmates are to receive the MAG. Many who get it for free will be happy to pay something that those who can not afford to pay may enjoy just as much this lifelong Dartmouth experience.
Carol Pounds, daughter of the late Mr. andMrs. Lewis C. Pounds (Lew, Mike or Musty as we loved to call him) was married in August, her brothers Art '45 and Lew Jr. stood by.
A wonderful letter from that Man of Distinction Pat Case, written from Cleveland in July, "We left St. Pete, Fla., July 1 and Louise and I are spending some time at a farm in Goodland, Ind., owned by Louise's uncle, and we go back to Florida about Sept. 1. Sorry I can't make New York this summer, BUT I "WILL BE AT REUNION IN HANOVER IN JUNE 1953." Pat, that's the best news we've heard in a long time. For you to pull up stakes and come all the way from St. Pete to Hanover is an inspiration to all of us.
"Rosamond and Jack Hurlbut of East Longmeadow, win," so says the 5/7/52 Springfield (Mass.) Union. That "town metal guard rail stood solid for Jack and East Longmeadow."
Sad, very sad, and the class extends their deepest sympathy to Louise and Larry Walii son the death of their son Bob, a Naval pilot, killed in a jet plane crash in Virginia on July 17. Said Larry, in a note to Dick Holton, "Last July, on the afternoon before his death, he had picked up this jet plane at Quonset, R. 1., set it down at Westover, came to stay overnight with us. He was full of plans for our visit to him at Norfolk this week and we parted with him around 7 Thursday morning, planning to make the trip. Four hours later he was gone. It is tragic irony that 3 days before going, he was promoted to Senior Jet Officer and Instructor in jet flying for his squadron. The day he died, it was very hot, and the field at Norfolk is none too long in its runway for jets and he just failed to clear the barrier. He was considered one of the best flyers in his squadron and 19 officers and men came up to his funeral here at Mt. Holyoke College. Bob's brother, Sgt. Richard Wallis, U.S. Army, is with the 10th Engineers in Korea, or was and was expected home last August."
Last June 19, in Massachusetts, all hell broke loose in Weymouth, as our classmate Doc. BobRyan rose to fame delivering quadruplets for a jubilant Dad - thus in a flash rising to the heights of Dr. Dafoe who delivered the famous Dionne quintuplets. Alert Charlotte Ford, adopted '18er, and recorder of all records in Hanover, sent us a clipping; also Jake Bingham and many others, and loyal Doc Wallace Drake, secretary of '14, sent an envelope of' clippings all about Bob and the quads. These were the second multiple births presided over by Bob.... It will be 1918 on an armband at our 35th; we can gawk at the costumes of the old classes. Change of address of Les Merrill, from upstate N. Y. to Fort Worth, Tex.... Carol and Em Morse escaped the summer heat of New York and are at Box 3, North Thetford, Vt., in "that lovely place with a huge window you can see off in the mountains in all directions" (Christgau).
With wife Katherine and two daughters, Ruth Ann and Margaret, all of whom crossed the Continent in '48 to '18's grand 30th, BillMudgett set sail on La Liberte last June 26 for that one big bust all over Europe that he'd promised the family. He expected to see FatSheldon's son Roger at Oxford, and, said he, last Feb., "I'm getting an English Hillman Minx station wagon and will take delivery in Plymouth, Eng., and after a few weeks will cross over to Belgium, Holland, France, Switzerland, drop down to Venice and come back through France, winding up in Paris, sailing from Le Havre, Sept. 2." Thank you, Bill, for the postcard giving, "a Wah Hoo Wah from your ancestor: a perfectly beautiful spot Dartmouth, England." Biggest event of the summer was the coming to the U.S. of Germaine and Hort Kennedy (greatest Pres. ever of Am. Univ. Club, Paris). '18 guards mounted the city walls about NY to corner the Kennedy's but the dragnet failed. However, Chev Meener at conducteur cinquante six Ned Ross each sent us this clipping, "Horton Parmalee Kennedy, who for the last 3 yrs. has been Pres. of the Am. Club of Paris has been made a commander in the Legion of Honor." C'est bien fait, Horton.
The treat of that June 19 class dinner was seeing the old Betas Red Wilson and Dave Skinner get together. Dusty Rhodes gulped with pride when he discovered a Dartmouth man on his Journal ofCommerce, who learning of Dusty s class, remarked "those were the days of giants and stalwarts." It proved to be Bob Fish's brother, Sidney, '24 who has gained recognition for his fine work on this paper. Give 'em a cheer, fellas, here's a note from Leon Alden, Veterans Hospital, Davis Park, Providence, R. I. Ward 3-B. "... At long last they've got me. Came here for stomach trouble, haven't been able to eat for 3 months, had a chest x-ray for t.b. - will be happy if I can eat one square meal again. At least I don't have to worry what to do for a while." ... Walt Nelson, V.P. in charge of Mortgage and Real Estate for the famed half-billion East River Savings Bank, has a new home, a new wife (glad to hear, Hazel, you're fine after the operation) and a new dog.
Mr. Punctuality, Dick Holton (is he always on time, Edith?) put on another amazing job for us in the Alumni Fund. Hat's off to Miss Sweningson, at Dick's office, who is a pillar of strength in this Al. Fund work....No one will ever know the thousand and one letters Dick scribbles to classmates. No man ever worked so hard for Dartmouth. If you can help him in this work to remind '18ers in your vicinity of their opportunity to give to help others enjoy the Dartmouth experiences we did, then consider it an honor. 262 loyal '18ers gave an average of $58.19 each. Some of the best and most loyal classmates missed it entirely. Just forgot it too bad. Of course there is always the loyal and generous gift of Harvey Hood and Marty Straus and others that give us a high average. Marty has a deepseated love and devotion to the College that never fails. The Tintair King, as busy and successful as he is, takes time out for Dartmouth and many little things that add up to bigness. From loyal class Sec. of '25, Ken Hill, came a clipping of Harvey Hood being elected as Director of Amer. Mgmt. Assn.... From '18 rooter Paul G. Richter '20, came a clipping showing Harvey congratulating 3 of 56 employees, who are members of H. P. Hood & Sons' Quarter Century Club. Ned Ross' Omie was invited back to Vassar a week early to greet incoming freshmen after big Omie and Ned shot off some fireworks on Sept. 3, their 25 th wedding anniversary.
Think of the Pres. coming in and saying, "I want you to take a Labor Day cruise and be our guest"-that happened to Imogene and CharlieKozminski last June. They sailed on the SS SilverStar, Aug. 29, and returned on Sept. 7 this is a much deserved vacation for Charlie who has been working hard for the Arnold Bernstein SS Co., and for Imogene now so successful in her Pacific Mutual Ins. Co. job.... When Cort Horr was telling Ray Hurley last year, how he had received a long letter from Gene Markey in Mexico, Ray remarked, "... My last report on Markey was the result of a very libelous luncheon which he gave for my wife and 3 of my daughters this summer in Los Angeles. He gave them 3 uninterrupted hours, in which he told my wife and children of my escapades, both real and imaginary. Without in any way wishing to deny my past, which, of course, you will gather was without blame, I can only say in answer to Markey's fabrications, that it would have taken me 175 years and 3 stomachs to have done all the things he told my children I had done. Fortunately, they are of an age that prides itself on its sophistication, and prior to their going to the Coast, I had done an excellent job of tearing Markey's character down into its components, and when spread out they did not look very good...
Lovely Miriam Campbell and Tom were in New York in the early summer, and Mary Olive and Start Jones enjoyed a wonderful reunion with them. Tom has given all that he has for the city and county of Denver, and says: ... Unless we are all recalled by the irate taxpayers before the end of the present term I expect to keep this job until May 1955. I have no plans, except a long vacation, after that."... Dave Skinner Jr. who had an outstanding record at Deerfield and Dartmouth, and whom Stan Jones was happy to help in locating himself in the work he'd like to do, dropped us a nice note from his job location, 2360 Broadway, San Francisco.
Loyal Jake Bingham wrote, "Richard P.White participated in Trade Assn. Seminar (40th annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at Wash. D. C., last June) also was Chrman, Chamber Trade Assn. Dept. Comm." A letter from Dick about that time said, "I had a most stimulating experience when I went to Hanover to speak to the 2nd year Tuck School on the trade association as a management tool and was very much impressed with the calibre of the 60 students who were
about ready to go out into business."... Also at that same 40th annual U.S. Chamber of Commerce meeting, our William B. Wright, Director of National Chamber, presided at a luncheon session. Son John brought home a lot of boys from Andover, who speeded up activities around Mary's River Ranch this last summer. Bill wrote us a very interesting letter last June; it follows: "My trip to Mexico was as the guest of the Pres. of Mexico with a small group of business men invited there to inspect their socialization progress and their industrialization developments. It was a very interesting and educational trip. When I returned from the East, I came home to a Republican Convention at which I was elected Natl. Committeeman for the State of Nevada."
'18 CLASS DINNERS
Boston, Oct. 24 University Club Night Before Harvard New York City, Oct. 31 Dartmouth Club-Night Before Yale Boston, Dec. 3 University Club Christmas Spirits New York City, Dec. 3 Dartmouth Club Christmas Spirits
Secretary, 74 Trinity Place, New York 6, N. Y.
