1918
Official photographers of the class GeorgeM. Davis, AI Street, Fred Cassebeer and DocBill Pepin will have many interesting snapshots of '18's greatest reunion ever on June 19-20-21. "HOW SIGNIFICANT IN YOURLIFE IS OUR 35TH REUNION? That depends on you! It can be a heart-warming experience, a memory to be cherished. A hand- clasp of old friends with whom we shared 3 or 4 golden years. They may not have been the best years, but they were pretty goldarned good years." These are the words of StanJones. They put it up to all of us to make these 3 days of June 19, 20 and 21, three very happy and memorable days. Your committee under Steve Mahoney's leadership met again on Feb. 4.
"The success and the significance of this reunion hang in direct proportion to the number of men who come back to Hanover. Each of us will hope to see all his classmates - not just a few. Naturally some of us look a little different from the applecheeked youth who were once far on the juicy side of 50. No matter! Come back! Rest assured that we all want to see you! - You will find a warm welcome from many old friends - and you'll recall many, grand memories. Their brightness helps make 1918 one of the great Dartmouth classes. Come back in June! We've got a knockout program set up for you." (Stan Jones.) BillChristgau, the official class welcomer, and many other '18ers are writing all their friends in the class to come back. Won't you please write 5 or 6 of your friends welcoming them back?
Denver Post 1.12.53, "A dark horse frequently mentioned in Republican conversation as a candidate for Undersecretary of the Interior is Thomas P. Campbell, Denver manager of parks and improvements." Tom is doing an outstanding job and his great talents could well be used by the Nation.
From Bob Fish, after his enjoyable month, during the Christmas holidays, in New York,
"Please remember that no matter how we kid about 'tapping the Quick-Lunch till,' I get more out of association with you folks and Dan Shea and Bill Montgomery than I ever paid you for. As we live on and live out our time, we sometimes seem to get a sniff as to what living is all about. I'd put good health first, but it's relative good health, I mean, consistent with our years, and not the telephone-climbing health that Ted Hazen and TomProctor illustrated so inefficiently at our Fifth. As someone has said, 'If you want to live long, you've got to grow old,' tho' there are a lot of people who think they can accomplish one without the other. Secondly, you need 'enough money' to take care of all the necessities, most of the comforts, and perhaps a few of the luxuries, in descending order of importance. Most of us have all the necessities and comforts we can use, but too many of us are spending too much of our lives acquiring submarginal luxuries. But anyhow, enough money is important. And thirdly, we need interesting work, the kind that taxes whatever talents we have inherited or developed. Thinking, alone, can be as much of a curse as a blessing. Irrespective of the gains or the applause, a man has to work at something. And all of this, because fourthly, we need the approbation of those who know us, since self-respect stems from the respect of others. Referring to our 30th, I particularly enjoyed Jack O'Donnell's few words, first because I've always liked Jack and admired him; secondly, because I see so little of him; and thirdly, because we got into an argument at our 30th (at breakfast after a tough night) in which, as usual I was wrong. But thanks to all, Bob Ritter, PhilTusting, Jovnny Johnston, Chris, Ed Felt, Duke,George Stoddard, Tommy Groves, Bob Knowles,Red Hulbert, Marty Straus, Chaunce Hood, DaveGarratt and Dan Shea, and best to Stan Jones particularly "
Those old college hums we'll hear again on the campus next June when Red Hulbert,Rog Howland and Clarence Opper get together.
From the 5th Reunion Roar - "It is hoped we can show more stuff than we did against '16, when the only two features proved to be Tom Proctor's-rending of his pants sliding to 2nd and Prof. Fish's only hit for '18, which landed on Christ gnu's kidneys and as he was coaching off the initial sack. Survivors of the ball game can complete their physical ruin on the tennis courts, or step out to be drilled with a Spaulding fifty from the driver of AlJohnson, Dan Shea or Ed Butts. At 6.45 a class dinner will be served in the Commons (this is still the 5th reunion) followed by a brief meeting at which it is hoped Messrs. Knapp, Poole, and Skinner will have reached a comatose stage." At about this time, in 1923, our RussellRhodes, then the Official Treasurer of 1918 (and now with his arm in a sling), looking for a sponsor like Hathaway shirts showing a man with a patch over his eye, threw it all up for an appointment as American Vice Consul at London, and for a life of striped pants, in that "far-off salad era of our carefree life," as Dusty puts it.
In Russell Rhodes' column, of the N. Y. Journalof Commerce, "New York . . . Here and There," Russell says: "Ah, ze French! Zay are funnee. They prefer their entertainment saturated in the socalled gentler sex. When it comes to a fashion show, they likewise quite understandably prefer their top coutouriers never to forget that, contrary to what the poet Kipling wrote about cigars, a woman is always a woman. Hence, wardrobe isn't a disguise" - and in his distinguished column, "Make Mine Manhattan" - in the Insurance Advocate, Dusty says: "When I first went to London in the days when the worst you could say about the bright young men of the State Dept. was that they wore cutaways, striped pants and spats, my initiation in Gilbert and Sullivan was as a standee at the back of the mezzanine in the Prince of Wales Theatre, for a performance of The Yeoman of theGuard."
The grand old roomey of Penn Carolan and Duke duSossoit, good old Al Gustafson passed away last Jan. 8 - see In Memoriam. A few remarks from his letters: ... good old Chris is an ace, just a wonderful guy.. .. Enclosed is a copy of a letter to our good old scout, Arthur Lucien Zulick, the pride and Sage of Orwigsburg, Pa. Funniest man I ever in my life did see. I used to laugh myself in convulsions, when I used to rehearse our act for our class shows.... My old roommate Duke asked me to come up to his place in Lyme where he has a country estate... . Dick Holton is sure doing a swell job, and deserves a lot of orchids ... good old Swede Youngstrom, the famous handsome skoning, phoned me from Newton Center - it was a stunning surprise to hear his old voice, and he can still talk Swedish."
Sad to relate also, that our much beloved AlLucier passed away in a Boston hospital Jan. 25. "Kid," as Al was frequently called around the campus, was a lovable man, had a distinguished career, and will be sorely missed. See In Memoriam in the back....
Ted Booth is Pres. and Genl. Mgr. of Packard in Grand Rapids, the beautiful car that Pres. Jim Nance is making the splash with all over the horizon. Ted said he has enjoyed following the class over the years, and adds, "As a result of your extremely kind insistence, we may give some serious thought to attending the reunion. I've never been back that-a-way since the last time I crossed the wooden bridge in June 1915, and have often thought I'd like to have another look." Wonderful, wonderful news, Ted, that we'll have the pleasure of enjoying you and Marty (nickname for his wife Martha) at the reunion in June at Hanover. ...
Many '18ers would have enjoyed the talk Col.Florimond Duke gave in Springfield and Claremont, N. H., about his experiences in the war, and Duke has had a very distinguished record. Duke flew pursuit planes in France in World War I; was captured 2 weeks after leaving the U.S. in March 1944 of World War II, and was caught in a small town in Hungary, after having parachuted down with radio equipment. Several months Duke spent in Gestapo Hdqtrs. in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Berlin, Budapest and Vienna, ending up as a prisoner with 2 other Americans and 300 Englishmen in a castle at Colditz, Germany. The College is indeed fortunate to have Duke in charge of their ROTC.
Duke has been named a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Advisory Committee on Television and Ellen is in the local news also. She served as Guest Consultant on a magazine panel that was run as part of a conference of New England College Public Relations Directors. Dartmouth played host to somewhere between 100 and 125 of these college officers, and Ellen Duke teamed up with Corey Ford and one other editor, to tell the boys how to make the grade on magazine articles.... Germaine and Hort Kennedy will be at the reunion, from Paris, and we can hear Hort telling us, last May here in New York, "Germaine went into her old corset shop in New York and was .simply aghast at the number of women buying bathing suits for $300 each. Where do they get the money?"
A wonderful Citation for Exceptional Service to Public Education in New Hampshire was presented at Teachers College to our Lester B. Badger: "Supt. of Schools, who through exceptional service to his calling, as an able and efficient school administrator, is making notable contributions to public education in New Hampshire. Endowed with seemingly limitless energy and a keen mind, Mr. Badger used his talents for the constructive advancement of education. His intellectual honesty, his sound judgment and his unflinching courage have placed him in the vanguard as an educational leader, and as a sympathetic friend of children and youth." Congratulations, Les, and to your wife Lillian, whom we know deserves just as much credit.
Great news! George Carpenter from Indianola, says: "Just received a radiogram from Geo. III, Lt. j.g. USN D.'so, who has had a marine detachment in Wonson Bay, N. Korea, saying he was on way back to Honolulu. We are greatly relieved and Helen and I are flying there to spend March with him. He is expected to be out this year and study law." ". . . We think of that amusing story told by George Stoddard when George Carpenter and he decided to take up the study of art: Landing one evening in a chummy room filled with students, a nude displayed on the platform, and the only seats available for the two neophytes were near the nude. Well, the two Georges stumbled-bumbled up to the vacant seats, and tripped over a couple of easels, and they and the nude and the easels were first down on the 1 yd. line in no time. . . .
Peg and Dwight Sargent's place in Vt. is just across the river from Carol and Em Morse's attractive place at North Thetford - both overlooking Smart's Mountain. Les Granger, Executive Secy, of the National Urban League, helping thousands of Negroes to make good in industry, and who has received degrees from several colleges, was in India as the Chrmn. of the UN Delegation to the International Conference of Social Work, where he delivered the keynote address last December 15. Some of Les's reactions in his first letter are interesting:
"Wheh! This is first chance I've had to sit down at a desk since leaving New York last Saturday. (Golly! Was it only last Saturday?) The trip over was smooth as smoothest. We refueled and 'coffee-ed' at Goose Bay, Labrador, instead of at Gander, Newfoundland, because of weather conditions, and got into London airport at 6.00 a.m. instead of 2.00 That meant getting into Rome at 2.30 P.M.—by the time we'd eaten and washed and shaved (the 7 men) and figured out how to buy postcards without getting stuck with English change. Rome was pleasant-lazylike and strolly. Of course there was no time to do anything but 'rubberneck-bus' about to the principal spots like St. Peters and Vatican City and the Colosseum, etc. . . . "Next morning we landed at Karachi and knew we were deep in the problems that we'll be discussing at Madras! Moslem garb and speech, complexions ranging from olive-swarthy to ebony-dark; rags, uniforms, near nakedness; elegant ladies and gentlemen and vermin-infested beggars - those were only a few among the startling (and frequently shocking) contrasts at every glance. I'll never forget the refugee quarter. A hundred thousand of the 7 million refugees resulting from Partition are jammed into alleys and on the outskirts of Karachi even though this city is clear cross country from the scene of greatest impact. The living conditions would be unbelievable to an unsophisticated Westerner even one who is familiar with rural southern life or the back streets of Birmingham.
"Never again do I want anyone to compare any social conditions found in the U.S. with those in this part of the world. I still feel hurt and ashamed over that refugee quarter I saw, almost as if I were responsible for it. Babies with open sores and flies crawling upon them. The strong stench of the urine of animals and humans living together. The fever-bright eyes or the soddenly-apathetic glance - the one as disturbing as the other. And the crawling old people! You have an uneasy feeling that they are not as old as their hair and teeth and sunken eyesockets seem to indicate - that they have simply lived hard for a couple of decades and are ready to die off twice as soon as they should. . . ." We wish we could quote more of his very interesting letter, and all look forward at Reunion to a nice visit with Les and his charming wife Harriet.
At the Master Masons Night in Springfield, Mass., Judge Don Macaulay, appointed Judge of Probate in 1948, gave a splendid talk. Don is a Past Master of Newton Lodge and he has held offices in Scottish Rite Masonry and the Grand Lodge of Mass. ... Roger G. Allen, '37, one of the hard workers of the Long Island D. Assn. prepared a fine Eulogy to our HarryCollins, who passed away last Dec. 5: - "Despite his extremely busy and time-consuming professional schedule, he devoted enormous time and energy to youth-building, charitable, fraternal and religious activities. His door was always open to those who wished his counsel. His thoughts were constantly of others - to assure them of a fair trial, fair reward and deserved assistance. He was a true friend to many more than ever realized his sincere interest in their welfare...." Thank you, Roger. And with all Harry's duties and engagements, night after night, we are amazed the determination Harry had always showed to come to all the class dinners and just sit around and relax and enjoy visiting with his friends of Hanover Days. ...
William H. Coulson (Bill) long adopted by the '18 class, and whose sons graduated from Hanover in '39 and '4.0, tells us that his wife and daughter, Miriam and Flo, really went all out for Ike, and are mighty happy about it. Do bring them all up to reunion, Bill.. . .
Leon (Shorty) Alden, V.A. Hospital, Providence, R.I., said in Jan. "I am making slow improvement each day and gaining weight." Everyone is delighted to hear that Shorty is on the way back, pitch him a note . . . and thanking '18ers for Round-Robin note, DocJoe Quincy is back home again at 37 Stratford St., West Roxbury 32, Mass. - glad to hear it, Joe - pitch him a line too. Edith and DickCooley did a land office business at their wonderful shop at Christmas time. Pauline and Paul Sperry, and Harvey Hood and Pat and George Stoddard were up to Hanover a few weeks back.
Wasn't Ned Ross delighted when I read him this letter from Henry Oppenheim's wife Helen. "In the last issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, in your class report, there was an appeal for an '18 Aegis. I have one and it would make me very happy to pass it on to you, or to Mr. Ross, if you would give me his address. Henry's interest and loyalty to Dartmouth was so deep in his own, quiet way, that I feel it a privilege to be able to be useful if I can.. .." Wasn't that a nice thing for Helen to do! Henry was indeed well loved by everyone who knew him. .. . Certain to be at reunion next June will be those whose birthdays fall during that period; Sig Judd on June 19, Doc. Ray Barrett, June 21, also AlBou all the way from Porto Rico and CharlieJones from Florida. ...
1918 NEW YORK CITY DINNER LASTJAN. 21-A RAINY, SLEETY, GHASTLYNIGHT - happy we all were to see JudgeClarence Opper, and he and Lucy will be back at reunion. 'Twas a treat to see two of the prominent leaders of Wall St., DaveSkinner and Red Wilson. Delighted was everybody to see the Smiling Irishman CapHanley - definitely planning to be back at Reunion with Edyth. Said Cap, "It will be nice to see Harold Watson Slabaugh and Thelma. Where does he get that 'Jack'?" Never failing and ever present was Bill Christgau. If this 35th reunion is a great success and 3 happy days it will be largely because of the efforts of those who have given up a terrific amount of their time to make it a success by writing friends and classmates to be sure to come back. At the dinner also were BobKnowles and Henry Hesse, whose Hilda we hope will be back to Hanover in June. Missed was Steve Mahoney who was on extensive business trip out at Oklahoma; and missed was Pete Colwell, although the ever dependable Johnny Johnston was there. Prodder par excellence, and Treas. of '18's 35th Reunion, Curt Glover was there, as was Gerry Geran. We missed Howie Park all year, also Ty Tyrrel and Freddie Morse.
Most enjoyable it was to have prodder and class chorister Rog Rowland, with Red Hulbert's wonderful voice, Clarence Opper and Henry Hesse, humming some of those wonderful campus songs. There also was Consolidated Edison's personnel man Dwight Sargent; and banking V.P. Dick Holton. Most thorough, prodder Red Hulbert tells us that, "Phil Everett has been at Manhattan General Hospital 3 months, and is still there. . . ." We wish you a speedy recovery, Phil; also Red picked up the news that Charlie Benesch will be back in N.Y. from his retirement in California, and was motoring East." Have you given up retirement, Charlie? Doing a splendid job in admissions work, also there, was Bill Rosenfeld, who has a seat on the N. Y. Curb Exchange, changed now to the American Exchange. Paul Miner was inquiring about Pups Colie, and so many hope that Rosalie and Pups will be back to Hanover in June - RedWilson is anxious to see Don Axtell. Harold Glendenning says the 50th celebration of awarding Rhodes scholarships might take him over there in June instead of Hanover. You can't do that to us, Harold
WORTH HER WEIGHT IN GOLD: Meadow Lane Katie, owned by Ed Healey '18 (I) and milked by Paul Kemble (r) produced in one year 15,765 pounds of milk, and the second largest amount of butterfat (861 pounds) ever recorded in the U.S. for a senior 4-year-old Guernsey. Healey, who lives on a farm near Niles, Mich., recently turned down an offer of $1O,OOO for Katie.
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