1918
The Old Farmer's Almanac says of June "16th to 19th unsettled spells. Local storms in Oregon and Washington, generally fair in the eastern section. 20th to 23rd, fair weather." There we have it. We're "in". Three beautiful sunshiny days, June 19, 20, 21. How many men are coming? How many wives and children? Out on a limb we go and predict a record high; the attendance has been as follows:
Year Reunion Men Wives C. Total 1923 5th 60 7 67 1928 10th 99 47 ? 146 1933 15th 62 14 ? 76 1938 20th 143 85 31 295 1946 25th 42 34 23 99 1948 30th 101 65 31 197 1953 35th 130 100 30 260
Curt Glover is the man who's been tallying return cards, collecting the dough. Never was there so much enthusiasm. Never have two great ad men done a greater job than SylMorey (Morey, Humm & Johnstone, Inc.) and Stan Jones of famed Young & Rubicam. Guiding it all in masterly fashion has been the Chairman of the entire Reunion, Steve Mahoney. When the tremendous gathering of the American Newspaper Publishers Asso. met this year at the Waldorf, Steve was again the gracious host to the many who know him in the newspaper and advertising world from coast to coast. In honor of the fine job Steve has done, Gerry Geran had framed and presented on his own to Steve a beautiful picture of a lovely green freightcar with the two bystanders examining the rods underneath and contemplating a cozy ride to Claremont or Montreal "on the rods."
The Admiral" (Paul Mather) and Mary flew in from Singapore around May 1 and Marge and Eddie Butts broke out with a celebration in San Francisco and hoped for more '18ers to join up. They'll all be at Reunion. Harvey Hood reported that Mel Breed's widow Louise may be there and we hope the families of all good '18ers who are no longer here to attend these reunions, will be represented by some member of the family. Those who have been in Hanover in recent months were Evie and Pete Col-well, Hazel and Doc Ed Mc-Dowell, Ruth and Bill Reilly, Harvey Hood and Peg and pwight Sargent. They'll all be at reunion. Come paid up on your class dues - send $5 to Donald L. Barr, c/o ALUMNI MAGAZINE office, at Hanover.
Gerry Geran and Bill Bemis will be there. Coming back from Reunion in '48, Gerry spotted Bill Bemis and Bill Kurtz chatting together, and informed the train conductor later that two Roman Catholic priests travelling in civilian clothes were back there in pullman seats, and in view of the fact there were three of them, couldn't they have a drawing room. In no time, the two Monsignors and Gerry were comfortably ensconced in the drawing room. And being on the train reminded Gerry of how Benny Mugridge, in order to get a reduced railroad fare, as did the writer, arranged with someone else to have two in the "men's" as the conductor went by and shook the door knob. As the "other man" slipped out, the conductor was satisfied (and our labor leader was too) that the can was empty.
What a wonderful letter Bill Christgau got sometime back from Val Valentine! He asked
"What do you hear of Rau, White, Spud, Jay,Dick Aishton, Hilliker, etc. ?. .. For the past 11 years I have been a salesman for a local successful paper box manufacturing company, travelling about 70 miles . . . financially we've been no ball of fire. We own our own home, have a large group of fine friends, go to church, participate in most civic activity, do everything we want to, have everything we desire. My hobbies are golf (low 80s) play about 75 times a season, bowling two leagues, (present average 178) have not missed a night in 8 consecutive years in one league, and duplicate bridge. Have been Pres. for 5 yrs of the Green Bay Bridge Club."
What a treat it will be to see you, Val and Martha!
The old roommate of Bill Wright and BillMudgett, namely Ed Noyes, has done an outstanding job as moderator of the town meetings in Natick, Mass. Ed is an executive of United Shoe Machinery, and his picture was in the Boston Globe.. .. We are sorry to report that a letter in April from Sarah Sullivan, wife of John H. Sullivan, to Dick Holton, said that John had passed away from pneumonia December 16, 1951 Said Sarah "...John and I had 26 wonderful years together, and my mind is crowded with rich memories of football games and class reunions, and I recall so vividly a piano out of doors, which on arrival John proceeded to play, and out of all the windows came heads, all calling 'John Sullivan' and John was playing 'Dartmouth's In Town Again.'" (see In Memoriam). We'll miss you, John.
Allan Ward will be back at Reunion. Living in Chicago, he sent us a clipping of GeneMarkey and his attractive wife. Always we're indebted to Gene because he's sort of a common denominator in the class everybody knows him and everybody's proud of him, and everybody likes to send in clippings about him. And in a booklet showing all the glamor stars of Hollywood, this about Gene is awfully good: "As a rule, men who are so attractive to women are disliked by other men but Markey makes a sucker of the rule. The men for whom he has worked are just as enarmored of him as the women who have entertained him and married him."
The Quick-Lunch-Professor, drop-kicker BobFish, will be at Reunion with Mildred. Daughter Connie was married last March, and daughter Joan is married and living outside of Boston, so you just know that Mildred and Bob will be on. . . . Eddie Ferguson had a disc operation the end of April last report doing fine. Let's hope he feels so good he'll certainly make reunion. To Eddie and to Tom Shirley goes the credit for '18's very happy reunion in 1948. Sometime back, Eddie reported at the Alumni Dinner at the Copley Plaza in Boston were Ken Jones, Stub Stanley, Dick Cooley and Doc Curt Tripp, as well as Chaunce Hood. DocJoe Quincy tried to make it, and temporarily Reed Montgomery was laid up. Everybody was interested in Tom Shirley's wonderful trip to Key West to see his daughter, and his enjoyable visit with At and Bee Gottschaldt.
Just think of Miriam and Tom Campbell! They left in May for a 10-week business and pleasure tour of 6 European countries, and while abroad they'll attend the International Congress of Municipal Authorities, from June 14 to 19 in Vienna, as the official rep. of the Am. Municipal Assn. Tom is Manager of Improvements and Parks in Denver, and has been doing a terrific job. Says Clem McBride from beautiful New Mexico, "I'm sure I'll not be back in June 'twould take an oil well to do that. Mary and I are both teaching. My daughter Mary ground out some A's and B's at midyear, and if she continues she may get to finish at Smith. She'll work this summer or go to Mexico." We'll all miss you, Mac Signed "Robbie" from Westfield, Mass. (Robinson Reminders), this card came a few weeks back. "Just returned from a month's trip which included a call on Cort Horr - a week's skiing in Aspen, Colo. some time on the coast, and a couple of weeks on a Key off the Florida coast." It was Helen and Robbie who were gracious enough to invite '18ers on their way to the opening football game to enjoy a splash in their pool.
Got such a nice note from Tom Sturgess. We can look forward to seeing Alice and Tom at Reunion. . . . What a nice letter from Doc Ray Barrett! "Harvey Hood was in quite frequently to see me while I was in the Deaconess Hospital for 10 weeks and I very much enjoyed him. The boys at a Boston dinner called me up at the hospital, and Bill Christgau wrote me a nice remembrance from the New York dinner. It was all these little things which helped so much and make us realize that we have more friends than we thought." Ray had six operations, but has accepted it philosophically and is very happy indeed that he's back on the job, as he has been for a couple of months HaroldGlendenning may be at Reunion the last minute (may go over to Oxford for a big occasion at the same time will see) and with all his trial work and the emotional strain, Hal keeps himself in fine physical condition and part of that system called for a good rest in Palm Beach this winter where he has many friends.
An awfully nice note from Alan Strout in Texas "I plan to be at Hanover in 1968 to see if Tom Shirley and the rest are as virile and skittish as ever I teach the first term of summer school, hence vacation from the middle of July to the middle of September. A stray Russian tumbler has just added himself to our pigeons. He is small, pure white except for a brown tail and a brown front half of his head; so I have called him Stan Jones. Unexpectedly, he turned out to be a female and has just laid two eggs" (what a life Stanley leads.) ... "My two boys finish college next year, the older was at Texas Tech, now at Antioch, specializing in Fine Arts and Jewelry, younger boy born at Oxford, England, started his junior college at Schenectady, will finish here at Texas Tech. He had a beautiful accent his first six months, but it is good normal Texas now. My wife Mary has real Welsh hair, the same as Stan Jones'. She is a descendant from the Druids and can trace her ancestry back to Ap-Cadwaller, Ap-Llewellyn, Ap-Rhys, Ap-Fluellen, Aptitude-Test. . ."
'Twas a great pleasure to read a nice letter from Mac (John) McMahon who is Mfrs. Sales Agent out in California. Mac s old roomey was Terry Dolson. Everyone knew and loved Mac on the football squad. He was in the oil business in 1920 —stayed with it to '38 the Pure Oil Co. in N. J., left N. Y. for Calif, in '25, travelled up and down the west coast, Canada and Mexico - quit the oil business and went into his present work. Married again in '39 he and "darling Marjorie" formerly of Seattle, are really enjoying life. ...We received a huge newspaper clipping of March 18 announcing the "merger of 2 of New Rochelle's oldest and largest insurance agencies". 'Twas Colwell's outstanding insurance company that everybody in Westchester knows, with able Harry E. Colwell Jr. 19, as Pres., our Pete as V.P., and Treas. The class is indebted always to Cher Ned Ross, an ever faithful contributor, who sent us the clipping from the Tribune, showing a huge 500-family apartment colony being planned, and Pete's firm arranged the deal nothing too big for those boys.
From Dick White, Jake Bingham, HortChandler and other great admirers of BillWright came clippings not only of the reelection to the Board of Directors of our rugged rancher William B. Wright, Partnership Owner and Manager of Mary's River Ranch, Deeth, Nev., but a splendid talk which Bill gave on "More Freedom in the Market Place." It's strong, firm talk from a rugged ranchman.
Dick Holton has done most to make 1918 one of the great classes of Dartmouth College. Thank him before.the zero hour of June 30 —by one of our biggest gifts to the College for more scholarship help to deserving men.
Doris and Phil Sanderson had a wonderful trip to Key West; enjoyed seeing their daughter Shirley and grandson. Phil was cleared by security people to go to sea during his visit there on a Navy craft for some hush-hush demonstration. ... We hear Bub Frost is back on the job again at Western Electric, 195 Broadway, N.Y.C., after a slight heart upset. . . . Recommending Herb West's RebelThought, Eric Ball found it most enjoyable and we have too. Rose and Eric will be at' reunion. On Eric's card he wrote: "His was the word of commendation in the moment of victory, his the word of solace and comfort to soften the sting of defeat." That's on the tribute to Harry Hillman (adopted '188er) at Hanover, June 19, 1948 We are happy that Phil Everett reports steady progress, and still "gets stuck with a needle twice a week." He wishes he could get to Hanover. He was grateful for a phone call from throughtful Roger Howland, who we hope will be at Reunion. What a change! Ethel and Monk Cameron's busy roadside fruitstand and attractive antique shop on the main highway to Kingston are all gone. It was a throbbing artery, and Ethel and Monk have sold out and are living quietly somewhere down along the shores of the Hudson River. We understand Monk is with I.B.M. in Poughkeepsie now, working 4 days a week from 4 until midnight a complete change and simplification of life.
We are indebted to Dick Pearson '20, member of the Urban League of Westchester, for some of the fine things Les Granger said at that meeting. Les related his views on race relations and conditions in Florida and in India. In Florida, there had been poor schooling for Negroes, police brutality, the peonage system and many other un-American practices in the past, but there has been a great deal of progress correcting it. Said Les, "Today you find in Florida a Negro Judge, widespread cleaning up of the slums, even Negro physicians practicing in major hospitals, and for the first time in the history of Miami, the Urban League arranged their annual dinner at an exclusive hotel."
Nothing can dampen the spirits or the rugged Irishman, John Francis Clahane but Frank did get a bad break. A two-level room in his hotel caught him off balance, and the bad ankle was snapped, and in a cast, but everyone will rejoice with Marion that he is now fine and we hope both will be at Reunion....
We've enjoyed reading again the gems in Pot (Carleton A.) Potter's book, A Salesman Takes AnInterest. In part, he says ". . . Two years ago I saw the brilliant exciting play Death of a Salesman. I enjoyed it immensely but it left me with the feeling that only the mother was real. What interested me more than the film was the composition of the daytime audience. It was made up mostly of young men and working boys. They had come singly in off hours, so I assumed 'they wanted to learn.' That these ambitious young men might consider such poor drama as typical life, depressed and distressed me. In the hope that I could refute some of the disillusionment I saw in their faces, I have taken an unaccustomed pen in hand." We've enjoyed it, Pot.
Like Ike, Shamus Shea also shoots in the 80s. But, brother, don't put a hat on a bed with the Irishman around, or don't open an umbrella on the dining room table. The boy who took care of the woodpile in his youth sure can explode! Eagleeyed loyal contributors have made these columns possible Alert Howie Park sent us a clipping from the April Fargo Forum, telling how Mayor (of Fargo, N. D.) Murray Baldwin, tossed the ball for the opening baseball season from a Navy helicopter. Murray has flown in a 'copter before and is a member of the Order .of the Whirly-Birds. . . . Thanks to Ed Booth in Hanover, we learned that Em Morse, having a repair job done in Mary Hitchcock Hospital, was delighted to hear that his stepson had been accepted from Kimball Union, for the class of '57 at Hanover.
What a nice letter Jake Bingham received from Kathryn Lucier, in reply to the note of sympathy Jake had written her, when "Kid" passed away. It read in part, "I am now living in Greenboro, N. C., with my oldest daughter. Alvin loved Dartmouth and I think he was a little disappointed that his son did not go there." ... Imogene Kozminski is carrying on the tour business which Charlie so faithfully conducted, and can be reached at 59 E. Madison St., Chicago, 3... The old roomey of Al Rice, one of the outstanding insurance men of Chicago, Lymie Drake Jr., who was State Pres. of the Illinois Assn. of Insurance Agents, is now Secretary of the Union League Club of Chicago Dr. Rolf Syvertsen is Commander of the George Rider Post of American Legion at Hanover.... Nancy and Red Hulbert will be at Hanover, and their son Richard, who did an outstanding job at Hanover, is now 2nd Lt. Asst. Supply Officer Anti-Air Craft Div., Ft. Bliss, Tex. . . .
Looking mighty fit, even with his 245 lbs., Homer Hill, we are happy to say, reports to say that wife Gladys' vision is much better, and also stated that his 89-yr-oid mother keeps him on the ball in Wall St. affairs because if he doesn't bring home the Wall St. Journal, the Journal of Commerce and the N. Y. Times, he soon hears from his mother, who can discuss all the topics of the day as well as he can.
Remember for several years now, 1918's homecoming weekend at Hanover is the opening football game always in the fall. Always a class cocktail party and luncheon before the game; this makes a delightful and memorable weekend. But that's so far away! Sharing the fellowship and the memories of happy days together on the campus will make this one of our greatest reunions. Just a few more days, to June 19, 20 and 21 three sunshiny days. We'll always remember this once-in-our-lifetime reunion with all our friends in '17, '18 and '19. Don't miss it.
REUNION UP! When the Class of '18 gets together, the years disappear. A double-take of the 30th Re- union in 1948 reveals in the picture on the left, Larry Pope (I), Marion and Dick White. On the right an informal group surrounds the keg.
Secretary, 74 Trinity Place, New York 6, N. Y
Class Agent, East New York Savings Bank 2644 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn 7, N. Y.
