1918
Whenever Ben Fairless's Am. Iron & Steel Inst, meets in N. Y. City's Waldorf, as it did last June, you'll find Fat Hardie, one of the greatest of steel salesmen from coast to coast. After reaching 244 lbs. Fat determined on his flight downward, stopping temporarily at 225. Seeing disaster overtaking his wardrobe he then set out for a flat 200, and away with 8 pats of butter. After a delightful visit with Fat and Dan Shea one evening we overheard Fat say he'd like to retire and live at the Hanover Inn; first getting married. Shamus cautioned Fat to think twice before giving up his freedom.
In the Manchester, N. H., papers on May 23 were headlines, "Ex-Grid Coach Hubie Takes Post as Principal of Central High." Hubie McDonough and wife Hazel have 3 daughters and one son. Quotes from the newspaper:
"While perhaps best known as the 'Miracle Man' who produced Central HS gridiron powerhouses that went undefeated for 6 years in 60 consecutive games against top schoolboy teams in New England, and for 21 years never lost a game to a N. H. team, Hubie McDonough is known in academic circles as a distinguished teacher of economics. He has been head of the Commercial Dept. for the past 28 years, and asst. principal since 1946.
"Declaring that 'in these troubled times we must teach our students, to play for keeps all the time,' Hubie expressed one of tue basic philosophies which has given him tough fibre. "While at Central HS, Hubie captained the track and football teams and starred in two sports at Exeter, played quarter-back at Hanover, and captained the team; he also did graduate work in finance and business administration at Tuck School. Then Hubie became a pilot in World War I in France, and this was the era of bi-planes and tri-planes. Nobody knew much about aerodynamics. "We flew by the seat of our trousers in those days. Nobody paid much attention to instruments—your altimeter would read 5000 feet and you'd probably be skimming the cornfields."
We are sorry to report on August 1 Gordon"Val" Valentine passed away in Green Bay, Wis. from a heart condition, having had a slight attack last November. He was such a fine fellow with many friends - and it's sad to lose him. See In Memoriam.
Class Treas. Curt Glover, who took over after Stumpie Barr took on his big job in Minneapolis with Investors Syndicate, reports that the class surplus dropped $17O for the year, and that dues received were $985, and total expenses $1195.09 Class subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE alone costs $951.80 and most of those enjoying reading its fine articles send in the $5 dues gladly to W. C. (Curt)Glover, Write Inc., 420 Lexington Ave., N. Y.City. Dartmouth's outstanding athlete last year was Curt Glover's son, Johnnie, champion swimmer and Capt. of the Dartmouth swim- ming team, who also is Treas. of his '55 class. Together father and son team up as outstanding class treasurers. The reason? First Ruth; then Curt "touches the keys of his Hammond organ. And a new world beckons. A world where workaday worries cannot follow - and tension is forever a stranger."
1918 Class Dinners
Oct. 22—Fri. University Club, Boston Oct. 28—Thurs. Dartmouth Club, N. Y. City Dec. 2—Thurs. Dartmouth Club, N. Y. City Jan. 13—Thurs. Dartmouth Club, N. Y. City Feb. 24—Thurs. Dartmouth Club, N. Y. City April 27—Wed. Dartmouth Club, N. Y. City
Stump and Ethel Barr, both looking fine, gave tremendous pleasure to New Yorkers and '18ers in Boston and Hanover, as they visited here from Minneapolis last June. Edith andDick Cooley reported a delightful dinner together with Ethel and Stump, and Kath andEddie Ferguson, and Edith and Hort Chandler. From spring '53 to spring of '54, SchuylerHuntoon was one of The Dartmouth's representatives on Green Key. In Feb. '54, he won out for the Business Manager position. In '54 spring elections, he was also voted a member at large on the 1955 Undergraduate Council. Schuyler, and Peg and King Rood's son clerked in the dorms for '18 at the reunion in '53, and they took mighty good care of us, with Ned Ross's Vassar daughter Oma as their assistant... Betty and Tommy Robbins and two daughters, Elizabeth and Jean, enjoyed themselves in Hanover in August.
Unfailingly, all summer, Bill Christgau would phone and we'd have a most enjoyable visit. In the early summer, Chris's wife Rose, slipped on a scatter-rug and broke her hip. Chris practically lived at the hospital and both were so glad when Dick Holton stopped in for a visit. When they quit the hospital for the apartment, son Bill and pretty wife Patricia, and their little baby girl all turned-to to do the cooking and clean the house and let Rose get well rested, and last reports were she was coming along nicely. And is Chris crazy about his new granddaughter, Melissa, who he says has an Indian nose and is sure to be a football player.... One of the few oldest firms in the country is George T. Davis, Inc., Funeral Directors, in New Rochelle. Our classmate George has done a magnificent job in the community there and in all walks of life.... Dotty and George were up to Indian Lakes in the Adirondacks then to Sugar Hill, this summer. Dan Shea reported an enjoyable visit with Sig Judd, who gets to New York about every month, and who had been to Europe a couple of times last year, and so much enjoyed a delightful visit with Germaine andHort Kennedy in Paris.
What a thrill each contributor to the Alumni Fund must feel when they see their generous dollars going to offer scholarships to worthy men who otherwise couldn't enjoy the same Hanover experience that we had. As good as '18 has done under the wonderful leadership of Dick Holton (giving as you did this last June $15,333.83, an average of $38.35 for each of the 257 contributors) we see the sterling class of 1919 rating 107% in the participation index, whereas 1918 was only 92%. How wonderful it is when wives of deceased '18ers — and in this case Dorothy Quincy (Joe was always an ardent lover of things Dartmouth), writing in to inquire if she could make their annual gift to the Alumni Fund, to continue as '18 husbands would like to have them do, - that joy of things Dartmouth the rest of their lives. By only a margin of 59 gifts out of 16,500 contributors, we missed matching the Princeton results. If 2 or 3 others in our class who normally are regulars had been loyal again this last June, and if each of several other classes had done the same, we'd stayed on top.
Dusty Rhodes's son, a big strapping 6' 3" man worked in N. Y. last summer for awhile at Copa Cabana for $20 a day - then in a parking space at 35th St. and 5th Ave., then went back to the Coast again to finish college.
. . . Virginia and Andy Ross's daughter, Jane, finished at Stevens, Mo., then went to Vt. U and there had a good friend with whom she went to Europe last summer. Ned Ross'sOma at Vassar just missed out on Phi Beta Kappa, but she graduated Cum Laude and is now after her Masters in Education at Radcliffe. . . . George Daniels oldest boy Johnnie went into the service, and son Bob transferred from Middlebury to Columbia. Dick andEdith Holton's Mary Louise, who got her M.A. at Radcliffe, will go after her Ph.D. at Columbia now. During the summer she worked at Brookhaven Atomic Energy Laboratories. . . . The Tom Shirleys enjoyed their place on the Cape this summer, and Betty is now a freshman at Smith. . . . Phil Tusting, in Europe this summer, visited Dartmouth, England, same as the Bill Mudgetts did last year.
. . . Al Rice's son, Roger, was an outstanding leader at Colgate; went with an oil company in Tulsa, Okla., found a better opportunity here; and last we knew was with Esso Co. in Pelham, where he lives with his two children.
Spud Richmond's wife Janet, a great organizer, works year round for free for the Red Cross; was 3 weeks in California last June at a Convention doing much the same sort of outstanding work that Hugh Whipple's wife Helene does so effectively in her wonderful work for the Red Cross. Janet's been trying to work out an amicable arrangement with the local medical society, which, it has been said, operates commercial blood banks, while of course Janet is working for free blood banks, for the Red Cross. Spud commented that the Red Cross sometimes will pour $600,000 into a catastrophe, as in Texas, for example, and then locally they'll raise $900,000 when the emergency is over, and you'd think they'd give back some of that money to the Red Cross. Believe me happily retired Spud has a tough job beating Janet on the golf course even with all the time Janet gives to Red Cross.
Dave Garroway's model secretary, pretty Nancy Jones, daughter of Stan and M. O., got a month's vacation, and immediately Stanley suggested all 3 of them go to Wales to visit the family ancestors. "Not on your life," said M.O., "Let's go to Washington and see some of mama's old friends." "Not on your life," said Nancy - thereupon they all picked up and choo-chooed out to Lake Tahoe, where at an 8000-elevation Stanley would scare the daylights out of all of them. In a rented car he'd groan, "Here we go, the brakes won't hold, this is the end!" They loved San Francisco and the beautiful Fairmont.
Supreme Court Justice Amos Blandin has been named member of the Advisory Council of Judges of the Nat. Probation and Parole Assn. This is to combat apathy in dealing with the growing of adult crime and juvenile delinquency. Amos delivered the graduation address to the senior class at Hanover H. S. and conducted an imaginary court using the senior class as jury. He told the seniors, "Memorize some bit of verse of truth and beauty, and think of it when you're in trouble; and it will serve you well." The young Demo- crats of Peterboro, N. H., presented a New Hampshire stone to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Warm Springs Memorial Commission; - the chairman of the committee, our Charles F.Palmer, of Atlanta, Ga., who attended 1 or 2 of our class dinners a year ago, - and we hope to see him again this year.
Ned Ross, Jake Bingham, and many classmates sent in clippings about Les Granger's resignation as special consultant to the Navy - Operations of Racial Problems - and Les volunteered that he would be glad to give further assistance to any future Navy effort to develop policies that will be racially beyond criticism. Les merely thought that now they were not doing as complete a job as Secretary Forrestal had done. Les was elected a Trustee of the Social Work School; parts of the Citation accompanying the 34 honorary degrees conferred by Columbia, and Les received one, reads as follows:
"Sociologist; profound student of human affairs, advocate of a united and forward looking society, soldier of World War I, valued advisor to our government during World War II . . . awarded high honors by the nation's Chief Executive for services rendered; . . . worker for the Am. Community through notable leadership in the National Urban League; a man, calm in judgment and indomitable in the faith that America is the land of opportunity for all its citizens." That's our Les Granger, and we're proud of him. Dan Shea had the pleasure of serving on a Blue Ribbon jury with Les last summer.
Florence and, Johnny Thayer made a quick trip to Conn, last summer from Delray Beach, Fla., where John is a director of the Delray Beach Publicity Bureau, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce (ex-mayor also), and Johnny found his son's wife and little girl were ill with polio. The wife is okay now, but the little girl, 5, was in the hospital receiving treatments. Johnny said her right side was paralyzed but everyone was hoping and praying she would have complete recovery.
What a sad letter to receive from MelSouthwick, U. of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., as of last July 3.
"This is a brief note to let you know that my daughter Barbara (23), whom you met at our reunion last year, was killed in an automobile accident last Saturday afternoon, July 3, and my next younger daughter, Libby, was critically injured, and was unconscious for 5 days. She has now recovered consciousness and we have every reason to believe and hope she will eventually have a complete recovery without any disabling injuries. (A thoughtful letter from Stew Teaze relieved us — Libby was out of danger.) They were on their way back from a swimming party and were riding with Peter Robinson, Dartmouth '52, and his sister Ann. Peter's car, which was completely demolished, was hit by a drunken driver travelling on the wrong side of the road. When Peter tried to avoid a head on collision by turning to the wrong side of the road in a desperate attempt to pass, the other car also turned towards Peter."
Ed Wilde, Honorary Member of '18 (son Roger '49) had a delightful time in France last summer with wife, Ruth - enjoyed French Switzerland better than Paris, and said, "I picked up two 1000-franc notes on a street corner in Paris, no other pickup since then." . . . Willougby A. Colby of Concord was elected Secy-Treas. of the N. H. Bar Assn. . . . Ruth, Janie and Jake Bingham enjoyed a nice vacation at Squirrel Island last summer. Jake month in and month out loyally sends in clippings about Amos Blandin, Jim Langley,Bill Colby, Hubie McDonough, Chuck Palmer, and many others. The Manchester Union had a fine picture of Jake showing "Dale Ramsey being presented with a government bond by the B & M R. R. for his alertness in discovering a track washout, and thereby preventing an accident. Presenting the bond was our Jake, representing T. G. Sughrue, Pres. of the line." The 1918 class is very proud of the accomplishments of Francis T. Christy, who among his other honors as Vice Pres. of Rockefeller Center was appointed Chairman of the Governing Comm. of the Brooklyn Museum.
Howie Park and Anne (Wellesley '22) had a wonderful trip in their boat up the Hudson through the Erie Canal to Lake Champlain, and if they'd known it, could have stopped at Basin Harbor to see Edith and Dick Holton, who while there had seen Ralph Norton. Howie has built up the vast real estate department of the huge Socony Vacuum Co. and many of the exceedingly important problems of this giant corporation, as to whether or not they'll move to Westchester or N.Y. City, undoubtedly come to Howie's attention. Thus, Howie sees to it that he keeps himself as fit as possible - even grimaces when at lunch time he drinks buttermilk because "it makes my stomach feel good, and does away with the butterflies." Whether it's in California, Calcutta, Caracas, or Texas, if it's a deal involving the big realty interests of this company, Howie will be there. . . . Enjoyed a nice note from Johnny O'Gara (1616-34th St., NW, Wash. 7, DC) saying: "Had a wonderful weekend at my place in Sands Point - have a wonderful job with CIA, and believe I can do something for Allen (Dulles) and put in a few more years on the production line."
'18ers from all over sent in clippings about the accomplishments of Jim Langley, Publisher of the Concord, N. H., Daily Monitor. Last April Jim was named Pres. of the newly incorporated Concord-Regional Development Corp. and in May tax reforms for N. H. was at the top of the news, with the Committee being headed by Editor James N. Langley, of Concord. Red Hulbert was alert to catch in the National Foreign Trade Council Bulletin the appointment by Pres. Eisenhower of James N. Langley as chairman of the US Delegation to Discuss Revision of the Philippine Trade Act of 1946, with the Delegation from the Philippines.
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