1917
A fine lot of letters from stay-at-homes and world travelers. As we have said several times, "We can't make up stories," and this time we don't have to. So we will give you the news as it has come in direct from the contributors themselves.
A letter from John Bathrick tells of the marriage of his son Keller to Barbara Mary Andes on September 4. John had been laid up for nine months with a heart condition and passes on the following to any old crocks who have time on their hands:
"Just happened to think some one of you might be interested in what to do with your time if you are ever out of circulation for several months sometime. It is not easy to do nothing, so I took up oil painting and painted seventeen pictures, large and small. Also I bought a Hammond Chord Organ and have learned to play it. (I never was a musician before.) It is relaxing, interesting, refreshing and very beneficial as a hobby and when you begin to learn some pieces, seems to entertain and pep up the rest of the family. I am not bragging, just reporting that I can play some pieces fairly well for a guy that also loved music but could not carry a tune even when it was in a sack."
Norm McCulloch's account of his summerexperience will delight the hunters and fishermen from coast to coast:
"Met an English friend in Florida this winter who invited Mary and me to visit England. At this stage of life such a proposal is all I need. Especially when offered bait of use of his Shooting Brake (station wagon to us), a bit of August salmon fishing and September grouse shooting. Just before the Queen Mary sailed Mary had to withdraw, due to her mother's sudden illness, and I finally decided to see what would happen to me and myself. Unusual privilege of living in homes of four British families for long weekends and observing their way of life. Found a few McCullochs still carrying on in Peebles. River Wye in spate account of foul summer weather so salmon fishing per se was a flop - the accompanying experience with their ghillies, etc., was worth the time spent. The two-day grouse shoot was the highlight. Done in the traditional style, with beaters, gun loaders, pink gins and seven other guns" (including one rather indigent Lord) of a most companionable nature. After I got the hang of these jet-propelled, moor-skimming birds, managed to partially uphold the honor of the U.S.A. by downing a brace. Pip pip and wipe me eye! Came away with great respect for the fortitude and kindliness of our cousins in that tight little isle."
This seems like the proper place to bring in an item dredged from Red Smith's column in the Herald Tribune of October 6. In the middle of a long letter from an unidentified writer the author says, "I've had a lot of good fishing and hunting in this place. Dr. Donehue and Dr. Oberender are readying for trout in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and a stop en route for antelope. These two shoot antelopes at 100 yards with iron sights. Very sporting and only a fine stalker can do it, for antelope stick to flat open country and have telescopes for eyes." This must be Mike himself as we knew he was hunting in Wyoming at that time.
For a perfect family life we give you Howieand Dot Stockwell who leave their Waterford, Maine, home the first of November, go to Ormond Beach after Christmas and come back to Maine in the spring. Howie writes,
"This retired living certainly agrees. Both Dot and I have been fine all winter and this summer too. We had our whole family (six children) here for the July Fourth holidays - 22 of us - nine grandchildren. They all love it up here and some of them were here all during the summer. We have a separate cottage for the" children and their families and they spend their vacations and weekends there."
We were glad to get a letter from TomClark, from whom we had not heard in a long time:
"My life has settled more or less into a comfortable routine, although I am still active in business with Omaha Steel Works. My part is the operation end of the five steelworking businesses. Our company has had a number of contracts on the large dams being built on the Missouri River. We do bridges and structural steel work for buildings. We subcontract four complete machines for a national manufacturer. We have a machine shop, steel foundry, and a commercial heat treating business.
"Family news is that Ellen and I had our 37th wedding anniversary, with a pleasant little party of friends. Don Howe and Bill Noble, both from classes ahead of ours, attended. Our only child, son Jim, age 30, is a partner in Gerth-Pacific Advertising Agency in San Francisco. Two years ago while visiting him I saw Jack Baer, my freshman roommate. The years have been kind to him. GeneTowler is the only '17 man to stop off at Omaha, which he did several years back. We had lunch together. Omaha is far west of the center of population of our classmates, but if any of the fellows are coming out this way, Ellen and I would be happy to see them. Summer times we weekend and vacation at Ellen's cottage at Spirit Lake, on the lowa-Minnesota line. Our latchstring is always out. P.S. I am completing my 46th season playing tennis. I will always regret that I didn't get in a game with Karl Koeniger the year during the war when I was stationed at Berwick, Pa. I occasionally got to New York on business, and it was always hurry-up so I never got to see Karl."
Just about the time this letter came fromTom, we happened on a picture of Karl inSuburban Life magazine, watching a championship match at the Orange Lawn TennisClub, and sent it out to Tom for his inspection.
AI Hickmott, vice president of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, has been elected president of the State Savings Bank, Hartford, Conn. A trustee of the bank since 1942, Al has been prominently identified in the financial life of the city since his graduation from Dartmouth in 1917, when he joined the Connecticut General. He served the company as financial secretary before being elected vice president. He holds various directorates and has been called upon frequently as an investment legislation adviser by corporations and banks.
Al Emmons has announced the association of his son, David W. '47, with him under the name of A. W. and D. W. Emmons, attorneys at law, 5-7 Ross Block, ICennebunk, Maine, as of July 1.
With understandable pride your secretary announces the birth of a grandson, Donald Merrill, born in Albany, N. Y., to Bill Brooks '51 and his wife Skip, 011 October 13, our 31st wedding anniversary. And on November I, another grandson, Lawrence Brooks Ballin, their third child, born to John and Betty Ballin in Montclair.
Called the Engineer's Club in Boston on Friday night before the Harvard game to extend greetings and found that the lack of numbers was made up by the quality of those attending. Perk Streeter, Bunny Holden,Spique Maclntyre, Ray Sault, Don Richmond,Phil Evans and Pete Olds had a good and peppy meeting, ending up with a general discussion as to ways and means for arousing more interest and better attendance at these gatherings.
To quote Bob Cooke, sports writer of the New York Herald Tribune, "Picture, if you will, an afternoon of rain and penetrating chill with 30,000 people sitting in it, and you have an idea of Saturday in the (Yale) Bowl." But in spite of the impossible weather, '17 was well represented and any gloom resulting from the downpour or the outcome of the game was soon dispelled upon reaching the pleasant warmth of Bob and Anita Scott's home. The party there was most delightful and we had the added pleasure of seeing Dick and Anita Wanner and their two small daughters and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wuestefeld. Those present at the party were Tom and Ellen Cotton, Bunny and Millie Holden, Frank Lagay, Elliott and Florence Mudgett with their son-in-law and daughter, Al and Doris McEwan, Len and Sally Shea, Deering and Helen Smith, Skinny and Dorothy Sturtevant, Gil and Marie Skinny, Gene and Lucille Towler, Sumner Emerson and your secretary. Seen at the game Curley and Ann Carr, Bob and Beatrice Adams, Bill Eaton and his sister, Eleanor, Al and Maud Edgerton, Ev Robie and Jack and Dodo Saladine.
A Merry Christmas to all you health and happiness to you and yours in 1955, and our thanks for all the news sent in this year. 1917 Fund, Contributors
222 Gifts (Participation Index 91) Total Gifts: $12,133.74 (97% of Objective) WILLIAM C. EATON, Class Agent
Adams, Robert E. Aldrich, Donald B. Alger, Fred B. Allison, William H. Anderson, Arnold E.1 Antrim, Max B. 1 Atwater, Irving T. ' Baker, Wallace B.1 Balliet, Charles N. 1 Banton, Leon G.1 Barber, Payson T. Barnes, Baron S. Barrows, Walter A. Bartlett, Howard S. Bathrick, John S. Baxter, Raymond H. Bean, Harold A. Berry, Elmer W.1 Bidwell, Harold F. Birtwell, William M. Black, Angus C. Blackmur, Maurice A. Blood, Philip W.1, 2 Blum, Karl A.1 Bomgardner, Henry Bonnell, Willard E. Boynton, Robert C. Brill, G. Meredith Britton, Ralph R. Brooks, Donald Brown, Byron G1 Brown, Mardis A.1 Brown, Mott D. Browne, Kingsbury Burgum, George K. Burnham, Paul L. Burns, Walter G. Buxton, Robert B. Carpenter, Ralph E. Carr, Houghton Carter, Earle L. Chadbourne, Ralph P.1 Chase, Robert M. Cheney, Alfred M.1 Chesley, John G.1 Clark, George E. Clark, Robert W. Clark, Thomas R. Clarke, Harold V. Cocks, Ralph J. Cofran, Clarence W. Colby, Carl C. Collerd, Raymond B.1 Comey, Philip R. Cone, Leon J. Cornelius, Laurence1 Cotton, Thomas L. Coudie, Clark A.1 Cowles, Eugene R. Cunningham, Louis Currier, George C. Dandrow, George W. Davies, Joseph T.1 Davis, Aaron W. Davis, Bradley N. Davis, John W. Davison, C. Marshall1 Deferrari, Harry A.1 Dewey, Edward R. Dibble, Tracy A. Dodge, James H. Donehue, Francis McG. Doty, Lawrence L. Downer, Charles P. Duhamel, Arthur 0., Jr.1 Dunning, Ralph A. Dupuis, Almanzor L. Durkee, James T. Dutton, Leon G. Earle, Edgar C. Eaton, William C. Edgerton, Alson B. Emerson, Sumner B. Emery, Forrest S. Emery, Joseph W.1, 3 Emmons, Albert W. Erb, William B.1 Etter, Leslie W.1 Fales, Myron S. Fall, Herman1, 3 Ferguson, John S.1 Ferguson, Walter G.1, 4 Fisher, Russell S. Fitch, Willis S. Fleming, W. Douglas Foote, Paul R.1 Ford, Hobart Fowler, Henry G. Fox, James A. Friedrichs, Hugo A.1 Fritz, Emdon Gale, Burton L., Jr. Gates, Frederic W. Gee, Fred W.1 Gerrish, Bernard O. Gile, Archie B. Gilman, Charles H.1 Gilmore, Charles M.1, 4 Goodwin, Fred P. Gould, Paul L. Grady, Francis A.1 Green, Donald W. Green, Irving I. Gregory, George Hager, Fred A. Haggerty, Roger1 Hahn, Edmund F.1 Hallett, Joseph G.1 Halloran, Roy D.1, 4 Hamilton, Harley A.1 Hammond, Kendall Hardy, C. James1, 5 Harris, Daniel L. Hartshorn, George E. Haskell, Samuel B.1 Hickmott, Allerton C. Hill, John W. Hill, Lee F. Holden, Kenneth W. Holt, Harold W. Howe, Luman B. Howland, Percy H. Huntress, Frank C. Husk, Frederick R. Hutchins, Mosher S. Hutchinson, Perne R. Janes, Charles B. Jenks, Herbert C. Johnson, Roy L. Jones, James L.1 Jopson, Arthur B.1, 4, 8 Karnan, Parker R. Kent, Kenneth R.1, 4 King, W. Trott Kingsbury, Stanley M. Kipp, Walter D. Kiser, Palmer E. Knowles, Winfield S.1 Knowlton, A. Heywood1 Koeniger, Karl W. Kuech, Julius F. Kuntz, Roy J.1 Lagay, Frank L. Landregan, Thomas A.1 Leighton, Frederic W. Litchard, Donald B. Locke, Allen W. Lockwood, Lawrence Lonnquest, Theodore C. Loudon, Henry A. Lowe, Gilbert R.1 Ludgate, Bruce A., Jr. Lynch, Ralph McCarthy, Earl R.1, 7 McCreary, Harrison B.1 McCulloch, Norman E. McEwen, Harvey A.1 McGowan, Edwin W. McGowan. Tames H. McGuire, Thomas B.1, 6, 8 1 Maclntyre, Arthur P. McKenney, Robert A.1 MacKillop, Samuel R. MacNutt, Donald P.1 Mcßeynolds, F. W. Marr, Russell W. Marschat, Richard A. Mason, Harold W.1, 9 Maynard, Merle E.1 Melvin, Parker L.1, 3 Merrill, Howard E.1 Merrill, Roger1 Miller, Rudolph N. Montgomery, James, Jr. Morenus, Richard C. Morton, E. Searles Mudgett, Elliott B. Murphy, Richard D.1 Murray, S. Clifford1 Myer, Joseph C.1 Myers, Cortland1, 3 Nelb, Alfred W.1 Norby, Charles W.1 Norton, Donald H.1 Norwood, Raymond R.1 Nourse, Laurence G. Nuese, Robert E. Olds, Everett L. O'Leary, Donald J. Osborn, Paul G.1 Page, G. Keyes Paine, Robert G. Palin, Milburn R. Palmer, Wayne F. Paul, Russell J. Penick, Mack A.1 Perkins, Thurston M.1 Perrin, Porter G. Peters, Charles F. Ponder, William T.1 Randall, Leon N. Reade, Leonard J. Reagan, Francis C. Reycroft, Wendell G. Rhoades, Morton W. Richardson, Guy L. Richmond, Donald Robie, Everett E. Robinson, Herman S.1 Rubel, James L. Ruggles, Harold L.1 Rutherford, Scott V. Saladine, John W. Saline, Samuel Salmonsen, Christian M.1 Sanborn, Ralph Sault, Raymond G. Saviers, Henry C.1 Sawyer, Ralph H. Scott, Robert D. Scudder, Winthrop R. Searles, Herbert L. Sewall, William Schackford, Bartlett C. Shaffer, Howard M. Sharpe, Richard W.1 Shattuck, Gerald A.1 Shea, Leonard A. Sherburne, Maxwell G. Sherman, Laurence G. Sisson, Walter C. Smith, Deering G. Smith, Edwin E. Smith, Hawley A.1 Smith, Maurice G.1, 8 Smith, Reginald Smith, Sherman L. Smith, Victor C. Smith, Vincent K. Spaulding, Richard B.1 Spearin, Frederic W.1 Spears, Clarence W. Sperry, Irving L.1 Sprague, Isaac, Jr. Steele, Howard L. Steenrod, Alexander H.1 Steiger, Chauncey A. Stevens, Leslie B. Stewart, William H.1 Stickney, Robert C.1, 3 Stillman, Harold D.1 Stillman, Karl G. Stockwell, Howard A. Stone, Charles L. Stone, Roger P. Stout, Arthur D. Streeter, Percival Sturgess, Albert H. Sturtevant, Warner B. Supeau, Auguste F. Swett, Gilbert N. Switzer, James M. Sym, Harold A.1 Tefft, Lionel V. Thielscher, Karl L. Thompson, Clifton B.1 Thompson, Errol M. Thompson, Willis D., Jr. Tobin, Harold J.1, 10 Torrey, Bowen Towler, Eugene D. Tracy, Gordon S. Trenholm, Derrill deS. Trier, Paul W.1 Valentine, Carroll E. Vaughan, Alden G. Wagner, Edgar R. Walker, Harold S. Walters, Waltman Ward, Emerson C. Watkins, Maurice C. Weeks, Harold J. Welles, Thomas1 Wells, Ralph A. Wendell, Harold B. Wethey, Francis Van V.1 Wheeler, Afton E.1 Wheelock, John F. White, John W. Whiton, Sylvester G.1 WieSman, Edward A. Willis, Russell L. Wilson, Walter T.1 Wolff, Charles, 3rd Woodruff, T. Tyson1 Woodward, Earl M. Woodward, Lawrence W.1 Woodwell, Philip Mcl. Wooster, William W. Wright, Henry C. Wyeth, Willard H. Young, John S. Young, Naasson.S.
MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:
1 Class Treasury.
2 Mrs. Blood.
3 Walter C. Sis son '17.
4 Eugene Toiuler '17.
5 Brother, Robert C. Hardy'25.
6 Henry C. Wright' 17.
7 James T. Durkee '17.
8 Forrest S. Emery '17.
9 Son, George D. Mason'43.
10 Widow, Mrs. McDowellHosley.
CLASS AGENT WILLIAM C. EATON '17
Secretary, 9 Park Terrace, Upper Montclair, N. J.
Treasurer, 315 Oxford Rd., Havertown, Pa.
Bequest Chairman,
