1918
Dateline New Rochelle, N. Y., Oct. 23 - an article tells of an undertaker who has fulfilled a childhood ambition to become an ordained clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church:
"He is the Rev. Dr. George M. Davis Jr., V.P. of George T. Davis, Inc. For 27 years he has been a member of the New Rochelle Board of Education - even a school is named after him - and for twelve years, he was Pres. Somehow his ministerial ambition was sidetracked - and he entered the family's business. He received his Doctorate from Arnold College. He was ordained by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Donegan of N. Y. at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Sub-quotes by the Bishop, 'The Holy Spirit works through an ordained man ... he must have a genuine love of people and he must be a man who loves people.... A real leader - yet have genuine humility.... Jesus has summoned him to build a temple of the spirit.' "
Dave Skinner, who is very active in hischurch at Rye, wanted so much to attend.The writer and Pete and Evelyn Colwell were there. His old roommate at the Sigma Chi house, Bill Mudgett, Palo Alto, Calif., would have given anything to be there. Bill tells of the wonderful years they had together as roommates at the Sigma Chi house. Their daughter Ruth Ann was married in August, and Peggy is a junior at Stanford, plans p.g. in Speech Therapy. Said Bill:
"Took the most scenic trip I've ever been on the last part of Sept. — up the Redwoods Highway, along the Oregon coast to Victoria, then east to Lake Louise and Banff - attended Dartmouth night in San Francisco; 'lBers sit pretty well at the top of the table nowadays - with all the '40 and '50 men around. However, Bob Leavens 'O1 quoted from Dr. Tucker, and it will always stick in my mind: 'why grow old with your class when you can stay young with the college!' "
At '18's 35th in June 1953, Gerry Geran kept the married folks Kay Storrs and HenryHesse enraptured on his treatise, "How to be Happy Though Single." We are very happy to report that Gerry is now happily married, reducing the slim ranks of the bachelors club to Wart McElwain, Fat Hardy, Dan Shea, KenJones, Stub Stanley and a few others. Before us is a program of the Philosophical Research Society, 211 W. 57th St., N. Y. City, and last May 9 we enjoyed Gerry's public lecture when he spoke on the subject, "You Can Live Forever - The Foundation of Youth Is Within You." The program said, "This is an informal talk from a metaphysics student who has accumulated a fund of information, which he feels - and so do we - will benefit all." At the N. Y. City '18 dinner Oct. 29, a joint announcement of the wedding by Bill Christgau and Dick Holton immediately brought forth sufficient to honor Gerry and his bride with a nice set of dishes from the many who love him.
On that golden, sunshiny afternoon at "Westpoint, when the Army blasted Dartmouth, those present were Elizabeth and Dave Skinner, Evelynand Pete Colwell, Ruth and Curt Glover, Nancyand Red Hurlbut, Hitty and Reed Montgomery (they took in about all the games and the World Series too), Helen and Paul Miner, Peggy andDwight Sargent, Ann and Johnny Johnston, Patand George Stoddard (had just come from the Canadian Wilds, where they knocked off two bull mooses), Janet, and Jules Van Raalte; Edith andDick Holt on and Bill Christ gau. Previous week at the Navy game were Kath and Eddie Ferguson,Barbara and Harvey Hood, Pauline and Paul Sperry of the Pond-Lily Co., Textile Finishers in New Haven. At the Colgate game were Phil and MildredElder, Thelma and Jack Slabaugh, Helen and Robbie Robinson, and always Barbara and HarveyHood. Harvey gives his mind, body and soul to Dartmouth College, and is heading up the Development Committee of Dartmouth in its third century. Dartmouth College is indeed fortunate to have such men.
That Harvard game weekend was a wingding! Funny how Cort Horr always has business to attend to in Boston the middle of Oct. and enjoyed driving up with Carl Ray '37, Pres., N. Y. Dartmouth Club, and his wife, and Twink Stowell (Harvard '14 and adopted '18er and his wife and son). The night before the game at the Univ. Club no one could have been a more delightful host than Orrin Hart, and the whole class enjoyed his warm hospitality. To Eddie Ferguson, Ken Jones, HortChandler, Tom Shirley, and Dick Cooley we all give thanks for that wonderful weekend, - and there were others who helped to make it a lot of fun.
Those seen the Harvard weekend were Edith andDick Holton and daughter Mary Louise, Caroland Em Morse, Marge and Phil Boynton, Ruth andCurt Glover, Priscilia and Tom Shirley (Tom and. Priscilla graciously invited the wives out to the Braeburn Country Club for dinner, and they enjoyed very much Kath Ferguson, Carol Morse and Edith Cooley), Chaunce Hood and son Bill, HarveyHood and Barbara, Irene and Don Davis, Mildredand Stan Bates, Steve Mahoney, Cort Horr (bring Marion on next time), Thelma and Jack Slabaugh,Cath and Doc Angel and son Norman, Olive andTommy Groves, Alice and Louie Huntoon and attractive daughter Mary Alice, Helen and PaulMiner, Marion and Fat Rowell, Betty and HortChandler, Bill Christgau, Kath and Eddie Ferguson- George Kopf, Johnny Campbell, '18's adopted classmate and friend of Bill Christgau, with RussMonroe, Ken Jones, Stub Stanley, Hitty and ReedMontgomery, and of course Alberta and AmosBland in.
Commander party after the Harvard game was a wonderful success - about 100 there. The Boston crowd did a wonderful job and everybody enjoyed themselves tremendously. Edith Cooley, always the perfect hostess, suggested Blinstraubs in So. Boston for dinner, and fortunatelv the Cooleys know him well and he fixed up the 22 people with a wonderful place right by the dance floor. There were 1600 people there that Sat. night and everybody enjoyed an excellent dinner, and a wonderful floorshow with headline acts. As Dick Cooley says, "Where could vou go in New York with 22 people, get a good dinner, all you wanted to drink, see a good show and get out of it for $100?"
The Boston crowd has asked Em Morse to reserve two motels in Hanover for the Harvard game next fall. Chuck Sears '19 has a wonderful motel on the Lyme Road called The Chieftain, and Evelyn and Pete Colwell and Ann and Johnny Johnston have already reserved quarters there for the opening game next fall. Says Chuck, "We are located two miles from the campus on Route 10, and i/2 mile from the golf course. Our plans call for two double beds per room and full ceramic tile showers in the bathroom. A continental breakfast will be served." Want to write them, - Lyme Road, Hanover, N. H.?
The Yale game was enjoyed by Evelyn and Pete Colwell, Marge and Phil Boynton, Ruth and Curt Glover, Bill Christgau, Edith, Mary Louise and Dick Holton, and while not seen, I believe Duke was there. Mary Olive and Stan Jones, Bill Bemis, Dorothy and Steve Mahoney, and Fat Hardy all had dinner together, but nary a soul could Fat find in that rainy day to make use of all the tickets he had.
Don Scully has had a rugged stay at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, and all of those who know Don will enjoy dropping him a line. Thanks to Pete Colwell, Bill Christgau and Em Morse, we got a wonderful rundown of the Yale game, and Em tells us that at the Columbia game, that indefatigable ReedMontgomery was seen and no doubt Hitty was along also.
At the N. Y. City D. Club, two nights before the Yale game on Oct. 28, '18 had a wonderful class dinner with a record turnout. BillRosenfeld (doing wonderful work on interviewing for Admissions), Bill Christgau, smiling Irishman Cap Hanley (he and Edith have accumulated some lovely Currier & Ives on one wall and some Dartmouth prints on the other), Chaunce Wales (only now learns why Fat Hardie did not pay his pressing bill to the firm of Christgau and Wales. Fat was maintaining a barber in Hanover with a wonderful touch. Chris enjoyed his shave there; let Fat have his pressing for nothing while partner Chaunce Wales kept sending Fat bills), and Fred Cassebeer (normally Thurs. is his day off, but he came way into N. Y. just to enjoy the bunch).
Also present were Wart McElwain, DickHolton, Johnny Johnston (grinning as PeteColwell said that Johnny's daughter Irene referred to their own lovely new bathroom as "a passion pit for lavender lovers"), Steve Mahoney (everybody hoped he'd stay - a week later was down in Florida), Howie Park (said he felt a little off color — was nice enough to come and enjoy the cocktails), beaming Daniel Sha?nus Shea, '18's Treas. Curt Glover,Rog Howland, Bob Knowles (was celebrating Ethel's birthday at a dinner party but he came for cocktails). And we want to make it clear here and now that Russell Yerby Smith was present throughout the dinner, and this testimony we offer to his wife, Judith, and where Russ went after the dinner, we do not know.
Others at the '18 N. Y. dinner were TommyTarrant (looking mighty rugged and tough after of his stomach had been removed at the Lahey Clinic in Boston), Red Wilson (thoughtful enough to duck in for cocktails even though he had a dinner at the Club having to do with the financial interest of the College), Ned Ross (and are they awaiting daughter Judy from Colorado U! She went out to Denver in Sept. '53 - had so much fun she stayed out there last Christmas - came a chance to go to the Coast this summer, off she went; so after being away more than a year, Oma and Ned Ross in Garden City are sure anxious to see her). One of the great treats was to see George Dockstader who has offered several times to give his very interesting colored slides of the beautiful country he visited in Pakistan. Also there was Syl Morey and the happiest occasion of the whole evening was when Bill Christgau introduced a resolution that Bob Hebert, who did so nobly serving the drinks at the Holy Cross game at Hanover, a lifelong friend of EmMorse, be adopted as a 1918 member. Bob is the godfather of 9-year-old Richard Arneson, son of a Dartmouth man, so what better man to honor us. Such a man we welcome into the fellowship of Dartmouth College, Class of 1918. Said Bob Hebert in a later letter accepting the honorary membership:
"It meant a great deal to me to be an Honorary Member of the class of 1918 during the brief ceremony at the Dartmouth Club on October 28. As one who had the opportunity to go to college and muffed it, I can appreciate it now that I'm in the old buck class - What a foolish young man I was! When I have been privileged as I have, to attend various functions of 'Dartmouth 18' I get at least a pretty good idea of what I missed. It will afford me a great deal of pleasure from here on out to take as active a part as it is possible for an honorary member to do so, in the activities of the Class of 1918."
Retired Spud Richmond rode out the hurricane in a boat off Port Washington, came in to shore, found all the boats in the harbor crashed.... Margaret and Sewell Strout and Marj and Parker Poole were in the Bahamas last winter - ran across an attractive girl - and after talking about colleges, found out, 10 and behold, she was Ann Marlow (Mrs. MartyStraus).... Chaunce Hood reported that at the Lawrence Dartmouth Club, he saw ParsonClint Carvell and he looked fine. Clint was busy with a church fair that was on the docket.... When F. Dusossoit Duke was elected a member of the executive committee this fall, Eric Ball wrote in, "Swell idea - well merited, and good for '18 to have such a versatile and fine man." Eric reports that his son Ernest '43, Lt. Comdr. in the Navy, was back from a 2-yr. tour in Korean waters, on a destroyer. Son Douglas is with a fertilizer company in Norfolk, Va., has a fine job.
Bennie Mugridge is on the jump all the time - Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Owens-Illinois-Ford; down in Miami, out to Muncie, then to Columbus and Cleveland, - battling tough assignments and doing an excellent job.... Fat Sheldon has opened a new branch near Albany, but says it's pretty hard for Republicans to gain a foothold in that Democratic country.... George Hull, who enjoyed the independence of his dairy products business in Paris years ago, again is thrilled to be on his own, after sending an announcement of his real estate office, at 1740 K Street, NW, Washington 6, D. C.
Jake Bingham's wife Ruth whom we have missed at '18 gatherings, has written outstandingly the news of Squirrel Island for the weekly Boothbay Register. She's gotten lots of fan mail and her comments last year were picked up by the U.P. and given national circulation; also by John L. Lewis on Arthur Godfrey's program.... Bill Colby went to the American Bar Assn. Meeting in Chicago.... Les Badger, Supt. of Union School, Peterborough, N. H., attended the Natl. Conference of Rural Education.
From Mayo Magoon:"Just finished 32 yrs.in secondary education - 26 of them as principal of Framingham, Mass., H.S. Son Thomas '46 married and at U. of Minnesota in guidance department; hopes to resume his Doctorate in Dec. Son Bruce '50 married and working for the local bank. Daughter Jean, 3rd year at Wheelock College. All were at our summer camp in Lancaster, N. H., last summer for a week.... 'Oh, young New Year, take not these things from me - the olden faiths; the shining loyalty of friends the long and searching years have proved - or life itself; and the will to carry on. "
1918 Fund Contributors
257 Gifts (Participation Index 92) Total Gifts: $15,333.83 (107% of objective) RICHARD A. HOLTON, Class Agent
Anonymous Aishton, Richard A. Angell, Cyril N. Arnold, George C., Jr. Badger, Lester B. Baldes, Raymond C. Baldwin, Murray A. Ball, Eric T. Barr, Donald L. Barrett, Raymond L. Bates, Stanley R. Bemis, William H. Bennett, Homer C. Bickford, Ralph D. Bingham, James C. Black, Lyman H. Blandin, Amos N. Bliss, Don C. Booth, Edmund H. Booth, Edmund M. Boynton, Philip F. Brewster, William R. Brown, Leslie M. Bryant, Thomas B. R. Burgess, Lyman T. Burnham, Brainerd C. Buswell, Albert C. Butts, Edward Cameron, Henry M. Campbell, Thomas P. Carleton, Fred P.1 Carpenter, George C., Jr. Carvell, Clinton W. Case, Mourton D. Chandler, Horton L. Chisholm, William Christgau, William R. Christy, Francis T. Clahane, Francis J. Clark, Eugene S. Colby, Willoughby A. Colie, Frederic R. Colwell, Robert C. Cooley, Richard L. Coon, Mortimer F. Coulson, William H. Cousens, Lewis H. Cowan, Leo Crothers, Mandell Cunningham, John M. Dalton, Laurance M. Daniels. Clifford LeR. Daniels, George E. Davies, Marshall Davis, Donald C. Davis, George G. Davis, George M., Jr. Day, Harold C. Derosier, J. Edward Dessau, John H. Dockstader, George H. Dodge, Leon T. Donohue, John B. Doolittle, Marshall C. Doty, Harold B. Drake, Lyman M., Jr. Drake, Robert A. Duffill, Herbert E. Duke, F. Dusossoit Dutelle, William M. Dwyer, Edward R. Earley, Ernest H. Eastman, Harold A. Edson, Dwight J. Ellis, Harold O. Erwin, J. Paul Everett, Philip E. Farmer, Warren A. Felt, Edmund J. Ferguson, Edwin Fiedler, Frank G. Fish, Robert Foss, Hugh Frost, Carlton P. Fuller, Walter T. Garratt, David L. Garvey, Edward T. Geran, George P. Gerrish, Paul H. Gleason, Howard F. Glendening, Harold S. Glover, W. Curtis Gordon, Ellis2 Gordon, Simeon L. Gottschaldt, Allan C. Granger, Lester B. Gray, Daniel C. Hardie, Francis C. Harrington, Frank A. Hart, Orrin T. Hazen, Edward E. Healey, Edward F. Hesse, Henry R. Hill, Homer B. Hilliker, Charles B. Hobbs, Louis H. Ho]ton, Richard A. Hood, Chauncey R. Horr, Cortland B. Howard, Russell S. Howland, Roger L. Hulbert, William C. Hulbert, Woodward D. Hull, George R. Huntoon, Louis H. C. Hurlbut, John B. Isbell, Charles W. Johnston, Harold A. Jones, Charles C. Jones, Kenneth W. Jones, Stanley B. Jones, Thomas R. Kendall, Albert H. Kennedy, Horton P. Knapp, Norman G. Knowles, Robert S. Kozminski, Charles3 Langley, James M. Leavitt, Marshall W. LeFevre, Jay Lehman, Theron V.4 Leland, Maurice A. Macaulay, Donald M. Macßean, Hector W., Jr. Mcßride, George C. McCoy, David E. McDonough, John E. McDowell, Edward S. McElwain, Leicester K. McEwan, George McMahon, John J. Mader, C. Edward, Jr. Magoon, Mayo McK. Mahoney, Stephen P. Markey, Gene Mather, Paul L. Merry, Frederick B. Miner, Paul S. Montgomery, T. Reed Montgomery, William J. Morey, Sylvester M. Morrison, Robert F.5 Morse, Emerson G. Morse, Fred W., Jr. Moyer, Paul E. Mudgett, William A. Mugridge, Clayton F. Mytton, James A. Noone, Byron M. Norton, Ralph G. O'Connor, Edward J. O'Donnell, John E. O'Gara, John E. Opper, Clarence V. Palmer, Charles F. Park, Howard M. Pelton, Leonard D. Pepin, William R. Phillips, Charles L. Piper, Allison N. Poole, Gerald A. Poole, Lyman C. Poole, Parker Pope, Lawrence F. Potter, Carleton A. Proctor, Alexis C. Proctor, Thomas W. Prowattain, Ivan Quincy, Josiah E.6 Rau, Frederick L. Reillv, Peter W. Rice, Albert F. Richmond, Edward G. Ritter, Robert E. Robbins, Thomas B. Robinson, Donald G. Robinson, H. Langdon Robinson, Howard S. Rood, Kingsland T.7 Rosenfeld, William 1., Jr. Rosnell, John E. Ross, Andrew S. Ross, Edward M. Ross, Harold K.8 Ross, Walter S. Rowell, George B. Ryan, Robert R. St. Clair, Guilford P. Salisbury, Emmett D. Salisbury, James M. Sanderson, Philip H. Sargent, Dwight S. Scully, Donald B. Seacrest, Joseph W. Sheldon, Neil O. Shellman, William E. Shaw, Edward P., 3rd Shea, Daniel F. Shirley, Thomas E. Sibbernsen, Albert H. Simmons, John A. Skinner, David L. Slabaugh, Harold W. Smith, Herman L. Smith, Ray W. Smith, Russell Y. Southwick, Melvin L. Sperry, Paul A. Stanley, Edwin W. Stoddard, George C. Stone, Benjamin Storrs, John W. Straus, Martin L., 2nd Street, Albert B. Strout, Alan L. Strout, Sewall C. Sturgess, Thomas A. Syvertsen, Rolf C. Tarrant, Thomas R. Taylor, Walter N. Teaze, Stewart J. Tower, Clarence E. Tripp, Curtis C. Tusting, Philip F. Tyrrel, R. Tryon Valentine, Gordon A. Van Raalte, Julius R. van Zelm, Henri B. von Kapff, George R. S. Wales, William C. Wallis, Lawrence B. Weston, Charles F. Weston, Melville F. Whipple, Hugh S. White, Leon E. White, Richard P. Whitmore, Herman Wilde, Edward A. Wiley, Walter B. Willand, Walter G. Wilson, H. Warren Woleben, Wilbur T. Woodman, Paul D. Woodruff, George H. Woolworth, Richard M 9 Wright, William B. Young, B. Botsford Young, Everett T. Zabriskie, Allan J.
MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:
1 Mrs. Carleton.
2 Cousin, Simeon L. Gordon '18.
3 Mrs. Kozminski.
4 H. Warren Wilson '18.
5 Mrs. Morrison.
6 Mrs. Quincy.
7 Mrs. Rood.
8 Brother, Joseph K. Ross '22.
9 Mrs. Felix M. Woolworth.
GERRY GERAN '18, heedless of his own reunion oration to classmates on "How to beHappy Though Single," was recently married.
Secretary, 74 Trinity Place, New York 6,N.Y.
Treasurer, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y.
Bequest Chairman,
