1918
"Today the '18 March - composed by PhilEverett and presented to President Dickey went forward to Hanover, ready to play. EdBooth has been alerted. Curt Glover has paid the bill and Phil Everett is filled to overflowing with enthusiasm and gratitude to all hands." (Rog Howland.) How Roger has worked! And Ed Booth, too. And amazing the creative talent Phil Everett has shown! In a later issue must be published the "pome," wrote for and included in the Folio delivered to Leonard W. (Bones) Joy. It's wonderful!
Says Rog Howland in his letter to Ed Booth of May 3, "Heute komut der Tag! In our own idiom - today the big windup. As of yesterday Phil Everett sent to President Dickey a letter conveying and saving. Well, Ed, this whole deal for me has been rather within the realm of metaphysic, than otherwhere. Primarily I have exercised more restraint and common sense than I have hitherto been known to possess (or even recognize). Which is to say that I haven't been so damn dogmatic and insistent as has too often been the case. Eureka. You may recall that as to the words my thought was, "Let's not argue, let's get the March marching." So with the title: the simplest, most easily uttered probably will serve best, and there isn't much to choose anyway. So it's The '18 March (blurb-blurb). You may recall that Bones (nowadays his business and other familiars call him by the more dignified contraction Len - for Leonard) currently is a big shot with Decca Records. In other words, his long-time profession has had to do with recording of music, as well as composing, and arranging and generally estimating the music-market. Well, the night we put in proof-reading my extractions here at my place - after a steak dinner and despite he had a hell of a cold - he came up with a couple of interesting remarks: (1) "If I do say it myself, this came out pretty good." (2) "Tell Ed Booth to grab a tape-recording of the Band when they get this thing going good, and I'll cut a platter for Phil."
1918 ANNUAL HANOVER REUNION AND FUN NEXT FALL - OPENING FOOTBALL GAME WITH HOLY CROSS SEPT. 25. This is a sparkling, sunshiny memorable weekend of fun and good fellowship. If you come once, you'll never miss. Each year the party is bigger and better. Cocktail party before luncheon for '18er.s and their wives and friends. Very enjoyable luncheon and ample time to get to the game at the opening kickoff. Last year that glorious day of the wonderful picnic lunch outdoors at Keene's will always be a cherished memory. Paste this in your hats so you won't rouse yourself from the summer lethargy too late to have the fun that goes with this best of all reunions. Committee on arrangements is - Alberta and Amos Blandin, Jean and EdBooth, Ellen and Duke DuSossoit, Carol andEm Morse, and Margaret and Rolf Syvertsen. A month in advance your committee will send you detailed information about the weekend and list many fine places where you can stay.
Great news! After nearly 2 yrs. in the Vet Hospital in Providence, R. I., Shorty Alden, who was watched over by Louis Huntoon,Paul Moyer and others of the class, was finally discharged April 2, and back he went to his lovely Middleboro, Mass., where thoughtful Louie Huntoon phoned him and enjoyed a nice visit with him. Great news, Shorty!
Way back 6 months ago, Curt Glover reported 161 classmates paid dues totaling $1225 and by now total dues payers probably have reached a new high of nearer 250. (You'll want to be one of the 250 — send $5 to W. C. Glover.) Ruth and Curt Glover could rightly have difficulty to keep from popping their buttons - the Dartmouth swimming team had a highly successful season, winning 8 and losing 2, and son Johnny '55 was elected Capt. for next year on the basis of his extraordinary performances this season. He set many new records in the 100 and 220.
Sad, indeed, it is to tell of Dusty Rhodes'passing (see In Memoriam). He was loved andenjoyed and appreciated by so many in theclass and the College — and his creative talents were outstanding.
"I just wanted to advise you that two more Dartmouth '18ers have responded to our Bequest Committee activities. I finally got my will redrafted 'and certain insurance policies made over to Dartmouth making a minor contribution to the future of the institution after I pass out of this world." (Dick White, Bequest Chairman, 1918), continues Dick, "George Woodruff also has recenty advised me that he, too, has made a redraft of his will, making a substantial outright bequest to Dartmouth and making Dartmouth a participant in the residual estate. We need more little chunks of this stuff coming along and I am sure they will as more and more of our classmates realize the worth of such contributions and the ease with wich they can be made without jeopardizing one's own family and personal responsibility."
How do you retire and when? "Raymond J.Hurley has resigned as Chairman and Chief Executor Officer of Thor Corp." (N. Y. newspapers). Spud Richmond says, "Speaking as a veteran of one month's retirement, I can inform you that I am discovering a whole new world that I never knew existed. It's full of interesting people who are well worth cultivating. I recommend it to you." And in the Ridgewood, N. J., newspapers, big headlines: "Sportsman C. T. Frost Ends Business Career - holds the distinction of once having dumped Helen Wills Moody in a tennis match - retired from active work with Western Electric Co." Bub Frost was administrative leader of the Upper Ridgewood (N. J.) Tennis Club. He was a It. in the famed Rainbow Division in World War I and was wounded in action, later serving as Commander of his Legion Post. During World War II he performed valuable service, expediting overseas shipments. In the future, Bub expects to spend his time with wife Ann, between Hanover and Ridgewood and will help with activities at Dartmouth while continuing his work at the Tennis Club.
Dick White, past chairman of the Trade Assn. Dept. of the Chamber of Commerce, wrote May 3, "Bill Wright, member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, performed in his usual gracious manner at the Open House, and from other friends, I understand, he did his usual sound job as a topflight representative of agriculture of the nation. Jake Bingham, from Concord, N. H., Chamber was here, and reported he had run across Fat Rowell while in the capitol." It was planned that Linda and Bill Wright would be in N. Y. City on May 24 at the Waldorf, during a meeting of the Mexico-U.S. Committee of which Bill is chairman, but that has been postponed till a later date, and we look forward to seeing Linda and Bill in N. Y., perhaps sometime in the fall.
Ed Wilde, a good friend of Helen and PaulMiner, had a son Andy at Dartmouth who thrilled with the Hanover experience and both Ruth and Ed enjoyed the campus during the four years Andy was there - and they love the place. Replying to a letter saying that we hope Ed would accept being an honorary member of the Class of 1918 Dartmouth, he replied, graciously as follows:
"The warmth of your letter and the news that the Class of 1918 had elevated me to honorary membership in the class flatter me. I know full well that, biologically, I can never make the grade of being a 'Daughter of the Revolution' or a member of the 'Women's Christian Temperance Union' and for dissimilar reasons, I cannot be a graduate of Dartmouth. However, the appellation 'honorary member' of the Class of 1918 sounds intriguing. I have been told that being the old man of a Dartmouth graduate gives me a status closely akin to that of an alumnus. I had not thought it possible to become an honorary member of so august a gathering of men. I very much appreciate the honor the class does me. I know I don't deserve it, but the affection we hold for Paul Miner, and the high regard I have for his '18er pals, make me happy to be deemed a hanger-on to the Class of 1918."
Such a nice note from Freddie Carleton's wife, Katharine, saying in part - "It is my wish that as long as I am able to do so, I will contribute something to Dartmouth in Fred's memory. I know he always made a contribution."
And a nice note from Mrs. Felix M. Woolworth, from Lauderdale, Fla., saying, "I plan to do as I did last year for the Alumni Fund - so count on that." Dud Woolworth '15, Chet '16 and Dick Woolworth '18 were outstanding men on the Dartmouth campus, and their father loved the place and did all he could during his lifetime to help Hanover, and to help men enjoy Dartmouth - and now Mrs. Woolworth carries on, and to all these people, I am sure, thanks and gratefulness is expressed by the boys in the future who can enjoy that same Dartmouth experience only because of such generosity of these wonderful people who contribute scholarship help annually to the Alumni Fund. The last opportunity to share in this drive is a matter of days - June 30.
After a 12-day drive from Arizona, where Mildred and Bob Fish had a mighty busy season, and Bob has been conducting an extremely interesting column in the local newspaper, he arrived in New York and the following day set sail for Sweden, West Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and, said Bob, "For a while we're going to sit on the Alps and meditate and Spain and France will have to come in another junket." Isn't that wonderful.
Through the alertness of Eddie Felt, we received a fine picture of Judge Clarence Opper appearing in the April 23 Buffalo Evening News, where the Judge spoke at a joint dinner meeting of accountants and lawyers of the Buffalo Chapter of State Society of CPAs and the Bar Assn. of Erie County. Clarence pleaded that the only way members could help the U.S. Tax court keep abreast of its calendar was the settlement of disputes before they reached the court. . . . You should have seen Fat Hardy's black, shiny, 2-door Pullman Cadillac in Florida last March! It was a honey! Just out of the box! In April came a note from Fat saying they were coming from Nashville about 35 miles an hour, in a drizzling rain, when a Ford came around the curve on 2 wheels, bogged down in a soft shoulder, was spinning to beat hell at 50 miles an hour, and, says Fat, "It made quick a crackup and my car is a total wreck." Fat's all right, thank goodness. His pal, Charley Owens, broke four ribs. Those Fords will do anything to keep General Motors out of first place.
Few classmates have been enjoyed more at Hanover reunion than Thehna and Jack Slabaugh, and of course attractive Judy. You should see the wonderful picture of her in her wedding gown in the Akron newspapers of April 25, which says in part: "Family tradition and sentiment combined to keynote the wedding of Juliann Slabaugh to James N. Draffan - at a ceremony performed in the Church of Our Saviour, where the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Slabaugh had spoken their vows
The annual Secretaries Meetings were held at Hanover the beautiful weekend, April 30 and May 1, and those attending were our great Alumni Fund leader, Dick Holton; our Treasurer, Curt Glover; our Dean of Medical School and Fund head for the medical end of it, Rolf Syvertsen; and Em Morse, acting in the writer's absence. Says Em - "There was roll call back as far as Judge Matthews '84; wives were present, and it was a most enjoyable weekend. Afterwards we all called on Don Scully at the hospital, who was just recovering from some sort of a disc operation. I sat side of Russ Meredith '09, Cliff's brother, and he said Cliff and Ted are still at Saranac and are doing as well as can be expected. A note from Harvey Hood added that he had seen Don Scully one weekend at Hanover, when he was there to pick up his freshman son and take him home to Rockport, Me. This is the 9th consecutive year that Don has had a son at Hanover. Don sold his coal business in Buffalo and is 'enjoying the one place' where he and his wife always wanted to live."
An address change from the College: "Dr. PaulH. Gerrish, college instructor, Pasadena City College, owner of Pasadena Swim and Sports Club, 3001 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, Calif.
In a column marked "The National Grapevine," the Defender, Chicago, Ill., of last Feb. said, in part — "What's Granger up to? - The Urban League executive, and currently special advisor to the Secy, of the Navy, sometimes likes to cloak his movements in mystery. . . .We finally tracked it down: that he's been asked to serve on a special new narcotics commission which will go into big cities to make surveys among juveniles with an aim to salvaging young addicts." When the Urban League had its 4th annual dinner at the Waldorf Astoria, N.Y.C., our Les Granger, the executive director, presented an award to the pres. of the Natl. Newspaper Publisher's Assn. for the effective work of the Negro press in fighting for freedom and full equality.
Thanks to Bill Christgau, whose Rose is recovering from a sprained ligament in her back after wrestling with grandson Derek, he reported that at the April l class dinner at the Dartmouth Club in N. Y. City, those attending were Bob Knowles and charming Ethel who used to be on the stage, Tommy Tarrant,Ned Ross and Steve Ma-honey. Everyone went down to Steve Marchi's on E. 31st St. and all had a wonderful celebration with Johnny Van Raalte in the absence of papa Jules. We noted in the papers that Thompson-Starrett, of which Van is the president, was selected by Premier Papages of Greece to undertake the Meggova River project in central Greece.
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Class Agent, East New York Savings Bank 2644 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn 7, N. Y.
