1918
The Dartmouth Alumni Assn. of Boston gathered at the Statler Hotel Feb. 16. Says Eddie Ferguson,
"Here's the list Chaunce Hood gave me of '18ers who came to the dinner. Ed Stanley, hale and hearty; Ken Jones, still a bachelor as is Ed Stanley;Reed Montgomery, Boston Beer Baron, ChaunceHood, Doc Angell, whose son is a high scholastic standing boy at Hanover, and myself feeling fit as a fiddle. Reed Montgomery reported seeing the Pres. of the Mass. Medical Assn., Doc Curt Tripp, who carries a heavy load this year...."
Jake Bingham saw Cush Strout at the Boston luncheon meeting of the Transportation Assn. of America, and he reported ParkerPoole is fine. Commenting on Dick Holton's letter on '18's showing in the Alumni Fund and the wonderful leadership Dick has given us, Jake Bingham asks, "How many are there as living active members of '18 now and who are potential givers to increase the participation index? Are there many'18ers who receive the MAGAZINE without subscribing to it?" Jake, many men in the class try to help Dick Holton when the time comes for the closing date of the Alumni Fund June go (just as you have always done, Jake) by writing other classmates not to forget their opportunity and privilege of helping other boys to enjoy the same Hanover experience we were fortunate enough to have.... Good old Doc Freddie Morse in the U.S. Public Health Service puts in terrific mileage a year and so we've missed him at the New York meetings. Called to urge him to attend the last '18 party. He said his daughter Alison was getting married and he had to attend a gown fitting. Believe me, Fred was an alert goal keeper on the Dartmouth hockey team.
Al Piper and their four children are mighty proud of Lucy who is always winning awards, and is one of six who received the ten-year service award from the N. H. Cancer Society When the Greenies flattened the Army hockey team in Feb. almost lost in this flurry was the fact that Dartmouth's and string goalie - John Scully (that's another one of the three Dartmouth sons of Madeline andDon - all of whom have had outstanding records at Hanover), who played a fine game in .substituting for the brilliant Gordie Russell, did the nearly impossible - he was credited with an assist on one of Hennigar's goals clearing the puck cleanly from his goal post to the redhead in the center of the ice.
'18s first husband-and-wives movie gathering at the N.Y.C. Dartmouth Club on Feb. 24 was most enjoyable. And lived up to was the slogan, "home to bed by 10 o'clock." Pete Colwell said he and Evelyn got in the door (New Rochelle) at 5 minutes past 10. It is simply astonishing how the scientist, Fred Cassebeer, taking pictures forty years ago in our undergraduate days with the poorer quality of materials there were in those days as compared with today, should have protected and kept in good condition those interesting and amusing pictures. Then Dottie and George Davis came in from New Rochelle. (Dottie had her arm in a sling with a slight bursitis - roughhousing with the grandchildren, Dottie?) And George's colored stills of the last reunion were very, very beautiful indeed. Why, he even has the stills of the reunion before the last, and which he had brought along to the last reunion in 1953, but for some reason or another he didn't have a chance to show them. We'll never go without seeing these again. It was a lot of fun - a lot of fun. Many of those undergraduate pictures looked like the Old Dartmouth Board, with Harvey Hood, Cliff Meredith, Eddie Felt, Fred Cassebeer, King Rood,Dave Garratt, and Stub Stanley cavorting about like prep school lads.
Marcia and Fred Cassebeer were enjoyed by many and speculation was rife as to who the six '18ers were au naturelle standing on a rock in the middle of a lake (1916). Pete and EvelynColwell, whose son Bob will soon be going up for his 10th reunion, were shown in splendid pictures of the last reunion. Then everybody was pleased to see Helen and Doc GeorgeDaniels. And when George Davis was talking with our newly acquired '18 New Yorker, namely Phi Beta Kappa Hal Day, we heard Hal say that he himself was a lay reader in the Episcopal Church, also - and how Hal had hoped to see Johnny Simmons at this gathering! It makes you realize the obligation that falls upon each classmate to try to be present at all '18 gatherings - just for the pleasure and joy it will bring some other '18er who has come a long way to the dinner - perhaps hoping to see him. We are sorry HalDay's Elizabeth couldn't attend, but they purchased a new house in Scarsdale and we hope to see them often now. Caroline and GeorgeDockstader, who have a lovely place on the canal at Amityville on Long Island and have a big cruising boat with a sitting room may go in for a smaller boat. They have offered us the privilege of seeing George's wonderful colored pictures of his trip to Pakistan and whoever has seen "The River" can get some idea of their beauty.
There was a wonderful picture of Ruth andCurt Glover at the last reunion and we wish they'd had their fabulous captain of the swimming team, Johnny, in that picture also. More power to you, Johnny, for we understand you're going to try out for the Olympics. All N.Y.C. papers on April 3 carried these headlines "Glover sets swim mark in U.S. Championships." And a wonderful picture of Johnny. An awfully nice touch for the evening was the presence of Oscar Gillein and his southern wife, Nettie Bell. Al Rice and Marjorie were with them, and Al previously had thoughtfully mentioned Oscar (Treas. of Denver U. at the time Dartmouth's new football coach, Bob Blackman, was being hired) as one who might be glad to say a few words about our new football coach.
"First of all," said Oscar, "he's a wonderful man, has a wonderful wife and two lovely children. He's an exceedingly likable and personable individual, loves to win. He's a good sport and willing to learn and he works long hours; and long after a game he keeps his staff around going over and over the plays to be perfected. Boy, they hated to lose him out there at Denver! There is no question but what he loves to win and will try hard to win."
So nice to see Hilda and Henry Hesse there, for Dep't. Head Henry usually is tied up Thursday nights at Macy's. Henry in his quiet polite efficient manner covers a lot of ground and is very highly respected at Macy's. EdithHolton said they'd heard from Elizabeth and Eddie Mader and everybody seemed to be anxious to see them both again. It was a lovely picture of Edith Holton receiving orchids and a kiss from Harvey Hood ('53 Reunion in Hanover), just after the whole '18 class had presented Dick Holton a beautiful desk set and a bound volume of all the notes written in by every '18er - a much deserved tribute to one who is largely responsible for '18's high performance record in the Alumni Fund. Let's make Dick's job easier and happier by sending in today our 1955 check to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund, Hanover, N. H. A later picture flicked on the screen a couple of times showed Edith quietly nursing a biting corn, perhaps, because she looked distraught and ordered Freddie Cassebeer, to quickly move along. RogHowland was there and we wish Ruth had been along, and when the pictures were flashed of the ROTC in World War I at Hanover, digging trenches, and of this soldier in olive drab with a campaign hat on deep down in a trench holding a shovel, somebody said it was Bill Bemis, and Rog Howland wouldn't believe it. Said Roger, "Bill never ever worked with a shovel." In that same picture was JudgeAmos Blandin in puttees and stripped down to the waist, swinging a huge mallet driving in tent pegs. What a virile man!
Were you in Florida last winter? Had you been there March 15 you'd have enjoyed a most delightful Dartmouth Alumni dinner. In addition to those '18ers present besides the writer and Mary Ellen were Beck and AI Gottschaldt. Rightly tribute was paid to Al as an Alumni Councillor and his enduring great aid to the College over many years, in Atlanta, Boston, New York and now Miami, where Al has his own advertising agency and is mixed up with everything. Olive and TommieGroves were there and may settle in Florida. Their 10-year-old son Nickie was seen just once by Helen Hayes' manager and he insisted he must have Nickie. We all missed Alice andBill Bemis.
Other '18ers we had hoped to see at this Florida dinner were Katherine and Ev Young,Mildred and Jay LeFevre, Fat Hardie, DanShea, Florence and Johnny Thayer, Doris andPhil Sanderson, as well as May and PaulWhite who have a lovely home on Poinsettia Drive in Lauderdale, right on a beautiful waterway. We called twice; missed them; left a note and got back such a nice note saying they had left with friends to go to Captiva Island fishing for a few days. Plan to take in this pleasant Dartmouth experience another year when you're in Florida. If this MAGAZINE would publish the date of this dinner in the Jan. and Feb. issues, every Dartmouth couple in Florida would come.
The wonderful Dan Shea family, two sisters and two brothers, we found gathering for a big reunion at Sister Helen's lovely home in Miami Beach and we were grateful for their hospitality. The Ev Youngs were looking forward to flying daughter Priscilla, her husband and children down to Delray for Easter. Ev says the only cup he ever won was the silver one from 1918 when Priscilla arrived as the Class Baby - disputed by Miriam and TomCampbell and Rose and Hi Belding. Everett with his "jaunty print trunks" prowls wolf-ike in and out of the beautiful colored cabanas on Delray's dreamlike beach visiting their many friends. That beach has as its Secretary, Johnny Thayer, former mayor of Delray, who is chairman of the Tax Payers League of Delray Beach, and in his relaxed hours, chez Florence, can make and bake as nice an angel food cake as you ever tasted, then go out and help his friends buy a new house.
In Florida we ran into the attractive Mrs. Stedman who warmed our hearts by telling of the undergraduate occasions Jack Slabaugh invited her to Hanover for, and as always, the greatly loved man of our class, Swede Youngstrom, was mentioned. Johnny Thayer simply made" a couple of those early reunions when he came to Hanover with Bill Christgau, and in the class tent played the piano most of the night. He lost his wallet with $100 in it, stalked the black campus most of the night looking for it, between rocking the piano. He was presented with the $100-wallet in Allen s by a soda jerker undergrad to whom Johnny-made the reward of ten per cent.
We find in a letter from Bo& Fish and echoed by Red Wilson, and I'm sure proudly endorsed by all '18ers that Les Granger is really one of the members of the class." Les refers in a recent talk about "a growing sense of community responsibility (because of) our frantic movement at the rate of 31 million changes of residence a year." Les points out that in the South, Negro workers comprise 25% of the labor force, yet have only 5% of the jobs. Les points out there are in the world 15 times as many people as in the U.S. and two out of three "have colored skins." L. C."Twink" Stowell, Harvard '14, honorary Dartmouth '18, Pres. of Paul Miner's Underwood Co. (few if any salesmen have equaled Paul's record) and a great friend of Cort Horr, said they were coming out with an "electric brain" machine costing about half the others.
Jean and Russ Howard made a big sacrifice giving up Florida last February - 'twas son Rusty getting married on February 6. George Rand, the greatest class secretary ever, of that illustrious '19, thoughtfully sent us a March 20th clipping from the New York HeraldTribune: Elizabeth and Swede Bennett announced the engagement of their daughter Marie (with Sports Illustrated) to David Wood, a Colgate Deke.
were so sorry to miss seeing (ex-congressman) Jay LeFevre and Mildred at the Breakers in Palm Beach. On the way home in their stunning pale yellow Cadillac lucky Mildred got as an anniversary gift, they stopped off to see pretty daughter Elaine in Washington and their two grandchildren. Much-loved son Johnny has a brand new red convertible, so why should he envy mother?
A CORRECTION —'18ers coming to Hanover of their annual reunion at Opening Football Game next fall (more later from DukeDusossoit and Ellen - they're in Paris now) should make reservations now. Write the Hanover Inn. You might strike uranium and get in. If not they'll suggest many other nice places. A bigger crowd than ever comes back for the cocktail party, luncheon, football game and fun. We only live once. And also, on the Harvard football weekend at Hanover, the town will be a riot and worth seeing. EmMorse and Carol, Pete Colwell and Evelyn, Cort Horr, Marion and Judy tried to get everyone interested in nice brand new motel reservations at Hanover, but it got off the track and that's OUT. Thank good old Medfordite Em Morse for a lot of good work he put in trying to alert us about a swell place to put up.
Kay and Johnnie Cunningham have been so nice to Ned Ross's daughter Judy at Denver U. she just hates to leave. But she's got a 3-yr. stretch in nurse's training and she'll be back in N. Y. City to get her B.S. at the Presbyterian Hospital and then her RN for which she is working.... Robbie Robinson, of Robinson's Reminders in Westfield, Mass., was in Hanover awhile back, probably seeing Deke son John.... Leon Dodge, who has the general merchandise store in Alton, N. H. (ensign in World War I, and who in his 25th-Year Report gave as hobbies "Scotch and soda, when you can get it" and who gave as his roommates Fred Morse and Leon White) has had his son Douglas nominated by the local congressman for the Air Force Academy.... Rolf Syvertsen is V.P. of the Hanover Rotary Club.... EmMorse represented the 1918 class at the Dartmouth Alumni Officers Meeting May 6 and 7 at Hanover.... Russ Smith at a previous class dinner told us he is Pres. of the Borden Mining Co.: - "They mine coal and clay for making bricks and in the process is found germanium, out of which resistors are made for hearing aids." In addition to that, Russ handles the books for Baker and Taylor, doing accounting work.
HOME ON THE RANGE: Bill Wright '18, owner of Mary's River Ranch at Deeth, Nev., oneof the largest in the West, does not have a chance to forget how to ride horseback or brandhis cattle, in addition to the many civic and political responsibilities which keep him busyin the State.
Secretary, 74 Trinity Place, New York 6,N. Y.
Class Agent, East New York Savings Bank 2644 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn 7, N. Y
