1918
'18 WIVES AND HUSBANDS PARTY D. CLUB N. Y. CITY FEB. 23 (DAY AFTER WASH. BIRTHDAY), 5:30 p.m., COCKTAILS, DINNER; PICTURES OF BREEZY YOUTH IN UNDERGRADUATE LIFE BY GEORGE DAVIS AND FRED CASSEBEER. A happy evening and on your way home by 9:30 to 10. Do come. Ethel and Bob Knozvles, and Bill Christgau, are handling arrangements. ... Ann and Johnny Johnston Christmased in Tennessee with son Doug and family, and Gordon and bride from Atlanta joined them. ... Red Wilson, V.P. of Union Securities Corp., who did a standout job the year he ran the Alumni Fund for '18, and who with Peg was fishing up in Newfoundland last summer regretted missing Clem McRride from New Mexico, - was elected vice chairman of the National Association of Security Dealers.... Johnny Van Raalte '48, of Goldman Sachs and Co., N. Y. City, and a tower of strength on the Dartmouth Club N. Y. City squash team, "is doing better than I ever did at his age," said Jules. Van looked rugged and happy and why not: Janet and Jules are sunning on deck on a cruise to South America.
The Class of '18 pays it's highest respect to Judge Don Macaulay (said Geran - "a Scotchman he is, which is simply an Irishman gone wrong") for the tribute paid to him with a" headlines in the December Springfield (Mass.) News, when Gov. Herter promoted Probate Judge Macauley of Longmeadow to be a justice of the Superior Court. Born in Springfield, a naval aviator in World War I with the Lafayette Esquadrille, he came back and went to law school, served as City Solicitor, is chairman of the Alumni Assn. of Classical H. S., and former head of the Springfield Red Cross. Said the editorial under the caption "A Deserved Promotion":—
"We read with pride of his accomplishments ... his record of public service often praised ... and in the highest honor and responsibility which the Governor has bestowed. ... He can be expected to continue to display the same attributes of patience, understanding and fairness on the high court bench as that has distinguished his career in the Probate Court."
The '18 Class rejoices in Don's well-merited acclaim. Jack Hurlbut (also lives in Longmeadow, Mass., where Laura and Don built a fine home in 1949), Hort Chandler (thanks Hort for catching that clipping of Red Wilson's honor), Eddie Ferguson (already planning '18's fun at Harvard game next Oct. 27), and many others sent in clippings. Don's charming wife Laura lends a great deal of her radiant charm and sparkle to brighten the lives of the old ladies' home, where she has been a member of the board for many years. A great Judge who aspires to spread greater domestic happiness and cut down divorces, came from Springfield to attend the N. Y. City annual alumni dinner a few years ago, racing back that very night to Springfield. After his soup he left the table, knowing Saks-sth Av. was still open, and bought Laura a necklace. We well recall Laura's chagrin at the 20th Reunion, when laden with evening clothes for the big dance, laid down to take a nap to refresh herself and the next thing she knew the dance was all over. We salute you, Don, for the wonderful job you and Laura have done. ... Katink and Francis Christy, Vice Pres. Rockefeller Center and own law firm, there enjoyed Austria and Switzerland before the Christmas holidays.
The very charming and talented daughter of Edith and Dick Holtcm, Mary Louise, who won the most honors at St. Mary's School, Garden City, and then went on to the big time at Wellesley and made Phi Beta Kappa junior year, was married at a lovely wedding two days after Christmas, to a fine man, Vernon Jennings Buchanan. Already her M.A. tucked away, she'll write her thesis and get her Ph.D. ... Jack Hurlbut and Rosamond lived for years in Cannes, France — Jack had a "thinning disc" but is virile enough to get up and walk out of the hospital after Paul Miner's famed surgeon brother Babe '23 took out his gall bladder.
Of the lovely home of Carol and Em Morse at N. Thetford, Vt., the newspaper account telling of the tour of historical homes said:
"The interior of this house shows imagination, inherent in fine taste. All of the original ideas of Mrs. Morse have been executed by Millard Uline of Lyme, and his local staff. A muzzle-loading flintlock used by Gilead Morse, in the French and Indian wars and in the Revolution, an old sea Captain's chest - a painting of great-grandfather Morse, painted in 1820 - came to Lyme from historical Salem when the Morses purchased their present home in 1946."
So many '18ers have enjoyed that lovely home and the warmth of Carol and Em's generous hospitality.
Bill Christgau, made an honorary DKE - proudly wears the pin, had a wonderful time visiting Betty and Benny Mugridge at their lovely home on the water at Huntington, L. I. When Benny was last at Hanover giving a talk to the Tuck School body on management and labor problems, of which Bennie is an outstanding success, he was walking up Tuck Drive at the end of the day when a bunch of undergrads from the top floor of a nearby dorm shouted, "Hey; Moscowitz - come on up." Benny found himself in the midst of a wonderful crowd of alert brother Chi Phis and their girls, and felt his whole trip to Hanover well rewarded. Great honor has come to Dr. John J. Tokarczyk, a practicing M.D. since 1921 in New Britain, Conn., and who graduated from Vermont U. Medical and who for 8 years has been a Trustee of Alliance College, Cambridge Springs, Pa., an accredited liberal arts college subsidized by the Polish National Alliance.
"What a thrilling sight!" said Gerry Geran, the merry Irishman from Kerry, who takes time to live, and who with his bride Frances on a brilliant sunshiny day, the shortest day of the year, ferried to Staten Island, just to see, on the way back, the majesty of the lights coming on in all the towering skyscrapers in downtown Wall 5t. ... Mary Olive Jones (nearly back to par after her auto accident) and Stan gave their customary Christmas Day eggnog party, with Nancy assisting (looking more like Audrey Hepburn), an occasion never to be forgotten. Stanley gave untiring service for yrs. to the Bd. of Dir. of the Dartmouth Club in N. Y. City. On questions of good sound judgment of human relations, Stan's advice is sought on all sides. For good sound copy for the many accounts he serves, or for the Alumni Fund or anything connected with Dartmouth (to which he often contributes his time) it's beautifully balanced, fast-moving writing, as you well know. Geran recalled the time Bill Christgau picked up Stanley and tried desperately to shove him into a taxicab, but the little wiry Welshman was a thousand-legged crab and Chris gave it up as a bad job. Fat Sheldon gives those steel fingers of Stanley's a wide berth since his nose was tweaked.
The electorate voted row A all the way, and our Dave Skinner, who launched the $350,000 drive for the 100-yr. old Episcopal Church in Rye, N. Y., was elected for councilman again. Dave served 2 yrs. overseas, U. S. Army 106 th Machine Gun Bn., 27th Div.... Proud indeed is '18 that Judge Clarence Opper of the Alumni Council has put his shoulder to the wheel for the very effective Dartmouth Enrollment Program. ... Shorty Allien, Hort Chandler and other '18ers have thoughtfully sent in reviews of Paul Moyer's book The Case for Peace, so well reviewed in the Jan. D.A.M. - read it. ... Eddie Ferguson sold out his Needham home development and he's looking for another - said LouCousins caught a trout as big as a tuna Ed Shaw, a nearby neighbor of Eddie's hopes to get out to some '18 doings - Doc McRride, Supt. of Schools at Des Moines, N. M., says his altitude, where the big flat areas catch the wind, is 6800 and adds, "you can see how my wife and daughter, when I took them up through Vt. and N. H., got claustrophobia as you have plenty of elbow room out here in this purely range and cattle country."
Full of praise is Dick Holton for the splendid contributions to Dartmouth that Marguerite and Bill Chisholm have made over the years. ... After Edith and Walt Wiley had a wonderful happy welcome on July 1 last at Istanbul, Turkey, they retreated to the country, and wrote:
"We moved back into the city full time on Sept. 5 and on the 6th excitement over the possible Greek acquisition of Cyprus from Great Britain was the occasion for the most severe popular disturbances in Istanbul in modern times. We stood in our living room and watched the mobs destroy millions of dollars worth of goods in half a mile of Istanbul's main shopping section, devastating nearly everything but Moslem shops. Some shops and homes were saved by kind-hearted Moslem watchmen or neighbors who swore that the owners were Moslem. And what we saw was being enacted everywhere in the city until the imposition of martial law after midnight."
Got a Christmas card from Dartmouth's distinguished Alumni Council member JohnCunningham of Denver, saying "Now have 2 grandsons and 2 granddaughters - what have you got besides money?" A Christmas card from Ass't Attorney General (Anti-Trust Div. Wash., D. C.) Hal Glendenning, saying, "I expect to be married shortly to Helen Crosby McCabe - new address 3411 Lowell St. N.W., Wash. 16, D. C."
The old roomey of Tom Shirley and GeneClark, with an A.M. at Chicago U., A.M. at Wisconsin U., and Ph.D., Yale, Alan L.Strout, English Professor of Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Texas, and who in his youth was forbidden to play with bad-boy neighbor Hercules Stanley Jones, the Flatbush roadapple, sent in an enjoyable postcard:
"My wife and I enjoyed our trip in Europe this summer, despite a bus crash in Italy. We rubbery Americans escaped injury, as did an English Lt. Colonel and his lady; two Irish women and three other English passengers went to the hospital. The experience was worth the pain and effort, for after the crash the Britons became quite chummy, proving, as Kipling says, our humanity - when mutually bruised and battered: - 'When the Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady have blisters under the skin' ... In the London Times Literary Supplement of Aug. 12, 1955, is a little scholarly piece of mine on Shelley and Blackwood's Magazine (I am the greatest living authority on Blackwood's Magazine)!"
From a Yale scout, "Russ and Jean Howard are proud grandparents - name: Charles S. 2nd, the only current grandson to carry on the Howard name."
1918 Alumni Council members in Wash. D. C., Clarence Opper and Richard P. White note this: "Asst. Administrator, Dept. of Commerce, D. C., leave for Ceylon and the Far East as Chief of U. S. Trade Mission, at the Royal Agriculture and Food Exhibition in Colombo, Ceylon, on Dec. 16, returning to the U.S.A. about March 1, 1956," signed: William A. White, 3040 Idaho Av. N.W., Wash. D. C.
One of the biggest Conventions you ever saw was held at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chi- cago, last Oct. when a great tribute was paid to our T. Reed Montgomery, retiring Pres. of the Brewers Assn. of America, and this is a great ovation to the fine job Reed has done, as Pres. of the Boston Beer Co. On the program was Reed's wife Hitty, who at the "Opening of Ladies' Hospital Room" presided on the occasion, and again at the luncheon of the Ladies of the Convention. Of course the main presiding officer was Reed.
Says Zip Zabriskie, our sturdy Campbell Hall, N. Y., farmer - who seems to crave a night out with Fat Hardie, on the loose - "Nothing very much ever happens to me. Just been elected to the Board of Orange County, N. Y., Supervisors. Have been doing this since 1935. Been Chrmn. of the Board since 1946." ... Bill Rosenfeld's son, Bill III '46, has established a fine personnel agency (Arden Personnel Service), at 11 E. 47th St., N. Y. City. ... Oma and Ned Ross's attractive daughter, Judy, is working for United Pictures, creating animated cartoons for T.V. Oma Jr. teaches French in a Woodbridge, Conn., high school, to all four grades, and is a good example of the fine quality Vassar can turn out. They've had the best of guidance by genial Ned (DCA cabinet member, double bass in the College orchestra in our undergraduate days; member of the Lincoln Douglas debating society; a dedicated loyal '18 prodder) and wife Oma, Past Pres. of Legion Auxiliary, head of the Girl Scouts, and now active in the church.
Reg Miner, the faithful Class Sec. of '21 says, "We enjoyed having Carlton Frost as our guest for dinner at Lyme Inn. We met him at Prof. Jack Hurd's ('21) home, and learned he was Eleanor Hurd's brother."
'Twas a nice time in N. Y. City when '18ers had a chance to see Miriam and Tom Campbell as they enjoyed a month of opera, theatres, and all the interesting things in town. Through the thoughtfulness of Hercules Stanley Jones, Ned Ross, Paul Miner and the writer were present at a luncheon for TomCampbell, and there the four soldats of la belle France recreated the battles of Paris and the Chemin des Dames. Tom has kept up his interest in metallurgical engineering, and son Dick has done a good deal of the footwork, that, together with the investments, will take most of Tom's time. Reaching back four generations of Phi Beta Kappas—Tom's grandfather, I believe, was one of the first pioneers to Denver - then began the great flow of wonderful high-quality men who flocked to Dartmouth from that part of Colorado ever since.
Secretary, 74 Trinity Place, New York 6, N. Y.
Treasurer, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y.
Bequest Chairman,
