1916
The Class will be saddened to learn of the death of Catherine St. George-Smith, wife of Freddie St. George-Smith, which occurred in New York on December 9, after a short illness. Catherine was known to many '16ers and her cheerful disposition and sincere sociability enlivened many of our reunions and '16 parties. Our Class has lost a loyal and enthusiastic member, and she will be greatly missed. Our deepest sympathy goes to Freddie, his daughter Audrey, who is no stranger at reunions, and to Catherine's family.
The latest word from Stirling Wilson is that he is on the mend after an operation at the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md., and that he hoped to be home in sunny Florida by the first of the year. He said he was not sure that he could stand the drive to Florida, but that time would tell. It is good news, Stirling, that your operation is a thing of the past, that it was successful and that you will soon be back on deck. We could have ill afforded to lose the services of one who has done so much to make 1916 one of the most closely knit classes of them all.
These notes were written in part from Texas. Your correspondent and his family, i.e., his sister-in-law and his nephew, Jim Cleaves '48 drove down to Houston to spend Christmas with his niece, her husband Nick Turkevich '40 and family. On the way south a careful inspection was made of the battle-fields of the Chickamauga and Vicksburg campaigns. Jim was especially interested in the former as he trained in Chickamauga Park in World War I. He looked in vain for the site of the second Officer Training Camp and was told by the guide that it had long since disappeared and that, in fact, it had been the site of a WAC Camp in World War II. It brought to mind a similar situation when your correspondent attended the summer sessions of the Graduate School of Banking at dear old Rutgers some years back. When it was learned that some of the men would be quartered in the girls dormitory a wag sighed and remarked, "Out of season and twenty years too late." In the present instance your correspondent soliloquized, "Wrong war and twenty-five years too soon."
While in Houston we had a pleasant visit with Hiram and Laura McLellan, who were in good health and enjoying their family over the holidays. I guess they thought it was Coxey's Army when they saw our family descending upon them. However, they recovered sufficiently to send their greetings to all the Class.
The Boston Herald recently remarked in its Ski Chatter column that time was when a college athletic plant needed only a gymnasium, stadium and assorted athletic fields to be considered complete, but that Dartmouth had found it necessary to add the reasonable facsimile of a mountain, complete with ski trails, lift, base and summit shelters, access roads and parking facilities. In describing the installation at Holt's Ledge it includes the two-story base station lodge given by Charlie and Edna Brundage in memory of their son, Peter Brundage '45, who was killed on Okinawa.
Friends of D. D. Linehan at the Mechanicville, N.Y., mill of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. gave him a farewell party on the occasion of his retirement some weeks back. DD, the plant chemist, was with the company for 36 years and is described by the Saratoga Springs paper as a well known civic leader, with a wide acquaintance in the paper and chemical industries. DD, this correspondent hopes that your retirement will prove as pleasant and rewarding as his has been.
Not many weeks ago we had a nice visit from Gil and Mabel Tapley. They style themselves the interstate baby-sitters and they were keeping the homefires burning while their daughter and son-in-law went to Atlanta to look for new quarters where he has been transferred.
What a pleasant Saturday afternoon we spent at Princeton! I have seen all but two of the Dartmouth games there since college days and many of them have been drab occasions, but not so this year. We had planned a picnic lunch with Chuck and Sally Gammons and their daughter, Clare and son-inlaw Dale McMullan, but we never did catch up with them till game time. I also saw Ray DeVoe and his family, Charlie and Mrs. Jones, Jack Curtin and Irving Wolff and his brother Pete. There must have been many more '16ers there, and those who weren't, missed a gala afternoon.
Ray DeVoe, former vice president of Robert Gair Co., Inc., has been elected vice-president of Continental Can Co. as a result of the merger of the two companies. George Dyke '15 was elected vice chairman at the same meeting. To Ray and George: Salutations and best wishes.
Bill Biel is back in New York having traveled extensively in California, Texas and other remote places this past December.
Jib Dingwall, who is again living in New York, has been elected to the Board of Governors of the New York Dartmouth Club. Jib has been an enthusiastic member of the club for many years and his leadership at its festive gatherings has done much in making them successful. The New York group was cheered by the news that Chan White expects to join their gatherings when the fall rush of his work is at an end.
The "gang" is still talking about those excellent color slides of photographs which John Ames took in the Far East. Some of them are truly works of art. The slides and John's explanatory comment gave a vivid idea of the fiendish terrain over which our men in Korea fought and made their accomplishments appear all the more remarkable.
Josh Dunbar writes that Col. Nasser's activities in recent months has affected the natural rubber business to such an extent that it has become an around-the-clock task to keep up with the latest developments.
Jay Gifford, who attended the last class meeting in New York, looked hale and hearty. His editorial work on the Herald Tribune evidently agrees with him. He has put on some weight in recent years but has not the bulging waistline that some of us have acquired.
Lindy Lindman is still teaching at Canter-bury School, but expects to retire in a year and a half. He has already selected the spot, Lanark Village, Carabelle, Fla., to which he will move, and he trusts that '16ers will stop there for a rehash of our happy undergraduate days. The mat marked "Welcome" is all ready to greet them. .
Ike Teller has found a way of combining his profession with pleasure. He spends Mondays and Tuesdays in New York treating his city patients and during the rest of the week lives the life of a country dentist in Glen Spey, N. Y. Beginning at daybreak he gets in three hours of hard labor, cutting lumber, ploughing, farm work and planting. Then lie hies to his local office and treats patients who come for many miles from the surrounding countryside. Ike also is active in community affairs and after raising $8000 to build a rectory for his church, pitched in with other volunteers in constructing it. He has never felt better in his life, still weighs the same as during undergraduate days and is delighted with his decision to quit the big city and live a more satisfying life. The coupons he is clipping are not attached to bonds but they are the type which are more gratifying.
A "lip of the hat" to Dutch Doenecke for many of the above items. Won't some of you fellows, whose names rarely appear in these columns, send me some news about yourselves and your families, or about your bashful classmates and their families. The Class would like very much to hear from "you all. (Pahdon the southern influence of my recent Texas visit.)
Class Notes Editor, 7 Swarthmore PI., Swarthmore, Pa
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