1918

Recently, we attended the Alumni Fund Dinner and heard Don Sawyer '21 and President Dickey give an inspiring plea for the need for the Million Dollar Alumni Fund goal set for i960. In our class group, 1917 to 1923, our class objective is fourth and the amount is $10,710. If Dartmouth is to procure the proper teaching talent and keep it, it is imperative that the Alumni Fund goal be reached. Please support Dick Holton liberally when you hear from him!

All will be distressed to learn that Cap Hanley passed away on March 12.

We have heard that Al Gottschaldt, who now resides in Coral Gables, Fla., gave a talk on advertising to the undergraduates of the University of Florida. We are sure he had his usual persuasiveness and bent their ears favorably toward the advertising profession.

So many of our classmates living in New York City and its environs were in Florida and other resorts that the last class dinner was attended only by Chris Christgau, Ernie Earley, Johnny Johnson, Syl Morey, Ned Ross and Red Wilson.

Through the grapevine we hear that both Andy Ross and Ned Ross are planning to retire in April of this year.

Bob Fish recently received a letter from Lymie Black, which was received too late to put in his article. In Lymie's letter he tells us that he has four children, all of whom are married, with twelve grandchildren. He indicates that he and Mrs. Black are doing plenty of baby sitting, which he states seems to be required of grandmas and grandpas these days. He is secretary and treasurer of the Seattle Hardware Company, a wholesale organization serving the four Northern Pacific states as well as Alaska. He lives across Lake Washington at Bellevue about ten miles outside of Seattle. He sends his best regards to members of the class and hopes they will call him when they have occasion to be in Seattle.

An amusing letter from Jack Slabaugh describes a visit from the "perennial Dartmouth sophomore," Cortland Bliss Horr, over the weekend of March 19. For some reason or another Cort just happened to be in Cleveland. Of course, the Dartmouth Glee Club concert happened to be in Cleveland at the same time. After they attended the Glee Club concert, they went to Cort's room in the Carter Hotel in Cleveland to watch the College Bowl contest between New York University and Dartmouth. Cort is now district manager for the Trussell Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. His slogan is "Have Trussell will travel."

A recent newspaper clipping reports that our classmate, Dr. Richard P. White, Dick to us, has been made president of the union of the American Horticultural Society and the American Association of Nurserymen. The American Horticultural Society has been a leader in the horticultural field in the Washington, D. C., area. The American Horticultural Association, made up of representatives of most of the horticultural groups in the United States, has had its head office in New York City. We wish to congratulate Dick on his new responsibilities!

Al Gottschaldt sent a full page article taken from the Miami Herald Sunday Magazine written about Admiral Gene Markey. Gene is quoted as stating that Florida sunshine made the words grow faster, when he was preparing a historical novel titled "That Far Paradise." Pictures show Lucille and Gene together and one of Gene reading with the name of the new novel showing very prominently. Needless to say, the article is very flattering of both of the Markeys.

We received a nice note from Tom Proc- tor the first of the year in which he told of a very pleasant trip to Denver. John Cunningham and Chuck Hilliker took him to lunch. Later, he went to the Dartmouth Christmas Party and then went to dinner with John and his wife.

A letter from Howard "Robby" Robinson from Westfield, Mass., informs that he has three sons, all married and all Dartmouth graduates, with five grandchildren. He has been very active for the last six years on the School Committee and has just finished a term as chairman. He is now serving on the Building and Development Committee for the Town of Westfield. He still does a lot of skiing, having skied in Aspen or Sun Valley for the past ten years. His wife, Elizabeth, is an ardent golfer winning a very important golf tournament last summer.

The Concord Daily Monitor carried an article the latter part of February about Ray Smith of Dublin who was campaigning as a pro-Nixon candidate for delegate to the Republican National Convention. Ray received a lot of publicity by using a dog sled to reach one of the precincts where he was to appear for a speech during a period when the area was practically snowbound.

Louis Huntoon wrote us on January 29. He writes he is spending more and more time with his family. He has just recently sold his tube business. He hopes any classmates who are in or around Providence or East Greenwich, R. I., will contact him if they have time to visit.

A long letter from Paul Miner in Largo, Fla., tells of a visit from Tom O'Connell who appeared with a "violent Florida sunburn" acquired on the golf course associated with the swank Belleview Biltmore Hotel. A few days earlier Stan and Mary Olive Jones arrived in Clearwater and the Miners enjoyed a pleasant afternoon and evening with them. They hope to visit the Joneses later in Fort Myers. The last week of February Tom and Elizabeth Robbins stopped in for a visit accompanied by their daughter, whom they were driving to Jacksonville, Fla., where her husband is located in the service. Paul writes that he has commitments from the Ernie Earleys that they will stop in on their way north. He also hopes to see the Syl Moreys, the Hugh Whipples and the Phil Boyntons, all of whom have been going to Clearwater for several years. He again wishes us to note that "the latchstring is out for any Floridabound 18ers."

We thank the many classmates who responded to our plea for information and hope that you will keep it coming. Phil Sanderson told me yesterday that he was very pleased with the amount of material he has been receiving from many of you lately. The new class directory is about to be printed. We hope it will be in your hands sometime before June i.

The annual award of merit of the Dartmouth Club of Bergen County, N. J., is presented to Carlton P. Frost '18 (r) of Ridgewood by Stephen M. Kenyon '22 (1), chairman of the award committee, and Stanley P. Miner '22, club president. The award was given in recognition of his work with youngsters from the area. For more details, see the clubs section.

Secretary, 67 Annawam Rd., Waban, Mass.

Class Agent, East New York Savings Bank 2644 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn 7, N. Y.