1918

The Class Notes this month were prepared by Harold W. (Jack) Slabaugh.

The Niles, Mich., country squire, EdHealey, is retired and lucky enough to have his son, Tom run the farm. Ed retains his interest in bourbon and branch water, and is a dues paying member of the "Thanatopsis & Inside Straight Club," which meets frequently at the Indiana Club in South Bend, Ind., just about ten miles from home.

After forty years in the insurance business in Chicago, Lymie Drake has retired. Last year the Little Woman and he proved that they actually could go "Around the World in 80 Days." About March 1 he left for a six weeks' trip to Europe and Ireland. The L. W. acted as a U. S. judge at the recent World's Figure Skating Championships in Prague.

Hi Belding and Lymie are frequent Chicago commuters on the same trains. Hi, after many years with Blyth & Co. (investment bankers) is only semi-retired. He's justly proud of two Dartmouth sons in California, 14 grandchildren, and is heading South in April when the rates go down.

That eminent Joliet, Ill., physician, DocWoodruff (no connection with the pen of the same name) like most professional men whom the income tax laws have passed by, is not retired, only "slowed down." Doc spent two months in Europe last summer, and gets to Hanover about once a year, by way of checking on his grandchildren in New Jersey.

Another non-retired professional man is Bill Bemis, the prominent and well-known Cleveland barrister, who is keeping right on "lawing." Bill lost his wife in 1956 and in 1961 married Mrs. Wilma Suits Nye. Their present address is 17306 Aldersyde Drive, Cleveland 20, Ohio. Bill has two daughters and six grandchildren.

Ottumwa, lowa, according to Frank Fiedler, has really been in a "deep freeze" this past winter. Frank, who is in the wholesale hardware business, has just completed four years on the City Council, and looks forward to retirement next January. There are two daughters, and four grandchildren. To escape the "deep freeze" Frank winters in Mexico or the Caribbean, and is flirting with that around-the-world trip.

There's at least one honest man in 1918. When Bill Shellman, the Chicago fire insurance man, was asked for information about himself, he replied "I'm not sure if I remember you." Bill is active in the American Legion and the Masons, and has a further distinction: no grandchildren.

Swede Bennett, of. Medina, Ohio (not to be confused with Medina, N. Y., which claims Tom Robbins and Hugh Whipple), has just completed a successful three weeks' stretch in the hospital, and says he hopes to be acting like a sixteen-year-old this spring. Swede is engaged in selling the venerable Bennett Lumber Co. and will be entirely out of the business in three or four years.

That peripatetic (you'll find it in the dictionary and Time uses it, too) All-American collegian, Cort Horr, of Western Springs, Ill., is working harder than ever, roaming the Middle West in his air-conditioned Pontiac and hitting all the college book stores with his sales pitch for loose-leaf systems. Marian, who seldom accompanies her frugal husband on these trips, and Cort have a cute daughter and granddaughter.

Fat Hardie, the retired steel baron, and Cort got together in Indianapolis the other night, got too much sarsaparilla, and got telephonitis. (Are you, dear reader, among the lucky ones who received a call - collect?) Cort reports that Fat occupies plush bachelor's quarters in the Indianapolis Athletic Club, which organization. Fat emphasizes, has a distinct Democratic hue since November 1960.

Ted Booth, of Grand Rapids, Mich, (not to be confused with the eminent professor of English of the same name), only spent a year at Hanover, but remembers well that crowd of roughnecks who inhabited S. Mass freshman year (who could ever forget 'em'?). The Alumni Directory lists Ted's business as "aut," meaning "automobile, bus, motor boat."

The only definite dope we have on Al Sibbernsen comes by way of Stan Jones, and is to the effect that he charmed the old ladies while scrounging on Stan for a week in Ft. Meyers Beach, Fla. Syl Morey, the Indian tribes' historian, joined the festivities for awhile.

Dick Aishton, the retired banker, reports from Chicago that he is busy with Ducks Unlimited (sorry, Dick, but just what is that?), and charity drives.

Lang Robinson writes from his winter home in Lake Wales, Fla., that he is in the "partially retired" category; his only concern is that Martha will retire, too. Ed andMaudie Noyes and their shiny new Cadillac, and Al Gottschaldt, the Miami advertising man, recently visited the Robinsons.

Here's a new idea (and a pretty smart one) — Russ Howard lets wife Gene answer all requests for dope, etc. She does an excellent job, but is considering requesting a raise in pay. Russ, and his Dartmouth son, run a bank in Oskaloosa, Iowa; he and Gene have two daughters and ten grandchildren. They recently returned from a month's Caribbean cruise and toured Europe for two months last summer.

Bill Montgomery, the High Chief of '18's party in Hanover in 1964 (is it our 50th Birthday Party, our 45th Reunion, our 46th Reunion, or what?), has made arrangements for the reservation of forty rooms at the Inn and Motel for members of the class who prefer such accommodations to camping out in a dormitory. Bill will make the reservations as requests are received - first come, first served - no advance deposit - his address is Keyser Road, Meredith, N. H. The Inn will officially confirm all reservations early in 1963.

Middle Mass, with 44 rooms, has been reserved for those more hardy members of the Class. Bill will also make reservations there on a first come - first served basis.

We regret to record that Orrin T. Hart passed away March 11 in Wellesley, Mass. Eddie Ferguson attended the funeral. According to Tom Bryant there are no close survivors.

Guilford St. Clair has just been appointed Chief of the National Highway Planning Division, Office of Planning, Department of Commerce. After Dartmouth he pursued further studies in graduate mathematics at George Washington and Johns Hopkins. In 1954 he was awarded the Silver Medal by the Department of Commerce for meritorious service.

Those Medina, N. Y., neighbors, TomRobbins and Hugh Whipple, continue to live it up. The Whipples spent a month in Nassau after visiting the Miners in Florida. Their son is representing the U.S. in Elizabethville, The Congo (what a spot!). Tom is retired, but keeps busy as president of the Board of Education, and frequently drives to Chicago to visit his daughter and five grandchildren.

Mel Southwick continues to take on all the headaches in connection with running a hospital in Sewanee, Tenn. A glutton for punishment, he has also recently assumed the chairmanship of the local Red Cross Chapter. He and Frieda have three daughters and six grandchildren (the score will be seven, come July).

The March 2 edition of the Portsmouth Periscope, published for the staff and employees of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, lists Philip H. Sanderson as editor and announces his promotion to Public Information Officer. (Where do you find the time, Phil, to do all these things?)

Note by T. E. S.: We thank you Jack, for your very interesting notes. Modesty prevents Jack from saying that he has just recently been appointed Chairman of the Board of the Akron General Hospital.

Secretary, 67 Annawam Rd., Waban, Mass.

Class Agent, Apt. 2, 95 North Lansdowne Ave. Lansdowne, Pa.