1918

The class notes were prepared this month by Paul Miner.

Along with the tremendous growth of Florida and the Southeast, 1918's population in Dixie is also increasing rapidly. Let's examine things by filling our tank and .starting on an imaginary ramble, beginning at the extreme south and working north

Here at Miami, advertising executive AlGottschaldf greets us and reports that he and Bee got together during the Christmas Holidays with the Howie Parks and the Clarence Oppers, the latter vacationing at Miami Beach. Later he hopes to see the Curt Glovers and Ernie Earleys. With a grandson, Buzz Pratt, a freshman at Han- over, Al wonders if he leads the class in seeing the first one enter. Al and Bee will be at Hanover in '64 themselves.

Also at Coconut Grove, Miami suburb, Howie Park is enjoying life and celebrating his first year in the Sunshine State, with more company than in nine years at Darien, Conn. Howie also speaks about how pleasant it was to see the Oppers and he shuddered at the thought of Pop swimming every day. Those Hanover winters must be paying off for Clarence.

For years, Dan Shea has been no stranger to Miami, but he is now here to stay following many years as publisher of Moody's Investors Service in New York. After soaking up some sunshine Dan plans to do some traveling around the state and will see StanJones at Fort Myers. This summer will find Dan around New York.

Less than an hour's drive north TomJones is happy to thump the tub for Boca Raton. Tom has had five pleasant years here, coming down from Washington, D. C., and he and Martha will see us in Hanover in '64. They often run into Johnny Thayer at near-by Delray Beach and Cliff Daniels. Cliff writes that he is now building a new house at adjoining Deerfield Beach.

Straight west across Florida at swank Naples on the Gulf Coast, Frank and AlysGriswold find life as enjoyable as ever. Frank retired completely two years ago and his daily golf game is good enough for area tournament play. Two daughters and seven grandchildren afford him much pleasure.

At Sarasota, a Dartmouth stronghold, 1918's great double-play artist, Jack O'Don nell, is starting his seventh year. We suspect that his golf game is as good as ever When May arrives, Jack and Jo head north to their summer place on Long Lake at Naples, Me with visits to their three sons and five grandchildren, all in New England

Also at Sarasota, Bill Blanchard writes that he is pulling out fast from various commercial enterprises. With good health he enjoys life here and says that the latchstring is always out for 'lBers.

Across the spectacular Sunshine Skyway Bridge at Redington Beach, Curtis Birkenmayer (Jud to us) and Lee have made a host of friends m their first year in Florida. Jud keeps busy with community affairs.

In Clearwater, Ed and Hazel McDowell, at their beautiful lakeside location, can listen and hear the crunch of the Lake Champlain ice cakes backing up on their lawn at faraway Plattsburg. Ed has recovered well trom two bouts of surgery last year at Hanover and he cannot say enough for the Clinic there and the splendid medical and nursing care. He finds ceramics at the local Art Center of interest and they both enioy the visits of their two attractive daughters now in college at Vassar and William Smith! The McDowells make fine bridge partners for the Miners m Largo, ten minutes away.

Rolling northward to Orlando, we meet Harold Glendening. With golf three times a week at a top course he finds retirement just about perfect. Some months ago, Glen flew out to Seattle for a visit with his son, an engineer with Boeing, his daughter-in-law ana three grandchildren. He then made a tour of the near-by Olympic Peninsula and round it a fascinating region.

Swinging our wheel hard to the left through the Florida Panhandle we reach Gulfport, Miss., where Wilbur Woleben rinds trouble in keeping up with his two competing hobbies, namely fishing for speckles, bream and bass and caring for over a hundred rare shrubs that surround his beach-front home. Now retired from the Internal Revenue Service, Bill enjoys visits with his two sons and six grandchildren in Texas and New Mexico.

At Houston, Texas, Dwight Edson is still active in the oil business but finds time to do much traveling in the U.S. and Mexico where he enjoyed the recent Christmas Holidays. Three sons, one Dartmouth '45, a daughter, and thirteen grandchildren are incentives for Dwight to keep young, and he does this with pre-office visits to the local Health Club and several rounds of golf a week. He was glad to see Ray Smith when the latter was recently in Houston for a lecture on Roman Glass.

Another Lone Star Stater is Al Strout who will visit Europe this summer,for the ninth time. Al and Mary have for years been conducting student tours from Texas Technological College at Lubbock where Al has been teaching and writing since 1928. Older son, Ed, teaches Applied Arts at the University of Arizona and another son is working for his Doctorate in Government at North Carolina. Al tells us that his mother is still skittish at 95 and last year attended her 70th reunion at Smith. Al feels he can make our 50th in '68.

From Sewanee, Term., Mel and FriedaSouthwick had a delightful trip north last fall to visit their third daughter and her husband, Dartmouth '45 in New Jersey. The highlight of their journey was the Dartmouth-Princeton game and while there they sat near Paul Erwin, Clarence Opper, Eddie Felt, and Jim Duffy. Earlier they had run into Jules Van Raalte and Tom O'Connell. A visit to New Hampshire and Massachusetts ensued and it was then back to Tennessee, following the snow plow through Ohio and Michigan.

Backtracking a bit to Atlanta, ChuckPalmer reports that he will be at Hanover, lecturing at Tuck, after doing the same at Harvard Business School, all this early winter before these notes go to press. As you know, Chuck was formerly Special Assistant to President Roosevelt and Defense Housing Coordinator and he is today very much in demand as a lecturer on current problems.

We had planned to conclude our journey on a high note by calling on Gene and Lucille Markey in the beautiful Blue Grass Country at Lexington, Ky. However, as these notes were being written we learned that they both had flown over to France for the holidays and had just returned to their Miami Beach home. Now Gene says that he is "chained to a desk with his nose in an ink bottle starting his twelfth novel."

Before apologizing to Tom Shirley for these attempts to double for him, let me acknowledge a word from Tom Bryant. As Class Agent for the Alumni Fund, Tom wishes to offer his sincere appreciation to the 43 members of 1918 who are helping him toward a Green Derby Victory and the support of the college.

We thank you, Paul, for your notes.

Betty Bryant is recovering very well from her serious automobile accident. She is enjoying the many get-well cards the members of the class have sent her.

The class will be distressed to learn that Mayo McKinley Magoon passed away on Saturday, January 5, 1963. He is survived by his wife, Katherine; a son, Dr. Thomas Magoon; and a daughter, Mrs. Wade Hubbard III. He had recently retired as principal of the Framingham High School, Framingham, Mass., and was living in Lancaster, N. H. If you wish to write Mrs. Magoon, her address is Prospect Road, Lancaster, N. H.

Phoebe and Dr. Waltman Walters '17and grandson Robert at Key Biscayne.

Secretary, 67 Annawam Rd., Waban, Mass.

Treasurer, Write Inc. 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N.Y.