1918
You will be distressed to learn of the recent deaths of three of our classmates. Clarence E. Tower passed away in Niagara Falls, N.Y., on Jan. 31, 1963, Norman G.Knapp in Poultney, Vt., on Feb. 15, 1963 and Harold B. Doty in Dayton, Ohio, on Feb. 13, 1963. If you wish to write to their widows, their addresses are: Mrs. Clarence E. Tower, 615 Mountain View Dr., Lewiston, N.Y., Mrs. Norman G. Knapp, Poultney, Vt., and Mrs. Harold B. Doty, 525 Daytona Pkwy., Dayton, Ohio.
The class is greatly indebted to JakeBingham for taking over the preparation and distribution of the Class News Letters, while Phil Sanderson is recovering from his recent illness. Jake is taking this assignment right in the middle of the N. H. Legislature session, which keeps him very busy. He has never missed a meeting of the N. H. House of Representatives since he was elected. He will also take an active part in helping TomBryant with the Alumni Fund Campaign.
Amos and Alberta Blandin have recently announced the engagement of their daughter Joanna, to Mr. Thomas Elliot Noyes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Bradbury Noyes, also of Hanover. Joanna is a graduate from Hanover High School and Skidmore College, class of 1962. She is now teaching in the English department of the Hanover High School.
Ted Hazen, still of South Hadley, Mass., retired as president of the Hazen Paper Co. on Dec. 31, 1962. Ted joined the Hazen Paper Company way back in 1928. We wish him many happy years of retirement.
Cort Horr couldn't take retirement completely, so he started doing a little work for the Trussell Manufacturing Co., of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where his old friend, John F. Kennedy, is president. Cort is now traveling rather extensively around the Mid-West. Just recently he has been made Vice President and Mid-West Sales Manager of the Trussell Manufacturing Company.
We asked him to prepare a few notes about some of our classmates whom he has visited on his recent travels. The following are some of the sketches which he has prepared:
Gene Clark of Springfield, Ill., and his wife have raised three daughters. One is living with her husband and children in Delaware, Ohio, where he is employed by the local radio station. Another is in Saigon with the A.I.D., representing the State Department. Daughter number three is married to a doctor. She and their children are with him on a two-year sojourn in Bombay, India. There are now five grandchildren. Gene is still, as he has been for many years, faithfully serving the Illinois State Health Department as a bacteriologist. He plans to keep practicing his profession until his pension will allow frequent world-wide visits uniting him and his wife with their off-spring.
jack and Thelma Slabaugh are up to their ears in civic affairs. For over thirty years Jack has been an active trustee of the Akron General Hospital and for five of those years he served as president. Their lovely home at 118 Mayfield Ave., Akron, Ohio, is the unofficial headquarters for Dartmouth men living in the Akron locality. Their daughter Judy lives with three lively sons within a couple miles of the grandparents. Jack keeps his other daughter and family conveniently parked within 100 miles of Hanover. Of course he must visit her frequently, always in the autumn when the leaves are changing and there just happens to be a football game in Memorial Stadium.
Francis C. Hardie, Indianapolis, Ind., known as "Fat" or "Fats" at Hanover in the Anti-Bellum days is now "Duke" and it could be "King" considering the regal splendor in which he is growing old very gracefully. He is enjoying his well-earned retirement, living at the Indianapolis Athletic Club.
A visit with the Russ Howards of Oskaloosa, loosa, revealed they had recently visited their daughter who is married to a West Point It. colonel stationed in Germany. Their other daughter lives with her husband and children in Medford, Ore. Their son is building a new home on an adjacent lot so close it can be seen from the picture window in Russ' living room. Russ' son is now a vice president of the Mashaka State Bank of which his father is president. His son will be the third generation to guard the destinies of that fine financial institution. Russ and his attractive wife are always anxious to talk about Dartmouth and always glad of a chance to visit with a classmate.
William Dutelle, Springfield, Ill., has a fine job with the highway department. He supervises the disbursement of many millions of dollars as the engineer in charge of local roads and streets, county highways, and township roads (as distinguished from super highways and toll roads). Bill plans to carry on for another year or two until he hits 67! His daughter and three granddaughters live in Swarthmore, Pa., where her husband works for a restaurant chain.
Siegel W. Judd is a well-known and successful Grand Rapids, Mich., barrister. One daughter is living in Wellesley Hills, Mass., where her husband is doing building construction and engineering work. The other daughter lives near the old folks. All told there are five grandchildren. Sig says, regretfully, that he will not be visiting Florida this year. Who will ever forget those wonderful songs Sig wrote for the Prom Show our sophomore year?
Marshall Davis, Lake Forest, Ill., is living in this fine North Shore suburb, commuting every day to the Davis Supply Company, where he watches his son Bill run the business. Bill lives near his dad and has three children. Mike's daughter is living in San Rafael, Calif., with a family of two boys and a. girl..This, gives .Mike, a chance to duck the Chicago weather, which he did the latter part of January. Fortunately he has not had a reoccurrence of the coronary that laid him low in 1950.
Hiram Belding Jr. living in Glencoe, Ill., is enjoying semi-retirement amid ideal surroundings. He is still a partner of Blythe & Co., located at 135 S. Lasalle St., Chicago. Hi and Rose have five children. The oldest son is a successful surgeon on the West Coast. Another son is with the Broadway Department Stores in California. The youngest son, who is following his dad's calling, was recently married and is now honeymooning in the Brazilian jungles. The two daughters are married and live near their parents. All told there are fourteen Belding grandchildren.
What a thrill it was to renew my acquaintance with Ed Healey of Niles, Mich., our all-American Pro tackle. Incidentally, he weighs in at the same poundage as he did in the mid twenties, when he contributed so much as a pioneer Pro Footballer with the Chicago Bears. When Ed found out I was in town, he plowed through deep snow to the Four Flags Hotel in Niles, and then took me out to a fine dinner with his charming wife and son Tom on their wonderful farm.
End of Cort's tour of classmates; more to come in later issue.
George Stoddard writes, "Pat and I are fed up with snow shoveling and are leaving on March 7 for a month or so in southern Arizona. Will give the hot sun and dry desert a chance to fry the flu, cold, and sinus bugs. This trip will also give us another opportunity to ride the range, paint, and dig up Indian artifacts."
Change of addresses: Herman Whitmore, 916 Emerald Bay, Laguna Beach, Calif.; Geo. P. Geran, 33 Virgen Del Socorro, La Atalaya, Alicante, Spain.
It's about time we all started to think a little more actively about the 46th reunion (50th Birthday Party) coming up in June 1964! Give our chairman Bill Montgomery a break and get your reservations in real early. His address is Keyser Road, Meredith, N. H.
If you give promptly and generously to the Alumni Fund, you will please Dartmouth and save some classmate extra work! Let's win the Green Derby this year.
Secretary, 137 Annawam Rd., Waban, Mass.
Class Agent, Apt. 2, 95 North Lansdowne Ave. Lansdowne, Pa.
