1918
A little history should go with the insertion of the Wales family picture. WilliamChauncey Wales graduated from Dartmouth with an A.B. degree in 1918, and from Harvard University in 1920 with an M.B.A. Degree. He married Elizabeth Wilson of Dallas, Texas, in June of 1921. While living in Dallas he became an assistant professor and then associate professor in the School of Commerce at S.M.U. - Dallas. While there he organized their Marketing Division. A few years later the Wales's had twin daughters, Elizabeth and Cornelia. In 1927 he moved to New York to become assistant professor of Merchandising, School of Retailing, New York University, where he taught until 1933. While teaching at New York University he was merchandising counselor at the Alexander Hamilton Institute, New York City.
In 1933 the Wales family moved to Kansas City, Mo., where Bill became assistant sales manager of the Donnelly Garment Company. In 1935 he was appointed district manager for this company, for the New York and Philadelphia areas, and moved to Plainfield, N. J. In 1955 Bill retired from business and returned to teaching at the Seton Hall University in South Orange, N. J., where he is still on the job.
In the fall of 1965 Bill and Betty Wales and their daughter Elizabeth moved to Princeton, N. J. The daughter Elizabeth is now a secretary for a Biology professor at Princeton University. Cornelia is married and has been living in Princeton, N. J., for ten years.
You will be interested to learn that our late classmate, Bill Crosby, has had a new building named in honor of him at the New England College in Henniker, N. H. Bill was a trustee of this institution for many years.
Russell Y. Smith passed away on December 19, 1965, after a long illness. See the In Memoriam column of this or a subsequent issue.
We should be proud of the record that Jack Bingham has made with his Newsletter. He published six news letters, one a month from July to December, 1965. Only the Class of 1956 has equalled his record. Only two classes, 1912 and 1919, have had five issues of their news letters during the same period, so you see not only are his ROARS interesting, but they are frequent.
Don't forget, the Second Annual 1918 Florida POW-WOW is to be held at the Sheraton Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on March 15 and 16. Make this event a dividend on your Florida trip. You can go even at the last minute by just calling Howie Park; or if you haven't time to do that, just go.
A card from Elmer Robinson '14 who lives in New London, N. H., reads as follows: "Geo. Stoddard writes that he has sold his farm home in Stanfordville, N. Y., and plans to move to — you guessed it!" We guess Hanover, N. H. - do you?
Jack Bingham writes that Fred Morse recently came through Concord and he had lunch with Fred and Edna. They were on their way to a daughter's family in Brunswick, Me. Their son-in-law is an associate professor of Economics at Bowdoin. His other daughter's husband is employed by the Bell Laboratories and is to have foreign duty in Germany.
Early in December Hubie McDonough and Jack Bingham braced themselves and spent a day with Lew and Helen Cousens. Jack writes: "It was a deluxe talk fest. Just great to be with those two noblemen of 1918." I am sure that hardly any of our classmates missed being discussed during this day-long session.
Taylor Cook's wife, Gracie, takes exception to our classmates talking about the "good old days." She insists we are in our 70's and these are our "good days."
Dr. George Woodruff writes from Joliet, Ill. "It is clear, crisp and cold out here. Mercury flirted with zero last two mornings. Expect to take off for Florida February 4, to be gone about three weeks. Hope to see Lang Robinsons at Highland Park, Lake Wales, Fla., February 9 to 16.
Russ Howard, who is president of the Mahaska State Bank, Oskaloosa, Iowa, writes in thanking us for his birthday card: "Gene and I are heading for Florida in about a week and will be at the Villa Serena, 4505 El Mar Drive, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. 33308. We see all too few of our Dartmouth friends and classmates, and the above address is given so that if you know of anyone heading for Florida this winter, or coming through Florida and chances are they would be coming through Ft. Lauderdale, we would be delighted to have any of them give us a ring."
More of Al Strout. (Remember he is writing this to Dick White.)
Since I can't draw my pension and also teach in Texas, I am sort of free-lancing these days in teaching. Last year I was at Southeast Missouri State College in Cape Girardeau. Mo., and this year here at Eastern Montana College. My wife teaches one freshman section and I teach a regular schedule. I have always taught for the fun of the thing, and I still enjoy correcting freshman themes. What with sugar beets piled as high as houses, real live Indians in the five and ten cent stores, and genooine, Bedu-ine cowboys bow-legging it down the street, not to mention mountain peaks in every direction, Montana is fun: a great contrast to the Texas Panhandle, where one can hear the occasional snap of parallel lines meeting in Infinity.
I continue to astonish the natives. The other day I bought a few stocks for my month-old granddaughter in Mendoza. Argentina, where our second son has rejoined his Argentinian wife on a Fulbright. The stockbroker had to speak to a customer over the telephone, and kept saying, "Yes, Upjohn is a good buy. Buy Upjohn. . . ." When he put the phone down I said: "I wouldn't advise anybody to buy Upjohn. It is just a drug on the market." He unclenched his hands a couple of times, but didn't hit me. I perturbed him too, a day or two later when I gave him a check by saying that his rivals down the street were giving green stamps when they sold stocks and bonds! "Where, how many, are they really?"
What did you teach at Rutgers? Do you freeze in Washington in the summer time? Are you going to work on forever? I shall see you at the 50th reunion in Hanover (my first) in a couple of years and you can tell me.
My red-headed wife is of Welsh descent: our older son, who teaches arts in a high school in Deposit, N. Y., has married a Swedish wife and has two red-headed daughters; our second son, in Argentina, is working at his doctoral thesis in Government for the University of North Carolina. His Argentinian wife came over to North Carolina on a Fulbright; so he had to get a Fulbright too in order to see her again. My mother, who might have attended her 80th reunion at Smith College next June, died this summer, a few months before her 98th birthday. By golly, she did attend her 75th reunion.
Jim Salisbury wrote a sketch of BillDeak's life, part of which I quote: "I kept in touch with Bill Deak while he was at Harvard and then later, purely by accident, ran across him in a- small town in France. We renewed old memories, had some red wine and walnuts together, and went our way. A few days later he was wounded in the St. Mihiel Drive and thereafter I lost track of him. A few years ago when the Class directory was published he wrote me a long letter about his retirement and enclosed some snapshots he had taken outside of South Mass., several centuries before. He had a successful business career and a full life, but both Dartmouth and Harvard have lost a loyal and true son."
I have had two short notes from NeilSheldon, stating how much he appreciates Jack Bingham's newsletters. He was par- ticularly impressed with Stan Jones' article about his visit to Rome. He also advised that he hopes to start on an easier work schedule before long, so that he will have time to take in our Dartmouth activities once in a while.
I still hope that Stan Jones will take in the 1918 POW-WOW in Fort Lauderdale. If he does, he has promised to write up what happened. This should appear in the May issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Betty and Bill Wales '18 and grandchildren Jack, Barbara, and Cornelia Jane.
Secretary, 137 Annawan Rd., Waban, Mass.
Treasurer, Brush Island, Darien, Conn.
Bequest Chairman,
