1918
The following report of the 1966 Florida POW-WOW was prepared by Cliff Daniels, to whom we are greatly indebted. Unfortunately Stan Jones was ill and couldn't attend the POW-WOW.
The 1966 POW-WOW has come and gone, a compound of good fellows, darned good looking women (but all of them married to old men. Why would they?), happy surprise at seeing someone you didn't expect or hadn't seen in years, nostalgia, priming the pump of memory, and now looking forward to next year.
Fifty-seven sat down to dinner; 23 of them 18'ers, with 15 wives along. The other 19 were from other classes. Here's the '18 list for both dinner and lunch: Homer and Elizabeth Bennett, James, Jack or Jake Bingham, Mort and Gertrude Coon, Lew and Helen Cousens, Jim Duffy, Aland Bee Gottschaldt, Ted and Helen Hazen, Ed and Luke Healey, Tom and Marty Jones, Sig Judd, Steve and Dot Mahoney, Jay LeFevre et ux.,* Gene Markey, Walt and Hazel Nelson, Howie and Ann Park, Tom and Elizabeth Robbins, Dan Shea, Neil and Lenah Sheldon, Jack and Thelma Slabaugh, Mel (Lazarus) and Frieda Southwick, George von Kapff, Hugh Whipple, Cliff and Adeline Daniels. *(Sorry, but don't have your first name; perhaps to make up for Jay calling Mahoney a bachelor. Is that good politics, Jay?)
Gottschaldt, as last year, invited a group to Miami Jai-Alai, and they lived up to last year's crowd by coming away winners.
Door prizes were given this year to Jim Duffy, Swede Bennett, Elizabeth Bennett, Tom Robbins, Elizabeth Robbins, Alice Ungar ('20), Si Stein ('19), and Jack Slabaugh. Cort Horr should know that Jack's was a quart of Cutty Sark.
Regrets came in from all over the place, but of course we'd have preferred to have the regretters with us. The Arnolds, Beldings, Cunninghams, Miners, Reulings, Rosnells, and Whites ail intended to come but were kept away by circumstances that made sense. Few, however, had as good an excuse as Helen Miner. Peremptorily ordered by her husband to hurry up with his dinner, she dropped a hunk of frozen meat and broke a toe. CharKe Jones, who recently decided to join the relief rolls with the rest of us, has left the U. S. Highway Dept. to shift for itself. He was too late for the POW-WOW, but brother Tom and he dropped in the other day.
Will this be a One Hundred Per Cent Year for the Alumni Fund? Tom Bryant and the 1918 Class Agents Team have been counting noses, and will try hard to make it so. They are enthusiastic over the response thus far. It will lighten the load for them if we speed our gifts to Hanover in this vital support of Dartmouth. Let's show Tom and his team we want a Green Derby victory this year. Participation, regardless of amount, will determine our standing. Each of us can find a spare buck or so, even if we haven't been regulars.
Clara Felt should have heard all the nice things that were said about her. That feminine ROAR wasn't just a squeal.
Sig Judd, of whom we see too little, has gained a magisterial aplomb but no midriff. Dan Shea, after many years of ignoring doctors, has quit smoking. Gottschaldt still goes for cigars. Howie Park is pristine in the tobacco department. Walt Nelson doesn't look like a septugenarian, but an M.A. candidate. Swede Bennett pitched some good jokes at the lunch table. Southwick describes himself as the "only walking, live '18 ghost" at the POW-WOW.
'18 wants to restate its welcome to those of other classes who helped in making this event a success. They enjoyed themselves, that's sure. Can you imagine a Boston Brahman, from an earlier class, choking up when he thanks '18 for putting on the gathering? It happened! End of Cliff's remarks.
Our face was very red when we received a note from Cynthia Colby Gabrielli, calling our attention to the error we made in the March Notes when we reported that "Bill Crosby," rather than Bill Colby, had had a new building named in his honor at the New England College in Henniker, N. H. She was very understanding of our mistake, as she is the Editorial Assistant of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. We want to thank her very much for calling this error to our attention.
We hear via the grapevine that Syl andMinetta Morey are leaving for Europe on April 14 and are returning on May 16.
A note from Hi Belding to Tom Bryant states in part: I hear from AI Sibbernsen often. He and Grace have been ill a lot lately. About the only 'lBer I see around is Lyman Drake. He and I both live in Glencoe. We have not been away this winter as we were waiting around for our 16th grandchild, who was born February 4 - a boy. What is the Class record for grandchildren? I have a married granddaughter — my son Hi's (Dartmouth '4O) daughter.
"Rose and I are enjoying our retirement. I go in town three or four days a week, as I have two or three companies in which I am interested. We are looking forward to the 50th. That will be quite a time."
We recently received a nice card from Mary Ellen Earley from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. "Ernie and I flew down here the end of February for a month. We just love it. It is perfectly beautiful and we have had such fun. Our room overlooks the Yacht Basin, the dining terrace, and the town, which is truly fabulous at night."
Lois Morse recently wrote Tom Bryant, which we quote in part: "It is a year tomorrow since Em died, so I am taking off to see Dad (now 90) and get him under Medicare. I hope to have a week in Chicago with Em's loyal friends, Naomi and O. B. Huffakers. The Huffakers have a grandson, Dartmouth '65, who finishes Dartmouth Medical School in lune."
We had a very fine letter from Bill Wales, who had no idea that his picture and write-up were going to appear in the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE. His daughter Elizabeth and I conspired. We quote in part from his letter: "It was a good idea and you can certainly repeat it ad infinitum, bringing wandering goats back into the fold."
George Woodruff wrote Tom Bryant, in part, as follows: "I attended the meeting in Chicago on March 18. Very good meeting, and it was an unusually large turn-out, due to the 'Troika' - Blackman, Dickey, and Glee Club, all in one package. Had a good discussion at the Alumni Fund meeting at 4:30, which resulted in my sending my Alumni Fund payment in full that very day to the Fund Office."
The Alumni Fund Meeting held in Boston on March 24 was attended by Jack Bingham, Hort Chandler, Ed Ferguson, Louis Huntoon, Ken Jones, and Edwin Stanley. Un- fortunately I could not be there. Ed Ferguson reports that the meeting was very inspiring and was over at 9:10 p.m.
A short note from Eric Ball reads in part: "Appreciated the remembrance today of my 72nd birthday. My blessings have been many and I am thankful for the same. Kindest regards, Eric."
The marriage of James C. (Jake) Bingham and Mrs. George R. (Marian E.) Cuthbert of Munsonville, N. H., took place at the home of Col. and Mrs. Ralph Totman '22 of East Alstead, N. H. on April 16.
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