1919

I may not be good at meeting magazine publishing deadlines so these notes may not reach you much before the end of 1974. So just to be on the safe side I'll wish you and your family and friends a fine Christmas and a safe and comfortable New Year. I don't have any guide lines on what to cover in the class notes section and will ask your indulgence for a while until I develop some kind of pattern or style. I plan to cover in this and subsequent issues information regarding the men who are serving as class officers and will start with Bill Smith, the new Smoke Signal editor. William Thompson Smith came to Dartmouth from New Bedford High School, New Bedford, Mass. After receiving his Dartmouth degree in June 1919 Bill Mended M.I.T. where he received an S.B. degree in chemical engineering in 1921 and an S.M. degree in chemical engineering practice in 1922. After a brief association with the Westinghouse Lamp Co. Bill joined Ford, Bacon, and Davis in March 1923. Except for one year (1928) as assistant to the president of a company manufacturing pipe protective coatings Bill stayed with F.B. & D. until his retirement in 1963. With that firm Bill did consulting work in many fields and had assignments in all of the 50 states in the Union plus Canada and Mexico. Following World WAR II he (a) was a staff member of the planning board of the Government of Pakistan with headquarters in Karachi, (b) represented F.B. & D. in Japan (with the stated rank of lieutent general) inspecting Japanese industrial facilities.

In June 1925 Bill married Claude von Phul, a graduate of Manhattanville College. They have three children (1) Alexander '49, Dartmouth Medical School and University of Cincinnati Medical School, practices psychiatry in Chicago. He is on the faculty of the University of Chicago. He married Anne Southworth and they have five children; (2) Michael '52, University of Virginia, is a salesman of advertising space in trade journals with headquarters in New York. He married Jayne Bizzell, a graduate of Trinity College. They have four children and live in Armonk, N.Y.; (3) Priscilla who attended Immaculta, a junior college in Washington, D.C. She married T. Somers McTeigue, a manufacturing jeweler in New York City. They have four children and live in Larchmont, N.Y. Claude died in the fall of 1972.

Last July Harry and Lil Colwell celebrated the birth of their first great-grandchild. Her name is Caroline Marie BoufTard and she is the granddaughter of Harry E. Colwell III, Dartmouth '44. The parents of this new Colwell heir live in Ithaca, N.Y., where the father is doing graduate work at Cornell. Both parents are graduates of Middlebury.

With commendable assistance from SpiderMartin, I can announce that Jim Davis sold his house in Wilder, Vt. and moved to Florida in August. Temporarily he is planning to stay in the Lake Morton Apartments, Lakeland, Fla. 33801. Send him your complaints there.

I am happy to acknowledge numerous messages of encouragement and good wishes from faithful readers of the Smoke Signal. I deeply appreciate your forbearance and encouragement.

Here is an exciting message from GertrudeDaley: "Have my first great grandchild. Fred Jr. is the grandfather. Also Fred's twin sons were both accepted at Dartmouth - one is going, the other is going to Williams."

Chet Gale sent me such a heartwarming letter that I am eager to share it with all readers of the Alumni Magazine. "Now that our 55th is past history, I want to thank those whose efforts made it such a happy and memorable occasion for all of us who were able to attend. Our Class of 1919 has always been a closely-knit group with great loyalty to the College and to one another. Speaking of loyalty to Dartmouth, the weekend surely increased our understanding and appreciation of the institution. We probably all feel the coeds have been a fine added asset and the future of the institution seems to be in very capable hands under President Kemeny. The right man for the times in my humble opinion!

"The Hanover weather was perfect, which was a great contrast to the rains which made a shambles of graduation exercises during our 50th. The gals appreciated this, as did we all. The memorial service for the 250 of our great friends who have passed on was so beautifully handled by Rev. Fred Berthold that we all left the Chapel uplifted with thoughts of the many fond memories we still carry with us.

"1919 has been very fortunate to have so many able and willing classmates living in the Hanover area. The planning of all events, lunches, dinners, and cocktail parties was superb. We all owe a lasting debt of thanks to incomparable Spider Martin, Max Norton, Jack McCrillis, Jim Davis, Jigger Merrill, Kitty Larmon, Nock Wallis, and Nick Sando our president, for all their efforts and dedication toward assuring us the finest Reunion ever. I personally want to thank Spider and Nick particularly, for taking over for me when I was recovering from an illness early in the year."

Treasurer,

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