1918
Give a rouse for Dick White. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently awarded him a certificate of appreciation for 30 years of excellent service to the department through membership and through chairing the National Arboretum Advisory Council.
Al Strout remembers when your secretary placed his son as an art teacher, who is now in the Catskills teaching. His wife is a librarian. The oldest granddaughter is in Japan on a Rotary scholarship, while Al with wife Mary will take the younger to Greece and the Black Sea in August.
Ed Felt was writing, "Morale is the big thing we all need," when the phone from California rang and granddaughter announced she is getting married. When Ed and wife Clara recover, we may hear why we of 1918 need morale.
Only one half of classmates responded to the "random letter" for news, so a like letter is being sent to our widows. Three so far have responded.
Louise Moyer reports her oldest son Robert '43 is the director of housing for Delaware. The other son, who spent one year at Dartmouth and graduated from Boston University, has nearly 30 years with American Air Lines. The oldest grandson became a professional actor in New York after graduating from New England College. The youngest on graduating from Dartmouth went with the Wilmington Savings Fund. The lone granddaughter, a Bucknell graduate, is at Columbia.
Thelma Slabaugh finds in traveling that people are very kind to a gray-haired occupant of a wheelchair. She visits daughters in Vermont and Kansas. Daughter Thelma is librarian at Montpelier Junior High. Daughter Judy gave up nursing to be secretary for a small concern; she and husband have moved to a smaller house now that their boys are doing well.
Marion Clahane reports the "random letter" was the first communication she has received from Dartmouth for several years. She recalls the many happy Class parties, football games, and reunions and will always be interested in the College.
When Kathryn Lucier mailed her dues, she wrote, "I can't tell you how much I love getting the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE."
Sewell Strout on his dues remittance wrote:
When I was young we used to say, Time marches on from day to day.
But now I'm old the weeks go by Like a Concorde Jet in cloudless sky.
Bill Dutelle has fine results from both eye cataract operations and enjoys the class birthday cards.
Helen Teaze for Stew writes the latter's tennis is over but she at age 87 continues that sport, they each enjoyed together. Helen and Stew, we trust your 88th birthday cards will arrive on time from all of 1918.
Jules Van Raalte found the Miami Alumni Club's March luncheon a huge success. Seaver Peters, director of athletics, spoke interestingly and showed pictures of the 1978 football season. Jules represented 1918 and Barney Thielscher 1917.
We received too late for prior publication the information that at the service for JakeBingham the Class was represented by ChetHulbert, Lois Morse, Don Davis, Hal Kendall,Hubie McDonough, and George Von Kapff.
Our Baron, George R. S. Von Kapff, who led the Class to a record 60th reunion Alumni Fund gift, needs our support in the present 1979 Alumni Fund Green Derby.
Hanover Holiday, June 11-13, 1979, for classes 45 or more years out of college, offers an excellent program including families. Do attend and retire after a stimulating day to a star- sparkling, smog-free evening sky.
Have you reserved for the 1917-1918-1919 pre-Princeton game luncheon, September 22, 1979?
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