Class of 1914
The old year closed with a visit from Walt Daley, with whom we spent a very pleasant half hour lamenting our failure to meet at the Yale Bowl this past year and thus breaking a long-standing custom.
Walt is in excellent health and is engaged in the corrugated box business with offices in New York City,
We understand that Bob Hopkins has been laid up some weeks with something like influenza. Apparently Bob had quite a siege, as he is still confined to the house, but is now coming along nicely.
The Reverend Walter David Knight, "Bino" to us, writes an interesting letter about his new work. Some months ago he was appointed field representative of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church, and from some of the literature we take it that Bino's job is sort of liaison work among the several churches, arranging confer- ences on specific needs of the parishes and attempting to correlate work in many parts of his field. In addition to this work Bino will fill the pulpit wherever called upon to do so. Bino seems very enthusiastic about his new appointment and apparently it is one of considerable importance. We all wish him excellent success in his new duties.
George Boggs gets around late to answer our question to him. He wants to know why we don't ask sensible questions. Perhaps this has some connection with the fact that the wind blew off twenty-five per cent of his apple crop this year—which he implies is considerably more effective in results than certain other types of crop control about which we hear so much in the United States. Otherwise, apparently George is in good form and hopes that a lot of Fourteeners will be up his way next summer.
Dutch Burnham, who for the past couple of years has been the New England manager of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company with offices in Boston, has been transferred back to Pittsburgh, the home office, for special executive development work. Dutch is quite modest about the whole thing, but we hear sub rosa that it is an appointment of great distinction and moves Dutch three or four rungs up the ladder at one jump. Congratulations and best wishes in your new job!
Clyde Buckley brags about William P., now a junior at Hanover, to the effect that quite unlike his old man Bill is on the honor roll. About Robert L., now a senior at Needham High School, Clyde prophesies that Harry Hillman will have better than a 6' 1" high jumper in the class of 1942.
Sam Cole's son, Donald, is at Bordentown Military Institute. He has two daughters at Winchester High School. Sam reports that all are fine, working hard, having fun, and making no money.
We had an interesting letter from Doc Carleton. We must quote him verbatim: "No, institutions of higher learning aredeprived of mathematical enrichment byany offspring of mine. But my daughter,Jean Winsor, aged 12, may yet throw thealgebra formulas that rassled hell out ofme! As for myself, I'm just embarking ona fiction free-lanching venture after tenyears of editing at Street & Smith's, woundup by a pair of bum legs and an efficiencyexpert, who objected to my performanceof editorial duties at home. Happily married for thirteen years, due in no smallpart to my giving up tooting the cornel.That's about all I can think of."
Freddie Cranston writes that he is a practicing attorney, member of the firm of Parriott & Cranston, at 926 Equitable Building in Denver. He has three boys coming along, all of whom he hopes will get to Dartmouth in due time. This is the first time we have heard from Freddie in a long while, and we hope it won't be too long again.
Art Dearing reports he is still in the Navy with rank of commander in the Medical Corps, at the present time stationed at the Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Md. He says the midshipment keep him pretty busy. He has three children, eleven, nine, and two and one-half years, who occupy his time when not busy with the midshipmen.
Mat Hallett reports that there is little news of himself and family. He does tell us that his daughter Katherine plans to enter Sweet Briar next year. His son John is still in junior high school.
Gus Fuller is making a great name for himself in Boston as chairman of the House Committee of the University Club, working along with Bob Holmes '09, president, and Warde Wilkins '13, who man- ages the athletic affairs. This triumvirate is going great guns at the Club, and the recently increased interest, we are told, is due in no small part to their efforts. Gus' son, Richard C., is at Tabor Academy, where he is playing on the baseball team and hopes to enter Dartmouth in 1941. Betty Ann, who is nineteen, is now at Miss Wheelock's Kindergarten Training School in Boston.
Rubber Floyd, writing from Decatur, Ala.—a new address, we believe—says that he and Doctor Brown '33 represent Dartmouth in Decatur, and if anybody wants to have first-hand information about TVA they will be glad to make a full report. Rubber's eldest boy is doing well in football, and he reports that the other two are developing their physiques at the lawnmower and woodpile, indicating a successful transplanting of the New England virtues to the Deep South.
Phil Harvey is with the Texas Company, office at 436 Park Drive, Mount Lebanon, Pa. His daughter, Virginia Lee, graduated last year from Russell Sage College in Troy, N. Y. He reports everything well and sends best regards.
Chick Grant writes that nothing in particular is new with him, and we are glad to mention that after having suffered with him for many years as a golf partner, his putting was very much improved this past year, a fact which Dutch Burnham can substantiate. Now, if Chick Grant will only work on his iron shots this spring it may be a little less expensive for all of us. His eldest son, Alan, is at Kimball Union Academy and plans to enter Dartmouth this coming year, while Carol and Howard are still in Winchester High School.
Bill Holway, writing from 30a East 18th St., Tulsa, Okla., reports that his eldest son, Donald, who is but twenty, has already graduated from the University of Chicago, majoring in the physical sciences, and has returned there as a graduate student in electrical engineering and plans to do further research work, probably at M. I. T. His daughter, Charlotte, is in the class of 41 at Radcliffe, and Bill Jr. is now completing his last year in Tulsa High School and will enter Dartmouth in a couple of years. Bill says that he is busy in his work as consulting engineer, specializing on water works and power plants, and has quite a few jobs under way at the present time. Bill, too, is a new correspondent, and we gladly welcome him.
Jess Hubel is located in Montreal. He says his two hopefuls are still somewhat distant from college, but he hopes they will attend Wellesley and Dartmouth, respectively. When writing he had just returned from a two months' business trip to England, Belgium, and France, where he had a very enjoyable and successful journey.
Scotty Jones reports nothing beyond having two daughters in the University of Wisconsin, and once in a while we see an edition of the Spokane papers and never fail to see Scotty's name tied up with many civic projects with which he is identified.
Larry Kingman has something or other to do with the Registry of Motor Vehicles in Massachusetts, which is a good thing to remember. His hideaway is in Brockton, down toward the Cape. He says he is having a grand time pestering the traveling public, but we have other sources of information indicating that Larry is doing an excellent job.
Hank Llewellyn drops a line from Chicago to say that his family is progressing nicely, with the children in high school and coming along O.K. Mrs. Llewellyn had been ill for some time, but we understand that she is now much improved in health.
Red Loudon sends pictures of his charming family and reports everybody in excellent health. The youngest, Robert Allan, is busy with eating exercies and shuteye training. The dog, Skipworth by name, is a high-powered Sealyham. We have shown the pictures to several of the Boston classmates, and the report is unanimous that the charming children look so much like their mother!
Henry Lowell reports that his eldest son, Stuart, is a sophomore at Colgate and Norman is a senior at Andover. Henry is a two-season fellow, designing and build- ing houses in Wellesley in the summer and playing badminton and taking tropical cruises in the winter. It looks to us as we gaze out the window this frosty morning that it is not a bad setup, which we envy 110 end.
If we did not know something more about Doug MacCartee we would be depressed by his negative report, which reads: "No luck, no wife, no children, noschools. So I try to do something for otherpeople's children as high school principal,and do not do very well in that, so—nonews." One of our scouts reports that the same Doug, principal of the high school in Valley Falls, N. Y., is doing an outstanding job.
Jim Wulpi is traffic manager in charge of all activities at T. W. A., the Lindbergh Line—and manages to get plenty of time off for sailing, fishing, and swimming at Short Beach. He has one boy about ready for Dartmouth, who is reported to be an exceptional student, averaging ninetythree per cent in all of his studies.
Chuck Smedley reports as his assets: one wife, Ruth, one daughter—Joan K., the latter being a freshman in Teachers' College in Connecticut. Chuck is on the staff of the New Britain Herald and beyond that reports nothing.
Vogie Stiles, writing from Wood River, Hi., says he is still plugging away at the old job and begins to feel like a native. He regrets, he says, so few Dartmouth men around his home and would like very much to meet the boys and looks forward to seeing them at Reunion. His daughter, Shirley, will graduate this year from Wells College in Aurora, N. Y.
Gordon Sleeper is now located at 113 Lee Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. He says he is still pursuing fame and fortune in Wall St. as customers' manager at Fenner & Beane. He had a pleasant visit from Rudy von Lenz and his family last summer at Newport, Vt., where he and Rudy explored all the golf courses for forty miles about. He also had the pleasure of entertaining Johnny Palmer's son, who was likewise staying in the neighborhood.
Walt Netsch, who is connected with Swift & Company in Chicago, hoped to be in Boston this fall, but up to now he has not checked in. His son, Walt Jr., is in prep school and hopes to be in Hanover soon. He also has a daughter, who is a junior at Hyde Park High. Walt sends his best regards to all the boys.
Doc Cook, who is one of our prominent educators, reports that he met Bob Hopkins on the tee of the fourth hole at the Marshfield golf links last summer, which sounds quite reasonable. "I asked him ifhe stayed there often, and he said, 'No,I just happen to be on business this particular afternoon.' " Doc says his kids are carrying along the musical tradition of the family, specializing in piano and violin. He doesn't say to what extent he completes the -orchestra, but we feel sure he plays no small part therein.
Dud Colby is now apparently back in Omaha. He says that while his two offsprings, Norman and Elizabeth, hardly qualify for the higher education, they are nevertheless giving their parents an education in a great many subjects not covered in the curriculum of a liberal arts college. Elizabeth, incidentally, just successfully completed a course in broken arms, incident to mountain climbing in a house under construction. The dog has likewise been under the weather, and beyond this other news is scarce.
Via the Alumni Records Office from Mrs. Young we learn that our classmate, Rugar Young, passed away on October 12, 1937, from pneumonia, presumably at his home in Joliet, 111. We shall try to have a further account in the March issue.
We have just received the sad news that Henry Koelsch passed away at his London home January 18. A further account will appear in the March Necrology.
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