1918
The Hanover Inn reports the following distinguished '18ers and their wives as staying at Hanover for a short period, renewing their youth Ruth and Jake Bingham, Tom Bryant and wife, Helen and Paul Miner, Tom Campbell, Minetta and Syl Morey, Pat and GeorgeStoddard, Carol and Em Morse, Dick Holton,Dave Garratt, Bots Young, Harriet and LesGranger, Lucy and Clarence Opper, Georgie and Swiftie Barnes, Elizabeth and Tom Robbins and Dora and Don Snyder.
The Ulster County News with a caption "Noted Figures in Nation's Life Voted Membership at Society's Annual Meet" went on to say that the Honorable Jay Le Fevre, U. S. Congressman; Thomas Lamont, Chairman J. P. Morgan Co.; and Frederick K. Ecker, President, Metropolitan Life, were elected to membership of the Ulster County Historical Society. .... Johnny Cunningham, who threatens to appear at 'lB's Ponomok Outing September 27 (more about that in the next issue) has threatened to come on from Denver and silence forever the feud with Stan Jones about the human bones excavated in Johnny's backyard. Through Banker Andy Ross, who was out checking the big accounts on the coast, Johnny sent the message, "There's no blood on my hands."
The class extends their deepest heartfelt sympathy to Al Rice, whose wife died in May. Daughter Rosemary, who starred in DearRuth which closed in August, has a much bigger part in The Birds and the Bees, a Schubert production which opens September 26.
The night of the Louis-Conn fight, FatHardy the big steel tycoon, royally entertained Al Rice, who was in Detroit making one of his institutional trips for Laurence Marks and Cos., (49 Wall St., New York). While Al claims he imbibed in the ratio of 1 to 3 (Fat), nevertheless he came away walking on ether and well understanding how Cort Horr a year ago needed nearly a month to recuperate after Fat Hardy entertained him. Al reported that on this trip he enjoyed an evening with BillBemis and family who were tremendously interested in Rosemary's success on Broadway.
.... We learned that Red Wilson, vice president of the big issuing company Union Securities, N. Y., and former roommate of Doc McBride and Chuck Hilliker, has been relaxing this summer in an aluminum canoe Lena and Lew Pounds enjoyed a summer at Westhampton Beach with all of the children. Carol, called "the flea," graduated from Putney and is going to Reed College, in Oregon. Arthur will be an assistant chemistry professor in Hanover this fall, and Lewis transferred from Cornell to Hanover this September. Lew and Lena had a very restful vacation in Saratoga before the summer began, and under Lena's good care, Lew flourishes.
Mary Olive and Stan Jones together with attractive daughter Nancy have been spending the summer at Orient, L. I. Stan was hoping to sight the clam-digger Eric Ball on the horizon, but at last reports Eric was missing. Many suitors are pressing Nancy, who goes to Vermont U. this fall, but rigid disciplinarian Stanley is adamant. Mary Olive enjoys a great deal of relaxation and enjoyment throughout the year wandering through the Pennsylvania R. R. station, dining leisurely and watching the hectic, worried travelers rush hither and yon
Les Badger, a member of the National Education Assn., Am. Assn. of School Administrators, New England Assn. of School Supts., and the N. H. Assn. of School Supts., and who received his Masters degree after four summers at Columbia Teachers College, and who further studied at Cornell in Vocational Education, was unanimously elected Supt. of the Peterborough Gaffrey Union N. H. High School Among the officers elected to the Bond Club of N. Y. was our own Dave Skinner, Secy. (Harriman Ripley Co. Inc.), and we understand Dave has something to do with "pulling Rye's shopping center out of the doldrums and making it a source of civic pride instead of embarrassment." .... Ray Baldes, Boston attorney, (10 State St.) tells us that EdShatv is doing a great job as Asst. District Attorney of Norfolk and Plymouth Counties. It may soon be necessary for Ed to retire as such generous service involves quite a financial sacrifice.
The Earleys enjoyed a delightful cocktail hour with banker Russ Howard, from Oskaloosa, la., and his delightful wife, Jean, and Rusty now 15 and weighing 205 pounds (protested by Rusty when his mother said he weighed 215). Rusty was All City Guard last year. The Howards were on their way to Hanover. Oldest daughter Jean now married and younger one Helen about to step off (maybe has by now); thus the Howards will be rattling around in their big home in lowa. Three acres of lawn, which Russ tackles himself, has kept him exceedingly fit (too peonies and lots of trees). Through Stumpie Barr's eternal thoughtfulness, a room was arranged at the Hanover Inn for them. They enjoyed visiting with Helen and George Carpenter while here. Jean asked intently about Helen and PaulMiner and Gladys and Curt Tripp, whom they enjoyed so much at the '38 Reunion. Russ regretted he didn't have occasion to visit banker Andy Ross but did find time to view the fleet and climb the Statue of Liberty, while Jean was whacking Russ's bankroll in and out of 5th Ave. department stores.
Slan Jones writes:
Al Strout, Professor of English Literature, of Texas Tech., Lubbock, Texas, recently brought his charming red-haired wife and two strapping boys to New York while en route to the Cape for summer vacation. Stan H.ones is a boyhood pal of Al's and the two families held a reunion dinner. The air was full of talk. Al is a famous authority on the Blackwood Group of English writers. His sense of humor is dry and droll and we envy the students' privilege of sitting in his classes. We can't remember more than a thimbleful of teachers who combined a mine of authority and a wealth of human understanding in their makeup. We hope Al comes up again soon. He's a grand guy.
Georgie and Swiftie Barnes and son Bud, back from Germany last Spring, relaxed and enjoyed themselves in Hanover in June Sewall Strout V.P. and Trust Officer of the Canal Natl. Bank (Portland, Me.), was elected a director. Sewall graduated from Boston U. Law School so he has a rare combination of training.....
In the Atlanta, Ga., Journal appeared the following:
Walter Wanger '15, producer of Scarlet Street, the controversial picture that stirred up considerable feeling in Atlanta, had practically nothing to say about the recent censorship difficulties but was particularly interested in learning that Chuck Palmer '18, the Atlanta building management expert, had recently been elected President of the Atlanta Rotary Club. "Chuck and I were schoolmates at Dartmouth back in 1914," Mr. Wanger recalled. "As a matter of fact, Chuck played a leading part in a play called The Burden of Life which I directed for the Dartmouth Dramatic Association. As I recall, he was not a bad actor." I assured Mr. Wanger that Mr. Palmer was a good actor, indeed, in the civic affairs of Atlanta. The producer expressed pleasure on learning of the high esteem in which his former schoolmate is held.
Dick Woolworth's Dad, who so generously gives to the Alumni Fund each year, sent an extremely interesting catalogue of all their animal traps and in 1948 the Animal Trap Co. of America will be 100 years old
Stanley Jones and the writer had dinner with attractive Adair Thayer and Johnny, (ex Mayor of Del Ray Beach, Fla.), both of whom were in the pink after romping around through the Cape, playing golf and seeing New York shows and touching some of the high spots. Johnny had been sent as a delegate to the Kiwanis Convention at Atlantic City. While John was north, he took an intensive training course with the Aetna Life Insurance Co. in Hartford, for John is doing a land office business in real estate and insurance down at Del Ray Beach. (Want to rent a home or an apartment down in Florida this winter? Johnny's your man.)
The class is eternally grateful to Dave Garratfs able assistants Miss Au and Berthe Cecile who are always helpful in getting out mailing pieces for the class. With his Port Washington home rented this summer and Dave spending many weekends on his farm in New Hampshire with Marion, Dave has lived the life of a country gentleman, with little of the back-breaking gardening pursued in previous years. Dave will have his hands full, not only continuing his magnificent job of accumulating '18's Memorial Fund for the College, but in carrying on Dick Motion's work as class agent of the Alumni Fund. No one is better equipped than Dave to handle that assignment and many in the class will rightly feel that while Dick Holton is running the Alumni Fund for the entire college, their own personal contributions to the fund in 1947 will never be less than what they so generously contributed while Dick had the reins
Class dinners in New York—Pomonok Country Club Outing September 27; class dinner night before Yale game, at the Dartmouth Club, N. Y., November 1; class dinner and bowling December 18 (3rd Wednesday in the month) With deep sorrow we report the death of Bob Rayner on July 3 and Duke Shoup on July 25. The class extends its deepest heart felt sympathy to the families of each.
Jim Carpenter's daughter, Virginia, was married on June 19 Prof. Ed Booth's son, Phil '47, is engaged Ray Peppard, son of our own Gene (deceased) was engaged this summer BillMudgett of Palo Alto, wife and two daughters stopped for a visit with Fat Sheldon, whose son Roger attended the Dartmouth summer session. Dora and Don Snyder headed for Whitefield, N. H., after stopping at the Hanover Inn; their first vacation in five years All New York papers were filled with the picture of the attractive bride of Skippy (George D. Jr.) Stoddard, who was married in July. Rising to ensign in the toughest of competition, young George got out to the South Pacific, and is now, we believe, out of the service. .... Both Ruth and Curt Glover are disappointed that son Bill is not going to Dartmouth. For the best in Chemical Engineering, he has turned down M.I.T. for Yale School of Engineering.
There will be a special train to the Harvard-Dartmouth football in Hanover, from the North Station in Boston, and Eddie Ferguson is rightly whooping up a general alarm for a big '18 party headed to Hanover (November 9th is date) Swede Bennett, we are sorry to say, has pulled up stakes from New York City and gone back to Ohio to enter the lumber business with his brothers.
. ... Al Rice's son who is out of the Navy, wants to go to Williams. On a trip to Hanover and a visit with Stumpie Barr, Al Rice said, he found Stumpie enslaved by the worst attack of poison ivy he had ever seen.
We '18ers are proud to find that Stumpie was chosen the most successful class treasurer. All records have been broken by those paying class dues—rising from 209 to 222 last year (don't forget to send your $3.50 to Stumpie with the extra $1.50 to foot the bill for the 25th Anniversary Record book already sent you, and most patiently prepared through the sweat and toil of Pete Colwell—cost $214.02). Because the class only had an accumulated surplus as of August 1, of $9.59, we do hope that every member will send in the extra $1.50 to foot the extra expense.
NAMED TO ARMY BOARD. Col. William H. Coolson '18, GSC, co-chairman of the Dartmouth Parents Committee, has been named a member of the War Department Price Adjostment Board, which has authority in renegotiation of contracts for production of war material. He has served over four years with the Army and before enlisting was manager of Smith Barney & Co., New York investment bankers. For his services with the Renegotiation Division he was awarded the Legion of Merit.
Secretary, 74 Trinity Place, New York 6, N. Y. Treasurer, Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, N. H.
