Frederick T. Cubbage ’23, a retired newspaperman for The Arizona Republic, writes, “I keep in touch with Dr. William H. Hyde, also known as ‘Cow’, who is now retired and living in Palos Verdes Estates, Cal. After completing my sophomore year, at Ohio Wesleyan, I transferred to Ohio State University. After graduation, I worked for a time on the East Liverpool Tribune and later on the Athens Messenger. I joined the staff of the Columbus Citizen in 1924 and was a successful reporter, rewrite man and telegraph editor. After 22 years with the Citizen, I resigned in 1946 and moved to Arizona.
“In Phoenix, I joined the staff of the embryonic Arizona Times as a telegraph editor and helped it become the second afternoon newspaper in the Arizona capital. This was the daily established by John and Anna Roosevelt Bottinger. After a rather turbulent career, the Times suspended publication in 1949. I then joined the copy desk of The Arizona Republic, the state’s leading daily paper. A year later I was named head of the copy desk. Because of my love of the English language and my interest in preserving its integrity in any small way possible, this position of assistant news editor was my newspaper `home’. I retired in 1965 after 151/2 years on the paper.
“A year after retirement, our four children married, my wife. Louise. and I moved from our 25-acre ranch at Glendale to 10 acres on Oak Creek in Cornville, Ariz. The summers are milder here and the winters scarcely noticeable. Accompanying us in our move were three saddle horses and one burro. My only hobbies have been horseback riding, at which I was pretty good, and golf, at which I was pretty bad. I quit golf some years ago. I gave up riding more recently when the horse I was attempting to mount sneered and got down on his knees and hocks in mock deference to my advancing years.
“Since we settled in the beautiful Verde Valley, I have become active in the United Methodist Church of Clarkdale. I am a lay leader and write a column for the church’s monthly news publication. After a number of years as a member of the Lion’s Club in Cottonwood, for which I wrote the semi-monthly newsletter, I yielded to the need to somewhat curtail my activities and I resigned. I still oc‑casionally put a record on the hi-fl and go back in memory to the old Beta House on Lincoln Ave. and hear again ‘The Loving Cup’, ‘In the Old Porch Chairs’, and the Beta Sweetheart song. I wonder a little, at these times, what life is like in the chapter house today.” Fred and his wife, Louise, can be reached at P.O. Box 881, Cornville, Arizona.
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