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COLLEGE NEWS

May 1918
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COLLEGE NEWS
May 1918

The MAGAZINE will attempt in this department to keep its readers informed of the war activities of the alumni and undergraduates. Provision is being made to keep a permanent record, and all information of this kind should be sent to H. M. Tibbetts, Hanover, N. H. It is hoped to print monthly in the MAGAZINE news items as to the work of the alumni with such brief information in each case as can be obtained. To make this department successful complete cooperation of all alumni and their friends is necessary and urgently requested.

'94

Dr. E. A. Gates,. Major, M.O.R.C., served as Camp Surgeon at Camp Greene, N. C., and later as Camp Sanitary Officer.

'97

A. A. Bacon is a member of the Red Cross Commission in Palestine with rank of Captain.

'98

Albert Smith is a Major, Eng. R. C., in the 309 th Eng., stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky.

Dr. F. P. Lord has been in France since early winter engaged in medical work for the Y.M.C.A. among the troops of the American Army.

'99

J. P. Richardson has been appointed to "the New Hampshire Public Safety Committee, to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Prof. F. H. Dixon.

'00

Dr. T. B. Woodman has been promoted to Captain, M.O.R.C.

'02

Philip P. Thompson, of Portland, Me., entered the army for service in October, 1917, with a commission as First Lieutenant, and has been stationed at the Base Hospital at Camp Sevier, South Carolina, where he is in surgical service in charge of fractures and operating in alternation with the rest of the staff on all general surgical cases. He has recently been placed on the overseas unit of his Base Hospital and expects to go across at any time.

Philip Fox, formerly of Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, has had a very active and creditable career in connection with war work, in fact so notable as to call for a lengthy editorial in the Chicago Herald. He attended the first officers' training camp at Fort Sheridan, graduating with a commission as Major. He was assigned as an aid and instructor at the second training camp and when the Fort Sheridan Benevolent Association was formed was chosen as Vice President. The Association raised several hundred thousands of dollars to buy uniforms and extend financial aid by loans during the war to enlisted men. Recently Major Fox has been assigned to duty in a cantonment in the South.

'02

G. M. McCurdy attended the R.O. T.C. at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.

'03

Maj. H. D. Cushing, formerly 8th Mass. Inf., is now with the Ist Antiaircraft Machine Gun Batt.

'05

W. H. Lillard is a Captain .in the Mass. State Guard and at Camp Cleveland, a junior naval training school.

G. H. Roby is a Civil Engineer with the rank of Senior Lieutenant, U.S.N. R.F.

H. K. Norton has been commissioned 2nd Lieut, and is now stationed at San Antonio, Tex., with an aviation unit.

'08

Cap. E. C. Farrington has been appointed Regimental Adjutant of the 58th Pioneer, Inf., formerly the Ist Conn. Inf.

'09

H. L. Dillingham has been promoted to the rank of Major, Ord. Dep't, A. E. F.

'10

Cap. C. L. Sheldon, formerly with the Conn. Sig. Corps, is now of the 326th Field Sig. Batt.

L. Wiggin is 2nd Lieut, in the Quartermaster Dep't.

A. B. Burnham has enlisted in the Meterological Service of the Science and Research Div. of the Sig. Corps, and is stationed at Waco, Texas.

J. C. Warnock is Ist Lieut., Inf., attached to 101st Depot Brig., Camp Devens.

'11

J. H. Card is in the Chemical Service Section of the Nat. Army, stationed at Washington.

R. H. Hatch is a member of the U. S. Amb. Corps at Allentown, Pa.

'12

C. P. Haycock is Ist Lieut., Inf., stationed at Camp Dodge, lowa.

W. P. Shapleigh is with the 14th Railway Engineers, A.E.F.

C. P. Dodge is now a Flying Cadet at Gerstner Field. Lake Charles, La.

L. W. Snow has been promoted to Caotain in the Ord. Department and is still stationed at Washington.

A. D. Newman is Captain, Reg. Army, attached to Headquarters, Camp Custer, Mich.

C. W. Orr is 1st Lieut, in the army, stationed at Camp Funston, Kan.

J. A. Cronin is an Ensign in the U. S. Nav. Res.

H. H. Crowell is Lieut, in the Sig. Corps, Aviation Sec., at present stationed at Kelly Field, Texas.

L. W. Knight is 2nd Lieut, in the Sig. Corps, Aviation Sec., stationed at Fort Omaha, Neb.

C. H. Norton and M. W. Reed were both drafted to Ayer in the first five per cent. Both were sent abroad, Reed traveling on the ill-fated Antilles. On January 22, 1918, they were members of the same squad in France and were bunked one above the other in the same billet, despite their earlier separation before sailing for France.

D. R. DeMerritt has been promoted to Ist Lieut., Cav., U. S. Reg. Army.

'13

H. C. McAllister is 2nd Lieut., Q.M. C., Army Transport Service.

D. R. Mason is an Ensign in the Naval Reserve.

J. B. Murphy was drafted and assigned to the R.O.T.C. from Camp Devens.

T. G. Nelson is a Sergeant, Ord. Dep't, stationed at the Watertown Arsenal.

W. H. Nolan is a Ist Lieut., Inf., Camp Devens.

C. S. Stone is 2nd Lieut., Q.M.C.

A. R. Urion is a Cadet in the Aviation Section, Sig. Corps, at University of Ohio.

R. F. Varney is a Corporal, F.A., at Camp Devens.

E. R. Craig has enlisted in the Ord. Dep't and has been in attendance at a six weeks' course at Northwestern Univ.

H. M. Hamilton went to France last Tune with the American Ambulance Service, where he served until it was taken over by the Government. In October, he went to Paris to work in the transportation department of the Aviaion Cores. He was unable to pass the physical examination to fly, so joined the American Red Cross, and is now driving an ambulance in Italy.

Capt. Ethelbert Talbot is commanding the 42nd Company, U. S. Marine Corps at Camp Surnay, Guam, Mariana Islands. His address is Headquarters, U. S. M. C., Washington, D. C.

Norman Catterall was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Signal Reserve Corps, Aviation Section, and is stationed at Kelly Field, No. 1, San Antonio. Texas, where he is assigned to the Casual Detachment of the Second Training Brigade.

M. S. Wright is Ist Lieut, in the Ordnance Dep't awaiting call for foreign service.

A. B. Shepard is Ist Lieut., Inf., Nat. Army.

D. A. Thompson was a member of the Stores School in Hanover, then transferred successively to Watertown Arsenal, Camp Devens, and Ord. O.T.C. at Camp Meade, Md.

H. G. Tuck is 2nd Lieut., Inf., stationed at Camp Devens.

E. T. Twitchell is Chairman of the Liberty Loan Com., So. Dayton, Mass.

C. D. Waterman is 1st Lieut., Inf., Nat. Army.

L. S. Wilson is 1st Lieut., Inf., Nat. Army, stationed at Camp Lewis, Wash.

W. W. Blodgett is a Private, 103rd F.A., A.E.F.

E. A. Davis is an Ensign, U.S.N.R.

A. B. Eastman is a Sergeant, Machine Gun Batt., Camp Wadsworth, S. C.

R. S. Edwards is 1st Lieut., Inf., stationed at Camp Devens.

W. L. Hardenbrook is 1st Lieut., Inf.

V. G. Jenkins and C. H. Lawrence and E. D. Marsh are 2nd Lieuts., Inf.

C. C. Meleney has been promoted to Ist Lieut., Q.M. Res. Corps.

H. H. Semmes has just been promoted to Ist Lieut. He is assigned to the 3rd U. S. Cav., A.E.F.

'14

F. H. Colby is 2nd Lieut., M.O.R.C., at! present attending the Harvard Medical School.

S. D. Cole is a Sergeant in the Ord. Dep't, A.E.F.

F. A. Llewellyn is in the Aviation Service, A.E.F.

R. L. Johnson is a Sergeant, Mach. Gun. Batt., at Camp Wadsworth.

S. A. Howell is 1st Lieut., Inf., A. E. F. He has specialized in the trench mortar and 37 mill, cannon.

F. F. Jones is an Ensign, U.S.N., serving as Cost Inspector at the Chester Shipbuilding Co., Chester, Pa.

E. L. Kimball is a Private, Enl. Ord. Corps, Nat. Army, stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., as Ord. Serg.

L. Kingman is 2nd Lieut., 303 rd M. G. Batt.

W. A. Kinne is engaged in Army Y. M.C.A. work at Camp McClellan, Ala. (wrongly listed last month in '92.)

P. J. Lewis is a Corporal, 303rd H.F. A., Camp Devens.

W. H. Loveland attended the second session of the Mil. Stores School in Hanover and is now connected with the Educational Dep't of the Q.M.C. at Camp Johnston, Fla.

H. O. Lowell is a Corporal in the N. H. State Guard.

W. L. Lyons is a Private 1st Class in the U. S. Ambulance Service with permanent detail to Camp Quartermaster.

R. V. McAllaster is an Ordnance Sergeant, Nat. Army.

G. B. McClary is 1st Lieut., Eng., assigned to Camp Sherman, Ohio.

G. L. McDonough is 2nd Lieut., Inf., stationed at Camp Funston, Kan.

H. A. MacKinnon is a Private in the N. Y. State Guard.

Theodore Main is Sergeant, Ist Class, a member of Gen. Edwards' non-commissioned staff, A.E.F.

J. P. Margeson is connected with the Aberthaw Construction Co., engaged in work on naval destroyer program of the Beth. Ship. Corp.

E. P. Junkins, 2nd Lieut, is assigned to Co. I, 23rd Inf., A.E.F.

G. E. Fuller has been promoted to 1st Lieut., Q.M. Res. Corps.

Dr. P. A. O'Leary is 1st Lieut., M.O. R.C.

Paul Perkins has enlisted in the aviation section of the Signal Reserve Corps.

S. W. Saltmarsh is an Ensign stationed as aide to the Naval Section Commanded in Machias, Maine.

A. T. Emerson is a Lieut, with the destroyer squadron in foreign waters.

U. S. Needs is a Corporal in Co. B of the 322nd Machine Gun Batt., Camp Sherman, Ohio.

H. A. Castle is an Ordnance Sergeant stationed at San Antonio, Texas.

Richard J. White, Jr., is a Private in the Medical Corps, and is stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

Richard E. Pritchard is a Lieutenant in the Ord. Dep't, stationed at the Springfield Arsenal for Machine Gun instruction.

Lt. Robert N. Hogsett is Ordnance Officer for the 54th Regiment, C.A.C., which was stationed at Portland, Me.

Carl E. Howland is attending the Ensigns' School of the Ist Naval District at Cambridge, Mass.

Ensign Lawrence Day is in command of a submarine chaser, at present stationed in New London.

'15

J. J. Healey, who was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Ordnance Reserve Corps at the close of the first Ordnance Officers' Training Camp at Camp Meade, Maryland, has just completed a special intensive course in machine gunnery at Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Mass., and is now on duty at the Wilbur Wright Field at Fairfield, Ohio.

T. C. Pray, who was recently commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the non-flying division of the Aviation Service, is now on duty at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas.

D. K. Howe, R. B. Klokow, and W. Hough are now attending the Second Ordnance Officers' Training Camp at Camp Meade, Md.

Harry Burnett, 2nd Lieutenant Infantry Officers' Reserve Corps is stationed at Camp Devens, Mass., as Aide to Brigadier General Weigel.

A. C. Cleveland is a 2nd Lieutenant in the Machine Gun Company of the 30th U. S. Infantry stationed at Syracuse, N. Y.

F. W. Drew is a Corporal in the 112 th Army Ammunition Train attached to the 37th Army Division at Camp Sheridan, Alabama.

Henry Herman is serving as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 305th Field Artillery, N.A., at Camp Upton, L. I.

H. B. Hunnewell is a Sergeant in Company L, 107th U. S. Infantry at Camp Wads worth, Spartanburg, S. C.

R. E. Coon received a commission as 2nd Lieutenant Ordnance Officers' Reserve Corps upon completion of the First Ordnance Officers' Training Camp at Camp Meade, Md.

George P. Little is serving as a Sergeant in the Headquarters Company of the 116th Mounted Police with the 41st Army Division at Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C.

R. Luddy is serving with the Headquarters Company of the 14th U. S. Engineers (Railway) attached to the American Expeditionary Forces.

D. W. Maloney is a Ist Lieutenant in the Infantry Officers' Reserve Corps stationed at Camp Meade, Md.

C. A. Parnell has just sailed as a member of an Ordnance Unit assigned to duty with the American Expeditionary Forces in France.

A. C. McTigue is a 2nd Lieutenant in the 9th Coast Defense Command of the Coast Artillery Corps at Sandy Hook, N. J.

L. M. Murphy is now serving as a Ist Lieutenant in the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps with the American Expeditionary Forces.

E. M. Noyes, who was a member of one of the Dartmouth Ambulance Units which sailed last Spring has recently transferred to the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps and is now serving as a Sergeant with the Headquarters Detachment at U.S.A.P.O. No. 706.

F. S. Rosenheim is a Seaman, U.S.N. R.F., attached to the Mine Sweeper U. S. S. Price.

L. B. Smith, who was enrolled for the Seventh Session of the Ordnance Training School has been assigned to Camp Hancock, Georgia, for further instruction.

F. C. Waggett is serving in Battery C of the 122nd U. S. Field Artillery, 33rd Army Division, at Camp Logan, Texas.

W. F. Wanger is a 1st Lieutenant in the Aviation Section of the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps.

C. F. Whiteley is a 2nd Lieutenant in the Infantry Officers' Reserve Corps.

H. H. Budd has recently been promoted to the rank of Ass't Paymaster, U. S.N.R.F., and is at present attached to U.S.S. Buitenzorg, U. S. Naval Overseas Transportation Service.

R. M. Kelley has been commissioned 2nd Lieut, after training at the E.O. T.C. at Camp Lee, Va.

L. C. Dunn has been promoted to 1st Lieut., 301st Ammunition Train, Camp Devens.

O. E. Hovey has finished his aviation ground school work at Princeton and is now a candidate for a Pilot's license at Call Field, Wichita Falls, Tex.

H. T. Rich is at R.O.T.C., Camp Greenleaf, Ga., in the School of Military Psychology.

B. W. Grills is in the Supply Div., Chief of Ord., Washington.

'16

A. G. Eastman is Ord. Sergeant in the Ord. Corps.

Israel Eigner is Field Examiner for the Federal Trade Commission, investigating the food situation.

A. L. Emery is a Private attached to U. S. Army Amb. Service, Section 562.

R. F. Evans is with the Trade Tests Div., Committee on Classification of Personnel in the Army.

C. C. Hitchcock is commander of Submarine Chaser 89, at present attached to the Third Naval District.

C. C. Beltes is 1st Lieut., Inf., stationed at Camp Gordon, Ga.

W. F. Upham is attached to the Ord. Corps and is stationed at Washington.

A, G. Marsden has been recommended for 2nd Lieut., Q.M. Corps at Camp Devens, Mass.

C. M. Woolworth has been promoted to 1st Lieut., Inf., Reg. Army.

L. P. Gove is Sergeant of Eng., at Fort Foote.

L. F. Pfingstag is in the aviation service.

W. L. Cleaves was commissioned 1st Lieut., Inf., after the second R.O.T.C. at Ft. Oglethorpe.

A. C. Cleveland is an officer Reg. Army at Camp Greene, N. C.

D. W. Coakley has been appointed Ord. Sergeant after attending the Stores School in Hanover, and seven weeks at Watertown Arsenal.

R. A. Coburn is a bacteriologist with the Medical Corps, U. S. Army.

H. L. Cole is Sergeant in the Motor Equipment Sec. of the Ord. Dep't on special duty in Washington.

J. H. Colton is Quartermaster in the U. S. Armed Guard of the merchant service.

A. J. Conley is a 1st Class Private in aviation, awaiting call for training.

Earl Cranston is an Army Y.M.C.A. Secretary at Camp American University, Washington.

S. E. Cutler is Chief Yeoman engaged in cost inspection in ship-building plants near Boston.

L. L. Davidson is an Ensign in the Nav. Res., acting as Ass't Paymaster.

P. H. Davis was commissioned 2nd Lieut., in the Nat. Army after the first R.O.T.C. at Fort Sills, Okla.

George Dock is an aviation pilot in the Legion Etrangere of the French Aviation Service.

Chester Drury is an Inspector in the Ord. Dep't, now stationed at Louisville, Ky.

C. F. Durgin is a member of the Naval Reserve.

'17

Donald Brooks is at Newport in the U.S.N.R.F.

L. S. Ollis and R. N. Miller are cadet aviators, the latter being stationed at the Cornell Ground School. A. Ml. Nelb has been commissioned in this service, and W. D. Thompson in Naval Aviation; both as second lieutenants.

M. A. Leland is attending the U. S. Navy Electrical School at Brooklyn, N. Y.

Since returning from Y.M.C.A. work in London, F. W. Leighton has been traveling through the South in the interest of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.

W. L. Whipple is a quartermaster, second class, in the U.S.N.R.F., stationed at Newport.

H. E. Wacker is with Co. A, 11th Engineers, A.E.F.

L. G. Sherman is a cadet aviator in the Army and is receiving flying training in the American aviation camp, Italy.

Lieut. William Sewall is undoubtedly the young lieutenant from St. Albans, Vt., recently mentioned by the press, who left Hanover last spring to go into an Officers' Training Camp, and who is now in the front line, with the Infantry. The account states that one day a trench was blown in, and he carried a soldier over the top in full view of the enemy. On another occasion a patrol was missing just as day was about to break, and he started to look for it in "No Man's Land." He went as far as the German wire before he started back, sure that his men were safe.

S. G. Whiton of Brooklyn, who volunteered in the American Field Service in May, 1917, and later enlisted in the American Ambulance Service when it took over the A. F. S. last fall, recently received the Croix de Guerre from the French Government for bravery under fire. His ambulance was wrecked by a shell in full flight on March second, and he had the courage, after putting his car outside the danger, to return on foot and get a new ambulance, then continue during the entire night removing the wounded under a continuous bombardment.

Captain R. G. Paine is attending a School of Fire for Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

C. A. Potter is a Second Lieutenant in the 4th Field Artillery at Camp Shelby, Miss.

J. R. Byers is Chief Radio Electrician at the Harvard Radio School.

C. J. Campbell is a Sergeant, Sanitary Troop, stationed at Camp Greene, S. C.

Houghton Carr was commissioned 2nd Lieut, at Camp Meade and is now at Camp Shelby, Miss.

W. D. Carr, who went to France as a member of the 3rd Dartmouth Unit is now a member of the S.S.U. 66 Convois Automobile.

R. P. Chadbourne is a Wagoner, Ist Div., Eng. Train, Searchlight Sec., A. E. F.

R. M. Chase is a candidate for a commission C.A.C., at Ft. Monroe, Va.

C. M. Clark is Ord. Sergeant, serving as Balance of Stores Clerk, Accounts Div., Camp Dix., N. J.

G. E. Clark is in Ord. Advance Depot 1, A.E.F.

R. J. Cocks is Corporal of Inf., A.E.F.

L. J. Cone is a member of the second R.O.T.C. at Camp Devens.

T. L. Cotton was last heard from at Pskoff, Russia, in Y.M.C.A. work.

E. R. Cowles is Ist Lieut., A.S.S.U S.R.

G. C. Currier is an Ensign in the Nav. Res., Commanding Officer of S. P. 43.

L. L. Doty is a Seaman, U. S. Navy, attached to mine laying division of the Atlantic Fleet on U.S.S. Baltimore.

C. P. Downer is Ordnance Sergeant, A.E.F.

Ben Eastman is Chief Machinist's Mate, stationed at the U. S. Naval Training Station, Hingham, Mass.

W. C. Eaton is Ordnance Sergeant, stationed in Washington.

F. S. Emery was commissioned 2nd Lieut, and assigned to give instruction in aerial gunnery at Camp Taliaferro, Texas.

T. W. Emery is 2nd Lieut., Inf., A. E. F.

W. S. Fitch is Ist Lieut., Aviation Corps, now in Italy.

'18

W. E. Sherman is a member of Co. B, 301st Field Sig. Batt., Camp Devens.

R. E. Clark is Sergeant, Ist Class, 301 st Field Sig. Batt., Camp Devens.

G. M. Burns has been mentioned in General Orders No. 5, Headquarters 149th F.A., A.E.F, "for great coolness in repairing in the open under shell fire, telephone lines which had been cut."