Class of 1913
Rollo Hutchinson's name appeared on the front pages of the daily newspapers all over the country on May 23 and for several days. It was in connection with the illness of William Albert Robinson, honeymooning explorer, stricken with appendicitis aboard his yacht at Tagus Cove of the Galapagos Islands. The Navy Department sent two naval planes from the Canal Zone, commanded by Lt. Commander Herman H. Halland, and Lt. Commander Rollo W. Hutchinson was one of the two physicians. On the 24th word was received that Robinson was holding his own, but the physicians expressed the opinion that the adventurer's appendix had broken, spreading peritonitis.
The destroyer Hale left the Canal Zone with the planes. The two seaplanes which took the surgeons to the Galapagos Islands on the equator, 500 miles out from the South American mainland, had been fitted as medical laboratories, and everything was ready for an operation when the destroyer arrived.
During the evening the destroyer Buchanan, steaming toward the agreed point of 3.50 degrees north latitude, 85 degrees west longitude—half way between Tagus Cove and Balboa—acted as relay ship for wireless messages.
"Using all efforts pending arrival of Hale"; "Will operate immediately when Hale arrives"-, "Hale arrived"', "Operationbegun, Robinson took ether well"; "Stillunder ether"-, "Condition favorable undercircumstances," came the messages to Balboa.
Rollo performed the operation with Lieut. Yarborough assisting. "It was alldone with the quiet efficiency which hadmarked the Navy's action since the call forhelp by an amateur wireless operator, fortunately near Robinson's thirty-two footRitch Svaap when Robinson was strickenwith acute appendicitis."
At 6:55 A.M., just at sunrise, the two naval planes, which had taken the surgeons to the islands, left Tagus Cove for Balboa. They expected to make it in twelve hours.
George Mulcahy has been master of the House of Correction at Deer Island, Boston, for many years and the ALUMNI MAGAZINE has frequently carried notes on George and his work. Now the Boston Traveler of May 26, 1934, printed the following editorial:
MOST ABLE PENAL EXECUTIVE
"Maj. George F. A. Mulcahy, master ofthe House of Correction at Deer Island,was described by his department head,Penal Institutions Commissioner WilliamG. O'Hare, as 'the most able and poorestpaid penal executive in the nation.'
"Nobody knows who will criticise Commissioner O'Hare for his superlative. Theymay not agree with it. Certainly they willnot seriously disagree, for Maj. Mulcahyhas been and is doing excellent work withinadequate funds and equipment. Most important, he treats his charges humanelybut with firm discipline. The city will beglad Commissioner O'Hare spoke as hedid."
Louis Foster is now manager of the Berkeley-Carteret Hotel at Asbury Park, N. J., and would be pleased to have any Thirteen drop in to see him.
Ted Reed, who was with us during the freshman year before transferring to graduate from Princeton, is secretary of the Standard Specialty and Tube Company. He makes his home at New Brighton, Pa., and reports that he, Mrs. Reed, and his son and daughter are all in the best of health.
George Watts writes from Davidson College, at Davidson, N. C., that he hopes to conduct a European tour this summer for Commonwealth Tours. George's annual trips to Europe have been very popular. Last summer he built a summer home down on Cape Cod. Ernest Thomas reported that his oldest daughter, Marian, was one of the girls to go to Washington in April for the Junior Red Cross convention, as a delegate from the Middleboro district. Marian is fourteen.
A letter from Buck Freeman arrived too late for the June issue, so here goes:
"The winter in Washington has been avery busy one, and things have troddenone on another. Not being in the government or in any of the code groups orabecedarian activities (a word culled fromthe Transcript), 1 have been only an onlooker, but even an onlooker gets dizzy attimes. I have seen Chippy Semmes occasionally at Dartmouth affairs, and havetalked with Don Evans once and withGeorge Stiles the same number of times,and have glimpsed Pinky Tilton from afara couple of times. The last that I knew,Don was in New Orleans (or was it St.Louis) on some business for the FarmCredit Administration.
"In a day or two I shall see WarrenKendall and get a report on the Secretaries' meeting and how you conductedyourself."
H. M. "Si" Perkins has been among those writing letters:
"Much water has flown under the stream,since I saw you last. I don't believe youeven know that I have a family, althoughI have been married two years and amalready being bossed around by a tenmonths-old daughter.
"I saw C. C. Wilbur (Husky) this noon,and he sends his love. Husky is now chiefengineer of the Metropolitan DrainageArea Commission for the Twin Cities,which has charge of the construction of ajoint sewage system and disposal plantto purify our beautiful Mississloppi River.It is a whale of a big project, and willcertainly keep him busy for some time.
"I myself have lived the life of the wandering Jew between St. Paul and Seattle,but expect for some time to be in St. Paul.
"I see W. W. Judson once in a while—either here or in Seattle. Jud is assistant tothe general manager.
"I regret having missed Craven on hislast trip, but Rena Judith Perkins tookthe occasion to worry us with a bit of temperature and temperament.
"I will certainly look you up if I everland at Boston again, and hope you willbe able to satisfy your craving for travel—God knows I have."
Many will remember Henry G. Weymouth of Lyme, N. H., who started with us as a freshman. Note an obituary notice of his father in the Necrology under the class of 1878.
THE FIRST ANNUAL REUNION
Shades of the 10th Reunion. ToplifE Hall was the dormitory for our attempt at our first annual reunion. Bart Shepard and George Knight had Room 9 and Jack Nelson and Wilkins had Room 14. Bob More and judge and Martha Hugus had rooms at the Inn, as they are members of the Alumni Council. Bill Towler, Jack Macdonald, and A 1 Dessau moved into the Inn finally from the Beta House and established a headquarters. T. D. and Marion Jewett and Bobby arrived from Laconia, and Bill and Ruth English were up from Lebanon. Of course, Bob and Mildred Conant, Harry 2nd, Florence French, and Fred and Marion Page were in town. Golf was in order much of the time, and it was a swell week-end throughout. Nineteen-fourteen had a good crowd back, and all of us found those we knew in the classes ending in 4 and 9.
Ronald Miller was associated with the Century of Progress last year on the advertising end, but not this year. If any one in the class knows his address at the present time, the Secretary would appreciate receiving it.
ANNOUNCING A WEDDING
Dan Cupid has been busy again. Yes, this time in Providence, R. 1., and the mail brought: "Mrs. Frank Kline Millerannounces the marriage of her sister JanetRuth Newton to Mr. William BolsterPierce on Thursday, the second of August,one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, Providence, R. I." Ruth Newton graduated from Wilson College, class of 1923, and received her M. A. at Smith in 1924. She was secretary to the Dean of Women at Denison University in 1925 and 1926 and taught at the Abbie Loveland Tuller (private) School in Providence from 1926 to 1934. Congratulations and best wishes to Bill and Ruth, and we welcome Ruth as the most recent bride and class reuner.
Eddie Sides was at the Marlborough Hospital in Marlborough, Mass., in June and July to lose his appendix, and the doctor informed him it would be the end of August before he would be back at his desk. No recent news is good news, so all must be well. Eddie's son is planning strenuously on Dartmouth.
While checking golf scores and results Nor Catteral found that Ralph Samuel and his wife are still kicking the old pill around and winning in Westchester at Fairview.
Larry Stoddard is now connected with the Gulf Refining Cos. as assistant manager of their warehouse and bulk paint at Yonkers.
Joe Barnett has returned to the Hearst publications, and is now with the Hearst Comics at 919 North Michigan Ave., Chicago.
Bill Towler attended a recent class luncheon in Boston and reported on his vacation at the Oyster Harbor Club on Cape Cod (Osterville). Ted Davis was found at Harwich, where he spends much of his time the year 'round.
At the last class dinner in New York an unexpected guest in the person of Morris Cone arrived. He gave all the local gossip of Hanover and Hartford, Vt. The dinner was at the Dartmouth Club, and at the recent election of officers of the Club. Nate Lenfestey . was elected treasurer, Clarence Meleney a vice-president, and Bill Towler to the board of governors. Nor Catteral, the new class editor, is doing a swell job in helping to fill this column.
Ralph E. Bauman has left the bank in Massillon, Ohio, and has returned to Cleveland as vice-president of the National City Bank' of Cleveland. From mutual friends we learn that he was well liked and very popular at Massillon.
Jack Alden recently accepted an invitation to attend the annual animated magazine given by Rollins College, Florida, and his subject or articles was "New Trends in Education."
A 1 Dessau reports that George Monroe this last spring had been very sick with a severe case of pneumonia, but his recovery was complete.
Chip Semmes left Washington in the hands of the administration and took his three boys to a ranch in Wyoming for a month's stay. Chip should have many tales to tell.
After nineteen years of connubial bliss Mr. and Mrs. William Rea Bronk are the proud parents of a son and heir—we presume a Jr., as no name was included in the report. Ray and family live in Pelham N. Y.
Tenny Thurman, after several years of ill health, has sufficiently recovered to be back on the job in Raleigh, N. C., in his life insurance office. George Davidson, as long as it is summer, is in Westport, Conn., and as soon as the late fall winds blow, he 11 go back to Florida for the winter work. Nice arrangement.
The period, August 24 to 27, 1934, is the celebration of the diamond jubilee of the petroleum industry in Titusville, Pa., and Clarence L. vonTacky is general chairman of the "Diamond Jubilee of Oil." This period marks the 75th anniversary of the completion of the Drake Well and is the Petroleum Industry's Great Birthday. Von says news of the celebration will be in all the papers and broadcasted over the radio, so by the time you read this, it will all have happened.
DARTMOUTH MEN FOUND OIL
In preparation for the diamond jubilee considerable research has been done to ascertain the facts about the early history of the Drake Well. Dartmouth men were in on the oil business at the start.
Von's son Tom was a freshman at Hanover last year.
"Bish" Talbot, in Kansas City, Mo., crashed through with a lot of news. Robert Talbot was born on October 20, 1933, and is destined for the class of 1955, or thereabouts. Bob's sister, Ada E., is eighteen. "Bish" is still with the Kansas City police, teaching the young idea—and the older too —how to shoot. He was "prostrate in the St.Joseph Hospital in K. C. at the time of themuch publicized elections." He can be reached in care of the police or at 3511 Locust St., and "tell Emmett Pishon I amthe only copper listed in the K. C.'s socialregister."
Don King is now at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Johnny Remsen's first year as class agent drew to a wonderful close on July 31. A grand job, for the percentage of contributors was 75, which puts us in 11th place, a tie with 1894 in 10th place, and the only 19 hundred classes ahead of us were 1904, 1900, and 1901. We were 4th in the amount contributed, 1879, 1911, and 1910 being ahead of us.
We have many memorial gifts: Mrs. Brown for her son, Larry; Mrs. Fulmer for Karl; Mrs. Durgin for Bob; Mr. Schellenberg for Viv; Mr. Chisholm for Larry; Mrs. Hayes for her husband, Chum: Mrs. Thompson for Dean; and Dave Logan for his brother, Milon. Yick Nutt gives in memory of Fred Gannon, and Jack Alden, J. L. Ferguson 1915, and the Tulsa, Okla., Alumni Association in memory of Ken Winship.
Great credit is due Johnny, as we have now passed 1915 in the actual amount contributed since the start of the Fund. Mose Linscott succeeded in passing many other classes around our time, and now we have passed 1915.
Secretary, 40 Broad St., Boston
