Class of 1917
To continue with Spike Maclntyre's Bos ton news which we started last month:
Will Fitch—with the F. L. Putnam Company, investments. Will has just returned from a Southern cruise. He is rapidly acquiring an international reputation as a contract bridge expert (is that the way you make these cruises, Will?).
Gyp Green—still the big movie magnate operating several theaters around greater Boston.
Roy Halloran—superintendent of the Metropolitan State Hospital, Waltham, Mass., which was built under his direct supervision. I understand this is one of the finest and best equipped mental hospitals in the country. As can be judged from this, Roy is doing a swell job and already ranks very high in his medical specialty.
Dick Holbrook—seen by George Currier recently in Keene, N. H., where he is located with the Holbrook Grocery Co., looking fine and doing well.
Frank Huntress—also reported by George, as manager of Sears, Roebuck store in Keene.
Bunny Holden—still the big all-wool-and-a-yard-wide man, located in Providence, where he recently purchased a beautiful new home. As you know, Bunny never misses any Dartmouth functions within 300 miles.
Hank Loudon—still in the printing business in Boston.
Don Litchard—continues in the investment business working for himself. Also in Boston.
Sam MacKillop—another big investment man with Jackson & Curtis, Boston.
Eddie McGowan—living in Wellesley, where he has built a new home—about a year ago. I believe he is a near neighbor of Walt Barrows. Eddie keeps very busy racing back and forth between his five worsted mills.
Pete Olds—with Anderson Manufacturing Co., automobile spring covers, Cambridge, Mass., as sales manager.
Bob Paine—one of the foremost executives of the Nash New England Co., with whom he has been affiliated since his return from New York several years ago.
Mil Palin—a neighbor of Bunny Holden's in Providence, where he is sales represebtative of the Penn Maryland Co.
Hank Stillman—still with the Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper Co., Nashua, N. H., and same old smiling boy.
Howie Stockwell—and his brother run the firm of Barbour-Stockwell Co., castings and machine manufacturers. His oldest boy must be ready to enter Dartmouth.
Tommy Thompson—still located in Brockton, and I believe, still manufacturing shoes. We saw him at the Dartmout-hHarvard game last fall with his two fine strapping boys, who looked like good prospects for Red Blaik.
Johnny Wheelock—traffic manager of the American Airways in Boston and has just moved into a brand-new office in the United Shoe Machinery Building, Federal St., Boston, where I am sure he will be glad to welcome all '17ers any time.
Bill Willard—still located in Boston in the advertising business.
Butch Sherman reports briefly from the Brattleboro section, where the '17 delegation is represented by Angus Black, Jule Kuech, Hap Mason, and himself: "Theonly news I have is that Hap has beenmade one of Ruby Lafoon's KentuckyColonels and is now to celebrate this on amonth's trip to South America. I sawSunny Sanborn in Boston in the middleof February as he was about to start toHanover for the Alumni Carnival, keepingup his reputation as one of the regulars.Every one of the boys here is still able tokeep ahead of the sheriff, although sometimes not by much. I was in Hanover theother night to hear Lawrence Tibbett singand called Arch Gile, but found him awayon a business trip."
Old Captain Trenholm of high hurdle and other fames rollicks through with another good letter from Biloxi, Miss.:
"Listen there, you ole quarter-miler,your very harsh words stirred me rath orroth or what have you. I don't be in thehabit of taking bawlings out—l give 'em.
"Well, as far as news goes, I have onlya meagre bit to let loose. Last July just before leaving for the field training periodat Ft. Knox, Ky., we got our orders thatupon completion of camp we were to bemoved from Greenville, Miss., down hereto the coast; so in August we moved andhave a small house at 130 Benachi Ave.This is the place in which we expect to finish our Mississippi National Guard detail. The detail will be up in 1936, atwhich time we'll have completed fouryears in this funny state.
"Well, Chuck, as far as seeing any Seventeeners, I simply don't: there are none ofthese rare birds in these parts. In thesummer of 1933 I did see Bemi Goss upin Warren, Ohio, but he is the last one ofthe illustrious class on whom it has beenmy pleasure to gaze (and incidentally tojoin in choir practise and the attendantwassail bowling).
"No change in family status: same companion of bed and board and same son,bucking for to enter that gash in the hillsknown as Dartmouth with the 1940 aggregation—if he can make it. His schooling hasbeen so varied that it's hard on him.
"No further news now, ole boy, but nextwinter when the temperature drops waydown, drop down too and play some golfwith me. "TRENNIE."
Ray Collerd writes for our small California delegation from na Natoma St., San Francisco:
"I must confess that I have been verymuch out of touch with all things to dowith Dartmouth for a number of months;inasmuch as business has kept me fromattending the luncheon meetings, and Iseldom come in contact with any of thefellows, being out of. town a large portionof the time.
"Al Shiels is the only '17 man I haveseen within the past year. I used to see agreat deal of Al Whitaker, but he has disappeared from view for some months. Youmight be interested in knowing he has leftthe Cannon Co., Sacramento, and nowholds a pretty good position with theState Board of Equalization. His homeis still on Santa Ynez Way, in Sacramento.
"As for myself, I am still holding downthe same position that I have had for thepast twelve years, with no divorces, marriages, or new additions in the family.Have been spending practically all of myspare time developing a very active interest in photography, which interest youmay have noted during the past year or soif you have seen any of the photographicmagazines published on this coast, such as Camera Craft or Photo Arts. At the present time I am entering a few scatteredsalons throughout the country.
"Bill Mudgett is located in Palo Alto inthe real estate business for himself, and Iunderstand is doing well.
"Sorry I can't answer your requests morefully, but I am driving over 2500 miles amonth, trying to keep up a hobby and givethe family an occasional look at me at thesame time, and I realize I cannot keep upmy contacts very well. Best regards "RAY."
Via letter to Don Brooks, Walt Sisson sends a greeting to all the boys and includes a cordial invitation to all who may be going through Northern New York to visit him in Potsdam, where he is connected with the Raquette River Paper Co.
From our Washington correspondent we recently received a prospectus announcing two publications by none other than our own Wayne Francis Palmer—"Men and Ships of Steel," the story in pictures of a navy in its ascendency, and also "Death on The Baltic," the story of a navy in its descendency, translated from the Russian —an authentic history now in preparation.
Ev Robie, principal of the Rice School, Stamford, Conn., has sent us an interesting pamphlet describing Camp Macasko, Echo Lake, Redfield, Me., where he will be associate director this coming summer. Unfortunately, limited space prevents us from giving all the details of the elaborate equipment, but you can take my word for it that the proposition sounds most attractive, and I refer you for further details to their advertisement in the camp section of this issue.
Additions to the Class Active Group since last month are: A. C. Black, R. C. Boynton, Leon J. Cone, Laurence Cornelius, A. P. Maclntyre, E. W. McGowan, S. C. Murray, J. W. Saladine, L. A. Shea, W. C. Sisson, V. K. Smith, Isaac Sprague, D. deS. Trenholm, Waltman Walters, J. W. White, Chas. Wolff. This makes a total of 58 active men.
We have had the following address changes reported:
Vincent K. Smith, c/o Ohio Electric Mfg. Cos., 5900 Maurice Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.
Edwin W. McGowan, Box 188, Waterville, Me.
Robert W. Clark, 18 Middle St., Waltham, Mass.
Charles S. Hedwall, 2412 Humboldt Ave., S., Minneapolis, Minn.
Herbert C. Jenks, 1139 Oak Ave., Evanston, Ill.
SUPPORT THE ALUMNI FUND JOIN THE ACTIVE GROUP
Secretary, DR. Graig House, Beacon, N. Y.
