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Bob Adams, Vice President of Ernest W. Brown, Inc., at 1 Park Ave., New York, has given us the recent history of Hal Ingersoll, with whom Bob was closely associated at Thayer School and on various engineering jobs around Buffalo and New York in the early nineteen twenties. Bob says Hal was a Junior Engineer, U. S. Forest Service, from 1934 to 1936, and was in charge of all mapping at Enoree Unit, Sumter Forest, S. C. Next he was Senior Engineering Draftsman for the Conservation Service at Spartanburg, S. C. until the summer of 1938. He planned various buildings, bridges and dams, and was in responsible charge the last year. Since then he has been Assistant Civil Engineer, on flood control surveys, at Little Tallahatchie, Miss., and Coosa, Ga., in charge of all run-off studies, reports and mapping work. He lives at 304 North Erwin Street, Cartersville, Ga.
We gained a new classmate, officially, in December, when Walter G. Burns notified the college of his desire to enroll with 1917. Bobby spent his freshman year with 1912, left college and returned as a sophomore with us in 1914 and stayed until 1916. During those two years he was very congenial with everyone, and no one ever thought of him as anything but a '17er. But the college requires written notification in a case like this, and has now received word from Bobby that he prefers enrollment with 1917. Len Reade had a good visit with Bobby at Dartmouth night, in November. He is an attorney at 38 Court Street, and lives at 65 Clarkson Ave., Brooklyn. The New York gang are looking for him at the next class dinner.
Hal Clarke is an engineer with the Ruberoid Co., 5333 S. Western Ave., Chicago A Christmas card from Ralph Britton says he has taken a new position with the F. H. A. at Washington, D. C.
....Perc Streeter of St. John, N. B. spent a day in Boston in November and had a good visit with Class Booster MacKillop. Sam also ran across Ray Norwood who is still with the U. S. Treasury Dept., and expects to spend this winter in Washington, where Monk Wells will no doubt locate him Walter Wilson wrote that he's a Master in Mathematics at the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., is still single, and was heading for Florida just before Christmas.
Hen Sturgess, Manager of National Realty Management Co., at Atlanta, has now organized Sturgess Realty Management Co., to specialize in handling used properties. Georgia was a hotbed of '17ers in early December as Hen's letter of the sixth attests: "Yesterday was certainly outstanding for me away down here in Atlanta with none of my classmates, so far as I knew, closer than Tommy Thompson in Charlotte, N. C. I was just stepping out of my office when whom should I bump into but Bill Sewall and Bill Eaton. At noon I went to lunch and I discovered George Currier eating in my favorite beanery.
"George commented that there were more ' 17ers in Atlanta yesterday, than there were New York '17ers present at the dinner the night before the Princeton game. It was really a big thrill for me because I so seldom see any of my old classmates, although I think of them often. I tried to get the two Bills to join George and me for the evening to do a bit of elbow bending and reminiscing but they both had business engagements, so I took George out to the house with me for dinner and had a very enjoyable evening discussing Dartmouth, chiefly classmates.
"Tomorrow I am going to Augusta, Ga., for the annual convention of the Georgia Real Estate Association and I noticed in the paper this morning that Doc Walters is addressing a medical convention in Augusta today. If he is still in Augusta tomorrow and I run across him, I will certainly feel as if I am back on the campus."
Hank Allison, a professor at Clarkson Tech., wrote that he sees Walt Sisson now and then in Potsdam and had a visit with Bill Sewall and his family when they dropped in on their way home from St. Albans last summer.
WAH-WHO-WAH FOR CAPTAIN SISSON!
Hank's note was, still fresh when a clipping came in from the Watertown, N. Y. Times, with a fine picture of Walt, accompanied by a long article dated at Potsdam, December sixth. The article starts with this: "Walter C. Sisson of this village was elected to the board of trustees of Clarkson College of Technology at a meeting of the board late Tuesday in the offices of Bertrand H. Snell, chairman of the board, according to an announcement by Mr. Snell and Glenn R. Morse, trustee and secretary " The article gives our basketball captain's complete Dartmouth, war and business records. Walt has been Treasurer of Racquette River Paper Co., since 1936 and is a director. He is a director of the People's National Bank, a trustee of Potsdam Hospital, a director of the Sinclair Spruce Lumber Co., and of the St. Lawrence Motor Sales Co., and of the St. Lawrence Laboratory; member of the Potsdam Country Club, Rotary Club and of the Frank Barclay post, American Legion. He and Ruth have three children, Carol Ingersoll, Sylvia Griffith and Joseph Emery Sisson.
Bob Boynton at Rutland writes he is still running two hotels; helping to bring up the two boys, riding horses in his spare time, is on a bank board, is Secretary of the Vermont Hotel Association and is on the board of several charities. And we'll add, a great host to any member of the Dawn Patrol who appears at the Berwick.
TRENHOLM CAPTURES TITLE AT YARDLEY BOWL
Trennie's letter in our November issue was hardly in print when Summy Emerson came bristling out of Wall Street, complaining bitterly. It appears the Major led with his chin when he intimated that he alone sets the heroic example of sartorial manhood by splitting his facial timber with an old fashioned, straight blade fazor. This seemed the highest military insult to the clear eye and steady hand of a granite faced New Hampshire farm boy. Sum says he has the same razor he was born with, it's a little bit worn down from the struggle, but he can't scrape up money for a new one until this one goes, and his face with it.
Emerson was waxing exultant and lifting a haughty eyebrow at the alleged propaganda of our own war department, so your humble contest editor notified both we would form a 1917 Old Fashioned (Razor) Club, kind of a high-hat-hero gang of throat cutters. Action pictures would be required for membership. The first print received would elect the sender president.
By return mail came Trennie's entry, our "picture of the month." Notice seven razors, one for each day in the week. These and kindred equipment were described in the Major's letter of style notes and beauty hints, which will be forwarded to new members of the club who qualify in the next thirty days. On behalf of the class we particularly thank Trennie for shaving twice the same day with his Friday razor, in order to reply by return air mail, and get the edge on Emerson. (No picture from latter has yet been received. So sorry.)
Louis Cunningham of Altoona, is selling bonds around Johnstown, Bradford and other western Pennsylvania cities and sees Parker Melvin, Earl Robinson and Fred Hager often. He adds "still on good terms with the beautiful wife and two daughters, one in Highland Hall, Hollidaysburg, preparing for Wellesley, and the other in Altoona H. S. My business interests are with Janney and Co., Philadelphia."
Vic Smith, conducts a building material manufacturers' agency at the Architects' Building, Philadelphia. Vic's daughter Virginia, 18, has entered Penn. State Teachers' College at West Chester, Pa., taking the course in public school music. Vic Jr., is in his junior year at Haverford High School and Larry is in the fifth grade. Vic was elected a School Director, for the next four years, at Haverford Township.
INAUGURATION OF MAJOR DERRILL DESAUSSURE TRENHOLM Ceremonies inducting new president of 1917's Old Fashioned Razor Club. The Major isgetting ready for an eight o'clock gunnery class. (Photograph copyright applied for byGene Towler.)
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