1934*

The engagement of Marjorie Louise McNeill, of Bound Brook, N. J., and George Copp. Miss McNeill is a graduate of the College of New Rochelle. Thorne, who relayed the tidings to us, said that George sounded settled down already Van and wife were "down in Florida b.c. (before the c01d)."... .A further clipping on the Carson-McCoy engagement notes that Miss Carson was graduated from Colby Junior College and Connecticut College for Women. Mary Connor, betrothed of S. Meigher, attended Smith with the Class of '38 and Columbia University

Last month was of special note to the William Emersons, of Urbana, Illinois, because of the arrival February 9 of Sylvia Larsen Emerson.

David V. Easton and friend recently announced the formation of a partnership for the general practice of law. The firm, to be known as Rosen and Easton, will be located at 170 Broadway, New York. Dave writes: "I saw Bill Scherman at the Booksellers League Dinner a few weeks ago where we both witnessed my wife giving the longest speech on record. She said 'Thank you very much.' The fan mail is just beginning to pour in."

Win Watts has been appointed to the out-patient medical staff of Salem Hospital.. .. .Ted Parker has just established a new office in dentistry at Dorchester. .... Grove Blood is with the local agency of the Grace Company in Buenaventura, Colombia, which his father reports is good business but bad living Bob Goecke is "still a banker, holding forth in the Audit Department of the Central National Bank (Cleveland) and running into Bob Palmer every day there. I've been married for four years and have a mighty fine little daughter, age one year. Lew Green is with William A. Berkey Furniture Co., putting together chairs for us to sit on and tables to sleep under. He has been married about four years, has a big husky son and a mighty fine dog, name of George "

If we devote a major part of this April opus to the saga of one man, it is because he is occupied in an undertaking different enough to rate even more space. As Van Thorne remarked, "If you can think of a more noble occupation, just name it." We hope that Bill Mock's story, when it is finally told in his own words, will appear here; until then we will try to piece together the scraps of information that pop up from various sources.

Recent quick visitors to New York' Harry Espenscheid, again on a promoting tour for the boys' camp at his Teton Valley Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming ...And Art Grimes, who was on a Lord & Thomas business trip from Dayton but managed to get his Reunion and home movies on the plane with him. His family including young Betty and Bobby, as well as the former Miss Doris Herrick, of Hanover, looks wonderful in technicolor. The Reunion shots are also an excellent set of films, and Art has kindly consented to a duplicate set for class use, to add to the ones Official Photographer-Chairman Knibbs ground out on that memorable week-end. When the complete collection has been edited into a compact reel, it will be made available for local '34 showings throughout these United States. More about that later.

You might have to look pretty closely at the far-right uniform above to place, be' hind a jet-black beard of post-Reunion origin, the visage of William B. Mock '34' Pictured, says Acme Newspictures, are four members of the Iroquois Ambulance Corps drinking a toast in Paris just before leaving for Finland to serve with an ambulance corps behind the Finnish lines. On January 10 AP reported that the four American volunteers had arrived at A- Finnish port of Turku from StockTim with two ambulances, and were assigned immediately to an undisclosed sector of the front.

At about that time Mrs. Ramon Guthwife of Dartmouth's professor of French received a letter which Bill had written her from France: "I joined up here when I finally despaired of the legion ever getting off its proverbial base. It is a young group (the Iroquois Corps) and amazingly disparate. Stehlin is only 17 and has already fought two years with Franco according to his accounts. Schmidt is reportedly 51 and has fought in the air ever since the 1914-18 debacle-in Abyssinia, in China, and for Republican Spain. Donaldson was an invalid whose back had been broken by the Communists when he refused to pull down the American flag on his farm at Saclas .There are two Dartmouth men besides me-Larry Jump '36 and Arnold Van Benschotten '28 We are having daily lessons in mechanics, map-reading and drill; we do all the maintenance work in the chateau from K.P. to mending broken sewers. The chateau is cold we sleep on canvas army cots with quite insufficient covering and the boys are complaining of cold constantly. Those of us who can afford it are paying 20 francs a day for our food; our bar bill is frequently as high Hot water is rarely more than tepid and even then is a luxury."

Van Thorne takes the story of Bill Mock back a little way. "You may remember that Bill—whom I nominate as '34's outstanding overseas man—showed up at Reunion with a long racy mustache that made him look quite the man of the world. I have good reason to remember it, for besides seeing him at the '34 tent a group of us called on him at his native habitat: the SAE house. It was that Saturday night when Hanover seemed to be all beer. After it ran out in our tent a carousing caravan comprising Ramsey, Parmelee, Grimes, Gruen, McCray, Mrs. T. and myself set out for beer in other parts. After several successful calls we made a last scheduled stop at the SAE house. 'I here we found Bill Mock, mustache and all, holding forth in lonely splendor at SAE's tremendous subterranean bar. We greeted him with a toneless, beery chant that ran, Knock, knock—Bill Mock.' Never mind, it sounded good at the time, and we repeated it enough.

That's how I remember Bill Mock's mustache and the fact that he planned to go to France some time. The mustache has lived up to its promise of more to come, and he did go to France. Other than the fact that Bill is now on some part of the Finnish front the only clue I have to his whereabouts is contained in a dispatch r°m Helsinki on February 4. The story Pays tribute to the American volunteer ambulances from France and their crews, says they are working at a casualty clearing station not far from the front, and concludes, 'They are doing heroic work, unpaid and without glory.' "

First job of the Corps in Finland was to campaign for funds to support their efforts. In February an INS dispatch said: "Four young Americans who, in a month of heroic laughter have surrounded their American Volunteer Ambulance Corps with the aura of a legend, talked to me today somewhere east of Sortavala in Finland's Arctic wilderness. All have suffered severely from frost-bite, but they can and still do drive their speedy ambulances faster and to more inaccessible frontline spots than any Finn. Among them... . (is) William Mock, an instructor in Stephens College, Missouri, who is supposedly on sabbatical leave at the Sorbonne. He holds degrees from Dartmouth and Northwestern. Here he works like a war veteran. When finally ordered to a hospital for treatment, he insisted on serving as an orderly."

Most recent prominent press appearance of the Corps came on February 28 when it was reported that young Hasey (far left in picture) had his arm broken by a bomb fragment on the front north of Lake Ladoga. The unit had been trying all day to remove wounded men from the hospital to a train to make room for more wounded from the lines. But all day enemy planes were overhead, and Hasey finally got a piece of steel propaganda in his arm while cranking his ambulance in the open field.

The four volunteers have been active since they reached Finland, said the dispatch, except for ten days at the start, when all four were laid up with frostbitten toes. At first their job was transporting wounded in their cars, but in recent weeks they have also acted as stretcher bearers, have attended wounded men, changed bandages and held the wounded during operations.

"If you can think of a more noble occupation, just name it."

Fund Contributors for 1939

Contributors: 305 (63% of graduates). Total gifts: $1,513.03 (79% of objective). DAVID H. CALLAWAY, JR., Class Agent.

1934

Adam, Robert R. Adams, William T. Alexander, Stewart F. Allabough, Robert F. Allen, Donald G. Andresen, Herbert A. Armes, Charles H. Baird, William J. Baldwin, Albert C Balgley, Robert P. Banfield, Richard W. Banks, Harlan P. Barber, Stuart B. Barcella, Ernest L. Barnet, William, II Barrett, Richard W.

Bass, Perkins Beers, Thomas M. Bell, Richard P., Jr. Bender, Joseph S. Benedict, Richard C. Biggar, Frank W., Jr. Brennon, Branford S. Brown, Edward S., Jr. Brown, Gardner L. Brown, Henry B. Bryan, Henry W. Bunting, Donald C. Callaway, David H., Jr. Callihan, William H. Calmon, Calvin Carney, John S.

Carr, William S. Carson, Samuel G. Carter, Jesse M. Chase, Herman B. Clark, Alden H. Clark, Thomas R. Cogswell, George E. Cohn, Oscar M. Cole, Phipps Collins, Mac G. Copp, George W., Jr. Corwin, Robert K. Cotsworth, Charles S. Cowan, James F., Jr. Cowie, Edwin W. Craig, William A. Crowther, Donald W. Cumings, William S. Cushman, Bernard Daniells, William K. Daniels, Lincoln Danzig, Jerry A. Darling, James J. Davies, J. Clarence, Jr. Davis, H. Russell, Jr. Day, Emerson Diamond, Irving S. Dineen, John J. Dolben, Joseph Donaldson, Andrew, Jr. Donehue, George H. Donohue, Charles A. Douglass, Robert H. Doyle, Robert H. Dryfoos, Orvil E. Dunn, James A. Dunn, Seymour B. Dwyer, Martin J. Ebbitt, Paul F. Eckels, Philip G. Edson, Lefferts P. Edwards, Jacob K. Eggleston, Leland B. Eldridge, William C. Ellis, George W., Jr. Embry, William C. Emerson, Richard L. Emerson, William S. Engelman, Robert S. Eriksen, Arthur W. Espenscheid, Harry F. Everts, Franklin S. Fernald, John S. Feth, John H. Fischbach, William M. Fish, John S. Fishman, Isaac Fishman, Samuel Flemming, Theodore C. Foley, John J. Ford, Robert C. Fosdick, Roger L. Foster, Franklin Fowle, Richard J. Frankel, Moe Fraser, Thorwald J. Gay, William E. Germann, Edward H. Gilbert, John E. Gilbert, Perry W. Gilmore, Harry 8., Jr. Goergen, William P. Golding, Arnold H. Goodfellow, Charles C. Goodman, Robert C. Gordon, John J. Goss, George H. Gould, Richard E. Griffin, Robert W. Grimes, Arthur L. Grosenbaugh, Lewis R. Gruen, Richard F. Gunst, Melville A. Hall, Edward K. Hall, Gerald M. Ham, George C. Hardt, Richard W. Harris, Herbert J. Harrison, Leonard

Hart, William B. Hartman, Irvin H., Jr. Hartman, William N. Harvey, W. Ward Haverkampf, Gordon D. Hawkes, Herbert E., Jr. Heald, Merrill 1.. Heath, Frank C., Jr. Hedges, David T. Hekma, Frank Henry, Charles W. Herman, Richard O. Hess, Carl B. Heston, Herbert N. Hewitt, Alan E. Hicks, Thomas D. Hilton, Edward L. Hinsman, John M. Hirschey, Charles S. Houck, Richard H. Howard, Curtiss Hoyt, John O. Hulsart, C. Raymond, Jr. Jackson, Franklyn J. J ackson, Herbert W. Jacobson, Allan C., Jr. Joseph, Michael, Jr. Judd, William H., Jr. Karstedt, Edwin S.,Jr. Keeley, J. Kenneth Kelley, Edward F. Kempff, Clarence S., Jr. Kibbe, Gordon C. King, Jamie H. King, Robert C. Kneisel, John J. Knibbs, John W., III Kolbe, Robert C. Krogslund, Nelson B. Laidlaw, John, Jr. Lasher, John M. Lehmann, Joseph B. Leighton, Stanley D. Leonard, Arthur J., Jr. Levin, Morris Lewis, Seymour D. Lindheim, Leon T. Lippe, Charles Logan, Hugh A. Luedke, Edward A. Lyle, John S. Lynch, John W. Maas, Karl F. McCann, Harry E. McConnochie, Witten H_ McCray, Samuel A. Magrath, George Marceau, J. Edward Marrero, Louis H., Jr. Marks, Alvin B. Marshall, Edward F. Maxam, Noel V. Meigher, Stephen C. Menchel, Myron A. Mersel, Mordecai Meyer, H. Lewis Miller, Horace F. Mitchell, David A. Mock, William B.T. Moebius, Arthur P. Moore, Edwin R. Morton, Roald A. Mosher, Frederick C. Mudge, Edwin B. Murphy, John D. Necarsulmer, Henry Neill, Stanley E. Newman, Robert G. Newman, S. Henry Noble, Arthur D. Oare, Robert L. O'Brien, John D. O'Brien, Smith Offenbach, Robert O'Keeffe, Lionel H. O'Reilly, John J. Orseningo, Eugene J., Jr. Page, Richard A. Palmer, Robert C.

Palmer, Solon M. Paradis, Adrian A. Parker, Theodore H. Parmelee, Frank W., Jr. Peirce, Henry J. Peters, Robert D. Poisson, J. Richard Powers, W. Langdon Prescott, James Ramsey, William C., Jr. Randall, John S. Raphael, Gail M. Rath, Frederick L., Jr. Redington, Dana S. Reid, William J. Reinherz, Arthur S. Rench, William E. Richardson, William E. Richmond, Neal W., Jr. Rigby, Henry W. Rinaldo, Frederic I. Roberts, John B. Robbe, Frederick G. Rodman, Robert M. Rose, Henry R. Rosen, Henry Rosenblum, Howard V. Ruebhausen, Oscar M. Sanborn, Frederick Sandy, Donald C. Sarajian, Aram M. Sargent, Oliver M. Sayre, George P. Scherman, William H. Schmid, Warren G. Schuyler, Daniel M. Seitner, Alfred J. Seney, Clyde C. Shea, Cornelius J. Sheffeld, William M. Sills, Bernard Silverman, Stanley H. Singleton, Robert R. Slechta, Joseph A. Smart, Russell C. Smith, Robert M. Smith, Robert W. Smoyer, Stanley C.

Spain, Frank J. Speigel, John P, Spitler, David K. Spitz, Milton A. Spitzer, Herman M. Stearns, Harry S., Jr. Stein, William M. Stern, Siegfried Stowe, William P. Sullivan, James E. Sulzbacher, Isaac M. Sutton, Charles P. Sweeney, Robert E., Jr. Swensson, Joseph L. Thomas, George L. Thompson, Robert F. Thompson, Theodore M. Thorne, Van Buren, Jr. Tibbits, George D. Turbett, Frank S. Twiss, Benjamin R. Valier, Edward K. Veazie, Boardman Vickland, Carl R. Wallace, Harry W. Walter, J ames H. Ward, Arthur D. Ward well, Frank P. Warner, Robert S. Waterman, John W. Watts, S. Gordon Wells, Richard G. Werner, S. Henry Wildman, Robert L. Williams, Wendell H. Williamson, Robert M. Willis, Arthur H. Wilmot, Robert E. Wilson, William L., Jr. Wisch, Sidney S. Wolf, Fred, Jr. Wood, Arthur L. Woodbury, Perry S. Woodbury, Stephen T. Wyne, William E. Xanthaky, Nicholas Zabriskie, John W.

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