1928*
Boston Newspapers of November ist carried headlines No Such Thing as AirSickness, Says Doctor. The authority referred to was none other than Dr. Sam Bassett of St. Louis, medical examiner of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, who delivered a paper at the 13th annual meeting of the Aero-Medical Association of the United States the previous day. Sam said that the sickness experienced by passengers and pilots in air travel is brought on in a large majority of cases by emotional apprehension, anxiety and fear. He described the success which a mild stimulative drug, amphetamine sulphate, administered in the form of lozengers during an air trip, has had in relieving and preventing air discomfort. He said the lozengers produce "a feeling of well being, an evaporation of apprehension and anxiety, and they do it simply by overcoming the partial paralysis of the central nervous system that often results in nausea." We're obliged to Craig Haines of Milton, Mass., and Dr. John Mason of South Ashburnham, Mass., for sending us the clippings of this medical discovery.
Dr. Art Nightingale, of the 353 rd Field Artillery, Camp Livingston, La., writes, "I am among the unfortunates who are in the Army. I have been in the reserve corps since graduating from medical school in 1932 but was called to active duty last April. I am a lieutenant attached to a field artillery regiment. The medical work is little, but what a swell bookkeeper I am becoming. We are in the heart of Louisiana, where yesterday, October 14, the temperature was 95. Why, I bet they're skiing in Hanover. Well, anyway, if any of the boys happen to be around this godforsaken part of the country, I'd like to see them."
Lt. Sherm Baketel, of Marblehead, Mass. recently a salesman for Beam-X Direction Finders, is now receiving mail addressed to the U. S. S. Algonquin, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
George Lee who has been a Captain in the reserve corps since 1938, was called to active duty with the Army April 4 from his position as Sales Manager of the H. D. Lee Mercantile Cos., Kansas City garment manufacturers. He was sent to the Army Industrial College in Washington and graduated in July. This college trains selected officers of the Army and Navy in the solution of problems peculiar to the procurement of munitions. George is now Procurement Planning Officer at the Kansas City Quartermaster Depot.
With the situation in the Far East becoming daily more precarious, it is interesting to note that we still have three classmates out there: Si Warner, at the American Consulate, Kobe, Japan; George Bell, representing the Standard-Vacuum Oil Cos. in Shanghai, and Chris Livingston, representing the Texas Cos., in Shanghai.
The Lester B. Masons announce the arrival of Donald Otis, Dartmouth '63, on October 19 in Buffalo.
After serving the National Labor Relations Board in its Philadelphia and Kansas offices for several years, Johnny Johnson was made the regional director in the Milwaukee office, which is clearly indicative of work well done. His address is: National Labor Relations Board, Madison Building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Charley Proctor is getting ready for a busy winter in Yosemite National Park, California, where he is Director of Winter Sports Ed Atkinson of the Lewis Manufacturing Co.—Bauer & Black division of the Kendall Cos. has written a textbook on sutures (ghost-written for P. F. Ziegler) Plaster Casts: Their Preparationin the Hospital. Ed is assistant advertising manager of the above division; was moved to Chicago after eleven years in the Walpole, Mass., division Red Jenkins of the N. J. Bell Telephone Cos. has moved to 30 Hillside Ave., Madison, N. J J. Harold Moody, formerly of Enfield, N. H., is now teaching at Woodsville, N. Y.
Latest '28er to find the right girl is Johnnie Stewart, whose engagement to Mary Rosalie Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Baker of Cambridge, Ohio, has been announced. Mary is a graduate of Randolph-Macon and has done graduate work at the University of Virginia and Ohio State University. She is a member of Delta Zeta. Johnnie is supervisor of the Standard Oil Cos. in Coshocton, Ohio.
John Flanagan is Assistant Manager of the Freeland Felt Works in Philadelphia, manufacturers of punched hair and jute felts. He and Vera report that on their last trip South they stopped in Williamsburg, Va., and found Jimmy and Theodosia Fowler well and happy and enjoying their stay at William & Mary, where Jimmy teaches history. Although he is "Jimmy" to all his Dartmouth friends, his real name is Harold Lees Fowler.
Maxfield Parrish, who lists himself as a "machinist," is working for the Polaroid Corp., 730 Main St., Cambridge, Mass. Although he likes to call himself a machinist, "inventor" would be more accurate. Last spring the Baker Library arranged an exhibit in the main hall which it called Creations and Artistic Diversions of Maxfield Parrish Jr. '28. The reviewer for TheDartmouth praised it as "skillful, artistic, humorous," said that it showed the development of a man's hobby from his student days to more recent and better efforts. Running the list of materials used in three dimensional creation, Parrish has used everything except perhaps stone, fashioning objects from all kinds of wood, from many metals, and from terra cotta.
Stew Hoagland answered our plea for information about Bill Breyfogle, thereby filling a gap in our '28 records. He says: "I forget now when Bill got married but it was more than a year ago. The girl is Betty Hopwood, a former resident of Toronto, a Canadian. Bill had known her quite a while, as she has been spending summers at a lake near Peterboro. She is quite some younger than Bill, and a lovely girl. We visited them last Decoration Day and found them living quite snugly in a small house near Bill's family. Bill is still writing."
Dick and Janet Canton have a daughter, Sally Louise, born August 8, and are now definitely in the large-family group with Richard, aged 7, and Robert, aged 3. Dick is vice president of the insurance firm of Stark, Johnson & Stinson, Inc., Worcester, Mass.
Honie Westhaver is the new president of the Dartmouth Club of Worcester County, having been elected October 2 at the annual meeting attended by sixty members. Honie is assistant superintendent of Open Hearth and Rolling Mills of the American Steel & Wire Co. in Worcester. His election brings to four the number of 28ers who are presidents of alumni clubs; the others are Jack Zellers, Dick Walker and George Holbrook.
George and Sis Emery have a second daughter, Lisa Ann, born August 11. This welcome bit of information was picked up by one of this news organ's staff reporters, Cal Billings, at the Princeton game. George is business office manager of the N. J. Bell Telephone Cos. in Rahway.
Also seen in Palmer Stadium by our eagle-eyed staff were Jack Herpel, Dave Willard, Don Giles, Bill Cogswell, and Charley Gearhart Among those in Ernie Wright's private cheering section (Ernie bought 30 tickets) were Bruce and Ernestina Lewis, who spent the week-end with Ernie and his bride in the City of Brotherly Love.
Dick Klinck has been elected a Trustee of the Kings County Savings Bank in Brooklyn. He is Secretary of the Merchants Refrigerating Cos., in New York City.
Lanky Langdell was elected to the Executive Committee of the Manchester, N. H., Dartmouth Alumni Association at a recent meeting.
Woody Isham has moved to 430 Brookside Drive, Chevy Chase, Md—until recently he was in New York City as assistant manager for the Standard Register Co.
Johnny Lawrence is in Havana on vacation from his position with the New England Tel. & Tel. in Providence. He reports that he drove up last month to North Adams to see Bill and Beck Sreenan and found Bill looking well, and very busy as Draft Co-ordinator for Western Massachusetts.
We'd like to quote the last paragraph of Bruce's letter of September 18 to the Class: "Last year we came pretty close to balancing the budget. If each one will send in his check promptly you will have the undying thanks of your willing but aging treasurer." Give him a break, boys, and don't cause his untimely death by forcing him to write any more dunning letters to you.
Secretary, Troy, Pennsylvania Treasurer, Lewis Historical Pub. Cos., Inc. 80-8th Ave., New York, N. Y.
