1933*

The strain of turning out the 1933 Newsletter was so terrific that Hal Smith has just about reached the point where he can sit up and take nourishment. And because of this incapacity we have only now received a batch of letters which he received from prosperous classmates in response to his subtle dunning. We turn to them immediately.

Denny Fowler (Hq. Det. Ist Bn., 18th Infantry, Fort Devens, Mass.): "Having spent years and a lot of money to become a member of the bar, I have forsaken the law for the Army. When I first graduated from college, I joined the National Guard. Last year I was commissioned in the Regular Army, and I intend to follow that as my second profession. I am only the second Guardsman to receive a regular commission since the early twenties and I have fulfilled a lifetime ambition.

"Needless to say, I am almost too busy to write a letter, but it seems a welcome interlude.

"We have no selectees in the ist Division here at Fort Devens, and supposedly are in shape for any expedition. Rumors have us going to the West Indies, Egypt, the Balkans, Greenland and China. We have almost our full allotment of equipment, particularly ordnance. We spent the early part of this morning firing our rifles at low flying airplanes' towed sleeves."

Art Oesterheld (Fort Eustis, Va.): "I am in a Coast Artillery Replacement Center. .... I was originally ordered to San Diego, but I landed in the well known 52nd Railway Regiment at Fort Hancock, N. J. I was the Executive Officer in a twelve-inch motor battery unit, but was shifted to Fort Eustis with fourteen other officers. We were supposed to train selectees to fire eight-inch railway guns, but we are now entertaining the boys on a 155 mm. tractor drawn artillery battery. The way orders are changed around here, I know that we are going to confuse and amaze the enemy. Furthermore, some of us claim that we have been sabotaged as our old batteries at Fort Hancock just recently have been ordered to Bermuda where the officers have taken over the Castle Harbor Hotel—what a break.

"Most of us consider this place a mere stop-over and we continue to wonder whether the next orders will read Hawaii, Trinidad, Greenland or Alaska. In the meantime we are introducing each new batch of recruits to the Army and then sending them all over the country as trained artillery batteries and there is quite a lot of satisfaction in this job."

Carl Shineman (Eastman Kodak Com- pany, Rochester, N. Y.): "After several years of selling with our store organization, I'm finally located in Rochester with our Sales Service Division, a rather recently created department of which we're all quite proud. Unofficially dubbed the 'Brain Trust,' we carry out a goodly flock of assignments, mainly editorial. Oddly enough, I'm at present working over the inert body of our Photography in Law Enforcement while your recent letter relates that Blakeslee and Trost are both members of F.8.1.

"Ernie Turner, who works for a local printing house, is almost a daily caller in our office."

B. Poland Cunnningham, M.D. (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.): "Since leaving Hanover I have kept pretty busy and I am now on a fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, still on the red side of the ledger. About the only news outside of the fact that I expect to pounce upon the unsuspecting world as an otolaryngologist within the next year is the news that I have recently acquired a wife in the person of one Evelyn Gaines of Mount Holyoke '40."

John B. Faegre Jr. (1360 Northwestern Bank Bldg., Minneapolis): "I am practicing law, married to a graduate of Wells College, living in a home which we built ourselves, chairman of the Committee on Admissions to Dartmouth from Minnesota, well and happy and looking forward to the tenth reunion. Also I am herewith ex tending an invitation to any classmates to pay my wife and me a visit when they come to Minneapolis. Frank Ripley and his wife spent a few days with us last winter, Macdona was here for an evening and Bill Quinn called me yesterday from the ABC Bowling Tournament. As to the latter, I did not find his name as having won the Tournament in this morning's paper."

Jud Pierson (744 Broad Street, Newark, N. J.): "I am still selling bottles as I have been for the last tji/2 years. I now have two youngsters3l4 and 1. I spend most of my time in New York and have lunch every Friday at the Cortlandt Street Restaurant with Manley, Rugen, Black and Ruebhausen. We would welcome any new candidates. Manley is now a V-P in Wall Street. Down this way they are saying that a man's yellow to quit Wall Street and go in the Army. John's sticking it out very successfully.

"Sam's still a lawyer and so is Oz. Carl is still peddling insurance for the Travelers."

George P. Mondell (812 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C.): "There's not much to note, except that I had a lot of fun wandering—in the last few years—through Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana for quite a while as Special Agent of the Division of Investigation of the P.W.A. That was followed by four or five months of being pretty sick, and a few more months of convalescence—my recovery not being aided by the sudden loss of both my parents. For the last four months, however, I have been with the mortgage banking firm of 'Walker and Dunlop' trying to learn a little bit about the business and feeling very foolish whenever I'm asked a question about his particular branch of the law."

Sidney Stoneman (31 Milk Street, Boston): "For over four years I have been struggling along making every pretense and pretext at practising law I had better inform you of the birth, on Nov. 27th last, of a second daughter, one Betty Laura by name."

Bob Critchell (2628 Lakeview Avenue, Chicago):". . . . I just bought a baby—He was born on May 10th and we have hung the monniker of Robert S. No 3 on him. Seems like a foul trick, doesn't it?"

Bud Ball (Cos. A sth Medical Battalion, Camp Lee, Va.) "I am a medical instructor here at camp. Where is Nat Root? I'd like to get in touch with him. BillLikoff was not included in the list of medicos in the Newsletter."

Phil Whitbeck "For a class news item, you may be interested in knowing that there is now another Whitbeck boy for Dartmouth in the future. Philip Whitbeck Jr. was born on April 1, 1941. He already looks like excellent football and basketball material."

"John Trost phoned me the other day when he was in town. He is now stationed in Buffalo, but was in Rochester, checking up for the F.8.1."

"Phil Farnham is doing big things here in Rochester's Yacht Club—winning most of the Star Boat Races."

Paine Knickerbocker (Office of Public Relations, Mills College, Mills College, Calif.): "Some years ago I wrote a curt note resigning my position as assistant class agent. My job here at Mills has opened my eyes to a lot of things about education, one of them being the value of an enthusiastically supported Alumni Fund. If there is anything which I can do to be of assistance, please let me know."

CLIPS

Newspaper clippings bring the following items: Burt Martin has been made head of the English Department at Colorado Women's College Chan HagenBurger was married on September 27th in Brookline to Margaret Capper of that town Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Logan of New York have announced the engagement of their daughter, Nancy, to A. Edward Thurber Jr Martha Kelly of Nebraska City, Neb. was married to EdHutchings on June 28th at Chappaqua, N. Y.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Secretary, 111 West Main St., Waterbury, Conn. Treasurer, 2812 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh, Penna.