1936*
"Led by Mitchell C. Boyd of Needham, appointed leader of the squad by local officials, the party after receiving preliminary instructions boarded a bus which carried them to Newtonville where they entrained for the induction station in Worcester Boyd, a Dartmouth graduate of the class of 1936, relinquished his position as production manager of a Needham concern in order to volunteer his services for a year of miliary training." The quotation is from a Needham, Mass. paper—and Mike Boyd becomes our first selectee—a voluntary one; and gradually a group of men who formerly believed that they would never take up arms begins to feel that there are some concepts of life that are worth fighting for. And then they wonder if maybe they aren't being duped and they aren't really going to be fighting for ideals and ways of life. But they do know that life without freedom isn't worth living—and so they wonder,—and they prepare.
One of them decided much sooner. He served with the ambulance corps in France and was taken prisoner by the Germans. Now he's back skiing in his own country Larry Jump "the first American casualty." He can tell us plenty.
No one can plan much for his future life so everyone goes on just as if there were no clouds in the air. Bob Bright goes ahead preparing himself for achievement in chemistry. He holds a du Pont post-doctorate fellowship in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin. Siff Vass continues to analyze budgets for Ebasco Services in downtown New York. And each of us goes about our individual business, but somehow it doesn't seem quite as important or world-shaking as it did. Now it's just going through the motions waiting.
Bud Titcomb qualifies as a yacht designer and lists his residence as Farmington, Maine, and his business address as Coconut Grove, Miami, Fla. Should get together with El Thomas who lists as his profession one of those little-known ones that Judge used to do such a good job on. He's a "sailmaker" with the Cooney Sail Co. in Gloucester. If I get much bigger vou can make me a suit, Elmer.
El Wanstall is Credit Manager in the South Bend office of Associates Discount Investment Corp. which is undoubtedly called A.D.I.C. and in Russia would surely be known as Asdisinco. Sure sign that we are not yet totalitarian is that we still talk alphabetically about F.D., I.C.'s and HOLC'S rather than syllablically about ogpus and gestapos Henry Smith's a special agent for Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co.—office in Philadelphia.
Brooklyn Union Gas man Don Ballan- tyne is glad that he isn't married. Uncle Sam probably will be too.
Frank Higgins is behind the bars—in Olean, N. Y.'s Exchange National Bank .... Barney Hoffman is with the Atlas Supply Co.—plumbing and mill supplies—and lives in Dorchester, Mass Kirk Liggett is still in the securities business in Philadelphia, but would like to get out of it. His engagement to Lee Sturm was announced in September Bill Smith uses his personality in behalf of George I. Griffiths & Co., Cleveland brokers.
Boyce Price's eyes were too bad for the Supply Dept. of the Naval Reserve. He expects to be drafted some time this spring.
Class father John Parish is an underwriter for St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co. in the twin cities Gardy Schirmer was seen skiing at Great Barrington a while back. He's in the electrical equipment business in the Hub....Lou Tylec is export manager for the Undine Twine Mills in Moodus, Conn Frank Teagle who used to do a little printing in Hanover as well as advertising for his Blue Hills Press is now in the printing game in Cleveland. .. .Norb Hoffman has changed his job—is now with Condc Nast.
And Tom Sinding, Connie Wickham and big Bob Shertz are on duty in the Pacific—ensigns in the United States Navy. Besides leaving wife. Anne Longhurst Shertz behind, Bob also left the alumni fund chairmanship of the class. We've been lucky to get efficient, resourceful, conscientious General Foods man Bob Prentice to take over the job—and it is a job. And it's a job that has to be done well now more than ever, because the world needs and is going to need schools like Dartmouth which teach freedom of thought, which don't preach ultimate truth where none exists. Maybe we are poor products—we don't know what we think—just know that we are being torn between two strong convictions. But we do know what the objective of the whole mess must be. We know that eventually there'll be international justice or there'll be no more Dartmouths and lots more wars You can help Bob plenty if you'll send in a contribution early without the expense and nuisance of being solicited for something you're going to give anyway. Stoney Jackson will be glad to get your offering in Hanover and will credit it to '36. The first line of defense for the College is the loyalty of the alumni.
Red Roy Adams will be at reunion if wife Lillian Cannon Adams has anything to say, about it. She whistles Eleazer daily in his presence in an endeavor to turn his thoughts northward. The Adams are now living in Port Chester, Roy's employerthe American Felt Co.—having moved up to Glenville, Conn Jack Sawyer was lucky enough to land Nancy Milnes of Kenwood Station, N. Y. Jack's a General Foods representative in upstate New York. .... Bill McLoughlin will soon be flying the Caribbean and riding a mule over the Andes on his second trip to the mountains of Ecuador on an audit job for his sponsors L. Ross Bros, and M "Colonel" Bill Kirk's a Boston salesman—peddling for Ault and Wiborg Carbon and Ribbon Co Dick Heffler's Secretary of DOCNY Davy Fox is a statistician for Standard Statistics Co Jack Hanna- ford's an executive out in Elyria, Ohiois Vice Pres. of the Elyria Hardware Co.
Frank Curtis is a flying cadet at Randolph Field.
Oliver Wendell Harding teaches and coaches at Brandon, Vt. High School Art Appleton's Vice President of Appleton Electric Co., Chicago. .. .Swimmer Bill Essex is a Household Finance lend-a- hander in Illinois.
Dick Wilson is an Ensign in the Supply Corps of the USNR.
Fake Corwin has a new job as personnel interviewer for the Allsion division of General Motors—Allison's their aircraft motors division Dick Brierley's a selling agent for the blanket mills of Thos. B. Keen & Co. N. Y. C Doc Vic Kiarsis is interning in Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital .... Engineering for Wiremold Co. in Hartford is Bob Murphy.
To CONCLUDE: And so on down the line, and the ALUMNI MAGAZINE didn't want the secretaries to devote too much of their columns to the war. Of course everyone is thinking about it, but then too everyone wants to know what his classmates are doing. Many of his classmates are doing things that they never dreamed they would be. It's a far cry back to the peace meetings in Hanoverto the impassioned convictions that there would be no more wars—that we the younger generation knew better. There are some who still have those convictions and are willing to live by them—to go to jail for them. And more power to those few. But we had another conviction up there in Hanover—that every man was entitled to freedom of speech and freedom of religion and liberty and there was a yardstick that some of our professors used" the greatest good to the greatest number." And now there are forces at work in the world that preach and fight a doctrine of the greatest good to the dominant few. And people on each side try to give us the answers and we know that no one is all right and that there must be a middle ground, but it's hard ground to stand on. One thing we're sure of—in case the first few years out of college had made us forget the ideal of personal gain and personal success looks pretty small in contrast to the forces outside of our control pushing us away from it. And we wonder if a world motivated by personal gain will ever be a world without wars.
I hope we all see each other at reunion
Secretary, 143 Sunset Ave., Ridge wood, N. J.
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