1913*
"Cap" Avery's oldest son, Dan, now 20, enlisted a year ago last October in the Army and later went into the Paratroops when they organized. When we learned this from "Cap" he had heard last from him at a port of embarkation.
Eddie Sides has been busy and successful with the Gilman Fanfold Corporation as Systems Engineer at the Worcester office. His son is now with the Bridgeport Brass Company where he is doing a grand job in charge of time study and personnel work in their big rolling mill.
Harry and Florence French celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on July 10th. Over the July 17-20 week-end they enjoyed a short trip up the Saguenay River.
Ray" Maloney is very busy these days with the Sullivan Machine Company but takes time to get up to Hanover for band concerts and an occasional game or play. You know the trains still run to help out on the gas rationing.
Henry W. Merrill was renamed to a second term as president of the Boston Real Estate Exchange. He has been doing a grand job and has reached that stage where his picture now has almost a daily appearance in the Boston press. One of his last acts was the modernizing of the Exchange quarters at 7 Water Street. He is also vice president and director of the Society of Industrial Realtors.
George Watts and his family have been on Cape Cod at Orleans as usual, but this year the fishing has been especially good and George has had heavy catches and has built up quite a trade. He is also tutoring, but on account of gas has given up golf, for he has to drive home again.
Len Martin's son Landon is at Corpus Christi, Texas, with the U.S.N.A.S. where he is an Aviation Cadet. The older son Leonard is awaiting word from Washington on his appointment to A.U.S. (special) U.S.N.R.
Young John Cheney is at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and Joe and Hazel visited him in August. He has been in the Army for 18 months and had not seen the family since Christmas.
Caldy Calderara writes from North Abington, Mass., that two of his seven children are married and that he is a grandfather to a prospective Dartmouth man. "Caldy" is in the school department of Abington after 20 years in the nursery and landscape service.
George Mulcahy, master of Deer Island in Boston for 16 years, returned to the Army in July as a Major in the Air Corps, and left for Denver, Colorado. George was a Major in the last war and is the possessor of citations and medals and was once commended personally by General Pershing.
Walter Haley dropped in at the office right after Emmett Pishon's funeral. He has been an assistant engineer at Camp Devens and young Walter was at Devens and left in July to "go south."
Gus Perry has been transferred from the Burlington to the Springfield office of the U. S. Employment Service, and his address is now Sargent Street, White River Junction, Vt. Charles, his eldest son, enlisted in the Army in July and went to Buckley Field, Colorado, to be an armorer. Son No. 2 is a riveter in Stratford, Conn., and expects to be in service soon. Gus has just spent months in trying to find help for farmers in Franklin and Addison Counties, Vermont. Alice has taken all the Civilian Defense courses and has been at work in the air warning center.
Sid Akerstrom is a deputy air raid warden in Littleton, N. H O.C.D. National Director J. M. Landis presented citations for the efficiency of Provincetown, Mass., civilian defense units in caring for survivors of a torpedoing on June 16th. "Among those present" was Ted Davis, Civilian Defense Director of Mass. Region 7.
This column should have started with a pat on the back and a Wah-Hoo-Wah for Jack Remsen for his work with the class on the Fund. He has won for the 3rd year in succession the Green Derby for our group. It is now up to every member of the class to make a special effort towards preparing to contribute to the Fund next year when Hap Atwood is to be the Fund Chairman and Don Cunningham is on the Council Fund Committee as well as president of the Alumni Council. Jack should win the Green Derby again surely. Judge Hugus is President of the General Alumni Association, to help the whole situation. Remember that the Fund is always open for contributions and it may be easier for you to send Jack a check this fall and another in the spring. Contributions for the 1913 Memorial Fund are always welcome and should be sent to Dr. Sidney M. Akerstrom, 50 Pleasant St., Littleton, N. H. The interest from this Memorial Fund is added every year to the Class quota of the Alumni Fund.
Ralph Samuel was in Hanover in June and played golf with George Knight. His son Howard entered Dartmouth as a freshman in July, and his other two boys are 2nd lieutenants in the Army one at Fort Benning and the other at Salt Lake City at the Air Base there.
On July 25th Chip Semmes broke in on the problems at Dilworth, N. C., and went to Fort Knox to see Harry Jr. graduate from the O.C.S. Anita joined him there coming up from the home station at Fort Benning.
Many read of the publication by three Metropolitan newspapers of what Attorney General Francis Biddle called "confidential information." One, The ChicagoTribune, is said to "welcome the fight." According to The New York Times, the Tribune said editorially, in part, "We have no apologies to make, and only one regret. We regret that the effort to destroy the Tribune's independence is directed primarily against two of our most valued associates, Mr. J. Loy Moloney, the man- aging editor, and Mr. Stanley Johnston, the correspondent whose account of the Coral Sea battle thrilled every newspaper reader in the land."
Loy Maloney is quoted in The ChristianScience Monitor as saying "In spite of repeated injustices visited upon The Chicago Tribune by Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy, in his efforts to favor his Chicago newspaper, the Tribune has meticulously refrained, in both its news columns and editorials, from printing anything that either reflected unfavorably upon the Navy or might aid the enemies of the Navy.
"So careful is the Tribune in observing the rules of voluntary censorship that the record has been repeatedly commented upon by both Washington censors and local Army and Navy officers to whom stories are submitted."
Just as we are to mail these notes comes word of the death of Walter H. McCarthy of Crescent Road, Longmeadow, Mass., on August 29th, in the Springfield Hospital. Walter suffered a heart attack Memorial Day and has been confined to the hospital since.
Jack English is now in the U. S. Air Corps, at Miami Beach, Fla. An account of his recent activities and the send-off he received can be found in this issue in the news from the Dartmouth Club of Melrose.
The above pictures taken by Henry Viets '12 at the 30th reunion of the class in Hanover last spring show, in the group, left to right: Queechee French, Ralph E. Baker '12, Doc O'Connor, Les Snow, Pett Pettingell, and Tommy Thomas,
The others pictured above are (1. to r.) Babe Hartshorn, who managed the Hanover end of reunion plans, Boss Geller, 1912 class agent for the Alumni Fund, and Doc Viets, photographer.
COL. CHESTER P. HAYCOCK '12 Elevated to the post of Commandant of theArmy Finance School at Fort Harrison. Hesewed in World War I and was transferredto the Finance Department of the Armyfrom the-Infantry in
Secretary, Box 2057, Boston, Mass. (Office: 89 Broad St.) Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
