1926*
U. S. AT WAR
Chet Morton enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve on July 18th as a seaman first class to be assigned to the office of Naval Procurement at Detroit. For the last nine years Chet has been a member of the editorial staff of the Toledo Times. Before that, he served on the staffs of the ToledoNews-Bee, the Boston Transcript and the Review of Reviews.
Red Raisbeck is doing an important job in Washington as consultant in the Civilian Personnel Division. When a man is needed to fill a certain job in the war effort, its up to Red to find him. Inciden- tally if any of you fellows are trying to find a slot in Uncle Sam's civilian war machine it might not be a bad idea to write Red. His address is Room 4-C-489, Pentagon Building, Arlington, Virginia.
A report from Lieutenant Ed Hanlon, U.S.A. A.F.T.T.C. "I have recently taken a leave of absence from my research work with Calvin Bullock (N.Y.C.) to accept a commission with the Army Air Force. The mysterious initials above are for U. S. Army Air Force Technical Training Command. I have been ordered down here at Miami for a six weeks' training course and will then be sent back to New York to the Eastern Procurement District Materiel Command, with headquarters at 90 Church St.
"This life is a complete change from that of a Wall Street pencil-pusher. I've been promising myself to get a little more exercise for the last five years and now the Army is making very sure that I do exactly that. Our routine here consists almost exclusively of marching, more marching, classes, eating and sleeping in that order of importance. We're up at 5 A.M., and have to be in quarters at 8 P.M. Most of the men here seem to be from the South and West. There are probably other fugitives from Wall Street in the School but so far haven't run across any."
Dan Drury has left Hanover to join the Navy. He's Lieutenant Drury now, stationed temporarily at Norfolk, Virginia, for an indoctrination course.
PEOPLE
On Saturday, August 29, Bill Volkhardt and Louise Gruss Biggs were married in New York. Bill will continue his heavy schedule with the Bethlehem Shipyards.
To Jim and Anne Wooster, on July 13th, came Suzanne, a very healthy young lady who joins sister, Tez, and brother, Jimmie.
Mr. and Mrs. Waggener's son, William, and Gladys Roberts were married in Austin, Texas, on April 27th. Nelson Waggener was his brother's best man. Bill is a Sergeant and has been at the Officer Candidate School at Camp Lee, Virginia.
John Nemiah, the son of our other honorary classmate, Professor Royal Nemiah, and Miss Muriel Harris of Lowell and Piqua, Ohio, have announced their engagement. John, Yale '40, is now at the Harvard Medical School and there are no immediate plans for the wedding.
EDUCATION, BOOKS AND LETTERS
Last May, Phil Benjamin became librarian of the Reis Library, Allegheny College, and at the same time was named associate professor of English. To quote from a recent letter
"Since 1926 I have led a contented existence on campuses and for thirteen years have been here at Allegheny, the Chipsian chief proctor of the freshman men's residence hall and purveyor of literary appreciation to those who seek it. My summers have alternated from university campuses to travels near and far.
"My hopes for military service were abruptly terminated when the Cleveland Clinic refused to give me a clean bill of health following an infection I had in 1937. I'm perfectly all right now, play tennis or handball every week; but the doctors were thumbs down. At least I won't be parading before all the young cubs I flunked a few years ago!"
Many poems by Dick Eberhart have been published over the recent past "Rumination" in the Atlantic Monthly, "Of Truth" in Poetry, a group in the HarvardAdvocate and a number in New Poems,1942, an anthology of American and British poets.
BUSINESS Ed Drier has been appointed Eastern Divisional Manager for Schenley Distillers Corp., and now supervises sales in that most important of retail markets. Ed has been with Schenley since 1933 and lives in Ridgewood, N. J.
Tom Floyd-Jones has joined the Lederle Laboratories, Inc., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, and supervises all chain store sales. If you're having trouble with your vitamins or hormones, get in touch with Tom. He's an expert in the field and knows them all by their first names. Tom and Marion have forsaken the hills of New Jersey and returned to Scarsdale, New York.
Bruce Eaken has been named chief rationing attorney of the OPA for the state of Indiana. It's a tough job but a vital one right now.
A real honor and a post of great importance has been conferred on Ernie Stebbens. Last July, Mayor La Guardia appointed him Health Commissioner of New York City. Ernie had been professor of epidemiology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and is an authority on epidemic control. His new task needs no explanation how would you like to be responsible for the collective health of some seven million people ?
1926 The August gathering in Hanover was a pleasant, successful affair. Fifteen members of 1926, including Roy Nemiah, were present on the porch of the old Beta House for the Class Meeting. Dean and Enid Chamberlain were host and hostess at the Saturday night clam bake following cocktails at Jack and Dot Cannon's. Attending the week-end were:
Paul Allen Carl Blunt Jack & Dorothy Cannon Dean & Enid Chamberlain Bob & Pense Cleary Herb & Bert Darling Sally Drury Tom & Rene Farwell
Sid & Barbara Hayward Ev Jacobus Hal & Marion Marshall Hugh & Betty Morrison Don & Dot Norstrand Bob & Dot Salinger Ken & Helen Weeks Tubber Weymouth
Football parties are planned for all of the major games. Full details cannot now be announced but here are the schedule and the men who will act as chairmen of the entertainment committees. Write them or call them for time and place:
October 10th Colgate at Hanover Sid Hayward, Dean Chamberlain. October 17th Harvard at Cambridge Don Norstrand, c/o The Kennedy Cos., 32 Summer St., Boston, Mass.; Bob Salinger, c/o United Shoe Machinery Cos., 140 Federal St., Boston, Mass. October 24th Yale at New Haven Ken Weeks, 94 Allyn St., Hartford, Connecticut; Tom FloydJones, c/o Lederle Laboratories, N. Y. C. November 7th Princeton at Princeton Jake Jacobus, c/o A. G. Jacobus Sons, Verona, N. J.; Charlie Bishop, c/o Lazard Freres, 120 Broadway, New York City. November 14th Cornell at Buffalo—Herb Darling, 131 California Ave., Williamsville, N. Y.; Paul Venneman, 468 Potomac Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. November 21st Columbia at New York—Lloyd Sanford, c/o Metropolitan Life Insurance Cos., New York City; Frank Healy, 326 Summit Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
In one of the Class Bulletins this spring it was announced that Don MacKay is a major in the Marine Corps and was "out of the country." The only thing right was Mac's rank he is a major, but in the Army (Judge Advocate General's Dept.), stationed at Camp Davis, N. C.
PROF. PHILIP BENJAMIN '26 COUNSELS A STUDENT AT ALLEGHENY COLLEGE
Secretary, Holsapple & Cos. 30 Pine St., New York, N. Y Treasurer, United Shoe Machinery Corp. 140 Federal St., Boston, Mass.
