1916*

ANNUAL PRE-HARVARD-GAME 1916 GET-TOGETHER

Twenty-eight members of the Class met for dinner at the University Club, Boston, on Friday, October 16, the evening before the Harvard game. Informally and off-therecord, Carl Eskeline gave a detailed account of his treatment as prisoner of the Nipponese which was stirring and brought the war right home where it belongs; Eskie plans to enter war work in the near future. Max Bernkopf was present and in good health after his recent serious illness. Dan Dinsmore, now a member of the Alumni Council, came on from St. Louis for the 1916 gathering. The others present were: Fred Bailey, Hobey Baker, Ollie Barr,Frank Bobst, Bob Burlen, Joe Carleton, Ernie Cutler, Ig Eigner, Lincoln Filene, Jock Fletcher, Park Hayden, Alec Jardine, John Monahan, Art Marsden, Bill Mott, John Mullen, Bill McKenzie, Gene McQuesten, Joe Newmark, Howdy Parker, Dick Parkhurst, Bert Phinney, Gil Tapley, Ken Tucker, Ted Walker. This was a good turn-out, considering that Frank Bobst, who presided, said that he had received only twelve cards from classmates who announced that they could attend. Several who could not attend sent greetings to the crowd, however, which seems like a good idea. After the party someone observed that for the first time in his memory of such occasions the GAME was a minor theme in conversation—a fact which may be interpreted by the reader at his leisure. Present also at the game: Herb Lord, Bob Steinert, Cliff Bean. The week-end was a pleasant one for all concerned.

RECENT MILITARY ASSIGNMENTS

Jim Colton, Russ Perkins, Shorty Hitchcock are lieutenants (s.g.) in the Navy; Jack McEndy is a lieutenant commander. The stations of these men are available upon request to the acting secretary, as well as the military addresses of many other 1916 men. All military addresses known to the College are filed at the Office of Alumni Records and it is a primary obligation of any reader of this column to see to it that all military addresses of alumni known to him are sent promptly to this office in Hanover. This is a small task for us but one which is of considerable use to the men concerned and of real help to the College in various ways.

"SOME TELL, SOME HEAR, SOME JUDGE OF NEWS, SOME MAKE IT." .... Dryden

Recent visitors to Hanover have included Charlie Everett and Sam Cutler who attended the centennial celebration of KKK. At the Colgate game were Horace Macartney, Parker Hayden, and Carl Eskeline. The William and Mary week-end drew Dick Parkhurst and Sprague Drenan. All 1916 visitors to the village are requested to communicate with the acting secretary upon arrival; normally guideservice or other hospitality can be arranged to suit the occasion.

Chet Woolworth, according to a recent press clipping, is heading the G.O.P. Martin-for-Governor Campaign in Pennsylvania. Chet also serves now as Director of the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce, Director of the Thaddeus Stevens Trade School in Lancaster, and member of the Republican State Finance Committee. The firm of which Chet is President, the Animal Trap Company of America, is occupied in filling war contracts, largely of a confidential nature.

Recently, the National Foreign Trade Council held its annual convention in Boston. The Board of Directors of this organization includes the names of Ed Riley, General Motors Corporation of New York, and Reg Chutter, Sharpe and Dohme of Philadelphia. Present at the dinner during this convention were Dick Parkhurst, of the Boston Port Authority, and Bob Dana, of Draper and Company, Boston, both of whom sent to this writer accounts of this significant meeting at which Under-Secretary Welles told the delegates how much of our misery is to be charged to the isolationist notions of the average American citizen and assured them that this attitude must change.

Charlie Brundage, still actively and successfully engaged in his chosen profession of investment counsel, is occupied also with a farm. In conversation and correspondence he presents the charms of gentlemanly agriculture in such a favorable light and with such contagious enthusiasm that the present writer has been tempted to engage in more extensive farming operations himself. Charlie has cattle and hogs, raises apples and such, but is most convincing on apiculture. If he had had bees with him at the time of his recent visit and been willing to sell, I should have bought 'em on the spot, and, although I have always been afraid of bees, I have decided that I must have some soon. Charlie's son, Peter, is an active and popular member of 1945 at Dartmouth.

Of many gatherings on Dartmouth Night which deserve to be reported, the following may serve as a typical example. Gran Fuller, now with the lumber branch of the W.P.B., writes that on that evening he convened in the nation's capital with General Stew Paul of the Army, Lieutenant Sterling Wilson of the Navy, and Jib Dingwall, recently engaged as consultant by the O.P.A. Much good might come of such a meeting.

Ed Lindman, long an educator, is reported to be currently engaged in an interesting variety of war industry with the Stanley Works of New Britain, the firm which employs Johnny Pelletier, also.

Secretary, 2542 Stratford Rd., Cleveland Heights, O.

Acting Secretary, 3 Downing Road, Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 34 White Oak Rd., Wellesley Hills, Mass.