1917*
AL HICKMOTT is president, treasurer, construction superintendent and traffic manager of the Stratford and South Eastern Rail Road. While he may spend his idle moments keeping Connecticut General Life Insurance Company millions in the black and though he may not be able to draw a chart, one thing is certain. He can write a letter. Here's the evidence:
"What does anybody reply to a request like yours? I'm always terribly interested in what other people do, but have the horrors about blabbing from the house-tops, or whatever. However, you asked for it, so here it is.
"Right after leaving college, I went to work for the Travelers in the Actuarial Department. This lasted about three months—it took them that long to find I could not square roots. So I went with the Connecticut General, this time in the Investment Department, and there I've been ever since, with the exception of a very short-lived (thank god) foray into the brokerage business in 1920. (That, in itself, is a long story, and more amusing than this one, but has no place here.) Sometime in the early twenties, I took a correspondence course in Accountancy, and later (and miraculously) passed the Connecticut C.P.A. exams. About the same time I did a lot of research work for the Connecticut Savings Banks and eventually drafted the law relating to their investment in public utility securities.
"In 1925, I was made an Assistant Secretary of the Connecticut General and in 1937 its Financial Secretary. In 1931, I went on the Board of the Guardian Investment Trust (and its affiliates) and that has been an interesting and absorbing application of theory to practice (sounds very stuffy, but true). A couple of years ago I went on the New London Northern Railroad Board, a fascinating association with several railroad men only matched by my model railroad that bears the imposing name of Stratford & South Eastern. For some unaccountable reason, I wound up as Treasurer of the N.L.N, and also of the Central Vermont Transportation Company. And because I was handy and at loose ends, Vice President and a Director of the Kansas City, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad (this is a real one too).
"I collect netsuke and books, particularly Elizabethan Drama and modern fine printing. Quite a lot of the stuff I've exhibited, like in the commemoration of 500 years of printing. I wrote a book, too, back in 1925, that no one would buy. But it was no end of fun. What else? Board of Trustees, Y.W.C.A.; Board of Governors, Hartford Club. Member, Hartford Golf Club, Bankers Club (New York), Grolier Club (New York), Columbiad Club, Connecticut Society of C.P.A.'s.
"For twenty-five years, Madelyn has maintained a stout heart and has gone on living with me. She collects little silver boxes, draws charming black and whites, and has three cats, one with no tail and one that shakes hands. We have a 200-year old house in the country, with a brook, and I have a little English sports car with red leather seats that is my pride and joy.
"My job is still absorbing and fun. And while I don't know anything about the flow of gold and haven't drawn a chart in twenty years, we're a tidy number of millions in the black, so I guess it's worked out all right so far."
SHERMAN L. SMITH, Silver JubileePublicity Chairman, is Advertising and Sales Promotion Manager of Bostitch, East Greenwich, R. I. In addition Sherm is Priorities Director, has handled over 10,000 priorities since last September. Our former editor of the Seventeen Sentry gravitates naturally into publicity jobs, for the Warwick (R. I.) Community Chest, East Greenwich Council of Defense, Red Cross, etc.
In less hectic times he is a lecturer on Psychology at Northeastern University, Providence Division, and he is a member of the Committee on Y.M.C.A. Schools, Providence. He and Gladys and the two children live on a hilltop overlooking Narragansett Bay, at 106 Overhill Road, E. G. Natalie is a freshman at Simmons College. Alan is a high school sophomore headed for Dartmouth Sherm's recent Sentry broadside put the Hanover magnet right where you can't let go, made a stroke of lightning the only legitimate excuse for staying home in pain and missing the SILVER JUBILEE. He'll turn on a lot of that smile when he greets you in God's country, May 15 th.
(Spique is rounding out his fifth year as Class Agent. Let's give him a big hand. Deadline for checks is June 30th, but early contributions lessen the headache.)
Sam Haskell is a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, was ordered to active duty November 4, 1940. In March 1941 he went to the U.S.S. Kilauea and in November was ordered to Section Base, Southport, N. C. where he is Section Commander. Sam was married Feb. 18, 1919 to Ruth M. Connihan. They have two children, Ruth Marilyn, 21, a Junior at U. of Cincinnati, and Sam Jr., 13. Mrs. Haskell and Sam Jr. will join him April first. Sam is on "duration" leave from his position as Director of Adult Probation at Cincinnati. He adds, "Saw Ted Lonnquest, Marie and the kids in Norfolk last summer. Had a swell time with them and found Ted taut as a fiddle-string, putting out plenty for Navy Aviation." Ted, by the way is a Commander, home address now Chevy Chase, Md., and we assume his duties are in Washington.
Raymond S. Mac Murray is a Sergeant of Detectives, Huntington, Indiana, Police Department, and has charge of investigations, identification bureau and police laboratory. He wrote March Bth: "This will change very soon for I am ordered again into the U.S.A. as a First Lieutenant, of Military Police. I am to report to the Commanding General of Ft. Hays, Columbus, 0., March 20th."
Mac was married Feb. 22, 1930 to Iva Ruth Stults, and they have one child, Rose-Ann, 11. He is a member of American Legion, Elks, Fraternal Order of Police, has been organizing local civilian war activities, and says he is interested in Y.M.C.A., Archery Club, and Gun Club. "You may remember my brother-in-law, C. A. Phillips, who was connected with Tuck School in 1917. He is now Dean of the College of Commerce, U. of lowa, lowa City." As a Ist Lieut, in 1918, Mac saw action in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and with the above record, doesn't this remark seem natural: "You can probably see that my hobby is fishing and hunting, and guns!"
Chuck Norby was sworn in as a Captain, U.S. Army Air Corps, March 14th, reporting to Washington, where Mrs. Norby is also active in war work as a supervisoi in office work in the Quartermaster Department. Chuck says he had dinner with George Hartshorn and a good visit with Ralph Britton and Dick Marschat recently.
Art Sullivan graduated from Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1920, practises law at 11 Beacon St., Boston. He was married in 1926 to Mary E. Kiely; is a member of the North Shore Dartmouth Club, says he is interested in old time-pieces. Art guesses right when he adds: "You would be interested to learn that I recently secured a Meadows print of Dartmouth College done in 1851, one of the oldest prints of the College."
A nice letter from Paul Gould, who lives at Cranston, ELI., says he is a reporter for ProvidenceJournal, mainly on court work. He was married April 8, 1918 to Pauline K. Smith in Boston, their children are Nancy, 20 a Junior at Bates College, and Norbert, 17, who is entered there for this fall.
Myron S. ("Shifty") Fales, exuberant comedian of freshman year, wrote March Ist from 1526 N.E. 18th St., Oklahoma City: "Twenty-nine years is quite a spell. However I remember you and the others you mentioned, altho' I have never seen them. Ran into Trenholm in Paris during World War I and had quite some fun with him. Never saw him again 'til last fall when he came out to my office in the field here; great how the years in between seem as nothing. Have been in N. Y. once a year since the war, going to Troy to visit my mother. Left Texas in 1930 and have been in the Oklahoma City oil field ever since. Am a gas tester in the natural gasoline department of Phillips Petroleum Cos. Was married in 1932 to Elizabeth Whitten, Connecticut College '23 and we have one son, Myron Jr., 8. Have been answering to the name 'Mike' ever since my first oil-field job."
Johnny Byers says he is the owner of Community Bake Shoppe, at Norwich, Conn. He was married August 28, 1926 to Emma A. Wiedwald and John William 2nd, is their 9 year old son. Johnny is active in the American Legion, and the civilian defense auxiliary police unit. He is a member of the Retail Bakers' Advisory Committee, connected with the State Consumer Committee, Connecticut Defense Council.
Larry Nourse writes he had dinner with Alden Vaughan in Providence recently. Alden received his Doctor's degree at U. of Penn. February 14th. Our Brown Latin Professor's thesis was on adjectives with partitive meaning in Republican literature.
Harold A. Sym was reported in Sunny Sanborn's 10th reunion book as a Distributor, Mailing Division, U.S.P.O. Dept., Manchester, N. H., married Beatrice Helen Davis, May 23, 1918. So we wrote for up-to-date records and received a newsy reply stating his employer is the same at present, however he holds a commission as Major in the Field Artillery so expects a change of address any moment. The Syms lost their first son, but have another, Robert Winslow, 11.
The Atlanta Journal, February Ist, stated "Merger of two of Atlanta's best known real estate firms—Adair Realty & Loan Cos. and Sturgess Realty Management Cos. was announced Saturday. A. H. Sturgess, president of the company bearing his name becomes vice president and sales manager of the Adair organization He has had 20 years' experience in the real estate business and is regarded as one of Atlanta's leading sales organization men. He is vice-president of the Atlanta Real Estate Board and Chairman of its sales promotion committee."
The Nashua Telegram, March 11th, ran pictures of Deering Smith and Hunk Stiliman. Dr. Smith has been named N. H. chairman of the Procurement and Assignment Service of the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services. Function of this office, which is national in scope, is to procure doctors for armed services with as little effect as possible on community health. His appointment came from Paul V. McNutt of the office for Emergency M'gm't, O.D.H.W.S Harold D. Stillman, chairman of the First Aid Committee, was pictured receiving a check for the proceeds of a ball given for the Red Cross.
Hal Tobin is seriously ill from hypertension, was taken to Baker Memorial Hospital, Boston, the third week in March. Sunny Sanborn, Spique Maclntyre and Doc Halloran were in to chat with him, and we understand he went back to Hanover about April Ist.
Tom Welles is in the real estate business and his home is at Melody Farm, South Coventry, Conn.
A good letter came from Edward R. (Whitey) Meade from Sudley Farms, Marshall, Va. He was with us junior year, graduated from Vanderbilt in 1917, went to India and Japan with Standard Oil of New York. Then he changed to the New Jersey Company, spent seven years in Santiago, Chile, two years as Uruguayan manager in Montevideo and three years as one of the directors of the marketing company in Argentina, retiring as V.-P. in August 1940. He is married, enjoys his two step-children immensely. The Meades have a large place on the Sound, at Black Rock, Bridgeport, but since buying their 355-acre farm in the hunting section of Virginia, have spent all their time in the South. He is a loyal worker for Vanderbilt but sent regards to all of us who knew him, and an invitation to stop in to see him.
Swede Burnham is located in Lawrence, Mass., and is connected with the advertising department of the Evening Tribune Walt Wilson is still teaching at Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., George Currier heard recently Walt Whipple is associated with his brother in the wholesale egg business at 235 Canal St., Providence, R. I.
Howard Myers writes he has been a trial examiner for the N.L.R.B., Washington, since March 29, 1938, when he gave up his law partnership with his brother in N. Y. "Married Sally Kline Jan. 12, '27; Howard Jr., is 14 and John is 12 I certainly will try to be with the bunch at our 25th."
As we go to press, SILVER JUBILEE enthusiasm indicates a pile of men will leap all transportation hurdles, scrape up some cash and turn up at our QUARTER CENTURY invasion. Four out of five early enrollments include wives. Those who can't make it will find the whole story here in the June issue, written by your new scribe, to be elected at Hanover from a new Executive Committee.
For the 44th and last time since our "Tremendous Twentieth," this reporter winds up Class notes, deeply appreciative of the benefit which has come to him from all the letters and personal contacts of the last five years. You gents certainly have made life most interesting. Many thanks. E. D. T.
ALLERTON C. HICKMOTT 'l7
SHERMAN L. SMITH
"DARTMOUTH FUSILIERS" IN WORLD WAR I Twenty-five years ago many Dartmouth men were driving ambulances in France. We areindebted to Edward M. Ross 'lB for his complete identification of the above group andfor his information that the picture was taken June 25, 1917, at a spot on the front between Meaux and Soissons "in the historic, mosquito-haunted but beautiful valley of theOurcq." The men are, front row, left to right: Paul S. Miner '18, Frank A. Lewis '18,Walter D. Carr 'l7, Edward M. Ross '18, Frederick E. Samuels '18, David L. Garratt '18,Ernest H. Earley '18, Thomas P. Campbell '18, Stanley B. Jones '18. Sitting on wall, leftto right: James W. Gill 'I8, Ralph N. Barrett 'I8, Gordon W. Phelps '2O, Lewis C. Pounds'I8. Behind wall, at extreme right, Thomas Keck, Yale '2l.
JIM DUFFY '18 (RIGHT) RECEIVES EXPERT INSTRUCTION FROM LT. COL. D. N. HAUSEMAN OF U. S. ARMY ORDNANCE DEPT.
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