1911*
Word has just been received of the death of Merle Powers in Danvers, Massachusetts about two years ago.
Chubby Snow has closed out his iron and steel business for the duration and is now associated with H. C. Wainwright & Cos., as salesman for investment securities.
Marjorie Beane, Sid's daughter, who had been secretary to President Hopkins was married to Robert B. Fall on April 11. He is the son of Mrs. Marion B. Fall of Boston, is a graduate of Burdett, and is connected with the NY, NH and Hartford RR in Boston.
Jim Cuddy is making his permanent home in New Boston, New Hampshire.
Walter Lester Mayo became a grandfather on May 4 at 1:40 A.M., this being caused by the birth of William John Lohead 3rd.
An interesting letter was recently received from Helen Troy Keck in which she referred to visits with various classmates on a recent trip East. Helen is living in Houston, Texas, and has the pleasure of having Dick Hedges living in her home. Dick is with the Shell Oil Company. Jim Troy is at Exeter and expects to enter Dartmouth a year from this Fall.
. Arthur Winship has moved his family to 65 No. Main St., Rutland, Vermont, where he has a job in a branch of the federal service.
Raymond Palmer has moved to Wilmington, Delaware, at 5909 Gov. Printz Blvd. Ray is Principal Engineer in the Office of the Chief of Engineers, U. S. A. His business address is 1164 Hotel DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware.
Under the auspices of the Friends Service Committee and in cooperation with the War Re-location authority, Bob Barstow has assumed the administration of a nation-wide program for finding academic openings in non-restricted areas for the 2300 American-born Japanese young people evacuated with their families from Pacific coastal areas. His official title is Director of Japanese-American Student Re-location.
Another Elevener to join the government forces is Harold S. Card whose home address is 88 Stuyvesant Ave., Larchmont, N. Y., who is now Head Production Specialist of the Steel Branch in the War Production Board. Harold will spend most of his time in consultation with steel plants in the Central West.
Another to go into indirect war activity is Carl Waterbury who is Assistant Buyer in the Purchasing Department of Remington Arms Company in Ilion, New York. Carl's son, Palmer, Class of '38, left for San Francisco. He is a Technical Sergeant with the Air Force, Ground Service, Ma- chine Records Unit. He had been at Boiling Field in Washington prior to this assignment.
Chuck Emerson continues as a member of the Dartmouth crew running a war plant in Des Moines. Chuck says he is kept busy not only with the regular production but in connection with new additions to the plant which will bring the capacity up to 15,000 employees.
It is good news that Fred Harris is improving following an operation in Montreal to correct a spinal injury which he received thirty-three years ago in a ski jumping meet in Hanover. Fred was given quite a writeup in the Montreal paper which recited his part in founding the Outing Club in Hanover and many activities in connection with skiing in which he has been engaged since that time.
The following family news comes from Arthur Grey. His daughter Barbara, who, after attending Stanford was graduated from Mills College, June, 1941, and having done graduate work at the University of California, has accepted her first position in the high school at Weaverville, California. His son, Harrison, now twenty-two, is in the Ford Plant office in Richmond, California. Art says he has become a rancher like Ray Taylor, but on a more modest scale. It sounds interesting, however—"a place on top of a hill, overlooking beautiful valleys to Mt. St. Helena, some 4300 feet, with lovely trees and all kinds of fruit It's about 75 miles north of San Francisco." The deer, he says, wander around at will and enjoy the fruit more than he does, largely because they get there first.
The new promotion manager at GoodHousekeeping is Malcolm Rollins, who has moved over after eleven years' service with Cosmopolitan.
John S. Learoyd, Jr., assistant secretary and treasurer of the Hygrade Sylvania Corp. of Salem, Massachusetts, was recently elected president of the New Eng. land Control, Controllers Institute of America.
Al Robertson, who left us to graduate from Leland-StanTord is continuing as county representative in the California legislature from Santa Barbara where he first started his term eight years ago, and during which time he has served successively as chairman of the committee on State colleges, roads and highways, ways and means, and has. served also as floor leader and as temporary chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee.
John R. Scotford continues his public speaking. This time it is under the auspices of the Congregational-Christian Conference.
It is now Capt. L. A. Odlin. Larry having recently advanced in rank from Commander.
From Doc Wyman, in Honolulu, come a few stray bits of information about the little brown men in big planes. Having been a Field Director of the Red Cross in Hawaii, he again volunteered his service and went to work with the evacuees at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. He set up quarters and cared for about 200 women and children. He is now in the field of welfare work with able-bodied personnel and has a large crew of men working with him.
John H. Card, 3rd, ex-1943 of Dartmouth, is an Air Cadet, U. S. Army Air Corps. At last report he was stationed at Maxwell Field in Montgomery, Alabama. He attended the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Fort Adams of Newport, Rhode Island, 1938 to 1940. He was Sergeant in charge of Anti-Aircraft Battery D in 1940 and qualified as a first class gunner.
David C. Chamberlain, now an Ensign in U. S. Naval Reserve, was married to Priscilla Estabrook on June 20 in Arlington, Massachusetts. David is now stationed at Newport, Rhode Island.
Mr. Thomas Temple Keeler, son of Mr. Robert B. Keeler of Cleveland, was married recently to Miss Louise Galloway of Kansas City, Missouri. Tom is stationed in the mechanical division of the United States Air Corps at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Mississippi.
Secretary, University Club, Washington, D. C.
