1916*

To Parker Hayden and his assistants a vote of thanks and congratulations for a tough job well done, and I say this without knowing the final result.

SECRETARIES' MEETING

Although I was unable to attend this meeting, we were adequately represented by Alec Jardine, Parker Hayden, John Stearns, John Gile, Cap Carey, and John McAuliffe. John Stearns very kindly proxied for me and sent me a complete report of the meeting. John also made an excellent speech at the joint meeting of secretaries, treasurers, and agents (he didn't tell me that himself), and acted as host at a relaxation period. John Gile also made a speech at the 1917 dinner. As always, the calibre of this address was high—very high.

MEN IN SERVICE

I have received requests to publish a list of bur classmates in service. After procuring such a list from Hanover, I learned that the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is publishing the complete list in this issue. There is, therefore, no need to insert the names here. However, certain new items are pertinent. Stew Paul has been promoted to BrigadierGeneral. He is stationed at Washington in G-4. Stew is the first General of 1916, and, it is rumored, the first Dartmouth General since the Civil War. To say that we congratulate him is putting it mildly. Louis Bell has been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He is at Fort Knox, in charge of several thousand men of the mechanized units. Perc Burnham has exchanged business clothes for a uniform, and is a Captain in the Air Service Command of the Army Air Force. Compared with all this glamor, I hesitate .to report that I now have a granddaughter—an event of small national importance, but the passing of another milestone for Marg and me.

OLD BUSINESS

I have enough news in my files for two or three issues, and feel that in all fairness I should dispose of the more ancient items first. For the most part these consist of letters from a number of the boys. They are all such good letters that I dislike not quoting them in full. But space limitations prevent.

Bill Banton wrote me a swell letter in answer to my request for news. Bill is general agent for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company in Portland, Maine; president of the Life & Trust Council, composed of trust officers of various banks and life insurance agents; and president" of the Portland Y. M. C. A. He has just completed his term as president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Maine. He spends a great deal of time installing a payroll allotment plan for the purchase of defense bonds, a job done at the instance of the Treasury Department. He is a precinct air raid warden, and gives a very interesting account of a simulated air raid worked out under the surveillance of the Army. So you see, Bill is active and doing more than his share in war and civic efforts.

Bill Brown reports his return to health after his illness—good news for all of us. Bill is principal in Glens Falls High School.

Shorty Hitchcock, likewise in answer to my plea for news, writes a long and most interesting letter. Dan Coakley is the only Sixteener whom Shorty sees. He reports that Dan has the same sparkling eyes and keen Irish wit that we knew in days of old. He says that Dan has become a bit more gray, which undoubtedly adds distinction. Oh to be gray instead of gray and bald! Shorty is active in civilian defense work as a member of the Altadena Auxiliary Police, and describes some of their activities in a most fascinating manner. What is more, Shorty, too, has become a grandfather. As he put it, "My boy, Bob, sired a male child y-clept Thomas Lee Hitchcock. I don't really feel old enough to be a grandfather (check!), but here I am, and it didn't hurt so very much." Shorty's nephew, Wiley Hitchcock, is a sophomore at Dartmouth (a junior by now), plays hockey, is musical, sings in the glee club, and bangs the ivories in a piano team with Jib Dingwall's son Shorty's latch string is out for Sixteeners.

Chet Woolworth is the hero of an intensely interesting article entitled, "From Rat Traps to Bullets." For a number of years Chet has been president of the Animal Trap Company, which made traps for practically every kind of rodent and predatory beast, if you know what I mean. A couple of years ago, Chet, gazing into the crystal ball of the future, converted his plant into war production, which, aptly enough, he calls "victory production," so that at present the plant is turning out machine gun ammunition at a furious pace. A picture of Chet, included in the article, conveys the impression that he is taking all this with his accustomed calm.

With deep regret, I report the death of Bill Gaylord's wife, Verna, on April 9th. To Bill we extend our sincere sympathy.

An amusing letter from Larry Doyle states that he is an air raid warden at Sea Girt, with night patrol hours. "As summer approaches," adds Larry, "the patrol work on the Board Walk seems to offer interesting possibilities." Definitely, Larry. Oh, to be seventy again! Larry's son, Kelvin, Dartmouth 1940, is with the Crown Cork & Seal Company, and the other two, William and Alfred, are on their way up to enter Dartmouth, he hopes. Perhaps they are in by now.

And so ends another report of the state of our classmates. It is comforting to have plenty of news. May the cup never run out!

The distinguished secretary of 1916,Fletcher Andrews, has been busy writinglearned articles for publication in law reviews which, owing to his modesty, havenot been noted in your column. For example, the Yale Law Journal for Februarycarried an article by him entitled "The

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