1917*
Just a word in retrospect—To a class which cut its eye-teeth on war, it may seem superfluous to regret war conditions which cut into attendance at our Silver Jubilee Reunion. The week-end of May 15th was so nearly perfect together, however, that we are prompted to ask everyone who couldn't make it, to go to the nearest mirror, raise his right hand, and solemnly swear that he will not miss our Thirtiethso help me. The final count shows that 65 made it, with 41 wives and 22 juniors, and to the best of our ability not one of the 128 missed a detail of the fun which Hal Halloran and his committee made available.
You may lay it to inexperience or to the difficulty of getting back to earth so quickly, but your humble servant wishes to correct the list given in the June issue, to the extent that Duke Howe and Dot did attend the Silver Jubilee. From every outward appearance, they had the same perfect week-end that all, who were able to return, enjoyed.
New names have been added to the rapidly growing list of '17ers back in uniform for Uncle Sam.
Walter Kipp, long since awarded the Navy Cross, gave up his principalship of the Charlemont (Mass.) High School, and is a Lieutenant Commander in the U. S. Navy. Commissioned as long ago as late March, when last seen shortly thereafter, he was in Boston awaiting orders. Major Bill Fitch left for Washington April 28th
to assume a position on the National Recruiting Board. Mose Hutchins reports that he also is "in the Army now,"—a Captain in the U. S. Army Air Force, with present address as The Shelborne, Miami Beach, Fla. Capt. Butch Sherman and Capt. Trott King have been called into active service in the U. S. Army Air Force, also. Butch calls our attention particularly to his new address,—611 Bourbon St., New Orleans.
Bob Adams writes of seeing Hal Ingersoll recently. Hal "is now a Captain in the Army, First Bomber Command Headquarters, 90 Church Street, New York City. I saw him for only a minute or two, which is of course entirely inadequate to get much information out of Hal." His family was still in Washington, but he was hoping soon to move them to New York.
Of himself Bob says that daughter Anne (15) has just finished her first year at Northfield Seminary. As soon as Betsy (9) finishes school, the Adamses will move to "Merryacres," New Milford, Conn, for the summer, "where we can guarantee a warm welcome to any '17er with tires and gas. Of course the old man will continue to sweat at his desk with "War Damage" insurance an added headache.
From Gil Sweet's local paper in West Caldwell, N. J. word comes of Gil's promotion to Major in command of a squadron of Flying Fortresses at Langley Field, Va., which is what we call a substantial command. Gil was one of the original pilots who formed the New Jersey National Guard Air Corps Squadron at Newark Airport in 1930. When the National Guard was inducted in September, 1940, he took leave from his real estate business and has been in the Army every since. A graduate of the Army Air Corps Tactical School, and Command and General Staff School, he holds ratings as both pilot and combat observer.
In early May, Gil wrote from Langley Field that he had run into Sam White and had seen him and Sue a couple of times thereafter. Gil reported that Sam "is stationed in this area and occupying temporary and very swanky quarters in the Chamberlin Hotel. He is a Lieutenant Commander, just recently called in."
Major Hal Bidwell has received his commission in the Air Force and has quit Flartford for Lowry Field, Denver, on active service.
Summie Emerson had a letter from Lt.Col. Harry Fowler from somewhere "down under" which Harry says is "about as far removed from Hanover as you could possibly get." And of course with his transfer out from the West went his dream of being in Hanover for the Silver Jubilee which was also son Jim's Commencement. His address is Headquarters, Third Battalion, 244 th Coast Artillery, Task Force 6814, A. P. O. 502, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal.
rile death of Harold Tobin is recorded in the Necrology of this issue. When he had been making such steady progress toward recovery, this came as a shock to all of us.
Spique Maclntyre called our attention to the note in the Boston papers, June 25th, of the announcement by President Hopkins "of the establishment of the annual W. J. and C. H. Mayo Memorial Lectureship in Medicine and Surgery. Funds for the lectureship honoring the brothers who founded the Mayo Clinic were contributed by Dr. and Mrs. Waltman Walters of Rochester, Minn." Congratulations Walt and Mrs. Walters. We will all take a measure of pardonable pride in your thought and generosity toward Dartmouth.
Don Brooks sent us the account from the N. Y. Herald Tribune of the marriage of Don Aldrich's daughter Suzanne, June 17, to the Rev. John Duane Verdery of St. Paul's Cathedral, Boston. Don officiated, and son William gave his sister in marriage, the service being performed in Don's Church of the Ascension, New York City. And again we are reminded that we are twenty-five years along the way.
Gene, from whom you have heard so much and about whom so little, is back with his first love, the Curtis Publishing Company, with offices right handy by at 60 East 42nd Street, New York City. His long detour via the National Geographic Society and Look Publishing Company, just goes to prove that there is none like the first. The problem now is what is the honorable thing to do with the gold watch which Curtis Publishing gave him when he left. Personally we do not care for the change, for under the new set-up Gene does not find his way to the hub of the universe except very infrequently.
Heinie Wacker reported in at the New York Dawn Patrol Dinner April 30th, and promises to be a regular hereafter. He manages H. O. L. C. properties through the district office at a Park Avenue, New York, and has in recent times also been on temporary service with the WPB on misuse of critical materials. His address is 58 South 2nd Ave., White Plains, N. Y.
The complete list of those attending the April 30th Dinner is: Adams, Birtwell, Brooks, Cotton, Emerson, Holden, Koeniger, Marr, Reade, Saline, Shea, Stout, Towler, Wacker, Wagner, and Worthington, which shows a gain in momentum as the Silver Jubilee drew near. The April 16th Dinner was attended by: Brooks, Cotton, Currier, Earle, Holden, Lagay, Reade, Robie, Saline, Shea, Stout! and Towler. Meanwhile the May 4th muster of the Boston Patrol brought out Bartlett, Chase, Emery, Ferguson, Green, Halloran, Loudon, Mac Intyre, Mac Killop, McGowan, Richmond, Sanborn, Sault! Scudder, Spearin, Hunk Stillman, Stockwell, Rog Stone, Errol Thompson, and Wheelock. Well, it was a lot of fun anyhow—even if Boston did have to buy the beer at Bonnie Oaks. And while we are making lists, the following ladies appeared at the very thoughtful pre-Silver Jubilee tea given by Irma McGowan: Mesdames Bartlett, Brown, Dupuis, Emery, Evans, Ferguson, Halloran, Sault, and Stockwell.
Treasurer Brooks reports that the largest number yet on record paid class dues during the fiscal year just closing. That is a matter for some little mutual admiration as well as for congratulations to Don. But most important—it sets a mark which can be overtaken next year for an even larger measure of satisfaction.
With these few words we inaugurate the more obvious part of the next five-year period of our alumnihood. Your officers, new and continuing, appreciate the honor which you have bestowed upon them and the responsibility with which you have charged them, and will do their utmost to serve you in the style to which you have become accustomed. Please just keep in mind the fact that you are the class, not they. We depend on you to send in all news and pictures that promise even the remotest interest. News and snapshots of you and yours are just as interesting to the rest of us, as word from us is to you. And as time goes on we become even more interested in each other, if that is possible. Just jot it down and send it along. And don't overlook for a minute the fact that we are now pointing up toward our Thirtieth, which so many have mentioned in their regrets at not having been able to get away for the Silver Jubilee, and which, God willing, will not be beset by the obstacles which surround us today.
SUCCESS FOR 1917 Hal Halloran, reunion chairman, andGene Towler, class chairman, display theprize,—the Class of 1930 Cup awarded to1917 for the largest reunion attendance atits Silver Jubilee.
Operation of the City Clearing House." ED.Chairman, 57 Chestnut St., Dedham, Mass.
