1913
Might as well start with the present and work backwards. Here at my camp at Ragged Mt., Potter Place, N. H., (fortythree miles from Hanover) I listened to the Bridgeport Brass Family on the air celebrate the fourth Army-Navy E on August 21, and then had a letter from Herb Jones, who hasn ,been with the company for the past ten years. Herb's oldest boy, Don, graduated from Tufts and from the Yale School of Drama. Last year he acted as associate professor of dramatic art at Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Va. Herb has now become a grandfather; Don is at present in the Service. Barbara graduated from Smith last year, and is now with the General Electric Co., at Schenectady. His other son, Bob, is about to start his second year at Hotchkiss.
Cupid was busy this summer and the ranks of the bachelors continue to thin. John J. Remsen and Miss Laura Kamm, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Kamm, were married on August 14, 1943, at 2 P.M., in the Mt. Sinai Congregational Church of Mt. Sinai, L. I. The Reverend Frank Voorhees officiated, and as John says, tied the knot and gave him an assistant class agent. The best wishes of all in the class go to the bride and groom.
The Detroit Free Press of August 9 reports from London (by wireless) on the undoubtedly good democratic rule of censorship, but regrets that it cannot name the tank colonel fighting his way across Sicily with the Seventh Army. The article states that this colonel "has the Purple Heart for a bad wound received in the last war. A prosperous patent lawyer in Washington, he made a fight to get back into the Service, landed in West Africa in November, and now has been fighting his way through Sicily. His outfit had the only serious shooting that occurred on the way into Palermo. He is only one of many such men you will find in the field in Sicily."
All of which reminds us that the postcard ballot should be mailed to the secretary.
We had a letter from "Chip" in June from Africa, telling of the whereabouts of his three sons, and, he says, "if nothing over here has my name on it, I am going to attend a reunion or two with Harry H. Jr., the Dartmouth boy."
Cpl. John F. Lenfestey U.S.A., of Summit, N. J., (Nate's son) and Miss Katherine Schlemm of Wellesley Hills, Mass., were married on July 10 in St. John's Episcopal Church, Cape Vincent, with the Rev- erend Stanley P. Gasek officiating. John is now at the Eastern Signal Corps School at Ft. Monmouth, N. J.
Chet Dudley is now located at 2726 E. 48th St., Tulsa, Okla. Emily Blood, the sixteen-year old daughter of Governor and Mrs. Blood died on July 14 at the Phillips House of the Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, after a long illness, of a progressive blood disease. The sympathy of the class is extended to Governor Blood and his family. Two brothers, Horace, a student in the V-12 Naval Training Detachment at Dartmouth, and Robert O. Jr., now engaged in social service work in the mid-west, are Dartmouth men.
Another letter from Lt. Comdr. Marc Wright, F.P.O. New York City, says he is busy and well and sends his best to all in the class. The Boston Sunday Post had a worth-while feature story on General Manager Jack Macdonald, of the huge Walsh-Kaiser plant (Providence, R. I.) with its 13000 employes. His broad building activities are listed and the article ends with this very true statement: "He acts as if everything was strictly routine, which, from his point of view, it is. To an innocent bystander, his job looks like one which would give five other fellows a nervous breakdown."
The Week in New Hampshire, reported in the August 4 Christian Science Monitor, advises that with more than a year to go before the New Hampshire primaries, Governor Robert O. Blood, a Republican, is out for a third term, as politics begin to stir.
Hap Atwood was elected a director of the First National Bank of Minneapolis, at the annual meeting of stockholders this summer. He has consented to continue as chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee for next year, and we all wish him as great success as he had this year. With everyone in 'l3 doing his share, the results should be better next ye?r for us and the college. Please read John Remsen's report when you receive it. John's marvelous record as class agent should continue.
Len Martin has been on the St. Louis Ration Board, Gas Panel, for months. He says Landon was married last March and he is now a Naval aviator.
H. C. Osborne is one who has found out how much work it is to spade up a thirty by fifteen foot lawn for a garden. His daughter Marjorie, in Racine, Wise., has been flying solo.
FRITZ ROOT '04, taken on the station platform at Garrison, Montana, 1913.
JACK MACDONALD '13, General Manager of the Walsh-Kaiser Shipbuilding Company of Providence, R. I.
Secretary| Box 2057, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
