1918

Dated August 23, an airmail letter from GEORGE ARNOLD, from the. Middle East: "Gene arrived six weeks ago and is stationed up the Delta. He stayed with me one night. I am attached to the Royal Navy out here. Been here since April, and before that was in the western Mediterranean."

We wonder where Hort Chandler's artillery is now shelling. A letter a few months ago says, "I'm back in command of my regiment again." (Later, in July, by airmail), "Most of my batteries have done good shooting. Now I'm up here the Nip planes probably won't come around, for they don't like our Anti-Aircraft. Was enthused to read in our paper the success of the Alumni Fund."

Plaudits for your editor from "Nipper" Knapp: "Reading the notes is little help, as the news is about the same gents, and most of the time written in a language that sounds and reads about like a freshman report of a school picnic." Addressed to Stanislawski Jones came the following nice, newsy letter from DICK AISHTON —"You lousy, chiseling, redheaded rat:—With all this bureaucracy and deficit-financing going on, you might at least put sufficient postage due, to receive the tripe you pass out. Incidentally, I have some friends (now I'm bragging) in the adv. business and after associating with them under duress for the past 15 yrs., I have come to the conclusion that a 'slight touch in the head' is of considerable aid to those in that field. Your letter confirms my judgment, but I didn't know that you have reached the point where you were hitting the pipe. Now, you poop, I gather your ideas of a banker are those of one who spends most of his time reading funny papers and cartoons for inspiration and saying 'No' to everything within hearing distance. If you weren't so smug, and had kept abreast of the times, you would have been aware that all bankers lost their fat back in 1933—and that loans are so scarce banks have resorted to offering prizes (including blondes and liquor) to anyone approaching them for even a poor loan. We have set a trap in front of our Discount Dept. and along about 2 o'clock every day, drift over that way to see the 'take.' When we find a broken-down advertising man, or an insurance or bond salesman in the trap, we drown him immediately." (Adv. men, insurance, and bond men can open the Forum in the next issue.)

In a letter to DAVE GARRATT complimenting him on the wonderful job he did for '18 and Dartmouth, turning up with $21,071 (and let's not forget the mighty Dick Holton with his $6,020 to the Alumni Fund) George Hull, back a few months ago, told of his being with the Smaller War Plants Corp. (Wash. D. C.,) after the Dept. of State released him. It's quite an interesting job he has on Lend-Lease, attached to the Procurement Div. of the U. S. Treas. Says George, "It's fascinating to learn how the government spends $2,000,000 a year and what they buy. Regarding my trip to Africa, I went over as Vice Consul by Clipper in Oct., and got to Algiers a week before the landing. I was supposed to have something to do with the distribution of food there. For a week I worked on radio communications and was out running various errands while the troops landed. Then the Germans bombed us for a week and the fighting moved up to Tunis. I didn't seem to find a place as a professional consul (I didn't know where to stick the stamps) and after I had served as a sort of mess sergeant at Murphy's villa, and taken care of some refugees and Pekinese and Spanish servants and a baby, Murphy thought that I ought to come on back, as he had orders to let some of them go, and I was the last over. I was offered a job on Yank but the slight hitch was that the Army wanted the Department of State to pay me. The Army didn't seem to want me and as I had a passage on the Clipper paid back home, I hitch-hiked to Lisbon by two Army planes over Gibraltar and after a month of good golf, while I was waiting my turn to ride, came back over "West Africa and Brazil and a few islands on the way. In some ways it was a disappointment to me to come back so soon. I learned one thing, however, and that is that we old poops are no good in this Army. Their way of going about it is so different from the last war, and no World War man would be fit to command troops without at least a year's training. It's a good Army and well disciplined, although it is green and over-runs its objectives and gets a bloody nose needlessly. My family was well in Feb. as far as I know. I was unable to communicate with them while abroad. I know that we have Germans in our Paris house and that my family are living upstairs; some sort of Government office I believe. Suppose they get along all right. Usually when people live under the same roof they end up by making the best of it. It will be curious to readjust myself after an absence of several years. Remember me particularly to DICK HOLTON."

Class dinners—Boston; week-end Nov. 13 (Cornell game)—watch for mail announcement N. Y. Oct. 29 night before Yale game at Dartmouth Club. '18's, Big Outing with wives at Dick Holton's golf club Sept. 23 and piloted by banker Hort Kennedy will be something to talk about (parts of it perhaps, in the next issue).

ANDY ROSS must have done some tall chinning to our TOBEY MOREY for now Tobe's Clayton is headed £or Andy's Laurenceville. Banker NED ROSS (classmates watch your credit—-both bankers Ross have a folder on your integrity) reported that son Clayton Morey was in the huge Garden City Red Cross parade on May 30—and, lo and behold, the Man Mountain Clayton fainted with the heat. .... In came a clipping from AL GUSTAFSON, with the heading " 'Gus' Bears Down—Hurls OneHitter for Bonnycastle." Says Gus, "Gus Jr. is quite a soft-ball pitcher." .... A nice letter came in from JOHNNY CUNNINGHAM, Sec't of the Colo. Dart. Al. Assn. telling about their efforts out there to contact men at the various camps and airfields, where thousands of troops are located. Count on JOHNNY to dig up Dartmouth men and make them feel at home. He goes on to say, "Both of Tom Campbell's sons are now married, so that makes him just an old man. CHUCK HILLIKER is still chasing trucks loaded with war material between here and Chicago, and worrying about his high cost of operations. Betty, my daughter, age 20, was just taken into a girls' senior honor society at Colo. U.". . . .'Twas June's hottest night when our own GEORGE DAVIS, who has been doing yeoman service for the school board in New Rochelle (N. Y.) for years, passed out diplomas to the graduating class..... Bankers DICK HOLTON and HORT KENNEDY and their respective families took a fine trip through Canada this summer. Hort spent a pleasant night last summer with Barbara and Harvey Hood and son at Manchester-onThe-Sea from which Harvey commuted for his 9- hour office day. Hort's son is now in Exeter

DAVE GARRATT, Dartmouth's history-maker, gardener of repute, soil tester, active in dramatics and reader of La Victoire, recharged his batteries on a vacation up in New Hampshire, relaxing at the old homestead A note from DON SNYDER, Treas. of the big Snyder lumber mills, Staten Island (N. Y.) reported son John in Army and young Don accepted at Dartmouth.

Few '18ers do not pay class dues. Treas, STUMPIE BARR reports a steady increase in dues, payers as follow:'39—191; '40—197; '41—200; '42—208; '43—220; '44 (the dues you are now being billed for) let's make 250. There are still many in the class who we know want to pay dues, feel they have paid their dues, and somehow overlook it. Send Stumpie a cheek for $3.50 today please if you haven't alreadydue Sept. 1. After the class treasury contributed $1000 to '18s 25th gift to Dartmouth, there remained in the treasury as August 1, $31.22. Let's build that up. Won't everybody please pay their duesperhaps the treasury can give another $2000 to '18s gift to Dartmouth, before our '48 reunion.

LES MERRILL, field deputy of salvage branch, War Prod. Bd. (Wash.) was in Concord for a conference with state officials last summer BILL COLBY, Merrimack County solicitor of Concord, N. H., was elected Sect.-Treas. of N. H. Bar Assoc.

.. . .JAKE BINGHAM reports running across PHIL BOYNTON near his new ocean house on the beach at Swampscott First Lt. Paul Badger, son of Capt. LES BADGER, has been awarded the Air Medal—has been a navigation officer for over 350 hours—on anti-submarine patrol flights over the Atlantic Mrs. Bob Drake of Winchester was among the hostesses for the Boston Smith College Club parties—. . . .'18s Hanover residents were planning a 25 th year reunion until it was disclosed that Stumpie Barr would have to foot the bill for all the Pepsi Cola (next will tell of '18s' New York outing Sept. 23 at Dick Holton's golf club) .... there's a report that after considerable service in the Army Maj. MEL BREED returned from action in Australia and is now at home in Arlington, Mass. It's now Maj. RAY BARRETT, M.D., at Camp Miles Standish,. Mass. He is not only the chief of the gastro-intestinal section but also took the place of Lt. Col. as chief of the medical service in his 850-bed hospital. Last reports were that Ray's son left Michigan and was with Marines at Parris Island From FRANK FIEDLER, Ottumwa, la., "Staying on the list of 'hermit crabs' I shouldn't even consider sending you a card, but having sent Dick Holton something, I can now start season's golf with a clear conscience. Oldest daughter now a high school graduate—old age creeping up with golf handicap.". . . . JOHNNY JOHNSTON and ANN are departmentalized. He's the carpenter and stone-wall andterrace builder. Ann with her outdoor fertilizer bins can't be bothered with inside activities. Young Doug was up on a Vermont farm working hard during the summer—Gordon was tangling with math COMDR. AL RICE in charge of Flight Prep schools at Colgate and R.P.I.

DARTMOUTH 'IBERS pictured at the waterfront of a Middle East port—Comdr. Gene Markey and Lieutenant George Arnold.

WORLD WAR DAYS in the fall of 1918 found the College mobilized under the Student Army Training Corps. The scenes pictured here bear a strong resemblance to present conditions on the Dartmouth campus where the V-1 2 Unit is training.

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