1923
A tidy little plan to devote one month's news to service notes and the next month's to civilian items has already gone hywire, with the welcome receipt of more letters from the khaki and blue contingents.
On the letterhead of the Army Air Forces Training Center, Greensboro, N. C., ist Lt. Ellis Wilner writes: "We are right under the commanding general's nose and he visits us unexpectedly at all hours. We are all praying for overseas duty so we can get a rest! Maj. Jim Taylor MC is one of "the bright spots for me. I drop in to see him every once in a while and we both blow off steam." If you get a chance to drop Ellis a line, the rest of his address is HQ 1175 Trg. Gp., BTC No. 10.
Corporal Win Weser was recently home on furlough from the 427 th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion at Fort Brady, Mich., where he is doing personnel work at Headquarters Battery. He has a streamlined "figger" and the old sparkle in the eye. Win says the only disturbing thing about Army life is the quick make-and-break of friendships as units are shifted frequently from here to there.
Lt. Comdr. Charlie Zimmerman is now stationed overseas.
And now for the civilians, as space will allow.
On June 23rd, alumni in and near New York held a substitute for 1923's Tremendous Twentieth, at the Dartmouth Club. Among those who foregathered for dinner and the evening were: Woody Gauss, Sol Cohn, Clary Goss, Cy Gordon, Ted Barstow, Al Pierce, Phil Wagner, Irish Flanigan, Monk Keith, Ardie Herz, Johnnie Moore, Phil Keigher, Frank Heep, Ed Furey, Fitz Gordon, Brooks Palmer, George Behringer, Ken Quencer, Shiner Beggs, Joe Lombardi, Roy Brown, Ed Flindell, Tom Burch, Lew Wilcox, Mitch May, Clint Wells, Sid Silberman, Red Carbaugh, Go Bliss, Joe Schiffenhaus, Ruel Smith, Al Whaley, Ed Grevatt, Joe Zone, Pem Whitcomb, Ted Taylor, Paul Soley, Johnnie Foster, Cy Aschenbach. After checking these boys in, we sorta lost track, and offer an apology to the others who came in later, and whose names we so carefully wrote down on the back of that envelope that we mailed on the way home. (The evening was not wholly devoid of a pleasant confusion.)
Johnnie Foster deserved (and got) a good hand for coming up from Washington to give us a swell talk; Mayor Flanigan and his arch-enemy Red Carbaugh continued their classic political feud; Sol Cohn got signatures on a message which Al Whaley reproduced for mailing to our service men; Woody Gauss brought a "senior fence," vie records of "Avalon," "Whispering" and other reminiscent songs, a guest pianist, and life-size lithographed figures which he gagged as Jake Bond and daughters; Clary Goss furnished green bow ties; Johnnie Moore showed up with an ample supply of green Derbies (not fast color, but that's another story). The committee—Clary Goss, Sol Cohn, Phil Keigher, AI Pierce—-did a fine job.
POST-WAR PLANNING
Carl Gray has been hitting the headlines through center for some time, through his particular genius for social and economic planning. Worcester, Hartford and New York papers have recently publicized his plans for post-war employment, which also appear in the documentary records of the first session of the 78th Congress. Carl, you'll remember, is the author, too, of the now famous Connecticut Plan, which was put into operation in 1939.
Aub Miller writes from Dayton that he has added CPA work to his activities in teaching business machines operation, and says, "My boy will be class of '63." Nice going, Aub.
Sure, Joe Houston is a good-looking guy, but you should see the picture of his daughter Sally as she appeared in the Chicago Daily News for June 14. The caption mentions Sally's work at the Winnetka Flower Festival, and the fact that Mrs. Joe is a member of the Winnetka Garden Guild.
Bill Wallace sends clips from Chicago papers featuring Spike Hamilton. Smooth as ever, even in a press picture, Spike's face looks out above a paragraph that says "George 'Spike' Hamilton has taken over Freddy Nagel's orchestra .... at the Aragon."
Ralph Duffy is attaining considerable prominence politically as a councilman of Worcester. He was recently re-elected president of the Worcester Area Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Associated with Duff in Scout work as a member of the Board-at-Large is Bob Hess who, after leaving Dartmouth, graduated from B.U. and has been with the Washburn Wire Goods Co. of Worcester ever since.
From Kully Lundberg, "I am right now in the midst of packing, etc. as am moving to Los Angeles—all of us, Marie (whose home was in Hollywood) Charles (twelve and one-half) and Joan (nine). So before long, perhaps, I'll be seeing some of the gang on the coast. Karl Williams and I were in Chicago to hear Prexy talk to the Association." In Los Angeles, Kully will continue his affiliation with Empire, Ltd., the furniture manufacturing company of which he is secretary-treasurer.
H. Carleton "Whitey" White of Buffalo reports with sorrow the death, on August 15, of Frank A. Miller of Haverstraw, N. Y., at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern. While Frank spent only a year at Dartmouth, he formed many lasting friend- ships. He roomed in Wheeler freshman year, with Whitey, Ford Turgeon, Peyt Hawes, Frank Donovan, Dink Lundquist, Bus Dodge and Art Everit, by whom he will be particularly remembered as a loyal Dartmouth man. He is survived only by a brother, Lester Miller.
WILLIAM A. FINE '23, American Red Cross assistant field director, whose safe arrival in No. Africa was reported recently.
Secretary, 84 Hillside Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, 32 Ridgeland Terrace, Rye, N. Y.
FRANK A. MILLER August 15, 1943 The still North remembers them,The hill winds know their name,And, the granite of New HampshireKeeps the record of their fame.
