1919
On Dartmouth Night we gathered at the club in New York for a class dinner and celebration. The following were there: O'Neill, Robinson, Sandoe, Huntington, Moriarity, Treat, Eldredge (in New York on a business trip from South Bend—the Army-Notre Dame game was played in New York the next day), Lovejoy, Hooven, Webster, Martin, Babcock (now in New York with Carbide & Carbon Chemicals at 233 Broadway—lives at 456 Riverside Drive), Biddle, Garrison, Charlie Warner (in town from Richmond, Va., where he is associated with Reynolds Metals), Colwell, Little, Jack Clark, Batchelder.
After dinner, Clark and O'Neill with their University Glee Club quartet entertained us and other alumni at the club with Dartmouth songs. Frank Williams '29 and Wek Mapletoft (Princeton '2B) are the other members of the quartet.
H. E. Colwell 8c Sons, Inc., of New Rochelle, N. Y., are celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of their business. Harry E. Colwell, founder, is the active head today. Assisting him are his two sons, Harry E. Jr. (Red) of our class and Robert C. 'lB. We salute all three and wish the Colwell firm continued success in the next fifty years.
Dick Dudensing was appointed sales manager of Bellows & Cos., last May. Bill Hoard is a new member of the board of directors of the Agricultural Publishers Association. Our correspondence department has produced several messages, from which the following are quotations:
Lt. Col. Tom Hap good: Dorothy and I went up to Hanover for the Coast Guard game and saw Bob Paisley and his wife there. Do you remember Glendon A. Fuller ex-'l9? He was with us two years, left for an Army job and finished somewhere else. _He is now with us—Springfield Ordnance district—as a civilian training officer and is doing a swell job—naturally, with his educational background. Life with us is largely Army seven days a week—with a day off once in a while on leave. It certainly will seem good to get back to earning an honest living again. Hope it won't be too far away.
Jack Berry (now living at 603 Adams St., Milton, Mass.): Don Eldredge is a captain in Civil Air Patrol in command of the South Bend area covering Northern Indiana and southern Michigan. Much of the credit for a very successful operation of the CAP there is due to Don's untiring effort, especially in the recruiting of Air Cadets for the Army Air Forces.
Major T. H. Wood (V-mail): Well, after a year in the States and many new stations, I'm finally overseas in England. I've seen much of America— now to see much of the Old World. Am starting with England. It is an enjoyable novelty but the good old U.S.A. is unsurpassed. I would enjoy having my class news follow me.
Art Stackpole: I am the civilian head of Public Relations Branch at U. S. Army's Boston Quartermaster Depot, procurement center for all Army footwear.
Charlie Warner: Talked with Ralph Meader some weeks ago when I was in Washington. He is a commander in the Navy. Ray Vorce and I had dinner at the New York Dartmouth Club recently.
Howie Cole: John Chipman has gone to the Middle East in charge of about forty-five officers I saw Dutch Guy on the train last week. Is with Westinghouse at Mansfield, Ohio, and was on his way home. He reports five children. Has recently been active in advisory work with Gov't Dep'ts.
Murray Hawkins: Heard that Norm Jeavons was here for his daughter's wedding some time ago, but he didn't look up any of the Dartmouth gang. See Rollie Foss, Ralph Kilpatrick, and Eddie Seward once in a while and they are doing well. Nothing happens to me. I've done the usual O.C.D. stuff—am a bomb reconnaissance agent and air warden. Also spend two or tliree nights a month at a service men's canteen. But when I read what some of the boys are doing, I feel I should be doing a whale of a lot more. My daughter entered Scripps College this fall—my elder son is still in high school.
Bud Potter: My flying son was home on furlough last month with his wife and six-months' old son- R.H.P. 4th—how's that.
Mai Drane: ¥m. Thompson Smith has returned to Larchmont where he has bought a home. Spends five_ days a week in Washington finding new business for his engineering concern although they have so much business they can't take care of the old. It's reported that next month Bill expects to decline more business than he has declined in any month yet. Bill Moore, financial wizard of New Britain and New York, was seen lunching at the Dartmouth Club recently.
Mark Thompson: My son is in a camp in Florida and only recently he sent home for an alarm clock, which is the most unusual thing I ever heard of a soldier doing. He didn't say whether the bugler was sick or whether its purpose was to notify him when it was time to turn on Amos and Andy. I'd certainly like to see some of the boys and would appreciate hearing about any of them in their efforts to end the present war.
Chan Brown: Personally am not in uniform but expect to be measured for a pine box shortly. Am serving my time as a member of the local War Price and Rationing Board and several of our "clients" have threatened me. So far the only real physical damage was the result of a flashlight thrown at me from the rear, which should indicate I'm doing my job, maybe too thoroughly. In the list of "Sons of 'l9" include please—Woolson S. Brown, A/S USNR, Williams College. The "cuss" graduated from high school last spring, having already been accepted in Naval V-5. Then transferred to V-12(A) class and sent to Williams for a couple of semesters. Expects to be retransferred to V-5 about February, '44, and sent to Pre-flight somewhere. I doubt if any of the other 'l9ers have been so lucky as to have their boy training within fifteen miles of home, with a chance to spend about one out of three weekends with Dad and Mother. We love it, naturally, but it sure is hard on the "red points." No furlough rations for less than three days and he only gets thirty-two hour weekends.
Don Finlayson: For the duration I have shifted from the flower-strewn paths of Art to the more rugged routes of geography. Since summer have been handing out information (true or false) on such matters of import as air pressure, glacial drift, and the world's oil supply to Army men by the score. I'm in it full-time, including evening tutoring sessions and am getting a great kick out of it. Some seven hundred Army youngsters are taking the course at Cornell. Luckily I don't have to handle it single-handed and the man in charge of the works is an expert.
K. C. Bevan: Don't have time to do much but work, eat and sleep. Maybe after the war, when the salesmen have to go to work again, the production men will have it a little easier.
Capt. George Rand: Greetings from the Southwest Pacific—the land of mosquitos, bugs, lizards, rats (including the Nipo) and consistent heat. However, one can become accustomed to almost anything and we are so busy we forget our uncomfortable surroundings. The squadron is doing very well against the Japs when they can catch them in the air. We have to our credit five confirmed victories, several probables, a few barges and numerous stray soldiers of the Japs who failed to duck quickly enough. My work keeps me busy from 6 A.M. on, except days when there is no flying. Was in Australia before coming here where things are happening, and recently flew there on business for the squadron. This is beautiful country to look at from the air, very mountainous, dense jungles, tropical foliage, etc., but it sure is tough to come down in, and to fight in. Have run across very few Dartmouth men since I was here, Art Smith '25, and George Scott, who taught at Hanover, being the only ones in my vicinity. Remember me to Spider and tell him I have arranged for Mrs. Rand to send him a check as my contribution to the 25th Reunion Gift.
George's letter is the third we have had from men in service in the Pacific area. Each one has spoken of contributing to the Alumni Fund and the 25th Reunion Gift. If these men, far away from home and their normal way of living, are alert to the call of the college and our financial responsibility as Alumni, should not we who, for the most part, are living in our usual comfortable manner, respond at least in the same degree.
The 25th Reunion Gift collections reach a climax in December. If you haven't signed up yet, or feel you can make a supplemental gift, write Spider Martin at Graybar Electric Cos., 180 Varick St., now. Let's make our 25th Gift a record for the college.
Secretary 2 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
