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Died George Hoban on February 2, 1943, at Bethlehem, Pa., from a heart attack which he suffered while driving his car. He was head football coach at Lehigh University, a position he assumed last Spring.
Red Whitney reports from the San Francisco office of the B. F. Goodrich Company, whose industrial representative he has been for many years"Finished at Basic Magnesium in July, called down to Kaiser Iron & Steel at Fontana for a while, started to handle the rubber for Davis Dam over in Arizona, but WPB decided to close it up. Did a little work on Alaska Highway projects and over at Pravo, Utah, on the Columbia steel job a few times. But at the moment there is not so much in the way of big projects on which the rubber problems have not been worked out and specifications handled. Which has me working mostly on conservation of rubber already in use—and not too sure I'm doing much good."
Syd Clark is located in New Haven, Conn., where he is with the Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America, Inc., an organization under the direction o£ the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Syd's work is assisting in translating, editing and procuring the publication of magazine articles by South American authors.
From Charlie McCarthy—"l have been with the Canadian Department of Transport "on loan' since the first of August and in Saint Tohn, N.8., since October Ist and, according to present indications, I am liable to be here all through the coming summer, if not longer. On account of war conditions it is not permissible for me to outline what I am doing, as it would only be deleted by the censors, and I will have to leave this to your imagination.
.... Sojourning in Saint John has one big advantage over Montreal in the winter and that is, to a large extent, we are escaping most of the snow and ice prevalent there, although this is to a certain degree offset by the dampness near the Bay of Fundy Last September my daughter Jo Ann enrolled as a freshman at Skidmore College as she was quite determined to get some insight into a U. S. girls' college. How long she will be able to continue depends a great deal upon the present Canadian Exchange Laws."
From Editor and 'Publisher, December 26, 1942: "Members of the National Newspaper Promotion Association will shortly begin receiving a new service called 'Promotion Copy,' which Ramon S. Cram of the Columbus (O.) Dispatch, NNPA president, has just announced. The service, as Mr. Cram explains it, will consist of 'several pages of copy taken from promotion advertisements appearing in newspapers in every part of the country and written by the nation's top notch promotion copy men.' 'Promotion Copy' will be edited by H. Lyman Armes, promotion manager of the Boston (Mass.) Post, who has been an advertising copy writer for some 21 years and who is, according to President Cram, 'one of the copy masters of the nation.' "
BOY SCOUT HONORS. .. .During Boy Scout Week it is appropriate to report Boy Scout honors to two classmates. Boss Geller was recently the recipient of the Silver Beaver, one of the highest honors bestowed by the Boy Scouts of America. At a Council meeting at Ithaca the award was made to him "for outstanding and commendable service in behalf of the Boy Scouts of the Tioga district." The award, represented by a solid silver beaver, is given by a Boy Scout Council to one outstanding worker each year.
Samuel Hobbs was elected President of the Pasadena-San Gabriel Valley Council of Boy Scouts at its recent meeting in Pasadena, California, where he has long been active in the Boy Scout movement.
Now it can be revealed that instructors and students of the Chemistry Department at Hanover are busily at work, under the supervision of Prof. Elden Hartshorn, on the National Research Council problem of synthesizing new anti-malarial drugs.
Doc Burnham's (and Dartmouth's) celebrated son, Don, has added the vice-presidency of Palaeopitus to his string of track records and scholastic honors. The Burnham home is in Lebanon, and Roy Lewis has been the prophet of all these honors.
Alvaro M. Garcia has announced the marriage of his daughter, Emilia, to Lt. Carl Joseph Carson, of Washington, D. C„ the wedding taking place at the home of the bride on December 24. Emilia received her degree from William 8c Mary in January and then joined her husband at Camp Lee, Va.
Many Classmates report hearing Doc O'Connor's voice over the radio during the 10th annual appeal for funds in the fight against Infantile Paralysis. As President of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Incorporated, he opened the fund-raising drive on a CBS coast-tocoast network and spoke from Washington the night of the President's Birthday Party over all four major networks, with additional broadcasts during the campaign.
The Class was represented at the annual Boston Dinner by Lyme Armes, Ben Adams, Chet Haycock, Click Morrill, Doc Viets, A 1 Fuller, Pett Pettingell, Wallie Wallburg, Fletcher Clark, John Park, Caesar Young, Eddie Luitwieler and Ray Cabot. At the Melrose Dartmouth Club meeting the '12ers present were Eddie Luitwieler, Ralph Baker and Harold Belcher.
SONS IN SERVICE ... . Irv Goss's son, Lt. Richard R. Goss '42, is an instructor at Officers Candidate School, Miami Beach, Florida. Don Clark '43 (Syd's son) is in USN training at Notre Dame. Sam Hobbs Jr. has been accepted as an Army Volunteer Officer Candidate but not assigned as yet. Fred Geller, who graduated with the Class of '43 in December, is at Miami Beach, Florida, with the Army Flight School. Billy Geller was disqualified for service when he volunteered at the end of his Dartmouth sophomore year in December, but is doing defense work with Agfa Ansco in Rochester, New York Prudence Wellman, daughter of Mary Lines Wellman (sister of Rainy Lines) is a WAAC Guy Ewenson Jr. is in the Ground School of the Army Air Corps at Buckley Field, Colorado, as an officer candidate.
Dutch Waterbury was here for a few weeks last fall on a trip from his sugar business in Puerto Rico, during which he met some of the Class over a weekend at Hanover.
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