1916*
Please add to your list of sixteeners in the Army the name of Phil Stackpole, now Captain P. W. Stackpole, who has recently been commissioned and is now enrolled at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, in an intensive course of highly special training which he describes in his letters with characteristic vigor. He remarks that "the physical program makes me think that they want to make a commando out of me," and he adds that there are "classes, lectures, and quizzes too." "The hours are bad," says Phil. "We get up at six so as to be ready to fall in at 6:45 about three hours of classes in the morning, three in the afternoon, and three more in the evening there is plenty of dri11.... in between we rest." The real spirit of Phil's comments is clearly revealed in his final verdict: "This is a great Army; nothing can stop it."
Your splendid acting-secretary had the pleasure last week of welcoming to his fireside Ken Ross and his son, Gordon; Ken seemed to enjoy his short stay in Hanover as usual and I very much enjoyed seeing him. This week Cliff Bean and Larry Hayward, each with charming wife, appeared at my door. We all sat right down and put together a very pleasant couple of hours. This is the sort of thing which makes this job, of course; should be far more of it and at more frequent intervals, war or peace.
Our clipping-bureau is becoming one of the most efficient branches of our expanding organization and deserves a pat. The Press announces that Chet Woolworth has been appointed at a handsome stipend as Secretary of State Property and Supplies in the cabinet of Governor Martin of Pennsylvania. Andrew McClary was reelected President of the Vermont Bankers Association; Andy has been manager of the Windsor branch of the Vermont Savings Bank since 1938, according to the account in the Springfield Reporter.
Both John Ames and Roger Evans have just sent me a clipping from the column maintained by John Kieran in the NewYork Sun and carrying an interesting communication from George Dock. Kieran had apparently been discussing the speed in flight of certain birds of prey and George's letter recounts an incident when he was a pilot in War I. The entire let- ter is most interesting and deserves fuller quotation here than limits permit. George says:
"One September day in 1918 I was returning over the lines in the Champagne sector at about 5,000 feet. Suddenly I noticed a peregrine not far off to my right, easing south as I was. I easily overhauled him. When I came within a few hundred yards, he went into a dive and I followed him. I kept losing sight of him against the ground, but the bird was making such fast time that I had to put on the gas, and the diving speed at half-motor probably got up to 75 miles per hour. I never caught up with the bird, though I might have done so by putting on still more motor. He suddenly disappeared beneath my wing and I pulled out for fear of hitting him. I searched about for a few minutes and then saw what may have been the same falcon several hundred feet above me. I would say that the duck-hawk had a cruising speed of 75 m.p.h. and dived at more than 150."
I have a pleasant word from Bob Brown who describes with interest his concern with the manufacture in Nashua of new types of products for the government rather than the paper items in his usual repertoire. Gran Fuller sends me another good letter from his temporary home in Portland, Oregon, where he is to be employed for a time on a mission for the War Production Board, Lumber Division. Gran asks for the names of sixteeners in this neighborhood, as he should, for this is just the sort of thing which we can do very easily and gladly on this end for any member of the class. Karl Shedd writes briefly from Staunton, Virginia, and tells us about his son Donald who plans to enter Dartmouth in June. Dan Olson who lives in Red Bank, New Jersey (no Madison Avenue), has sent in an announcement of the engagement of his daughter Barbara to Mr. George Brenker on December 1.
These references to the second generation of our class remind me that I agreed to list the sons of 1916 now at Dartmouth, to wit: 1944, David A. Brown, Edward D. Knight Jr., Malcolm C. Morse, Richard T. Murchie, Gordon L. Ross; 1945, George F. Barr, Peter Brundage, Fred B. Clunie, Nelson B. Craven, Samuel E. Cutler, John F. Gile, Alvin C. Gluek, William R. McKenzie, Ralph G. Tyler; 1946, Lawrence W. Tyler, Edward S. Kirkland.
There are two changes of address which have reached us: William B. Osborn, 217 Northview Road, Dayton, Ohio; Carl J. Eskeline, Apartment 6, 1624 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, Cal. Members of 1916 hardly need to be reminded, I hope, that their correct addresses should be on file here at all times. Bear in mind also that we are always glad to supply any address in 1916 upon request.
A final request this month is directed to those sixteeners who are in the Armed Forces. I want a picture of each of you in uniform; please send it at once. Everyone has such a picture taken, and now is the proper time to get them all together; as time goes on they will be more difficult to collect and of even greater interest to the archives of the College which already places high value upon all material of this type.
Secretary, 2542 Stratford Rd., Cleveland Heights, O. Acting Secretary, 3 Downing Road, Hanover, N. H
