1919*

March 18 is the date of the annual Alumni Dinner in New York at the Dartmouth Club—buffet supper from six to eight. At 8:30 President Hopkins, the only speaker on the program, will address us on a subject of his own choosing. Fat Jackson is our class marshall that evening. Make your reservation through him or direct at the Club.

At the annual Alumni Dinner in Boston early in February, our delegation included Phil Bird, John Shelburn, Ray Hinds, Howie Cole, Doc White, Guy Coggswell, Major Dan Featherston, Rock Hayes, Jim Davis, K. C. Bevan, Capt. George Rand and Lt. Louis Munro.

Red Blaik has returned to active duty as a It. col. in the Cavalry. For the time be- ing, there will be no change in his duties. He has been assigned to Col. Biff Jones' dep't in the athletic ass'n where he will continue as officer in charge of football.

Bill Eddy's status is now Colonel, USMC. He is still Naval Attache, temporarily sta- tioned at Algiers. Young Bill is a 2nd It. USMC and now at New River, N. C.

Fred Blanpied is a capt. in the Army. Ray Hinds' son, Caryl E. Hinds, Class of '44 Colgate, after completing the summer semester, enlisted in the Army, Nov. 6. After a few days at Camp Devens, he was sent to Camp Swift, Texas, where he is assigned to the military police.

Here is a portion of a letter from Leland Bixby:

"I had the pleasure last Sunday of meeting my oldest boy at the Union Station and spending ten minutes with him between trains. He was on his way to Parris Island, a member of the USMC. I am located here in Washington away from the family, just one of those guys on the War Production Board. A member of the General Industrial Equipment Div., I have dined a couple of times with 'Gin' Mullen, who as you know is with Knit Goods Section WPB. The Mall at Washington is becoming more and more like the campus at Hanover. Dartmouth is really in town."

Knip DeRoer is a sgt. in the Marine Corps. Here is a portion from his letter of Jan. 24 from Parris Island, S. C.:

"I am on the last lap of Marine 'boat training' before taking up my duties on the Vermont State Recruiting Staff. Shall be there only temporarily, until I gather further information on the work of liaison in connection with Selective Service. Landed here Nov. 25 and am due to ship out next Friday. How long I'll be in Vermont I don't know but mail will be forwarded from my old address (Nat'l Life Ins. C 0.)."

Here are quotations from several other letters:

Dr. H. M. Chadwell who is continuing his war work with Nat'l Defense Research Com. in Washington: "Last Sat. night I went to the Dartmouth Club Smoker—they had a big turnout to hear Pudge Neidlinger, Nat Burleigh and Munnecke '28. King Cole, Johnnie Chipman and I were the '19ers there —Johnnie did his usual good job at . the piano for singing by the crowd. King Cole is working for the Ordnance Dept. of the Army."

W. T. (Bill) Smith, written on stationery of Carlton Hotel, Washington: "I have been Asst. Project Mgr. during construction of a TNT plant for the Ordnance Dept. during practically all of 1942. The plant is now producing TNT as fast as raw material can be fed into it. Since our contract was for construction only and operation is to be by Monsanto Chemical Cos., I have finished that assignment. What the future holds is something no one is entitled to predict with any assurance. However, though my family are still in Marshall, Texas, and I call that my legal residence, I am temporarily the Washington representative of Ford, Bacon & Davis and am planted down here. Expect I shall remain right at this hotel, being glad to have any room to call my own in the press of Washington today."

Oscar B. Lewis: "The activity I have been engaged in other than that of working for Ethyl Corp. and earning a salary, has been on an engineers' committee. For some 2*/2 years we have been working with the Army and Navy, first of all assisting in preparation of their plans for storage of gasoline and oils, and more recently we have been writing manuals for them on the subjects of operation, safety, etc. So in this way, I feel we have made some contribution to the war effort. The name of this committee is the Engineers' Advisory Com. on Oil Storage, sponsored by the War and Navy Depts."

Dr. Ken Rice at So. Deer-field, Mass.: "I rarely seeany member of 1919 in this part of Mass., though I faithfully peruse the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for anybit of information about '19ers and their work andfamilies. I was especially interested in seeing a picture of Tom Bresnahan's son—please give Tom mycongratulations and best wishes. I am closely heldhere by work and responsibility. Have two splendidsons and a daughter who will be Carnival Queenin 1958."

Major Dan Featherston: "Remember me to Spiderand the boys and tell him it took me over 20 yearsto find out what North Attleboro looked like."

Russ Potter is acting manager of the N. Y. district of the OPA, 535 Fifth Ave. Lt. Col. T. L. Hapgood has been chief Army officer at several Army-Navy "E" Award ceremonies in Springfield Ordnance Dist. Cliff Hayes has been elected a director of Pacific Mills. He is vice pres. of the company in charge of Southern operations.

Don Eldredge comes to New York fairly regularly on buying trips and stays at the Dartmouth Club.

Ernie Rautenberg called me in January when he was in New York for the Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Ass'n meeting.

I acknowledge with much pleasure and appreciation letters from Lt. Louis Munro, still on duty at 150 Causeway St., Boston; Capt. George Rand (341 st Fighter Squadron, Army Air Base, Green Field, Providence, R. I.); Bill Goldberg, with Board of Economic Warfare, Washington; Gordon Meader with Reliance Mirror Mfg. Co., Oxford, Pa.

Dick Strout wrote the feature article in the January issue of the Member's Magazine, National League of Women Voters, on "Paving the Way for Peace." Dick is staff correspondent on the ChristianScience Monitor and author of a recent series of articles, "Can America Lose the Peace Again?".

The Dec. 11 issue of The Eastern Underwriter, an insurance publication, carried a full page 4-column article on the New Rochelle Agency of which our own Ken Huntington is President. I can quote only a little of it but enough I hope to give you the tone and significance of the story:

"Mr. Huntington is on the War Council of the town as vice-chairman in charge of industry and is also chairman of the Mayor's committee and of the industrial committee in the Civic and Commerce Assn. In the ARP he is a sector warden. In World War No. 1 he served as lieutenant in the Naval Reserve and was executive officer on a submarine chaser. For the past 3 years he has been vice-pres. of New Rochelle Safety Council. Also, he is past president of the Lions Club, director of Y.M.C.A. and had charge of group solicitation div. in the recently staged Community and War Chest drive. A graduate of Dartmouth, Mr. Huntington while there played football and tennis and has pursued the latter sport ever since. He is Secretary of New Rochelle Tennis Club, one of the oldest in the country, and in addition enjoys golf and badminton. He is a director of the Great Eastern Fire."

Secretary,2 Park Ave., New York, N. Y.