1930*
This month's feature presentation—Donald and David, twin sons of Ted and Betty Tobey, the farming-lumber Tobeys of Ply mouth, N. H. Ted's letter enclosing the snapshot states:
"Not much news from this source. Since buying a small farm and entering the lumber business, we've done little except work, early and late. Business is plentiful, with means to fill orders getting slimmer every hour. As to farming, we started slowly—but already are enjoying many of our productions. One news item that has not been recorded: Phin Wheeler was recently appointed Plymouth's chief of police."
Another appointment that has just come to our attention is Art Browning's, as an assistant counsel of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, New York. This took place in February, 1942.
Fitz (B. T.) Fitzpatrick sent us a clipping from the Congressional Record of December 15, mentioning President Roosevelt's nomination of Frank McLaughlin to be a federal judge of the district of Hawaii. Having seen or heard no reference since then to Hawaiian paving blocks we assume the Senate confirmed it. Fitz, who is. assistant general counsel of the National Housing Agency in Washington, belatedly announced the arrival of a second son, Bobby, in June, 1941.
Bob Whittlesey was a candidate for one of two vacancies on the Norwood, Mass., school committee. Bob and two others had to be voted for by stickers since their nomination papers were not filed before the ballots were printed. We have not heard the results, but presume the slogan in Norwood was "Stick to Whittlesey."
George F. (Azukas) Allen was married November 7, 1942, in New York, to Dr. Mary Mazner, a graduate of New York University who received her doctor of medicine degree from the University of Pennsylvania. The Aliens are living at 72 Montclair Drive, West Hartford, Conn., and George is a member of the staff at the Hartford Hospital.
Our own Hank Odbert is now at the U. of Penn, with what he calls "the terrific title of editorial assistant to the National Research Council committee on selection and training of aircraft pilots. It's darned interesting work."
The Jack Alexander family now numbers three with the arrival of Rebecca Ruth on August 31, 1942. And Nancy Elizabeth brings the Mort Smith total up to four, her advent occurring last May 24. Her brother, Henry Ill, is now three and a half.
Jack Dobson left Brooklyn for Tenafly, N. J., where he resides at 118 Engle Street, and is searching for Thirtymen in the neighborhood Russ Gray was transferred to Portland, Me., in the commercial engineering department of New England Tel. & Tel. "Swell job with a swell bossskiing not too far away either, although the gas situation will take care of that," he says.
Ranny Hobbs has returned to New York, having resigned from the Macmillan Company to be assistant manager of Farrar 8c Rinehart's college department. He was just in time to augment the smallest class dinner we ever held in the big city, when sixteen Thirtymen braved the worst snow and sleet storm in some time. Besides Ranny, the following played glee club around two pianos: Charlie McDonough, Willis, Blakey, Vanderbeck, Blun, Cole, Morrill, Pooler, Wallace, Holme, Keene, Steers, Raube, Callaway and French. We had hoped to have Ed Jeremiah with us but a shift in the date of his Princeton hockey game interfered. And now Jerry is in the Navy, with a lieutenant (j.g.) commission and a record of 28 straight hockey victories behind him.
If any of you read Time as carefully and dutifully as Pete Callaway, you saw, on page 27 of the January 18 issue, a paragraph describing General Kenny, head of the air forces in the South Pacific, shaking a pair of wooden dice. "In the rocking, dusty sedan he plucked them out at random. They showed six—one a natural. He faced them toward his aide, able, beady-eyed Captain Clarence 'Kip' Chase. 'See?' he crowed. The black sedan lurched on toward Moresby." In a picture on the preceding page of that issue, was a spadeshaped face resembling Captain Chase who was hiding, at that moment, his beady eyes behind a pair of very dark glasses, at the very elbow of the deity known as Mac Arthur.
A 1 Dickerson very kindly forwarded a copy of a letter he had received from Lieut. Billy Moore, dated December 6 at Gibraltar. He and Davy Owen are in the same Army Air Corps squadron and, after six weeks' training at Miami Beach they went over to England for further training with R.A.F. squadrons.
"I wish I could tell you some of my experiences," wrote Billy, "but unfortunately am not allowed to. .... About two weeks ago I was transferred to an- other command and left immediately for a new theatre of operation. I can't tell you where I'm going but will say we have stopped at Gibraltar for repairs to the boat—so I imagine you can figure it out. What a boat trip!! I only hope we are as lucky on our final run which I think will begin tomorrow."
Ed Warren writes from Camp Lee: "My job here consists of teaching 'military' to a company of 140 cadets on their way to becoming officers and at times I enjoy it, but some days when everything goes wrong it isn't so hot. There are several Dartmouth men here, including Buzz Morley, who is an intellectual, teaching the boys how to 'subsist.' .... All in all we have good food, good plumbing, clean sheets, and long hours."
Our latest calculations indicate at least 112 Thirtymen are in the armed services. This figure includes three who have received medical discharges and is made up of 65 in the Army and Marines and 47 in the Navy and Coast Guard. The most recent additions, in addition to Ed Jeremiah, are Lieutenants (j.g.) Earl Seldon, now at Quonset Point; Frank Ryder on the "S.S. Fargo," a building in Boston; and Snub Poehler, whereabouts unknown to your scribe. Jerry, incidentally, is getting his indoctrination in Hanover, and too busy even to see his hockey team play.
Bill Bragner resigned as principal of the Windsor High School when he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, and is now at Miami. Eb Blake is in the Army, at Camp Croft, South Carolina.
More twins next month.
Secretary, 99 Hudson St., New York, N. Y
