1933*
As a result of the intra-Executive Committee balloting it is our pleasure to announce that your secretary-chairman from July 1, 1943 to July 1, 1948 will be GeorgeF. Theriault. Bro. Theriault is a member of the Dartmouth Sociology Department and is thus acquainted with the broader and more cultural aspects of life. At the same time his experience has had a practical side for he has worked up gradually through the class organization to his new eminence. He has been an Assistant Class Agent, Class Agent sub rosa, Spontaneously Combusted Editor of the 1933 Newsletter. In his college days, before he became interested in the better things of life, he was a member of Prof. Holbrook's football team. He threw something or other for Prof. Hillman too. The connection between this last activity and his membership in the Sociology Department is obvious. He is a member of a fraternity whose location is back of the AD house and whose name escapes us at the present moment.
We know that the Class will prosper under his leadership. We hope that Rex will enjoy the job as much as we have.
Along with their votes we have had letters from other members of the Executive Committee. John Meek writes, in part:
"I am still living out in Alexandria, but at 208 Gibbon Street, instead of the old address you have. We have an eight months' old daughter, Sally, and are enjoying her a lot. Jack Masten is down here with Metal Reserve Corporation of RFC and I manage to lure him to the Dartmouth lunch occa sionally. Reeves has an office directly across the street, so I see him quite often too. I'm sorry that you couldn't come to Washington because the Dartmouth group is reasonably active here, especially 1933."
John is still with Covington, Burling, Rublee, Acheson and Shorb. Another comes from Pete Grace:
"The day before your letter arrived Hal Smith and I had a short visit and the day before that I received the first edition of the Newsletter, so Hanover seems not so far distant from this place (Norfolk, Va.) Since April I have been stationed at various places from here to Cherry Point, N. C, with a scouting squadron and hope before long to go aboard a carrier. Duties have been in Personnel and as Squadron Office Manager. The personnel angle keeps the work interesting. Other '33's here include Bill Starr, Walt Libbey, Walter Chrysler. I haven't seen them lately, so I assume that they have been transferred."
You probably have been informed through Ripley's Newsletter of our succession to the Mayor's job here in the City of Brass. The job is fascinating, but, of course, has with it the drawbacks which inhere in democratic political office. You are the executive officer of a corporation which spends over six and a quarter millions yearly, you direct the civilian war effort of a war industry city of over a hundred thousand and at the same time you are expected to do a sort of public, political belly-dance to keep everybody contented. It becomes a little wearing at times.
Soon after we took over we were pleased to receive a letter of congratulations from Warren Braley who had been in nearby Naugatuck for some time without our knowing it. He writes:
"The urge to wish you well as Mayor of a neighboring city arid probably 1933's only Mayor is at long last enough to make me get out the typewriter and go to work. In my better moments I sometimes wish I was a Mayor myself, though I suspect it is a thankless *!*! job. In regard to Class news: Dunham Kirkham Ist Lieut. MC AUS, Army & Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., is the proud father of a son born the end of October and much interested in getting transferred to a ski troop training center in Colorado ]acques Mohr, Cpl., Cos. I, 2nd ESR, Fort Belvoir, Va., seems to be keeping mighty busy between hops around the country. .... For myself—after some years with the Great Northern Paper Cos. in Millinocket, Me., and a wedding—summer, 1941—Myrtle Erikson, of Barre, Vt.—l'm working for the U.S. Rubber Cos. and a fistful of initials. We leave for Dunbar, W. Va., on Jan. 30, and if the brickbats aren't too thick come fall, I'll have more to say about it."
Helene E. Dwyer of Washington, D. C. and ist Lieut. Wesley H. Beattie of Rochester were married in Washington on New Year's Eve in the chapel of the Mt. Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church. The couple will live at the George Washington Hotel in Washington, Pa., where Wes is stationed. He had previously been on duty at the Adjutant General's School in .Washington.
Capt. Swede Branson is in New Guinea where he is connected with a portable hospital branch of a Harvard Medical Unit. Two of such portable branches were flown across the Owen Stanley Mountains and set up in the jungles of New Guinea. Swede left his post at St. Paul's School, Concord, to join the Army. While at the school he also served as assistant on the Staff of the Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital in Concord. He is reported to have been mentioned in a Chicago Daily News dispatch, but we have no details.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Swanson of Watertown, Mass., have announced the marriage of their daughter, Anna, to 2nd Lieut. Vincent N. Merrill on January 20.
Vin's father kindly sent additional information. Vin is at Camp Blanding, Fla.—64oth Eng. Camouflage Co. He came up the hard way, having had basic training as a private in the Engineer Corps where he won the right to go to Officer's Candidate School. As a landscape architect he was assigned to camouflage, spent two weeks at a special camouflage school (at Fort Belvoir, Va.).
Secretary, 111 West Main St., Waterbury, Conn
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