1909

Colonel "Bunk" Irwin says that he may be too old for combat duty according to war standards but he is still plenty tough. He is with the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Brookings, South Dakota, and likes his job very much. He says they are turning out some darn good second lieutenants of Infantry when they get through with them. At the end of the war he hopes to get out near Rollie Hastings in California where he can play golf and sit in the sun. In the meantime, he is at it pretty strenuously. In spite of the busy days he is putting in, he did find time to send me a donation for the Alumni Fund. If he can do this, I am sure a great many others in the class can do the same thing.

Art Swenson sent me some very interesting news. His son Kneeland who graduated from Dartmouth in 1940 and is now an ensign stationed in Washington was recently married to Miss Marie Crandall in Oriskany, N. Y. The interesting part was that the minister who married them was Walter Eaton of the Class of '09. Walter was for eight years general field secretary of the Laundrymen's Association. He felt, however, that the field work was not the type of work he wanted so he went into the ministry. In addition to having a parish in Oriskany, he has a class in religious education in Utica and is active in several other community activities. Art, as usual, had to sing, so they got a quartette together at the reception with Walter harmonizing with a good second base. Art says that Walter has a little less hair than he has, which, by the way, is something. He felt that Walter had developed a very fine personality and he was sure the class would be very pleased to know he had a talk with him. Art himself is starting to do some work in his quarry for the Maritime Commission and he does not know whether the banks or the Government will be in the granite business when the war is over but inasmuch as there is no quarrying now he had to take a chance.

Fred Carroll, Sam Bell, Edgar Chappelear and Curt Sheldon got together at the bar of the Waldorf Astoria during the wartime conference of the Trust Division of the American Bankers Association and really had a fine time talking over old times. Freddie was honored again (which seems to be a regular thing these days) and was elected chairman of the executive committee of the trust division of the American Bankers Association. Freddie has already served two years as a member of the executive committee and has been chairman of the Committee on Trust Policies for six years.

Lt. Colonel P. John McNaughton sent me a letter from the South Pacific, the first we have heard of him for a considerable length of time. He left Boston a year and a half ago and was then stationed in Washington for a while before his present job. He says he is trying to keep an appointment in Tokyo but they are having a little fuss in the South Pacific which has temporarily delayed him. I am trying to get a picture of him for the MAGAZINE and will publish it as soon as I can obtain it. Mac wants to be remembered to everyone in the class.

On February 9, I received a letter from Moffatt in India, which was mailed on November 1. I will give just a few excerpts as space does not permit of more. He says that life goes on very normally in Bombay. They have had riots especially among students. It has been more serious in other parts of India, but in no case have they been unable to take care of the situation. A real effort at compromise is now under way led by a former member of Congress. He states in his married life of 33 years they have had 14 permanent homes and 10 others in which they lived for a period of months. Mrs. Moffatt has not been very well lately. She has had high blood pressure for many years and a few weeks previous to the letter she had a slight stroke which affected her left side.

Judge Harold Murchie has just been appointed chairman of Region No. 2 of the Maine Victory Fund Committee. I will say that Harold is a bear for punishment to take on this extra work in addition to his duties as a member of the Supreme Court of the State of Maine.

I am sorry that the space alloted us will not permit me to put in other news which I have, but it will appear next month.

COL. BURR (Bunk) IRWIN '09

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