1919

Ken Knowlton was made a It. col. in January. He is Post Executive Officer at Fort Custer, Mich. King Cole is in Washington, Army Ordnance, 3-D-433, Activities Report Sec., Pentagon Bldg. Home address 4012—18 th St. So., Arlington, Va. His son Don, in '45 class at Dartmouth, has been accepted for Medical School and is in the Naval Reserve. Francis Allen is Chief of Electrolytic Magnesium Plants Sec., Aluminum & Magnesium Div. o£ WPB. Home: 3729 Northampton St. N. W., Washing- ton, D. C.

Here are quotations from several letters received during the month:

James R. (Ben) Wylie Jr.: "Although I'm still a member of the firm of Huntley & Huntley, Petroleum Geologists and Engineers in Pittsburgh, I've been temporarily employed in the past 18 months as Dist. Director of Production in the Office of Petroleum Administration for War. Headquarters are in New York City, and I am required to be there one or two days a month. However, the oil production of my District is northeast and southwest of Pittsburgh and I must be out here in the wilderness most of the time."

Mark L. Thompson (attorney at law, Lafayette, lad.); "I feel younger than I did 25 years ago and am thoroughly satisfied I am a better man physically despite Uncle Sam's conclusions to the contrary. Their Army specialists tried to tell me I was an old, broken-down sport they could not use, and they might have added that I would only turn out to be an agitator anyhow. I note your list of men in the armed forces and am wondering how some of them managed to overcome the obstacle I met. Warren, who was in the class of '44, is in the Air Corps some place, but I'm not sure where. Think I called your attention to the fact before that the new generation is an improvement over the older one. This is at least one place where the Army agrees with me."

jack Berry: "The roster of '19 men and sons is very interesting. Both our boys are listed correctly, although Jack Jr. has moved on to Glenview Air Depot after finishing lowa Preflight, and Kenneth has moved to Camp Hood, Texas. After a year with Bendix Aviation Corp. here in South Bend, as salesman of aircraft armament, I've gone into the Army Air Force, Follow-up Branch. Still a civilian but back in the Air Force."

Lt. Cdr. John H. Chipman: "Right after receiving your note of the 15 th, I intended to sit down to tell you about the Dartmouth Smoker at the Willard. There must have been 350 men present and among them were Paisley, Ralph Hayes, Chadwell, King Cole and myself. Don't believe I'd seen Chad since our 10th Reunion and I don't think he's changed a bit since graduation. Unquestionably, he found some formula in his laboratory to take with his oatmeal every morning. You can see by the letterhead there's been a change 'in Carnegie Hall.' No longer am I the school-teacher or flag waver but have been put to work in earnest. The French North African Naval Mission (Giraud forces) have arrived. I suppose you read of the first arrivals of French warships—the 'Richelieu' in New York and 'Montcalm' in Philadelphia. This is the begining of the French Fleet now coming over to our side one hundred per cent. My duties are those of Liaison (USN) Officer to the French Mission. The work is most interesting because we_ are handling the details in preparation for what is 3, 6 and 9 months ahead. This is rather congruous in view, as it clearly comes back to me, of what Bob Proctor spoke during his Sachem Prognostication at graduation, June, 1919. I remember distinctly how the blew the smoke around the Bema, most of it settling in Bob's eyes and his actions gave a weird twist to his prophecy. How true he called it—'and I see Chipman muttering Gaelic phrases' but he didn't say how far in the future. So 25 yrs. after, here I am again like Gracie Fields 'with a story and the bit of a song* whenever you come to Washington. While returning from luncheon Sat. with a Major Rogers who was in my section in Italy 25 years ago, who should we see hop out of a taxi to enter the Navy Dept. but Bob Proctor himself. It so happens Major Rogers was in law school with Bob at Harvard around 1921. Small world, isn't it? Bob says he's living in Calif., spending all his time selling airplanes—if he can get materials."

Capt. Clarence Buttenwieser: "For the present, my status is the same as when I left Camp Grant, 111., excepting my duties are mainly indoors whereas at Grant I was out-of-doors, as I was kept busy training medical troops. Here I am Asst. Registrar, Commanding Officer Detachment of Patients, Trial Judge Advocate, War Bond Officer, and every now and then they toss me a few other non-related duties, the sum total of which keeps me out of mischief."

Somewhere in this issue you will find pictures of Chipman and Buttenwieser.

Larry McCutcheon: "You will remember Thayer Kingsbury in our class. He roomed with Frank Strout in his freshman year and came over with me the second semester of his sophomore year after Ben Butterworth left college. The Berry's in the Navy, located at Disbursing Office of Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board, 120 Broadway, New York, and living at 145 E. 49th St."

Bob Smith: "My daughter, Nancy, was married Oct. 17, 1942 to Ensign John Irwin Keay USNR. In addition to the security business, I have 3 defense jobs: Commander State Highway Traffic Patrol, a force of about 450 assisting R. I. State Police; Regional Dir. Narragansett Victory Fund Com.; and on the Ration Board in my home area."

Both Bob and Newm Sleeper are associated with Providence Office of G. H. Walker & Cos., Investment Securities.

Ray Vorce: "My boy, Raymond M. Jr., is completing his last year at Andover Academy and hopes to get into V-12 group in Naval Aviation at completion of this year."

Don Love joy: "Certainly your list of chaps of '19 that have gone into service was most helpful in keeping you informed of the doings of the class. I was surprised so many had gone back into the service."

Others from whom I have heard during the month are Larry Eastman still lt.cdr. and navigator, with over 107,000 miles behind him; Bill McConnell, counsellor at law in Newark, N. J.; Si Stein, who mentioned having spent half of the last 10 months in Washington.

Cotty Larmon, OPA Administrator for State of N. H., was guest speaker recently at the Laconia Rotary Club. Two pictures have been forwarded to me recently of Russell H. Potter, OPA State Director of New York. One was from a New York paper and was taken the day Ration Book No. 2 was issued. The other appeared in a recent issue of Printers Ink when Prentice Brown, OPA head, was in New York.

Hal Avery has announced he will be candidate for the GOP nomination for school commissioner from his ward in Burlington, Vt.

The New York Dartmouth Club is becoming a rendezvous for men in our class. Don Eldredge stops there when in town. Had lunch with him there recently along with Nick Sandoe (new Club member) and Vaughn Little. Nick's oldest son is in Washington with 0.5.5., the same outfit Chug Sears is with. His second boy is in Hanover.

I would like to put in a word for the Alumni Fund and the fine work Spider has done for it right through the years. In addition to being Agent for our class, he is on the Alumni Fund Committee. He deserves the full support of all of us this year.

' IGERS IN THE ARMY AND NAVY Capt. Clarence Buttenweiser, left, at Yosemite National Park, and Lt. Com. John H.Chipman, seated at his desk in Washington.

Secretary,2 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. Class Agent, Graybar Electric Company, 180 Varick Street, New York City