1923
This month, for the first time, we have the privilege of reporting a '23er in the armed services on overseas duty. With strict and proper regard for censorship regulations, Mrs. Howard W. Reed writes that her. husband, Howie, was commis- sioned a captain in the Army on October 3 and is now serving overseas. Mrs. Reed is staying on at their home at 16 Welgate Circle, Wollaston, Mass., from which address she'll gladly forward any and all letters you fellows would like to send Howie —and Howie will welcome them too.
Jerry Werner writes that he was commissioned at Ist It. in the Army on October 4, attended Army Exchange School at Princeton and after graduation was sent to the Presidio of San Francisco for further training, thence to Fort Stevens in Oregon, and subsequently to the permanent post of Assistant Exchange Officer at the Fort Ord Exchange, Fort Ord, Cal a nice note from Joe Bruning reports that he has been in the service since April as a Lt. AUS AC, assigned to Military Intelligence and stationed in Washington .... a recent issue of the Atlantic Journal headlines the news that Frank O'Gara has been commissioned a lt. (s.g.) in the USNR. For the past ten years Frank has been merchandising v.p. of Davison-Paxon, Atlanta affiliate of R. H. Macy with whom he made his mercantile start upon graduation from Dartmouth. Frank's extra-curricula activities include the presidency of the Travelers Aid Society and the Atlanta Exchange Club.
Babe Miner crashes through with the grand news that he has recently received a promotion and is now a full commander, which rank entitles Babe to wear gold on his cap (and no cracks about brass hats, please, just sincere congratulations for a well-merited promotion). Babe continues as Chief of Surgery at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital Babe reports having seen Doc. Hertzberg recently—lt. commander MC USNR, stationed at Quonset Point air station, doing fine, and crazy about the service .... also Oolin Stewart, still a member of the Hanover Clinic and an assistant professor at the Dartmouth Medical School Lt. Chuck Calder USAAC is stationed with Jim Landauer at the San Antonio air base .... and Lt. Comdr. Ches Sweney comes up with a new home port, Miami, Fla.
A couple of '23 sub-reunions for the record. Quoting Chick Burke on the Boston Alumni dinner: "In uniform a trio that the class can well be proud of, Majors Frank Doten and Stan Ungar and Lt. Commander Charlie Zimmerman. Non-uniformed tax payers included Jim Broe, Chick Burke, Fred Clark, Sherm Clough, Ed Fairbanks, Ly Harding, Stuie Knight, Doc Morgan (plus violin), Lew Putnam, Rusty Sargent, Phil Segal, Ted Taylor, Herb Veit, Rog Wilkinson .... cheering the Big Green basketballers against Columbia in N. Y., Clarence Goss, Joe Miller, Brooks Palmer and Al Whaley .... ditto the hockeyers against Harvard in Boston, Jim Broe, Bub Eaton, Stuie Knight and your scribe.
A nice chat with Pete Jones a couple of weeks ago disclosed that he has signed up with the Coast Guard Auxiliary Reserve. Pete ranks as a division captain, commanding one of six flotillas which operate in Cap Cod waters. Pete says he won't put his own boat in the water this summer but the many official inspection trips Pete's post requires should afford him the opportunity to get his usual quota of salt water splashed in his face.
Fat Shattuck thawed out just enough ink to let us know that a second daughter, Sara Belle, had arrived at the Shattuck homestead in Richford, Vt., on July 24 Jack Titcomb from Everett, Wash., writes in that he's going to have to slow down the clocks to get in all the lumbering and farming he's carrying on his schedule. Jack is resident manager of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Cos.
J. A. S. Millar, V.M.D. of the Millar Animal Hospital in Deal, N. J., is the author of an article entitled "The Use of Sulfonomides in Small-Animal Practice" which appeared in the January issue of the North American Veterinarian .... a late flash on Freddy Bryan finds him as Legal Counsel and Ass't Sec. of Vultee Aircraft, Los Angeles, Cal other legalites to check in are Arthur F. O'Brien, partner of O'Brien and Moran Brooklyn law concern. Oby received his LLB. from Harvard in 1926 .... and Heinie Barrett, LLB., N. Y. Law School in 1927 and now a member of the firm of Bleakley, Piatt-& Walker of New Rochelle.
Bill Parke's home bailiwick is Kalamazoo, Mich., and his company the Bryant Paper Cos Treasurer of The Haydenville (Mass.) Savings Bank is Ros Jorgenson .... recent Worcester headlines and pictures indicate that Councilman, Deputy Chief Air Raid Warden, etc., Ralph Duffy, took his usual active part in the recent Boy Scout week, this year in his new capacity of Worcester Area Council president while wife Emily keeps up the family tradition for civic activity as chairman of the Red Cross camp and recreation service committee and co-chairman of War Fund Campaign.
For nigh on two years Manny Rubin has been promising us a tell-all letter. I'm still hoping he'll come through but in the meantime you'll be interested to know that Manny is the works of the Diamond Shoe Corp., in Marlboro, Mass Al Schryver, the Liberty Mutual man in Milwaukee, is looking for '23ers on whom to show some real Milwaukee hospitalitythat's the "four-letter word beginning with B" kind, isn't it A 1?.... Carl Bowen, of our Detroit delegation, is manager of the Art Metal Construction Co.'s office.
Secretary, 8 Fenimore Rd., Worcester, Mass. Class Agent, Monroe Calculating Machine Cos., 11 Park Place, New York City
