1927
The weekend of April 3rd your secretary went over to New York to attend and preside at the annual meeting of the "Secretaries' Association." These meetings were held this year due to the war and difficulties of travel in two sections, one in New York on the 3rd and another in Boston on April 10th. Ken Ballantyne attended the New York meeting as assistant class agent. I spent a very enjoyable Saturday night at the Ballantynes' in Greenwich. The dance at the golf club at which we arrived around midnight reminds us to ask Sykes Hardy about a great admirer of his. Blonde she was and very attractive. The meetings in Boston were attended by Bob Williamson and Roger Salinger as assistant agents. Directly after the meeting Bob Williamson and I telephoned head agent Cummings in Pittsburgh to congratulate him on the fine start our class has in the fund this year and to assure him of the loyal support of his assistant agents. This looks like our year to make a top record. 1 only wish you all could have heard Dr. Hopkins tell us of the most efficient and effective way in which the college has rearranged its programs and adapted its many facilities to do the best possible job in the war effort. The administration and the faculty are one hundred per cent together in making Dartmouth a vital unit towards winning the war. They must have our support to make these efforts most effective. It is also our privilege and responsibility, and a most important one, if we are to win and maintain the peace, to see that Dartmouth College is able to continue as a liberal arts institution.
Jim Picken writes that he is now Lt. James E. Picken USNR. Back in March he reported at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for thirty days training to take the instructors' course in the V-5 training program which is for pre-flight school. There is then a possibility of his being transferred to Kansas City, but that is still indefinite. Jim says he would like to read more in this column about some of the '27 baseball group and would enjoy particularly hearing from Fred Carver, Harry Dey, Ron Michelini, Bob Stevens, Bill Elliott and Fred Owl. Last we heard from Bob Stevens was a report that he was in Melbourne, Australia, having been successful in getting out of the Dutch East Indies ahead of the Japs. The rest of the gang Jim mentioned are very busy with their duties as teachers and coaches at Kimball Union, Staunton, Westminster, and St. George's School in Newburyport. When last heard from, Fred Owl was teaching at an Indian school in the Middle West. How about letters from some of you guys so we can tell Brother Jim how you're getting along?
Jim adds that he occasionally sees Reg Vincent and talked on the phone with Joe Hardin who was then with Bamberger's in Newark. He also claims that he must have inoculated his old roommate Eddie Redcay with some basketball knowledge, since reports are that Eddie developed quite a team up at Plattsburg. Jim has been doing a good job in sending outstanding men up to Dartmouth from Scott High School in East Orange. Last year a delegation from his school missed out on winning the scholarship plaque by a fraction of a point.
Early in March the New York Times announced that Jim O'Leary, for the last fourteen years a political writer and legislative correspondent for the New YorkPost, was appointed secretary to District Attorney Frank S. Hogan. Jim lives with his wife and two children at 108-40 SixtySixth Avenue, Forest Hills, Queens. He was president of the City Hall Reporters' Association in 1938 and is also a member of the Inner Circle and the Legislature Correspondents Association in Albany.
We are very happy to welcome Willard Smith to Greater Boston where he has recently been appointed principal of the Concord High School. Willard was the first headmaster of the Tilton Northfield School which was opened in Tilton, New Hampshire in 1939. He had served as submaster at Laconia High School for four years. Besides his degree from Dartmouth, he holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of New Hampshire and is at present doing graduate work for the degree of Master of Education at Harvard.
In a Boston paper of July 3rd last, we find the heading "U. S. Patent Issued to Charles L. Hardy." "The Government has issued to Charles L. (Sykes) Hardy a patent for an invention he has perfected called a basket, for use on ships run by steel turbines. Mr. Hardy who has sold steel products for Joseph T. Ryerson & Son of Cambridge for the past fifteen years has already received large orders for his basket from the U. S. Navy, and the General Electric Company has agreed to adopt his device in place of one of their own.
A fine letter from Frank Cloran denotes excellent spirits, and his sense of humor shows that in spite of the battle he is having to regain his health, he is far from down. He also encloses a picture and article from the Times informing us that at the Wykagyl Country Club in New Rochelle the ground is being plowed up by tractors this year instead of niblicks and mashies, and that Victory gardens will displace golf on sixty acres of the club's property. Of particular interest to us is the fact that "Hugh Magrath, New York insurance broker, stated that on Sundays he would limit his golf to nine holes and spend the rest of the day gardening." Maybe he will find that he can score better with a hoe after all.
Charlie Paddock is now a private at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. He reports that just before Uncle Sam sent him to Devens for the winter he bought a new home in Wellesley Hills where he had planned to move with friend wife. On February 20th he was transferred South for a training course. His Officer Candidate School application has been pending since October, so we expect to hear shortly that he has been transferred to such a school. You can write him Pvt. E. B. Paddock, A-BTRY, 2-BTN HQT, Fort Bragg, N. C.
We recently received a grand picture of the Heifer family attending a football game out in Massena. Five finer looking boys you never saw, with the old man looking quite dignified, but blase about the whole thing, and the most attractive mother looking just a touch proud. We hope to publish it in this column before long.
A note from Capt. Monte Phillips informs us that he spent two months this winter at the Adjutant General's School at Fort Washington, and that he is now back at the Air Corps Base in Santa Ana, California. He reports that Bill Satterfield, now Captain Satterfield, was on the staff and faculty at the above mentioned school and that he saw him practically every day and spent a weekend with him. Monte also attended a Dartmouth smoker in Washington where he saw Lt. Col. Paul Hannah and Bill Munnecke who presided at the meeting.
From a recent issue of the Eastern Underwriter we clipped a picture of Norman Ford. The accompanying article announced that Norman has been promoted to Assistant Manager of the Actuarial Department of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. He entered the employ of this company in 1927 immediately after his graduation from college and worked in a clerical capacity before being transferred to the mathematical department. He was admitted to the associate membership in the Actuarial Society of America in 1932 and is a member of the Actuarial Club of Hartford and Boston. Norman lives in Springfield and is financial secretary of the First Baptist Church in the community.
Bill Abbott is now living at 40 Sandringham Road, Piedmont, California. Fred Parker has recently moved to Pittsfield, Mass., where he is working on the legal staff of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company. Norman Swift is in Washington, D. C., doing full time war work as an associate economic analyst in the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce. He is working on the "controlled materials plan" securing data for the War Production Board. Hank Vietor has recently been transferred to Minneapolis by the Shell Oil Company where he is their real estate supervisor.
Secretary, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass. Class Agent Box 1412, Pittsburgh, Penna.
