1913
Despite heavy losses by death, 1913 must make good on this year's Alumni Fund. With no Reunion on account of the war, each one of us should make a special effort to increase our contributions. Every '13er should be on the list, and early too. Let's make this 30th Reunion year the best on record. We can "do."
Lloyd S. Riford has been made a Trustee of Wells College and a director of the National Association of Manufacturers. As "the works" of the Beacon Milling Co., makers of Beacon Feeds for poultry and cattle, he now has his hands full, but like all busy men has time for civic calls.
Bill Gumbart is chairman of the New Haven Red Cross chapter. The list of his educational, charitable and business boards of which he is a member is too long for details—ten in all. Before this war there were ten lawyers in his firm, but three are now in service leaving plenty for those remaining.
Ralph Stone is in foreign trade, importing hides, skins and raw fibres, mostly from South America and India, with Fleming Joffe, Ltd. at 10 Jacob St., New York City, alongside the Brooklyn Bridge. He has charge of raw fibre purchases and sales, all South American correspondence, and the issuance of all formal contracts.
"Buff" Buffum, in public accounting in Middletown, Conn., and has been helping people with their taxes.
A correction can be made in the list in the class letter: Captain Tom L. Sullivan is attached to PMGO. He just missed out on two South American assignments, one to Brazil and one to Argentina.
Lieut. Walter Nolan had men in his M.P. battalion, and other fellows from the Air Base at Bridgeport, Conn., rehearsing the presentation of a stage show at the Loew's-Poli theatre in conjunction with the opening on February 10 of "Immortal Sergeant." The soldiers put on a show to depict life "Over There." Actual scenes from Army life were enacted, and they used tents, machine guns and even a jeep on the stage. There was a parade to the theatre led by the Bridgeport Junior Police Fife and Drum Corps, and in line were 25 members of the Motorcycle division of the Bridgeport Auxiliary Police.
Nor Catterall's Henry Hudson Hotel in New York has "100% occupancy" with 400 to 500 Army and Navy officers most of the time. Drop in to see him when you are in town, he says.
Lieut "Mose" Linscott from Ft. Ontario corrects his and "Harp" Nolan's designations as AUS —probably most of our officers are AUS and not USA as commissions are undoubtedly temporary for this war.
George Munroe '43 is in V-7 and, having finished and graduated from Dartmouth, is now at the USNR Midshipman's School in New York City.
Larry and Christine Stoddard have a new address: Apart. 3G, 91-618 193rd St., Hollis, New York.
Due to the crowded conditions at Hanover, the Secretaries, Treasurers and Class Agents meetings this year were held in New York and Boston on April 3rd and April 10th respectively. "Hap" Atwood, as chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee of the Alumni Council, was on from Minneapolis for both meetings and presided at the joint dinner of the three Associations in Boston. He was in fine form and one of the best dinners we have had resulted—only the atmosphere of Hanover and undergraduates was missing.
Henry Proctor is an active financial secretary for the R. I. Society of the long name—Prevention of Cruelty to Children Bill Pierce, now retired, moved into a new home which he purchased in West Barrington, R. 1., the day after Pearl Harbor. Took three cats with the family but two of them have just furnished 11 kittens.
Ed Crawford reports from Chicago that he will expand last year's garden about five times and that Andy Comstock is in the Windy City after a couple of years of sitting in the California sun.
Charlie Archer reports a granddaughter, Susap Archer Whitcher on March 29, 1943. Charlie is really doing a job with his farm in Marshfield.
Vic Dunbar is Senior Accountant for the Rochester Ordnance Dist. at the Am. Locomotive Co., Schenectady, with a trip outside frequently on the. Tank Contract. Marjorie has completed her Canteen courses and is working at the Blood Donor Center. Donald completed his junior year at Hanover in April and had two weeks at home before being called into the Army.
Joe Cheney represented the Florida Parole Commission at the Nat'l Ass'n Conference in St. Louis and had a chance to see his son, Captain John L. Cheney, at Div. Headquarters Staff, Ft. Riley, Kansas. John received a reserve commission in Field Artillery following graduation in 1939 from the U. of Florida. He went into Boy Scout work as an executive in West Virginia and then into active service in Feb., 1941, and is now in an Armored Div.
Senator Brig Knight was elected to the New Hampshire senate from the nth District on the race track issue. What Will Rogers did to the United States Senate regularly, Brig tried on the N. H. Senate one day in March. He made a hopeless try to stop the passage of the pari-mutuel bill and talked in a homespun manner, "delivered blows with gentle seriousness, kept everyone breathless with his audacity and even those whose faces reddened at some of his remarks weren't made bitter or angry." They were challenged to overthrow the race track control, but didn't do it for the race track dollar looms large in the state budget. It was a good speech and a maiden speech that was quoted all over Concord, N. H., at once and then appeared in the press of the state.
Senator Raeburn R. McMahon has just been made the senate representative on the Governor's War Council in Vermont. W. E. Brisbin in the Burlington (Vermont) Daily News calls this "ruddy faced gentleman in the Senate who smiles easily, talks in a congenial manner, but has definite ideas and sticks by them 'one of those' comparatively rare Lamoille County political birds known as a Democrat."
Elbridge H. Kingsbury, associated with. Ford, Beacon and Davis, Inc., of New York City, for the past 22 years as senior engineer, was sent to Marshall, Texas, when the firm was named as architects, engineers and construction managers of the federal war production project near there. He now has been transferred to Louisville, Ky., as construction manager of a government synthetic rubber plant.
Esmond Richardson Crowley Jr. and Phyllis Dudley Hooper were married on April 16, 1943, in Miami, Florida. Ed is an ensign in the USNR.
LT. WALTER "HARP" NOLAN 'l3
Secretary, Box 2057, Boston, Mass. (Office: 89 Broad St.) Class Agent, 625 East 18th St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
