1916
Elsewhere in this issue are given the particulars concerning the sudden death on March 19 at Hartford, Connecticut, of Douglas Morey, who was a member of our class for the years 1912-1914.
From Roger Evans comes a clipping from the New York edition of the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury, issue of April 23. This clipping is in the form of a letter written in Shanghai on December 13, 1942, to Mr. Kirkpatrick Winston of San Francisco; the letter gives the following news of Bill Hale and his family:
"They are all well, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hale, and Margaret, Teddy, and Richard Hale. At that time they were still living at home on the Hungjao Road, got to town by bicycle or by walking to the tram, rickshaws too expensive. The children were going to school. All had lost some weight. Food prices very high, partly due to the driest year in that area in memory. Bill Hale was still head of the finance section of the ARA and veyy busy. Soon after the Gripsholm, they packed their trunks, due to the report of a second boat about to sail. They stayed packed for some time, but finally unpacked to get out winter clothes I hope that they may soon be on the high seas en route home."
1916 extends its kindest greetings to the Hales and joins most heartily in the wish that they may all soon return home safely.
Paul Goward has recently written to the acting-secretary two model letters, filled with interesting details of his life and work. Paul is Business Manager of School Arts, a sumptuously illustrated magazine designed to provide information and inspiration for its extensive and widely distributed list of subscribers among the teachers of art in the schools and colleges of all levels throughout the world. Paul's firm is also the publisher of many other works in related fields, for example Lorado Taft's LittleMuseum, a beautiful collection of about one hundred photographs of Greek sculpture, arranged for programs of visual education in our schools by the late Lorado Taft, eminent American sculptor. Along with his other duties Paul serves a regular shift as air observer at the local observation post. He speaks with pleasure of having seen Pee Wee Marble recently in Worcester (Pee Wee is now engaged in war industry as well as in insurance) and of receiving a brief call from Doc Greeley. I wish that every reader of this note would follow Paul's example and let his secretary have word of him and his doings.
The Dispatch-Herald, of Erie, Pennsylvania, recently carried an interesting account of the activities of Chester M. Woolworth, Governor Martin's secretary of property and supplies. Chester's 24 years of background in sales and manufacture with the Oneida Community and the Animal Trap Company of America have helped him in directing the purchase of the present monthly total of about $1,000,000 worth of supplies and sundries for the state, a task which priorities have obviously made no easier of late. Chester has also been closely identified with the organization of the Lancaster war production board and has transformed his own firm to an almost 100% war production basis. He serves as a member of the war committee of the National Association of American Manufacturers and also of the department of manufacture committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce. He resides with his wife and two children in Lancaster.
Among his other skills Sterling Wilson retains his charming facility in writing; his present station in foreign climes had best be sub rosa but his most recent letter must be shared, if only in part:
"I have organized a Dartmouth Club of and it meets daily at the Hotel. The resident is F. S. Wilson, the vice-president and executive director, Lieutenant Francis Wilson USNR, and they were good enough to elect me secretary and treasurer. In order to fill up the tables and insure a good audience for any possible who wander into these parts we permit a University of Texas man and a Princeton man to sit in. Incidentally, our new American consul came over on the Gripsholm and was acquainted with the Dartmouth group on that ship.
While I can't say anything about the work or the weather, I will say that the former is interesting and the latter has given me nothing at all to complain about is a well paved city, clean because the wind blows the dirt away, and with a beautiful view of . A majority of the houses are of corrugated iron with some very handsome two-story stone or stucco buildings mixed in and a few palaces, belonging to the reigning merchantprinces. My hotel is of corrugated iron and looks like a warehouse from the outside, so I am always agreeably surprised when I go in to find out how comfortable it is. There is always a fire burning in the grate, and in the lounge where we take our coffee after dinner, there is always considerable social life, if only among the people who are consoling each other in exile.
I am enjoying the experience of living here and expect to enjoy it more when I get command of the language. Since I left the United States I have not run into any food-shortages anywhere. In and of course, they have sugar to burn; we have plenty of sugar here, too. With millions of sheep in the back yard we have all the meat we want. If there is any shortage of anything, I haven't noticed it. It takes about 12 to 14 days to get a letter here from home by air mail, and the local papers are a bit sketchy, so I don't know as much about the rest of the world as I did."
Changes of address reported here this month include the following: Jesse K. Fenno, Northeast Airlines, Inc., Waterman Building, Burlington, Vermont; Lieutenant Russell B. Perkins USN, 115 Monte Cresta, Oakland, California; Kenneth W. Ross, 2925 Cathedral Avenue, Washington, D. C.; Dr. Eliot A. Shaw, 184 Angell St., Providence, Rhode Island; F. St. George Smith Jr., 23 Rose Street, New York City.
Secretary, 2542 Stratford Rd, Cleveland Hgts., Ohio Acting Secretary, 3 Downing Rd., Hanover, N. H. Class Agent, 270 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass.
