1927
Each month brings us more news of classmates who have joined the service, as well as others who have been promoted or transferred to new posts. We will greatly appreciate your keeping us up to date on your own promotions and changes of address as well as .information of other classmates that you may hear about.
Dave Climenko is now Captain Climenko of the Army Medical Corps. Ken Lee has enlisted in the Army, and Herb Rubin and Bob Schroedel are both in the Army Signal Corps.
Lt. Phil Fowler of the Army Air Corps is now stationed at an air field in Cincinnati and is living at 18 St. Joseph's Lane, Park Hills, Covington, Ky.
Bruce McKennam is now a captain in the Army and is located at Portland, Ore., in charge of the civilian air raid warning center.
Just to prove that my pleas for news occasionally bear fruit, I will quote a letter that I received from Lt. John Carey, USNR, in St. Louis:
"In answer to your heartrending plea whichwinds up the column in the April ALUMNI MAGAZINE, I am sending on this bit of information,not that it might be classed as news, but only forwhat it's worth.
"Evidently Hi McKee has been as poor a correspondent as have I, for I notice that in this recent column "Buck McKee is Assistant Secretary of the Union Trust Company in Indianapolis.' That may be, as Hi's interests seem wide and varied. However, his immediate scene of activity is the Naval Officer Procurement office here in St. Louis. Lieutenant H. W. McKee USNR entered the service April 17, 1942, reporting at Naval Officer Procurement, Chicago, at that time. Incidentally, I reported to the same activity May 8, 1942, and was more than pleased, as you can imagine, to find myself associated with Hi.
"On the Ist of June, Hi and I, in the company of three other officers, were sent to St. Louis to open a branch office and have been here ever since. We see comparatively few Dartmouth men in this area; however, several have gone into the service through this office. The only '27ers' we have seen were Al Chabot, who spent an evening here a couple of months ago, and Phil Thompson, who was stationed at Scott Field for a short time last fall. Both Hi and I miss the contacts with the men of '27, but there seems little that we can do about it. "Hi sends his personal regards to you, as do I."
Just to show you how a good civilian classmate contributes his bit toward the war effort, we quote the following letter from our good friend Fred Jackson up in the metropolis of Jefferson, Maine:
"This being 'Dartmouth Night' here in Jefferson I thought I would report. It is 'Dartmouth Night' for two reasons: Firstly, The Dartmouth came this noon and I have spent the evening reading about the old gang and all the far places of the world in which they are. Secondly, I just had a phone call from my hunting and drinking partner, one Parker 'Deacon' Merrow '25, of Center Ossipee, N. H. He is a fellow Sec of yours.
"We are all busy here. I have a job with the War Manpower Commission through the State Department of Education as a Job Instructor Trainer. This takes me to all the local shipyards and is most interesting work. It is part time. The remainder of my waking hours and some few that I should be in bed are divided between the Martin & Jackson Co. (snow plowing, road building, moving, etc., and a side line business of cutting, hauling, sawing cord wood 400 cords last year) and civilian defense. I am assistant chief observer and run the local spotting post. I stop cars during blackouts, am a volunteer fireman, deputy sheriff, truant officer, and ran the last scrap metal clean up. In addition I have the doubtful -honor of being chairman of the Republican Party in these parts. In my spare time I collect stamps. How's that for a full schedule?
"Trips to the movies, after the nimble woodchuck, and driving the 26-ft. Chris-Craft are out until 'V' Day. The Mrs. and 2V2 -year-old adopted son are fine."
We recently received an interesting clipping from the Muskegon, Michigan Chronicle, which should have been entitled "Local Boy Makes Good." The heading, however, actually reads "Don McCall named Officer of Paper Firm." The article goes on to state that the former Muskegon and Dartmouth athlete has been elected vice president and a member of the Board of Directors of the Racquet River Paper Company of Potsdam, New York. It also goes back into history and recalls the fact that he was a member of the greatest basketball teams Muskegon High School ever had. Don has been Eastern sales representative of this company since 1929, having spent the first two years out of college with the Shaw-Walker Company. In 1931 he was married to Miss Betty Ridsdale of Washington, D. C., and they now live in Scarsdale, N. Y., with his three children, Mary, Patricia and Donald Fenton Jr.
We recently received word that Charlie Bartlett has been promoted to senior grade lieutenant in the Navy. He has just graduated from a two months' training course in Miami and has been assigned to command a P.C. boat. We are hoping to see him here in Boston before he goes to sea again.
Art Armstrong has moved out to California where he is now working as a tax counsel for the Douglas Aircraft Company in Santa Monica. He lives at 1711 Kingsway, Los Angeles.
Hank Bayles has joined the Navy. We have no further details and would appreciate hearing from him. Bill Hoge is attached to the U. S. Naval Air Station at Patuxet River, Md. Lt. Phil Thompson graduated from Officer Candidate School in the same class with Phil Fowler. His address is 1645 Greenleaf Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Norm Page is still living up in Pike, N. H., where he is a timber operator and farmer. Al Welty is now manager of the National City Bank branch at 72nd Street and Broadway, New York City.
At a recent Coast Guard dinner in Boston, we had the pleasure of seeing Lt. Don Gardner for a few minutes. He appears to be in excellent spirits and is enjoying tremendously his duties at the Coast Guard Base in Nantucket. We are sure that Major Bill Skinner would appreciate some mail from any of his friends. You may have his address upon request.
Philip B. Hunt Jr., who was formerly William C. French, is now in the Navy. His address, also, upon request.
Don't forget the Alumni Fund closes June 30th. Gus and his loyal assistants are counting on your support. Let's make this a record year for 1927.
"IT WON'T HURT A BIT" Capt. C. A. Carroll '27 MC AUS, right, at-tending Lt. F. H. Doane '3B CA AUS atFort Stevens, Oregon. They were the onlyDartmouth men on active duty there dur-ing the Jap submarine attack June, 1942.
'2BERS OVERSEAS HOLD A DARTMOUTH GET-TOGETHER These classmates, now serving in the ETO USA, had a grand time recalling their collegedays when they met in London recently. Left to right, Capt. Walter L. McKee, Lt.Richard G. Rendell, and Capt. Rockwood Keith.
Secretary, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass. Class Agent,: Box 1412, Pittsburgh, Penna.
