1930

Through Charlie Widmayer's intelligence service we had the news that Frank McLaughlin's nomination as Judge of the United States District Court in Hawaii was recently confirmed by the United States Senate. Soon after came a letter from the "Judge" himself, explaining the details of his appointment, as follows:

"I am indebted to my former room-mate, "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, for sending you the news. It so happened that Congress adjourned without having had time to consider my appointment, so it died. However, when F. D. R. returned from Casablanca, on the following day, he sent my name again to the Senate, and it was confirmed around Feb. 15th.

"I am aware of my good fortune and am thrilled, of course, at being a Federal Judge —the youngest one, I believe, and, also, the youngest judge in Hawaii.

"We, out here, are getting along very nicely. Martial law remains in a partial form, the blackout has been relaxed a bit by the use of 'dim-out' bulbs, and, all in all in many respects, we are far better off than you folks on the mainland.

"There are many Dartmouth men here now, and we are having a sober get-together in the near future."

"Cupe" Burns, vice-president of the Consolidated Flour Mills Co., in Wichita, was a candidate for the local board of education, his first bid for a public office. We are not informed, however, of the results of the campaign, which also reminds us that Bob Whittlesey has not advised us how he made out in the election for a similar office.

Secretary Batchelder, of the class of 1919, very kindly sent us a clipping from the New York Herald Tribune for April 23, bearing a picture of Chick Pooler and an announcement that he has been elected a vice-president of Benton & Bowles, Inc. Chick joined that agency in 1941 and became head of their research department in May, 1942.

Nelson Rockefeller is the author of "The Spirit of Hemisphere Cooperation, Cultural Understanding as a Basis for Lasting Peace," which appeared in the April 10 issue of the Saturday Review of Literature. And Don Shaskan has written another document, "Guillain-Barre Syndrome: An Early Diagnosis," reprinted from the March issue of the Journal of Nervous andMental Disease.

Lois Jessup tells us that Bill is now at Little Rock, Arkansas, running an airport for the Naval ferry service of planes across the continent. The Navy is just starting up there, and the Army is moving out, she says. One day Bill ran into Ham South, grounded there by weather while ferrying a plane to the Coast.

Bill Moore sent us the picture shown here, taken in North Africa last February. He and Davy Owen were together until they got to Africa, but they were separated last January. Bill said they have been keeping him very busy over there, and he hopes that before too long he will be back in the U. S. A. We have his address here for anyone who may want to write to him.

During the latter part of April we were down in New Orleans in connection with the importation of a shipment of fruit from South America. It gave us an opportunity to have two good sessions with Don Cole and his wife, Helen, although no chance to see their two children. Don is as loyal and enthusiastic as ever about Dartmouth, in spite of the years and distance away from Hanover, and even calls up Jim Campion on the telephone to get up-to-date news on the athletic teams. The Coles hope to be at our Fifteenth reunion.

John Tiedtke was in New York this spring attending one of the numerous OPA hearings in connection with ceiling prices on fresh fruits and vegetables. John is Florida's leading grower of Iceberg lettuce, among other products of the soil on his extensive acreages in that state.

That's all for this month. At this time of the year the Alumni Fund Thirtyteer is the chief disburser of news items and the more important channel. Be your own class agent this year!

NORTH AFRICALt. Bill Moore '3O, right, and some friends.

Secretary, 99 Hudson St., New York, N. Y. Class Agent,, i Federal Street, Boston, Mass.