1935

We hear from good source that genial Jerry Spingarn has been commissioned an ensign and shipped back from Washington to Hanover for training. Lucky lad!— Dartmouth in the Spring.

PINK AND BLUE .... even steven

To the Kenneth Rules, on April 2nd, a son Stephen Sawyer Rule; and to the Captain Robert Morse ensemble a daughter, Mary Ellen Morse, on April 3rd. Bob is now Area Engineer at Baer Field, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

DOWN UNDER ITEMS .... first,

A card from Lt. J. S. Ziemen USNR: Dear Gilly—

Chaney's letter of Sept. 28 arrived yesterday delayed by the sinking of the Hornet which I was aboard from July until October. The Navy put me off here on a little island in the Pacific—still in Air Operations.

So far, the only Dartmouth man I have met here is Ist Lt. Aborn '36 who lends me his ALUMNIMAGAZINE—mine not getting through. Certainly wish I could be up in those white hills today. It's too damn hot here. Best wishes,

ZIEMEN.

And, second, the announcement by Commander and Mrs. Martin Alfred Jurkops, New Brighton, Staten Id., of the engagement of their daughter Helen Louise to Alexander Schnee, of the United States Embassy in Buenos Aires. Alex attended the London School of Economics after graduation. The bride flew to Lima, Peru, where the wedding took place. In his latest letter, Alex wrote:

This is pretty late to be kicking in with the Class dues, but its takes the regular mail a mighty long time to negotiate the 6000 miles to Buenos Aires. I hope that late payments do not seriously garble the accounting, and that I will not suffer the loss of the MAGAZINE.

There are no other '35 men in Buenos Aires, but the class of '37 is represented by Les Garvin who is doing a very good job with the National City Bank. I am working in the Economic Warfare Section of the Embassy where we follow foreign trade movements. Coming down to a neutral country right after three hectic years in the Department in Washington was quite a change in pace, but there is a good deal of work to be done there and we are quite thoroughly integrated with the war effort. It is only natural that many of us down here feel a little bit out of the battle, but there is a good deal of satisfaction in following the good record of '35, and of all Dartmouth men.

ODDS AND ENDS Navy

Ed Gary is an ensign, out in the South Pacific at present Al Kline, another ensign, is in the Supply Corps .... and Ensign T. M. Steele, may be reached by addressing letters to: Patrol Squadron 82, c/o Postmaster, Morgan Annex (Navy Desk), N. Y. C.

PROMOTION .... Army

David R. Gallagher to a captaincy, which brings our score up to a nice creditable level. It looks as though our 26% in uniform as of a year ago had about doubled.

WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN ?

The Francis Mulreadys of Rockland, Mass., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Helen Rae Mulready, to Dr. Arnold Sammis Jr., of Huntington, N. Y., resident surgeon at the Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn.

We'll see you here in August, we trust. Meanwhile, anyone passing through Bal' mor, give us a ring at Essex 380, extension 344, or at the University Club. Or call HallColton, BELmont 0066, hell guide you around—as he does this lad.

Letter from Ensign Landon G. Rockwell'35 to Dean Bill:

Your recent statement in The Bulletin was something that should make every Dartmouth man glow with pride in the College and its leadership. I know it did me. Pride in another manifestation of energetic intellectual leadership on the chill Hanover plain, endowed with an historical perspective, a fine humanism, and a firm sense of proportion. During my few years of rather careful observation of various colleges I have become profoundly convinced that intellectual leadership within Dartmouth is characterized by these qualities to a degree unequaled in other institutions. One thing has impressed me particularly about this leadership—its searching and stringent self-criticism. There have been occasions, perhaps, when this self-criticism has relaxed. There have been times, I suspect, when President Hopkins and you and others have wondered whether the College was doing its job. But what Dartmouth men are now doing and saying and thinking throughout the world must have done much to allay whatever doubts you may have had.

I have always thought that one of the strong qualities of the intellectual leadership within the College was its capacity to cultivate a consciousness of responsibility on the part of most of the students without freezing itself into the mould of repetitious platitudes common to many articulations on educational policy. In its endeavor to adjust its students and institutional program to a bewilderingly dynamic world—a predominantly industrial, technical, scientific world—this leadership has never lost its focus on the essentially humanistic character of a liberal arts education. The College has steered its course cleanly down the main stream. It has not allowed itself to drift into the static eddies of conservatism, neither has it wandered up the bayous of educational fashion. That, it seems to me, is a masterful achievement.

Believe me, it is reassuring during these months when men are perforce robbed of much sense of proportion to know that, come what may, the College is steering steadfastly down the main stream. May it ever be thus. And when the Great Antithesis is over and men return to peace and green pastures the College on the hill will be there not to develop the mind alone, but the spirit and the understanding, also.

I am gunnery officer on one of the larger class submarine chasers. She is a good ship, well armed and equipped for her mission. We all earnestly hope that she will have a chance to acquit herself successfully. It will be a long time before I see Hanover again; we are based beyond the continental limits of the U. S Frequent news of the College and my own imagination keep me close to Hanover and the hill country but vicarious experience is no substitute for the real thing!

Your memorandum was a treat, and I wanted you to know it.

LT. B. CRAMTON CARRICK '35 Stationed in England, USA Air Force.

Secretary, Gates Mills, Ohio Class Agent, 176 Northwood Road, Riverside, Ill.