1912
Bill Middlebrook, who has been Comptroller of the University of Minnesota for the past 18 years, was appointed Vice President for Academic Administration of that institution, a new administrative office created by the University's Board of Regents at a meeting on June 12th.
Lt. Col. Husky DeMerritt, who is As- Assistant Adjutant General for the Territory of Hawaii, recently made a flying trip to "the mainland" where he visited his son, Dean Jr., a student at Oklahoma Military Academy. Husky writes:
"We have quite a number of Dartmouth graduates down here, though many of them are 'coming and going' as you can well understand—we are well represented among 'the lads' who are DOING THINGS down here in the Pacific! And the old College should be mighty proud of them. I hear from Bill Butler occasionally - and recently had a swell note from Lyme Armes." .... Making no apology for the fact that the Dartmouth Club of Hawaii, a flourishing affiliate of the Dartmouth Club of Northern California, has been inactive "since the blitz," on May 2nd a small group of Dartmouth Indians got together to revitalize the group and drafted Husky as President.
Doc Viets recently attended a meeting at Chicago of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association, of which he is a member. While there he "went on the air" on the topic "Nerves in Wartime." Ed Mitchell is in the New York Engineering Office of Fairchild Aircraft Corporation.
Irene Drake writes that Ducky received his commission in the Navy on July 2, 1942, as Lieutenant (sg), the same rank that he had in the last war. After a refresher course at Cornell University and then a course at Noroton Communications School he sailed with a convoy about November 1, 1942, and has not returned to this country since that time. He is now in the Carribean area.
The engagement was recently announced of Ruel Gibbs' daughter, Martha, to John Haldeman Garretson Jr., Dartmouth '42.
Writing from Hanover, George Warren Wheeler Jr., Dartmouth '45, says that his father, Captain Chief Wheeler, is in the Army and has been on active duty in North Africa since May 12th.
The June issue of Travel magazine is an example of the work that Syd Clark was doing with the Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America. Syd engineered the issue of that magazine all the way through, securing the articles, translating and rewriting them, and editing the final product. His daughter, Jacqueline, did the cover. Syd also recently gave an illustrated lecture on "South America in Today's World" before the New England Confectioners' Club.
As appears elsewhere in this issue, Jogger Elcock has been elected to the Alumni Council.
Charlie Thompson's contribution to the Alumni Fund was accompanied by a letter which, after all these, years, brings the news of him up to date. He writes: "As you may recall I spent only two years at Dartmouth and then Skinny Moyer and I went to M.I.T. at Boston, where I graduated with an S.B. degree in Mining and Metallurgy. In 1917 I went as metallurgist to Phelps Dodge Corporation at Tyrone, N. M., and in 1919 went to another mine of theirs at Nacozari in old Mexico for over a year, running test work for the remodeling of several of their large copper concentrators. In 1921 I went with the Mine and Smelter Supply ,Cos. as Manager of their Machinery Department at the El Paso, Texas, branch and from 1932 to 1936 was their Branch Manager. As the manufacturing division of the Company was growing and selling equipment to Russia, Australia, Greece, in fact all over the world, I was transferred to Denver, the main office, as the metallurgist for their Marcy Mill Division and have been attached to this office ever since, with to Old Mexico, Canada, the Southwest, California, Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, etc., on sales work, service work on our equipment and getting plants started. I have three girls, two of whom are now married and the youngest one, sweet sixteen, a red head. I attend, when possible, the Dartmouth dinners and keg parties here at Denver. Not having been East since 1914 there has been no chance to keep up former friendships from Dartmouth. In fact, after all these years, I only have heard from my old roommate, Walter Elcock, when we exchanged letters this Christmas."
Eddie Richmond is now a major in the Army located at Edgewood Arsenal, Mary- land.
In the May issue of Esquire appeared an article on the Kentucky Derby by Bob Dowst. As a boy Bob spent all the time that he could at his grandfather's racing stable in Virginia where he learned about horses under the guidance of an expert and rode hunters in point to point races in Virginia and Maryland. As a result he commenced writing about horses and racing as a hobby. He has published five books on handicapping and racing, has written many magazine articles on the subject and is well known as a writer in that field.
While in Washington the latter part of May, Doc O'Connor had a "1912 lunch" with Connie Snow, Billy Baxter, Bob Belknap and Dick Plumer in attendance.
Education in the post-war reconstruction period was discussed by Dr. Roy Joseph Deferrari of the Catholic University of America at the final Catholic Forum of the season at Ursuline Academy, Wilmington, Del., on May 3rd. As head of the Department of Greek and Latin at Catholic University he recently completed a "Concordance of Ovid" after 15 years work. He has also composed a four volume edition of the works of St. Basil, which he translated from the Greek and which was published by Harvard University.
Sons in service.... Ensign Walter Elcock Jr., Dartmouth '42, is an instructor in acrobatics at Naval Air Training Center, Bronson Field, Pensacola, Florida. Kim Urion is an aviation cadet at the same field Stan Weld's son, Bob, finished his course at the Army Aviation Ground School at Roosevelt Field last month. Dave Weld is in his second year at Dartmouth as a pre-medical _ student Rollie Linscott Jr., Dartmouth '38, is an Army air pilot at Cape Girardeau, Mo. He is to be married to the sister of a Dartmouth classmate, Virginia Frey, of Milwaukee, Wis Ensign Dick Remsen Jr. '42, having finished his course at the subchaser school at Miami, Florida, is now at sea on active duty. Immediately after receiving his commission as Ensign at Notre Dame on May 27th, Bill Remsen '43 was married to Elizabeth Gibbs and assigned as a Naval instructor at Notre Dame. Dick and his wife were at South Bend for the double ceremony Ole Ahtewede's daughter, Gretchen, is in foreign service with the Red Cross and his son, Jack, Dartmouth '41, is attached to the Army Signal Corps Lt. Paul B. Urion, Dartmouth '38, was married to Dorothy Wieboldt at Glencoe, Illinois, on June 15th, and is assistant induction officer at Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
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