1920
Our Boys in Service: It's news when three '20s have dinner together in North Africa but that's what happened to Laddie Myers, Charlie Crathern and Hib Richter, all officers in the Air Corps. I wonder what part they are playing in the Sicilian campaign. Whatever it is we can be sure they're doing it well.
Rus Keep's entrance in the Naval Air Force has been well heralded with notes from Bob Van Iderstine, Carl Lenz, and Al Frey. Rus was sworn in as a It. commander and left for Miami. He has been granted a leave of absence from the Pacific Fire Co., of which he has been Secretary. Rus was an ensign in Naval aviation during the First World War.
Mel Merritt advises that he recently saw Jake Gorton. They both have similar jobs though Mel says with the usual modesty that, "Jake's is much bigger, and he has an extra half stripe." Both are commanding officers at Florida flying fields. Mel had 15 Dartmouth kids under his wing at a prior job and says they were a great collection A note from Lt. Col. Sargent makes known that all is well at Fort Benning, Ga.
Stan Antrim chronicles the fact that he is still sheep ranching with a winter session in the Montana State Legislature, the voters willing Grant Lucas writes from Washington, D. C., with the statement that "with a service-bound exodus of medicos the nose isn't put to the grind stone but vice versa." .... Ben Pearson, the snuff king, expounds that even though business is booming he has problems the same as all of us. Getting along without metal in packaging is the current problem which is hardest to lick. Also, he finds himself all bound up in Civilian Defense work in Byfield and Newburyport, Mass.
George Winter writes on very familiar Telephone Company paper that the large amount of toll business is giving him plenty of headaches Various newspaper clippings depict the fact that Middle- bury's Prexy, Sam Stratton, is kept busy addressing alumni groups and graduations.
.... Grosvenor Plowman claims to be at least one of the longest distance commuters on the WPB's Washington staff; three weeks in Washington as chief of the Transportation Section of the Steel Division, the other week in Denver at his regular job with the Colorado Fuel & Iron Cos. Irv Blaine is one of his co-workers on the WPB.
Twenty had a well attended class dinner in New York in May. The main topic of conversation, excepting the War, was our 25 Year Memorial Fund. Come fall, the committee is going to start working on it with plenty of gusto—so get ready. The New York gang is already planning a dinner for October. Those at the May dinner included: Dean Travis, Carl Lenz, Arch Lawson, George Sackett, Tom Davidson, Ted Cart, Ned Pearson, Ginger Bruce, Dick Charlock, Jim Chilcott, Warry Chamberlain, Don Mac Donald, Jack Brotherhood, Beardsley Foster, Norm Richardson, Rus Keep, Lt. Col. Jack Mayer, Paul Richter, Bung Roland, Ab Osborn, Jerry Stone, Capt. Eddie Bowen, Phil Gross, Bill Fuguet and C. F. McGoughran.
Pip Aitken pens a line from Miami that he is on his way to South America for an unknown period and on an undisclosed mission "Every Man His Own Robinson Crusoe" by Pike Emory appears in the June issue of Natural History Pete Potter is the recipient of a well-deserved promotion in Eastman Kodak: Title, Director of Advertising Operations.
Seen at lunch at one of New York's better spots, McGoughran, Baketel and Char- lock Also cavorting in the metropolis, 25 Year Memorial Fund Chairman Newcomer and family.
Flash! Tommy Thomson files his claim as the first grandfather in the class. Any other claimants? Mary Anne Libbey, born July 2; father, Lt. L. B. Libbey Jr. '40. Grandpa Thomson celebrated the event by taking an extra long ride on his bike, which has supplanted his car. Fie has no trouble getting it over the low hurdles but confesses that the high ones present a bit of a problem.
A letter to a classmate in service would be more than welcome. If you don't know the address, the Alumni Office would be glad to forward it.
CAPT. EDMUND J. BOWEN '20 USMC, now stationed at Floyd Bennett Field, has seen service on four continents to date— No. America, So. America, Europe, Africa.
Secretary, 212 Glen St., Glens Falls, N. Y.
