1936

Many times in the last year and a half, we have heard the critical cry of "business as usual," but never let it be said against the Class of 1936, whose activities have been far from normal in these war days. Not only have the personal lives of many of us been disrupted through entry into the armed forces, but also our class organization has felt the effects. Our regular secretary, Eddie Chamberlain, was called by the Navy over a year ago, and as you may recall last summer the executive committee elected a first and second assistant secretary in Norb Hofman and Al Gibney respectively, with the thought that they could carry through for the duration. As you all know now, however, Norb is in the Army at Fort Knox, and Al went into the Navy long before his time arrived to write this column. With times as uncertain as they are, it was therefore decided after consulting with our advisors in Hanover to go along on a temporary basis, and as a result yours truly is going to fill in as acting secretary as well as continuing to send you those bills each year for dues. So, fellows, while in the past you have had a hotel manager, an architect, a salesman, an assistant dean and an advertising man as your correspondent, you now may listen to the Voice of Wall Street.

Let me first pay a bit of respect to my predecessor, Norb Hofman, -who has as much Dartmouth and '36 in his heart as anyone in our class and who has done one fine job for us as Secretary; and may I mention in the same breath the vote of thanks we all owe Pic Hofman, Norb's wife and able assistant, who has done much to improve our class records and to whom Dartmouth is something real and personal.

I have been receiving a great deal of news about many of you in the last two months, but it all came from Ed Brooks after he had carefully digested it for that masterpiece of his called Tithe and is therefore no use to me as far as this column is concerned. There have been a few letters arriving in this correspondent's mail bag, however, and now that this year's Alumni Fund drive is over, I hope all of you fellows will keep writing and addressing those letters to 48 Wall Street.

Our letter of the month came from Ist Lieut. Bill Wyman and arrived a few days ago by V-mail. He is on a French possession somewhere in the Pacific and is the lone U. S. officer in charge of a sizeable camp of native stevedores. Bill reports living in style with a Number One Boy to gloss the boots and whom he hopes to bring to reunion in '46. As is the case with so many of us far away from home, his thoughts are often of Dartmouth and memories of those days. Bill also reported seeing Brew Towne of the Navy for a few minutes one day as he came ashore.

A belated news item recently received reports that Capt. Frank Curtis is now commandant of student officers at the Army Air Force School at Bryan, Texas, which is the only instrument instructors' school of the AAF. Capt. Gage Aborn, after 18 months' service in the Pacific, was a member of a bomber group recently decorated by General Mar- shall. Rog Metcalf has been promoted to a captain in the Army Medical Corps, and Jim Buyoucos is now a lieutenant in the Navy and stationed at Quonset, R. I. A note from Lieut. Connie Wick- ham, who is still on one of our big battleships. Ed McGrath is now a lieutenant in the Navy as a medical officer at sea.

Springtime, even during these war days, still holds its magic spell, and we have had a full supply of engagements and weddings in the past few months. Here are the ones that have come to your scribe's attention: Engagement on April 8 of Donna Driggs to Ensign Jim Conkling; Donna is one of the four King sisters of radio and stage and has sung with Horace Heidt and Alvino Ray's orchestras. Engagement on May 12 of Martha Oliver to Milton Johnston. Announcement of engagement on May 18 of Elizabeth Becker to Major Ted Whitmore with wedding to have taken place on June 12. Wedding on April 10 in Monterey, Mexico, of Margaret McClintock to John Green- wood, who, incidentally, is an industrial engineer with Ingersoll-Rand in Mexico. Wedding on May 5 of Kathleen Buck to Lieut. Hugh Jones. Wedding on May 23 of Helen Rothrey to Private Ed Higbee at which the ushers included Jim Gidney, Pinky Conklin and Fess Mack, all '36. Wedding on June 5 of Jean Lainer to Lieut. Bill Gray, who is at Camp McCoy, Toma, Wis. Wedding on June 18 of Nancy Grim to Ensign George McCleary. The stork reports one new arrival this month and that a daughter, Madlyn Ann, to Ensign and Mrs. Joe Millimet on May 27.

Pinky Conklin's wife comes through with the news that Pinky is continuing to pull in the academic laurels as he recently received his Ph.D. at N. Y. U. and was awarded a prize for highest ranking in achievement and scholastic attainment. He is not yet through with education, for next year he is going to attend New School for Social Research. She also reports that Fess Mack is now in the service.

At the spring meeting of Class Officers, '36 came in for some favorable comment in regard to the Memorial Fund that we established last fall and I would like to thank all of you who sent in contributions during the past 9 months. When your executive committee first discussed this fund, it was decided that any solicitation for contributions should be without any pressure and only by simply bringing it to your attention from time to time; and this we have done from the start. During the past six months we have purposely refrained from even mentioning it as we did not want it to conflict with the Alumni Fund, but now that the latter is over for this year, I would like to call your attention to it once again. As you know, the Memorial Fund was established in memory of those of our class who have lost their lives while serving their country and is open until an unannounced date after the close of hostilities. All contributions are turned over to the College under an Agreement which was printed in full in this column earlier this year.

One of our group has already sent in his second contribution, and I hope many of you who made gifts this past year will follow suit and that those of you who have so far found it impossible will be able to add your name to the ever-growing list of contributors. One of you fellows wrote in recently and suggested that many of us will find it sort of tough to give now in view of the new tax law and everything else, but suggested that most of us have been buying war bonds and stamps regularly now for some time and that a good idea would be to contribute a war bond that we have already purchased. This is a worthy suggestion and acceptable if the bond is endorsed over to "Trustees of Dartmouth College, A Corporation, Hanover, N. H."

Now in closing this first column from Wall Street, again many thanks to the following 58 Memorial Fund contributors as of July 1, 1943, whose gifts in the aggregate amount to $232.25:

Richard K. Allen, Arthur I. Appleton, Alan A. Beetle, Robert E. Bennett, Roy F. Bergengren Jr., Robert W. Bikle, Oliver P. Brown Jr., R. Gordon Brown, George C. Capelle Jr., George T. Conk- lin Jr., Roy F. Coppedge Jr., Russell N. Crawford Jr., Richard Crosby, William S. Curtis, Arthur. H. Davidson, Warren Davis, Robert O. Fernald, Mario A. Guerrieri, Joseph G. Haddad, Edward B. Hancock, Thomas S. Hart, Richard J. Hefler, Paul C. Hessler Jr., Herbert N. Higgins, Emil W. Hokanson, Richard B. Holt, Edgar R. Hyde Jr., Spencer Johnson, Frank K. Kappler, Thomas H. Lane, Charles A. Lehman Jr., Arthur A. Levin, C. Kirk Liggett, John L. Marsh, Henry J. Mascarello, Walter D. Mertz, John E. Morrison Jr., Robert H. Murphy, William McNulty Jr., Duncan H. Newell Jr., William U. Niss, Raymond E. Reitman, How- land P. Rogers, Robert H. Shertz, Francis G. Soule Jr., John S. Stiles, Barry C. Sullivan, Andrew A. Titcomb, Arthur J. Wasserman, Frederick A. Weinberg, Edwards C. Whitmore, Conrad A. Wickham, John G. Greenwood, John W. Ovitz Jr., Patterson Pope Jr., Colin F. Soule, Robert H. Taylor and Mrs. Norbert Hofman Jr.

Acting-Secretary, Bank of New York 48 Wall St., New York, N. Y.