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The story of Doc O'Connor's appointment by President Roosevelt as Chairman of the American Red Cross appeared in the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. The appointment was announced on July 13 after the class notes for that issue had been put in type. The chairmanship of the American Red Cross is generally recognized as the outstanding position in this country for public service and the first intimation that he was to be so honored came to Doc only the previous, day, while in Chicago, nearing the end of an extensive trip that he was making as President of The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Classmates had the opportunity of hearing him appear publicly in his new role when he made his first address as Chairman of the American Red Cross over a national, network on the evening of September 5. Congratulations and best wishes of the class go to Doc for the new honors and responsibilities that have come to him.
As acting treasurer, Ralph Pettingell makes his annual report for the year ending August 1, 1944, summarized as follows: balance on hand August 1, 1943, $1,187.66; receipts during the year, $617.40: disbursements during year, (including subscriptions to ALUMNI MAGAZINE of $454.), $498.77; balance on hand August 1, 1944, $1,306.29.
Writing from South Charleston, W. Va., where for the past ten years he has been a buyer in the Construction Purchasing Department of Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp., King Cole writes:
I have lost all my teeth, dimmed my eyes and sent two boys away to the wars. One is back in Texas after his quota in Panama and one is in the Invasion. Our older daughter is married to a doctor who is also in the Army and the younger daughter is a cadet nurse. One boy is here at Carbide on deferment for the war effort. The three youngest boys are at home—well, as much as 16, 15 and 14-year-old boys can stay at home. My hobby is hiking and I am acting as hikemaster for a club sponsored by one of the local papers. The young ladies, bereft of their usual boy friends, hike in self defense and, never having heard me quote the Litany of the North Woods, think I am a nice old man who doesn't drink, swear or go out nights. Such is fame!
Stan Weld writes: My daughter Barbara, whose husband is a lieutenant (jg) USNR on an aircraft carrier out in the Pacific, is back at her old job working for Doc O'Connor as County Field Secretary for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Bob has recently relinquished a position with American Export Airlines and is now with Canada-Colonial Airlines as aeronautical and engineering licensed mechanic at LaGuardia Airport. Dave started at USNR Midshipman's School at Columbia this month, having finished his V-12 course at Dartmouth, where he was a member of the class of 1946 and a Psi U. He was a member of the varsity golf team in 1943 and 1944, played as No. 4 man on the Dartmouth team in the Intercollegiates at Princeton in May this year, when his score was the next lowest medal of any of the 36 contestants. In June he won the college golf championship, using woods which formerly belonged to President Hopkins. He also won the college handball championship this year and was runner-up last year. Frances should not be overlooked, for as a mother and wife she is unbeatable and keeps the home open, running it without any maid.
"While my business is completely shot for the duration, the farm keeps me mighty busy," reports Windy Gale. "Between bugs, animals and weather, we have a battle but like the Yanks on any old island you want to pick, we get the pillboxes all knocked out eventually, although we have casualties, too, on both sides. My gang are all perking. A.G. Jr. is I-A and home from school waiting to be called. One daughter is working in Buffalo for a customs broker. Another goes to Rochester tomorrow to take her exams for the WAVES. The youngest is just out of school and I expect to make a farmer out of her this summer in her spare moments."
Bob Baird, head of the Bi-Lateral Fire Hose Cos., writes from Chicago:
I have intended to give you and Doc a ring upon my numerous trips to New York, but have been so hurried that I did not even have time to call upon my relatives. The Navy has taken over almost our entire production, but because of the many problems emanating from our manpower shortage and labor crisis it has kept us on the jump and I have been called to Washington frequently. Like Eddie Cantor, I have five daughters and two grandchildren—one of them a boy—and two more coming. One of my daughters is in the SPARS and one of my sons-in-law is an instructor of flying in the Navy. We have just had good news from him that he might be transferred to the Glenview Base near Chicago.
Sons and Daughters The July Issue of the Rotarian Magazine carried an interesting article on Italy by Henry Van Dyne's son, Ed Warren Bruner brings us up to date on his family, as reported by Connie Snow in the last classnotes: "And on July 31 I will be home to celebrate the fact that after thirty- one years, I still have the same wife I started out with." A son was bora to Shirley Snow Blue and Lt. Douglas King Blue USA at the Orange, N. J., Memorial Hospital on August 1. Shirley is the daughter of Les Snow. Lt. Blue, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, is with the Army Engineers in the South Pacific At an all-Navy wedding on June 6 in St. Andrew's Chapel at United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., Elizabeth Stoughton, Lt. (jg) USNR, youngest daughter of our late classmate Bob Stoughton, was married to John William Kelly, Lt. (jg) USNR.
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