1913
Lt. Comdr. Marc Wright is now back in this country and stationed at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. He is training men for aerial free gunnery, recognition, pistol and shot gun. The men also have refresher courses in instrument flying and celestial navigation for pilots.
"Chip" Semmes is now Colonel Semmes, having received the eagles in Italy, in August. From a chestnut woods on a mountainside in Italy he expressed the hope that the class would get behind the Alumni Fund in good style, and on July 25, after learning of the success of the Fund, he wrote of his pleasure. He and his tank crews had a fleeting glimpse of Rome. He writes, "I got out of my jeep and stayed five minutes in the Coliseum." It may well be. that he has gone into France now, as he went into French Morocco, Algiers, Tunisia, Sicily and Italy. He says he is headed for Berlin over some road.
Dr. and Mrs. Ray Schulte have announced the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth Lorraine to Frederick Jame,s Polomis of the United States Marine Corps, on Tuesday, the first of August, at the Chapel, Naval Air Station at Seattle, Washington. Ray and his family are still at 2628 Manito Blvd., Spokane 10, Wash.
Carl Forsaith is one of five forestry professors to contribute to a book. Five members of the New York State College of Forestry are authors of chapters in a new monograph, Wood Chemistry. The book is issued under the auspices of the American Chemical Society and the volume comprises 900 pages and twenty-five chapters.
Jay Runkle is vice president and general manager of Crowley, Milner and Cos., of Detroit, Mich. His son Scott is now a major attached to the First U. S. Army Headquarters under General Bradley. He graduated from Culver and then from Dartmouth in 1938. As a reserve officer he was called early and was in the Signal Corps in Washington before going overseas in November, 1943. He landed in Normandy and although he wrote home on the second day after the Invasion the letter was not sent out of the battle zone until June 14. Bob, the other son, is staff sergeant in the Transportation Corps in Camp Kilmer, N. J. Bob was married at the beginning of the war and now has a twenty- one months old daughter.
Last January Jay's wife died suddenly from an attack of coronary thrombosis. We regret that we did not know of his loss at the time. Jay Runkle has great affection for Dartmouth and Hanover. Before the war he spent many vacations in Hanover, visiting classes recommended by Bob Conant or Dean Neidlinger, playing golf or hiking about the old trails. "I guess the boys don't do as much hiking," he says, "as we did, since they have so many cars and travel down to Northampton and other places of feminine interest. Maybe we were born twenty years too soon. Well, anyway, I think that we got something out of the College that maybe the younger generations haven't been getting, in that we were much closer to the country itself than some of the boys I know that have been through. college recently."
The sudden death of George Beard came as a great surprise. He was one of the oldest educators in the point of service, in the Maine educational system. An obituary notice will be found in this MAGAZINE.
During a recent trip through New York State Jack Remsen saw Lloyd Riford, now president of his company, in his air-conditioned office in Cayuga.
Had lunch with Earle Barber on his recent trip to Boston when he was traveling about, organizing field training of the Q.M. Corps on contract termination, with particular emphasis on contractor training. Q.M. Depot personnel is to be used for instructors for the course of training. Earle had been in ordnance work previously, which involved conversion effort with small plants to relieve production bottlenecks in small arms and artillery items. Now it is the reconversion program he is following in the War Department with the office of the Quartermaster General.
Jack Macdonald had two strikes at the Walsh-Kaiser Shipyard in a week, in August. The second, among the riggers, came as an aftermath of a strike of 7650 boilermakers.
It is with real sorrow that we have to report Dean and Helen Emerson have received word of the loss of their son "Chick," a paratrooper, killed going into" Normandy on June 6. Charles S. Emerson, born in Derby, Conn., would have been twenty-one years old this month. He came from a Dartmouth family, being the nephew of Sumner Emerson 'l7, Mark Emerson '24, and brother of William Emerson '42, as well as a 'l4 son.
Always deeply interested in the Dartmouth Outing Club, he had attended the Ravine Camp with Ross McKenney, and every summer hiked through the mountains, stopping at D.O.C. cabins with his father, his grandfather, or his uncles, and was as much at home on Moosilauke as in his own yard. He left Connecticut University after his first year, to enter the Army, realizing his ambition to become a paratrooper in 1943. After five months' intensive training in England, he jumped behind the German lines the night before the Invasion. One of the first to land, he was one of the first to pay the price, and to his family goes the sincere sympathy of the class.
October 13, the night before the Notre Dame game, fourteen in the Boston area will have its annual get-together at the University Club. It is expected that there will'be a short business meeting.
Major and Mrs. Horace Borden, with their daughter Mary Margaret and son Lawrence, have been on furlough in Springfield and Manomet, Mass., after two years in Texas. Another son, Lt. Horace, is a Thunderbolt pilot in the Pacific area. Lt. Borden is represented by a poem, "Flyers' Reward," in a collection of poems, Reveille, written by members of the Armed Forces and chosen by a committee consisting of John Kieran, Grantland Rice, and Daniel Henderson. Because of lack of space, it cannot be produced in this column, but is very excellent reading.
Within a short time the bill for class dues will be in the mail. Of course you will mail your check to Rufe at once, but why not send the whole five years now? An ever increasing number are doing so. The treasurer is saved a great deal of work, the class has a reserve to meet emergencies, and you can forget the whole matter.
Secretary, Box 2057, Boston 6, Mass. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
