1917
The picture of the month is intended as a measure of refreshment and an illustration of freedom at its best. We repress a sigh for perfect days gone by as we look at it and mutter a prayer that the duration may now be short. Although we cannot identify those on the extreme left and right, the principals are easily recognized as Bill Sewall, Dick Marschat, Bob Boynton, Ev Robie, Spique Maclntyre, Hunk Stillman, and A 1 Emmons—stalwarts all. May they meet again in the same green haven and with the same objectives before too long.
There is some question that these words will reach you before the Notre Dame game in Boston, October 14. But whether or not, as they are being written we are anticipating a goodly gathering of the gang for both the dinner at the University Club, Friday evening and the game, Saturday.
The April issue of Surf n' Storm, the magazine, of the Cadet Battalion of the U. S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn., carried a lengthy article, under "Meet the Instructors," on Lt. Carl C. Colby, instructor in languages. It notes Carl's being Dartmouth '17 and his Master's degree from Harvard "after the conclusion of the first world war." Then, in a long flash-back, it recounts Carl's long travail with the Marine Corps in World War 1, here and abroad, in all their engagements, in which he was twice wounded, and finally discharged in 1919. But the best part of the article is the accompanying photograph,—stern to be sure, but our Carl, practically as he was in the g. o. days, and with a whole sheaf of campaign bars on his jacket. His letter of the early summer stated that his department would be busy for another month, after which he anticipated attending Harvard or Chicago for the summer session. He writes, "My son Kenneth, who is an EM3/c in the Coast Guard, just arrived home for a furlough, before going back to sea duty. He has been in eighteen months now. I am still teaching the boys here a little Spik. Have seen A 1 Dupuis and Sam Saline some this winter. on a fishing trip with Sam last summer at his lodge on Newboro Lake in Canada."
Major Hal Ingersoll says that my letter looked like a Chinese puzzle when it reached him. "I really don't see how our Army postal clerks were ever able to follow colored arrows all across the front thence all down the back. It reminded me of those charts and graphs I drew for your thesis not so long ago except that this made some sense;" which of course embarrasses us a little. "I was a captain a long time. Was made a major December 1. But I got a consolation prize—Legion of Merit awarded in March. Maybe I'll be a lieutenant colonel some day, but I hope the war ends before that. Now in G. S. Corps. No longer in Air Corps."
Capt. Ray Collerd AC/AS says, "my daughter Nancy, who is a Y3/c at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy, was married June 4- in San Francisco to Lt. (jg) Herbert J. Schrader Jr. U. S. Maritime Service, who just returned from a couple of years in the S. W. Pacific. I flew out by Air Transport Command airplanes but arrived after the wedding was over. Saw the couple for a day or so and then flew back. At least got a chance to cool off in dear old San Francisco. (Plug).
"Was astonished and no end delighted to be seen off for the Coast by Capt. Ted Lonnquest USN who had looked me up after finding Myrial and I were in the District of Confusion. Ted is the same swell guy who signed up with me on April 1, 1917. However, he's now a four-striper and I still sport the 'railroad tracks' of the Army. Marie was with him and both looked grand." Ray's work is such that Washington duty meets with his full approval, "although it was rather tough not to have remained in England until D-day. The dope is now out on the new 20th Air Force so I believe it's O.K. to mention I am hooked up there."
Major Don Norton is now retired and doing his best to follow instructions and take it easy. He is at R.F.D. No. 3, Vergennes, Vt., on the shore of Lake Champlain. He has "a small garden and do a little fishing but that is about the extent of my activity." Don says sitting back and doing nothing "isn't at- all as nice as it's cracked up to be," so maybe we'd better just forget those dreams and go back to work. He says, "However, I have sent my daughter Pat out to take my place. Her husband was lost in the Air Corps last fall just a month after her marriage. Now she has enlisted in the WAC and is going to replace us both."
Rog Stone reminds us of an article in last December's Fortune entitled, "Psychiatric Toll of Warfare," in which this statement appears, "By last spring, through the efforts of Col. Roy D. Halloran, Chief of the Neuropsychiatric Branch of the Surgeon General's Office, mental hygiene clinics were established in each of the Army's thirty-odd replacement centers, where the various Army branches receive their special training. Since this step was taken, a program of preventive psychiatry has begun to burgeon in Army training camps."
Just before he left New York, Lt. Comdr. Slatz Baxter wrote that he was marking time with "temporary duty at St. Albans Naval Hospital which is a small plant of 4,750 beds. I have the pneumonia, scarlet fever, and measles wards, and we have plenty of each. Art Stout is on the Board of Governors here, and at the Dartmouth College Club" where I was staying, I see a lot of him. Towler gets me in trouble occasionally and I have had many happy hours with Lucile and Gene in their home, the Cranford USO for all Dartmouth service men."
Several of the boys saw the picture of Sgt. Tracy A. Dibble Jr., in the July 9 Sunday supplement of the Boston Herald, including Larry Nourse. Larry was vacationing with Lucille and the girls on his farm near Durham, N. H., and was reminded, like some of the rest of us, that he had not seen Tracy pere in years, and promised to look him up "the next time I am in Lynn."
Since our last notes we have learned that two of the boys have been advised of the supreme toll which has been exacted of them by the war. The College has just sent word that Lt. James G. Fowler '42, Harry's son, was killed in action January 30 at Cisterna, Italy. The New York Sun of June 7 brought the sad news that Hobart Ford Jr., gunner's mate, second class, was missing .in action. We wish to express to Harry and to Pop our profound and understanding sympathy. Our hearts go out to the fathers and mothers of these two boys.
Two other sad losses are recorded in this column with sincere and heartfelt sympathy. Sunny Sanborn's mother passed away on August 2. Sunny's devotion to Dartmouth and 'l7 is even better understood when you recall the mutual love, and attachment between his parents and Dartmouth. His father, Dr. Frank B. Sanborn, is 'B7. Roger Stone's letter tells us, "My Dad passed away on June 26. He was not known to very many of the boys, but was most interested in Dartmouth from the day when he and I first set foot in Hanover together in the spring of 1913. I think it would have pleased him no end to be remembered under 1917."
Hunk Stillman is in Washington where he expects to spend six months in WPB on loan from his company, Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper. He writes, "My job will be Deputy Director, Converted Paper Products Branch, Paper Section, Forest Products Bureau," .... Sam and Dorothy MacKillop spent part of their vacation at the Hanover Inn. To us Sam's comment, "It's a hell of a fine place," is gross understatement Karl Koeniger had the pleasure of talking with Bill Erb early in the summer when Bill was on briefly from Chicago Palmer Kiser's wife has advised that Palmer is at the U. S. Veteran's Hospital, Castle Point, N. Y., and probably will be for some time. She said particularly that he would appreciate visits and mail from the gang. Along the middle of June pictures of our genial host, Newt Smith, blossomed out in all Boston papers with the formal announcement, "The Sheraton Corporation is pleased to announce the appointment of Newton L. Smith as General Manager of The Copley Plaza." You now know where the real Dartmouth hospitality is to be found in Boston, particularly since Newt says, "The doors of the Copley Plaza are always wide open to all you hell-cats from the Wilds of Hanover." .... If you will go back to your July 3 copy of Life, page 27, you Will see Hap Mason sitting in the front row. Hap was largely responsible for the success of the Republican National Convention. Even including politics we want to see Hap successful in every single thing he undertakes A good picture of Sunny recently appeared in Boston papers with the title, "Ralph Sanborn, associate general manager of the Sanborn Insurance Agency of Boston, has been appointed chairman of the Metropolitan Division of the Greater Boston Maintenance Appeal, which is seeking to raise $400,000 for the Salvation Army." .... By Brown was in New York early in the summer and talked with Art Stout, but left no information about himself. Monty Willard is now associated with L. B. Hawes, 37 Temple Place, Boston, in the advertising business Chuck Riley was congratulated recently on the anniversary of his twenty-fifth year with the Ford Motor Cos. As previously reported Chuck is traffic manager of the Somerville branch.
Ty Woodruff said we could publish a small paragraph saying that he still lives in La Junta, Colo., that all Santa Fe trains stop there, and that he will always answer Phone 556, day or night, and be on the station platform. But .we want to add just another detail or two from Ty's very swell letter:—"My birth certificate indicates that I was born sometime in the gay nineties in Boston, but I never could find the Old Howard or the Adams House now without a guide. Our one and only, Ty Jr., a very near graduate of the School of Business Administration at Colorado U., and at present somewhere in the South Pacific, has more than once said, 'The finest thing you could do for me would be to let me have my last year-at Dartmouth.' And, so help me Hannah, if that boy gets back, he's going to have his last year in Hanover."—Ty is administrative assistant to the C.O. of the Sub-Depot at La Junta Army Air Field, which post he has won after a start "on the bottommost rung of the ladder, and by use of due diligence and all that sort of thing." Now, following a rugged eight hours sub-depot administration, he manages to sandwich in a few hours at his law office, and then to bed. Ty no longer weighs 128 pounds "stripped for Harry Hillman." The last time he saw "one Paul Webster Trier, Baldy hadn't lost a single hair."
Our juniors have appeared in the news quite frequently during the summer months. In June Major Arch and Mary Gile announced the engagement of Mary Joyeuse to Lt. (jg) Edward Martin Cavaney USNR, and the wedding took place in Saint Thomas Church on August 5, with a reception following at Hanover Inn. In the absence of Arch, overseas, Joy was given in marriage by Dr. John M. Gile 'l6. She is a graduate of Dana Hall '4l, and of Briarcliff Junior College '43. Lt. Cavaney is an alumnus of University of Southern California. They will live in Princeton, N. J.y where the lieutenant is currently stationed on the staff of the Naval Training School.
The wedding of Barbara Ann Paine, daughter of Mr-, and Mrs. Bob Paine, to Ensign Edwin B. Laughlin II USNR, took place on May 27 in Boston. Barbara is a graduate of Winsor School, made her debut in the 1940-41 season, and is a member of the Vincent Club. She has been doing her part in the war by driving a small tractor at the Boston Army Base. Ensign Laughlin is a graduate of Albany Academy and Brown University '43, where he was a member of Psi Upsilon.
Early in June, Jane Stearns of Cohasset became the bride of Lt. Kingsbury Browne Jr. U.S.A., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kingsbury Browne of Brookline, Mass.
Don and Helen Brooks announce the engagement of their daughter Elizabeth to Lt. Oscar E. Duttweiler Jr., U. S. A., of Kearny, N. J. Betty graduated from Montclair High School and now attends Duke University. Lt. Duttweiler attended Admiral Farragut Academy and is a graduate of the United States Military Academy '44.
An all 'l7 engagement is that of Roberta Lee Halloran to Ensign Edwin W. McGowan '44. Roberta is a graduate of Beaver Country DaySchool and made her debut in 1941. Terry attended Fessenden School and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy before entering Dartmouth. He is now on carrier duty as a torpedo plane pilot in the South Pacific. At a large tea for June and Roberta on June 25, given by Ed and Irma at their Wellesley Hills home, those present representing 'l7 were: Spique and Ruby Maclntyre, Sunny and Ethel Sanborn, Forrie and Jeanette Emery, Mrs. Pay Barber, and Howie Stockwell.
The pleasure of our vacation on Cape Cod this past summer was greatly increased by the presence of Don and Helen Brooks with Betty and Bill vacationing at Bass River. By careful planning the infourteen miles were spanned a number of times with little use of the precious fuel. The result was several long sails (close to shore) on Nantucket Sound, refreshing swims in the Atlantic, delightful gatherings of the Brookses and Browns en masse, and some slight discussion of 'l7 business by your treasurer and chairman. Needless to say, discussion was prolonged by toasts to the best gang of guys in the world as well as to many of its individual members.
FREEDOM AT ITS BEST. A group from 1917 in pleasant conclave at the class Silver Jubilee Reunion in 1942.
Secretary, 57 Chestnut St., Dedham, Mass Treasurer, 9 Park Terrace, Upper Montclair, N. J
