1926
In the August notes Bob Cleary mentioned that Reg Hanson had been communicating with him for the purpose of assisting in preparing the class news during the coming months. They have settled a schedule on the basis that Reg will write this column for October and will be guest editor again for January and April. Bob and he will exchange the news so that all the items available will be used to keep the class posted on the 1926'er activities. Both will be most appreciative if each one would let them know what he is doing, or would pass along news about his pals. Particularly they would like to hear from those of you to whom they may write from time to time. In this connection, too, they suggest that you check your address on the MAGAZINE and other correspondence; take a minute to send your proper address to the Records Office in Hanover. Right now they know of several addresses that are not up to date, yet cannot help out on the matter, even though they would like to do it for you. Reg Hanson, guest editor, continues.
BOSTON, OCTOBER 14, NOTRE DAME GAME—We are joining with '27 for a luncheon the day of the game. George Pierce, who is handling our share of the arrangements, can be reached at 120 Tremont St., Boston; HANcock 6863. Post card announcements are being mailed to '26ers in the Hub locality.
Bill Stickney, our ace battle veteran, is home and has reported at Camp Lejeune, N. C., as executive officer of the training command, directing the training of over 20,- 000 Marines. Lt. Col. Bill Stickney USMCR and his wife were in Hanover during the summer for several days, and while there Bill was accorded top honors by the Dartmouth- Navy V-12 Unit. After twenty-eight months of combat in the Southwest Pacific, Bill is the same great guy, hard as nails, smart, and just as successful as a Marine as he was as a lawyer in Washington.
Bill was enjoying distinction in his legal profession in his appointment as Clerk of the Supreme Court in his civilian life. He had been a Marine in World War I and had kept his Reserve status through the years, participating in training maneuvers, including a big project in Cuba in 1938. When the leathernecks landed on Guadalcanal on that memorable day, August 7, 1942, Bill was in command of the Second Battalion, First Division. His experiences on that bloody island would fill a book, and he was one of the few officers to stick it out for six months without relief. Thereafter Bill was in the first waves of his famous Division in beach landings at several spots, including New Britain and New Guinea. As a lieutenant colonel he could have stayed in the rear, but he personally led patrols through the jungle nearly to the Jap Rabaul stronghold. On one of these hazardous patrols, he and a group of Marines survived for five days after their rations were gone; Bill lost only ten pounds or so during that hard fighting trip and starvation. "No more than in a tough scrimmage or a game," said Bill, recalling his four-year football scrub days. While in Hanover, on his recent visit, he addressed the V-12 unit, mixing his adventurous experiences with salty advice to the young sailors and Marines, headed for officers' commissions, and acquitting himself with distinction in his public appearances. He was honored with a review campus parade of the entire unit. His ribbons and decorations attest his service to his country, but they do not show the pride that we in 1926 have for a swell guy and a great Marine.
Lt. Commander Bob Stopford has a new job as deputy director of the Procurement Division, Aeronautics, Navy Department, Washington. The younger Stopford, approaching two years, was introduced to his new brother, Jeffrey Morgan, in July. During the summer Bob got home to the farm in Hinsdale, N. Y„ from time to time. While on a trip to the West Coast, Bob saw Jack Kjerner on the train; he met Gob Des Marais in Los Angeles; and in the same place saw Capt. Bill Nigh who is assigned to the Lockheed plant for the AAF.
Ken Joy is doing accident underwriting work at the home office in Hartford for Connecticut General Insurance Cos. His address is 25 Westview Ave., West Hartford 10.
Dave Harriman was spotted in the thousands at a Sunday double-header baseball game in Boston, and over the heads of the crowd he told me he was back in Springfield in civilian life again.
Don Steele is the proud father of Donald Christian Steele, a June arrival. Don travels quite a bit for the Haller Engineering Associates, Boston, a concern which is deep in airport work.
Henry Blake's family is entitled to another ration book, what with Nancy Ellis Blake arriving in June. Lt. Henry USNR is stationed at Barin Field, Pensacola, Fla.
Ed Dqoley continues in achieving honors by the announcement of his appointment as public information director for the General Foods Corp.
Ed Emerson's letter from Exeter, N. H., where he is headmaster of the Emerson School, confirms the infantidings on Thomas Lees Emerson, boy Number Two. Ed also sent Frank Poor's address: 338 West 10th Street, Erie, Pa.
Hal Lewis, writing to Sid Hayward from his station in India, dated in June, had this to say: The war caught up with him in his sixteenth year with the Illinois Bell when he was District Commercial Manager in Chicago and he was loaned to the Western Electric, a Bell System organization, for the duration, as a field engineer on secret equipment. Since June, 1943, he travelled around the country to various airfields. With five other men, Hal was selected to accompany a new project, not knowing where it would take him. He was flown by Air Transport Command through South America, Africa, and other places to India. Hal is technical representative, status of civilian, wearing an officer's uniform, and can be reached through this address: H. L. Lewis, Tech Rep., APO 631, Postmaster, New York. Hal expects to be writing more letters with the sweat running down his face and arms for about six more months, and he will come back with exciting stories which will point up the valuable contributions he made to the things some of his associates did to Japan, news of which is now being released.
Sumner Tiltoris legal career in Worcester, Mass., brings him new honors in the announcement of the formation of the firm of Stobbs, Stockwell, and Tilton. Sumner went to Harvard Law after graduation and into law work in Worcester. His other partnership, with Mrs. Tilton, has two. junior members.
Wendall Ross, after a year and a half in North Africa with the Army, where he suffered a broken leg, is back on home ground and is resuming his civilian activities.
Don Norstrand has been receiving congratulations for his election as treasurer of Kennedy's, a leading New England company with stores in several of the principal cities.
Ed Fdrnum has just been promoted to Division Commercial Supervisor, with the telephone company, for the State of Maine division, with headquarters in Portland. Ed has been in Lowell, Mass., as District Manager.
Ken Johnston left the Washington scene last December and journeyed to Teheran in Persia where he is carrying on some governmental work for the U. S. Carroll Peavey is busy with his Air Corps duties at the Stuttgart field in Arkansas.
Secretary, Welsh Farms, Inc., Long Valley, N. J Treasurer, United Shoe Machinery Corp. 140 Federal St., Boston, Mass.
Yankee Westerner Though a New Englander by birth and education, Charles Starrett '26 has made a career of playing cowboy roles in motion pictures. The Yankee star of westerns recently completed his tenth year in the movies with a record 80 films made, one of his most recent being "Texas Rifles." Columbia Pictures celebrated the actor's decade in pictures during the week of the Fourth of July.
