1930
Do you remember the first issue of "The Thirtyteer," published in December, 1932, in the form of a class report by Messrs. Rottome. Whittlesey, Haffenreffer and Faye? A batch of them are available in Hanover, for those who would like a copy, and having just glanced through one with a good deal of interest. we recommend it to you. Requests will be taken care of as long as the supply lasts. A. copy will automatically be sent to each Thirtyman ordering one of the Decennial reports of the class, "Where, Oh Where?" a few of which are also still available, at a dollar each. Just so we won't be accused by the OPA of tie-in sales, you don't have to ask for one to get the other. Our Tenth-year report is really something worth keeping, so if yours has been lost, strayed or stolen, here is your chance to get another, while they last.
The fame of the "Fund Thirtyteer" has reached its apex, for during the Alumni Fund campaign Alex McFarland received a check from a Thirtywife for five dollars and payable to the "Fund Thirtyteer." Although the check eventually got into the Alumni Fund, Alex had a photostat made to prove his contention that it was meant to be a subscription to his sheet.
Treasurer Charlie Raymond, according to Alex, has left Boston and the New England Tel. & Tel. to take a job with some textile machinery outfit in Pawtucket, R. I. The Boston delegation will certainly miss Charlie, a past president of the D. O. C. of Boston, and an old standby and workhorse for anything that came along in Dartmouth affairs in that vicinity.
The 1930 executive committee is presently involved in considerations (by correspondence), of the advisability and ways and means of holding an election of class officers in 1945, when there is every likelihood that our Fifteenth Reunion will not be held, but postponed, until a time when our service men will have been discharged and a truly representative gathering of the class can be assembled. There are at least two views to consider on the question of whether or not an election should take place in June. Do we favor the demo- cratic idea that it is unwise to change horses at this time, or do we want no part of an additional term? The conclusions of the executive committee will be sent to you sometime after you read this so that in the meantime you will have an opportunity to be thinking about this vital topic!
From far off New Caledonia Hank Embree wrote: "Have run into quite a few Dartmouth men. Buck Jones '25 and I were in the same mess for a good two months before we discovered our mutual affiliation. He told me that Joe Placak was a medic in one of the hospitals here. I called Joe the next day only to find that he was to return home the day after that! Imagine, all we had was a brief 'phone conversation when we could have gotten together several times. We were both disappointed as you can realize. Pete Lillard was here for a few weeks and we managed to get together a few times. Saw Wayne Van Leer one evening not so long ago and we had a nice visit with Major Eric Burgess '29 and Dick Clarke '32. We ended up by singing some Dartmouth songs—very quietly— but darned if half the people in the wine mess didn't join us in the Hanover Winter Song. Wayne, by the way, is making a wonderful record in the Navy."
From the other side of the globe, Harry Casler,. our best V-mailer, says he has seen Germany,. Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, Albania and Italy, and expresses the hope that the "forthcoming hullabaloo over politics doesn't overshadow the home front's war effort."
On the home front we learn of the appointment of Pete Hamm, publisher of the Traffic World in» Chicago, as consultant on a dollar-a-year basis to the magazine and periodicals section, Printing and Publishing Division of the War Production Board. For the past two years Pete has been chairman of the promotion committee of Associated Business Papers and is now a member of the executive committee of the A.P.B. Doug Humphries, veritably a lost soul as far as his class and college contacts are concerned, and formerly of McCann Erickson, Inc., has joined the copy staff of J. M. Mathes, Inc.
Cliff Williams, who has been in the Service about two years, was recently promoted to captain at a 9th Air Force base in the European theatre of operations, He is flying control officer for a combat wing of a Troop Carrier Command which spear-headed the D-Day invasion by dropping parachute and glider-borne infantrymen into northern France.
Mr. and Mrs. Elbert L. Kemp of Albany have announced the engagement of. their daughter, Miss H. Alice Kemp, to Joseph Warren Knapp, according to an Albany newspaper clipping which further stated that Warrie is in the hardware business with his father in Waverly, N. Y. This is the first news we have had about him in some time, six years in fact. Our records indicate that Warrie started out in the hardware business with his father in 1930, was with Woolworth's in Plattsburg and Waterbury, and then a hardware salesman for the David Mahoney Cos. in Schenectady. The wedding was scheduled for this summer.
There's a new baby at the home of Capt. and Mrs. Donald Shaskan. Jonathan arrived August 14, weighing seven pounds, in San Diego, Calif., where Don is at the Station Hospital at Camp Callan.
A letter from George (Shorty) Long tells of the birth of his second son, George William Jr., bom May 15, 1944, who answers to the name of "Pete". George also states that he resigned from the Jam Handy Organization on June 6 and started his own business, The Eye-Ways Group„ main office in the Industrial Specialties Bldg., Detroit. He writes, "We have since formed an association with Consolidated Productions and are now in a position not only to advise and counsel, etc., but to produce any of the visual training materials you can think of. My first contracts were on aerial gunnery training, very similar to the work I had been doing at Jam Handy since 1940.
When we last checked the figures, 1930 had approximately igo men in the service of their country, in uniform. Perhaps it was too much to expect or hope for, but having been fortunate enough to escape a single casualty for two and one-half years we continued to hope the charm would hold for the duration. It was not to be. however, and the month of July brought not only the first, but two gold stars to our service flag. With profound regret, we respectfully refer you to the In Memoriam Section for fuller details.
CHECKING ON THUNDERBOLTS. At the request of the Army, "Tiny" Tasker '30, assistant director of military contracts, Republic Aviation Corp., is touring every base in all the theatres of war where P-47s are in use to coordinate maintenance techniques.
Secretary, 99 Hudson St., New York, N. Y Treasurer, 49 Leigh ton Road, Wellesley, Mass
Ralph Barnes Hartmann, Lieutenant USN'R Warren Griffith Parish, Lieutenant USN'R Hail! and Farewell,Until our Great Reunion.
