1912

Syd Clark has joined Col. Connie Snow, Lt. Col. Dick Plumer, Billy Baxter and Bob Belknap who comprise the. 1912 delegation in the Signal Corps at the Pentagon Building in Washington. Syd writes:

I finished my book oil Mexico—which is to be published by Dodd, Mead in October—on the twenty-first day of May; and on the same day I received a telegram offering me a job as editor in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer in Washington. I decided to take it, since it is a duration job and would not tie me up indefinitely. My chief desire, as I guess I need not say, is to get back to Europe at the earliest possible moment and start a series of post-war travel books on the Liberated Continent. That I plan definitely to do,tying it in to air travel, which will certainly dominate the years ahead.

Meanwhile I really enjoy the work and the life here in this war building. This morning as I was loping through the concourse of the Pentagon a voice shouted 'Hi Syd,' and yes, it was Lt. Col. Dick Plumer. I also see Billy Baxter and Bob Belknap from time to time, and of course Connie Snow. We have 'l2 lunches in the Pentagon eat- shops in various combinations of us. It's odd that five 1912 men should be in this one outfit—the Signal Corps.

My son, Lt. (jg) Donald E. Clark, Dartmouth '43, is still out in the Pacific, a computer operator on a battleship.

My daughter Jacqueline, formerly working in the Baker Library and mar-ried two years ago to Peter Jacobsen Jr., Dartmouth '41, is Jiving out in Wyoming and produced my first grandchild in June. The child was born on Invasion Day, June 6, but happily Jacqueline didn't name her 'lnvasia'- like the excited Dallas mother who had a baby that day. The baby, a girl, is named Mardi Lee.

As executive secretary of the Atlantic Coast Oil Conference, Inc., Click Morrill has arranged for an economic survey by the Harvard School of Business Administration to determine the present and future contribution of the independent oil marketer to the oil industry and to the ultimate consumer, as reported in the July 12th issue of NationalPetroleum News:—

The originator and guiding spirit of the survey is Clyde G. Morrill, the man who has successfully guided the destinies of a number of East Coast fuel oil distributors' associations under the name of the Atlantic Coast Fuel Oil Associations Conference. Mr. Morrill brought to his oil industry work a few years ago many years of general business experience. He was able to look at the oil picture, therefore, without bias.

Ray Tobey writes: While I don't believe in sending in news before it happens, it will do no harm to say that if nothing unforeseen prevents I am taking a little time off from teaching and entering the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University next week.

Chip Farrington enclosed his check for class dues with a note:

Am still in Philadelphia trying to keep my head above water, associated with Victor C. Smith '17 handling rolling steel doors, fire doors, Kalamen doors, timber trusses and several other allied building products.

Lyme Armes spent his three weeks' vacationand summer weekends in the Armes Houseat Harvey Lake, Northwood Center, N. H.,"where systematic daily gas saving resultedin the discovery that the fishing right there inthe front-yard waters was better than in thefar and famous spots."As New England correspondent for yourActing Secretary, Lyme also writes in his inimitable style:

The Quint that was known as "Doc" long before five other Canadians added girlish charm to the lustre of the name turned out to be a "Doc" in fact. A crackly sheet of his professional stationery bears the engraved legend: "W. Southard Quint, B.Sc., M.B. (Tor.) X-ray Specialist, 215-217 Southam Building, Calgary, Alberta" .... but the scribble that came with it was signed "Doc Quint" as of old and reported busy days jampacked with the excitements attendant -upon the marriage of his daughter Peg and the return of Quint Jr. from France. That latter day must have been filled with old-soldier battle talk, for the last time I laid eyes on "Doc" he was back in the Strand, London, after four years in France as a captain in the Canadian Medical Corps.

"Pat" Lovell buzzed a few 1912 telephones in Boston recently .... on his way back to his ship- building in Bath, Maine, after a two-week vacation and family reunion on Cape Cod.

Forrest Wiggin died September 15 at Port- land, Maine, as is reported in the In Memoriam Department.

Sam Hobbs sends a snapshot of his attractive daughter-in-law, Arlene, and "a very remarkable child—my year-old grandson, David." Sam Jr. is fire dispatcher for Lassen National Forest.

Through Dick Plumer we learn that Al Smith's daughter, Jeanette, has presented Al with a granddaughter, whose father is presently somewhere in the South Pacific.

Signing "The ex-ulcerated Captain," Chief Wheeler writes:—

I put on civilian clothes for the first time in over two years this A.M. and came my office to see what it looked like. My staff had it all done over when they heard I was on "extended leave" with the likelihood of being called back to the Air Corps very remote. So I am sorting out mail, etc., preparatory to getting into the harness once more. Jack Fox called on me last June at my camp in East Bridgewater, Mass., where I was recuperating from stomach ulcers. We had a swell time reminiscing and we both are looking forward to June, 1947, and seeing 1912 at Hanover.

As Chairman of the American Red Cross, Doc O'Connor spent the month of October in Europe in personal examination of the Red Cross war activities abroad. On his trip to New York from Washington prior to his airplane departure he unexpectedly "met up" with Guy Swenson, who had been in Washington on a war contract termination, and Col. Connie Snow.

Acting Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Acting Treasurer, Court House, Dedham, Mass.