1913
"Fifty Years of Progress," 1894-1944,—Minute Tapioca Co., Inc., and at Orange, Mass., on September 6, 1944. Howard P "Pop," Warren, President of the company since 1943 wrote a most interesting story of Minute. Pop joined Minute Tapioca in 1919 and the following year he was appointed production manager, in 1926 he was made manager, and elected vice president in 1940. Dean Thompson, all will remember, was sales manager back in those 1919 days. General Foods Corp. congratulates the men and women of the company, as do we those we know.
Chip Semmes sent us "Mud, Mules and Mountains," cartoons by Bill Mauldin and a message for the class. Ernie Pyle says Sergeant Bill Mauldin appears to all the gang in Italy to be the "first" war cartoonist, "not merely because his cartoons are funny, but because they are also terribly grim and real."
Col. Chip writes:
Mauldin, who drew these cartoons, has hit a note that rings true, and the Gls over here swear by him. The combat soldier is, after a few days in the line, always old, tired and dirty. None of the real fighters look like the rested healthy youths on the magazine covers.
Things for a time are quiet here, but we move even now. Our stretch across the mountains from the Goniglionio River south of Rome to the Arno River and Pisa was a good stretch, and kept the pot boiling until the shows could start in Normandy and in southern France.
Maybe I can get back to take a look at the class some time before we all get so old that we can't recognize each other without a formal introduction. It's good to hear you are your old self again. Remember me to the class. We will make up all together for lost time when I get back.
Stephen D. Rose has just been made Comdr. S. D. Rose. Lt. Comdr. Al Dessan has been transferred to Alameda, Calif., and is now in the Labor Board, U. S. Naval Air Station. He and Heth had a wonderful trip from Atlanta via New Orleans, Denver, Salt Lake City, the Grand Canyon and Los Angeles. At present they are living in a San Francisco hotel and looking for a house Chester A. Vander Pyl, San Francisco's lone '13's representative (until Al Dressan arrived) called in at the office in September, with his father, on his way to Washington. He looks fine—"fat and prosperous"—but not fat.
The 1913 dinner at the Parker House on October 13, the night before the game with Notre Dame, looks from here as if it could be especially well attended. Hap Atwood, who is President of the Alumni Council this year, will be in town for the Council meeting, the dinner and the game.
On September 23 Buck Freeman wrote: I wonder if any others of the Class of '13 are thinking of the happenings of that day thirty-five years ago today, when we were let into the fellowship of Dartmouth College. It is incredible to me that so many years have passed. That was the beginning of a very real epoch of my life; I cannot conceive that my life would have been worth anywhere near so much without that experience; it certainly gave me wholly new opportunities and opened to me doors that never would have been opened otherwise.
To check on the date of our opening in 1909, I got out my big green memo_ book and there it was, along with my matriculation certificate signed by President Nichols (a fine man although I think he is sort of "passed by" by some of the present day speakers in their Dartmouth addresses), my "report cards" and .menus of meals at Commons, with a Combs I for and publicity about football and debates, the coming of the Aegis and many other things. I noted with interest that in 1912 one of the speakers at the Freshman-Sophomore debate was James Forrestal. People would have us believe that the students now are far superior to us, but we were not so bad after all.
He and Gladys were in Vermont for two weeks and in Middleboro, Mass., for a happy afternoon with Ernest and Beatrice Thomas. He says he "ran into Bart Shepard in the subway at Park Street Under and it must be a tribute to our persisting youthful looks that we recognized each other at once."
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