1914
It was a perfect September day when Marian and I arrived at the Inn, September 29, to find that Ted and Marian Main had preceded us by an hour. Hardly had we started dinner when Rufe Sisson sat down at the next table. Later in the evening we all enjoyed the Navy's interpretation of a night- before rally, after which "Stubby" Johnson made his appearance at the Inn lobby, to be followed by Ralph Jenkins, who dropped in for a few minutes on his way farther north. We were all especially glad to see Ralph, whom most of us had not seen for years. While the two Marians, Ted and the writer were eating lunch, cafeteria style, "Chief" Higgins, dignified teacher of languages at Lawrence, Mass., High School came threading his way down the aisle with his arms full of plates, cups, and saucers. Of course John Piane appeared in the evening, as did Farmer Remsen, the latter somewhat fatigued by two hundred miles on the back of a motor cycle. Mart, too, seemed greatly worried, finally explaining that he was momentarily expecting a maternity case among his herd of Jerseys. Rocky Flanders and Mary were visiting the Pianes, so that all in all it was quite a weekend.
"Chuck" Kingsley, chairman o£ the executive committee, advises that Fred Davidson has been elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joe Batchelder. It is an excellent choice. Congratulations to both Fred and the class.
Dick Barlow writes that he has the only '14 son in the class. Dick is keeping the record clean, i.e., a '14 son in every class in recent years. George Barlow '43 is an ensign in the Navy Air Force, and has recently been serving at Boca Chica. When he returned, he reported to Dick that his executive officer was a Dartmouth man, but did not realize at the time that he was none other than our own Sammy "Red Wing" Sheldon. Incidentally Dick and Jane were in Hanover the September 22nd weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. August Strohmeyer have recently announced the marriage of their daughter Lt. Gerda Marie, Army Nurse Corps, to Lt. Richard Calder Fuller, Army Air Force. Lt. Fuller is the son of Gus Fuller. The marriage took place at the Army Field Chapel, McCook Air Field, Nebr.
Ray and Elizabeth Trott have recently announced the engagement of their daughter Ann Elizabeth to Mr. Samuel Hazard, Ensign, USNR. Miss Trott was graduated from the Lincoln School, in Providence, R.I., and is in the senior class at Smith. Ray also has a son, Haughton, who left Dartmouth to enlist in the Navy; He is a C.P.O., with the Fleet in the Pacific area.
"Art" Maddelena's daughter, Mary, was married recently to Sgt. James Nolan at St. Joseph's Church, Medford Wasn't that a good picture of L. D. White in the July 17 issue of Life? Or did you miss it? He was with the group of Chicago University professors "Win" Wilcox is in charge of the accounting departments of four Farm Bureau offices, three at his home city, Columbus, Ohio, and one in Baltimore, Md. He is completing his six- teenth year with the outfit, and dryly remarks that he sometimes believes that he may stay with the company and "sort of make it a permanent job." .... Grandpa Burleigh is proudly boasting about his new grandson, George Crafts Burleigh Jr. George Sr. '4O is with the Hospital Complement, Station Hospital, Charleston, P.O.E Marjorie Louise Harvey will have been married to Vincent Oaks, of Springfield, Mass., by the time this is published. Marjorie is the daughter of Maurice Harvey, and has just completed her training at the Spring- field Hospital Congratulations, Capt. Kenneth Grant, on your recent promotion .... and as for you, "Chuck" Kingsley, I'll buy the drinks this time with pleasure, but I hereby serve notice on the class that future misspelled words do not rate free drinks for anybody. Contact the proof-reader.
A nice long letter from George Gilbert! Gil has one son, Harvard '40, a first lieutenant with the engineers in the Fifth Army. After the last war in which George wore crossed rifles and finally emerged with gold oak leaves, he went back to teaching, holding his present position as principal of the Senior High School at Ardmore, Pa., for several years. In addition to being President of the Philadelphia Suburban High School Principals' Association, Gil is representative to a number of associations of school men at secondary school and college levels. In his own words, "Besides a very enviable academic rating, the school, last year, won the Philadelphia Suburban Championship in football, soccer, boys' basketball, gymnastics, girls' swimming, boys' tennis, and lost baseball in the play-off of a tie." Some record!! His only complaint seems to be the lack of Dartmouth men in the vicinity.
"Sherm" Saltmarsh, Lt. Comdr. USNR is now located in Concord, N. H., as Naval Liaison Officer for Selective Service. "Salty" is also head of the Legal Division S.S.S. supervisor of agricultural deferments; delinquency control officer in charge of special investigation and Selective Service member of the War Man Power Priorities Committee for New Hampshire.
Enlisting April 6, 1917, in the USNR, as a seaman 2/c, Saltmarsh was commissioned an ensign, September 26, 1917; thereafter he was second in command and later commander of Section 1, First Naval District; later serving on the U.S.S. Seattle and U.S.S. Siboney.
At the outbreak of the present war he was assigned to duty as a lieutenant USNR, as Liaison Officer for Selective Service at Boston, where he was also Supervisor of Selective Service Board of Appeal, legal advisor for the local boards in Massa- chusetts, for State Headquarters, and for Selective Service System, generally, in Massachusetts.
FATHER AND SON. Major Horace L. Borden '14, AAF, looks at a poster of his son, Lt. Horace Jr., chosen to represent all young Army Air Force pilots fighting today.
AIR-MINDED '14ers. "Chuck" Kingsley (left), general counsel for Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., and Gordon Sleeper, public relations director for Republic Aircraft Corp., chat in front of a Thunderbolt fighter. Pilots in World War I, they are the fathers of Chuck Jr. '42, a Hellcat pilot, and Gordon Jr. '45, a Thunderbolt pilot.
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