1921

Alden (Ike) Chester, who has been known to '21ers during more recent years as "The Kokomo Kid," has been elected president of Globe American Corp. He was formerly vice president of the corporation and general manager of the Globe Stove & Range Division plant at Kokomo, Ind. The Globe American Corp. represents a 1930 merger of Globe Stove & Range Co., Kokomo, and the Macomb Steel Products Cos. of Macomb, Ill., manufacturer of "agricultural equipment. During the war the company's Kokomo plant has been devoted largely to the manufacture of steel lifeboats and liferafts for Liberty and Victory ships, a type of equipment designed and engineered by Ike's company, especially to meet Maritime Commission requirements. As a result of Ike's success with this idea for participating in war production, Kokomo has become nationally known as the "cornfield shipyard." There is very little corn about Ike himself, however, as the accompanying photograph will testify. Gargon, some choice or-chids to Ike Chester.....

News from the armed services continues to come in. Ben Tenney, after four years of active duty with the Navy Medical Corps and after achieving the rank of captain, has at long last drawn a nice shore assignment. He is in charge of the hospital at the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, Long Island, N. Y., and with his family has taken up temporary residence in Great Neck. Ben writes that he "had a very interesting time in the South Pacific. The first ten months I was on a ship and the second ten had duty in a mobile hospital as Chief of Surgery. I saw some action in the early days and did a great deal of war surgery. If my luck is good, I will get a year ashore before I have to shove off again..... I hope to contact some of the class and renew the old associations. I must admit that in four years of active duty, I have pretty much lost track of everyone." Come on, you guys on the Long Island side of the big town, show some'signs of life! For your delectation, Ben has forwarded (at the request of this column) a fine full-length photograph of himself which will probably appear with next month's Notes.

Major Jack Means of the Air Corps has returned to this country and has resumed residence at his Falls Church, Va„ home. We hope to bring you an eye-witness description of the Major in an early issue Newell (Smitty) Smith has been promoted from captain to major, according to one reliable report reaching Washington. Presumably still at Wright Field, Dayton..... Dr. G. Elliott (El) May turns up as a commander in the Navy. Assignment unknown to your reporter at this writing, but living at 112 Woodlawn Ave., Wellesley Hills Lt. Jack Hurd of the Navy has been transferred from Lambert Field, St. Louis, to Peru, Ind., where he is attached to the Recognition Office of the Naval Air Station at Bunker Hill. Jack succinctly sums up the situation in two sentences: "Bunker Hill is said to be a good field, somewhat larger than Saint Louis, and I am always glad to move about to new sections of the United States. Not much can be said for Peru, which incidentally is pronounced Pee'roo." We wish space permitted quoting his letter at greater length, for Jack always does a great job on the English language..... Harry Chamberlain writes that "Major Ell Fisher was in New York last week (writtenSeptember 12), and is still majoring in the Army, a lot harder than he majored in any course as an undergraduate. His work is concerned with the distribution of food to the armed forces, which is about all that can be said without specific information. He looks in the pink, so hard work must agree with him."

Earlier, in the year this department was delighted to receive the following letter from Lt. George Forman of the Naval Training School at Princeton, which we hope still holds good as to the facts stated:

My total experience in the Navy so far has been a landlubber job right here in Princeton. Left the Indoctrination School at Dartmouth on September 8, 1942, reported here September 14, and have been here ever since. My duties have been purely administrative, as assistant to the executive officer, and it has been very interesting to help start the school up from scratch and watch it develop. For the first nine months it was a General Service School. Then on July 1, 1943, it was turned into an Indoctrination School (that was the time the Indoctrination School was discontinued at Dartmouth). Also at the same time a pre-radar school was established here for officers and the V-12 unit was added. So now we have a three-ring circus with about 1700 Navy personnel aboard, and over 6000 Naval Officers have gone through this school to their various assignments all over the world...I sure got a whale of a kick out of going back to Dartmouth for Indoctrination. Marching around the campus again brought back many vivid memories of marching around the same campus in 1918 in the S.A.T.C.

Cliff Hart asks this column to publicize the fact that the '21 Dinner in Manhattan this fall will be held on Dartmouth Night (November 10) rather than the night before the Columbia game, as announced last month in these Notes Ralph Steiner reports his address as 8930 St. Ives D.r., Los Angeles 46, Calif Dave Plume has removed to his address of some years' standing, 41 Oakley Ave., Summit, N. J. What's cooking, Dave? Al Dunn, true to Connie Keyes' report, turns up at Chicago headquarters of the National Park Service, where you can reach him in Rm. 1145 Merchandise Mart, Chicago 54. During non-business hours it's 1224 Oak Ave., Evanston, where Al says Margherita and Jane (12) are learning the ways of the East, as Californians speak of Illinois See you next month.

Secretary, 201 W. Montgomery Ave., Rockville, Md. Treasurer, 545 Hinman Ave., Evanston, Ill.