1914
Commander Harold Bean apparently has recovered from his long illness and is back on active duty again. Shortly after reporting in April '41, Bean was sent to Guantanimo Bay, Cuba, as assistant senior medical officer. Five months later he was hurried back to the States with a serious heart ailment. A second attack put him to bed for five months and then gave him another five, for rest. Returning to duty he was first assigned the job of organizing the medical department of the Naval Training schools at Harvard and more recently has organized the Naval Dispensary, 230 The Fenway, Boston, where he is now in charge. The Dispensary is a rather unique departure for the Navy as it is for the wives and children of Navy personnel.
The Commander has two daughters: one, Barbara, twenty-five, a graduate of Chamberlayne School in Boston, is with her husband, a Navy man, at Key West; the other, Ruth, twenty-two, is a graduate of the School of Journalism at Simmons and is with the Far East Division of the Office of Strategic Services in Washington.
The report on the Boston party has already been sent to Jack Conners for publication in the next News Letter. You may have read it already. We have to keep Jack supplied with news because Jack, like John D.with his dimes, carries a lot of razor blades in his pockets and when he is in a good mood he dispenses them with a lavish hand. Rufe and I have both put away the electric razor; we hope for the five-year term.
Yes, speaking of Rufe—By this time you have undoubtedly joined either the Five-Year Club or The One-Year Club. If you haven't you intend to right away, so why not lay the MAGAZINE down, write the check and a note to go with it, and then come back and read the rest.
Yep, that's Jim Heenehan in the picture this month and that sweet and lovely bit of femininity with him is his daughter Janet. We are trying to write about Jim but we cannot get our eyes off the picture of Janet. She is eighteen and the picture was taken when she graduated from the Ursuline Convent last spring. She is now at Trinity College in Washington, D. C. Jim has three other children. James T. Jr., originally Dartmouth '44 joined the Army and was sent to Fordham where he led his class. Then to ASTP followed by OCS and now has his commission in chemical warfare. David G., fifteen, is at Portsmouth Priory School, and Dorothy H., eight, is at Ursuline Academy in New Rochelle. Jim says that Dorothy keeps him on his toes and from growing old in spirit. He wrote a long interesting letter with lots of information and it is too bad that space forbids its reproduction.
Now try to match this one told in Boston by "Red" Howes. He, himself, is with Howes and Howes, Architects and Engineers. He has just completed a year and a half as chief engineer in the construction of the Patuxent River Air Base in Maryland with the U.S.N.A.S. His wife Charlotte, M.I.T. '14, has been designing machine guns with the J. Stevens Arms Co. Timothy J., twenty-one, after graduating from Bliss Electrical School in '4l became the first mah to enlist in Holyoke after Pearl Harbor, and after spending two years in the Carribean area was transferred and is still in the Pacific as A.R.M. 2/c. David R., eighteen, is a civilian student, University of Chicago '46. Lt. Ruth E., twenty-five, Radcliffe '37, wife of William Vorkoeper, is secretary of the school at Scott Field, Ill., and Pfc. Elizabeth M., twenty-two, at first an armorer, is now an airplane mechanic in Paris. Pardon the pun but, How's that for the Howes ?
The Ernest Kimballs recently became grandparents when Steven Schoonmaker, now aged six months, arrived at the home of their daughter Dorothy .... and the Elmer Robinsons too report that their daughter Margaret and her husband, Robert Nelson Manning, Tufts '40, recently made it possible to call them Gramp and Gram
Their son John left the sophomore class at Dartmouth to join the Army and is now overseas with a Liberator Bomber Roger Rice's Dottie, age eighteen, is at Colby Junior College in the class of '46 Bill Breslin has recently become connected with Wendell P. Colton Co. on 42 St. at Lexington Ave., N.Y.C And Dr. Ward, son of Ralph Jenkins, has just started his internship at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial, his brother Page is in Montana as a geologist for the Carter Oil Co. The third brother Brooks is on a hospital ship in the Pacific. . . . . Ralph himself is proud of the fact that he hasn't missed a year getting back to Hanover since graduating, even if he didn't make the last Reunion .... and rumor from the North Country has it that one James C. Taft was matched bird for bird by his much less experienced son on a recent hunting trip in the vicinity of the campus
_ «-> J. . "-""I; ui HIV. V-aui^JUS. from Rosie Hinman comes word of himself and two sons. The older boy is with him in the mill. He writes, "He injured his elbow in an auto accident in 1941, but after graduating from Dartmouth in '42 drove an ambulance with the British Eighth Army from El Alamein to Tunis. The younger boy is with combat engineers in Holland at last report. He was able to get one semester with the class of '46 at Dartmouth and is now wondering what class he will be in when he returns. Northern New Hampshire is still God's Country but I will have to admit that Northeaste rn New York State is a close second."
One of our Boston papers recently carried the story of a Marine just back from Guam. The report went on to say that Cpl. John Peppard was a member of a ten-man patrol which was ambushed in a wooded ravine where the patrol leader was killed and three other Marines were wounded. Cpl. Peppard was one of two who "defied enemy crossfire three times to creep into the heart of the Jap ambush and rescue three wounded companions." John Sr. characteristically remarked that he hoped it wouldn't become a habit.
If you read your MAGAZINE as carefully as you should you have noticed already (Thayer School Notes) that Al Richmond is back in his old position as assistant to the secretary of the American Society of Engineers in its New York Office. Al has served as lieutenant colonel for the last three years with various branches of the Artillery.
Next month will of necessity be short on news because of the Alumni Fund Report, so I am trying to sneak these addresses by the censor:
Harry M. Cook, 40 McKeel Ave., Tarrytown, N. Y.; Robert Munson, 380 Moss Sides Ave., Richmond 22, Va.; Hadley Cole, 41 E. Gowan Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.; Lt. Comdr. Samuel D. Sheldon, N.A.A.S., Boca Chica, Fla.; Gilbert S. Pattillo, 27 Park Drive, Boston 15, Mass.; Walter K. LeCount, 55 Locust Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y.; Jonathan N. Harris, 43 Lincoln R'd., Medford 55, Mass.; F. Derby Hall, Rooms 238-41, 89 Broad St., Boston, Mass.; John H. Field, Basic Refractories Inc., Maple Grove, Ohio; Wesley T. Englehorn, 34 Carter Lane, Elkins Park, Philadelphia; Raymond H. Foss, 163 Mountfort St., Brookline, Mass.; Harold'A. Stiles, 903 North Wayne St., Arlington, Va.; Walton Parker, 391 Carolwood Drive, Los Angeles 24, Calif.; Samuel D. Cole, 247 Washington St., Apt. 28, Winchester, Mass,; Harold L. Dunbar, 279 N. Spring St., Elgin, Ill.; and Howard H. Potter, 15 Blaine Ave., Augusta, Me.
AT LAST A GRADUATION PICTURE and very attractive, too. James T. Heenehan 'l4 beams at daughter Janet's graduation.
Secretary, 88 Sea Street, North Weymouth, Mass, Treasurer, 26 Garden Street Potsdam, N. Y.
