1919
The University Club of Boston provided good food and service for several Dartmouth classes that gathered for dinner, Friday evening, October 13, before the Notre Dame-Dartmouth football game. Nineteeners present were: Jim Davis, Rock Hayes, Spider Martin, George Bingham, Phil Bird, Pete Gray, Bob Stecher, Milt Conkling, Dr. Bill White, Lt. Col. (Dr. Dan) Featherstone, Lt. Louis Munro USNR, Herb Fleming, Al Googins, Jack McCrillis and Ken Huntington.
Before dinner, Spider Martin made a committee report to President Jim Davis, approving the idea of publishing a Class Book to picture and historify members of the class after these few years since graduation, or near graduation. An excellent idea that should receive considerable support.
Least said about the football game the better, but a luncheon held before, in the Miles Standish Hotel, brought together another meeting which included wives and children. Spen and Gladys Dodd, Janice and Barbara Dodd (daughters), Ken and Marj Huntington, Herb and Sally Fleming, Bill and Marion White, Janet White (daughter), and Nancy O'Neil, Bob Stecher, Milt and Eva Conkling, Jack Conkling (son), Jack and Hester McCrillis, Jack McCrillis Jr. (son), Jim and Mary Davis, Phil and Helen Bird, Chuck and Charlotte Eaton, K. C. and Laura Bevan, Al Crosby, George and Lisa Bingham, Rock and Alice Earle Hayes, Randolph Hayes (son), Spider Martin, Louis and Harriet Munro.
Phil Bird and Herb Fleming appeared to be busy as it was they who arranged and handled the October 13th dinner and pre-game luncheon enjoyed by all who were there. The Birds entertained several of our class who were at the game and who could find their way to Abbotsford Road in Brookline. There we found Favia, age two years, Malcolm, eight, and Meredith Bird, ten. The children proved their right to be included in the title given their parents, "Perfect Host Birds."
From a distance in Fenway Park we saw Howard Cole and Jack Moriarity, who should have found us sooner. Those who almost made the game and sent last minute messages were Freddie Balch, Willis Fitch, Lt. Col. Army Air Corps, Cotty Larmon, Batch Batchelder and Red Cofwell.
H. James Stone—Jim, manufacturer of special wire nails in Bridgewater, Mass., writes that his son Alan D. Stone is seaman 1/c USNR at Texas A. and M. studying electronics. Jim expressed regret at missing one of the class get-togethers in June and joins a lot of us in the hope that the war will be won soon and a real reunion will follow.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Harold J. Morse have announced the marriage of their daughter Patricia Joan to Edward Lee White, U. S. Naval Air Corps, on October 1 at Fitchburg, Mass.
Tracy Kohl, formerly manager of the Oak Park Arms, Oak Park, 111., has been named manager of the Homestead Hotel, Evanston, Ill.
Tom Bresnahan may be found in the N. Y. Cen- tral Bldg., 230 Park Ave., where on October 16, he became special service representative on home building and furnishing activities with the McCall Corporation, publishers of McCalls, the Red Book, and others.
Taken from the Bulletin so ably written by Al Dickerson '26:
The Bulletin herewith takes special note of the return to Hanover last week of its founding father, Russell R. Larmon '19, after an absence of more than two years.
Professor Larmon resigned the state directorship of the New Hampshire OPA, which he had organized and administered with distinguished success, amid the plaudits of the press, to return to his former duties at Dartmouth and one important new one, of which more when the appointment is announced.
Jim Langley '18 in the Concord Monitor wrote, So long as war makes despotic regulations necessary and there must be agents of the government to apply them, the people of New Hampshire could not wish for a better agent than Russell R. Larmon has been, as state head of the Office of Price Administration.
" 'Cotty' Larmon was deliberate, kindly, and orderly in his administration. He was quietly courageous, and the aspects of the regulations, made in Washington, which did not appeal to him as essentially sensible or as fair as conditions would permit, or administratively sound, he protested, and protesting, helped to get corrected. He was loyal, too, to all those who have been a part of the rationing and price control program in this state, particularly the volunteer members of the local boards."
Charlie Warner writes from Louisville, Kentucky, "I am traveling a lot and away from home a good deal. The oldest boy Charles is ready to leave for foreign shores as an aircraft gunner. The youngest son Bob is away at military school and my present home is still in Washington, D. C., where Mrs. Warner continues to receive letters from the family." Another war-time situation which we hope will be cured soon.
Clarence Buttenweiser, captain MAC and registrar of the Station Hospital in a letter of October 16, tells of moving his Hospital Unit from one island to another, where he is now attached to a large general hospital. Clarence states that he has lost weight because under staff has meant over work by a willing, able and experienced unit. A glowing description of the island of Maui makes good reading for those who plan a postwar pleasure cruise. He writes, "Maui is so ideal in every respect that it is unwise to make comparison with other places. I think Maui is one of the loveliest spots I have ever visited in all my travels."
Capt. George Rand AUS may be en route toward his home here in December. George's wife, Mildred, whose sudden illness was recently reported, is making a very favorable recovery.
Win Batchelder has recently been elected to serve on the Board of Education of that beautiful Connecticut town of Darien. Batch also serves as an active trustee or elder of his church, in addition to heading the Dartmouth Club of New York and, no doubt, engages in other civic and club activities that are here omitted.
Lew Garrison has recently suffered from a serious leg infection but is back on the job, directing the activities of his printing business. (Dan) Lt. Col. Featherstone has had transfer
from Boston to Asbury Park, N. J., c/o Kingsley Arms.
Frederick H, McCrea has recently moved. from San Mateo to 14 Seventh Ave., San Francisco, Calif., and William J. Carto from Charlestown, W. Va., to 725 13th St., N.W., Washington, D. C.
_ Lt. Comdr. Rabbi Raible IJSNK will return to civilian status on November 10 when he expects to invade his home city Cleveland again. Greif will be in New York City soon and resume an account of his experiences at a luncheon to be given for him by some of his friends and classmates in New York.
Secretary, 234 Huguenot Street, New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
