1914
February—the month of Winter Carnival, basketball and hockey games, Alumni dinners and plans for reunions in June. Instead we read of Dartmouth men at war: civilian and military, at home and overseas, on land and sea and in the air. There is hardly a week but what fourteeners are in the news or write to tell of their activities. If you are interested, and you must be, are you doing your part to send in these clippings and bits of news so that we can all enjoy them?
Of course, you have paid your class dues by this time, only about twenty-five haven't, but if you did put it off just lay the MAGAZINE down and do it now.
The following is our list of fourteeners in the Service. If you know of any others will you please send them along?
Com. Harold C. Bean USN, Capt. George A, Boggs Canadian Army, Maj. Horace L. Borden AAF, Capt. Arthur H. Dearing USN, Maj. Roscoe DeWitt AUS, Capt. A. J. Tuck AUS, Lt. Kenneth Grant AUS, Maj. Carleton L. Kingsford AUS, Maj. Paul L. Perkins AAF, Capt. F. A. Llewellyn AAF, E. H. Wilson AUS, Maj. Howard H. Potter USPHS, Lt. Col. A. P. Richmond AUS, Lt. Com. S. W. Saltmarsh NR, Lt. Com. S. D. Sheldon NR, Leland Spore AAF, Lt. Col. Carroll A. Edson AUS, Lt. Com. A. T. Emerson USN, Maj. Richard J. White AUS, Maj R. C. Hastings CA, Lt. Col. George R. Jones AUS, *Lt. Col. Paul Hazelton AAF.
"Killed in glider crash in July 1943.
Joe Batchelder writes the following from Peoria, Ill.—"My oldest son Joe Jr., who graduated in the class of '39, entered the V-7 three years ago last August, and is now a lieutenant senior grade in the Navy. Up to last June he has been with the fleet. At that time he switched to aviation. He just finished his basic training at Dallas, Texas, and is now at Pensacola with his wife and Joe III, who is now fourteen months old.
"Mark, the younger boy, who is twentyone, entered the Cadet School of Merchant Marine last March, and finished up at Pass Christian the latter part of June It leaves Mrs. Batchelder and myself very much alone, and we rattle around the house and try to amuse ourselves."
Thanks for the Christmas Greeting, Bino, and congratulations on your boy teaching physics at Duke. It must be wonderful to have a son who can teach physics.
A recent issue of the New York Times went on to state that the business world was both startled and intrigued by a revolution in accounting practise, and a new approach to financial "semantics" which occurred this year at 71 Broadway, headquarters of the United States Steel Corporation. The corporation has departed from the construction of statements of earnings in common use, and is offering much simplified and understandable reports as the result of new methods, representing "the fruition of five years of planning by Enders M. Voorhees, who became chairman of the corporation's hardheaded finance committee early in 1939 Not many people possess his ability to make figures come alive."
Nice to have two men in the class, "En" Voorhees and "Walt" Humphries, both specializing in "figures." Your correspondent is working on figures, too, and would sugge"t that "En" put in some time with the Federal Government between now and March 15. A little simplification would help there, too.
And speaking of New York clippings and figures, the New York Sun recently told us that President Ellsworth B. Buck of the Board of Education is apparently hiring school teachers wholesale. One hundred and fifty seems like a lot of school teachers to us small-town school committee men who count our yearly changes on our fingers and thumbs. And after reading all of the above, I naturally wonder which kind of "figures" "Buckie" uses.
Orchids to "Rocky" Flanders, the new president of the Manchester, N. H., Alumni Association.
Everett Barnard should have been satisfied with getting his corsage at the Hanover Inn, but from very authentic sources, we learn that "Ev" has gone in for painting in a big way, with special emphasis on landscapes. Could it be that his recent trip to Hanover is in any way connected with Paul Sample's absence with the fleet? Then on top of all that, "Ernie" Kimball reports that "Ev" is now a grandfather. "Ernie" does not feel sure whether it is a boy or a girl, but swears that it is one or the other.
"Art" Maddalena is still manager of the Everett, Mass., district of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Go. He is just completing twenty years with the company, fifteen of which have been as district manager. "Art's" son is doing an outstanding job in the Navy, where he is in command of his own ship, with a crew of four officers and sixty-odd men. After receiving the Silver Star for bravery, shown on convoy to Murmansk, he was transferred to the South Pacific Area, where, we trust, he is helping to liquidate Japs. You must be very proud of him, "Art," and remember we are, too.
Following are a few new addresses which have just come down from Hanover: Jeoffrey H. Beals, 417 Riverside Dr., N. Y. C. 25, is with the American Smelting and Refining Co., at 120 Broadway, N. Y. C. Paul H. Brown, 225 Mallorca Way, San Francisco, Calif., is with the Reconstruction Finance Corp., at 200 Bush St., San Francisco 4. Wesley T. Englehorn, Deputy Regional Director (Reg. III), War Man-Power Commission, 21 S. 12th St., Philadelphia, is living at 7450 Normandy Lane, Melrose Park, Philadelphia, Pa. Walter K. LeCount, of the American Legation, Teheran, Iran, gives his home address at 55 Locust Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y.; Frederick H. Weed, 25 West Irving St., Chevy Chase, Md.
The Boston Herald Rotogravure Section recently carried a photograph of A/C Thomas R. Niles and his bride, the former Louise Alberta Eastman, of Farmington, N. H., who were recently married at Hemet, Calif. "Tom" was stationed at Ryan Field.
From last reports, Caleb Niles was superintendent of schools at Berlin, N. H., where he was doing a rather outstanding job. Caleb and Grace had three sons, Tom, Dick, and Harry. How about the other two, Grace? Caleb would not write, anyway.
The January Notes reported A/C Stuart H. Tnwell as in training at Selman Field He is now It Stuart H. Lowell, and congratulations are "'tended to the parents as well as the boy. Larry Kingman dropped m for a few minutes this week. His son Donald is in the Army Air Force training as a navigator. Larry is a poor ad for Kremel or Herpicide, but otherwise seems to be in the pink. is T
Oh yes, I nearly forgot. On December 18, I hecame the father of a new daughter, when Miss Tillian Irene Norris married Pfc. Donald Pierce Drake '46. I had to get out of a sick bed to attend the wedding, but got there on time. Don has now cone back, to camp. . ~ . , .
Did you get one of "Herb" Austin's Christmas cards ? Our thanks and very special applause, Herb. It rated among the most appropriate and unique of the season.
Youthful, handsome, and debonair "Jim" Healy has recently flung a challenge to the class. Lunching with Ed Leech and John Piane in Springfield, Jim repeated his statement, previously made at the Boston get-together, that due to early piety and clean living, he is the youngest-looking man in the class. Ed Leech immediately counters with the nomination of Sam Sheldon. Further nominations are in order and any comments will be duly published, with no holds barred. This is an election year for the class; what is Jim looking for?
Word has just been received of the death of two more classmates. Ralph Kinney passed away on November 14, but we have no details. Albert G. Willey died suddenly at the age of fifty-four, at Charleston, S. C., December 12. "Stub," at the time of his death, was instructor in biology and English at Porter Military Academy. A fuller account will be published in the March issue.
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