1917
A recent letter from Helen Kipp enclosed the pictures which appear herewith. She writes, "A father and son combination of which lam very proud."—Lt. Comdr. Walter, overseas, and Ensign Douglas '43 stationed in San Diego. As a matter of fact, we admit a very considerable pride in the combination ourselves and are delighted to reproduce it with these notes.
From Fort Lewis, Washington, Major Sandy Lynch wrote, "I haven't been home since July 1943. This is my last day here. We shove off tonight,—the second war, the same Lynch but a very old one, not only of the class of 1917 but of the vintage of 1917." It was a long wait for Sandy, but we judge that his relative inactivity is over for the present, and our best wishes go with him.
Further word from Capt. Gerald Shattuck tells us that he is teaching logistics at the Army-Navy Staff College in the new War Department Building in Washington, D. C. He says little about his long arduous experience in advance base work in the South Pacific, except to admit that "the Lord was with us." There were times when they were down to a few hours' supply of food and gasoline and one Jap shell would have meant the end. But apparently that phase of Gerald's Navy service is over, at least for the present.
Lt. Col. Harry Fowler has been back "in the U. S. for three months and still likes it." Teaching tactics at the Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va., Harry has been "pretty well tied down. Am apparently slated to stay here for some time. If any of the gang get down this way I hope they will look me up."
A note from Major Arch Gile to Don Brooks reports that "things are going along about as usual. May get a change of assignment shortly where I will be more on my own, which will be O.K. Have had a wonderful time shooting doves this fall, and they help the meat ration. Quail and turkey coming up next."
Reminiscent of the late football season, we printed in this column a few months ago the forecast by Major Butch Sherman's son Joe that Vermont would take Kimball Union like Grant took Richmond. This forecast was cut out and pasted on the K. U. A. bulletin board before the game. Joe's prediction was not so bad. The Vermont varsity did win. But the K. U. A. junior varsity beat the Vermont J. V's by 6 to 0, and the boys asked that word of their victory be published equally prominently. So please consider yourself up-to-date herewith. The K. U. A., J. V's did all they could, anyhow, to prove that Joe had been over optimistic.
The big news from Friday Bean is that his daughter Anna Lucille, George Washington University '43, was married October 16, to Ensign Robert M. Pollock USNR, Delaware University. Friday's son Harold Richard is in his second year of medical school and also in the Army. Of himself, he says that he is still with the Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior and currently engaged in an important assignment for the War Department. While not at liberty to divulge details he says it "does a lot to keep up the old morale," for one not in the Armed Forces. Friday sends his best to the gang and extends "a hearty welcome to all Seventeeners who may perchance land in this hectic, overcrowded city."
But December 18, 1943, was the date for '17 daughters. Three, no less, were married on that day. Charlotte Elizabeth Emerson, daughter of Sumner and Charlotte, was married to Dr. Frederick Alexander Blount, in the First Baptist Church of Summit, N. J. The bride is a graduate of Kent Place School and also attended Wellesley and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Dr. Blount, University of North Carolina '39, is at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School before becoming an interne at Roosevelt Hospital, New York Frances Story Hutchins, daughter of Major Mose and Pauline, was married to Henry Bolden Armstrong 3rd in Southington, Conn. Frances, a senior at Connecticut College, is a graduate of Rosemary Hall and Pine Manor Junior College. Her husband is a graduate of Cheshire Academy, Yale, and the Yale Law School Jane Mandeville Gilmore, daughter of Mrs. Charles M. Gilmore, was married to Lt. John Forbes Birkenstock, AUS, in St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Beacon, N. Y. Jane is a graduate of St. Mary's School, Newburgh, N. Y. Lt. Birkenstock is a Cornell alumnus and is stationed at Fort Sill, Okla., where they will live.
Bill and Sally Sewall have joined the select 25th Anniversary Club and as part of their celebration journeyed to New York for shows, shopping, and seeing old friends and neighbors. There, as is the custom among '17ers, Don Brooks and Gene Towler joined them to assist in their celebration, and were rewarded with pictures of the beautiful place which Bill and Sally are occupying just outside of Hudson, Ohio.
Skinny Sturtevant is back on the job with the Springfield (Mass.), Ordnance District and has been since July, 1942. He says, "Have tried again to get into uniform but got the cold shoulder from the medicos. Dot is OCD-ing, in addition to other duties. Harriet, our eldest, graduated from Pembroke College in February '43 and is an assistant in the Genetics Laboratory of Carnegie Institute, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. Warner, who came to our 20th with me, is a junior at Worcester Tech. He has had no better luck with the service doctors than the old man, but is doing well in college. Marion is still in high school. I see Chan Steiger once in a while, but few other '17ers." Skinny sends regards to the gang and says he's pretty proud of it, to which we take the liberty of adding a hearty "Hear!"
Sherm Smith reports that Natalie is a junior at Simmons; that Alan is a high school senior and hoping to make the V-12 group at Dartmouth next year; and that Gladys maintains a schedule that includes Red Cross, U. S. O. Canteen service, and a few other women's organizations to round out the remaining time. "As for me," he reports, "I keep plugging on war production problems of Bostitch, commuting between East Greenwich ana Washington with a fair degree of regularity. I'm also mixed up in local Civilian Defense, at present fighting to keep the State Council from ruining morale by using wardens for Boy Scout work."
George Allison was recently reported as "in town from the Illinois oil fields," by the DartmouthClub News, the bulletin of the New York Dartmouth Club. Art Stout, who is Editor of the News, has recently been named to the club's Board of Governors. . . Fred Goodwin is with the Dorothy Wilding Studio in New York, famed for photographing the British Royal Family and other British notables Fred recently photographed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor A letter from Carp Atwater from Spokane reminds us that that fair city is off the beaten track of '17ers. He writes, "The only refresher I've had for twenty years was When quite a contingent came out to San Francisco for the last Stanford game. I was surprised to find that I was remembered by most all of the boys. We had a noisy, very satisfactory '17 gathering which I certainly enjoyed "Carp anticipates a jaunt East in the spring, and promises to get around and let some of us see him again. He says, "At vour next get-together sound off for me The only other '17er here is Bones Graves and he is doing very well as a corporation lawyer.
In the course of a visit to the Westinghouse plant in Pittsburgh, Leon Cone met Carroll Valentine who is an engineer of long standing with the Westinghouse Co. Carroll's daughter Mary is at Carnegie Tech., his son in high school, but Leon sent no other details about Carroll and his family. He did take some satisfaction from the fact that Carroll remembered him, for neither had seen the other since 1917. Leon writes, "Although I am a little gray and somewhat stouter, I haven't changed enough to be unrecognizable. Must be this old Roman nose of mine that people remember." three boys are now in the service: Leon Jr. '41 is an Aviation Cadet, Army Air Corps; Charles is a sergeant in the Marines somewhere in the South Pacific, and Bill is in boot training for the Seabees at Williamsburg, Va. "It's a grand feeling" he says, "to have three different branches of the service represented by our own boys. Puts 'Mom' and me in the greatest era of letter writing we have ever experienced."
John Bathrick is Pontiac Zone Manager, embracing portions of three states and right now concentrating on a campaign to get owners of stored-for-the-duration cars to sell them to defense workers so the war effort in his section will not be impaired by lack of transportation. From reports received, Jack's efforts have been successful in bringing out thousands of otherwise useless cars. His son Robert is following his old man's steps and is in the Navy hunting down Japs. Jack was an ensign in World War i, skipper of U. S. SubChaser No. 24 when the Armistice was signed.
Word has just been received of the death of Joe Davies on November 13.
LT. COMDR. WALTER D. KIPP '17 USN.R, in service overseas.
ENSIGN W. DOUGLAS KIPP '43 USNR, son of Walter, is now stationed at San Diego.
Secretary, 57 Chestnut St., Dedham, Mass. Treasurer, 9 Park Terrace, Upper Montclair, N. J.
