1919

You are about to see an "Alpha—Omega" act in this column. The Alpha comes next month, with J. Kenneth Huntington, 103 Aviemore Drive, New Rochelle, N. Y., officiating. Ken has been an active and loyal member of our class since the fall of 1915, when he won his football numerals. In the Greenbook picture on Page 84, he is the last man on the right in the first row. The last war found Ken in the Naval Reserve, where he served two and one-half years, retiring with rank of lieutenant (jg). In May, 1921, he married Marjorie Church. There are three children—Barbara 30, Jim 17 (at Dartmouth now in Navy V-12A Basic Training for Naval Aviation), and Joyce 13. Ken has a farm north of Hanover on Route 10 between Lyme and Orford. Norma, the baby pig you saw at our Fiftheenth and who reappeared in her full weight and majesty at our Twentieth, was a product of Ken's agricultural domain.

For the Omega part of this act, I would like to say that every member of the class has given me cheerful and encouraging support during my tenure as secretary. You have been gracious about everything and I have enjoyed it all.

Via Will Fitch '17 and Rock Hayes, we have a letter from George Rand dated November 27: "Dear Will: Your nice letter of October 20 arrived via Hanover. It is somewhat of a coincidence that only a short time ago, I read an article of yours in the Air Force magazine which was very interesting. We have covered a lot of territory since last February. Have been in New Guinea about five months and the boys have been doing a grand job, of which we are very proud. To date the score is sixty-six confirmed victories, numerous probables, ships, barges, stray Nips who didn't duck fast enough, and installations of various kinds. On the other side, we have lost one pilot and one missing in combat. The louses don't seem to care for our P47 Thunderbolts and have been none too eager to tangle with them. You probably read about Neel Kearby, then the Group CO., knocking off six in one mission—a grand guy and about the hottest fighter pilot in the S.W.P.A. Up to two months ago, I was doing Squadron work and got a great kick out of it, but am now in a group which isn't as much fun, but that's the way it goes, and I had a very good assistant in the Squadron who deserved a chance for promotion. I am sort of creeping up on my majority, I think. There are a lot of Dartmouth men in this part of the world but have run across few so far. Distances out here are so great and we are spread all over the lot Met a couple of recent graduates in Brisbane in June. Good luck, Will, and remember me to Bob Proctor and Hike Newell. If the heat and bugs don't get me, will see you when this mess is finished."

HERE ARE QUOTATIONS FROM SEVERALLETTERS:—

Bunny Collins: My son Clark W. Jr. has been classified for pilot training in AAF and is now in Pre-Flight at San Antonio, Texas. Lt. and Mrs. George A. Blair Jr. (my daughter Madeleine) are parents of an eight-pound boy born December 11 at Columbia, S. C. I'm still operating the JohnsonCollins Co., plywood distributors, in Boston. At present working one hundred per cent on priority orders.

King Cole: Understand Comdr. John Chipman was last heard from in Foreign Service at Cairo. Major Chug Sears was one of only too few representatives of the best Dartmouth class at Washington Club annual (Dartmouth Night) meeting here. Professor Al Foley '20 did a good job as speaker and that much-envied Ail-American football star and former Green captain, Marine Capt. Bob McLeod, did a real job and won the hearts of all the boys there. Had. a letter from John O. Emerson. He recently left War Production Board for Marlin Industrial Division, Inc., of Marlin Firearms Co., New Haven. Said he had met Ken Gilchrist at a pre-game gathering of Dartmouth people. After seven months with the War Department, I switched to the Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (Nelson Rockefeller '30 is my boss), with a promotion, and like the work very much. Young King Cole '45 is back at Dartmouth Medical School, V-12 class, after two months' work at Chelsea Naval Hospital near Boston. He likes the work immensely.

K. B. Johnson: My older son, Kent Bowen, is in V-12 at Mercer University, Macon, Ga. After about a year and a half of construction pressure in the field, I am now sedately settled in the Galveston District. office of U. S. Engineers. I miss the other plenty, though; thirteen-to-thirty-five- hour days were, shall I say, not uninteresting.

Owen Lyon, Little Rock: I was glad to hear from you and receive the news of the men in our class in Government service. The boys certainly did well. For myself, I couldn't make the grade— have to stay here and make the best of a hard go in the hardware business. Rarely see anyone from the class, although Bill Eades is a neighbor in Fort Smith, Ark., and I hear at intervals from Red Colwell in New Rochelle. Have only visited Hanover twice since I left to join the Army in 1917.

Lt. Col. Jigger Merrill: Have been here at Ft. McClellan, Ala., since August, 1943. Wife and two younger ones with me, older boy in Marines at Hanover. The change from Iceland to the deep South in the middle of summer was a radical change—if you are interested. To offset that is the fact that today wife and I went to walk and I was quite comfortable—as it happens—in same uniform I left there in on July 5. Temperature about the same. Only other Dartmouth man here that I know of is Brigadier General Howard Fuller '15 who flew in from Guadalcanal on November 15. The airplane has made the world small. Greetings to you and the class.

Capt. Clarence Buttenwieser: Was all set to go overseas when, a few weeks before, we got a new CO., and not knowing his new command and using his prerogative, he arranged to transfer into it key officers whom he knew and with whom he worked. We were all greatly surprised—l had sold my car, so bought another which turned out to be newer and better. My medical books which I had lent the outfit had to be unpacked. I did keep all my overseas equipment which I will need, for I think this is just a temporary station for me as I'm not on limited service. This hospital is in the former Hotel Oakland which occupies a full square block in the heart of Oakland—a lovely town of about 350,000, now about 450,000. I have a lot of friends here and in Frisco, as well as in Sacramento, and naturally many at my former postHammond General Hospital at Modesto, eighty miles south of here.

Al Rayner: I am an industrial engineer in charge of time study at Whitlock Mfg. Co. here in West Hartford, Conn. We are one hundred per cent on war work, making heat exchange equipment for synthetic rubber plants, as well as depth charges and parts and the complete torpedo tubes used by PT boats. Last spring I bought the house I'd been living in for six years here. My oldest son, 18, was to enter Dartmouth in 1943, but the Navy V-12 opportunity came along and he was admitted. Although he applied for Dartmouth, he was sent to Yale. My other son is 17 and a senior in high school. Has leanings toward Army Air Corps but will remain in school till June anyway. Also have a seven-year-old daughter. Even she has a miniature Wave uniform. I haven't sent in anything toward the 25th Reunion Gift, but will do so before the end of the year.

Major Heber Ashley entered the Service in May, 1942. Spent a year in the Engineer Board, Fort Belvoir, Va., and is now executive officer, 2nd Prov. Trng. Regt., at Camp Claiborne, La. His son Heber Ashley Jr. is a first lieutenant in Italy. Lt. Col. "Jock" Murray is Chief of Neuropsychology, Army Air Force, Washington, D. C. MajorThornton H. Wood is with a medical detachment now serving in North Africa.

After sixteen months with WPB, Gin Mullen resigned and as of January 1 became executive assistant to president of Julius Kayser and Co., 500 Fifth Ave., N. Y. C. The latest word from LarryEastman says his ship has now hit 214,000 miles. Sends his regards to Spider, Freddy Balch and Owen. Paul Clements was in New York on business early in December. Holden K. (Lefty) Farrar became a general partner of Smith, Barney and Co. on December 31, 1943; Jim Davis was in New York early in January getting metropolitan inspiration for his job as publicity and advertising manager of R. H. Stearns Co., Boston. Jim was elected a director of that 98-year-old establishment some time last year. Alfred R. Worthen Jr. is at Camp Fannin, Texas. Ingleton Schenck 3rd is PFC at Rhoads General Hospital, Utica, N. Y.

I acknowledge with appreciative thanks Holiday Greetings from Ray Adams, Jack Emerson, Charlie Biddle, San Treat, the Stoughtons, Hal Parsons, Jim Pelletier, Ernie Rautenberg, John Ross, Ken Huntington, Sam Ewart, Larry McCutcheon, Phil Bird, Phil Watson, Jim Davis, Ed Fiske, Dick Werfelman, John Chipman and George Rand.

Secretary,2 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.