1925

On page 48 the latest action picture from the front, filled with the sound and fury of battle. Navy Lt. Dick Holden fighting the battle of Puerto Cabello, down in Venezuela. Dick writes that the population of the town is 20,000 humans and 50,000 goats. His duties vary from getting celebrating sailors back onto their ships to addressing the local Rotary Club in Spanish on the need for mutual understanding among the American Republics. Dick has seen no Dartmouth men down there and his one Hanover contact is the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. His address is American Embassy, Office of the Naval Attache, Caracas, Venezuela.

Stew Edgerly is living in Sudbury, Mass. He first come there while studying at Harvard and is now teaching at MIT. His older boy has enlisted in the Naval Reserve and is in V-12 at MIT while his younger is a senior at Mt. Hermon School.

Father-of-four-boys Bill Jenkins is travelling quite a bit in the interests of G. E. In Washington he has seen Cliff Hill and Don Lyman.

Speaking about the Washington delegation, a Christmas card came from the Lymans. They are living at 5503 33rd St. N. W.

Bob McKennan has been promoted to the rank o£ Major. Bob is as mild a mannered man as ever scuttled ship or slit a throat and it is a true pleasure to publish his advancement.

They aint happened here sence the last riting. We awl had the flu. Local garage burned and killed three people. They aint nothing interesting in my Court, just wife beatings, cottage breakings and drunks. Had the Rashun Board and the Court going at the same time tother morning and I come close to giving our hoss doctor 30 days for drunk and disorderly and the local drunk a C Book re-newal.

As I rite this at half past seven in the morning the moon is shining on the snow, the stars are out and the sun has sum notion of getting up over behind the lake and mountains. Paul Hexter would go nuts trying to get a color pitcher of it.... I cant.

LIEUT. DICK HOLDEN '25

Secretary; Center Ossipee, N. H. Treasurer, P. O. Box 428, Bristol, R. I.