1908
Rosie and Jennie Hinnfan's oldest son, Howard Drew Hinman '35, is a German prisoner. A waist gunner on a Fortress, he went to England about August 14, made a few missions over Germany, was shot down over Denmark on the way home from Germany, when attacked by German fighters. He successfully bailed out. The War Department notified Rosie's family on November 13 that Howard was a prisoner, but up to the first of the year no word had as yet come through from him. Three other Hinman sons are in the Service. Dick, the youngest, is training to be a pilot, Eddie is in the Army, as is Crawford, who is a lieutenant in the Medical Corps. Captain Don Frothingham of the Navy, rumored to be the first Dartmouth Naval Reserve Officer to have been promoted to the rank of captain, is still on duty in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in Washington, with a son also in the Navy on duty in the Pacific. Don's other son (Donald Jr. '42) was one of Dartmouth's early casualties, and the Frothinghams have the sincere sympathy of everyone in the class. Lt. Comdr. Allen Perkins is still on duty with the Bureau of Ships, with two sons of his own in the Navy. Informed Dartmouth men in the Navy are all proud of Dick Danforth's famous anchors, those unorthodox and sinfully efficient hooks that have revolutionized old anchoring practices and have contributed so much to amphibious techniques. Dick is one of our busiest war investors, with his son assisting him.
The Palo Alto Times recently carried a story about Major Bradford Alden Evans, son of Webb and Priscilla Evans of Palo Alto, with an accompanying photograph of the Major. Major Evans, a Flying Fortress pilot, and a Squadron Commander, since October, now stationed in Italy, has been overseas a year. In that time he has won an air medal and five oak leaf clusters, and now has more than 1000 hours in the air to his credit. He is a graduate of Burlingame High School, San Mateo Junior College, and he attended the University of Oregon. He received his wings in January 1942, and trained both before and after he was commissioned, at fifteen different posts, six of which were overseas.
"Robbie" Robinson, as tall, but not as willowy as thirty-five years ago, stopped in a few weeks ago when visiting his daughter, a sophomore at Rockford College. Their son is an air cadet in California. Robbie has just finished his sixth commission for the War Department; a Prisoner of War camp this time. His other commissions have included an air base, two ordnance plants, and two cantonments. This work has kept Robbie away from his lowa home since October, 1940, except for occasional visits.
Sydney Ruggles writes in from Whitehorse in the Yukon, where he is working in the Canol Area Office on the much debated Canol project. He reports that life in the Yukon is not any worse than in northern New England.
Larry Griswold, our Arizona correspondent, writes in from Tucson to report that on January 7 William Griswold Randall, son o£ Harriet Griswold Randall, Smith '38, and Lt. William Irving Randall, Yale '38, Harvard Law School '4l, arrived to put Larry proudly into the grandfather bracket. Lt. Randall is now overseas.
Three faithful correspondents, Art Rotch, Count Donahue and Jack Everett, reported on the Boston Dartmouth dinner the first week of February, and reported the presence of the following men at the dinner: Anderson, Badger, Corcoran, Cowee, Donahue, English, Everett, Gleason, Harding, (Art) Lewis, Lowe, McCarty, Marion, O'Shea, Pease, Rotch, Soule, Squier, Stone, (Robert) Thompson, Walker and Wyman. This splendid crowd of 22, reported to be the largest turnout the class ever made at a Boston dinner, was a result of letters written by Art Lewis. Our reporters advise that Colonel Art Soule, looking more youthful than ever, had to sit at the head table representing the Army, so lost out on the liquid hospitality furnished to the classmates by Lewis and Badger. Jack Everett advises that "We had a very good time, characterized by unity, coherence, emphasis and sobriety." Art O'Shea reported that his older, son has been promoted to a captaincy in the Army, and transferred to a Western station. Ralph Pease boasted that he is twenty pounds lighter than he was in 1908. He has a book and stationery store in Boston.
CAPT. JOHN W. O'NEILL '40, USMCR, son of Jim O'Neill '07, was killed in action.
Acting Secretary, 602 Forest City National Bank Bldg., Rockford, Ill. Treasurer, Taftville, Conn.
ALUMNI FUND ADDENDA A memorial gift in the name of R. Robb Marsden 'OB from his classmate, Mr. Harry W. Mitchell was, through an oversight in the Alumni Fund Office in Hanover, omitted from the 1943 Alumni Fund Report as published in the January issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. The name of Lauris G. Treadway, a "Dartmouth Regular" of 29 years standing, should also be added to the 'OB Alumni Fund roster for 1943. ALBERT I. DICKERSON '3O Executive Secretary
