1916
An event of definite interest to 1916 took place at Boston on February 3 when the Annual Dartmouth Alumni Dinner was attended by sixteen sixteeners, as follows: Hobey Baker, Bill Banton, Cliff Bean, Frank Bobst, Jim Colton, Ernie Cutler, Dan Dinsmoor, Ig Eigner, Dick Ellis, Gran Fuller, Duffy Lewis, Bill Mott, Dick Parkhurst, Rod Soule, Tog Upham, Ted Walker. Inevitably, the volume of business transacted by such a group and upon such an occasion would be impressive, but the sole item of the agenda thus far disclosed is that a letter of sorts written by all hands was sent to Capt. John Patrick English. All in* favor of this action will raise both hands.
Equally unanimous and just as thunderous is our approval of the fact that the new 1916 stationery carries proudly the name of Cliff Bean as chairman for the Class Fund. Unfortunate space-limits preclude for the present more than this very inadequate reference to our satisfaction with this welcome news, but the general topic of Cliff and the Fund must soon have something like the consideration which it deserves from all of us.
Personal items gleaned at the Boston dinner include the news that Jim Colton, lieutenant (sg) USN has returned in excellent health from sixteen months of service in Iceland.
Judy Bean, daughter of Peg and Cliff, was last reported here as sergeant in the W.A.C. She was recently graduated from the officers' training school at Ft. Oglethorpe with a commission as second lieutenant and it is expected that she will be assigned presently to the administrative training course in Washington, another city in which 1916 must be pretty well in the saddle by this time.
John Ames, Lt. Col. GSC, is at present in attendance at the 17th General Staff Course, Command and Staff School, Ft. Leavenworth. He reports that training is intensive, efficient, and pleasant. Apparently some folks like worthwhile work after all these years.
A cheerful letter comes from the Lake Placid Club where Bill Hale and his family are spending a few weeks of recuperation, well earned by six months of internment at the hands of the Nipponese. Bill's principal concern at the time of writing appeared to be a fracture of the wrist incurred while skating and which he reports to be "not serious nor painful, just a nuisance." It occurs even to the present writer that Bill's rallying power is all that one might hope for. Observe that he is incarcerated, loses forty pounds, changes hemispheres in wartime; whereupon he decides to go skating, fractures his wrist, but retains his spirit and his sense throughout. Good going, Bill.
The following announcement was enclosed in a good letter from Shorty Hitchcock and defies the editorial shears: "Two retreads lost in the sea of WAVES in San Diego, Calif., want to broadcast the fact that Dartmouth men passing through San Diego may contact the Navy old timer, Shorty Hitchcock 'l6, politely called Lt. C. C. Hitchcock USNR at Main 3871, Ext. 447, and the Army Amphibian Mul 'l3 yclept Major G. F. A. Mulcahy, Army Air Corps, at Main 3871, Ext. 496. Both sons of Eleazar are on duty at the Eleventh Naval District Headquarters and are at the services of all migrant and itinerant sons of Hanover. Shorty lends dignity to the Port Director's Office (Naval Transportation Service) helping people in and out of the country, and Mul, fortunately for the Navy, for purposes of lending it color and tone, is presently assigned to the Naval Air Control Center on liaison duty."
Burt Lowe writes from his sanctum as vice president and secretary of the Reinhold Publishing Cos. in Manhattan that his son, now at Holderness School, expects to enter the College in the near future and that his daughter is to be set down as Mt. Holyoke '45. It is understood that Burt's boy is to report to the Hanover 1916 committee immediately upon arrival.
Gardner Morey communicates the news that his son is in the Army Air Corps, training at Middle Tennessee State College. Business these days impresses Gardner as not good and not bad—which sounds to this layman like a pretty darned sound analysis.
We learn that Howard Renfrew has joined the Navy .and is stationed at Newport for the present, far from his excellent jewelry store in Boston. From Boston also comes word that Ted Walker is well and happy and doing "a fine job on his assignment at Filene's,"—not Ted's words but those of our agent. One of our New York agents has turned up the fact that the Times recently reported upon a social gathering at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Harding Smith, 76 MacDougal St., at which a guest of honor was their daughter, Miss Colette Smith, a student at Vassar. The same excellent journal carries in another recent issue an account of the seventeenth annual Debutantes' New Year's Ball at the Waldorf and includes among those thus formally introduced to society the name of Kitty Magill, daughter of our classmate Ross.
Recent changes of address at this station: Lt. Col. Louis H. Bell (Censored); William H. Brett, Vice President Alliance Porcelain Products Co., IXS Vincent Bldg., Alliance, Ohio; William A. Hale, c/o Miss Olive Hale, 63 Court St., Lancaster, N. Y.; Nathaniel P. Harris, W. T. Grant Co., 171 Dauphin St., Mobile, Ala.; Dr. Harold H. Johnson, 43 Morgan St., Little Neck, N. Y.; Dr. Edward J. Lorenze, 196 Prospect St., East Orange, N. J.; John H. Mensel, 516 N. 6th St., Burlington, la.; Capt. P. W. Stackpole (Censored); Irving G. Wolf, 85 Moore St., Princeton, N. J.
Secretary, 2542 Stratford Rd., Cleveland Hgts., Ohio Acting Secretary, 3 Downing Rd., Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 34 White Oak Road Wellesley Hills, Mass.
