1917
An unusual splash of color was given these late winter days by the announcement from Hanover that Notre Dame will come to Boston October 14 to take on the Big Green. The reservation for the '17 dinner and get-together at the University Club on the 13th has already been made. Mark the date on your calendar, and plan to come and see what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object. Let's make it a big '17 date. Plan it now, and make ticket reservations for the game the minute applications are received in September.
The annual dinner of the Boston Alumni Association February 3 was the usual good '17 party. It brought out Walt Ferguson, Bunny Holden, Charley Janes, Jimmie Jones, Ed McGowan, Larry Nourse, Pete Olds, Chuck Riley, Sunny Sanborn, Howie .Stockwell, Errol Thompson, and your humble servant. It was a pleasure to have Lt. Errol Thompson Jr. '43 also at the 'l7 table, particularly in view of his recent travels in North Africa with the AUS. He is now on temporary duty with the Army Specialized Training Program at Harvard, commanding a company. And it was equally a pleasure to meet Sgt. Bradford Jones '46, Jimmie's son, after the dinner. Bradford is instructing aerial gunnery in Florida, and having just completed a leave of several days' duration, was rather looking forward to orders abroad.
Word has been received of Capt. Trott King's promotion to major. We are glad to doff our lids to Major Trott, and wish him well wherever his new commission may take him Gil Swett forwarded a recent card from Trennie Trenholm—you know, from one lieutenant colonel to another—saying that he was on his way to overseas duty. Trennie Jr. is in Sardinia and expected home before too long. An earlier report from Lt. Col. Trennie speaks of his meeting Shifty Fales when he was last stationed in Oklahoma. Shifty is in Oklahoma City working for Phillips Petroleum Corp.
Capt. Waltman Walters USNR is, as you know, Chief of Surgery at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Corona, Calif. His oldest daughter, Phoebe, is married to Capt. Robert French, Q. M. Corps, U. S. A. who has just completed a three-months' course at Harvard on Army orders. Daughter Joan just married Lt. (jg) W. J. Rennor, M. C. USNR. Walt's oldest son Waltman is a senior at Deerfield Academy. Mayo is a freshman at Southern Arizona School, Tucson.
Charley Janes is still living in West Barrington, R. 1., but for some time now has been with the U. S. Employment Service in Warren, R. I. His younger daughter Nancy was married January 12 to Cpl. John Howe Collamore Jr. USAAF, in the Central Congregational Church, Providence. His older daughter Phyllis is married and lives in Watertown. Incidentally Phyllis, 26, is Charley's belated entry for class baby. Son Donald Charles, 22, has been given a medical discharge from the USCG and is working with a small boat concern on Narragansett Bay which is turning boats out for his former service.
Howie and Dot Stockwell have again journeyed to the Middle West to see a son married. This time it was Fred '43, who married Marjorie Werner on January 29 in Neenah, Wise. Fred is a sergeant with the USAAF, currently stationed in Miami Beach. As a senior in Hanover he was president of the Interfraternity Council and a member of Palaeopitus.
The appointment of Duke Howe to the executive vice presidency and cashiership of the Montpelier National Bank was recently published. The news pleases us and we certainly wish Duke well in his new office.
Chuck Riley who carries on as Traffic Manager of the Somerville Branch of the Ford Motor Cos., has just been elected to the Board of Directors of the New England Traffic Club. His daughter Virginia is a sophomore at Simmons College where she is a classmate of Larry Nourse's daughter Patricia. Chuck's son Charles Jr., 12, is presumably planning things so that he can enter Dartmouth in the fall of '49. Larry's younger daughter Rebecca, 15, is in school in Norton where Larry is Superintendent of Schools.
Ed McGowan's older son Terry '44 is an ensign USNR stationed at Alameda, Calif., "awaiting shipment abroad as a torpedo bomber pilot. The younger fellow Tom is also in the Navy, at submarine school in New London, Conn. Unlike the old man who was a doughboy they both picked the Navy." Ed commutes pretty regularly between Wellesley Hills and the Wyandotte Worsted Cos., Waterville, Maine, and reports the company still partially employed on Army blankets. Perhaps this can be taken as an encouraging sign, for they were making Army overcoating material also, or then again; perhaps the difference is just seasonal.
Sam MacKillop met Skipper Norwood in Boston not long ago and said he looked about the same. Skipper reported himself as with the U. S. Treasury Dept. and doing considerable traveling, but Gloucester is still headquarters Sam is either fortunate or wise in his choice of luncheon spots, for in recent weeks he has had the pleasure of meeting Howard Bartlett, Ping and Caroline Doty, Gyp Green, and Roger Merrill, in addition to Skipper Norwood, during his nooning. Perhaps we should publish the time and place and call it the 'l7 Luncheon Club of Boston.
Bunny Holden ran into Bill Willard recently and reports his being in the advertising business with Arthur W. Sampson Cos., Inc., igg Washington St., Boston Dewey Dehamel says his homesickness gets positivelyacute each fall, "not only at missing the games but especially that grand fall reunion at Bob Scott's with the fortunate ones of 1917. Some day Helena and I will get back East to God's country and Dartmouth."
Hal Walker says he sees Bill Spearin occasionally, and that Bill is "pegging away at the wholesale grain business (keeps ray garden in fertilizer and my dog in biscuits) and worrying about where he is going to get anything to sell. As for myself, I was called into the Service in August, 1941, and assigned to work with the Boston Ordnance District. In August, 1942, I was transferred to Headquarters, First Service Command, and am now the Senior Inspector, Internal Security Division, of that command." Hal says he has been extremely busy during the past year, both day and night, but he gets out occasionally when the Old Guard meets and that's about all we ask.
Newt Smith gets a lot of good publicity around this section of the country, the result of the Hotel Sheraton which he so ably manages, and particularly in the good old , summertime when its delightful roof garden is open. Newt is the manager, and his wife Dorothy is assistant manager and decorator, and reports that her boss is tops, absolutely. She it is who gets all the credit for decorating the roof, with its brilliantly colored awnings and flowers framing the view of the Charles River. But when you visit the Sheraton be sure to inquire for Jerry, their Dartmouth dog. Jerry wears a green varsity sweater, turtle neck and all, and under Newt's or Dorothy's coaching, cheers a perfect "Wah-HooWah."
MAJOR RALPH LYNCH '17, MCAUS (left) recently left the west coast for overseas duty.
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