1911
The annual Boston Alumni Dinner as usual brought out a goodly assortment of ign loyals. The following were gathered about the festive board: Briggs, Chic Jordan, Schell, Josh Clark, Kimball, Beane, Robinson, Paul, both Jackson brothers, Farrell, Clute, Odlin, Thurber, Crooks, Stucklen, Sanderson, Butts, and Conroy.
All will be interested to know that Inez Adams is at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, where she is a house mother in one of the sorority houses.
Reporting more completely on the Butts family, Betty is with her husband in Florida, and Dick is a flying trainee at Maxwell Field.
A follow-up on the Mary Dunning marriage brings information that she is a senior at Rockford College, where she will finish out her year. The husband Jim has reported at Norfolk after taking his naval officer's training at Notre Dame. Stephen is PAC at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Miss., where he is hoping to become a pilot.
On a hurried trip to Hanover, not much news was picked up by the secretary, except that John Pearson was in Boston and that the Walt Reillys have been spending a couple of weeks at the Inn.
Bill Gooding was glimpsed, and he certainly has not faded away as a result of his strenuous activities in keeping the Navy afloat on the Dartmouth campus.
Chub Sterling's two sons are both in service. Cal is in Africa and has just received the Navy Air Medal. He also wears major combat ribbons for both Mediterranean and Atlantic service. He is a lieutenant (jg) in command of a land based combat bomber. Jack is a lieutenant in the Marine Commando troops. He was at Bougainville for three months but has now moved to another island.
Rath Sprague is doing his war stint as an executive in the Bethlehem Steel Co.
The latest from John Coggins at 502 nd Base Hq. Pratt, Kansas includes the following: "I am in my ninth month here. You should have seen me in my palmiest days at Miami Beach for some 14 months. As CO read Dartmouth magazines all last night. Jack and Marjorie (son and daughter, the latter a nurse) spent four days together at Xmas and have had a couple of other sorties together to London and Bristol. Lt. Barbara is a P. P. at Ft. Slocum, N. Y Tell the ex-president of the American Bar Association that I am a law-giver to Mexicans and Indians, even as the Marshal in 'The Woman of the Town,' picturing Dodge City, Kansas, just after the Civil War. This is a duck-board camp full of boys of college age. There are the same attractions as at Hanover, and as I start my third year, I feel like a gay young junior. I travelled across 36 states last year and have at last caught up with the baseball trips I did not make while at Hanover. Regards to all the 1911 regulars, male and female."
There is one 1911 wife who deserves a special nitch in the 1911 Sun, if that is what this column may be called. She is the first woman book editor of the Boston Herald, known to us as Alice Bond and wife of our own Doc, legally known as Harold C. For many years she travelled all over the country lecturing and giving book reviews. Professor J. V. Garland of Colgate in his book on public speaking called her one of the three leading oral reviewers of the country. She is president of the Women's City Club of Boston, has a weekly radio program, runs "The. Herald Book Fair," as well as The Herald and Traveler book pages, and belongs to many clubs. From a profile entitled "Here's Alice Bond" by Lawrence Dame, appearing in a Sunday issue of the Boston Herald, the following paragraphs are quoted:
"Alice Dixon Bond, one of the most popularbook editors in America, must have the somewhat unusual ability of being in many placesat one and the same time. Only thereby could this lady with the sparkling blue eyes, the pert nose and the vivacious smile write her book reviews, do her editing, keep her radio engagements, give her lectures, attend to her club duties, take her tours and supervise her very ample home life.
"She is a beloved dynamo of accomplishment. And she did it all herself, through grit, determination, vision and very little luck.
"She is a woman with tremendous will power as well as energy, amazingly keen in her discrimination. A critic of first quality, anxious to praise but not afraid to blame, she loves people as much as she loves books."
Here is a list of fresh addresses for all members of the Class now in Service. They may be glad to hear from some of you.
Col. Thornton Chase, The Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga.; Sgt. John T. Coggins, 502 nd Base Hq., A.B. Sqd., AAF, Pratt, Kansas; Lt. George M. French, 86 Main Street, Nashua, N. H.; Col. Patrick J. Hurley, c/o Walter Reed, 50 Hinckley Road, Milton, Mass.; Capt. Lawrence A. Odlin, Navy No. 116, Hdqtrs. Box K, Fleet Post Office, New York, N. Y.; Capt. Forest F. Owen, 159 North Ave., Battle Creek, Mich.; Col. Russell B. Patterson, 329 Davie Ave., Statisville, N. C.; Col. Frank O. Robinson, 210 Clifton St., Belmont, Mass.; Capt. Harlan P. Sanborn, 5027 41st Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.; Lt. Col. Stouder Thompson, Texas and Pacific Bldg., Fort Worth, Texas; Comdr. Floyd G. Tindall, 142 Lawn Place, Rockford, Ill.
IN PUEBLA, MEXICO, Bud Hoban '12 (left) and Syd Clark '12 have their picture taken.
Secretary, Harvard Hall, Apt. 705 1650 Harvard St., N. W„ Washington, D. C. Treasurer, 631 Walden Road, Winnetka, Ill.
