1916
Hanover visitors from 1916 during the month just past have been three: Dick Parkhurst, dropped in seeking an all too brief respite from his duties in war-time Washington; Dick's son is with the American Field Service on overseas duty. Jim Coffin spent, a week-end here with his son Carleton Jr. in a praiseworthy attempt to check up on skiing conditions on the Oak Hill run; Jim's son is now an ensign USNR, assigned to Naval Aviation at Glenview, 111. Edward Kirkland appeared like a meteor and was gone like a comet; he was in Hanover with President Sills of Bowdoin to participate in a pentagonal conference called by President Hopkins for the joint consideration of some of the current problems confronting the independent liberal arts college; the presidents and chosen delegates from Amherst, Wesleyan, and Williams were also in attendance. Ed Kirkland is not only Munsey Professor of History at Bowdoin but chairman of the faculty Committee on Curriculum. Along with these and other duties Ed serves, as all academic folk are aware, as chairman of Committee A (Academic Freedom and Tenure) of the American Association of University Professors and as a member of the Editorial Committee of the Bulletin of that august organization. All these three were welcome visitors to our remote village and we hope that other sixteeners will follow their example. It need hardly be said that it is customary to report upon arrival to the actingsecretary in order that credentials may be examined and any other details attended to which seem wise at the moment.
Bill Hale, after a few weeks at Lake Placid as reported in our last issue, is now in New York, employed by the United States Life Insurance Company; it is reported that he may engage in business in Cuba; the Hale children are now in school and the family represents an ideal example of what our zoologists are paid money for calling acclimatization, when all they mean is just getting used to things. Bill writes: "The internment was not so nice, as we were terribly crowded and the food the Japanese gave us was pretty awful, but later we were able to buy supplementary food with our own money, which helped a lot. A check-up with the doctor after our return finds us in good shape. I lost a lot of weight and seem to be having trouble gaining it back. I weigh only 130 pounds but feel fine."
A letter from Jack English has come my way, sent from the following new address: Hq. 4th Strategic Air Depot, APO 635, c/o PM, NYC: "I've had a busy time Was adjutant of troops aboard ship and now am assistant adjutant at this base. I love it. It's soldiering and what more could one ask My Jack, now eighteen, is in the Army Special Training Program at Amherst. He is helping the sergeant who wrote the 9th Air Force show revamp the music; they plan to use some of young Jack's songs. My Kathleen is teaching music and the two younger girls are in school It's a thrill physically to be here and stand up with these youngsters. I will have earned my right to live in America when this is over MAIL IS SUCH A TREAT. I'VE READ YOUR LETTER THREE TIMES ALREADY."
In a recent issue of the Saturday Review ofLiterature one comes with interest upon the following paragraph which 1916 will find well worth perusal: "John William Rogers, the handsome book editor of the Dallas Times-Herald, had been prowling the byways of Publishers' Row to make sure that Texas's mighty literary renaissance has not been overlooked. John, last seen in these parts when he was in on the original launching of the Literary Guild, is armed with statistics that reveal the startling fact that the Cokesbury Bookstore of Dallas sells more books in a year than any other single store in the entire country devoted exclusively to the merchandising of bpoks John's topic of conversation remained deep in the mart of Texas until just before he left to keep a dinner date " The writer of the above need not have been surprised by Tex's devotion to Texas nor by his being prepared to establish his contentions by means of a portable battery of factual data; we might have told the writer that these chara cteristics of Tex are long- established and that we always liked him that way and still do.
We are glad to learn (and which of us isn't?) that John Gile is up and out and at 'em again as usual; John has been at his home in Hanover for a time with a view to indulging himself in a period of rest, a well earned rest, the advisability of which appears to have been brought about by John's determined and continued effort to perform more work per diem in volume and variety than the good Creator intended any of his creatures to undertake on a weekly basis. There are always too few of such unselfish folks available; hence, on a purely objective basis (to say nothing of the personal reactions involved), one is mighty glad to have John active again and for good.
Addresses which have recently been changed according to the records in the Office of Alumni Records include the following: Arthur G. Eastman, 55 West 11th Street, N. Y. 11, N. Y.; Jesse K. Fenno, 37 Woodmont Street, Belle Haven, Alexandria, Va.; J. Erwin Gifford, 33-03 Murray Lane, Flushing, N. Y.; Maj. Gen. W. Stewart Paul, Hq. 26th Div. APO 26, c/o PM, Nashville, Tenn. Are you quite sure that your own address is correctly listed in the Office of Alumni Records?
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