1908

Cogswell, Hilton and his seventeen-year-old- son, Knight, Marsh and Stickney attended the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Association of Chicago on March 29. Al Dickerson spoke briefly, and President Hopkins made a splendid address, outlining the present situation in the College and the policy which the College will pursue after the war. Knight attended the class agents' dinner the night before, and was the guest of Hilton, just back from five weeks in Florida, for luncheon the day of the dinner.

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Warren F. Hale, Assistant State Forester of the State of New Hampshire, "String" to us, reports that he recently saw Howard Cowee in Worcester and endeavored to find Larry Symmes in New York the last time he was there, but without success. The letterhead of the State Forester stationery on which String wrote, discloses the name of Harry K. Rogers, of Suncook, as a member of the commission.

Burt Thorpe, the best cornet player in New Hampshire, 1904-1908, reports that he is still practicing medicine at the old stand, Newport, N. H.; that his son Frederick '38 is a second lieutenant in the Army and is in England; that his daughter, who is a nurse, is married to a man who is a sergeant in the Army, stationed near Nashville, Tenn., and that she is practicing her profession in that city.

Earl Wiley, of the Department of Speech of the Ohio State University, reports that he has a son Robert in the Army, now in training in England. Another son Turner is in Anchorage, Alaska, associated with the Civil Aeronautics Authority.

ADDRESSES

Sydney Ruggles, U.S.E.D., A.P.O. No. 702, c/o Postmaster, Minneapolis, Minn., writes to report that he is surviving the winter in Alaska, that he went to the Northwest in April, 1943, from Newfoundland, and was assigned to work on a (Censored) Cut-Off Military Road, which is over one of the most scenic in the country, and that this should make the trip most popular after the war. Sydney was first an inspector and later progress engineer. Since Christmas he has been office engineer in the Area Office, which has charge of the construction of the Whitehorse Refinery, the much-discussed Canol project, which is expected to be in operation shortly. The U.S. Engineering Dept. is the civilian construction branch of the Corps of Engineers of the U. S. Army. The working staff is composed mostly of civilians, both men and women, but the heads of all sections are military officers of the Corps of Engineers. He lives in an Army staff barracks, eats at the Army mess, is subject to military law, and in general lives under the same conditions as an officer in a military post, except that he has not been wearing a uniform. He further reports that he has thoroughly enjoyed his stay in Alaska and the Yukon and that if he had had a few less birthdays, \would seriously consider taking a part in the development which presumably will follow the war. He again reports that the climate is not much more rigorous that that of northern New England, where he has spent most of his life, and that the scenery is more magnificent and beautiful.

Pvt. Bill Knight Jr., after two terms in the course in basic engineering in the A.S.T.P. at New York U., has been transferred to Co. B, 413 th Inf., 104 th Div., Camp Carson, Colo. This division is commanded by General Terry Allen, late of Sicily and the Mediterranean.

Acting Secretary, 602 Forest City National Bank Bldg. Rockford, 111. Treasurer, Taftville, Conn.