1911
It is pleasant to be reassured that some classmates still read this column. Evidence of this is the several letters received in response to the inquiry about Harry Gonyer, which all add up to this. Harry has been in Rochester, N. H., for the past three years on First Street, where he is the principal owner of a shoe accessory business known as the Gonic Shoe Trimming Company. His residence is reported to be in Gonic, N. H. Harry is married and has two children, a son and a daughter, the latter having graduated from Rochester High School last year.
Speaking of Rochester brings the Cooper family to mind. The law firm of Cooper, Hall & Grimes has been reduced to two partners, Burt and Gardner Hall (Dartmouth '22), since the two younger members, including son Richard (Dartmouth '37), are now in the Service. Dick is a lieutenant (jg) in the Navy and is stationed at Boston Naval Headquarters, First District. One of the other children, Barbara, presented the family with a grandchild last August. She is married to Dr. Charles C. Thompson, who spent nine months interning in the Lawrence General Hospital under Spim Norris. Since then, he has been resident interne in obstetrics at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, and now has been released and called to active service in the Navy as a lieutenant in the Medical Unit. The younger children, Jane and Janice, are attending Colby Junior College. Burt and Lillian both continue to be active in local and state affairs. Lillian has been Home Service Chairman of the local Red Cross, and Burt has been chairman of various war bond drives.
More and more Dartmouth men are sending their youngsters to Middlebury College, where Sam Stratton (Dartmouth '20) is now President. This is particularly true of the daughters in the family. Anne Macomber is one of these. I think Stan and Billie get an added kick out of this because it gives them an opportunity to journey through Hanover on the way to visit her.
We all continue to be very proud of young Fred Eaton, who is now a lieutenant colonel following his graduation from the General Staff War College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The following is from the Daily NewsRecord of March 1:
"Lieut. Col. Fred Eaton Jr., son of Fred Eaton, sales manager of Fruit of the Loom, Inc., has returned to another theatre of war after study in this country. Worth Street's favorite flyer has been on 58 combat missions since he won his wings in June, 1940. While in the South Pacific theatre his exploits won him national acclaim. More recently he has been in the European theatre on the Bremen and Lorient bombing missions.
"Lieut. Col. Eaton's decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross and two silver stars with oak leaf cluster.
"Fred Eaton's other two sons are also airminded. John Brant Eaton, 21, is now an air cadet at Tucson, Arizona, and has about two months more of study before getting his wings. Austin W. Eaton, 18, is taking collegiate training in flying at Miami Beach, Florida."
According to a broadcast by George Putnam early in March and copy of a cable to International Press Bureau of New York by correspondent Rita Hume, Fred is Group Operations Officer and has had active part in leading flights over Regensburg, Bremen, and other key points. Recently he participated in a party given by group officers for fighter pilots where he was reported to be the only speaker.
Chuck and Emma Emerson are now making plans to go to South America. Chuck has been selected by the United States Rubber Company to become the factory manager of a plant that the company has recently acquired in Cali, Colombia. Chuck has been visiting most of the U. S. Rubber Company manufacturing plants in this country preparatory to leaving in April. Emma will probably join him in May. This will put Chuck back into the rubber game where he was so successful as manager of the Converse Company a number of years ago, his work with the U. S. Rubber Company to date having been as production manager of one of their munition plants in Minneapolis. The only address, he can give at present is United States Rubber Export Company, Ltd., 1230 Sixth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y.
Chet Jr. is still at Des Moines. Bob has been promoted to a first lieutenant and is still teaching at Barksdale Field in Louisiana. Hugh has enlisted in the Air Corps and is now in the process of trying to qualify as an air cadet in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was gratifying to Chet and Emma to receive a visit from Roger's sergeant, who told them about Roger's death. He said he was part of a small detachment sent to take a small island near Kiska. After making their first objective quite easily, they were threatened by a flank attack, and Roger was one of a dozen who volunteered to hold a ridge on this flank. This they did, but six of the men were killed, among them Roger. The sergeant said that the action of this group of men undoubtedly saved the lives of hundreds of other boys. He said further that Roger had manned a Browning gun and that he put up a swell scrap even after he had been mortally wounded.
In case you failed to see it, turn to last month's issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and read about the award made to John Card III, son of our own John, as a result of his distinguished record.
Young Dick Paul is flying on a combat bomber taking part in action over Germany. He is believed to have approximately 25 missions to his credit.
Paul Ayers' son Billy has just been commissioned a second lieutenant. He is a pilot in the Army Air Corps and is now located at a training field in Texas.
George Adams is also a lieutenant in the Air Corps and is a bombardier instructor at a Texas air field.
Josh Clark's middle son Dick is in the Medical Technical School at Camp Sam Houston, San Antonio, where he is making a good record. The youngest son Ted is a sophomore at Dartmouth,, where in his first year he has brought home more A's than his old man got in his entire four-year course.
On a recent trip to Chicago the secretary had the pleasure of having lunch with George Leach and Ben Stout and telephone conversations with Jinks Morton and Ed Keeler. All report themselves and families hale and hearty. Jinks Morton's older boy is at Camp Wheeler and the younger son Joe is with the field artillery in Italy. Henry himself is in charge of sales promotion for Ditto, Inc.
Lt. Dave Hedges passed through Washington recently on his way to New York where he is assigned as an instructor in the Navy.
Lt. (jg) David Chamberlain is doing personnel work, attached to the Naval Air Forces, with the Pacific Fleet.
Secretary, Harvard Hall, Apt. 705 1650 Harvard St., N. W., Washington, D. C Treasurer, 631 Walden Road, Winnetka, 111
