1912
Medals and honors for assistance in reply to my call for help go to Rollie Linscott, for he furnishes almost a complete quota of class notes for this month. The interesting style of his writing and the opportunity he has to meet classmates on his travels as Regional Director of The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, qualify him as the ideal Acting Secretary. Rollie writes:
"Hope you have entirely recovered from your tonsilectomy. The boys missed you at the Dartmouth Club dinner April 13th. Here is a list of those present: Cliff Sugatt, Randy Burns, Wally Jones, Dick Remsen, Doc O'Connor, Alvie Garcia, Ed Mitchell, Lee White, Louie Ekstrom, Ken Goss, Hugh Eaton, Les Snow, Stan Weld, Boss Geller and son, Bill—a hell of a nice kid and incidentally a Tri Kap,—Jim Steen, Andy Phelps and myself.
" 'Hoppy,' as usual, gave a wonderful talk. Louie Eckstrom and Jimmie Steen were weighing their chances of making the Dodgers this year. Alvie Garcia gave me a box of cigars for delivery to Queechee French. Randy and I had a good reunion 'over the teacups.'
"Three 'l2ers made a splendid showing in the infantile paralysis drive this year, Sunny Buell in Norwood, Mass., Henry Van Dyne in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and Bill Shapleigh hit the jackpot in Portland, Maine.
"Lily and I had breakfast with the Shapleighs about three weeks ago and his wife, Dorothy, put on the biggest and most luscious breakfast I have encompassed in many a moon, the piece de resistance being popovers as big as your footballs that melted in our mouths. She gave Lily the recipe and it worked here. The secret is glass cups to cook them in and start them in a cold oven. We spent the weekend with Queech and Bertha and achieved the same result there, so now Bertha is indoctrinated. I hereby nominate Bill's wife for the Cookery Hall of Fame.
"Queech, in his declining years, is now looking for a hurdy-gurdy. After taking a disemboweled cuckoo clock (quite appropriate for him) apart and putting it together, so that it keeps time and cuckoos at the proper moment, he is looking for more worlds to conquer. He would like a good used hurdy-gurdy, either working or not. Perhaps some of the boys can locate one for him.
"You asked for news and this is all I have."
Boss Geller was also good enough to report on the classmates who were present at the New York Dartmouth Dinner—even in the midst of his campaign for the Alumni Fundsaying: "You and Charlie Gately were the only ones who were not present who had made reservations."
Bob Belknap also responded—"Washington news seems pretty scarce just now so tar as the Dartmouth contingent is concerned. Bill Baxter managed to get sent to Kentucky on official business shortly before the Derby, which could be a good break or not, depending on his judgment. I am hoping the July V-13 at Dartmouth enrolls another Belknap. Bob 2d has enlisted in the Navy Air Corps and has expressed a preference for Dartmouth for his college work. Anything can happen, however, and he may be sent some other place."
Mike Norton was another who answered Boss Geller's plea on my behalf:
"I have been doing the things that men of our age (you know the soft metal gang) are supposed to be capable of doing. My particular job was. an Observer in the Aircraft Warning Service. I say 'was' because, due to the fact that we have moved from the defensive to the offensive stage, we are now on an inactive status. For about three years I put in some mighty cold hitches and some mighty hot ones in the Observation Tower. I manage to see some of the Boston gang once in awhile. Since the death of my sister in December I have been living alone."
Mike plans to be in New York in June to attend a convention and I will look forward to seeing him at that time.
The news of Bob Kirkpatrick's death, which appeared in the May issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, was received in a letter from his wife, saying that he died April 6th of coronary occlusion, from which he had suffered for over seven years.
Sons and Daughters.... Art Ferguson's oldest boy received his Wings at the twin motor bomber school at George Field, Lawrenceville, Illinois, on April 15th. He then went to Randolph Field, Texas, for six weeks further instruction for return to George Field as an instructor. His brother went through basic training and V.0.C., being commissioned at Fort Benning, Georgia, on May 6, 1943. Since that time he has been attached to the Weapons Section at Fort Benning giving instruction in the use of 37mm and 57mm guns, bazooka, etc. He was promoted to first lieutenant last fall and at the present time is in attendance at some kind of an advance school. Both boys are married and their wives are with them. Art has a granddaughter about four months old. The youngest boy is home with the rest of the family in Keokuk, lowa, where Art conducts a general insurance agency Since last September Jim Worton's oldest boy Jimmie has been in England with the Engineers Corps. Bob, Dartmouth '46, is a pursuit pilot in a fighting squadron of the Army Air Force now stationed in Honolulu, where he has been since February. Daughter, Barbara, graduates from State Teachers College, Framingham, Massachusetts, this June, and Jack graduates from the local high school at the same time. Dickie, the youngest of the Worton flock, is still in grammar school. "Mrs. Worton and the old gent are okay but our family is so scattered, the old homestead doesn't seem the same." .... Boss Geller's son, Fred, Dartmouth '43, whose ASTP unit at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute was recently disbanded, is in an infantry unit at Camp Breckenridge, Kentucky, and seems pleased with the change to active duty.
Acting Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Acting Treasurer, Court House, Dedham, Mass.
