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Lt. Bill Squier '40, son of our own George, recently was awarded a Navy Air Medal for putting some important Jap shipping out of business in the Southwest Pacific. We hope to obtain further details about this.
In the last issue of Courage, published by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., we find a full-page ad of E. B. Badger & Sons Co., of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and London, process engineers and constructors for the chemical, petroleum and petro-chemical industries. Erastus Beethoven Badger II, "Tat" to us, has been one of the spearheads of this organization since leaving Hanover in June during the last year of the reign of Roosevelt I. "We remember Tat thumping his mandolin in the front row of the Musical Clubs, possessor of his own Tails and Tie, and we can still see him catching behind the bat. We mention the ownership of the tails and tie, as we know of one borrowed outfit which made all the Musical Club trips, and the picture for the Aegis, on the person of a good tenor who did not possess such accoutrements. Tat, long one of the wheel horses of the class, successfully headed the Winchester Country Club as president for several years during troubled times.
The Sunday New York Times of May 28 contained the following:
WASHINGTON, May 27—A highly promising odorless, greaseless, non-sticky oil treatment for floors, blankets and bedding that traps germs in hospital wards and barracks, has been developed in researches carried out by medical scientists for the Office of Surgeon General of the Army, the War Department stated today.
The new oil treatment holds the bacteria and viruses of infectious diseases So tightly that they cannot spread into the air, according to Dr. Francis G. Blake of the Yale School of Medicine, and president of the board for the investigation and control of influenza and other epidemic diseases, who works under the direction of the Preventive Medical Service of the Surgeon General's Office.
Details of the treatment, which is hailed as a major advance in blocking the spread of respiratory ills, were described by Dr. Oswald H. Roberson of the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago, who heads the Commission on Air-Borne Infection.
The article went on to give details of successful experiments with this oil treatment.
We have seen a copy of the beautiful, illustrated, 46th Annual Report of the Interna- tional Paper Co., and subsidiary companies, published for the stockholders by John Hinman, president and director, and the other officers and directors of that organization. It shows that our John and his associates did a splendid job during the year 1943.
Albert Chandler reports that his contribution to the war effort during the Winter quarter of Ohio State University consisted of teaching Freshman algebra instead of philosophy. He thinks this effort might be considered a casualty of war by his algebra students, since he abandoned the study of math in 1905. He opines that Paul Batchelder may have foreseen two wars when he chose math as his specialty. Albert further reports that his son Charles received his commission in the army early in April and is now at Ft. Benning.
The Lovejoy Tool Co., of Springfield, Vt., of which Queech Safford is the treasurer, was recently awarded the Army-Navy "E" for its record in the production of cutting tools. Percy Gleason is the C.P.A. for the company. Queech's daughter Rebecca and her husband are living on a farm near Springfield.
Dutch Elwell, Boston attorney and accountant, recently became associated with Choate, Hall & Stewart, old Boston law firm. Dutch, who now lives in Winchester, recently purchased a new home.
Joe Donahue recently entertained Art Rotch at lunch in Boston and reported that Web Evans had been in town a few days before, and that they had rounded up Pete McCarthy, Jess Harding and other faithfuls for lunch with Web. Web was reported to be in good health and to be a good traveling representative of Sunkist California.
R. P. Currier, now Farm Placement Agent for part of New Hampshire, recently brought a squad of Newfoundland miners and cod fishermen to his district and rationed them to the farmers of his district, who were desperately in need of help.
Harry W. Mitchell, of Cleveland, "Had" to most of us, who was in college for two years, and who optimistically with us, daily attended football practice, trying for John Glaze's job at quarterback, recently was nominated for State Senator on the Republican ticket by the voters of his district in Cleveland. He ran third on a ballot of twelve candidates, only being topped by two old-time Ohio Republicans with well-oiled machines. Had heads up the Mitchell Metal Products, Inc., whose product is sheet metal stampings and assemblies.
The names of the following men in the class appear in Volume 23 of "Who's Who in America," just issued: Bant Blake, member of the Yale Medical School faculty for many years and Dean since 1940; Albert Chandler, professor of philosophy at Ohio State University; Jack Detlefsen, of Swarthmore, Pa., who deals in physiology and genetics; Knight, of Rock'ford, and Mason Lewis, of Denver, lawyers, and Harold O. Rugg, professor of education. Teachers College, Columbia University. There may be others.
Col. Artie Soule and Jack Everett, members of the Alumni Council, and Art Lewis, Class Agent, and his wife and daughter, attended the meeting of the Alumni Council and Class Agents at Hanover in June. Rosie Hinman was there for one day. Jim Norton, also a member of the Council, was unable to attend. Col. Artie was greatly impressed by the wartime job which the administration and the trustees are doing. He writes that he wishes every Dartmouth man could see for himself what has been accomplished and what is being done at Hanover.
The three sons of Jack "Greetings" Norton, of St. Paul, Minn., principal of the Monroe High School, are all in the service. John, 27 years old, a graduate of Univ. of Minn., mar- ried, has a 20-months-old daughter, is a cor- poral in the Tank Division at Camp Chaffee, Ark. Bill, who finished 2 years at the Univ., enlisted as a seaman at the age of 20, and has been in the navy for 2 years; has been across several times and has been in the British Isles since before Christmas, is now a third-class petty officer. Jack's youngest boy, Jim, 19, has been in the army for over a year. After finishing basic training at Camp Roberts, Cal., was sent to A.S.T.P. in Cal. and Tex., then reassigned to the infantry and is now at Camp Maxev, in Tex. Jack is looking forward to scouting Univ. of Minn, opponents on Saturdays during this coming football season for the Minn, coaching staff.
Capt. John O'Shea, son of Art, after taking advance training at Ogden, Utah, has been re-assigned to duty at a warehouse in Somerville. His brother Jim is in the navy and is continuing his studies at Long Island College of Medicine, where he expects to graduate in September. His wife and daughter, Cathy, are living with him.
"Robbie" Robinson's second daughter, Janet, has been at Rockford College again this year and we had a chance to see her. She returned to Des Moines in June, after the close of the college year.
A recent 2-day conference of federal and state forestry officials held in Philadelphia was attended by String Hale, Arthur S. Hopkins, and by Crosby Hoar, who presided at one of the sessions. Crosby has moved to 401 a Brunswick Ave., Drexel Hill, Pa. Arthur Hopkins has just returned from an assignment for the Red Cross in North Africa, where he was stationed for five months. He is now back at his old position as Assistant Director of Lands and Forests for New York State, in Albany.
Pvt. Bill Knight Jr. is now stationed at Camp Shelby; Miss., training with a Tank Destroyer battalion.
Jack Detlefsen's new address is: 215 Lafayette Ave., Swarthmore, Pa.
Acting Secretary, 602 Forest City National Bank Bldg. Rockford, Ill. Treasurer, Taftville, Conn.
