1912
Golonel Connie Snow recently made an inspection trip to California for the Signal Corps. He did a good job in rounding up classmates en route and with his old-time efficiency as class secretary makes his report:
"Connie Snow, on a recent inspection trip to California, had a nice visit and a meal with Bill and Theresa Butler at San Jose. Bill is still running the San Jose Hospital, and is a big shot in medical circles. Betty and Jean are married, and David is in the Army.
"At Los Angeles, Connie had an evening meal with Ole Ahlswede. Ole has had a severe attack of nervous exhaustion, but is back at his desk in the California Metal Enameling Company. John W. is in the Army and stationed in Honolulu, where he has been entertained. by Lt. Col. Husky DeMeritt. Gretchen is in Italy with the Red Cross. She was the third American woman to land in Italy.
"Sam Hobbs got the boys together for a fine steak dinner in honor of the occasion. Sam is vice president of the Los Angeles Dartmouth Club. He is field engineer for the Portland Cement Association. Son, Sam M., is in northeastern California with the Lassen National Forest, in control and operation of commercial cutting. Mary Louise is the wife of Lt. Malcolm H. Moore, stationed at Camp McQuaid.
"A welcome sight to the gathering was Nipper Knapp who has been putting up a stiff fight against diabetes, but now looks the best yet. He is living at 811 North Harper Avenue. Waldo G. Jr. is a captain in the Army Air Forces, doing ground maintenance of the new super bombers. Jane is at California Tech.
"Jim Oneal, of 1940 Lombardy Road, San Marino, was also the life of the party. Son, William J., is a surgeon at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, and daughter, Brenna J. Marstan, of Pasadena, has presented Jim with two fine grandchildren. Jim doesn't look any more like a grandfather than you do.
"The guests of the evening were Warren Brunner and Connie. Warren was on a trip for the Curtis-Wright Company of Buffalo, New York, where he is Coordinator of Cadet Training. The roster of his family is most impressive. Ingersoll is in the Navy, stationed at Gulfport. Foster is a mining engineer in Argentina. Jane is a Nurse's Aid at Sayre Hospital. Ellis is a freshman at Western Maryland College, and Imogene is Number One on the honor roll at Westminster High School and president of her class.
"Syd Ickes was supposed to be present but was detained and turned up at the hotel after the crowd had left. Connie and Syd had a good beef. Syd is living at 814 Kellogg Avenue, Glendale, and is executive assistant superintendent of the Department of Charities of Los Angeles County. He has charge of the public institutions of the County, with an annual budget of 65 million, and a hospital, sanitarium and welfare load of over 100,000 people."
Cupe Clark accompanied his check to the Alumni Fund with a long, over-due report of himself from Elizabethton, Tennessee, where he is with the company that make Bemberg rayon, "the highest type rayon made and the only company in this country making it."
"You are right, Dartmouth men are few and far between in this section of the country. One spell Bill Shapleigh used to get to Knoxville, which is 110 miles away, fairly frequently, but we did not ever get together and now he is in Portland, Maine.
"My second boy Gene graduated from Dartmouth in 1941 and was working on his Master's degree at Duke when the Army took him. He is now in England, or was at last accounts. My oldest boy graduated from Oberlin in 1939 and received his Doctor's degree from Cornell last June and is now with the research laboratories at Harvard on government work. While his work was in physical chemistry, they needed physicists very badly and as he had had a lot of physics and mathematics they offered him this job connected with electronics, and he felt that in this way he could contribute his bit to the war effort and took the job. My youngest boy is getting his degree at Duke this month and we are planning to go over to see him get it. He was drafted last June but turned down on account of his eyes. And that is the present status of my three boys, Hugh, Gene, or, as the Army knows him, Frank, and Bob."
Bill Shapleigh has just been made Director of The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for the State of Maine and in that capacity will be associated with Rollie Linscott, who is Regional Director covering the New England territory.
Your acting class secretary attended the Class Secretaries' Meeting at Hanover the week-end of June 10. Boss Geller was there attending the meeting of Class Agents and, in recognition of his outstanding work, was elected president of the Class Agents' Association. Congratulations and hats off to him for the record he has made for the class. Pett Pettingell was up for the meeting of Class Treasurers. At the President's reception, Roy Lewis and Doc Burnham joined us with Don Burnham, who is completing his V-12 medical course at Hanover and will enter Cornell Medical School in New York City next fall.
All of us are shocked and saddened by news of the death of Joe Boylan on June 8. Although he had not been in good health for some time he was seriously ill only about a week.
Cap Allen covers a lot of territory in reporting: "My son Richard—your Henry's good friend and an Ex-'44—reports from the deep South on no less a personage than Guy H. Lewis. Dick is in the Naval radio school at Gulfport, Mississippi. Guy invited him over for dinner. The guest writes that he found his host 'very jovial,' that the Southern fried chicken was fine. Guy's daughter Jeanette is a cadet nurse. She is in training at a hospital some little distance from Gulfport. Guy Jr., now 19, is in the Air Corps. At home Guy has a girl 5 and a boy 7."
And from Mark Allen: "I have two sons—the oldest married, a graduate of the University of Oregon; he has a year-old son, and is in Panama in the medical branch of the Army. The youngest, married, a graduate of the University of Washington, has a 2l/2 -year-old daughter, and is a specialist welder at the Rentan plant of the Boeing Aircraft Co. He is taking his pre-induction physical examination this morning.
"I'm fat and sassy as ever—have a new set of uppers—bifocal glasses—getting plenty bald on top and what's left is turning gray, but the thirty-two years since Hanover haven't been too tough."
At the 15th Annual Convention of the National Newspaper Promotion Association in New York last April, Lyme Armes was chosen as one of the directors of the Association for a two-year term and was also made chairman of the NNPA Bibliography Committee. He was too busy to give me a telephone call but his apology for this slight is accepted.
Henry Viets was one of. the medical celebrities at the meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago in June. Doc O'Connor and your acting secretary, who were in Chicago at the same time, had a visit with him. Henry is the author of articles on Oliver Wendell Holmes that recently appeared in the Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin and the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association.
Doc Freund is again actively practicing his profession as resident physician at the White Plains Hospital, White Plains, New York.
Forrest Wiggin is resident manager of Sagamore Village, a Federal public housing authority project at Portland, Maine. He was formerly real estate assistant for the Portland Savings Bank.
Dolly Thompson writes from Denver that Charlie has been on a trip to Mexico since the first week in May, which is the first opportunity he has had for over a year to get away from the office for a Mexican trip and the opportunity of seeing so many old friends and business acquaintances in Mexico.
Mike Norton attended the meeting of the Yankee Division Veterans Association in New York the last week in June. Apparently both he and your Acting Secretary are getting so old that they could not recognize each other because they missed meeting in the lobby of the Commodore Hotel.
Red Whitney writes: "Seem to be grounded in Akron for a spell—if we can find a place to live.''
To assist the educational work of historic St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Eastchester, Mount Vernon,.New York, a national shrine for the Bill of Rights, the Society of the Friends of that Church was recently formed, of which Doc O'Connor was made a member of the Board of Directors.
Sons and Daughters.... Bill Middlebrook Jr. received his wings at Pampa Field, Texas, on May 23. The second boy graduated from St. Paul's Academy in June and has been accepted for V-12. .... Bill Remsen completed his assignment as a teacher in the V-12 Unit at Notre Dame and was one of 22 who were accepted from 125 volunteers for submarine duty. After a leave at home he reported for duty at San Diego, California, on June 17 Ruel Gibbs's daughter, Martha, was recently married to John Haldeman Garretson Jr. at Hingham, Mass. The bride is a graduate of Wellesley College and the bridegroom is Dartmouth '42 The engagement was recently announced of Midshipman James Knox Boak USN, son of Commodore Jim Boak, USN, to Miss Barbara Huntington Clark, of Windsor, Connecticut, a graduate of Wellesley College, Midshipman Boak attended Dartmouth and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in June.
Acting Secretary,120 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Acting Treasurer, Court House, Dedham, Mass.
