1915
A good Wah-who-wah for Kell Rose for doing a great job on the Alumni Fund campaign just closed—it was a tough spot to take over late in the year, but he went to it with his usual efficiency. The actual figures will come later, but the Class made a fine record, better than ever.
The annual meeting of the Secretaries- Treasurers-Class Agents was, for the first time in two years, held in Hanover June 9 and 10; the Class had its officers present 100%. The meetings were interesting and informative and indicate that the College officials have their hand on every move which may affect the present and future of the College and are alert to meet each new situation of an unprecedented war-time interim.
Probably the one thing which impresses an alumnus returning to Hanover at present is a quick picture of nothing but uniforms-background, foreground and all around the town. And this is substantially true, for the records indicate only about 175 actual undergraduates as we would consider undergraduates to be.
Which leads to a most important question facing the alumni body of the College, and which has been placed in the hands of a special committee for careful and complete study. Enrolled in the College have been, are and will be thousands of fine young men, some from Dartmouth, but of course the vast majority from hundreds of other colleges throughout the country. Sid Hayward has some interesting statistics, and will no doubt publish them, so I will not steal his thunder. In general, however, literally hundreds of these boys have expressed a desire to be definitely affiliated with the alumni body of the College. How to do this is a question—but one fact is paramount; that the College should preserve the loyalty of these boys who, even in a brief period, but in a period important in their lives, have been able to absorb much of what we of other years have had embedded in our whole being.
At the general Alumni Meeting on Friday night, Capt. D. E. Cummings, USN, commanding officer of the Dartmouth V-12, opened his remarks by the most significant statement of the entire session: "We have come to think of ourselves as Dartmouth." Thus is epitomized a feeling which is to mean much to the College in after-the-war days, and to this end the committee will try to find a proper niche in which to place these war-time Dartmouth Men.
By the way, that general meeting of the Alumni elected as its president for the coming year our own '15er, Walt Wanger, which places 1915 as the leader of the general alumni for the coming twelve-month. Your Secretary was named as a member of the Executive Committee of seven.
These were the highlights—a complete report will be on other pages and it is neither our perogative to go into detail, nor have we the space to do so. It is a strange Hanover these days—but a Hanover of which we may be more proud than ever in that it houses a vital factor in the furtherance of the war effort. Dartmouth's in Town Again for the bigest game of all time, and, all Glory to Dartmouth, Her Backs Go Tearing By!
Some pleasant personal contacts have been made since the last issue of the MAGAZINE. Had a short call from Dale Barker the other day who happened to be in the home village on business, and he dropped in for a chat. He reports to me that Russ Rice's boy, Stanley, was a top ranking graduate of the Coast Guard Academy and that Dick is an officer in the Sea Bees. Send me the complete details, Russ for that 15er son record.
Dropped by the Internal Revenue Office in Portsmouth, New Hampshire the other day and had a fine chat with Tom Connelly, Assistant to the Collector for many years, and busier than ever these hectic war-tax days. Eben Clough of the Massachusetts Collector's office is in Washington, D. C. for a special month's training course on taxes—he'll know all the answers for painless extraction of money from the public when he returns to Boston.
A note from Bill Huntress tells me that Butch Fonda has moved to Boston; 85 Strathmore Road, Brighton, and will be a welcome addition to the Boston 1915 group.
A from Fred Pearce in Washington tells me that his son, Ira H. Pearce is entering Dartmouth on July 3 in the Class of 1948, is a swell football player and won the half-mile run in the D. C. high_ school and Metropolitan meets. Likewise, at this late date, Freddy modestly tells me he was President of the Dartmouth Club of Washington a couple of years ago—old news to be sure—but glad to get it in the record. The boy will become a V-12er just as soon as he is eligible.
Russ Chase likewise advises that Russ, Jr. enlisted in the Navy May 8 and is now getting his boot training at Sampson, N. Y. He's not yet 18, was enrolled for Dartmouth, but heard the call for service first, so will postpone his Dartmouth enrollment until after the war. Through Russ, also I learn that Ray King's daughter is in the WAVES in a hospital unit, and Mrs. Chase is a hard worker in the Springfield Red Cross. Russ hears regularly from Red Stevens and reports that Red comes up for re-election to his Judgeship in Ohio this year. All success to you, Red, and let's hear from you.
From a couple of sources I learn that Jim Mowry gets up to New York quite regularly from the South, and Art Portman of Cincinnati also was in the Metropolis recently and saw a few of the boys. Our embryo Richard Hovey Casey Jones makes the front page down-Maine way so often with musicales and marches and boys' choruses and in fact anything musical that his fame spread to Burlington, Vermont and he went there to participate in the Vermont Musical Festival. He "took his pal Eben Clough along and the reports are that Casey wowed them.
The College reports in the list of service promotions, the name of Vincent G (Pop to you) Byers to the grade of Lieut. Commander in the Navy, and we offer our congratulations to a grand guy.
Changes of address this month: Clarence L. Wanamaker, 1008 Washington St., Gloucester, Mass.; Capt. John N. Harriman, USN, Naval Operating Base (South Annex), Norfolk 11, Va.; Perry Hayes, 114 South Quaker Lane, West Hartford, Conn.; Dr. Howard P. Sawyer, R. F. D. No. 1, Sanbornville, N. H.; Edgar H. Schroeder, 2335 North Commonwealth Ave., Chicago 14, Ill.
1914 SON KILLED IN ACTION. S/Sgt. Seabury Littlefield, son of Alden L. Littlefield '14, radio-gunner on an A-20 bomber, who lost his life in New Guinea on April 10.
Secretary, Box 697, Lawrence, Mass. Treasurer, 31 State St., Boston, Mass.
