1919
At Hanover, June 9 and 10, could be found members of the Alumni Council and class officers gathered at the Inn or in sessions held at Dartmouth Hall and Baker Library. Jim Davis presented on behalf of the Class a handsome silver service to Spider Martin as a token of esteem and appreciation for 25 years of loyal service to Class and College. The presentation took place in the President's office while Mr. Hopkins looked and listened with approval as did Rock Hayes, Phil Bird, Bob Stecher, Ray Adams, Max Norton, Harry Colwell, Win Batchelder and Ken Huntington. Absent at this meeting, but in Hanover, were Bob Lewis, Bill McCarter, Coddy Larmon, and one to two more who did not cross the secretary's path.
A week later at Bonnie Briar Country Club in Larchmont about sixty gathered for golf, bridge, dinner and a showing of 15th and 20th Reunion movies. Jack McCrillis should have been present as original official photographer. Harry Colwell, Chairman of the New York Outing, took additional motion pictures of those present.
Highlights of the evening program were the toastmastering of Spider Martin, talk by Track Coach Harry Hillman, ad libs by Admiral Fiske, singing by Jack Clark, movies of the 15th and 20th Reunions, and letters from several members of the class in service—Bill Eddy, Mose Jones, Tom Hapgood, Fred Blanpied, Henry Siegbert, Louis Munro, Hubert Johnson, Staff Hudson, Johnny Chipman, Jigger Merrill, Clarence Buttenwieser, Ken Knowlton and Larry Eastman.
Red Colwell's book shows the following present:
Mr. and Mrs. Windsor C. Batchelder, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Bresnahan, Mr. and Mrs. Benj. T. Butterworth Jr., John H. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Colwell, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Daly, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Davidson, Dr. George B. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Chester W. DeMond, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm G. Drane, Edwin W. Fiske Jr., Lewis F. Garrison, Mr. and Mrs. Briard N. Greeley, Mr. and Mrs. Horace G. Hitchcock, Jim Hitchcock, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Huntington, Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Jackson, Edward R. Legg, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar B. Lewis, Griffith V. Little, Donald M. Lovejoy, Mr. and Mrs. and Wm. Jr. Wm. G. McMahon, Edward E. Martin, Dr. J. F. Moriarty, H. Gordon Mullen, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur ']. O'Neill, Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. Francis A. Pedlow, Mr. and Mrs. George "Al" Rayner, Mr. and Mrs. Nichol M. Sandoe, William M. Stedman, Mr. and Mrs. Sanford M. Treat, Lt. Comdr. Staff Hudson, and Coach Harry Hillman.
From many letters come items of news about '19 men in Government service: Lt. Col. "Jock" Murray, who is Chief Consultant in Psychiatry, in the Office of the Air Surgeon in Washington, has left for a trip overseas. He is expected back in the fall.
Major "Mose" Jones is with a Troop Carrier Division of the Air Corps. He has seen service in Africa and in Sicily. He probably is now in France.
Commander Johnny Chipman is now at Charleston, S. C., at the Fleet Administrative Office. His wife Mildred and child Binky are with him. John, as everyone knows, spent quite some time in Syria and other points in the Far East.
Col. Bill Eddy is in Saudi, Arabia, newly appointed a - minister by F. D. R. His wife and youngest daughter are living in Hanover. His second son Jack, is a Marine V-12 at Dartmouth. His oldest daughter is working for the Army in North Africa, and his oldest son is a first lieutenant with the Marines in the Pacific.
Lt. Col. Tom Hapgood is executive officer of the Springfield Ordnance District.
Commander Larry Eastman has had an outstanding record as navigator and later executive officer of one of our largest ships. The number of miles he has sailed is fantastic, and will all be
told at some good time. Major Fred Blanpied is located in Washington, acting as a trouble shooter.
Commander Henry Siegbert has been with the South Atlantic Fleet in very important capacities. He has been awarded the Commendation Ribbon. His experiences have been very interesting, and cannot be told fully at this time.
Captain Clarence Buttenwieser is in Hawaii with a Station Hospital Unit, and expects to be sent to a spot nearer Tokyo in the very near future.
Lt. Col. Jigger Merrill is now at Fort McClellan, Alabama, having served 14 months in Iceland. His oldest son was in the V-12 Marines at Dartmouth. His wife and younger son and daughter are with him at Fort McClellan.
Commander Staff Hudson is with the Air Control at Floyd Bennett Field. Previously, he was located at Quonset.
Richard L. Strout, as War Correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor was in England in June and may be in France at this time. Low Haerle writes that his daughter has just graduated from Smith.
The not-too-conservative, but well known president of Chicago University, Dr. Hutchins, was accused by some of his faculty of "One Man Rule." Dr. Jerome G. Kerwin '19, professor of political science at Chicago rose to his president's defense and made the recent statement that Dr. Hutchins would be supported by the majority in any showdown.
Jack Ross, the Oregon canner, was in New York for a few days during May. He reports two daughters now in college, one a senior and the other a freshman.
Here are a few lines from a letter received from Freddy Balch June 6.
"Sorry it will not be possible for me to be at Bonnie Briar on the 16th. I have had an almost uncanny series of obstructions arise preventing my attendance at regular reunions; everything from having children born to culmination of long negotiated business affairs has broken just at the middle of various Junes and made my absence from here impossible. All the years I have looked forward to making up for the whole thing at the 25th. Now damn if it doesn't come in the middle of the biggest war the world has seen with many of the men I would normally have looking after things here away in service, and so many demands on my time that every hour is obligated for weeks ahead.
"I'm sure you fellows will have one swell time and I hope you give all my greetings and let them know how much 1 regret my inability to be in on the fun."
We can think of Spider Martin, Win Batchelder, Max Norton and Jim Davis when quoting from a recent letter received from Bill Hoard, Fort Atkinson, Wis.:
"You officers of '1919' are constantly doing things which are unusual. When all is said and done, I think you fellows who are working so hard to make the Class of 1919 such an outstanding organization certainly deserve a tremendous amount of credit.
"When you see 'Fat' Jackson, Tom Bresnahan and some of the other fellows who live in or around New Rochelle, be sure to remember me to them."
Chuck Eaton writes from Shields & Company, Boston. Ax Warden sends reunion greetings to classmates everywhere from Great Falls, Montana. Lowell McCutcheon sent a wire to Bonnie Briar from Atlanta, Georgia, while Ray Legg went him one better and flew up for a few hours.
Dr. (Joe) Eisaman, associate professor of obstetrics at University of Pittsburgh sends 25th Greetings and Hopes, of a postponed meeting in Hanover after the war.
Murray Hawkins reports from Los Angeles, "The Twenty-fifth Reunion of the Los AngelesHollywood '19ers was duly held last night and was a success.' It finally developed that there are actually in town six '19ers, of these, four of us got together last night: Rollie Foss, Ralph Kilpatrick, Max Smith and myself. Donald Graves had said he would be there but did not arrive. Eddie Seward's wife had other plans for him so he was not with us. Collie O'Gorman has apparently left these parts. We have been entirely unable to locate him although several lines have been tried. Rudy Block Jr., is in Washington, apparently for the duration.
"The affairs of the world and the war in general were thoroughly settled and a general disresult in our .group seeing more of. each other than has been the case recently."
(Bud) Ralph B. Welsh was recently made second vice president and treasurer of the Morris County Savings Bank, Morristown, New Jersey.
Rowland Pollard is back in Karachi, India. Spider Martin has recently made the movies where he was pictured at the Chicago convention in the company of Mrs. Dewey.
Jim Wilson writes after returning home to Salem, Ohio, from attending Jim Jr.'s graduation at Vermont Academy, "About six weeks ago when President Hopkins was in Pittsburgh there was quite a fine meeting at the University Club of all the Dartmouth men available. Among the 19'ers were Joe Eiseman, Sam Ewart, Ben Wiley, Rog. Clark. Prexy gave a fine talk on the purpose of Liberal Arts College and convinced all present Dartmouth has a great future even though we have great trouble at the present time."
From George Rand, South Pacific:
"Just a note to let you know of my change of address. Have been moving around pretty fast in the last month or so—temporary duty in Admiralty Islands for a few weeks, and then back to my old outfit to find a new assignment, in this group, which includes squadrons and headquarters. It is one of the oldest groups in New Guinea, or in this theater, for that matter, and had a fine record and I am very pleased with it.
"Before all this started, I managed to get a leave to Australia, and was away about a month. Spent the time in Sydney, which is a beautiful city and the N. Y. of Australia—also stopped in Brisbane. It was a nice change, good food and cool weather, some good drinks and, all in all, I had a fine time.
"Things are moving fast over here these days— the infantry takes the air fields and we move in. The engineers fix up the runways, and in short order we are operating. It is hard work for everyone, but it means progress and our fighters and bombers are really giving the Nips a licking, to say nothing about our ground forces. I would have hated to have been on the receiving end of the pasting our bombers gave this place before we moved in, and the many graves, smashed planes and equipment of all kinds lying around shows that bombardiers really hit their targets."
The report of Class Agent E. E. Martin, indicating the results of our part in Alumni Fund drive, as well as our accomplishment in building a class gift, will no doubt have reached all of us by the time these notes go to press. I am sure we are all highly gratified with the results.
MAJOR ROGER WARNER '18 is in Italy as a staff officer with a B-24 Liberator Heavy Bombardment Group, Army Air Force.
Secretarys 234 Huguenot Street, New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
