1927

Pittsburgh 30, Penna.

Another June, which in normal days means Commencement time, has gone past and according to the way we used to figure it that means seventeen years since we departed from the hills of Hanover. This June finds a large percentage of our good classmates away from home serving in the armed forces, many of them now on foreign soil. May God grant that next June will find them all safely back home with their families and their friends.

Once again you loyal Dartmouth men have completed a most successful Alumni Fund campaign. We have only received preliminary returns but from them it is evident that through your loyalty Dartmouth will carry on through the difficult times ahead and will continue to stand for the freedoms for which so many of our classmates are fighting. Again our class made a record of which it can well be proud and our good agent Gus can retire with a real feeling of satisfaction for a job well done. Our deepest appreciation to him for the many hours of time and thought devoted to the class and College throughout his

many years as class agent. Early in June your scribe traveled to Han over with his good wife to attend the annual meetings of the Secretaries, Treasurers and Class Agents Associations. They were, as usual, interesting and inspiring meetings. The Alumni Council also met at Hanover that weekend so we had the pleasure of seeing Cliff Randall who was on from Milwaukee. Also saw Bob Funkhouser for a few minutes. At the Council meeting Josh Davis was elected a member of the Alumni Council and was also elected Chairman of the Alumni Fund Campaign for next year. This is a tough assignment that is a real honor to receive and we know Josh will do a grand job of it. Your secretary was also elected to the Alumni Council by the Secretaries' Association for a term of three years.

Recent word from Charlie Paddock informs us that he is Pvt. Erwin B. Paddock, Hq. and Hq. Btry., F.A. R.T.C., Fort Bragg, North Carolina. We are sure some letters from some of you guys would be much appreciated.

A nice V-Mail letter from Dow Mills confirms what we learned not long ago: namely that i£ we want to get a letter from any one of our classmates we had best publish in this column something to which he will take exception. Dow writes to inform us that he is not in Plainfield, N. J. Actually he is on duty outside this country. Drop him a letter at the following address: Lt. S. D. Mills, USNR, Navy

Fleet Post Office, New York City. We also heard recently that Seth Besse is a Private in the Army. We do not, have his address at present but probably couldn't publish the uncensored address anyway. Lt. Ernie Massuco has been in the Army for the past two years. His present address, Shaw Field, Box 401, Sumter, South Carolina.

Shorty Oliver reports that Nick Voorhis is with the Army in the Judge Advocate General's Department. His latest address was Captain N. R. Voorhis, J. A. G. D., Hq., th Inf. Div., A. P. O. , Camp Livingston, Louisiana. Shortie's guess is that he will be going overseas in the near future.

Just had a nice letter from Charlie Bartlett who has been at school in Miami for the past six weeks. He is now at Sound School in Key West and will return to Miami for three more weeks, then to Norfolk for five weeks and will then attend the commissioning of a "shiny new" Destroyer Escort of which he will be Executive Officer.

Lt. Hank Baylies' new address is now on file at the Alumni Records Office, as is that of Lt. George Friede.

Doc Harvey has recently been promoted to the rank of Major. Address him: Major Rolfe M. Harvey, 0-490832, 99th Gen. Hosp., APO 515, c/o Postmaster, N. Y. C. Nelson Robinson is a Major in the Army and his address is: 611 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois.

Rollin Person is now in the Army. His address is: 31a West Hillsdale St., Lansing 15, Michigan.

Pat Partridge has been promoted to the rank of Major and is now stationed at Grenier Field in Manchester, N. H., where he is attached to the Air Transport Command.

Ross Nichols has recently been promoted to Lt. Commander in the Naval Reserve.

A card from Madison, New Jersey, informs us that the Meyercord trio becomes a mixed quartette with the addition of a new bass, Kenneth Frederick who was born on June 15.

Rog Salinger, early in June, was elected President of the Massachusetts Gear and Tool Company, the organization with which he has been working for the past three or four years. We spent a most pleasant evening at the Salingers home in Waban last Saturday and can assure you that Rog is in fine fettle in spite of his new responsibilities.

Carlton Porter who was formerly a reporter for the Herald-Traveler in Boston is 232 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. This publication is a digest and trade journal of the entire advertising field.

Jim Chandler, real estate editor of the Cleveland Press has recently won the Cleveland Newspaper Guild's annual award for outstanding public service.. We quote from a release of the Cleveland Real Estate Board. "According to President Dudley Drach of the Cleveland Real Estate Board, the award cited him for 'disclosing that John A. Zangerle, auditor of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, was conducting a sight-unseen, hit-or-miss reappraisal of county property for tax purposes' and added that 'his stories forced the auditor to adopt a uniform legal procedure in the first complete county-wide reappraisal since 1910.'

"Noteworthy among journalistic awards in Metropolitan cities because it recognizes the public service performed in real estate columns and pages, the award was made by judges selected from newsmen on Cleveland's daily, foreign language and weekly newspapers. It is the first time this award has gone to a real estate editor.

"Fourteen stories by Mr. Chandler and six editorials all published within thirty-two days, crystalised public resentment against the type of tax appraisal being conducted by the auditor and resulted in the auditor's admission that the tax list he submitted was not actually the required county-wide reappraisal." For the past two years Jim has been elected Honorary Vice-President of the Cleveland Real Estate Board.

Secretary, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass. Treasurer, Box 1412