1912
Brig. Gen. Lehman Miller was recently assigned to the staff o£ the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission as adviser on matters pertaining to sales in South America of surplus overseas equipment. After two years with our class at Hanover he entered West Point, from which he graduated in 1915 and from the Army Command and General Staff School in 1932 and the Army War College in 1940. During his service in the Army he served tours of duty as engineering instructor at West Point and at the Army Engineering School, supervising the construction of fortifications of the Panama Canal, and accompanying General Marshall to South America in 1939 as aid and interpreter. He was Commanding General of the Engineering Replacement Training Center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, from 1942 to 1944. He has been well acquainted with Latin America since 1934 when Brazil asked for an American Army engineer to teach engineering at its Army schools and he was assigned the job. He did not speak a word of Portuguese, Brazil's native tongue, then, but he learned as he taught. After spending six years in South America as Chief of the United States Military Mission and as military attache to Brazil, he now speaks Portuguese fluently. He holds the Southern Cross and Military Merit, decorations of Brazil. His son, Jimmy, is a Navy lieutenant who, to the surprise of his father, is also now serving in the office of the ArmyNavy Liquidation Commission.
If you want to make money following the ponies you better buy Bob Dowst's new book on turf handicapping, entitled Straight, Place and Show, which tells how to select winning race horses and when and how to play them. He is the author of five other works along the same general lines. The thesis of Bob's book is that most horse players are suckers because they do not know how to handicap the horses, hence usually rely on the judgment of other selectors, most of whom themselves know little more about handicapping horses than the bettors. He does not expect many turf followers to read his book, because, he says, "The basic reason for lack of a" real turf literature in the country is quite obvious. The general type of get-rich-quickCharlie most apt to become interested in betting is exactly the sort that one never sees within two miles of a book store. Since very few race players" are of the studious or reading type, very few works of an analytical nature about race-play ever get published."
The cost of victory is brought home poignantly with news of the loss of sons of two classmates. Jim Worton's son, Robert A„ Dartmouth '46, was killed over Iwo Jima July 27. He left college to enter the Army Air Corps in April 1943. After receiving his commission, he was promoted to first lieutenant and went to the Pacific Theatre in February 1944. He was the youngest pilot in the 47th Fighter Squadron and received the Air Medal for distinguished service. Captain Elwyn L. Taber Jr., Dartmouth '38, was killed in action somewhere over France on July 20, 1944. Sympathy of the entire class goes to Jim Worton and to Taber.
Ralph Baker died on July 24, 1945, at the home of his daughter at West Medford, Mass., with whom he had lived since his wife's death. Ralph had been bedridden since last April paralyzed from his waist down with cancer of the spine. Two weeks before his death Ralph Pettingell had a visit with him. Ralph also attended the funeral services.
Doc O'Connor recently had a visit with Colonel John Brewster at Camp Pickett, Va., and reports that the Colonel looks hale and hearty. John L. Sullivan, Dartmouth '21, Under Secretary of the Navy for Air, reports a visit with Rear Admiral Jimmy Boak at Manus Island in the South Pacific.
Red Whitney and Bea are now living in North Attleboro, Mass., and recently Red had that long promised visit with Ralph Pettingell. Red is now putting new life into the branch of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Cos. in Providence, R. I, and Ralph reports that Red seems to be enjoying life and got a kick out of learning the addresses of some of the class.
Recently Doc O'Connor was surprised to run across Dick Plumer in the Red Cross Headquarters at Washington and found out that on a voluntary, part-time basis, Dick was studying and making a report as part of a plan to further develop the program for aid to and co-operation with foreign Red Cross societies by the American Red Cross. Dick reported that his heart condition continues to improve and after a couple of months the doctors have told him that he could undertake full-time work of not too strenuous a nature. Dick's nephew, who is his nearest male relative, is in the Army Air Corps assigned to Boiling Field and therefore Dick has the long mfssed opportunity of frequent visits with him.
We recently had a most welcome visit with Pat Lovell and his wife, Louise. After a year and a half helping build destroyers at Bath, Maine, Pat helped make TNT at the plant of the National Fireworks Cos. at Wareham, Mass. The Lovells are spending the summer at Cape Cod and expect to be in Florida next winter. Daughter, Betty, is engaged to a Navy officer, who is in the Pacific on a mine sweeper, and is looking forward to marriage this fall. The Lovells are justly proud of their first granddaughter, child of their daughter, Helen.
Roy Lewis reports that gas rationing raised hell with his summer reunions at Lebanon. However, he says, "Queechee French dropped in on me yesterday while on his Sabbatical, and we are laying out an evening of communion at which time I expect many ears to burn. Had a telephone call from Bugbee at Fairlee recently and that is the roster for the summer."
Lyme Armes reports, "Sorry but my vacation activities at the old stand, Harvey Lake, Northwood Center, N. H., leave me with nothing of value to report to you except fish stories that you would not believe anyway."
Sons and Daughters. Roy Lewis's daughter Mary was one of the first batch of Navy nurses to land on Guam and is still loving the work and not minding the 137-degree heat too much. She is in Fleet Hospital No. 111, in case any of the '12 offspring in that locality need direction to the bathing beach, etc Don Taber, Dartmouth '41, son of Elwyn Taber and son-in-law of Roy Lewis, was in the Philippines at last report, looking forward to getting home and unspoiling the all-1912 granddaughter Fletcher Clark 3d is a Navy ensign near the Mariannas and apparently enjoying life at the Equator.
Rollie and Lily Linscott have a new address —Eastern Point, Gloucester, Mass., from which Rollie is now directing affairs in New England of The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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