1927
Secretary, 134 Vine St., Chestnut Hill 67, Mass.
Treasurer, Box 1412, Pittsburgh 30, Penna.
We are glad to be back in the column-writing business again if only so that we may correct a grievous error which appeared in our column of the August issue. You may recall that in the closing paragraph we stated that early returns on the Alumni Fund showed that '27 had contributed approximately $7400. These must have been very early returns for the final figures show a total of $8727.26. This splendid total puts us in sixth place among the classes in amount of contribution, a record of which every member of the class may well be proud.
Ed Miner, on leave from his duties as Superintendent of Schools in the town of Wellesley, Mass., is now a major in the Army. Ed enlisted in 1942 and was commissioned as lieutenant. Since that date he has been in every area of occupation, except for the Pacific, and at present is stationed at Allied Headquarters in Italy.
Lieutenant Ernie Massucco was shipped out of the country last June and now has an APO New York City address. Ernie's wife, Phyllis, and daughter Judy, aged two, are living at 20 Clifton St., Barre, Vt., and reputedly are hoping that Dartmouth will be coeducational by the time Judy is ready for college. Bob Sullivan is busily engaged in the practice of law with his father and brother at 24 School St., Boston.
Bob Williamson reports receiving a very friendly and cordial letter from Rev. Lynn Smith from "Trinity Rectory," Shelburne, Vt.
It is with deep regret that we report the death of Mrs. Eleanor May Smith, wife of our classmate Willard H. Smith, at the Exeter, N. H., Hospital after a long illness. Willard is Headmaster of the Concord, Mass., High School. We wish to extend the deepest sympathy of the class, to him and his children Donald and Dorothy.
A recent issue of the New York Dartmouth Club News reports that Bill Cusack has be- come a member, and that Charlie Fleisher '27 Food Marketing Authority, was a recent visitor.
From the California Mail Bag we quote the following: "There used to be a crack around Hollywood that anybody who quit Paramount to go in the Army was a dirty coward. Capt. Charlie Townsend '27, former actor in pictures, disproves the crack with a Purple Heart for what happened, and a Silver Star for how it happened, in the invasion of Leyte."
Having been a staid old married man for practically two years, it gives us exceeding pleasure to report that one of our oldest living bachelors, George Howell, became engaged early in June to Miss Margaret Bryce Callan of New Brighton, N. Y. Miss Callan, a graduate of Vassar, received her Masters degree from the New York School of Social Work at Columbia University. Newspaper clippings stated that the wedding was scheduled for early in July. Since his graduation from Northwestern University Law School George has practised law in Chicago, until he became a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve. Until recently he was stationed at the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center in Melville, R. I. We phoned him early in August to see if we could have the pleasure of entertaining the Howells at "Headacres" for a week-end, and learned that George was about to be transferred to the Third Naval District in New York.
Bob Williamson called early this summer and reported that he ran into Bill North at the Statler in Boston. Bill was enjoying a few days rest between his spring term at the school in Dublin, N. H., and the summer session. Besides his teaching duties at the school Bill has been busy writing a book, a portion of which recently appeared in the New England Quarterly.
Our hat is off to Phil Fowler who has recently been promoted to the rank of major in the Army. Having enlisted as a private we'd say that our old roommate, has done good.
Having read earlier in this column about the appointment o£ our man Fred Jackson as deputy sheriff up in Jefferson, Maine, you will be interested in the following account of the apprehension of an automobile thief which appeared in the Wiscasset paper: "The defendant, Deputy Jackson said, took Martin's sedan at 6:30 P.M., Saturday, while Martin was eating supper. With State Police assistlfig, the mountain road was blocked off at each end and Jackson drove along the seldom-used road, so narrow that two cars are unable to pass. The defendant tried it, the Lincoln County officer related, and Jackson met him head on. When the defendant tried to speed past him, driving through bushes by the roadside, the two cars locked and Deputy Jackson jumped out and pulled a .45 on the wanted man. Jackson walked the defendant at gun point back to the main road. It was all over in a half-hour by the clock, which is the way the law works in Lincoln County."
Lt. Charlie Bartlett caught up with his new ship in Pearl Harbor, late in July, and found that it had orders back to the Pacific Coast for repairs. This gave him the opportunity for a short leave at home with his family and we had the pleasure of spending a couple of days with Charlie and Barbara in Maine early in August.
Among the recent service promotions we are proud to list Capt. Sam Wormser, Lt. Comdr. Ed Ruth, Lt. Col. ("Doc") Harvey and Lt. Col. Hale Ham.
Lt. Robert Sands USN is stationed in Washington, D. C. Capt. Lyman Milliken is still overseas in the European theatre.
It appears that Bruce McKennan has received his discharge from the Army and is now back in San Francisco.
We sincerely hope that all you good class- mates in the armed forces will soon be back with your families and once again busy in your civilian pursuits. The class is most proud of your contributions to the victory that has been won.
