1931

I think we were all mighty proud of the class of '31 for making its quota in the Alumni Fund drive, and we'd like to take this opportunity of thanking Red Gristede and all of his helpers for the work and time we know they put in in accomplishing the results they did. The old redhead has a way with him for gettiring things done.

Speaking of getting things done, we have just received notice of the award of the Bronze Star to Bill Hayden. Bill is a Lt. Colonel in the Eighth Air Force, and the Bronze Star was awarded for "meritorious achievement in the performance of outstanding services with the Eighth Air Force Service Command's Supply Division. Due to his resourcefulness and determination, aircraft grounded for lack of supplies amounted to less than two-tenths of one per cent of the total number assigned to the Command during the period from October to December, 1944." A great job, Bill, and I know we are all pleased for you in winning such a high honor. We have just received word, too, of another of our Bronze Star winners' promotion with the word that Bill Schuldenfrei has been made a Major. And there are some other service promotions: Lloyd Wilson has been promoted to Lt. Commander, and Al Martin to Major. Al is assistant surgeon of the Fifth Bombardment Wing, 15th Air Force Flying Fortress unit. Seth Revere has been promoted to a Captain.

We have some changes of addresses: Nick Rogers is now at the Loomis School in Windsor, Conn.; Merrill Rosengren is located in Denver, Colo., with the Stearns Roger Mfg. Company where he is an engineer. Hank Russell, sole owner of the firm of Henry Russell & Sons, Consulting Engineers, is at 77 W. Washington St., Chicago, Illinois. Tower Snow has left the Penn. Mutual in Buffalo to become the general agent for the Connecticut Mutual at 82 Devonshire Street in Boston.

It's been a long time since we have heard much from Bob Oelman until the other day when we had a clipping forwarded to us with his picture announcing that he has been made assistant vice president of the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio. Bob has been with the National Cash for the last twelve years, and he recently has been serving as assistant to S. C. Allen, president of the company.

While from another newspaper clipping, we get brought up to date on Charley Felker of Rochester, N. H. Charley has just been appointed the editor of the Boston University Law Review for 1945-46. He first broke into print after he graduated from Hanover when he was made county treasurer, then as chairman of the Democratic City committee and later as the Mayor of the city. He was the youngest man to ever serve as Mayor of Rochester. When he finished his term as mayor he went on to Boston University to study law where he is now located.

Ran into Allison (Red) Gould down town the other day, and found that instead of being with the Children's Court in White Plains where I last saw him, Red is now with Arthur Andersen, Accountants, at 67 Wall Street. He was married last year to Helen Elizabeth Cunningham, and this year they had a daughter, Anne Elizabeth. Red met his wife while he was doing some work for the Greek War Relief. Helen is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke, Brown, and Harvard, and is a real specialist in Latin and Greek. Red, an attorney, is now studying for his C.P.A. and will be specializing in tax accounting for his new firm.

And finally a note from Gale Freeman following up his letter of a couple of months ago, enclosing excerpts from a letter of Thad Smith's which he had received:

"I was very much interested to read your letter in the latest ALUMNI MAGAZINE and to hear what you have been doing and what so many of our friends have been doing. It seems . almost unbelievable but I have not seen anyone from Dartmouth nor any of our Law School gang since I left Quonset Point in 1942. I remember reading that Doug Woodring was down here in Miami at some time in his naval carrier and I have seen reports of lots of others being out with the Fleet but somehow whenever I come across anyone from Dartmouth he is either from the classes of recent vintage or away back in the '20s.

"Right now I am on what is tantamount to a vacation. Although I report out at VB 4 every morning and put in my requisite hours at the field actually my duties consist only of giving 2 or 3 lectures a day and they are usually the same ones as I gave the day before or the day before that. The outfit is a Liberator operational training unit and our students are pilots and aircrews who when they get through here will be assigned to squadrons and sent out. Sometimes when they don't seem to be too much impressed by the very latest combat information that we are dispensing in more or less secret and hushed tones I think back to the times when I, and perhaps even you occasionally, used to go to sleep in class and all is forgiven. Actually most of them are very good boys and there is some real satisfaction in being of any assistance to them that we can. As you can see in such a leisurely schedule there is a good deal of time between classes, in fact most of my working day consists of time between classes, and that I put to such useful purposes as checking out in the link trainer, reading up on the Pacific war or improving my health with a game of tennis or other similar endeavor. I might feel a bit conscience stricken at such a soft touch at the taxpayers' expense, especially when you consider the climate and surroundings here which are all thrown in; but for the fact that I have been gently but firmly informed that by August I will be what the authorities consider rehabilitated and back on a carrier. I pointed out that that would be just about when I have my tennis game back in shape and that it would be very unethical to force me to default right in the midst of some local tournament but I gathered from the reaction to that one that I had better think up a better one. Please don't take the above too seriously because actually a 6 or 8 months tour of duty in the Pacific isn't so terribly bad and that is as long as we are supposed to be out this time. And there is no law against hoping that the Japs will quit before then. I know it is quite fashion, able these days to whisper ominously that the war will last forever or at least almost forever but I am still sufficiently old fashioned that I have not reached the point where the words realism and pessimism have become synonymous."

Thanks, Gale, for passing on the letter, and thanks to Thad for writing.

Secretary, 224 Beverly Rd., Scarsdale, New York

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