Class Notes

1908

November 1945 LAURENCE SYMMES, WILLIAM D KNIGHT, ARTHUR BARNES
Class Notes
1908
November 1945 LAURENCE SYMMES, WILLIAM D KNIGHT, ARTHUR BARNES

John Clark, Jack's older son, left Bern, Switzerland, the middle of September for Paris and London and was bound for Washington, after which he expected a three weeks leave with his wife and three children at New Boston, N. H. Alec, Jack's second son, completed his fifth year in the Army in September and the last report was that he was on his way to Japan. Hazel has sold her house in New Canaan. She has been visiting in Vermont and New Hampshire and plans to return to New Canaan in November where she has rented a furnished apartment for the winter.

Ralph Currier has left the Federal Farm Placement Bureau and is now on his farm in Amherst, N. H.

Larry Griswold, thejjage of Batavia, reporting from Tucson, Ariz., advises that at Fallon Field on the Nevada Desert, Larry's daughter, Mrs. William Randall, was hostess at a Quonset Hut dinner, which was attended by "Budge" Griffin, son of our Winthrop Griffin, and Edward Skillin, Percy Skillin's son. "Budge" is a flier and Edward is personnel officer of Lt. Randall's squadron. Larry further reports that his locality had just gone one hundred days without rain and that the temperature was usually a cozy one—hundred degrees or thereabouts. He further advises that the Griswold's door is always open for the Dartmouths.

String Hale visited Art Rotch in Milford the first week of October. String had recently been to a hospital to have a bone growth removed from his foot. String, of course, more than any of the rest of us, could have his feet and part of each leg amputated and still be able to see over the heads of most of us.

Art Lewis and Art Rotch plan to attend the Cornell game in Hanover together.

First Lieutenant Dick Treadway '36, is now stationed at Camp Lejeune, N. C. His wife and three children are living in Williamstown. Pfc. John Treadway '39, who enlisted in December, 1943, was at Fort Lewis, Wash., after serving a year in England and is scheduled to go to the Pacific early in October. His wife and two children are living in Williamstown. Lt. William Fowle, who married the Tread's daughter, who enlisted in the Navy in April 1944, is now stationed in Washington, D. C. His wife and two children are living in Williamstown. Pay Clerk David Treadway, who enlisted in the Army in July 1942, and who was honorably discharged in 1943, after which he enlisted in the Navy in May, 1943, is now on the U.S.S. Cochab in the Pacific. His wife is at the Medical Center in New York City. Tread himself, the old loafer, is running thirteen hotels, seven industrial cafeterias, feeding five colleges and schools and serving on three advisory committees in Washington and is national chairman of the Resorts Committee of the American Hotel Association.

Little Tommy's son, who was in Belgium and Germany with the 95th Division, at last reports was with the same division stationed at Camp Shelby, Miss.

Art Wyman's wife interviewed in the Post Office in Milford, N. H., reported that Art was too busy digging potatoes on his summer estate near the village to stop to come to town.

Mary Knight, back at Smith for her sophomore" year, was in Hanover for the Holy Cross game, her first visit there since the reunion in 1938.

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