1912
Syd Clark spoke on South America and its republics at the June luncheon of the Dartmouth Club of Washington. The report from those who attended is that his talk was most interesting. He has since resigned from his position with the War Department and after spending the remainder of the summer at Sagamore Beach, Mass., left on an extensive trip through South America, the purpose of which is to gather material for some new books. His son, now in the Pacific Theatre of Operations, recently announced his engagement to a young lady originally introduced to him at Washington by no less person than Syd himself.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Smith left their summer place at Truro, Mass., early in September for Elkhart, Ind., their home town. On the way they stopped at Wellesley Hills, Mass., to see the new baby born a few weeks earlier to their son, Malcolm and his wife, Ann. Al's oldest daughter Jeanette is married to Lt. Harrison Church USNR, now in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. They have a little daughter, Gretchen, who had her first birthday in September. Marjorie, Al's youngest daughter, is engaged to an officer in the Army Medical Corps now stationed in England.
Bowdoin Plumer spent the summer at Wianno, Mass., and has now returned to his home in Bristol, N. H. His oldest son, Lt. William Plumer, is a pilot in the Army Air Forces and recently announced his engagement to Miss Avis Remick, who lives in Texas. Bowdoin's daughter Barbara has a position as a teacher at Bronxville, N. Y., and his youngest son, Richard, who entered the Army during his third year at William and Mary College, is now stationed at Dijon, France.
For all of the foregoing I am indebted to Dick Plumer, who paid me a visit on his way back to Washington after a summer vacation in New England. Dick looks fine, and although his heart continues to improve the doctors have not yet given him the "go ahead" signal. Hence he will continue to take it easy for another few months. He spent a couple of weeks at Cape Cod with Al Smith. When having an emergency need for a dentist while driving through Laconia, N. H„ he telephoned Harry Trapp for the name of a dentist. Unable to secure an appointment with Harry's dentist he had the aching molar treated on his next stop.
Threugh Dick and other sources we know of the high esteem with which Colonel Connie Snow is regarded by the many high-rank Army Officers with whom he has come in contact. They think so much of Connie's services that he is not permitted to leave his present Signal Corps job to consider other opportunities that have come to him.
The time that elapses from the writing ofthis column until it appears in print makesit impossible to keep current with Red Whitney. Before last month's issue of the ALUMNIMAGAZINE appeared, which reported Red asbeing at the Providence, R. 1., branch of theB. F. Goodrich Company, he was already atthe Washington, D. C„ office of that company.Red wrote on September 14:
I ran into General L. W. Miller here in Washington a few weeks ago—Dutch Miller to youand Doc O'Connor invited him and me over for lunch one day last week. The first fellow we ran into in the dining room was Harold Mosier, and it turned out he and Mrs. Mosier are living at the Shoreham in the same wing where I am staying. So we have had some very pleasant evenings together. It is all a small world. From Click Merrill:
We've swapped one set of problems for another in my business and I'm up to my ears in both my Boston and New York offices. Yesterday I celebrated my 32nd Wedding Anniversary about as you'd expect two individuals to do, who were married that long and still loved each other. My wife is still painting successfully in both water color and oils and the ailments that fifty-plus inevitably bring seem to be under reasonable control. See Chet Haycock frequently and he and his family are in the pink.
"Old Reliable" Roy Lewis reports: No news except in disgusting good health after the strenuous times. Didn't lose a pound on the imposed diets, and am quite an oleo booster and connoisseur of tough chicken. Mary is still on Guam and doesn't know where the next stop is. Guy's boy, Junior, blew in on her there and has been stationed on the island. Don Taber is on the way to Korea from the Philippines area, and his relief is chasing him up so he can get back, and take over from me the licking of his wife and baby. Jim Burnham broke Matt Flaherty's ETO hammer record in the Mediterranean meet and then Matt came through in his last throw and took him 157'-0" to 153'-6 1/2". There will be another Burnham on the record books at Hanover some of these days.
Roy Deferrari was the recipient of another honorary degree—Doctor of Humane Lettersfrom St. John's University, Brooklyn, N. Y., at a special convocation on September 27, commemorating the University's 75th Anniversary. As the principal speaker of the occasion he emphasized the three phases, spiritual, cultural and practical, which should be equally stressed as the unified purpose of education, saying, "American education must, within its own sphere, follow the present trend of the world toward greater unity and universality, and away from isolationism or concentration on only a part of the general purpose of its existence."
Harry Wanner writes from Garrett, Indiana:
As you know I'm down here near the sticks, running a foundry. Present address P. O. Box 67, Auburn, Ind., but I am moving to Waterloo, Ind., sometime before Christmas. Midwestern Magnesium Cos. became Midwestern Foundries, Inc., and I became President on July 31, 1945. Jimmie Oneal was in Chicago this summer but was afraid he would be stranded, so left for California about a week before V-J Day and relaxation of railroad travel. Didn't see him but talked long distance.
From Plymouth, Mass., Mort Kyle writes:
The gas situation has been such that I have had little chance to get about, and have missed the Boston gatherings. During the War I have been busy in my spare time and sometimes found that the situation was reversed and business took the spare time while I was busy with the USCGR (T). I never thought to be off our coast in the middle of winter, if only for a few hours, in small motor boats, or turning out to walk a beach, but it was fun for a bit and perhaps helped some. Where otherwise would I get a chance to be turned loose on one of the Queen boats, and while checking guards have the complete run of the ship ? *lt was a good way to get fed, for of course the Coast Guard feed well, and while on duty we were one of them, in fact.
Rollie and Lily Linscott were in New York the first week in October when Rollie was attending a meeting of the Regional Directors of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Limitations of time prevented more than a telephone visit with them but I learned that their new home in Gloucester, Mass., is a 33-room house which they recently purchased. As a result they are looking forward to putting up classmates who might be in the vicinity of that interesting old town. Rollie and Lily recently had a visit with the Queechee Frenches and while in Concord, N. H. Rollie went out to St. Paul's to see Bill Flint. Bill is still taking it easy as a result of a heart affliction.
Chief Wheeler spent the summer at his New Hampshire camp, recuperating from illness that led to his medical discharge from the Army. We are glad to hear that he will be all okay in another couple of months. He "had a swell few hours with Jack Fox at my camp and we talked about our 35th Reunion."
Jack Fox asks, "Now that Bill Norris has been dug up after twenty-five years, how about Bud Blackstone?"
Warren Bruner's home address has been changed to 23 West Main St., Clifton Springs, N. Y.
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