1924
HANOVER WEEKEND
The Cornell game weekend has been set for a 1924 Pow-Wow in Hanover. The class officers and executive committee urge everybody who can get away to join them in Hanover on the 17th. It's going to be a big weekend for members of the class and their wives, and the first of many informal meetings. And we emphasize—bring your wife and Dartmouth hopefuls.
COLUMBIA GAME
Everybody attending this game plan to meet a few minutes after the game under the north goal posts (opposite the exit). This will give us a chance to say hello to the out-of-town boys who may be on hand for the game, not to mention our own New York Delegation.
Charlie Knudson and Dick Moyse have seen each other in London where Dick has been the ring leader in a Dartmouth Club. Charlie was with the OWI in London and Paris and is now in charge of the Southern France office with headquarters in Toulouse. It is a long, slow pull to the top executive job in a firm like the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Doug Craig seems to be going ahead step by step up the ladder. Not long ago he was promoted from assistant secretary to third vice president. George J. Gercke left the "March of Time" to accept a position with the OSS Department and last April they sent him to London. He is doing film work for the Detachment there. Had a chat with Al Brown the other day as he was hurrying home to his lunch. Yes, some people in New York live close enough to their offices so they can get home at lunch time. Al is advertising manager for General Foods.
Another member of our class who left a flourishing medical practice to join the Medical Corps is Morrie Fiterman of Philadelphia. He entered the Medical Corps as a captain, right after Pearl Harbor, and has seen active duty in India, North Africa, Sicily and Italy. He was recently promoted to major, and took time out to get married while on leave. BobFenderson is with the New England Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland, and lives in Saco, Maine, where he is a member of the school board. Pen Haile's picture appeared in the Christian Science Monitor on June 16, 1945. He is in charge of the program entitled "Beyond Victory," which is broadcast by ninety-eight commercial stations with the cooperation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Larry Hewes has been living for some time on the West Coast, in Palo Alto, to be exact. He is married and has an eleven-year-old son. A good many years ago he became actively interested in the liberal movement in this country and has been identified with the New Deal and the Roosevelt Administration since its inception. After nearly ten years of government service, including positions as assistant to the administrator of the Farm Security Administration and regional director at San Francisco for the same agency, he resigned last year from the public service to become affiliated with the Julius Rosenwald Fund and the Marshall Field Foundation.
Bill McNiff went to England in July on the Queen Elizabeth to join the faculty of the A.E.F. University at Shrivenham, 70 miles west of London. The faculty there numbers 250 with a student body expected to be as large as 4,000. Mac's field is history. Bill Jones is out of the army and back in his home in Altadena, California. As captain in the Air Corps he writes about his experiences in Europe: "After almost 19 months in Italy, stationed at a little town about 20 miles from Foggia and 60 from Bari (name of our town is Cerignola) I left Italy on July 19 from Naples harbor and arrived in New York on the 29th. The trip back was delightful, not only because of the direction in which we were traveling, but because of the grand food on the Argentina. In Italy I served for about ten months as Intelligence Officer, doing a great deal of briefing and lecturing on various subjects, and then spent the last nine months over there as Wing Information and Education Officer. Managed to snag a ride on a mission or two just for a 'look-see,' but as a regular diet—it's not for me! During my stay in Italy, I was fortunate in being able to spend quite a lot of time in Rome and saw a number of other well-known places such as Capri and Venice, etc."
SEE YOU IN HANOVER—NOVEMBER 17
Jim Taylor, who is in the advertising business in South Bend, helped plan a smoker and a get-together after the Notre Dame game. Red Newell was in town recently, and a tew of us managed to have luncheon with him at the Dartmouth Club. He told us of his plans, which are to take his wife and four-year-old boy to Shanghai, China. First they will stop in California for a well-earned vacation after four years in Venezuela. Red looks fine and seems quite happy at the prospect of going back to the Far East. He reports that KenEmerson is still working for the National City Bank in Central America. Joe Butler was in the service for three years, spending most of his time in the Caribbean area and South America. He is now out of the service and devoting his entire time to the Butler Art Institute, though he still retains his interest in the family concern, Butler, Wick and Company of which Waily Thornton is also a part, ner.
Recent visitors to Hanover were Sam Ellis and Pete Wheatley, who drove up with their wives for the Holy Cross game. Sam is still in the Navy and stationed at the Navy Yard in Boston in the Accounting Department. Pete is still the very busy Brockton lawyer.
Casper Whitney had an interesting time in the service, beginning with an assignment as post signal officer with the Air Corps at Walnut Ridge, Ark., where he was fortunate in having his wife and two daughters with him on the Post. His next move was to Fort Monmouth, N. J., and then to Headquarters, Army Ground Forces, in Washington. Court Martials was another of his assignments and he defended some 80 men. Whit writes: "There's no better place to get the inside dope on what goes on at a Post than through court martials. It was very interesting to me to see the fairness with which military personnel is treated in court and the willingness of the court to grant acquittals where they were justified."
Hookie Hagenbuckle is in this country following his duties as liaison officer with the French in Martinique. He intends to stay in the Navy tor another year and then get into some education work.
See You In Hanover—November 17
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