1930
Charlie Raymond reports that the class treasury is in pretty fair shape, our income for the past year exceeding our expenses by 366.90. It would be far healthier, however, if more Thirtymen would contribute their annual $3 dues, a very reasonable amount, inasmuch as it includes your subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. The class executive committee urges all of you to pay your dues promptly.
The B. T. Fitzpatricks now have the respectable total of three boys with the arrival, September 9, of James Frederick. Fred and Priscilla Bowes have announced the birth of their first son and second child, Warren Winslow, September 13. Fred also sent us a new Connecticut address, Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan, and a clipping from a Stamford newspaper saying that Lt. Jack Keating has returned from the Navy to his law practice with his father. According to the account, Jack's naval service was of a confidential nature, during which he received a personal Letter of Commendation award from Rear Admiral C. W. Styer, commander, submarines, Atlantic Fleet, for his "inestimable services rendered your country in time of war."
We are glad to get news about classmates who are getting back to civilian life. Chick Pooler, after two years in the air force, is back with Benton and Bowles, Inc., as vice president and director of research. Bill Brown is due to get out of the Navy the middle of October and is looking forward to another class dinner in New York. Bill wrote that he had dinner one night in Beverly Hills with Karl Rodi, the Los Angeles attorney.
According to Wally Blakey, Ed Warren is back from Europe, apparently none the worse for his injuries, but not yet out of the Army. Major Bill Lucas is also back in the U.S.A., after a 28-month tour of duty with the Tenth Air Force in the China Burma-India theatre of operations as a glider pilot and intelligence officer. He wears the Bronze Star the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster.
It is reported that Jack Smith is now a captain in the Navy's Medical Corps, thereby becoming the highest ranking officer in the class we know of. He has been detached from sea duty and is senior medical officer at the. Air Station, Norman, Okla. Jack is a veteran of fifteen years in the Navy and holds the China Service Medal, a Letter of Commendation for meritorious service to the Army (1935) and another given in 1937.
Other service promotions recently lieard about include Major Jere Annis, Lt. Col. Jim Cullyford, Lt. Col. Les Godwin, Major Clark Penney, Lt. Comdr. Don Hight and Lt. Bill Reinhart.
The marriage o£ Miss Betty Morris Stowell, o£ Methuen, and Lt. William H. Keller took place August 24th in St. Augustine's Chapelon-the-Hill, Boston. The bride is a graduate of Lowell State Teacher's College. Bill is stationed at Balboa, C. Z., where he returned after a wedding trip to Maine.
Mrs. James Alexander Henderson of New York City has announced the engagement of her daughter, Mrs. Grace Henderson Furnis, to Mr. Williston Caniield Rich Jr. Both Bill and his fiancee are on the editorial staff of Time. Mrs. Furnis was graduated from Elmira College and received the Master of Arts degree from Columbia University. Her husband, Capt. Furnis, was lost at sea in February, 1944. The wedding will take place October 20 in New York City.
A letter from Phil Peck, vice president of the Cool Insuring Agency, Inc., in Great Falls, says he now has two swell kids, a boy five and one-half and a girl one and one-half, who keep the old man on the jump. He and Liz spent ten days in July at Bonnie Oaks, Lake Morey. They saw A'l and Lucia Dickerson, who both looked fine.
The following letter from George Chang gave us a real bit of pleasure, as it will to those of you who knew him in our senior year. It is dated August 9, from Kunming, China:
I am writing this little note in a terrible hurry in order to have it entrusted to a friend who is leaving for Washington, D. C., in about an hour and have it mailed to you from there. This will shorten its period of travel considerably than if I had mailed it otherwise.
I am very sorry to say that I have not been communicating with the College and my friends for years. But you could easily imagine how utterly thrilled I felt when I bumped into a couple of Dartmouth men right here in this city. One is Major George Gordon '25 who has now left for India. The other is Ist Lt. Robert A. Aylward '37 who just got his promotion last month and who has been going around with me several times and brought me several copies of the Dartmouth ALUMNI MAGAZINE, which I have been reading with the greatest interest. It made me feel that I am back at Hanover; it made me feel that I am walking and talking with the boys on the campus. It also helped to remind me of many happy incidents which happened in Hanover during that short period of my stay between' the fall of 1929 and June of 1930. In the '30 class, there are a few boys whom I am sure would remember me despite the fact that I haven't been communicating with them. They are: John R. Fitzpatrick, Wesley A. Wilkinson, A. Newell Rumpf, Hugh A. Johnson and Porter A. Haskell Jr. And perhaps you, Warren, can recall seeing a Chinese student in your class too. I certainly would like to know of their whereabouts and how they are all getting along. I can't keep on writing, Warren, because my time is up. But one thing I must say and that is I take high pride for all the "Dartmouth men who are now in the Army, and I wish to extend my most sincere respect to all those who sacrificed their lives for a worthy cause in the various theatres of this War.
For myself, I am now "posing" as assistant manager of the Central Bank of China, Kunming Branch, which is nothing to brag about during a time like this. And my request of you is that I wish you could manage to have the ALUMNI MAGAZINE mailed to me regularly after this hasty little note reaches you. Good luck to you and all those I know, or those who know me in the '30 class.
You can bet that it gave us a lot of pleasure to answer that letter.
Secretary, 99 Hudson St., New York, N. Y. Treasurer, < 443 Nyatt Rd., Barrington, R. I.
