1912
From Hotel Geneve, Mexico City, comes word from Bud Hoban and the University of Mexico football team that he is again coaching this Fall: Had a big Camp Wallula summer, with 85 boys in camp. Flew down here September 10th because my team plays Southwestern of Texas at San Antonio October 13th. They need the "coach" for at least a month prior to that. But we sure did hate to leave New Hampshire during this September weather. Am still on a one-man good neighbor crusade here—lots of work and no pay, not even cigarette money. But we like Mexico, especially the University boys. Three of them practically thumbed their way from here to camp this summer to see us. Very popular they were, too, among the boys and counselors. Have a good little team, averaging 162 pounds. They like to play— don't like the drudgery—and I'm for that. Everyone has lots of fun. Understand Sid Clark is coming this way again and presume we'll see him. We expect to stay till January or February.
Ray Tobey is back on his old faculty job again at Choate School, after a year's sabbatical—a busman's holiday—taking graduate work.
From Detroit Bob Belknap writes: I'm running a close second to "The Man With- out a Country." I'm really a man without a home. For the past six months my wife and I have been living at the Book Cadillac Hotel and trying unsuccessfully to find a house or apartment. My travels are almost exclusively in Canada as I am branch manager of Motors Holding Division of General Motors Corporation in charge of Canadian operations. That means from Halifax to Vancouver. So far I have not hit Hudson Bay and hope I never do.
Dick Plumer is back in Washington continuing his work for the American Red Cross on a half-day voluntary basis. He says he finds the work extremely interesting inasmuch as the project on which he is working necessitates study of the United Nations Charter, treaties relating to prisoners of war and a number of other interesting, historical papers. Windy Gale is in his same old breezy form: The war took my business away 100% so I have been farming mostly for four years and still manage to eat. Hope to* get some of it back by 1947 or earlier. A. H. Jr. is a S1/c QM on the U. S. S. Chanticleer A-S-R-7 and as far as we know hanging around Subic Bay, P. I. Barbara is a Y3/c at the Naval Air Station in Seattle. Catherine is at home temporarily for a rest and Judy is a junior in the local high school. "Won't go into a dissertation on crops, bugs, weather or the smell of the barnyard. All I need say is I can still pitch it and hope you are the same.
Cap Allen writes: As with many of our classmates, our news of chief interest to us has to do with a boy in serv- ice. Our son Richard, ex '44, is a second class radar technician in charge of the maintenance of radar equipment on the carrier Ticonderoga. He was not aboard when she was subject to the suicide bombing last spring. At present we are looking forward to hearing from him from the West Coast, for the Ti is reported to be on her way to participate in the Navy Day celebration at San Francisco or one of the other cities there. My own war work has been that of an appeal agent on a local draft board. My youngest daughter was a city reporter on the Springfield Evening Union during the summer. She is now back at Radcliffe as a sophomore. My older daughter, Hortense, now Mrs. Warren F. Walker Jr., secured an M.A. degree in biology from Radcliffe last June. Her husband is about to be awarded his Ph.D. in biology at Harvard and is at present an instructor in anatomy in Boston University Medical School.
Lyme Armes reports: Cupe Clark,, all the way from Elizabethton, Tenn., is reported a welcome post-war caller on Boston classmates while getting a glimpse of New England's autumn glories and visiting his father and mother at their Rockport home. Gist of the family news gathered by Cupe's interviewers: his grandchildren arrived ahead of his first gray hair—twins—a boy and girl, now six months old, children of Hugh and Marie Clark. Hugh, eldest of Cupe's three sons, Ph.D. Cornell, has completed his wartime radar work in the now famous Harvard Radiation Laboratory and expects to continue working in the field of electronics. Eugene is an army sergeant at Signal Corps Hq., Frank- fort, Germany. Robert, a graduate of Duke University and General Electric war work, is now studying for his master's degree at M.I.T., Cambridge.
At least one of Eddie Luitweiler's Boston classmates is "looking a gift horse in the mouth" every time he fills his pipe. It's a nifty blue tobacco pouch—a genuine post-war product of the Plastic Age, made up from remnants of "Vinylite" left over from "one of the Luitweiler war industries" —but it's too late now to apply for samples. The demand pyramided so fast, when Eddie casually started giving them away, he had to "reconvert," order more "Vinylite" and branch out into a new industry—at the sign of the wooden Indian.
As executive secretary of the Atlantic Coast Oil Conference, Click Morrill sponsored a resolution adopted at a meeting of the Conference held in New York in the middle of October petitioning Congress to pass legislation preventing labor leaders from assuming "dictatorial powers" during strikes by arbitrarily rationing gasoline or fuel oil, declaring that such action should be taken only by the Government. Stressing the seriousness of the problem Click stated that although CIO workers represented only 20 per cent of the oil employes in the Boston area, they were able to force all plants there to shut down. He said that this small group effectively prevented AFL and company union employees from going to work by picketing the other 15 terminals in Boston. "Gasoline and fuel oil are necessities of life and no group—either in labor or management—should be allowed to assume the power of 'arbitrary rationing.' "
Our acting treasurer reports class receipts and expenditures for the year ended August 1, 1945: Balance on hand, August 1, 1944. $1,306.29. Receipts: Dues, 8665; interest $16.4.7; total $1, 987.76. Expenditures: DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE subscriptions, $443.60; postage, $18; flowers, $25.15; service and collection charges, $2.75. Total disbursements, $488.50. Balance on hand, August 1, 1945,$1,499.26.
a recent trip to Washington, Bob Baird had a visit with Red Whitney but failed to contact Doc O'Connor. Bob was so interested in Bob Dowst's book on race horse handicapnine recently reported in this column that he purchased a copy for "one of our boys here in the office who loses about $3,000 a year on the horses." Hope your selections will now be improved, Bob.
Mark Snow was crowned as Honorary 33rd Degree Mason in Boston on September 26th. So far as we know, Mark is the only member of the class who has received this high Masonic honor. With his wife and her parents he drove to Boston from Cleveland for the ceremony, visiting Hanover and Cape Cod en route. Pett Pettingell writes:
My wife and I took a week off and went north. We spent three days at the Hanover Inn. While there I had a fine chat with Babe Hartshorn. He is looking well, although I feel he is hoping to get a rest some time. Due to the V-12 he has been on the job steady since 1940. Henry Bailey Stevens came in while we were there. He had his son, Peter, with him. The boy expects to enter the' freshman class November 1. He graduated from high school two years ago last June and has been running the farm and orchard since. Babe told Peter that if he had the mental ability of his Dad he would make the grade easy. I attended the Lebanon Rotary lunch with Art Burnham who is well and very busy. I did not see Roy Lewis as he was vacationing at Orleans (Cape Cod), Mass.
Jake Orr writes from the Returned Materiel Division of the Holabird Signal Depot at Baltimore:
Well the wars are just about oyer for me. Since my next birthday will find me hitting 60 (about my batting average while in school) I shall be retired after about 28 years service. Deducting my accumulated leave it looks as if I shall be getting out of here the middle of next month. There- fore you had better change my address again back to Piqua, Ohio. I have not seen the Washington gang for some time and am not sure who are left there. But it certainly was nice to see them every now and then while working there and in and out of there. This Returned Materiel is certainly a pain in the neck. We are now handling over 1,000 tons per week and that is some job as we are running out of warehouse space in which to store it. Mrs. Orr and I are both looking forward to the next real class reunion. And in the meantime if any of the 1912ers get in hailing distance of Piqua, Ohio, we both will welcome you to give us a call.
Art Burnham reports: "Our younger boy, Jim, is with an infantry division in Germany, but has hopes of getting home before the New Year. He plans to enter Dartmouth as soon as possible after his discharge. Don is in his fourth year of medicine at Cornell and expects to receive his degree next March."
This column is being written in the warm sunshine of Virginia Beach, Va., where your Acting Secretary and wife are spending a long anticipated vacation. Bathing in the Atlantic the first week in November! Captain Paul B. Urion '38 is stationed at Hickman Field, Honolulu, Hawaii, as a Judge Advocate in the Army Transport Command. He has had some delightful weekends with the Husky De Merritts and with the Colonel has attended some affairs of the Dartmouth Club of Hawaii. Phil Urion, S-1/c is in Navy radar training at Great Lakes, Ill., and stepson, Tom Goetz, is in boot training at USNTC, Bainbridge, Md.
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