1932
It is necessary to record with the utmost sorrow the accidental death of Jack Hamel, of which an account appears in the In Memoriam section in the back of this issue. Jack and a good friend, Bill Tryon, both of Auburn, were hunting ducks from a rowboat on Cayuga Lake on the morning of Saturday, October 13, with Jack amidships and Bill Tryon in the stern. Jack lost his balance just as a flight of ducks rose from the water, and fell directly into the path of the shell discharged by his companion. Rushed to Seneca Falls Hospital nine miles away, Jack was given a quantity of plasma, and an Auburn doctor removed the shot. Although it at first seemed that Jack might live, he had lost too much blood, and died on Sunday, October 14. To his wife Margaret and his three sons goes the deepest sympathy of the class in this sudden and tragic bereavement.
Lt. Col. Bo Wentworth, having now put on mufti, has re-assumed the mantle of class treasurer, to which he was elected at the Tenth Reunion. To Howdy Peirpont, who kindly agreed to take over when Bo entered the Army, go the thanks of the class for the best job of dues-gathering and book-balancing that has been done in many a year. I hope to be able to report shortly that Howdy is taking up the reins of another class office, but his consent hasn't come through as this is written. Bo has already begun on this year's dues, and reports that as of October 31 about 80 contributions had come in. Bo wishes especially that this column commend the wives who have paid dues for their husbands who are still fur, fur away. These,—and add secretarial plaudits to Bo's treasurial praise—are Mesdames Boak, George, Gage, Bennett, Hobson, Hill, Brown, Byram, Coltman, Litwin, Ward, Mcßae, McGuire, Zimmerman, Whitcomb, Alexander, Reed, and Hubbard. Thank you, girls. Bo will have a special keg of beer for you at the fifteenth Reunion.
When Bo isn't collecting dues, he is the new field manager for the American Foreign Insurance Association. About mid-November he sailed tor Europe to report on conditions in the association's agencies that are still active; first stop is Paris, where until the war Bo was branch manager. When the report's in, Bo will make his headquarters at 80 Maiden Lane, N. Y. C., helping supervise and develop AFIA. In a newsy letter, Bo tells of a train encounter with Major Bob Buckley, who plans to set up shop in Claremont, N. H., after he gets out of uniform. Bo ate lunch (late October) with George Collins and Bill Morton, and learned that Col. Jay Whitehair will soon climb down from his seat astride his motorized cavalry steed and assume duties with a well-known New York corporation. Bob Harrison, out of the service, has moved to Montclair, N. J., with wife and daughter.
Cap Ireys got out of the service September 9, and returned to his bride of last May 4, the former Miss Mary L. Haglin. Bob Black and Jim Moore are both lieutenant commanders, and Major Chuck Ryan is with the U. S. Military Government in Germany. Nate Pearson is a full commander USNR. Lt. Col. Cal Fisher is living at 435 Holly St., Denver 7, Colo. Frank Jaburek lives at 1614 Winnemac, Chicago 40; Don Allen at Box 503, New Paltz, N. Y.; Dick Brooks at 242 Kingsboro Ave., Gloversville, N. Y.; Mort Brown at 539 Ellis St., New Britain, Conn.; Don McPhail at 2480 16th St., Washington 9. Milt Alpert resigned last July as counsel to the executive secretary of the N. Y. State War Council, and is now legal assistant, Municipal Affairs Division, Office of N. Y. State Comptroller. But the New York State War Council wouldn't let him entirely go, so he is also acting executive secretary of the Council. Gordon Pipe works for H. P. Hood & Sons, dairy products, at 96 Dewey St., Worcester, Mass. Bob Wilkin, now with the New York branch of Phelps-Dodge as sales manager, has found a house on Old Westbury Rd., O. W., Long Island. Gus Zimmerman is industrial engineer with U. S. Rubber at Passaic, N. J. Forrest Fraser is in the executive offices of the Kroger Grocery and Baking Company in Cincinnati. Bish Ivins (hello Bish) is at the Milwaukee Country Day School, Milwaukee,Ill.
Ben Jeffery, after a long, newsless while, records the arrival of daughter Judy Lyn July 9, 1945, to join Barbara (aged 12, and still the class baby, says Jeff), Ann (10), and Dave (6). Ben keeps busy at the plant with heading up industrial relations, a job he's held for over a year and a half. Congratulations on job and family, Ben. Ping Ferry, back from the Pacific, has joined the staff of Earl Newsom and Company, public relations counsel, N.Y.C. Art Allen (erstwhile Lt. Comdr.) is now back with wife and kids on Pintard Ave., New Rochelle, and on November i joined the firm of Neville, Rodie, and Co., Investment Counsel, 522 Fifth Ave., N.Y.C. Al Gerould, back from Germany, has gone to Berkeley, Cal., to reassume librarian's duties after many long years of soldiering in the ETO. Dr. Sheldon Reed returned in September from London, where he served as liaison agent between British and American scientists attached "to the U.S. and Royal Navys who have been studying (via statistical findings on past naval operations) the effects of scientific inventions on naval tactics. Shell has been on leave of absence from Harvard since September, 1942, and will re- turn to his job there about the first of the year, after winding up his civilian work with the Navy. Listen in on Milt Lieberthal's radio- shows when you get a chance. He has that rare combination of skills—knowledge of medicine and knowledge of dramaturgy—and combined them in several plays for the Dr. Christian program over CBS, as announced in the November column. There may be more if Dr. Milt can find time enough away from his job as chief of the gastroenterology section, Moore General Hospital, Asheville, N. C. Milt is a captain in the Army Medical Corps.
Whip Walser's attack transport, USS Bracken, was one of many which landed the American Division in Yokohama, September 8. In fact the column of transports stretched ten miles, as they steamed past the Big Mo into the harbor. At Saipan, day after the Japs signed surrender documents, Whip met Lt. Al Boncutter, skipper of a repair ship, and had dinner aboard. Al was also headed for Japan. Another acquaintance of Whip's was an erst- while shipmate of George Pettengill, who was very popular with officers and crew aboard the Chicago. Whip says U. S. Air Forces bombed and fired Yokohama until it was virtually flat; when he went ashore he found U. S. Paratroopers on patrol, and the Jap civilians sullen, but otherwise apparently oblivious of Occupation Forces. Like all post-war Pacifickers, Whip would like to get home soon.
To him, and to all others at home or abroad, Merry Christmas.
NOW IN MUFTI, Lt. Colonel "Bo" Wentworth '32, third to the right, has both resumed the chores of Class Treasurer, and is returning to Europe as Field Manager for the American Foreign Insurance Association. The above picture was taken in Alsace and Corp. Chuck O'Neill '31 is left of 80, the others are not Dartmouth.
Secretary, 178 Prospect Ave., Princeton, N. J.
Treasurer, Room 1801 80 Maiden Lane New York 7, N. Y.
