1908

Richard Stevens Danforth, Dick to us, who came to college from Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine, and lived on Allen St. freshman year at such a safe distance from Reed Hall that he had time to begin to think about the inventions which he was later to make, apparently wins the medal as the member of the class doing the most traveling during the closing weeks of 1944. Dick's starting point for his travels- was the classic atmosphere of Berkeley, Calif., where he lives. Our reporters first report him in Washington, where presumably he was battling with the Navy and other representatives of the administration in regard to the present and future manufacture and use of the anchor which he invented which has done such a noteworthy job. Whether it was before or after his visit to Washington our reporters do not make clear, but on the same trip he turned up in Norwood, Mass., and called upon Parson Bill English. Rumor has it that when Parson Bill answered the doorbell, even his lifetime training as a parson, which should never let him forget a name or a face, did not entirely save him. Dick did not help out Bill at first, but Bill claims he knew he was a classmate even though he had not seen him since June 1908. With Dick's help, Bill finally recognized him. Dick must have been in real distress with the Government, to go all the way to Norwood for spiritual guidance to help him in his battles with the minions of Roosevelt 11, rather than to visit one of the lawyers in the class. We hope that Parson Bill gave him the spiritual encouragement or solace he apparently craved. Dick next turned up in Chicago, calling upon Park Stickney on his way back to California, and presumably subsequently safely returned to his family. We regret exceedingly that Dick did not find time to come to Rockford, only two hours from Chicago, and personally make a complete first-hand report of his activities and travels.

Parson Bill's daughter, Elizabeth Dickinson English, was married by her father to Chief Petty Officer, J. H. Anderson, U. S. Naval Reserve, "Seabees" on October 24, 1944, in a colorful church ceremony which packed the Norwood Church to capacity. The groom had recently returned from over two years at Pearl Harbor where he had helped rebuild the damage done December 7, 1941.

Larry Symmes has a new grandson, his third. The young man arrived on December 20 in San Francisco. Even Larry's persuasiveness had not succeeded in convincing any railroad that such an event entitled him to travel priority as we go to press, but the Symmes's are still hoping to see the young man in the near future. Larry Jr. is with the Special Services Division of the Signal Corps stationed at the headquarters in Paris. He went through Normandy and from reports seems to think Paris is a pretty good place to fight the war.

Tread, whose name appears on his diploma and in the archives of Kappa Kappa Kappa as Lauris Goldsmith Treadway, managing director of the Treadway Inns, is supplementing his hotel work and college and school feeding, by operating a number of industrial cafeterias. He claims that he works fourteen hours a day. Richard F. Treadway, Dartmouth '36, is a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, stationed at Camp Lejeune, N. C. His wife and two children are with him. John, Dartmouth '39, is a Pfc. with the 111th General Hospital, in England since last June. John's wife and two children are in Williamstown. Tread's daughter, Antoinette, whose husband, Lt. William C. Fowle, U. S. Navy, has been for the past five months in the U. S. Naval Hospital as a patient at St. Albans, N. Y., is, with their two children, in Williamstown. David, Mass. State College '41, is a Chief Commissary Steward in the U. S. Navy.

Henry and Blanche Stone report that the eggnogs in Haverhill were up to their usual quality during the holidays.

Wink Fiske is definitely improving. He stopped serving Tom and Jerry's long enough in Pittsburgh to report that he would not be coming to Chicago this winter to attend the meeting of the Royal Academy of Something, to eat lunch with Howard Hilton and to keep his promise to us that he would advise his old roommate in advance of his next visit.

Arthur and Pauline O'Shea's son, Jim, has finished medical school and is now serving his interneship in the Long Island Hospital. He plans to specialize in pediatrics, and surgery of pediatrics. Jim is married and has a daughter a year and a half old. He reports to the Navy on July 1. His brother, Captain John, is still assistant chief of storage in the Army depot near Boston. Their daughter Peg and her family live in Riverdale, N. Y.

Pvt. Bill Knight Jr. finished his training as a combat engineer at Camp Chaffee, Ark., in November and his outfit traveled to a port of embarkation situated nearer the Statue of Liberty than the Golden Gate. The outfit reached England late in November and at last report it was in London. Bill had a chance to entertain his sister, Mary, who is a freshman at Smith, one Saturday evening in Manhattan. Mary, who made the freshman soccer team, spent the Christmas holidays in Rockford. Bill Jr. is Pvt. William D Knight Jr., APO 413 c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. The war is certainly scattering the families. The first Saturday night in January, Bill Jr. was in London, and his sister Mary was in New York on her way back to Northampton. After eating beans at the old homestead, their father and mother attended a movie and saw pictures in the newsreel of American Army Engineers taken in London, watching Marlene Deitrich's million-dollar legs, born in Germany, shown in "Kismet."

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