1912

Last visiting the United States in 1940, Husky DeMerritt writes:

Husky, a lieutenant colonel, Adjutant General's Department, is still at the same desk, Assistant Adjutant General of Hawaii, and is kept plenty busy with the affairs of the Hawaii National Guard, and the Territorial Guard as well. My better half is engaged in wark work, Department Quartermaster's office, and one evening a week she does volunteer work with the Red Cross at one of the airfields, serving lunches until about midnight. Son, Dean Jr. (now 19 years old) was sent to Oklahoma Military Academy in the summer following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He finished the high school division and remained for one year of college work and obtained thirtytwo hours of college credits. He took (and passed) the A-12 exams, but much to my disappointment, this program was curtailed and so Dean Jr. volunteered for the Army. He was sent to Fort Riley to Communications School, Mechanized Cavalry, a sixteen weeks rugged course. Upon graduation he was urged to remain at the school as an instructor but I guess he was afraid he would be stuck there for the duration, which was not to his liking, so he transferred to an Infantry regiment at Fort Jackson where he took his basic Infantry training, and upon completion of this was transferred to another Infantry regiment. In his last letter I noticed he is Private First Class and the APO was c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. In his recent letter he stated that New York was terrific, "terrifically cold"; said he much prefers the climate here (and I am not working for The Chamber of Commerce, either).

About a year ago last May, Judge Frank McLaughlin '30 and I got busy and rejuvenated the Dartmouth Club of Hawaii. Yours truly was elected President with the Judge as Secretary- Treasurer and since this rebirth, we hold monthly luncheons on the first Saturday of every month, at which Dartmouth is certainly talked! These meetings are most interesting, new faces are continually showing up, most of them, however, later than our time but all good Dartmouth men.

Give my best regards to the members of the Class and I do hope to be seeing some of you in person after this world-wide conflagration is brought to a successful ending."

We regret to learn of a war casualty among the '12 delegation in the Signal Corps Headquarters at the Pentagon Building in Washington. Lt. Col. Dick Plumer was confined in the Walter Reed Hospital from October 29 to the last week in December as the result of a light heart attack brought on by overwork in the discharge of his official duties. Colonel Connie Snow reports that Dick's progress was most satisfactory and that he started on a thirty-day leave the first of the year. We hope that Dick spent his leave at his home in Englewood, Fla., where he went to live three or four years ago when he retired from active practice of the law and which he left to accept an appointment by Connie Snow in the Legal Division of the Signal Corps.

Having completed a bang-up job as Coordinator of Cadet Training Department of the Airplane Division of the Curtis-Wright Corporation at Buffalo, N. Y., Warren Bruner became Secretary for Admissions of Hobart College at Geneva, N. Y., and took over his new duties on December 4. The best wishes of the entire class go with Warren on his entrance into the realms of administration of higher education.

Your acting secretary recently had an opportunity to catch up with the travels of Red Whitney during a visit when Red made a short trip to New York from Boston where he is now located, temporarily as usual. Red is another classmate who is making valuable, although not dramatic, contributions to the war effort. While He was located at Duluth, Minn., he supervised the installation of new equipment and methods of operation in some of the biggest of the Lake Superior open-pit mines which resulted in greatly increased production so essential for war requirements.

Doc O'Connor opened the annual March of Dimes Campaign for The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis by a coast-to- coast broadcast over CBS network on January 14 and appeared as a guest on the "Information Please" program over NBC on January 15. During the month of January he was on the road constantly in connection with the Infantile Paralysis campaign and he will be covering the country during February as Chairman of the American Red Cross. Pretty soon Doc will be catching up with Charlie Gately's mileage record.

In addition to all of his other public activities, Boss Geller, our star class agent, was recently appointed community chairman of the activities of the Committee on Economic Developments.

IN HAWAII, the assistant general to the islands, Lt. Col. Dean R. "Husky" DeMerritt '12 and Mrs. DeMerritt stand at the entrance to their Honolulu home.

Acting Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y.

Acting Treasurer, Court House, Dedham, Mass.