1933
A note from Pete Grace, informing us of his recent promotion to the rank of lieutenant commander. This event coincided almost exactly with the arrival of the Graces' first child, Pierre Jr. Pete has been in the Navy since February 1942. His current assignment is with a Carrier Air Group, in which outfit he serves as administrative officer. It was good to have a report from Pete on a small '33 reunion in Honolulu in which he met up with Ed Foley and Red Ellis.
Another far-ranging '33er of whom we had had 110 word in a long time is Capt.George Smith, who has been in the Army since May 1942. After training with the armed forces and later in anti-aircraft Artillery, he went overseas in October 1943, and has seen extensive service in Australia, New Guinea, and the Netherlands East Indies.
Capt. Jay T. Newton arrived early in January at the Army Air Forces Redistribution Station in Miami Beach for reassignment after completing a 26-months' tour of duty as an officer in the European Theater, for which service he was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation.
Lt. (jg) Forest Branch was in town for a few days early in January after having finished a Communications course at Harvard. We have not yet learned what his next assignment will be.
The only other event of '33 interest in and around Hanover is the news that has filtered up to us via the grapevine that the BillDeweys' of Quechee have been blessed with another girl. The score now stands at Smith 3, Dartmouth—o.
We have been looking through some of the questionnaires that we have been getting since last September, and they reveal some interesting '33 careers. For example, Kent Rhodes is now production manager for Readers Digest.Kent was associated with Time, Inc. from October 1933 to April 1944. His last job with this outfit was as production manager for Fortune Magazine, and now he has moved on in the same field with Readers Digest. Kent writes that one of his early assignments in his new job took him through the Middle East to work on the Arabic edition of Readers Digest and that he went on as far as Calcutta.
Another classmate in the magazine business is Roger Kafka, who is managing editor of Sea Power magazine and who on the side has found time to publish about twenty articles which have appeared in such magazines as Life, Readers Digest, This Week,Coronet. As many of you know, Roger has broken into the book field as co-author of Warships of the World. Ed Hutchings Jr. is also in this game, having moved into the field years ago with a job as researcher for Literary Digest, from which he moved successively to Tide, Business Week, Look, to his present position as article editor for Liberty.
In the world of music Paul Weston seems to be setting the pace for '33 Musicos. He is one of the leading motion picture arrangers in Hollywood, and on the side conducts the Chesterfield program and is arranger and conductor for Capitol Records. Also in the radio business is John W. Brooke, who is eastern sales manager, Blue Spot Sales for the Blue Network. John has been in this business for some time, having previously worked for Essex Broadcasters, Inc., and Edward Petry & Co. before joining the Blue Network. He also saw twelve months of service in the U. S. Coastguard from which he was medically discharged last December.
We have a couple of lads holding down important positions in the OPA. Ken Spang is a regional economist in this organization, and I have just received word of the appointment recently of Gordan H. Ladd of Barre, Vt., as Vermont District Price Executive of the OPA.
Among our brethren in the teaching game is Ward Conner who is teaching and serving as director of athletics at Thayer Academy in Braintree, Mass. He writes that the only other member of the class whom he sees very much of these days is Erv. Prince who is coaching at Rivers Country Day School near Boston. Also in the Boston area, in another line, is Max Field who is executive vice president of the New England Shoe and Leather Association.
Among those in the service on whose activities we have not hitherto reported is Lt. (jg) AlfredJ. Swan, who has been in the Navy since 1942 and has been at sea almost constantly since June 1943. Second Lt. Robert B. Allen worked his way up from the ranks, was commissioned in October of last year, and his current assignment is in the Ordnance Department. Douglas B. Field, after having taught successively in the Beacon School, Wilbraham Academy, and the Berkshire School, where he also served as dean, entered the service in December 1942, and has been attached almost from the first to the Headquarters of the Distribution Division of the Army Service Forces.
Our statistics on '33 offspring reveal that Pvt.Les Legrow and Edward K. Eldredge have both fathered twins, Les a brace of girls in 1941 and Ed twin boys, Paul and Bruce, born in October 1942. Les is attached to a Field Artillery unit and at last reports was stationed at Camp Chaffee, Ark. Ed is a department supervisor in the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland.
Carrying on the good neighbor policy in Central America is John Cook Ward 2nd, who is professor and chairman of the Department of English, La Universidad Inter-Americana de Panama, Ciudad, Panama. Also in teaching, but a lot closer to Hanover, is Ro Burbank, who is senior master, teacher of science and ski coach at Proctor Academy. He has also been active in church work, having served as secretary-treasurer and president of the New Hampshire Unitarian Association and as regional vice president of the American Unitarian Association. He has also served as Forest Fire Warden in that area of the State. Archie Delmarsh is an instructor at Cornell, and keeps busy between terms running a hotel which he owns in the Adirondacks. He has fathered three boys for Dartmouth and has taken up flying as a pastime.
Among '33s doing their bit in key war industries is Warren Braley, who is with U. S. Rubber as production superintendent in a synthetic rubber plant in California. Les Huntley, after six years with the National City Bank, went to work for Lockheed and is now manager of its Financial Operations Division. Alfred H. White is with the Atlas Powder Corp., Wilmington, Del. He advances the suggestion, which we have filed in our future business dossier, that ten years from now we send out a tracer for Malcolm Sherwood, who has been holding down some nameless atoll in the Pacific, and who is much afraid that when the war is over the Army will completely forget the location of his unit. In the aviation industry, Charles Hall has . carved . out quite a niche for himself as 2 senior aeronautical engineer. His brother Tom is in the insurance business on his own in Dayton, selling insurance for Travellers.
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