1910
All Formal Reunions have been called off .... the secretaries, treasurers and class agents will not meet. The 50th Year Class may be permitted to hold an "informal," as their numbers are small. The change is advisable because of transportation and other difficulties, so whatever plans 1910 had are discarded until conditions are more propitious and it is just as well, too, because few could have attended with complete freedom of heart.
So another Reunionless year for Dartmouth men adds to the accumulating backlog of desire and spirit which will break forth into the great postwar "home-coming" at Hanover, when the young will be back from war and the old will totter northward, for what will be the greatest and most genuine gathering of college men this country has ever seen.
The sympathy of the class goes to Ote Crafts and family, whose second son, Capt. Donald K., was killed in Germany in December .... Ote's other son, Capt. John C„ was killed in France on August 10. These losses are like blows below the belt, difficult to understand, and painful to accept. The boys themselves, their fathers and mothers and wives, their relatives and friends are completely helpless in warding off such tragedies.
Walt Wilson lives at 400 Patterson, Glendale 3, Calif. While skiing at North Conway in mid-January, our dauntless Tommie Leonard busted an ankle, causing him to miss some sessions of the New Hampshire Governor s Council, to which he was elected in November. Undoubtedly by the time you read this, Sir Thomas will be on his skis again in the White Mountains. Beezle Parker has moved to Karnack, Texas, where he is with Montsanto Chemical. Easty, as president, presided at opening of General Mills' 3,500,000-bushel soy-bean processing plant in Belmond, lowa, where soy-bean oil, meal, flour and other derivatives will be produced. Don Bryant is assistant treasurer of Pullman-Standard Car Mfg. Cos.
What will' be done about class officers is not clear at the moment because the Constitution does not provide for skipped reunions..,,.. "Officers shall be elected by the class at each five-year Reunion for the ensuing five years." .... "There shall be a meeting of the class in Hanover at every five-year Reunion period. Other meetings may be called by the chairman-secretary at any time.... at such meetings one-fourth of the living members of the class shall constitute a quorum."
A little later you fellows will have to decide what to do. In the meantime, suggestions are sought.... also advice from our barrister members >
The obituary of Joe Bartlett is in the In Memoriam Section.
Herb Wolff has been elected president of the New York Ethical Culture Society. "Each of whose sixteen hundred members obeys the dictates of his own conscience, believing, disbelieving or doubting as he pleases." The Society emphasizes "the importance of day-by-day living and thinking and acting in accordance with high ethical standards." It meets each Sunday, with a lecture given on some contemporary human problem such as family relations, employer, employee, war, peace, always "emphasizing the ethical and moral aspects."
The Younger Generation .... Married Decem-26, Paterson, N. J., Miss Flora R. Salvador to Sgt. James W. Ingall Jr Born November 5, James Chandler Wells, a son to Capt. Eddie and Mrs. Wells. Charlie Kent has his pilot's wings and is flying a B-24 By the way, it was our privilege to visit the famous Willow Run bomber plant recently and it was tremendously interesting to see the B-24 Liberators made.... it gives you a highly personal understanding of what boys like young Charlie and others are experiencing. Capt. Dick Leonard, a B-26 Marauder pilot, is back in this country after 77 medium and low-altitude European missions .... he was awarded the DFC and Air Medal with 13 clusters. Thayer Smith Jr. finishing his second Medical School year in V-12 at Hanover, is also working for a pilot's license Jim Nourse, an ensign in Navy, has won his wings, is in the Pacific His brother, Bartley, after attending Dartmouth, is taking the Navy pre-flight course at Chapel Hill Betty Lyon's husband, Henry Bagg D' 39, is a Navy lieutenant in Mediterranean duty Jack Tobin is on a Pacific submarine.
Fletch Burton has received a very interesting four-page letter from Harold Robinson, who is in Sian, Shensi, China. The class should have the privilege of reading it but wartime MAGAZINE space does not permit its use. Harold hopes to return to America this year and after a few months here, return with his wife to China for the great work that must be done there over the years to come.
Ernest Small was buried in Arlington Cemetery on January 2 with full military tribute. Clarke Tobin who was the last Tenner to see Ernest, received a fine letter from Mrs. Small saying, "Ernest had an enduring loyalty to the College, and a real love for Hanover." Clarke adds, "Admiral Small was fascinating to me and was a little stick of dynamite. He had a grand personality and was a great American. His only complaint was that this war had come five years too late for him. He told me that he had enjoyed a very interesting life and had no complaint to offer he was just a warrior all the way through."
Ernest's full obituary can never be told no more than that of Joe Bartlett, Hoitt Charlton or any other man who led a full life. It is in such fellows that we who are left can take an undying pride, and rejoice in having known them.
Secretary, Canaan St., Canaan, N. H. Treasurer, Turks Head Bldg. Box 1254, Providence 1, R. I.
