1908
A columnist in a Chicago paper wrote several days ago that a New York advertising agency claimed that arrangements could be made to obtain a plug in Walter Winchell's column and broadcast. We have been very conscientious in the conduct of our monthly column and have allowed no commercials to appear. In order to insure a volume of news for our readers each month, we have recently considered making a standing cash offer for stories, such as we are advised is paid by Mr. Winchell, the New Yorker, the Reader's Digest, etc. The possibility of having such a fund purely in the interest of more news is making us seriously consider making a deal with that hardy Centenarian, the Milford Cabinet andWilton Journal, of Milford (established 1802), whereby our column might appear in this paper. We cannot help thinking that if we regularly plug Blakely's Lotion, put out by Joe Blakely's seventy-five year old pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt., that we could increase Joe's sales materially, or we might agree toplug the wares of Warren Currier's hardwarecompany in El Centro, Calif. We cannot claim60,000,000 readers, but we believe that perhaps the idea has possibilities. George Fine,Merchantville, N. J., supervising principal ofthe Pennsauken Township Public Schools,writes that his first look at the ALUMNI MAGAZINE each month is for the 1908 news andnotes. We are sure that other testimonials canbe obtained to show to our contemplatedsponsor or sponsors.
As class prophet, Gordon Blanchard predicted that in a few years men abroad would be flying from London to New York to attend class reunions. Men shook their heads and said that the heat of that torrid last Wednesday of June 1908 had gotten to Gordon. During the Wilson administration, Gordon turned up in Rockford on a business trip, bringing with him his charming bride, Esther. We never learned or inquired whether Esther was loath to let Gordon come through Chicago alone, whether Gordon couldn't leave his bride for the time of his trip, or whether in those Wilsonian days Gordon thought a sentimental auditor might not scan his expense account too sharply. We do not recall exactly, but we probably saw the current number of the Perils of Pauline that evening and probably wound up the evening with three double chocolate sundaes with nuts, macaroons and cherries which sold for fifteen cents each without a tax, and without any help from Chester Bowles. A number of men in the class have come to Rockford with their wives in the last thutty-six years, but Gordon is the only one who brought his bride. Time has marched on and now Gordon Jr., a lieutenant in the Navy, is just back from twenty-one months duty in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Southern France and is now stationed at the Navy Communication School at Harvard; Carol, an artist, has her. own studio in New York; is married to Dustin Rice, who at present is in China, with the Office of War Information. Barbara graduated from Bradford Junior College last June and is at present in the Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York where she expects to complete her course the last of March. Her engagement was recently announced to Flight Officer Donald H. Adams of Scarsdale, Army Air Corps, now stationed near Columbus,. Ohio. They expect to be married in May or June; Denison is a sophomore at Deerfield Academy. Gordon Sr. is with the Riegel Paper Corp., 342 Madison Ave. We are not informed as to whether he is still the head usher in his church in Scarsdale.
Warren Currier, secretary and sales manager of the Imperial Hardware Co. of El Centro, Calif., has fifteen retail stores and a wholesale department to worry about and his company has ambitions of obtaining additional stores when the situation permits. His son, Warren III, who we understand is a direct lineal descendant of Eleazar Wheelock, who along with some other sons in the class, was accepted by Bob Strong for the class of 1947, and did not get to college, took the V-12 course at the University of Texas, was then transferred to the School of Administration and Finance at Tulane University where he is in the Navy Department of Supplies. He hopes to finish the course in June and if successful will be sent to the Harvard School of Business and then commissioned.
T. I. Dunn's son, Ted Jr., is a lieutenant in the Navy and is on duty in the Pacific His daughter Janet is a lieutenant in the WACs, based somewhere in New Guinea. T. I. looks forward with enthusiasni to and always attends the New York Alumni dinner and also the Dartmouth Night celebration because of the enjoyment he receives from seeing the men in the class rounded up for these occasions by Mike Stearns. T. I. stays each year until the last train leaves for Rye so that he can hear Mike and Phil Thompson retell the stories of their smart inside baseball in games of the freshman and sophomore baseball teams.
Dolly Gray's son, John H. Jr., Dartmouth '39, is an operations officer in the Air Force, who at last report was stationed at a sugar mill on Luzon.
We had hoped to have a complete report of the Baaston dinner held the last week of February, but our reporters have failed us for this issue. We did learn that General Knox had arrived in the United States for a three-months stay, has bought Stan Tappan a lunch and planned to attend the dinner for which Art Lewis was rounding up the men.
Art's son, John H. Lewis, was promoted to a captain in February. He has been with the Detroit Ordnance, Field Artillery Service of Supply for three and a half years.
With the election in January of Hank O'Shea as president of a bank, we now have at least two bank presidents in the class in New Hampshire. Harry Rogers is president of the Suncook National Bank.
Art Rotch has been elected president of the Historical Society in Milford.
"Little Tommy" distinguished from "Tall Tommy" and from John, who lived freshman year in one of those roomettes on the first floor of Reed Hall with Bub Shaw, listed as Robert Fears Thompson in the archives of the vital statistics of Essex County, Mass., brought his son Richard to Hanover for the Reunion in 1938, so that a lot of us, including our Bill Jr., became acquainted with him. Richard was inducted into the Army September 30, 1943, took his basic at Ft. Benning, was in the ASTP at the University of Penn., was then sent to Indiantown Gap in March, 1944 and assigned to an infantry outfit. He landed in England last August and was in France in September. He has recently been in Germany and in Belgium. His regiment is a part of General Patton's Third Army. Richard was recently promoted to private first class and awarded the Combat Infantry Badge. Bob is treasurer of the Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester.
Mary Knight, Smith '48, had dinner with Mort and Marguerite Hull one evening in February and reports a most enjoyable time.
The New York annual Alumni Dinner will be held at the Hotel Pennsylvania at six-thirty P.M., April 26. Our class representative is Malcolm Stearns. Frederick Schilling is on the class attendance committee.
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