1912

At the annual Dartmouth Alumni dinner at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston on February 28, 1912 had a big turnout. The following classmates were present: Caesar Young, Gee Bullard, Rollie Linscott, John Park, Hal Fuller, Eddie Luitwieler, Lt. Philip Drake USN, Wally Wallburg, Lyme Armes, Henry Viets, Ben Hunt, Vern Parmenter, Mike Norton, Pett Pettingell, Pud Pond, Click Morrill, Chet Haycock, Bill Shapleigh, Vern Greene and Fletcher Clark. Mrs. Chubby Hitchcock was in the gallery and Chubby Jr. and Fletcher Clark Jr. also attended the dinner. Ray Cabot missed the dinner—the first Boston dinner he has missed since graduating except when he was overseas in the last war—because as chairman of the Newton School Committee he had to attend a final conference on the Newton School budget which had been fixed long in advance with the Mayor and Finance Committee.

As president of the Bi-Lateral Fire Hose Co. of Chicago, Bob Baird gets to New York frequently and I recently had an opportunity to talk with him on the telephone in our efforts to get together for lunch. In as much as about 90% of his company's production is going to the Navy, he also is in Washington on the average of once in three weeks. When at his company's factory at Akron, Ohio, he frequently sees Red Whitney. They both saw Doc O'Connor recently when Doc spoke at a Red Cross dinner in Akron. Red Whitney attended the dinner and reports:

Doc put across a really fine speech. He talked for about an hour and you could have heard a pin drop in the hall he held the attention so closely. It was a damned fine job and made a real hit with everyone.

Charlie Stratford is with the Engineering Works Division of Dravo Corporation at Pittsburgh and attended a National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis dinner there on January 22 at which Doc O'Connor was a speaker. Law business brought Chick McElwain from Louisville to New York the first week in March, as a result of which I had lunch and a fine visit with him. Apparently the only thing that was worrying Chick was whether the Ohio River floods would permit him to get back to Louisville. Chick's older boy Bob is an instructor in the Air Corps in Texas where he has been for the last year and a half. He made Chick a grandfather last July. The younger boy, who is not yet eighteen, left the University of Virginia after completing his freshman year, to enlist in the Navy, and is now in boot training at Great Lakes, Illinois.

Mrs. Jim Erwin recently talked to me on the telephone and said that Jim Jr. is now in Marseilles, France, and is still with his Dartmouth buddies with whom he enlisted in the Army. In order for these buddies to stay together they had to agree at the time of their enlistment not to make any requests for transfer or reassignment.

Scott Rogers, who is in the automobile business in Cleveland, was elected president of theOhio Automobile Dealer Association last fall.He says that the job takes a lot of his time,particularly as this is a legislative year inOhio. He writes:

We have a very successful association with about 1,500 dealer members—one of the largest State associations in the United States. My boys are all scattered now. Scotty, a first lieutenant is in France in Patton's Army. They did a wonderful job at Bastogne. Teddy is a first lieutenant in the Marine Air Corps, a B-25 pilot now on combat duty in. the Marshall Islands. Tommy is a flight engineer on a B-29 and is now on his second trip to India. Last Fall I had a;most enjoyable meeting with Bill Butler who was in Cleveland for a Hospital Managers Convention. We can well be proud of Bill. He is doing a fine job and is most highly regarded in his business.

Colonel Connie Snow reports that Lt. Col.Jake Orr is signal supply officer, Fort Dix,N.J.

This Snow family is more or less split up. Constance, the eldest, is a student nurse operating out of Skidmore College at Saratoga Springs, but actually doing her hospital training in New York. At the present time she is at the Psychiatric Institute. Katherine Ann is a freshman in Skidmore, and Richard is in Junior High here in Arlington.

The first week in March I had a visit with Lt. Col. Dick Plumer who made a surprise call at my office. Dick looks fine after his stay in the hospital with a heart affliction. He will have to take it easy for the next six months before becoming active again. He reports that Bob Belknap left the Signal Corps the last week in February and is now temporarily in the New York office of General Motors before being permanently assigned elsewhere.

At the New York Alumni Dinner to be held April 26 at 6:30 P.M. in the Hotel Pennsylvania, Richard Remsen is our class representative.

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