1916
Word has recently come that Edward Kirkland '46, son of Edward Kirkland '16, was reported missing in action during recent operations of the Seventh Army in Alsace. All of us wish to join with Edward's parents in hoping devoutly for favorable news of him.
Elsewhere in this issue is to be published an announcement that the Trustees have authorized President Hopkins to issue Dartmouth's Certificate of Merit to non-graduate alumni who withdrew from Dartmouth to serve in World War I. All eligible Sixteeners are urged to consult this announcement.
From two of our classmates in World War II the news at this time is good. General Stew Paul writes from Luxembourg to this effect:
This is a hectic life but the YD is doing a grand job and I am proud of my lads. It's cold and this "Little Switzerland" is straight up and down. I have to sand all roads to keep my supplies moving. Take your hat off to the doughboy; nothing will ever repay him for what he goes through. We've had a busy and, I hope, profitable time since we landed, doing our bit to bring this destruction and chaos to an end. My best to all the gang. Johnny Ames is nearby but I haven't yet had a chance to see him. Tf ,*o rrsmA ♦ /". loom tKot TrxV. A ™ V.00
It is good to learn also that John Ames has been promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel and has been awarded in Army Corps orders the Croix de Guerre with Silver Star.
A recent issue of the column "Gracious Ladies" in a Boston paper carries a portrait of Mrs. Theron B. Walker and a fine tribute to her public-mindedness. We learn that she serves as President of the Newton Hospital Aid Association as well as Trustee and Nurse's Aide at this institution. She is also director, with her husband, of the Young People's League of the Congregational Church of Newton Highlands and vice president of this church's Women's Association. In addition she has been director of the Newton Community Chest and of the Newton Highlands Red Cross. She is a member of the N. E. Regional Committee of Girl Scouts and was formerly vice chairman of this group. She has been interviewer at the War Job Information Center of Boston University and is now active in the vocational guidance department of the Boston YWCA. As the paper states, this is an enviable record of service to the community. Ted and Alice and their two daughters live at Newton Highlands. Ted writes that he has recently been ill with pneumonia but is now recovered.
Reports are coming in nicely, thank you, from what we call our Business Department. (Boys of 1916 Division). Not much use, of course, trying to keep you right up to date on the volume of business which we process these days in this Bureau of the Acting-Secretary's Offices, but enclosed samples may give you an idea. Erwin Gifford is busy in the editorial department of the New York Tribune. His letter speaks of a meeting with Bob Brown at Glens Falls where both Gif and his wife (formerly Frances Stevens) attended school. They have two sons, both in the Army. Bob, age 23, began training in USAAF at Frederick, Okla., and now serves as corporal in the Infantry at Camp Howze, Texas. David, age 20, trained in ASTP at Boston University and is now PFC in the FA with the First Army in Germany. Commendable also is a good report from George Smith covering some of his activities in the business of advertising with McCann-Erickson. He is manager of the Foreign Department and his work is concerned at present with the six Latin-American branch offices of the firm. Apropos of the fact that among his clients is the Coca-Cola Co., George comments upon another fact, unknown to me, that the composer of that Coca-Cola theme song, familiar to us radio-listeners, is our Bones Joy. George and his wife have been delighted to learn that the home of the French parents of Mrs. Smith in Tinchebray fortunately escaped harm in the widespread destruction suffered by Normandy during' the invasion. George and his wife have two daughters. The elder, age 22, is married to a lieutenant in the Navy; the younger is 18 and at Vassar. A picture of George in a business folder enclosed in his letter would show you that he doesn't seem to have changed one iota in appearance, and also that it would still be fun to have a talk with him. Our third worthy report is from Dan Lindsley whose occupation is wood preservation and who is a field engineer in this business. Dan serves the local alumni as president and speaks with pleasure of welcoming at Dartmouth gatherings the following sixteeners: Dan Coakley, Despie Desmond, Carl Eskeline, Lou Howell, Bob Thieme, Constantine Tripolitis. Dan's wife is active in the Red Cross Motor Corps, making regular trips with a mobile blood-donor unit, and Dan has ten times been a blood donor. The Lindsleys have two sons. Dan Jr., age 19, is in V-12 at the University of Texas as a pre-medical student."George, age 16, is at home with his parents in San Marino, Calif., 1750 Ramiro Road.
Cliff Bean and Larry Hayward with their wives were welcome visitors in Hanover recently. The boys bumped into J. Gile and me and we all went over to my homestead on the river bank to see how the fireplace works. The wives kept insisting that we sounded like the Yalta Conference, only louder. But we didn't settle anything hardly—got to have another meeting soon, I figure, and would welcome other delegates right away, because the problems which we plan to take up are pretty damn urgent.
Secretary, 2542 Stratford Rd., Cleveland Hgts., Ohio
Acting Secretary, 3 Downing Rd., Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 34 White Oak Road Wellesley Hills, Mass.
