1919
"Neither soothsayers, fortune tellers, astrologers, \nor mediums can predict with certainty any event in the future, even ten minutes in the future," said one of Holidini's life-long friends.
Nevertheless, we do not hesitate to predict that Spider Martin and his many able assistants will meet that larger quota set for us this year, and then go over the top with our share of the Alumni Fund, $6280.
Let's put it over by May 30 and help keep Spider young. What a month is May! Spring Cleaning and Planting behind us. Nothing left but the three Ws: War, Work, and Worry. We hope the first of these will soon end and eliminate the third.
Perhaps the hottest news to reach our ears in the last month comes from Boston and has to do with Bill Cunningham, whose fame as Boston's leading journalist has been emphasized in an article written by Kenneth Stewart, staff writer of PM. Stewart dubs Bill the "Pegler of New England." Bill wrote:
Your correspondent is being paid the high honor of one of the windiest blasts that ever blew through the sewers of journalism. Evidently having punched too hard at Sidney Hillman, Henry Wallace and the other hetmen and dummies of the vermin brand of radicalism, I am about to be given the business by that breeder of hate and vender of garbage, the New York typographical whazis, PM. It's a very high compliment, and one of which I am inordinately proud. If such a sheet praised me, I'd quit the business. PM is the pandering publication which proudly "exposed" the rampant anti-semitism in Boston under the flaming headline, "Storm Troopers Ride in Boston," none less.
The mighty smear of Cunningham is a flattering piece of work. A minor newspaper nomad by the name of Kenneth Stewart, one of those reportorial tramps who's "worked all over the country," including a hitch with a batch of those Niemanites who strive to improve the shining hour with a pensioned loaf at Harvard instead of improving it on the job, has set himself up as Judge of a press he probably couldn't even get a job with, and is now pontificating in "a series" upon the deplorable condition of the press in Boston. The "series" is a shadow-boxing warm-up to his grand smash, whereof my kisser is the noble target.
Robert N., "Nocky" Wallis, assistant treasurer of Dennison Manufacturing Cos., addressed the Hartford Chapter, National Association of Cost Accountants in March. "Nocky" is a member of the Comptroller's Institute, National Office Management Association and has served as a director of four chapters of the National Association of Cost Accountants.
Wentzle Ruml Jr. has come east to Newark, N. J., where he is associated with The Travelers Insurance Cos., 60 Park Place. Gordon Meader is now at Oxford, Pa., and Robert H. Roland is at 600 S. Washington Avenue, Chicago, 111.
With sorrow we report that T-Sgt. Jackson Can- nell Jr., son of the former Dartmouth College and present Traip Academy football coach, was killed in action in the Philippines, according to a wire received by his father. Jackson Jr. joined Maiden's Company L, of the National Guard in January 1941, and has been stationed in the South Pacific for 38 months. He is the oldest child of four and the only boy in the family.
"Shorty," H. D. Gray, has been in Springfield Hospital for a six weeks' period suffering with pleural pneumonia and is now at home, 205 Norfolk St., Springfield, Mass.
Lt. Comdr. Clarke Ingraham USNR has spent some time in Brooklyn Naval Hospital, waiting for a fractured left leg to heal. Clarke told Batch, Red Colwell and Ken Huntington when they visited him, of a 22 months' stretch of duty as flight officer on one of the Islands in the New Hebrides, where he found life more comfortable than most of us picture it. Clarke had returned to take special training at Princeton University, a course in Military Government. The accident occurred at Princeton a day or two before he was scheduled to leave for California. He had completed a three months' course there, for which he had received nine college credits. He had never received a degree from Dartmouth as he was lacking one credit. With these additional nine, Pudge Neidlinger advised him he would recommend to the Trustees that he be given a degree, and added that as far as he knew, Clarke is the only_ Dartmouth man to get a degree from service credits given in both wars.
In the New York Times of March 30, the list of naval promotions included one for Paul Halloran from captain to commodore. Captain Byron Long, recently in New York City, has been in service for over two years and served in both the Pacific and European Areas. The Dartmouth Club of New York bridge team defeated Cornell for a League title this spring. Chet DeMond with Ed Redman 'O6, Joe Kinney '10, and Mac Rollins '11, was given credit for winning the title. The War Diploma or Certificate of Merit has found much favor with many of our class. If you qualify, please write Dean L. K. Neidlinger, sending him your name as it should appear on the certificate. Wallace J. Baker and his wife spent a few days in Hanover in March. Owen, "Shorty," Lyon, vice president of Fones Brothers Hardware Cos., of Little Rock, writes that all goes well in that spot in Arkansas and sends regards to Red Colwell. News notes are always welcome. We acknowledge word from Jack Clark, Max Norton, Rock Hayes, Ray Legg, Batch, Spider, Clarke Ingraham, Freddy Balch and Don Studholme. On March 27, Don Luey died, following a long illness, at* his home, 37 Highland St., Holden, Mass. Don was a Psi U at Dartmouth who entered the Naval Reserve as an ensign in Radio Service in April 1917. Following his release from active duty, he_ returned to his home in Worcester, where he married Christine Stoddard. His wife and three children, Barbara, 22, Robert 19, and Maria, 17, survive him. Don had his own radio business in Holden.
From The Dartmouth of September 23, 1915, appears this headline: "Dartmouth commences 147 th College Year." President Nichols, in his address marking the formal opening of the College, welcomed the class of 1919 into the Dartmouth household and said:
You will soon discover that the spirit of equality and brotherhood is a characteristic of Dartmouth men. They think and act together. I do not mean that they think alike, nor do they act alike. No democracy which crushes individuality is worthy of the name. What I do mean is that Dartmouth men can and do concentrate thought and action upon a common purpose wherever their college is concerned.
And 34 years ago today from May 11, 1916, The Dartmouth, we find, "Freshmen defeat Andover."
Andover, Mass., May 10th: The Dartmouth 1919 baseball team won a well-played game from Andover this afternoon, 5-1. Ross pitching for the Green Freshmen kept his opponents' safeties well-scattered, while he produced a double and a single himself. He was given uniformly good support, Gale and Gray starring in the field. The former accepted five chances without an error. Cannell led the offense, with three hits, scoring two runs. With bases full in the ninth, Crane of Andover flied out to Cogswell for the final out. Murphy, short stop of the Freshman team, contributed the stellar feature of the contest with a star catch of a hot liner in the eighth.
Please tell the secretary if you want more reminiscences from Howie Webster's Bound Collection of Dartmouths.
Secretary, 103 Aviemore Drive New Rochelle, New York Treasurer, Hanover, New Hampshire
