1909

Freddie Carroll has just received the top honor of all honors that have been bestowed on him since graduation. He has been made Organization Commissioner of the American Red Cross for Great Britain and Western Europe. In this position he will be in close touch with Churchill and all the other leaders of Europe. He said he was quite thrilled at first over the appointment but when he went to Washington and learned the vastness of the work and the quickly changing aspect of the needs, he was scared. He said he will need the good luck and good wishes of all to carry on. I am sure he has these good wishes from the entire class. Freddie is on a leave of absence as vice president of the National Shawmut Bank.

It is with deep regret that I have to report that Steve Holmes, son of Bob and Harriet, was killed at Iwo Jima. Steve was a lieutenant with a Marine division and had been previously wounded as reported. He made an outstanding scholastic record in his class at Dartmouth, and, as we all know, starred in football.

Jack Childs tells me his son, John, who is with the First Army, was slightly wounded and has been in the hospital but he is expected to be released within a short time.

Earl "Pug" Wiley has just been honored by the Ohio State University where he is professor in the Department of Speech. He has completed thirty years of service there. The Trustees of the University gave a dinner on January 16 for more than two hundred men and women who have been employed at the University for twenty-five years or longer. Each guest received a certificate bearing his name and number of years of service and also a pin or button indicating twenty-five years on the staff. Earl has been with them for thirty years, and A 1 Chandler, Dartmouth '08, has been with them for thirty-one years. He is professor of philosophy. Earl says the University has grown from 4500 in 1915, when he went there, to 15,000 when the war began.

Nut Root reports to me that Maz Bonter is ill. He is living on a ranch near Santa Cruz, Calif. His address is Bonny Doon, Box 55, Santa Cruz, Calif. As soon as I hear directly from Maz I will be able to give you more details regarding him.

I have just received a very newsy letter from Moffatt in India, which took three months to come through. He is planning on coming to the States in 1947 for a furlough, but because of his wife's heart condition she is coming back to the States as soon as possible. She is planning, if they can obtain permission from the State Department, to go first to Scotland and visit their daughter and then take as many of the family as possible back to the States for a real visit. The job MofEatt is doing now in trying to get missionaries out of the Far East would tax the ingenuity of a saint. It is apparently nothing to have twenty-five or fifty people drop in of an afternoon to be sheltered and fed for anywhere from a day to a month. There are no hotels available and that is what I call doing the impossible, but he seems to accomplish it.

Secretary, Wm. Filene's Sons Co. 426 Washington St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer, 16 Wall St., New York, N. Y.