1901

Doug Vanderhoof writes he and Nancy are husy with a variety of endeavors and will rejoice when conditions again will give them the pleasure of entertaining their Dartmouth friends and acquaintances who may find the opportunity to meander through their part of the Southland.

Eliot Bishop was in Washington recently attending the funeral of his brother Robert. With Bunker's characteristic thoughtfulness he telephoned the secretary, but as Steve was in Boston attending the Five-Year Class Dinner, Beth answered for him, and she and Bunker had a long chat over the phone.

At the big Alumni Dinner held in New York City, the following 1901 men were in attendance: Joe Raphael, Harry Gimore, Carl Owen, Paul Burleigh, Warren Rugg, and Bunker Bishop. Johnnie Ward missed it by about twenty-four hours as he was in the city the very next day.

Waldo Davis was very seriously ill for a long while but now writes he has made very good recovery, and is back on his old job.

Ralph W. Hunter, lieutenant commander, United States Naval Reserve, was married to Miss Ann Harlow Wilkinson, daughter of Vice Admiral and Mrs. Theodore Stark Wilkinson, at Saint John's Church, Washington, D. C., June 23, 1945. Ralph's brother "Ted" served as his best man, while Mrs. Ted Hunter was one of the bridesmaids. It was a very impressive wedding in that old historic church, with a beautiful bride, and the white uniforms of the Navy men making a pretty picture, long to be remembered. Edgar and Edna were down from Hanover for the occasion, and Beth and Steve Stevens were in attendance at the ceremony.

Charlie Boyle has returned to New York from Worcester, and his present address is Chatsworth Gardens, Apt. 4 M, Larchmont, New York.

Steve Stevens was elected a member of the executive committee of the General Alumni Association at a meeting of the Association held in Hanover, June 9, 1945.

Warren Rugg writes that everything is going along just the same with him. Although he and Swampy Marsh live within a few miles of each other in White Plains they seldom meet. Leila was recently in Amherst, Mass., and enjoyed seeing the Hastings Lyons and the Warren Browns.

Class of 1901 boys in the Service:—John Denison, class of 1944, is flying a fighter plane in the South Pacific Steve Stevens Jr., United States Marine Corps is with the Headquarters Group at Okinawa Paul Burleigh's oldest boy is with the Infantry Division "Wildcats" in the Pacific. His youngest son is a major and stationed in Panama Paul Eckstorm writes his son has been with Gen. Patton's Army right up at the front and has seen plenty of action Boy Haskell's son Frederick, has been in the Army since 1943, serving with the Field Artillery of the 9th Army, after training in Texas, North Carolina, and in England and France Gardner Cook was also with Patton's Army and has been slightly wounded, but at last reports was still on his feet Whitney Cook has been a prisoner of the Japs for about three years, and Stuart, Harry's third son, is an executive officer on a Fleet Tanker in the South Pacific and was married to an Australian girl Eddie McMillan was greatly relieved and very happy to hear that his son, who was a German prisoner for some time, was released just before Germany caved in The two Bishop boys are both in the Pacific.

Those of the class who were at the Five-Year Class dinner in May will recall the very great pleasure Charlie Whelan enjoyed that evening. He appeared in a particularly happy mood, and we can hear him now chuckling and laughing, as he and Johnnie Ward and T. Wood compared incidents and stories of the old times in Hanover. This was the lastJ Dartmouth party Charlie attended as he was taken sick soon after and never recovered. Eddie Gibbons who came up to the dinner with him and Jim Kimball feels that Charlie made the effort to attend with the full knowledge and realization of the serious nature of the illness which caused his death so soon after, and that his appearance that night was another evidence of the high courage which was always his. Charlie will be greatly missed at all class affairs, but the memory of his happy smile and glad firm hand of fellowship will help us, as we close ranks and carry on.

Secretary and Treasurer, 3311 16th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.