1908
Rosie Hinman's son, Howard, who was a German prisoner for nineteen months from October 1943 until released by one of Patton's armored divisions, is at home on a sixty-day furlough and is recuperating from the experiences of his long imprisonment.
Jack Hopkins, son of Art Hopkins, who was wounded in France is at home on a short leave.
Joe Donahue passed away on Saturday evening, June 2, at his home, 285 Forest Hill St., Jamaica Plain. He was stricken by a heart attack that day at his office. Badger, Corcoran, Elwell, Bill English, Everett Gleason, Harding, Jordan, Joyce, Art Lewis, McCarthy, Pease and Wyman attended the funeral. Corcoran and Lewis were honorary pall bearers. Joe received his law degree at Harvard in 1911 and had practiced his profession in Massachusetts since that time. He served in the State Legislature and as a special district attorney. He was formerly president of the Charitable Irish Society. He is survived by his widow, the former Isabelle Cairns, whom he married in 1920, and three sons, Robert Joyce in Jamaica Plain, Pfc. Douglas A. Donahue, stationed at a Marine corps base in California, and S-1/c David C. Donahue, serving in the Navy at Great Lakes, 111. Burial was in Forest Hills Cemetery. The class and College had no more loyal alumnus than Joe. He will be greatly missed by all of us.
Clinton I. Dow passed away in Manchester, in June, in which city he had lived all his life. The funeral was held at the Goodwin Funeral Home on Sunday, June 17. A delegation was present from the Dartmouth Alumni Association. Burial was in Pine Grove Cemetery.
It has just been learned that Alexander S. Shoninger passed away a year ago while on a business trip for his firm. No further details have as yet been ascertained.
The wisdom of the Alumni of the College has been shown in many ways. A recent demonstration of this is the fact that four members of 1908 are now members of the Alumni Council: Jack Everett, the utility tycoon from Augusta, Maine; Jim Norton of Los Angeles; Col. Artie Soule of Boston, and just elected for his first term, Robbie Robinson of Des Moines. Jack has been appointed chairman of the parents committee and a member of the committee on Admissions and Schools. Jim has been appointed a member of the committee on Alumni projects, Robbie that on class organization. Jack and Mrs. Jack and Artie attended the June meeting of the Council held at Hanover. They report that Hanover never looked more beautiful.
In the Saturday Evening Post of June 14 in an article on Dr. Isador Lubin, "minister to Moscow" in referring to his wife who died in 1935, it says: "Born on a plantation Mrs. Lubin picked cotton, worked her way through normal school by teaching, finally reached Teachers College, Columbia. A devotee of the newer educational methods she wrote with Prof. Harold Rugg a standard pedagogical work The Child Centered School.
Apparently the only one thoroughly able to remember just what happened at the New York Alumni dinner at the Pennsylvania in April was one member of the class who went home immediately after dinner. We finally had a report from him. Due to the efforts of Mike Stearns the class won the cup again for the highest percentage of attendance. The record was assisted by the presence of Hank O'Shea a "ringer" from Laconia and by Larry Adler who came in late and claimed he was from Cleveland. Mike had to count Larry from New York, however. Others present were Shilling, the youngest father in the class, Rosie Hinman, Harold Rugg, George Baine, Gordon Blanchard, T. I. Dunn, W. A. Griffin, W. A. Miller, Fred Munkelt, Larry Symmes and Phil Thompson, Someone faintly recalled that the delegation was indebted to Shilling for several bottles of wine of excellent quality. It is reported that Mike Stearns made the best speech of the evening when he accepted the cup for the largest class group. Mike's classmates could not decide whether the effort was extemporaneous or carefully prepared in advance. At any rate it was pleasingly delivered, intensely amusing and well received by the large audience. Sev- eral who heard him afterwards predicted that Mike would go far as an orator. Mike entertained in his room after the dinner. We have no accurate report as to whether T. I. Dunn was able to follow his usual custom of catching the last train to Rye.
Honker Joyce early in June, whether on business or to hide from the siren of Suffolk Downs, crooking a beckoning finger at him, took a trip to Haverhill. He telephoned Henry Stone and they had lunch together, at whose expense, our reporter did not specify. After lunch they adjourned to Henry's delightful, cool, spacious home and spent a lazy and enjoyable hour discussing the state of the nation and other topics. One of the highlights -of our freshman year was a trip to Haverhill the evening after the Harvard-Dartmouth football game. Sunday morning we had our first experience with a New England breakfast, which we ate with Henry's delightful father and mother. It was our first exposure to a breakfast of baked beans, fish cakes and three or four kinds of pie in addition to fruit, cereal, eggs, toast, rolls and pan- cakes.
Col. Artie Soule is still in the army as a Colonel of the General Staff Corps after three years of service. Artie's younger boy, well decorated with stars and ribbons has just returned from nearly three years overseas as a member of a tank unit which saw plenty of action. Lt. Artie Jr. who has been in the Navy for two and one-half years is the proud father of a new daughter. Artie's older daughter, married about two years ago to a lieutenant in the medical corps, has a three months old son. Prior to her marriage she was a certified occupational therapist. Artie's younger daughter who visited in Illinois last year and whose engagement was announced some time ago is to be married to a lieutenant in the Marine Corps in July and will be married by the time this appears in print. The wedding will be a military affair bringing together the groom from the Marines, the bride's two brothers from the Navy, her brother- in-law from the medical corps, the groom's father, a major in the Marines and the bride's father, a colonel in the Army. Someone figured out that this will bring together all of the Soule family for the first time since the 35th Reunion at Hanover in 1938.
"Harry" Harriman returned to the General Lyon Inn at Eastford, Conn., several weeks ago after spending the winter in Clearwater, Florida. He visited several Dartmouth men, but his happiest memories of the winter were several visits to Dr. Clayton Royce who has retired and lives at Lutz, about forty miles north of Clearwater. Clayton's place contains several hundred acres, which includes two large orange groves and a thirty-five acre private lake full of black bass. His house, surrounded by palm and banana trees sets back about one hundred feet from the lake and Harry highly recommends Clayton's estate as a place for a winter reunion of the class, assuming that Clayton and Mrs. Royce can be persuaded to issue an invitation. Clayton's three boys are in the service.
The May bulletin of the Dartmouth Secretaries Association states that the nominating committee has recommended the re-election of the present officers for the ensuing year ending June 30, 1946. Larry Symmes is vice president of the secretaries and is also a member of the executive committee. When interviewed on Wall Street by one of our New York correspondents, Symmes stated that he believed that this second term had nothing to do with the precedents created in Washington in recent years and merely reflected the fact that no meeting could be held in Hanover this year.
Our Wilmington correspondent reports that the war pressure has not let up very much on Edward Bartlett for his work for the DuPonts, although he has fewer war problems. Manpower and material shortages continue to be his principal worries.
Bill Knight Jr. who went overseas in the fall with a combat engineer outfit was sent to Infantry Officer's Candidate School at Fountainebleau, France, late in the winter. On May 10, eight days before his twentieth birthday, his class, in which he was the youngest man, graduated and were commissioned second lieutenants. He was immediately assigned to the 359 th Infantry in the 90th Infantry Division in the Third Army and he has been stationed at Amberg, Germany, for some time. He and Bob Thompson's Dick have endeavored to get in touch with each other and they have finally connected by correspondence. They hope to see each other before long and renew the acquaintance made at Hanover at the 35th Reunion in 1938.
AN AUSPICIOUS START IS GIVEN THE USS ERNEST G. SMALL as Mrs. Ernest G. Small, widow of Rear Admiral Ernest G. Small '10, expertly christens the fighting craft in the name of her husband, a veteran of World War I and of many major engagements in thei Pacific area in the present war. The vessel took to the water at Bath, Me., on June 14 with Dr. Thomas A. Small '10 representing the College.
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