1916
Robert Peter Brundage '45, son of Charles Brundage '16, was killed in action on Okinawa on May 3. Pete enlisted in the Marine Corps in July 1943 and was in the Dartmouth Unit from enlistment until February 1944. He was commissioned as second lieutenant at Parris Island. The dispatch of a Marine Combat Correspondent released from Okinawa gives a clear account of the action in which Pete fell and relates the capture of "Kid's Hill, named for Platoon Leader Robert Brundage who landed on Okinawa on April 1, his twenty-first birthday, and was killed in the push up its shell-pocked, powder-burned, coral face. His platoon went on " Here in Hanover our memory of Pete will go on too, for his cheer, his courage, and his ultimate loyalty were and will remain an inspiration. The class of 1916 wishes to extend its inadequate but sincere sympathy to Pete's parents.
Of the many sixteeners in service there is available at this time recent news of only two. Major General W. Stewart Paul is now to be reached at G-i Div., SHAEF, APO 757, C/o PM, N. Y. C. Colonel John L. Ames is in Wiesbaden (G-i Section, Hq. 12th Army Gp, APO 655, C/o PM, N. Y. C.) I have also received indirect word that Jim Colton is on Okinawa, and that Sterling Wilson is still at Punta Arenas, Chile; both of them ale in the Navy. The acting secretary would like to compile for his own interest a list of sixteeners and their children now in service and would do so upon request from 1916. Does he hear any expression of opinion upon this matter? What do you think, if that is the correct term?
Once again, what does 1916 think (if you will again pardon the inaccuracy of the word) about more extensive Class Notes? Perhaps one should know the answers to such questions, but one doesn't, does one? Not this one, anyway. At all events I could easily fill this issue with nothing but items about recent appointments of sixteeners to positions of distinction and honor in various spheres. Just for instance—Ed Riley has been elected president of the General Alumni Association. Dick Parkhurst now serves as chairman of the executive committee of the same enterprise, a post which makes him ex officio member of the Alumni Council. Ros Magill has been chosen as one of the three Councilors from District Two on the Alumni Council. Charles Campbell has been appointed by Governor Dewey to a three-member personnel council "to promote uniformity of personnel procedure for state employees." Whit McCoy, professor of law at the University of Alabama, has been appointed by the president of. George Washington University to serve as visiting professor of law at the latter institution; Whit serves on the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools. Burt Lowe has been elected vice president of the Reinhold Publishing Corporation; he alSo serves as treasurer. Charlie Everett, director of merchandising of the Cotton Textile Institute Inc., was selected recently to address the Chicago Textile Club on the critical subject of the present and postwar position of cotton. Raymond Lawrence, economic analyst, Division of Economics and Statistics, United States Maritime Commission, is the author of a recently printed study dealing with the vexing problem of postwar aviation insurance and reinsurance. Raymond's technical competence is simply overwhelming, and no wonder, for he has been manager of the claims department, state agent, and vice president of the Hull Insurance Agency; assistant manager of the insurance division of the Electric Bond and Share Company, and manager, of the in- surance division of the American and Foreign Power Company; member of committees of the Bureau of Old Age Benefits, Social Se- curity Board, etc., etc. He entered the United States Maritime Commission in 1940.
Gran Fuller writes from Washington (Smaller War Plants Corporation) that he has met with Dick Parkhurst (Interamerican Administration), Carl Eskeline (engaged in a special governmental enterprise involving such things as China), Jess Fenno (Civil Aeronautics Board), and Leigh Rogers (Bell Aircraft Company). They had a good time, Gran says, but missed seeing Fletch Andrews (Adjutant General's Office) and Anson Bates (Maritime Commission) who were unable to attend. Gran insists that Eskie and Leigh spoke Chinese and Russian volubly and with gestures and this might, I suppose, be true. Gran has also met Jack Little (Overseas Dept. Washington News Bureau, OWI) who is busy and happy.
Another stirring thing about 1916, as you may have observed, is its children. Gran Fuller writes of his oldest boy, Granville, who is with the Army Air Corps at Big Spring, Texas, and was recently married to Miss Gwen Tidmore of Chillicothe. Gran's second son Howard is an honor student at Exeter and the youngest, Peter, has just entered Exeter. Richard McFalls, son of Ruby, was graduated from Kimball Union this year and is in the Navy at Great Lakes. He was valedictorian, played football, basketball, and lacrosse, edited the school paper, and served on the student governing board. He won the faculty cup, as well as prizes for English composition and outstanding scholarship combined With other activities. He will enter Dartmouth after the war. Jim Coffin is a grandfather. Leslie Ann Coffin was born to Jim's son and his wife at Olathe, Kansas, where the baby's father is flying for Naval Air Transport.
Changes of address: William Biel, 30 Broad St., New York, N. Y.; Arthur J. Conley, 154 A Hicks St., Brooklyn 2, N. Y.; Dr. Phillips N. Davis, Shadow Lake, Glover, Vt.; Edward T. Doyle, 503 New York Blvd., Sea Girt, N. J.; Charles F. Durgin, First National Bank of Boston, Havana, Cuba; Glenn C. Gould, West Acton, Mass.; Clifford A. Herold, 263 Charles Ave., S. E., Grand Rapids, Mich.; Lt. Russell B. Perkins, 3394 Glenrose Ave., Altadena, Cal.
Secretary, 4000 Cathedral Aye., N.W. Washington 16, D. C. Acting Secretary, 3 Downing Rd., Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 34 White Oak Road Wellesley Hills, Mass.
