1919
A letter from our class treasurer, Max, brings news of his oldest daughter's graduation this May from Mount Holyoke College. Max finds plenty to keep him busy in Hanover even though student enrollment is considerably reduced.
O. B. Lewis of Larchmont appears in the last membership roll of the New York City Dartmouth Club, whereas E. E. Martin's and W. C. Batchelder's names appear in the Club Bulletin as members of a committee of five to select special material for a new group of Associate Members, limited to five each year and a total of fifty, who have, in the committee's opinion, rendered outstanding service to Dartmouth College.
Batch received further recognition from the College when he was recently elected a member at large of the Dartmouth College Alumni Council, at the annual June meeting.
Jock Murray, listed by the Army as Lt. Col. John Milne Murray, formerly chief consultant in psychiatry in the Air Surgeons Office, was in Denver, Colo., in April assigned to direct a training program for doctors in handling treatment of Air Force returnees.
The Denver Post describes Jock as a native of Concord, N. H., and graduate of Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, who took P.G. work at the University of Vienna where he studied under Sigmund Freud, the eminent psychologist.
Jack Ross is now with the North Pacific Canners and Packers in Portland, Oregon. Alan Jones of Fort Atkinson, Wis., reports his second son, Bill, a freshman at Hanover as of July first and his oldest boy in Germany, eager to enter Dartmouth when the war ends.
Stanley Mauk and his wife were in Hanover in the middle of June, and then came to New York, where, with their two sons, they saw eight shows in six days and did a little sight-seeing on the side.
Ray Legg, Nash-Kelvinator executive of Detroit, sends a picture of our Admiral when Eddie was just a college sophomore. Strangely enough he has hardly changed an ounce or a hair in appearance since way back.
Ray and wife are at their farm, "Glen Echo" in Plymouth, Vt., for much of this summer, and would be happy to have you who read and reach Plymouth stop in.
John E. Carr of Augusta, Maine, reports all well but quiet up there. "Stuffy" announces himself a bridegroom of a mere six years, but no children, so far. Golf and bowling ofEer him recreation and exercise.
A high spot of the early July calendar came when Major George Rand, with his lovely wife, Mildred, visited Red and Lil Colwell and regaled us with many interesting stories of his Fighter Squadron Pilots and Planes in New Guinea and the Philippines. Major Richard Bong was one of George's boys and other Aces of lesser fame performed new miracles each week to bewilder and confuse the "Nips." Get George to tell you of his first formal dinner as a guest in a Filipino home, or of Leyte and what our Air force, Navy, and Army met there, and overcame, or his meeting with Charles Lindberg. Rand and Raible "R" two interesting reviewers of real war.
Phil Bird sends news of Captain Larry Eastman USNR, operating in the Pacific. In his letter to Phil, Larry writes:
I got command of this APA on her commissioning on 15 December last, and since then have been kiting around in pretty good territory—San Pedro to Seattle to Honolulu to Guam to Pearl Harbor to San Diego, and as that takes us up to a bit over a month ago I can't go on. A week ago last Sunday I attended a Dartmouth Luncheon where I met Basil O'Connor '12, and among those present were Buttenweiser '19 now an Army Medical captain. I hadn't seen him since I left for the last war in 1917. God, that seems ages ago. Do give my best to any '19ers you see.
With a deep sense of sorrow we report the death of Phil's father and his brother, Roger, within hours of one another. Few of us in '19 living near Boston or New York who did not know and enjoy knowing Roger Bird.
Captain Byron Long, whose home is at the St. Andrews Hotel, Portland, Oregon, reported recently for duty in San Francisco. He was assigned to duty in the Port's Water Division. Prior to entering his San Francisco assignment, Capt. Long was on duty at the New York Port of Embarkation and before that a tour of duty in the Southwest Pacific area.
William C. "Bill" Grant sends greetings from Ruxton, Md., and promises more specific information about the Grant family soon.
Shorty Gray is making fine progress at Saranac Lake and should soon be able to return to his business in Springfield, Mass. He reports seeing Stu Russell in Holyoke now and then and states that Holyoke is a better city for having Russell in it, doing more than his civic duty there. Shorty's mail reaches him now at 54 Park Ave., Saranac Lake, N. Y.
Fred Balch of Philadelphia collaborated with Phil Bird of Boston in organizing a new Club whose fame has spread throughout the eastern seaboard. The Philadelphia EveningBulletin of May 19 pictured Fred Balch, club treasurer, holding a bust of Hippocrates, "the most famous bald-headed man in history," while he addressed a full assembly of Members of the "Skinhead's Club of Philadelphia." The Boston Herald of May 27 did as much for Phil Bird, the club's secretary, who has asked that any '19er whose head gleams, write him at 39 West St., Boston, for a membership card. We question Fred's right to membership as he has a full head of hair.
Phil Watson, Grosse Point Park, Mich., was in New York attending board meetings of the Investment Bankers Association early in June.
From Dallas, Texas, Ken Johnson, sends interesting news:—
The War Engineers are still breathing on some military construction (lean, but still some, after the fat years of '41 and '42), and the Galveston District has tossed me up here as chief project auditor to watch over the financial pudding in the construction of additional facilities to Standard Brands' yeast plant here, all of whose product is being scooped up by the Quartermaster Corps, which is yelling for still more. So, after a couple of years of linoleum-floored rectitude in the office of the District Engineer (where I was busy untying former construction knots that the General Accounting Office, in "Washington, sniffed at by means of exception blocks on finance officer's accounts) I'm back again to my first love of the summer of '41 (and on through '42)—construction for the Army. It's the usual hurly-burly affair (eyes for eyes, and tooths for tooths) but the days go by—phit!-phit!-phit!—and the circus has come to town again!
Gene Neely is four blocks up the street and a couple of weeks ago he and I foregathered over a couple of long, tall ones and rev'd up the Dartmouth scene of approximately a score and ten years ago. Time has dealt untenderly with his topside and he's no more sylph-like than he used to be in the outfield—or on the forward line.
'S enough gossip, I guess. Regards to the gang when they next get together, and tell Batch that I appreciated his fine work as class secretary. I never did get to mention it to him so here it isbelatedly.
Spider Martin has reported success in our Alumni Fund Drive and has stated that our Class exceeded its quota by a safe margin. This may be old news to us all by now, but good news always deserves repetition.
Secretary, 103 Aviemore Drive, New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
