1926
The August award of the Letter of the Month Club goes to Larry Kennison for his epistle from Greenland:
Been planning to drop you a line, now that censorship rules are relaxed a little, and I can tell you that I'm in Greenland and have been here since last summer. I've intended to send you the enclosed check, will you see that it gets to the Alumni Fund? Not much doing up here, managed to keep warm all Winter and expect Spring will arrive here soon.
I am enclosing a picture and I'm sort of proud of the beard. Took six months to grow it, then shaved it off a couple of weeks ago. I was promoted to lieutenant commander, effective October 17, and I think Frank Bailey was on the same list.
Dropped in on Frances and Ralph Upham while I was in Boston on the way up, also saw Stew Otr in one of the stores. Saw the signature of Ly. A. J. Oberlander (MC) USNR on transfer papers of one Of the men coming up from 'Boston Navy Yard and saw two films here wherein I recognized Bus Heydt—either he's not changed a bit since freshman picture fight or else Hollywood can do wonders.
Jean and the three children, are in Queens Village and I miss them rather badly—hoping to get back this summer "to see them.
Greenland has a weird beauty all its ownand if you like icebergs the year round, mountains, rock, etc., it's a great place to come to. I've had enough of it for now. I fell in our fjord last summer and was hauled out in time to keep from freezing. Done some hunting, but hit nothing.
Jean reads the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and forwards it to me, so I've been keeping posted on the fellows. I'll let you know what my next duty will be, haven't got my orders yet—hope I get something in the States for a while but expect it will be the Pacific before it's all over. Wish I could get back to Hanover and see the College in wartime, but doubt I can make it.
Speaking of Navy home comings, Carl Schipper is back from long service in the Pacific. After the relaxation of a furlough, Carl returned to Washington for a brief stay and now is in New York. Carl is billeted in the Henry Hudson Hotel on West 57th Street for an indefinite period, with his future assignment still to be announced. Those who saw him in Boston report that he's hale and hearty, despite a rigorous sojourn in the Pacific.
Phil Collins joins the list of '26ers who have been honorably dischaiged from Army service, but now he's in France serving as an American Red Cross civilian war relief worker. Prior to the war, Phil was a case supervisor for the New York State Division of Parole. Al Bishop recently received his captaincy in the Army, as did Ed Hanlon last March. Ed is still in Boston but this department is lacking news as to Al's present whereabouts.
My apologies to Ritchie and Betty Smith for the caption error in the last issue of the Mag. The lovely young lady pictured in Ritchie's arras is Deborah, not Barbara.
While on the subject of pictures and to echo Sid Hayward's plea in a recent Class Bulletin, please send in a photograph of yourself. We are anxious to have for the official college rec- ords a picture of every man in service. Much as I would like to, I can't get off a personal plea to each of you—so please consider this as such and send me a snapshot, a portrait or even a daguerreotype. While you're at it, a letter will be welcome.
Come to Wilmington, Del., and shake hands with the new mayor—Tom Herlihy. According to our bureau of vital statistics, Tom is the first to be so honored. In a recent letter to Sid Hayward, he reported as follows:
Your letter arrived during my "campaign for Mayor of the City of Wilmington, and you may be interested in knowing that I was elected by approximately a ten-thousand majority. Last Fall, Roosevelt carried the City of Wilmington for the Democrats by approximately the same majority, and at the start of the campaign, it didn't look as if the Republicans would be able to come through. But good organizational work, plus the fact that labor did not oppose me, helped me to turn in a very good majority for a municipal campaign.
On July i, Kermit Nickerson assumed the post of superintendent of the public school system of Waterville, Maine. Previously, Nick had been superintendent of the Winterport, Maine, school district and before that, princi. pal of the Winterport high school. He is living in Oakland with Mrs. Nick, Carolyn, 15, and Clement, 10.
The stork apparently has ignored my recent pessimistic remarks as to its inability to find the homes of '26ers. On May 12, David Hibbard Robinson joined his sister Lynne and brother Gibby. Gib senior reports that all are well and that he spends much of his time commuting to Washington. On May 19, Hank and Kay Merry welcomed their second son, Donald, who should be a pea green freshman when brother Robert is a junior.
The executive council and officers of the class are meeting in Hanover the weekend of August 25 for the annual business session. You will be most welcome if you can join us.
A RARE SPECIMEN of the Flora and Fauna of Greenland exhibited by Lt. Comdr. Larry Kennison '26 who has been up north for some months.
Secretary, Welsh Farms, Inc., Long Valley, N. J. Treasurer,: United Shoe Machinery Corp. 140 Federal St., Boston, Mass.
