1927
Our slight vacation having no column to produce last month has had two happy results. First, it gave us that much more time to push a lawnmower and pull weeds. Second, it permitted a volume of news to pile up so that we are in the strange and remarkable position of having to boil it all down to get it in the column. Usually we have to do a lot of stretching.
Jerry Allis writes a fine long letter from Atlanta where he was stopping on a business trip early in May. He reports receiving a letter from Corp. Seth Besse who was then stationed at Fort Meade, Md., and reputed to be "enjoying" Army life to its fullest extent. Seth gets home to New Bedford about once a month and is looking forward to attending our Twentieth, if humanly possible. Jerry suggests as a reunion feature a return match between Fritz Auer and Seth over the rolling Hanover course to be played in moonlight with hockey sticks and keg of beer on every tee for the gallery's benefit.
Jerry also tells of a letter received from Burton Snow who is still living in Crystal Lake, Ill., and commuting to Chicago where he is with Butler Brothers. Bus reports that he has been able to maintain his youthful figure due to strenuous gardening and remodeling of his home.
Jerry modestly neglects to give much detail regarding his own wanderings but his present work must entail considerable travel, for he mentions attending Dartmouth dinners in Washington and Philadelphia last fall, Hartford in January, and he had apparently been in Atlanta a month at the time he wrote and was expecting before long to be in Pittsburgh for a bit of a reunion with the Cummings family.
Back in April the New York boys held a class dinner at the Dartmouth Club. Among those present were: Tom Hession, George Provost, Bill Cusack, Josh Davis, Jack Jones, John Greener, Ken Ballantyne, Joe Russakoff, Stuart Ensinger, Bob Stevens, Ken Murray, Warren Murray, Gene Sullivan, Dud Bonsai and Al Chabot.
Tom Gillespie was recently elected treasurer of General Baking Co. He has been assistant treasurer of that company for the past three years. Tom is also active in the Brooklyn chapter of National Association of Cost Accountants as an officer and director. Tom and his wife Dorothy are living at 297 Lenox Road, Brooklyn. Many thanks, Dorothy, we are counting on you to bring Tom back to that Twentieth in 1947.
Lt. John Rintels has for the past several months been in Germany with the Allied Military Government. An article in the ChristianScience Monitor states that he is in command of a detachment which has taken over the city of Mayen. A Chicago Tribune release by Larry Rue also tells of the interesting work and the many problems John has had to face in establishing and running the administration of the city and the surrounding country.
We are indebted to Shorty Oliver for the following: HEADQUARTERS 86TH INFANTRY DIVISION APO 450, U. S. ARMY. CITATION: Bronze Star Medal. "Major Nicholas R. Voorhis Judge Advocate General's Department, United States Army, for meritorious service in connection with military operations against the enemy in Germany from 27 March 1945 to 29 April 1945. The sound, equitable procedures instituted by Major Voorhis as Judge Advocate General of the 86th Infantry Division and the fair and impartial results he obtained are representative of democratic justice and refleet greatly to his credit. Through his devotion to duty and keen professional understanding, he has materially contributed to the successful and efficient operation of his organ- ization. Entered military service from Massachusetts."
We also have for the class archives a copy of a splendid and inspiring letter addressed to the officers and men of the 86th Division by Major General Melasky. Congratulations, Bob, and may Shorty's prediction that you will soon arrive in this country for a happy reunion with your family come true.
Shorty also informs us that he recently read in a Concord, N. H., paper that Larry Duncan who has been a member of the New Hampshire State Board of Bar Examiners was appointed on June 6 as a Judge in the New Hampshire Superior Court to fill a vacancy caused by a recent resignation.
We have just returned from attending Dartmouth Night at the Pops, where we spent a very pleasant evening with Rog and Midge Salinger and their son John. While there we also saw the Williamsons, Rankins, Heaps, Cusacks and Dr. Phil Corliss, who has been spending a vacation here in the east from his busy medical practice in Arizona.
A recent copy of the Boston Sunday Globe carried a picture of Lt. Donald Gardner USCGR under the heading "LST Skipper, Former Hub Ad Man, Directs Crew By Cartoons." The articles goes on to tell how Dinty uses comic characters to get his ideas across in running his LST, which ship, we understand, has participated in quite a few of the Pacific actions we have been reading about in the papers.
A nice note from Ed Johnson reports that he is progressing nicely at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. He has finally been allowed to move around on crutches and expects to be discharged from the hospital some time in July. Ed reports that Elmer Zimmerman lives close by the hospital and that he and his wife have been very kind to him.
We have just learned that Lt. Charlie Bartlett has been made skipper of a DE. Since his new ship is already out in the Pacific this unfortunately means no chance for a visit home before taking his new command.
Early returns on the Alumni Fund show wonderful results. Good old '37 did another grand job by going well over ten per cent above its objective for a total of approximately $7,400. Hats off to Josh Davis, George Provost, Harve Jones, Bob Stevens, Al Chabot, Bob Williamson and their many able assistants.
Secretary, 134 Vine St., Chestnut Hill 67, Mass Treasurer, Box 1412, Pittsburgh 30, Penna.
