1908
Members of the class contributed $8,083 to the Alumni Fund, which is about $1,500 more than contributed in any prior year. This is a splendid record and reflects great credit on the contributors, the names of most of whom appear regularly each year. The appreciation of the College and of each member of the class goes to Art Lewis for his continued faithful and effective leadership as class agent.
Reports continue to trickle in to the Listening Post and Conning Tower of the Class Notes Editor of the Reunion, the account of which was written for the August MAGAZINE by Art Rotch, the Sage of Milford, whose activities on the tennis court continue to interfere with his work as an editor and insurance man. The wives of the following men attended, in addition to the names of the men appearing in the August MAGAZINE: Blake, Blakely, Bartlett, Crosby, Currier and son, Fiske, Hale, Hull, Lewis, wife and daughter, O'Shea, Pease, Rotch, Safford, Stone, Tappan, and Thorpe. All correspondents give great credit to Colonel Artie Soule for the splendid job he did as chairman. All reports mention in extravagant language the very splendid and interesting talk on Alaska given by Sid Ruggles illustrated with lantern slides. One or two suggested that when Burton Holmes drops by the wayside, Sid is equipped to grab the torch. The results of our Gallup poll indicate that Honker Joyce was an easy winner in the vote as the man who was the life of the party. There were scattering votes for Wink Fiske and Mort Hull with an explanation that Wink was handicapped by his added years and increase in dignity and Mort by the fact that he came to the Reunion without his cannon.
Wink and Dorothy spent a week at Cape Cod before going on to Hanover, getting in shape for the Reunion, and they spent Sunday night with the Rotch's in Milford on their way back to Pittsburgh. They spent the month of August on the Cape and on their way down from Pittsburgh they and the O'Sheas spent a weekend at Dennis with the Art Lewis family.
We have difficulty in keeping up with the honors received by Bant Blake, A.8., M.A., M.C., and S.C.D., Dean of the Yale University School of Medicine and President of the Army Epidemiological Board (whatever that is) and consultant to the Secretary of War; who spent three months in New Guinea in the fall of '43 as director of the field commission for the study of scrub typhus. At that time the campaign there was finished, but the Japs were still dropping bombs several nights a week. For the New Guinea work, Bant was given the U.S. A. Typhus Medal and for the Army Epidemiological Board work, the top Presidential Medal for Merit. Two of Bant's sons were still in the Army at last reports. Bill is a captain in the Medical Corps and John, a lieutenant in the Air Corps. His oldest boy Gill has been working for three years on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos and is now back at Cambridge finishing up his work for a Ph.D. in physics.
Jack and Madeline Corcoran and their son John spent the month of July at the Wianno Club on Cape Cod. John, who is 15, is 6 feet, 2 inches tall, and has been winning swimming races with great regularity.
Dick Danforth is still trying to make anchors, but is having difficulty in getting materials to get into postwar production. He had dinner with Jim Norton in Los Angeles in June and saw several men in the class at the San Francisco dinner in the spring. Dick entered the 65-mile Farallones race (whatever that is) but both his jib and mainsail blew out before he reached the starting line. With the impossibility of buying sails in this country, as there is no canvas or boat rope, Dick seems to be in about as bad shape for successful sailing as he is in increasing the production of anchors.
Ellen Gay Detlefsen was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Detlefsen on May 31. 1946, thus keeping Jack in the grandfather class.
Dr. Crawford Hinman '37, one of the sons of the John Hinman's, was recently married to Eileen A. Hawley in the St. John's Cathedral, Boise, Idaho. His brother, Richard Hinman, was his best man. The new Mrs. Hinman was graduated from St. Teresea's Academy and the University of Idaho. She is a member of the Boise Junior League and at the University was a member of the Delta Gamma sorority. Crawford is a graduate of the Harvard Medical School. During the war, he served as a captain in the Army Medical Corps and he recently returned from service in Italy.
Howard Hilton Jr. was discharged from the Navy early in July and plans to re-enter Dartmouth in September.
After doing a reasonably good job for many years of keeping out of the hands of the doctors, the Class Notes Editor weakened this spring and they caught up with him. He had an operation at Rockford Memorial Hospital in May, which all in all kept him there about eight weeks. This was followed by a period of convalescence at home. The C.N.E. is now back on the job and hopes to get on a fulltime schedule before long. The Class Notes for one month were dictated from his bed at the hospital. This experience made attendance at the Reunion out of the question, of course. The class is indebted to Art Rotch for the report of the Reunion which appears in the August issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. After the C.N.E. had been in the hospital for some time, Lela fell into the hands of the doctors also, because she had been doing too much, and they put her to bed and told her to take it easy for a while. She did so and is now her former sturdy self. First Lt. Bill Jr. has returned from Frankfurt, Germany, and was discharged from the Army early in July. He sailed from Le Havre on the George Washington, which carried about fifty-six hundred men and which arrived in New York Harbor on July 4. Bill plans to enter Dartmouth in September. Mary is at home this summer after finishing her sophomore year at Smith.
Capt. Don Frothingham USNR, the ranking Navy Brass in the class, was decorated by the Queen of the Netherlands with the Commander Cross of the Order of Oranje-Nassau in the Hotel Wittebrug at the Hague on March 15, 1946, shortly before his return to this country for his discharge, in gratitude for his contribution to the liberation of the Netherlands. The Chief of Staff of the Netherlands Naval Forces, Vice-Admiral J. W. Termijtelen, presented the decoration to Capt. Frothingham in the presence of official guests, amongst whom were Vice-Admiral G. W. Stoeve RNN, Commander in Chief, Naval Forces in the Netherlands, the British Naval Attache, Capt. R. E. Jeffreys RN, the U. S. Military Attache, Col. F. M. S. Johnson USA, and the U. S. Assistant Naval Attache, Lt. Comdr. P. H. W. Jackson USNR, and representatives of the U. S. Embassy and officers of the Royal Netherlands.
Captain Don served as Naval Attache to the Allied Governments in Exile, including the Netherlands, in London prior to being appointed Deputy Head of the SHAEF Mission's Naval Component, which was activated December l, 1944. Following the cessation of hostilities, Captain Don became Deputy Head of USFET Mission to the Netherlands in which capacity he served from the 15th of July to October 1, 1945. During the period to October 1, 1945. he was Senior United States Naval Officer in The Netherlands and with the opening of the American Embassy, he became United States Naval Attache at the Hague. He has also been awarded the Legion of Merit by the U. S. Army and the U. S. Navy Commendation Ribbon by the Secretary of the Navy for his work from 1940 to 1944 during duty in Washington and South America.
Don s son, Lt. Comdr. John C. Frothingham USNS returned to the United States from Japan several months ago after his last stretch of eleven months continuous duty in the Pacific.
Life Magazine of August 5 contained an excellent panorama of the Presidential Range in the White Mountains as seen from the Mt. Washington Hotel. The caption under the picture contained a statement that "Tuckerman's Ravine could be seen in the view." This error produced the following offering which appeared in a later August issue of Life:
Our folks will think it rather mean, When they go out to ski, And find that Tuckerman's Ravine Ain't where it useter be.
God put it on the eastern side Because He thought it best, But Life has given it a ride And moved it to the west. In Paris men redraw the map, As stagehands shift a scene; But Life Should not, because of that, Shift Tuckerman's Ravine.
A. B. Rotch, Milford, N. H.
Larry Symmes, our own secretary since that hot last Wednesday in June, 1908, was elected President and also Chairman of the Executive Board of the Class Secretaries Association at its meeting at Hanover in June. Albert Chandler, president of the Dartmouth Club of Central Ohio, recently presided at the annual meeting of that club held at the Seneca Hotel, Columbus.
Undoubtedly, a good many sons of 1908 were at Hanover for class reunions held this summer and could have been found at their class headquarters in the class tents with tin cups in hands, singing loudly enough at late hours to disturb former noisy reuners, now more quiet, such as Wink Fiske and other members of the class. The only ones we have had definite reports on, however, as being in Hanover were Ed Skillin '35, Dick Treadway '36 and Artie Soule Jr. '38. Artie Jr. was chosen as a member of the 10th Reunion committee of his class to make plans for its Reunion two years hence. Artie Jr. will have to get some pointers from his capable father, chairman for 1908's recent Reunion.
Secretary, 115 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y. Class Notes Editor, 602 Forest City National Bank Bldg. Rockford, Ill. Treasurer, Taftville, Conn.
