1913
Bob Mungall is living in Santa Ana, Calif., and is head of the Essex Wire Corporation plant there. He attended the Alumni Association dinner in California with Squire Wilson and Ray Bennett and Gladstone Kellogg, who is president of the Rosemead Bank in Rosemead. Squire Wilson's daughter was at the time a Junior in the South Pasadena San Marino High School, where Ray Bennett has done so much work for the youngsters. Squire has moved with the bank to Pasadena so he now is only about a 5-minute trip from home to his Trust Department.
Jack and Louise Nelson announced on May 18 the engagement of their daughter Priscilla Alden to Robert Mason Estes, also of Manchester, N. H., recently out of the Army. He is a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard Law School and has now joined the legal staff of the General Electric Co., in Bridgeport,. Conn. She is an alumna of Northfield Seminary and graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in 1944 and is now a senior at the Yale School of Nursing in New Haven. She attended our Reunion with Jack and Louise.
Dr. Rohbins W. (Bob) Barstow, executive secretary of the commission on service of the American Committee of the World Council of Churches, has recently returned from Europe. His commission works with the Committee on Inter-Church Aid in Geneva, Switzerland, and with UNRRA.
Phil Harmon is back in Hanover finishing his course. Jean is still over in Germany with the Red Cross, where she has been opening a new club. She may be there even longer than this fall.
The day before Chip Semmes left Washington for the Reunion he was made an officer in the Order of the British Empire at a ceremony jat the British Embassy. We found it out when Nor Catherall sent a clipping from the N. Y.Sun advising that Lord Inverchapel. British Ambassador to the U. S., conferred on behalf of King George VI, a total of 74 decorations, some posthumously, on U. S. officers and enlisted men. Also on June 29, Harry's son Raphael was married to Carmel, the daughter (Of Monsieur and Madame Edwards Garcia-Benito, in Washington.
Stephen K. Perry "Gus" now lives in Walthani at 133 Colonial Ave., and son Charlie C. was married on June 22 to Ingrid Elizabeth Swanson at the Lutheran Reformed Evangelical Church in Rochester, N. Y. Young Mrs. jPerry is a graduate of a Toledo, Ohio, High •School and attended the University of Toledo 2nd Northwestern University. She is a graduate of St. Luke's Hospital and was a lieutenant in the Army Nursing Corps, with two years' service in England. She is a student at the University of Rochester, where Charles is teaching and studying in the graduate school. In September he assumes his duties as a teacher in the Caledonia, N. Y., High School. Gus' son Peter is stationed at Fort Knox, Ky.
Mr. and Mrs. Len Manley announce the marriage of their daughter Joan to Mr. Alfred Jack Mullen on June 8 in La Jolla, Calif. The young couple are living on a ranch, a real one, pear Kingman, Ariz. Joan has one more year .at the University of Arizona where they both plan to return this fall. Len and Madge regretted exceedingly missing the Reunion.
Howard Samuel, Ralph's youngest son, who got out of the Army in March, is back in Hanover and has been elected Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Dartmouth. His two older boys came back from overseas in good shape and have good jobs in New York. Ralph is now grandpa, with a grandson a little over a year old; but fan still be found at 115 Broadway.
Word comes direct from Major Tom Sullivan that he is in U. S. Gen. Hospital No. 42 in Tokyo, Japan. He was stricken suddenly in Tokyo and in June was recovering from two serious operations—"almost croaked, but still addicted to the habit of keeping on living. I prefer to get back to the good old U. S. A. to shove up daisies than stay in Japan and be shoving up rice. Every bit of spare ground is put to raising some kind of vegetables." Write him APO 1052 via San Francisco.
Illness kept General Willson away from the Reunion, although he had planned on attending, and with Edna we hope.
Henry M. "Hammy" Hamilton's son Jack expects to be returned from overseas this summer and to re-enter Dartmouth in October.
"Hammy" is planning on a trip East from Great Falls, Mont., this fall.
The following letter received from Kippy Tuck, from the American Legation in Cairo, Egypt, dated June 19, 1946 was read at the Class Dinner in Hanover:
I was glad to get your letter of June 1 and was interested in the account of your Reunion in Hanover. I wonder whether you will consider this letter as one of greeting to the members of 1913 who will meet at a Class Dinner at Hanover in July.
I have been out here as Minister since June 1944 and have found Cairo a most interesting post. It might more accurately be described as the Grand Central Station of the Near East, and nearly everybody of importance seems to come and go at inconvenient times of the night or early morning. One of the highlights of my two years was President Roosevelt's meeting of the Kings which was held in the Suez Canal in March of last year. The business arrangements for this get-together fell to me, and it was an absorbing and interesting task.
I only wish that there were some prospect of my getting back to America sometime this summer. Unfortunately, the leave granted me does not permit me to return home. However, I am looking forward to that possibility either in the fall of this year or sometime next winter when I will try to get up to Hanover, if only for a few days.
Please give my very best to all '"13ers" present at the Class Dinner and tell them that if they ever come in this direction, a warm welcome awaits them.
Charles Buffum's son, Richard A., received his A.B. at Wesleyan last June. He was one of two of the graduating class chosen to speak at the Commencement exercises and won the Rich prize for his oration. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at this Commencement. Dick was very active in extra-curricular activities and right after graduating was drafted and left for the Army.
The June 1946 issue of.Advance had an article, "New England in lowa," on the Denmark Church, whose wide doors have welcomed the community since 1864, its history and its present pastor, Albert S. Kilbourne. He and Jessie wished to attend the Reunion remembering especially our Tenth when they were honey-mooning. It was impossible for him to leave the church in July when former residents of Denmark return.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Clayton Tucker sent to Wellesley College a $1000 Bond to establish a Memorial Scholarship to bear the name of their daughter Elizabeth, who belonged to the class graduating this June.
Marion Virginia, daughter of Ralph and Mrs. Davis, was married to Mr. James Collins Atwater on August 10 in Manchester, N. H.
Clarence Meleney is senior member of the firm Meleney, Ryan & Halliday, Counsellors at Law, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. Clarence has taken into partnership as of August Ist, Malcolm Halliday '28, who left the office in 1934 to join the legal staff of the National Labor Relation Board. Halliday was Associate General Counsel of the Board when he resigned to join the new firm.
Secretary, Box 2057, Boston 6, Mass. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
