1925
We're sorry the ALUMNI MAGAZINE didn't have room to print the names of ail the 118 fellows who showed up in Hanover for the Reunion. We're also sorry that we didn't have the endurance, memory or foresight to cover each of them in this column. But that gives you all a chance to write an indignant letter to the editor. And that, brother, is what we want.
From Cap Palmer '23, who's out at the Walt Disney Studio in Hollywood with Jack Reeder, we have a letter with news about three '25ers:
Jack has really been in the hot corner handling the strike situation out here, and has been doing damned well with an almost impossible situation. Every time I see him heading into another meeting with the lads the union laughingly terms its "negotiators," I thank the Lord that all I have to do is write to them.
Another '25er, Lee Jamison, had lunch with me at the lot lately. He is still in Methods Engineering. An idea he mentioned to me sounded like a honey. Except for glasses, he doesn't look a week older than when he used to decorate the porch of the old Chi Pi house in Hanover.
Buck Jones was the envy of everybody at the recent Dartmouth-Penn-Cornell picnic, because he was all packed to haul out the next day on his way to your Reunion. You probably saw him there, but if not, he's out of the service as a lieutenant commander and getting set to re-open his law practice.
Bob Cubbins writes from Ossining, N. Y.
Between _ selling Mack trucks to national accounts, trying to keep 18 acres on a "no labor" basis, being a member and engineer of the local volunteer department, trying to civic-mindedly protect the tax payer's interest by sitting on the boards of two local groups, trying to get our daughter out of Stephens College, son Bill into Cornell in 1946, Bob into Dartmouth in '47, lose weight and not grow old—I need a hobby!
According to the Boston Herald, Bill Sleigh, the learned legal light of 24 School St., Boston, is public-spiritedly helping the OPA to break up the black market automobile racket in New England. Bill has a tough job ahead as long as car buyers are willing to slip a couple of hundred bucks under the birds-eye maple.
A note from Parker Merrow, the NorthWoods Goings-On and Wild Life Editor ofthis column, reports:
Bill Sleigh just acquired a one acre in a scenic part of Marblehead and will build as soon as he can legally. Bill is wondering if his long and cold service watching nights for submarines as a member of the Temporary Coast Guard Reserve entitles him to build under the GI Bill of Rights.
Another part of the Marblehead delegation, the Lin White's, spent some time in Canada this summer, up in the Lac St. John Country.
Bill Bunting has sold his Canadian mining interests and is developing a once sleeping dry-cleaning business, which he has brought back to healthy condition. During the war Bill's mine played a vital part in national defense, producing a valuable strategic material.
An interesting Reunion scene was Frank Wallis and Larry Leavitt in a loud and furious contest to see who could extract the most edible meat from a lobster. Ended in a dead heat.
Wallis is trying to talk himself out of building a small hunting and ski lodge next year on Duncan Lake near Park Merrow.
Paul Hexter, recently discharged from the engineering division of the Air Technical Service Command, has been awarded the Army Commendation Medal for outstanding service in connection with development of anti-searchlight camouflage. Paul is vice president of the Arco Co. He supervised work on camouflage technique at Wright Field, Dayton, was sent to England and later to the Pacific theatre to supervise the painting of night bombers and training of Allied air force personnel.
Millard S. Peabody of 38 Cottage St., Hingham, Mass., has just received the Commendation tor Exceptional Civilian Service, signed by the Secretary of War, Patterson. The citation reads, "In recognition of his exceptional service to the Army service forces in developing outstanding methods of procedure for computing Quartermaster items of supply. His untiring efforts and keen judgment resulted in successfully meeting the Army's subsistence requirements in all theatres of operations." The award was made by the then quartermaster general of the Army, Lieutenant General Edmund Gregory. Mill's official status was "Chief of the Requirements Branch of the Office of Quartermaster General." He was in Washington from August 1942 to August 1945.
We are sorry to report the death of George Megathlin o£ Wollaston, Mass., on August 19. An obituary will be printed in a later issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Gran Luten is living in Los Angeles and is an accountant with the General Petroleum Corp Norman Martin was recently appointed investment analyst for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. He just got out of the service in April after four years as an officer in the finance department of the Army.
Among the 1925 guests at the Hanover Inn during this summer were: Raymond Guernsey, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Roche, Mr. and Mrs. Horton Conrad, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Stephenson, Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Werntz, Brice Disque Jr., Edward Hewitt, Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Deisroth, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald F. Gould, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Weinig and son, J. Eliot Warner, William Pugh, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Brown, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Richards, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Brace, and Ford H. Wheldon.
LT. COL. RALPH E. SHINEMAN '25 is shown as he receives congratulations from the dean after being made an honorary member of the Technical High School in Vienna, Austria. Col. Shineman is serving as Transportation Service chief of the U. S. Forces in Austria.
THANKS FROM THE CLASS OF 1926, in the form of the above testimonial, were sent to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Waggener of Dallas, Texas, for their additional gift of $7,000 to the fund which perpetuates the memory of their son, Leslie Waggener Jr. '26.
Secretary 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. Treasurer, 49 Federal St., Boston, Mass. Memorial Fund Chairman, 164 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, Ill.
