1912
Connie Snow's appointment to the State Department is that of Assistant to the Legal Adviser. Inasmuch as the Legal Division of the State Department is in process of reorganization and expansion his duties have not been definitely assigned. At present he is handling general legal questions arising on the "political desks" of the State Department that serve continental Europe, and also attending meetings of the Far Eastern Commission. At the same time he remains a Brigadier General for the period of the emergency and six months thereafter. Connie had attractive opportunities to return to the practice of law but chose to follow the path of public service. As a career man in the State Department he will bring with him the abilities and talents that he so ably demonstrated in the War Department.
The following item appeared recently in New York newspapers:
To the unusual catches hereabouts this summer must be added the 37½ pound channel bass taken the other day by John Gately trolling in a canoe for stripers on the ocean side of Neponsit. This is the first channel bass caught around these parts in many years.
The John Gately mentioned is Charlie Gately's 21-year-old son, now a sophomore at Dartmouth. John is a veteran of 35 bombing missions over Germany in a B-24.
At its centennial exercises in September, St. Vincent College, Pittsburgh, Pa., awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws to Roy Deferrari, Secretary General of Catholic University, Washington, D. C.
Lew Perley married and settled, after graduation, in his home town, Laconia, N. H. Except for a period of war work he has lived there ever since and maintained an office as a civil engineer. He and Mrs. Perley became grandparents in April, 1946, through the birth to their daughter Lucile of a baby girl who has been named Sharon. Lucile's husband, Charles A. Simmons, is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire. During the war he served in the Pacific area as a naval officer and has recently returned to Laconia after being placed on inactive status.
During the past two or three years Billy Baxter and his family have been living in their recently purchased home at 5021 25th Road North, Arlington, Va. Shortly before the start of World War II he went to Washington as an accountant in the Signal Corps and is now with the War Assets Administration located in R.F.C. Annex No. 1, 2nd and C Streets, N.W., Washington, D. C. Billy reports that this summer was the coolest in 17 years in the District of Columbia. He and Mrs. Baxter reversed supposedly orthodox procedure and spent their summer vacation in Florida.
Queechee French makes his annual report. He is hammering out his 32nd consecutive year with Consolidated Rendering Company in various locations. Since 1941 he has been at Springfield, Mass., as Division Manager. His wife and semi-neutral mongrel pup, with Queechee, make up the French household.
Governor Ellis Arnall of Georgia has appointed Doc O'Connor as Honorary Chairman of the Roosevelt Memorial Commission in Georgia.
Al and Aldith Smith, of Elkhart, Ind., became grandparents for the third time on August 26 when a son was born to their older daughter, Mrs. Harrison Church. Her husband was an officer in the Navy during the war and is now practicing law at Elkhart, where they have their home. The younger daughter, Marjorie, was recently married to Capt. William B. Leffier of the Army Medical Corps. He has since been returned to inactive status and they are living in Boston.
During the war period Bob Belknap and his family lived in Washington where he was engaged in work of the Army. On leaving there he went back to his old organization, the Motors Holding Division of General Motors at Detroit, and in March of this year was transferred to St. Louis. He has bought a home in that city but his household has diminished to himself and Mrs. Belknap. Their older daughter married several months ago and will live in California. The younger daughter, Barbara, is still in Washington where she has a position with the Navy Department. The son, Bob, will enter the University of Missouri this fall, having been released from the Navy last June, after spending most of the period of his enlistment at Shanghai and other places in the Pacific theatre of operations.
It now looks as if practically all of the '12ers who were in the Army, Navy or war work have returned to peace time occupations.
Jim English, who is Professor of Romance Languages at Grove City College, Grove City,. Pa., had a long delayed visit at Hanover last June. His daughter Elizabeth was recently married to Allan Davison and is living at Brookfield, Ill.
Nelson Doe reported to Dick Plumer, "Expect to go tuna fishing with Dutch Waterbury next Sunday." Apparently Dutch was hack from Puerto Rico for a vacation.
Henry Viets spent a long post war vacation at his summer home in East Boothbay, Maine, where he was kept busy cutting the trees that had grown up during the war years, almost cutting off his view of Linekin Bay and the sea. In addition he finished a book on the Diagnosis of Infantile Paralysis for The National Foundation for Infantile Paralvsis.
From Newmarket, N. H., Jim Griffin reports news while it still is news:
I married again September 8. The second victim was Julia F. Murphy (nee Finucane) of Dover, N H. Details without description: A widow since !942—has a son (21) just out of the Navy (Pacific area). I took her to dances before World War I and before her marriage. We are both the same age and decided to share our loneliness, and see if we could not at least halve it. To date we are very happy and expect it to last.
Syd Clark returned from his European trip early in October. Flying back from London he landed at Gander, Newfoundland, just a few hours ahead of the Belgian plane which crashed there with a loss of 39 lives. Results of his trip will be an article on Luxemburg in the National Geographic Magazine and one on Belgium in Liberty Magazine, in addition to a new travel series book on Europe which will be published by Dodd, Mead Company. He reports, "My several-ring circus, with lots of traveling at high speed, lots of writing at the same pace and lectures in various cities, goes on unabated and I must say I love it."
After completing their 31st summer conducting Camp Wallula at New London, N. H., Bud and Barbara Hoban will again spend the winter at Mexico City where, for the fifth season, Bud will coach the National University of Mexico football team. He hopes to learn all about the baseball raids from the Pasquel brothers themselves. Bud's only compensation for his coaching job is the joy and satisfaction of working with the Mexican boys and making a real contribution to better relations with our sister republic across the border.
Jim Steen's boy, Jim Jr., was discharged from the Navy last June and is now attending Brown University where he will graduate with the class of 1947.
Henry and Mrs. Van Dyne were in New York the first week of October and Henry was host to a small reunion dinner at the Pierre Hotel, having for his guests, Rollie and Lily Linscott, Dud and Ethel Redfield, Alice Day, and Heinie and Irma Urion. The next day Henry, Nollie and Heinie got together for lunch with Jim Steen and Charlie Gately. During the summer Alice Day and jim Steen each had a visit with May Boylan in Boston.
During the summer, Hap Wanner was in New York on the occasion of his daughter's marriage. He had lunch with Rollie Linscott, Jim Steen and Carl Rollins.
Scott Rogers writes from Cleveland:
On September Ist this year I just completed 25 years in the automobile business and we are at present operating two automobile distributorships, one out of Cleveland and one out of Akron, Ohio. If we could get the cars, business should be good for a few years. As a sort of fitting climax to my 25 years, I was last year elected President of the Ohio Automobile Dealer Association. We are proud to have the largest automobile dealer association in the United States in number of actual dealer memberships. AH three of my sons came through the war in fine shape, although my oldest son is still in Germany.
John Park writes from Amherst, Va.:
Still knocking 'em down and slicing 'em up for the flooring, furniture, veneer and other concerns around here. Labor conditions still jittery but no CIO here yet. Good working climate with warm days and quite cool nights and dry since last May. Not a Dartmouth man within 100 miles so far as I can learn but there is an active Alumni Club at Richmond, whose meeting I hope to attend this fall.
Ralph Fettingell writes that Marshall Tirrell dropped in to see him. He works in the office of the Weymouth Town Treasurer and was on official business in the Dedham Court House, where Pett has his office. "It is the first time I have seen him for several years. He looks about the same, weighs only 120 which is all he ever weighed. He had a goodlooking young granddaughter with him."
Charlie Tanger writes from Lancaster, Pa.:
My son arrived home safely in July after flying the Hump over one hundred times. He was fortunate enough to be sent eastward and to come home via Seattle and so travelled around the world. He spends his time flying when not helping direct our business. My hobby is observing birds, which is shared by my wife. We take a southern trip each year to look at birds not found in Pennsylvania. We always meet other enthusiasts on our trips who are most enjoyable people. That makes the trips doubly interesting. Harold Rugg, Dartmouth Librarian, visited us recently to see Mrs. Tanger's rare ferns. He has been here several times giving us latest Dartmouth news.
You have had Henry Van Dyne's report on the progress of the Class Memorial Fund Campaign. Henry is doing an outstanding job as Chairman of the Memorial Fund Committee and deserves the unqualified support of every member of the class. Henry is certain that we will be able to make a gift to the College at our 35th Reunion next June of which we can all be proud. However, everyone must do his share. If you have not sent your gift or pledge to Henry, won't you do it now?
Acting Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
Treasurer, Box 91, Plymouth, N. H.
Memorial Fund Chairman, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
