1915
Enthusiastic letters are still coming in about our postponed 30th Reunion. Evidently everyone had a grand time and augurs well for 1950. The Reunion Committee should take a bow.
Dick Wyman, our Framingham C. of C. President, went up to his summer home in Maine for a few weeks to recuperate, before resuming work. Gib Campbell went up into Maine, also, but Gib didn't state whether or not it was for the same reason. His son, Gilbert Ill, has recovered from a broken leg and entered Dartmouth this fall. Johnny Johnson, the Squire of Orleans, sends word that he played host several times this summer to 1915 men. Among those listed in his guest book were Dud Rogers, Rothery, Ray King, Thornt Pray, Jack Bowler, and Mai Mac Donald. Russ Chase has a boy entering Dartmouth this fall, and gives him plenty of excuses to take frequent business trips to Hanover, especially during the football season. Red Stevens and wife are on a business trip to South America, but plan to be back in October to attend the Harvard game in Hanover. Back in August, Charlie Comisky entertained Jiggs Donahue, Jim Killeen, and Pete Cannon at the Union League Club. No reports have come back what took place but as can be imagined it was a protracted lunch!
Pete Cannon did not make his Reunion as his son Robert returned from Japan, July 12. Bob is now out of service and will resume his studies at Notre Dame. Kel Rose and family spent three weeks in August at Lake George. Kel has a new grandson now. His other daughter, Peggy, was reported as married in September. Duze Lounsberry has a boy at Kimball Union Academy this fall and is looking forward to the time when he enters Dartmouth. Howie Fuller is now manager of the U. S. Veterans Administration, located at Ellicott Square, Buffalo, N. Y. Bud Doe, our gentleman farmer, has been so busy picking apples and dodging frosts, that he scarcely had time to write and say Hallo since the Reunion.
Among the guests registered at the Hanover Inn last month were the Chan Fosters, and Leo Burt and family. Ray King, the eminent barrister from Springfield, is passing; around cigars on the birth of his first grandson. I understand he has had to have his vest let out a full two inches. Russ Livermore spent the summer at Westhampton Beach, where he says he is using his veteran's priority to build a house. Hope he has better luck than I had in the last four years since my own cottage burnt to the ground. In September he attended the Saratoga Republican Convention as Chairman of a Veteran's Committee in behalf of the candidacy of General Donovan for the State nomination. Also among the summer colony at Westhampton Beach was another classmate, Ralph Brown.
On September 15, Charlie Griffith took off for the Philippines on a business trip for his firm, Silver-Burdett Co., to study conditions in the field of future education there. He expects to be gone about two months and plans to fly all the way via Honolulu, Johnston Island, Kwajalein and Guam. This ought to be a very interesting trip and we hope Charlie will send us some bits for this column. This is an opportune time to call the attention of the class to the magnificent job Charlie turned in on the Class Memorial Fund this year. Our total to date is well over $15,000 and gives us 6th place in the standing of the 28 classes contributing. Charlie deserves a Wah-Hoo-Wah from the class. Chan Harwood has recently severed his connection with the Russell Mfg. Co. of Middletown, Conn., due to administration and ownership changes. Casey Jones, the Down East Band Leader, has composed a new Dartmouth Song and has forwarded the orchestration for the same to the proper authorities in Hanover. We hope that it proves popular with the student body and look forward to hearing it played at some of the football games this fall On Labor Day, Casey joined the ever widening circle of proud grandfathers. Bill Lyman is now located in Greenwich, N. Y., where he specializes in beekeeping, producing and packing 25 to 30- tons of fine honey each season. Now all of you 1915 wives know where to turn to beat the present sugar shortage. Had a bright and chatty letter from Stick Parnell, the Sage of Pittsfield, N. H. Evidently he thought I needed cheering up from this editorial job, for he sent me a couple of stories that I know you all would enjoy, but censorship forbids their publishing here. Reading between the lines I gather that Cloughie gets around. "Mac" McCarthy is moving the middle of September from Everett, Wash., where he has been Chief Engineer for the Soundview Pulp Cos., to Tacoma, Wash., to accept a similar position with the St. Regis Kraft Co. He has made quite a name for himself in this chosen field. Stu Hill is in the Business Office at the University of Colorado. His daughter Nancy is beginning her freshmam year there. Until Mr. Chrysler relents and lets him have a car, he finds it difficult to contact many Fifteeners, but he has had two visits from George Ingalls this summer, which gave them both an excuse to sit up long hours talking about the old College. He also had a phone call from Freddy Frederickson and hopes to entertain him in Boulder before very long. Lowry Lytle has been in the oil production business for some years in Texas, but about three years ago moved to Los Angeles where he now makes his permanent home. Outside of a growing hair shortage and trying to improve his golf game, which he plays at about three times weekly, he claims he hasn't a care in the world. I wonder if his secret recipe is that California dew that all the natives there only whisper about.
With the summer season over we turned our thoughts to football and on September 28 many of us were present in Worcester to see the BIG GREEN triumph over Holy Cross 3-0. Quite a delegation of Fifteeners turned out including Bill Huntress, George Simpson, Chan Foster, Ray Russell, Ernie Boyd, Sid Bull, Bobby Bigelow, your secretary, and their respective wives, together with Eben Clough, Jack Mason, Kike Richardson, Nut Norwood, and Margaret Priddy and her two sons. Most of them returned to my house after the game where we had a grand opportunity to let down our hair and talk Dartmouth to our heart's content. Later in the evening we received the sad news that Jiggs Donahue's wife, Lisette, had died in Paris. Warned in time and still hoping desperately for a miracle. Jiggs had flown back to Paris and was at his wife's bedside when she passed away. The deep love and affection that bound Jiggs and Lisette together will make her passing doubly poignant and all of us. I'm sure, extend our deepest sympathy to Jiggs in his great loss. Another absentee at the Holy Cross game was String Downing, whose wife was suffering from bursitis at the time. Still buoyed up by our initial victory, some of us wended our way to Hanover on the following Saturday to see Dartmouth triumph over Syracuse in a thrilling and high scoring game. Among those glimpsed as joining the regular Hanoverians were Jack Mason, Eben Clough, Russ Chase, Ray King, Lalferty, Kike Richardson, Fred Child and wife, and your secretary with Doris. Fred Child couldn't make the Reunion because of interlocking vacations, but he and Katherine spent three weeks the end of July at Lake Fairlee, Vt. Over in Roy Porter's office I was surprised to run into Roy Johnson of Jacksonville, Fla., whom I haven't seen in years. We had quite a time reminiscing about the old days when we used to sneak out of Hanover to play basketball in the neighboring towns and, when the home team lost, had to catch the first freight south. George Martin should recall those days. Saturday night, Jack Mason, Eb. Clough, Doris and yours truly, drove down through fog to Hartland, Vt., to spend an hour or so with Lee Graham. Lee has just finished up a six weeks' stay in the Vet's Hospital, but looks, and says he feels, quite chipper. Jack declined his invitation to trudge all over the hills in search of five deer that he had spotted, so Cloughie has planned to have Jack sit on a rock in a field while Lee coaxes the deer up to be shot. Anyway it was good to see Lee and I hope we cheered him up, too. Red Parrott's son, Norman Jr., entered the freshman class at the University of Maine, Orono, Me., this fall. Al Cleveland landed September 9 at Bar Harbor where he was entertained by Deac Westcotts '14, who, he said, made a perfect host. Al expects to take in the Columbia game in Hanover, September 26.
Among those things which make us proud to be Fifteeners and brings added luster to the Dartmouth family is the following which has recently come into my possession, and undoubtedly deserves publishing in our column.
Citation for Medal of Freedom
ROBERT FROTHINGHAM, American Civilian, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the government of the United States in Italy from 15 December 1943 to 15 September 1945. As Civilian Oil Advisor on the staff of Petroleum Section, Allied Force Headquarters, Mr. Frothingham was of invaluable aid to the Allied war effort, through his intimate knowledge of Italian petroleum activities and his freat store of technical knowledge. As lubricating Oil expert for military and civil petroleum products in Italy, his technical knowledge in this field, proved of immeasurable aid in the proper utilization of lubricants. His knowledge of available refineries and Italian refining practices helped overcome many difficulties that would have delayed military activities. Mr. Frothingham was instrumental in the establishing and development of the Italian governmental agency, Comitato Italiano Petroli, which was the sole agency for the distribution of petroleum products for the civilian economy. His infinite patience, understanding and outstanding technical ability demonstrated in this work was of great aid in reconstructing and integrating civilian oil agencies, and demoralized ineffectual organization intan efficient working whole that was of commanding importance to the Allied war effort. His studied advice was invaluable in negotiations with the Italian government and in Petroleum Section's councils.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS:—WiIIiam E. Lyman, Greenwich, N. Y.
CLASS OF 1915 OFFICERS sit for a group picture. Back row, left to right. Perry Stevens, Gilbert Camp- bell, William Huntress, Chandler Foster and John Mason. Front row, Russell Liyermore, Sidney Crawford, Stanley Lewellyn, George Simpson, Carl Gish and Harold Turner.
Secretary, 11 Paul Revere Rd., Westwood Hills, Worcester 5, Mass.
Treasurer, 31 State Street, Boston, Mass.
