1928
Bill Morton is our new Class Agent. He was the unanimous choice of the class officers to fill the position left vacant by the resignation of Phil Orsi, which was reported last month in these notes.
Bill has had a lot of experience to fit him for the most difficult of all class offices. He has been a willing and hard-working assistant class agent for the past eleven years. He has managed Red Cross and other drives in Syracuse.
His activities are best described by the Syracuse Post-Standard as follows, in a caption which they used under his picture some time ago: "William Gilbert Morton, dynamic treasurer of the Onondaga County Savings Bank, indomitable president of the board of trustees of the New Syracuse General Hospital, ingenious stunt chairman of the Onondaga war finance committee, editor and publisher of a monthly newsletter to Syracusans in service." We will all help you establish new records for '28, Bill.
Myles Lane, Assistant U. S. District Attorney in New York, is busy trying cases involving fraud in the sale of securities. When I dropped in to see him on a recent trip to New York he had a Securities & Exchange Commission investigator in his office helping prepare a case against some swindlers. Myles has kept up his interest in football, and this year is scouting for Pic Magazine and at the end of the season will pick an All-Ivy League team.
Jack Barry got out of the Navy's Bureau of Supplies & Accounts last June and went back with Western Electric in the Government Sales Division. Fortunately he and Anita had not sold their house in Englewood, so they had a place to live.
Many '28ers are taking an active part in the alumni affairs of the College, as evidenced by the fact that seven are listed in addition to your class officers, in the new address list of Dartmouth Alumni officers. They are:
Wendell Phillips, President of the Dartmouth Club of Houston.
Dick Walker, President, Association of the Dartmouth Alumni of The Plains. (Luncheon every Friday at Omaha Club, Omaha, Neb.)
Philo Grimes, of Tulsa, one of the three Alumni Council members from the Southwestern States.
Loren Stevens, of Phoenix, Secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Arizona.
Jack Lyman, President of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Southern California. (Luncheon every Tuesday at Savoy Hotel, 601 W. 6th St., LosAngeles.)
Irving Beebe, of Miami, Secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni" Association of Southeastern Florida.
Lawson Van Riper, of Waterbury, Coon., President of the Naugatuck Valley Dartmouth Club. (Luncheon every Tuesday at Hotel Elton.)
Major Bob Reed is stationed in Memphis with the 554th Army Air Force Dan Hatch has taken a position with Jacob Read's Sons, 1424 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Our ex-Lieutenant Colonel is now concerned with the manufacture and sale of military uniforms. Dan and Mary Alice and their two girls are living at 11 Good Shepherd Terrace, Rosemont, Pa.
Merl Barns is now living at 1800 Piedmont St., Atlanta, Ga.
Before being commissioned in the Army, Merl was an attorney in Fort Wayne, Ind., and assistant Republican county chairman. His last Army assignment was in Atlanta, and he liked the climate and the people so well he decided to stay, even if his vote won't help the Republicans.
Pete Bennett is assistant manager of the N. J. Bell Telephone Co. office in East Orange, and glad to be home after 40 months in the Army's Chemical Warfare Service Ed Collins is teaching in the high school at Boonville, N. Y..... Scott Elliott is associate professor of English at Newberry College, Newberry, S. C.
Carl Lundgren writes:
In reply to your note, I have nothing to add to my service record except that I was in that screwy outfit called the U. S. Maritime Service and that I served as aide to the Superintendent at the Ft. Trumbull Officer Training School. I have been practicing law for about a year now in Ansonia, Conn. In February Governor Baldwin appointed me as Unemployment Compensation Commissioner for the 5th Congressional District and I am also attending to that duty.
Chuck Coe, recently with a public relations firm in New York, is now with Hoard's Dairyman, Fort Atkinson, Wise Doc Downing is treasurer and assistant general manager of the Littleton Hardware Co., Littleton, N. H.
....Bob Porter, having been discharged from the Navy after prolonged service on a destroyer escort, is now with the Reconstruction Finance Corp., Portland, Oregon.
A letter to Walt McKee in Buffalo has been returned with a note that Walt has gone to Belgium, where he is one of Remington Rand's representatives. His address is c/o Remington Rand Inc., 2 rue d'Assaut, Brussels.
Walt's departure brings to seven the number of '28ers living outside the country: Bill Monaco in Germany; Si Warner at the American Embassy in China; George Bell in Hankow, China, for the Standard-Vacuum Oil Co.; Bill Mcßoberts with Pan American World Airways in Bermuda; Dana Condon with United Fruit in Havana; and Harold Pierce with Sidney Ross Co., Lima, Peru.
Ham Hankins is the only one in our class who went in tor aviation when he left Dartmouth and stayed in it continuously. His industry and ability have paid off he has been appointed operations manager of the Atlantic Division of Pan American World Airways. His picture appeared in these columns last month. Since this is really a big job, I thought you might like to know by what steps he rose to it.
After receiving his bachelor of science degree from Dartmouth, Ham went to M.I.T. and graduated from there with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering. He then joined the Navy as an ensign and won his wings at Pensacola in 1931. From July 1931 until February 1932, he served with Fleet VP-10 at Norfolk, and from February until July with the Fleet in the Canal Zone. He then returned to M.I.T. and received a master of science degree.
In 1933 he joined Pan American Airways as an apprentice pilot at the Miami base, and two years later was transferred to Trinidad. In the fall of 1935 he returned to Miami as an apprentice junior engineer and the following spring was made operations technical engineer. In 1937 he was appointed operations engineer.
When Pan American Air Ferries was organized in the summer of 1941 to fly planes to countries in Europe and Asia under lend-lease agreements, Ham was made assistant operations manager of that unit. With the formation of the Africa-Orient Division of Pan American in November 1942, to do war contract work for the Air Transport Command, Ham was appointed operations manager and for the outstanding work which he accomplished he was awarded a special merit citation by the War Department. The last time I heard from Ham was during the war when he had returned from a 40, 000 mile trip over four continents. Ham is now in charge of all operations throughout the Atlantic Division currently operating to Eire, England, Belgium, Czechoslavakia, Austria, Portugal, Liberia, Belgian Congo and Bermuda and is working on projected routes through the Middle East to India.
Ham and Anne live in Huntington, L. I., with their three children, Anne, Timothy and Frank.
At the inauguration of Richard Greene as President of Wells College on November 1, Dartmouth's official representative was Carter Woods, professor of sociology at Wells.
Merrill Whittemore is back in New York and living at 26 Perry St. He has his old job with the Guaranty Trust Co. He had nearly four years in the Army, of which 32 months were spent overseas, and he saw plenty of action.
This is the second fall in the past fifteen that Art Holden has missed going pheasant hunting in South Dakota, although he and Grace had a week of perfect hunting there in January of this year while Art was on terminal leave from the Navy. From South Dakota they went salmon fishing in Puget Sound, visited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, then to Phoenix and Tucson for a spell, then a week in New Orleans attending the races and eating in the French Quarter, and back East. In March and started house hunting, in Plymouth, Mass., finally buying a place on a bluff over the ocean, from the parents of Si Chandler '30, into which they moved November 1. Art is with the Plymouth Cordage Co.
I stopped in to see Van Curll in his office in Binghamton the other day. He is sales manager of the B. M. C. Manufacturing Co., which makes wonderful locking pliers and other tools which should be of particular interest to Hollis Carlisle, Doc Downing and others in the hardware business. Van and Dorothy and their daughters, Adelaide 6, Jessie 4, and Lucinda 1, live on a recently acquired farm near Montrose, Pa.
Bruce and Thelma have moved into their new home at 38 Alexander Ave., Nutley, N. J., and are christening it over the Princeton game weekend, with the help of Virg and Ginny McNeil, of New Haven.
Just as I was about to mail these notes to Hanover, a letter came from Herb Sensenig which is so interesting that I shall quote part of it below. Herb is an assistant professor of German at Dartmouth but has been relieved of active teaching this year to serve in the Administration Building on the Special Committee on Academic Adjustments. Herb writes:
Last night we had our first faculty meeting of the year, now held in one of the large library rooms, which makes the whole thing more informal. It lasted from 7:30 to 11:00, the longest I have ever attended, and by far the best.
John Dickey talked an hour to start off a report to the faculty on the state of the College. It was the frankest and most open declaration any of us younger (I guess I should say, somewhat ruefully, middle-aged) members had ever heard. The response of the faculty as a whole may be best illustrated by telling you that they clapped long and heartily after the talk, something new in the annals of faculty meetings, at least as far back as my experience goes.
He gave us a very frank discussion of the financial situation, and it was obvious that he, the trustees and the Alumni were really bucking for us. Reciprocally, of course, the faculty must live up to what is expected. He did not say this it is the way I feel. There was a real spirit in the meeting and I feel that Dickey clinched his position in the esteem of the faculty right then and there. Dartmouth will go places under him. Hoppy can congratulate himself on having picked him.
A year ago I wrote in this column that Herb was on a highly interesting assignment but couldn't talk about it. Herb, a major in Army intelligence, was in charge of the interrogation of Goering, Hess, and all the other big-shot Nazis who were tried recently. He questioned them every day, and lived in the same house with them. The War Department has just given Herb permission to talk about his experiences, and I have asked him to write about them for this column next month.
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THREE GENERATIONS OF BATCHELDERS give their victory smiles after Joe '26, right, and son Charles won the Massachusetts Father-Son golf tournament last summer. Joe is a real veteran of this tournament, having played in his first one in 1919 with his father, Frederick M. Batchelder, left.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer, Providence National Bank Providence, R. I.
