1942
My report this month, after a flying trip to Hanover in which incidentally there was involved a Columbia football game, is that all of you had better start planning right now for our fifth reunion on June 20, 21, and 22 next year. Believe me when I say that Chick Camp and his satellites have got things rolling in fine style and aren't missing any tricks. They've all been on hand in official capacities while other classes have reuned and they picked up all the fine points in doing so. You'll start hearing directly from the Hanover committee -ere long and the information will be a lot warmer than such as you are getting via these works.
Things is buzzin, too, in various locales, especially Boston where Ad Winship with the noble assistance of Charlie Brown and George Clark have arranged a dinner-smoker for November 15th, old news to all of you by the time you have received this. I hope to have news of it for you in January And down New York way Joe Wilder is gradually shaping up with Bill Gray and Hank Kramer helping him thus far. There should be far more to report on New York next month. Any of you on the stem who have some golden ideas might do well to get in touch with Doctor Joe.
The mail bag gets heavier this month which is nice for a change. Chick Emslie, now a production trainee with U. S. Rubber at Naugatuck, Conn., writes that between courtin trips to Philly on weekends he has picked up news of Hal Eckardt who is working for his father in New York and living in Rye, Jack Tobin who is an assistant manager in Gimbel's household department, Al Dingwall who as part of his job with a New York advertising agency sits in on Mr. Anthony, Johnny Dills who is operating in a big way out of Los Angeles, and Birdlegs Nehring who is still at Harvard Business.
Another U. S. Rubber Company trainee from Naugatuck (where I am told the nights are long and lonely) comes through in the person of Joe McCormick who just got a Master's Degree at Harvard Business School. Joe tells of seeing Bill Provost who was skipper of an LST making an exhibition tour of the East Coast. Also Ev Johnson is working at the Security Insurance Company in New Haven, Loring Jones is out of the Navy and at Harvard graduate school, and Hank Davis is with the U. S. Rubber Company, believe it or not, in New Jersey. Joe goes on to say that his latest informers report Armie Stambaugh, Pete Link, Don Meads, and George Rounds at Harvard Business School. Dick Braman, he writes, is working for the American Brass Company in Torrington, Conn., but I guess I caught that one in my catch-all last month. Joe, your letter goes on top of all those I have not answered.
A Lynn-postmarked letter from Bob Burdett, who is living in Swampscott and working in a Dartmouth-dominated department store in Salem, indicates that Blub is getting old. He and Ralph Morrison got mixed up with a bunch of tough neighborhood kids in a football game recently and came off second best. Not the trim athlete we used to know. Bob tells of a recent trip to New Haven (girl, not football game) and reports much the same information Joe (U. S. Rubber) McCormick has just given you. Otherwise it's news of Pop Charley Brown, Dick Godfrey (a Ford trouble shooter in the hinterlands), Ad Winship and the rest of that Swampscott crowd, all of whom I'm glad to say are carrying on for the class in a big way in Boston.
There were also letters from Bob Smith (New Britain) with plans for a Dartmouth '42 Yale weekend, Sid Bull (going up in the Gulf world) with plans for a Dartmouth '42 Harvard weekend and news that Charley Gibbons is studying for his Master's at MIT, Doctor LeRoy Eldredge who announces the arrival of LeRoy III in Hanover on October 18th, and Irv Kiesling who this month is Post Surgeon at the Umatilla Ordnance Depot in Oregon (a far cry from selling for Hormel in Pennsylvania such as he was doing last month.)
The news service provides that Hugo Schnabel is back at Dartmouth, that Allen N. Hooker received his Master's Degree from Tuck in September, that Tom Harriman is chief Engineer for Bell Aircraft and a helicopter expert, that Leo Caproni is back at Hanover, commuting to college from his farm in Ely, Vt., that Frank H. White and Joan Helps were married in Ridgewood, N. J. on September 29th, that Bill Bullock and Barbara Hill became engaged on October 5th, that Art Cox, now in the State Department, and Joya Bovingdon of Washington became engaged on September 28th with a November 28th wedding in the offing, and finally that Gove Wilkins, who was killed on Iwo Jima, has been awarded the Silver Star posthumously. Gove was a Captain in the Fifth Marine Division.
To pick up where I left off last month here is a lot of old news (now a month older) in a hurry: Joe Chasnoff, a buyer in Kansas City, father of Patricia Ann born June 16; Bill Scott an intern in Denver; Dick Fairman with American Locomotive Co.; Ralph Falk a Michigan grad student; Wally Farr with a Plywood concern in Bradford, Vt.; Mel Figley and Stu Finch Army Docs; Micky Finn with Imperial Pearl Syndicate, N. Y. C.; Bob Fisher in the grain business in Minneapolis; Bill Ford a Westinghouse engineer; Paul Forte a common laborer (he says), in Waban, Mass.; Jim Foster back in Hanover as a student; Bill Foster in the firebrick business in Indiana; Charley French a business school student at Penn; Walt Friend at Yale Law; Johnny Glaze in the Hooker Electro-chemical Company at Niagara Falls; Al Goldman a buyer in N. Y. C.; Dick Goss still an Army Air Force Captain; Glenn Green back at Tuck; Russ Greer an E. T. O. Veternarian; Ed Grinnell a St. Louis law student; Don Gutmann at the University of Virginia; Frank Haiston back at Dartmouth; Howie Halfman a Navy Doc; Harry Hanna with New England Bell in New Britain; Elmer Hansen back at Tuck; John Harding a law student in Washington; Harold Harlow studying for his Master's at B. U.; Jay Harris a teacher in N. Y. C.; Bill Hart with a Buffalo advertising agency; Rusty Hartranft a N. Y. C. broker; J. B. Headley with Atlantic Refining; Bob Headley back at Dartmouth; Art Henderson an Armour salesman; George Hinkley a life insurance clerk in Hartford; Hazen Hinman with the Rome N. Y. Strip Steel Co.; By Hinton a Cornell law student; Walt Hoby back at Dartmouth; Harrison Hoffman with Penn Mutual in Philly; Bill Holmes in the fuel oil and coal business in South Orange; Bill Holway a civil Engineer; Alex C. Hooker a student at Harvard; Camp Hopkins with General Motors in N. Y. C.; Bill Housel with the Federal Reserve Bank in Philly; Tow Howell a Chicago grain broker; Art Huck with a carpet company in N. Y. C.; Hans Huessy with the U. S. Public Health Service; Charley Hunt an lowa bank teller; Tom Hunter selling prefabricated houses in Stamford; and Jim Idema a Grand Rapids newspaper reporter. And finally there was Bate Ewart (whose sister married Harry Bond in Boston on November 15th), Mike deSherbinin, Jerry Tallmer, Cliff Fuller, Swifty Barnes, Tom George, Ford Coffman, football manager, and a host of others in Hanover for the Columbia game.
Although it always seems unreal in the middle of November this is my only opportunity to wish you all the best of holiday greetings. So a Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
Secretary-Chairman, 17 South Willard St., Burlington, Vt.
Treasurer, 88 Howard St., Rockland, Mass.
