1927
Remember how you felt the day meat rationing went off, and you were going to rush out and buy a couple of those old fashioned juicy thick T-bone steaks? And then you found they couldn't be had with or without red points and you went on with the old meat diet of tails and entrails? Then you have a rough idea of how we feel at this point. The Editors of this MAGAZINE have just informed us that the paper shortage has relaxed sufficiently so that beginning with this issue we may increase the length of our news letter about 30%. And here we sit with just exactly one letter bearing any news since the last issue went to press.
Wish this could all be postponed for a few days because we are leaving for Hanover tomorrow to attend the Alumni Council meetings and expect to see Cliff Randall and Josh Davis there. Maybe over a couple of tall ones we could pry a little news out of them.
Just phoned Rog Salinger and learned that Don McCall was in Boston yesterday, and had dinner and spent the evening with the Salingers. Don reports that the New York gang are having a dinner at the Dartmouth Club on January 15. Hope Don or some other good Samaritan will remember to jot down all the news and send it along to us.
Also learned that Ethan Hitchcock has recently purchased a house in Hingham, where he and his family are now living. Rog and Midge Salinger have also bought a new house in Waban and expect to move to it in the near future.
Josh Davis very kindly sent us a letter he recently received from Frank Coulter. Frank and his family are living in Los Angeles, and he is in charge of the West Coast offices of the traffic department of the Saint Louis-San Francisco Railway. Frank says: "You would be interested to know that Nancy, my daughter now 16, is at Marlborough School for Girls here in Los Angeles and plans to be in Wellesley College a year from next fall. She is 5 feet, 8 inches, and has, I am told, plenty to go with it. Lee is now 14; he is 5 feet, 8½ inches, 158 pounds, and just finished making his Letter on the B team in football at University High School. He has never had anything but a straight A since he has been going to school,— that should make both of us blush. He will be at Dartmouth two years from next fall. Needless to say it will be a pleasure to have them both back East so that we can get back ourselves more often."
George Friede has recently been promoted to the rank of captain in the Army and is still on overseas duty in the European Theater. His address is Det El, 1st Mil. Gov't Bn. Sep) APO 758, % Postmaster, New York City.
Dr. Dow Mills has been separated from the Navy and is now back at his medical practice in Westfield, N. J We just learned from a phone call to Bill Prescott's house that Don Gardner has landed in San Francisco and is due in New York on Friday, January 11. His good wife Kay is leaving Marblehead tomorrow to meet him in New York..... Frell Owl is now working at the Crow Creek Indian Agency, Fort Thompson, S. D.... Nelson Robinson is now living in the Elliston Apartments in Nashville, Tenn. We assume he is still working for Kroger Grocery and Baking Co.
We are doing some work this year for the Director of Admissions Office, in connection with the completion of Alumni Rating Blanks for applicants for admission to the College. We were both pleased and surprised to see one the other day for William Carlyle Cusack Jr. To the best of our knowledge he will be the first son of a '27 man to enter Dartmouth. We also learned the other day that Gus Cummings' older boy is in his first year at Exeter.
Emmy Ross is now living at 6034 Ridge Drive, Washington, D. C.
In our column last month we reported that Curt Wright is now practicing law in Champaign, Ill. We didn't know until recently, however, that last June he graduated from the Illinois University Law School with a J.D. degree and cum laude. He was admitted to the Illinois Bar last November Justin Doyle is now living at 797 Penfield Road, Rochester 10, N. Y.
We received again this year a most attractive Christmas greeting from Carl and Betty Lindenmeyt picturing their three attractive daughters, Tibby, Penny and Chips. Also a friendly note from Carl informing us that we have wrongfully given him credit in the past for their unusual and clever Christmas cards. He confesses that his wife Betty is the artistic member of the family.
Major Ed Miner is now on inactive status in the army and, we assume, is about to go back to his peacetime work in the field of education Bill Hoge has been separated from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant commander.
From the December issue of the Dartmouth Club News we learn that Don McCall is serving on the Board of Governors and is Chairman of the Membership Committee. Also that Roy Dreher is serving on that committee and that Jack McQuade has recently become a member of the club. Jack and Mrs. McQuade were in Hanover at the Inn for several days late last November. Al Wise of Hartford was also a visitor at the Inn in Hanover at approximately the same time Monty Montgomery, late of Washington, D. C., has recently arrived in Hawaii to serve in the armed forces as an American Red Cross Field director.
Wish we could' see you all in Hanover the next two days.
DARTMOUTH ON A CHINESE MAIN STREET. Capt. Jack Phelan '28 with some of his Chinese friends of the village in southwest China near which the 468th Bomb Group of which he was the Group Intelligence Officer was stationed. He briefed crews for raids on Kyushu, Manchuria, Formosa and Japheld China.
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