1930
This column is being typed before we have had the pleasure and opportunity of reading Andy the Tapeworm's letter in the January issue, but the secretary wishes to record publicly his sincere thanks to Al Dickerson for writing the class notes for the previous issue. The motive behind our request to get Al to do the column last month was thwarted, due to a succession of circumstances, but that does not detract from the pleasure the entire class will have derived from reading another one of Al's incomparable bits of prose. Thanks are also due to our former secretary for filling out the news items in the "Thirtyteer" last December. The circumstances mentioned above delayed the receipt of that sheet until the very end of the year, but it is our pleasure to an- nounce that the Class of 1930 Memorial Fund has been increased by the sum of $575, and now totals $651.
A wire from Mrs. George Sarles reports the unwelcome news that George, a lieutenant colonel in the Marines, previously reported as missing in action in the Philippines, is definitely gone. The sympathy of the class has been extended to Mrs. Sarles and her three children, who live in Beverly Hills, Calif. Further news of George will appear in a later issue of the MAGAZINE, in the In Memoriam section.
The Class of 1930 is proud of its four members who gave their lives for their country, and will be equally proud of the sons who will go to Dartmouth as Ernest Martin Hopkins Scholars. Of the estimated total of approximately thirty sons of Alumni who will be eligible to become Hopkins Scholars, five are sons of our classmates. We sincerely hope that Gardiner Hartmann, Warren Parish Jr., Ken Kull Jr., and Dale and Alan Sarles will qualify for admission to Dartmouth and will walk the campus with many other sons of the class.
There is nothing new to include here on the plans for our July Reunion, except that a good many Thirtymen have already expressed their intentions to be on hand for the event. Good old Si Chandler is back in Boston; but with pardonable timidity hesitates to make any definite commitment about being Reunion chairman until he gets settled down in the different work in his new job with the same firm. Your executive committee will try to hold a meeting in the early spring to work out some of the plans and details for Reunion, select a nominating committee for a new set of officers, and take up any other items which may properly come before it. Suggestions for the nominating committee are definitely in order and will be most welcome.
Hank Embree, our pre-Pearl Harbor treasurer, is back in Chicago, trying gradually to get accustomed to civilian life, after an interesting four-year naval career which, incidentally, wound up at Pearl Harbor. Hank's departure from there followed Wayne Van Leer's by ten days, and on the way home he was royally entertained by Chuck and DeeDee Faye in San Francisco. Scott Vanderbeck is also back from the Pacific, living temporarily in New York's Greenwich Village, where many Thirtymen started out when they first entered business.
Brownie Brown has come to roost in Glens Falls, with the home office agency department of the Glens Falls Indemnity Co. He likes that bustling little city, particularly its proximity to some good skiing. "We had cocktails with Liz and Phil Peck in their lovely home a few weeks ago," says Brownie, adding, "Phil says he will personally escort me to Hanover next July, along with Doc Birmingham, so we are counting the days and are looking forward to a great time."
Ex-Major Merrill Hayes writes: "After five years looking after Uncle Sam's noses and throats and ears I'm back in my office in Chester, Pa., again. A daughter, Barbara Merrill, was born July 26, 1945, and the other, Margaret Ann, drowned at Annapolis, September 7. You see we have had quite an eventful year. I was separated from service October 15 and we are living at 25 Oberlin Ave., Swarthmore." Surely, the whole class sympathizes with the Hayes' in their tragic sorrow, yet rejoices that Barbara has come to bring some gladness to their hearts and home.
Bob Larkin arrived home in Dayton and got out of the Navy as of December 3. He saw the Charlie Rauchs, and had a few bridge games with them while Charlie was stationed at Wright Field. Charlie was due to get out of the Air Corps just before Christmas.
Mem King reports the birth of a daughter in May 1944, but overlooks the important details of the name and birthday. Pete Lillard has forsaken Tabor Academy and is now with the Sun Oil Co. Pete Callaway is vice-president of the Bryant Paper Co. in Kalamazoo, Mich., but he has not forsaken his beloved Time Magazine, for we understand that the paper company is one of their subsidiaries. Kathleen Latham writes that Dave was promoted to lieutenant commander as of October 1 and reached home from the Pacific December 8. Dave had been surgeon on the flat-top Boxer, and is now at the Chelsea Naval Hospital.
Bob Pratt is manager for the Southern New England Telephone Co. in Waterbury, Conn., where he lives with his family, which includes two boys, Bobby, ten and Danny, four. Henry Newell has reopened his office in Concord, N. H., where he practices architecture and engineering. He has since learned that the work he was doing at S. & W. during the war was on buildings for the Clinton Works (Manhattan Project) in Tennessee, and that the secret of the atomic bomb was so well kept that he had no idea at the time of what he was working on.
Lt. Col. Hammy South returned to the States August 10. He Writes:
Had a delightful leave of 45 days, lying on the beach with my family, sipping tall ones in the evening, and generally doing nothing but just having fun. Received orders to the Navy Dept., where I am now on duty in the Navy Annex and would be delighted to see any of the gang there any time.
Ed Holmes was a lieutenant commander at the time of his release from the Navy last November 18: "I talked with Frank Kinderman at Pearl Harbor, but did not get to see him. I was skipper of a fleet tug for several months, operating between Saipan, Kwajalein, Eniwetok and Pearl Harbor."
Roger Hildreth says:
I was delighted to meet Ad Rugg this summer up at Gray Rocks Inn in the Laurentians. Our first Reunion in fifteen years, and we recalled the '30 boys who roomed in old Reed Hal). I visited Hanover for the Cornell game and thrilled again at the bird's-eye view of the Hanover plain from Baker Tower. The real estate business has kept me very busy and prospects for the coming period look especially bright.
The Bill Fenton's Christmas card, picturing their tribe waiting for Santa Claus in front of the fireplace, was inscribed with a message on the back: "These are the little Cayugas, Douglas Bruce, born August 9, 1945, Elizabeth Carr and John William II. I enjoy your Class Notes, although I seldom contribute anything. I edit a dismal sheet, The Journal of theWashington Academy of Sciences, and know how hard it is to get copy, be it castes of Ceylon, or the sex-life of earthworms. Please call me at Smithsonian for lunch if you come to Washington."
It isn't so difficult to get the notes for this column, Bill, with so many loyal contributors to draw from, but putting them together is something else, especially when you follow a fellow like Skip, the Shoveller.
Lt. Comdr. Rusty Morrill was on terminal leave at Christmas time, staying with his family in Wellesley Hills. He planned to come down to New York shortly after New Years to tackle the job of finding living quarters, but pending said residential stabilization, his old office address would reach him. Rusty planned to go back to work with Dutton, Mast & Co. on February 1.
And last but not least, Eddie Jeremiah has resumed his hockey coaching activities in Hanover. Welcome back, everyone.
Secretary, 99 Hudson St., New York, N. Y. Treasurer, 443 Nyatt Rd., Barrington, R. I.
