1912
The annual New York Dartmouth Dinner was held April 11 at the Hotel Commodore with over a thousand in attendance to honor President Dickey in his initial appearance before the New York alumni as President o£ Dartmouth College. Eleven members of'the Class attended the dinner. This was a lifesaver for me because I was fresh out of any material for this month's column of Alumni Notes. Practically all of the following items were gathered during the course of the dinner. Members of the Class who were present included Boss Geller, who was in the city attending the Class Agents Meeting and trying to find time to attend to some business affairs in connection with his furniture manufacturing business at Owego, N. Y. He was accompanied by his son, Fred, Dartmouth '45, who was recently discharged from the United States Army on his return from service in the European Theatre. Heinie Urion was also fortunate enough to have his boy Paul, Dartmouth '38, at the dinner. He, however, sat with his own class. Paul had arrived at Heinie's home only a couple of hours before the dinner with his wife and daughter, Kathie, for a visit after his recent discharge as a Judge Advocate in the Army Air Transport Command stationed at Hickam Field, Hawaii.
The other classmates at the dinner were Unc Bellows, Doc O'Connor, Jim Steen, Lee White, Randy Burns, Irv Goss, Chief Wheeler, Alvie Garcia and Dick Remsen. Inasmuch as Wally Jones was not able to come to the dinner, Alvie Garcia and Dick Remsen left early for a visit with Wally, and to report to him on the dinner.
Chief Wheeler, Alvie Garcia and Dick Reinsert all showed up with Florida tans after their respective recent vacation sojourns in the South. Chief Wheeler had been at Clearwater Beach, Fla., since January. That is not far from Tampa, where Alvie Garcia has his cigar factory. When Alvie got down to 1 ampa he found that Chief had visited the cigar factory and against company orders had, with his well known power of persuasion, been able to buy a box of Alvie's best cigars—at the wholesale price.
Another story came from Florida involving Wally Jones and Alvie Garcia. It appears that when Wally was in Florida a year ago he purchased the hull of a boat at Sarasota for comparatively few dollars and then proceeded to fit it out with sails, engine and everything else, including the kitchen sink, so that his vessel was known as "Jones's Folly No. 1." When Alvie was in Florida this winter he found that Wally was still the owner of his prize possession but negotiated a purchase of it from Wally and in repainting it for the season's occupation put the name on the stern "Jones's Folly No. 1." Who will own and operate this good ship next season remains to be seen.
Unc Bellows's son, Larry, Dartmouth '45, re-entered college in March after his discharge from the Navy and is living in old Richardson Hall.
Irv Goss's son, Dick, Dartmouth '42, a captain in the Army Air Force was at Camp Kilmer, N. J., awaiting shipment to Germany for occupation duty with his outfit. During his absence his wife and nine-months-old son will stay at Irv's home and Irv is pretty proud in his capacity as a grandfather.
Chief Wheeler's older son, George Warren Jr., Dartmouth '45, is completing his course at Dartmouth and will graduate in August. He was with the 14th Armored Infantry Division in the European operations and was wounded at Nuremberg. Chief's younger son Leonard, who graduated from Admiral Farragut Academy, is now with the Armored Infantry, stationed at Fort Knox, Ky. Daughter Anne, who was an Army nurse, is now Night Supervisor at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City.
Manvel Whittemore has two granddaughters, one, two years old, the child of his oldest daughter, Mrs. Richard W. Mirick, whose husband was a former major in the Marine Corps now discharged and living in Worcester, Mass., and one granddaughter four months old, the child of his second daughter, Mrs. Charles D. McEvoy, whose husband is a doctor going into the Army Medical Corps. Mans third daughter is a nurse in the Army with the rank of lieutenant, now serving in Japan.
Jim Steen announced that he had just been inducted into the Masonic Lodge at Larchmont, N. Y.
Dick Remsen Jr. is at St. Alban's Hospital, Long Island, N. Y., recuperating from a knee injury suffered while he was a Naval officer in the Pacific. Bill Remsen, who served as a submarine officer in the Navy, entered Columbia University Law School in February. He is married and living in a converted garage near his parents' home in Garden City, N. Y.
According to the Hanover Inn Bulletin Board, Ken Kimball spent a couple of days in Hanover early in March.
On April 6 Doc O'Connor was elected chairman of the Board of Trustees of Tuskegee Institute to succeed Dr. William J. Schieffelin of New York who retired on his Both birthday. Doc has been serving the cause of Negro education for several years as a member of the Board of Trustees of that Institution.
Harold Mosier now is chairman of the SeaAir Committee of the National Federation of American Shipping, with headquarters in Washington, and is living at the Shoreham Hotel in that city.
From St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, a letter came from Dick Plumer the middle of March saying that he expected to be in Puerto Rico around the first of April, and asking for the address of Dutch Waterbury. He made it all right, according to a postal card from San Juan, Puerto Rico, saying that he spent some time with Dutch the first week in April at his place on the southern coast of Puerto Rico.
Rear Admiral Jimmy Boak has a new address—Hughesville, Pa., and Lt. Comdr. Ducky Drake USN has retired on inactive status.
Hug Lena Jr. '43, and a graduate of the Cornell Medical School, is now a surgical interne at the University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich., and about July 1 is due to enter a tour of duty in the Army as a first lieutenant on relief to that hospital.
Deepest and most sincere sympathy of the entire class is with Boss Geller and his family in the death of his second son, Bill, who, on March 9, died in his sleep while visiting friends of the family at Montclair, N. J. Because of his health, Bill had not been able to enter military service, but nevertheless left Dartmouth, which he entered with the class of '45, to contribute to the war effort by working in war production. He was active in the Boy Scouts and had achieved the highest rank of scouting, that of Eagle Scout with Palms. An attractive, fine boy, to those of us in the class who knew him, his death is a distinct loss, as it was to the community in which he lived and to which he had contributed so much. His brother Fred had been discharged from overseas service and had returned home in time to have three weeks with his brother before Bill's sudden death.
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