1916

REUNION: SIXTEEN UP

It's really approaching. Already you have received Reunion data from Chairman Dinsmoor and probably by the time this column appears in print you will have signified your intentions, good or bad; good if you are coming. Although we all realize the superiority of Sixteen over our contemporaries of 1913, 1914, and 1915,1 know it will be a real pleasure for us to see again the boys who were with us at Dartmouth. So sign up and send in that reservation if you have not already done it. I'll be seeing you!

IN THE NEWS

We learn from the newspapers that Dr. Karl E. Shedd, for eleven years associated with Mary Baldwin College, has accepted an invitation to join the Romance Language Department at the University of Georgia, where, among other things, he will assist in the expansion of the Spanish Department. Mrs. Shedd will accompany him. His son, Corporal Donald Shedd, is stationed at Camp Lee, and his daughter is dietitian at a hospital in Somerville, N. J. Karl has been active in Boy Scout work and recently received the Silver Beaver award from the Stonewall Jackson Council. This is one of Scouting's highest awards. In addition to his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth, Karl has a Master of Arts from Harvard and a Doctor of Philosophy from Yale.

Les Leavitt was recently the guest speaker at the Congregational Church in Beverly, Mass. Les, as most of you will recall, studied at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, and since 1921 has been connected with the American University at Beirut, for the past several years as principal of the preparatory school. Mrs. Leavitt's grandfather, Dr. Daniel Bliss, was the founder of the University.

Major General Willard S. Paul (dare we call him "Stew" any longer?) was one of the speakers at the "International Night" dinner of the Dartmouth Club of Washington.

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS

Louis Bell has written me a long and interesting letter outlining his service in the Army. He is now a lieutenant colonel, stationed at Headquarters, Western Base Section Processing Center for Regular Army Commission Applicants, A.P.O. 513, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Louis has been back on active duty for over five years, and for the past twenty-seven months has been overseas, successively in Northern Ireland, England, France, Belgium, Germany, and France again. Before going overseas, Louis was adjutant at the Armored Force Replacement Training Center and was adjutant general of the 11th Replacement Depot. He sailed on the Mauretania on January 31, 1944, landing at Liverpool. He stayed with the 11th Replacement Depot about eighteen months and during the "Bulge" his unit "engaged in what for a proper reinforcement depot were definitely extra-curricular activities." In June 1945 he became adjutant of the St. Victoret Staging Area near Marseille, and later had various jobs in the southern part of France, among them, adjutant of the Riviera Recreational Area, which, needless to say, he found a "delightful experience."

Early in January, 1946, Louis was ordered to Frankfurt, from where he moved to Paris to his present job. He saw John Ames several times in Frankfurt and reports that John (Colonel Ames) was an assistant G-i in charge of decoration and awards. Louis expects to get home soon on temporary duty; indeed, by the time this goes to print he will probably be in this country. Thereafter he plans to return to Europe, taking with him his wife and son, Louis Jr., now nearly seventeen, who at present are living in Santa Barbara. His older daughter, Marian, is a ward supervisor in the Boston Floating Hospital. She has specialized in pediatrics. Courtenay, the younger daugh- ter, is a graduate student at Western Reserve University (where your secretary endeavors to hold down his job) and hopes to acquire a Master of Arts degree in Social Science. She graduated from Boston University in 1941, and for nearly three years engaged in Girl Scout work in Baton Rouge, La.

Now, how about some of the rest of you boys sending me a letter telling me all about yourselves? If I don't hear soon, I'll have to start a series of philosophical essays in the column or dig up some jokes from the OhioMotorist.

Jim Colton sent me a good letter regretting that he cannot make Reunion. He is settled down in his old job and feels as though he had never been away, but feels, too, that he had a great experience during the war. Jim sees John McAuliffe occasionally and describes him as "the same old John." John, by the way, will be with us in July. And in case you do not know it, John has left the ranks of bachelorhood and has taken unto himself a wife. I think this was reported by my predecessor, but am including it just to make sure you have it, for when a dyed-in-the-wool bachelor like John gets married, that's news.

INTO THE PERMANENT RECORDS AGAIN

Thank heaven for this backlog! When cur rent news runs shy, I have a mine of informa tion to fall back on.

"Desperate" Desmond is in the automotive maintenance equipment and chemical manufacturing business and holds the title of Manager of the Chemicals Division. He has two daughters, aged 13 and 10, and, needless to say, no grandchildren. To a request that he send a photograph of himself he replied, "Under consideration." Apparently he is too modest, for the photograph has not put in an appearance Ray DeVoe reports that he may have a boy at Hanover soon, but that the boy may select M.I.T.

Jib Dingwall is an advertising representative with Curtis Publishing Cos. His son, whom many of us met at our Twenty-fifth Reunion, was a lieutenant in the Navy at the time of Jib's report and had seven invasion stars.

Charlie Dudley, who lives in Swampscott, Mass., is in the shoe factory service business and describes his position as "engineer, for want of a better term for it." He has a boy at M.I.T. (Gosh, this M.I.T. competition is getting keen!)

Ig Eigner is an Internal Revenue Agent and has three sons, aged 18, 16, and 11. His oldest son, Larry, was graduated from Swampscott High School and is studying at the University of Chicago, specializing in poetry. Richard is a junior in high school, active in Boy Scout work, and hopes to get to Hanover. Joseph, the youngest, is in junior high school and studies the piano. Ig ends his report by stating, "And last but not least, the madam, who is kept quite busy."

Rog Evans is assistant director for the social sciences in the Rockefeller Foundation. He has a daughter 20 years old and a son 16. Rog is one of my best correspondents and I am hoping that he will break forth soon with some news.

Horace Fishback is president of the Security National Bank in Brookings, South Dakota. He has four children, three boys and a girl.

"Freddy" Frederiksen is associate professor of history at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and has a son and daughter.

And at this point we sign off with the hope that we will see many of you in Hanover on July 12-14.

GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT, Edward C. Riley '16 (second from right) is shown at the annual New York dinner with Episcopal Bishop Benjamin M. Washburn '07 of the Newark, N. J., Diocese; President Dickey; and Nelson A. Rockefeller '30, Dartmouth Trustee. Mr. Riley, who is Vice President of General Motors, will preside over the annual business meeting of the General Association in Hanover on July 13, the weekend of his 30th Reunion.

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