1917

The 1000-Plus-Dinner o£ the New York Alumni Association was well attended by the old guard, as attested by the following list, even though two New England "Ringers" did help swell the total: Brooks, Cotton, Currier, Earle, Emerson, Holden, Koeniger, Lagay, Mudgett, Reade, Saline, Sanborn, Shea, Stout, Swett, and Towler. Karl was seated at the Speakers' Table but mingled with the boys in the cafe before proceedings started. Arch Earle sparked the meeting at the piano with his ready and facile rendition of Dartmouth songs. Sunny Sanborn saw Chan Steiger in the city earlier in the day, but Chan was tied up to the extent that he could not attend. The meeting was enthusiastically reported, and again President Dickey was warmly received.

The dinner of the Washington Association, forecasted in our last issue, was not as successful from our point of view. Will Fitch says, "I'm sorry to report that the dinner on the 16th was a wash-out as far as 1917 was concerned. The sole representative was your faithful subscriber." "Faithful" is the word for Will, and we, too, regret there is not more to report.

From address changes we learn that Lt. Comdr. Paul Soule USNR, and Lt. Cols. Hal Bidwell and Hal Ingersoll are on the inactive list, and that Capt. Tubby Tefft has retired from the service, the last as inferred in our last issue. Hal Bidwell is back in Hartford after his long service on the West Coast. Hal Ingersoll is again living in Arlington, Va., and presumably picking up where he left off when the call to service came, but there has been no direct word Col. and Mrs. Derrill deS. Trenholm of Shanghai, China, were recent visitors in Hanover. It could be that we have extended too much sympathy to Trennie for being stuck in China. Anyhow, he has not changed in that he sure does get around Other fortunate ones in being able to visit the garden spot of the universe are Hought Carr and Anne who were registered at the Inn for several days late in March Arch Earle has earned hearty congratulations from the gang in having recently been elected an assistant vice-president of the Bankers Trust Company in the personnel department Sam MacKillop reports that Nemo Streeter has been elected president of the Riverside Golf Club at Rothesay, N. 8., where he has been a member for twenty years. We were about to congratulate Nemo, but Sam says, "From my long experience with gol£ clubs I don't know whether he is to be congratulated or sympa thized with."

The picture of the month shows our able and amiable New York Rounder-Upper Tom Cotton with Ellen as they participated in some recent festivities in the largest city in the world. Tom is Director of Social Research of the New York State Association of Small Loan Companies, and a writer and speaker of parts on subjects related to his profession. He it is who beats the tom-tom when there is need for conclave among the '17 tribe in and around New York. And he it is who dispenses hospitality among '17.ers in the good old summer time at his retreat near Bear Mountain. In fact, Tom is another willing servant of the class whose example is well worth emulating, so to speak.

The Rt. Rev. Don Aldrich returned recently to preach a sermon at the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ascension in New York, and to dedicate a new library there. It was just a year since he had preached his farewell sermon on the eve of his departure for Detroit. Don plans to spend the summer at his home in Dennis, Mass., on Cape Cod. His resignation as Bishop Coadjutor of Michigan, announced last November, will be presented for action by the House of Bishops at their next meeting which takes place in Philadelphia in September.

We finally located Ray Mac Murray. And it is a great credit to us, for his office is directly across the street from our window in the La Fontaine Hotel, Huntington, Ind., and he has been there daily from 7:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M., since long before we saw the light and took up our residence in this swell little Hoosier city. Ray is detective sergeant with the Huntington Police Department and has been associated with Huntington's finest since 1934. He served with the infantry in World War I and ended up a ist Lieut. When World War II called, he offered his services and was accepted on the same basis. He served two and a half years with the Military Police, a foundation stone in the large training school in Cincinnati, and was honorably discharged last July still a Ist Lieut. So Ray is the one for whom the Hats Off Department willingly uncovers with no advancement in rank involved. He was Provost Marshall of the 737 th M.P. Battalion, and to a great extent the contact point between the military and the civilian police He it was who estimated the situation when the military was called upon in cases of strike or other civil disturbance in his district, and had his battalion ready in proper strength and properly equipped. Maybe the beach heads could have been established without him, and, again, maybe they couldn't. After leaving Hanover, Ray worked in Ohio a while and later was in the oil business in Texas. But he returned to Huntington in 1932 and has stuck by his old home town consistently ever since. His daughter is fifteen and a sophomore in Huntington High School. We recalled the names of Duhamel, Thielscher, Saladine and Emery of the freshman football team, and of others both on that famous squad and on the campus. And, as always, the intervening time made no difference. We just picked up where we left off in Hanover and went on from there. Ray is planning some expansion both in personnel and laboratory facilities in his department which will place the Huntington crime detection establishment second to none of its size in the state. And he promised to consider further, come June of next year and our Big Thirtieth. But we plan to see him again long before then.

Searles Morton became so engrossed in his task of preparing his place for spring that he sprained his ankle while sowing grass seed. He should have laid up for a few days at least, but, on the contrary, he never missed a step in the prosecution of his law business, or a day at the office. When we saw him early in April, he had just discarded his cane but was still being very moderate in his short walks. He says he is keeping busy steadily but not doing too much, which from our observation means that he is as busy as a man can be. However, he was planning to drive Kate to New York along about the first of June and to take a breather of a few days at that time. And he was hoping to look up some of the gang in New York while there.

Bob Scott says, "I was down to see Gene Towler a couple of weeks ago and added my signature to his illustrious and growing collection on the wall of his 'one-holer.' He showed me his pool with the thousand or more gold fish. Supposedly they are there for aesthetic reasons, but, frankly, I believe he is 'hedging' against the growing meat shortage." This is our first report of either of these facilities on Gene's new estate. What we need is the facts on both, and in detail, and preferably direct from Gene.

Harry Hawkes is too busy to be a good correspondent, like many of the rest of us. But Alice takes her pen in hand and gives us the low-down on the two boys. Wilson plans the summer at Lake Placid Club with a group from Trinity School, and we would not be surprised but that it is a measure of training. During the year he has made his varsity letter in football, is champion middleweight wrestler, a top broad jumper, and can score 47 to 49 out o£ a possible 50 in range shooting. Henry is taking on some real weight in preparation for growing up to his Dad's and Wilson's height. Both boys look like prime prospects for a forthcoming freshman team before long. Harry has been giving his best to his insurance business and we'll guarantee he has been successful. At least Alice says he is in the pink.

Our hearts go out to Bob and Mrs. Chase, for it was only recently that their son, Lt. Leonard, 21, was reported by the War Department as presumed to have been killed in action. Leonard was a co-pilot of a B-17 that crashed in Germany in March last year, and he has been missing in action ever since. Eight of his crew parachuted to safety, but the others, including Leonard, were never heard from. It was his first mission over Germany. He was a graduate of Phillips Exeter and was af Dartmouth when he entered the service.

It is with profound regret that we add the sad news of Ves Whiton's death on April si. The class extends its deepest sympathy to Mrs. Whiton, and to Lt. (jg) Sylvester Jr., Elizabeth and Charles.

ENJOYING THE PUNCH at the New York AlumniAssociation's "1000— Plus Dinner" are Tom andEllen Cotton '17.

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