1942
The reuning season is fast approaching, especially the time when you must start planning to lay aside a few moments for the June weekend that will have us back together again on the Hanover Plain.
This month we'll do our reuning with this news, a lot of it—thank you—direct from the source. Dick Silver, now working for the Calco Chemical Division of the American Cyanamid Cos. in Bound Brook, N. J., writes that Betty Andrus of Essex Fells announced her engagement to him on the iBth of January. Dick, living at 720 Arlington Ave., Plainfield, reports seeing Bill Miller and and also tells of the engagement of Anne Lincoln of Hanover to Allen N. Hooker, which was confirmed earlier by a press notice from the Alumni Records Office.
A card from Nance and Hazen Hinman, announcing the arrival of their second son on January 23. A letter from Irv Kiesling, still at the Harrisburg, Pa., YMCA, still selling for the George A. Hormel Cos. My face is red for I've used his name and Marty Kleckner's interchangeably through about eight issues. Marty, for the record, was in the office of the Post Surgeon, Umatilla Ordnance Depot, Oregon, at the last report I had.
Dunbar Schuetz reports on the Wausau, Wisconsin, tribe. He and his brother-in-law, Ronny Westgate, both of Wausau and both of the same company, both had daughters in November: Margaret Anne Westgate on November 5 and Barbara Ann Schuetz on November 12. Dunbar says that Dan Hagge, number three of the tribe, has completed his training with the Employers Mutual Insurance Company and is now in Chicago as a safety engineer. "The Wausau delegation hopes we can make it to the 1947 Reunion."
Dick Higgins, hard at work with the Chicago contingent, reports some progress with reunion plans. The process of settling into civilian life is still an upsetting factor, Dick says, but several in the Windy City area are still hoping to make the long trip in June. Dick's old side-kick, Pete (Lowell) Peterson, sounds off from the West Coast where during the holiday season he saw Chet Jones off to the Orient as a Navy Doc. No 4.2's in L. A., Pete says, but he has se'en Ed Self in San Diego. Pete is with the Coastal Federal Savings and Loan Association.
Tom Harriman, out of Buffalo, writes that with great regret he announces an erratum"The notable and worthy Boston Herald goofed off to the extent of two echelons and twenty thousand bucks in calling me chief engineer of Bell." It must have been the Bell press-agent, Tom, cause I had a stack of clippings from all the Boston papers. Just premature, we'll say. Tom adds that brother Jack is studying law at Stanford, Reed Griffith plies back and forth between Akron and Cleveland selling General Tires, East Birkett is at Harvard Law, Bud Burgess is studying medicine at Marquette, John Wyper is with the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company in Hartford, and Hank Coleman is back around Cleveland.
From affiliate sources there is other news. John Brewster's father ('12) writes that John is with the Chance Vought Division of United Aircraft in Bridgeport, Conn., after service with the 69th Division in Germany. Ankledeep Jim Farley, whose usual newsy letters have been long coming this year due to his strenuous duties with the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, forwards a note from John Sewall who is now employed in the N.A.C.A. at Langley Field, Va. John is anxious to get in touch with Dartmouth men in the area. There is an active club in Washington, John. Try OilyQuayle. Farl also pushed along a note from an acquaintance of Bob Rodgers. I'm sorry to say that it has gone astray in the mess that is my file system, but I do recollect that Bob is now a big gun with Stars and Stripes in Europe and has his family with him over there.
And a late arrival is a Christmas letter from Bob Blood who is now teaching at William Penn College, Oskaloosa, lowa. Bob's interesting letter recounts the year's activities which included the move to lowa from Seattle and the arrival of son, Peter.
The clipping service brings news of the marriage of Bob Headley to Caroline Neef, daughter of Professor Francis J. Neef of Hanover. Bob is now doing graduate work at Penn. Further news is that of the marriage of Captain Bill Thompson and Ruth Wood of Richmond in November. (I have an idea I may have reported this previously.) Information out of White Plains, N. Y., indicates that DonGates took Mrs. Dorothy Higson Rosenheimer as his bride on February 2. Miss Elizabeth Fenn of West Hartford, Conn., became engaged to Ben Rogers on December 8. DickMagee, an Army Medic Captain, has reported to Task Force Frigid. And for the benefit of '43, Tom Mann became engaged at Christmas time to Ann Wilson of Hartsdale, N. Y.
A quick flashback at news older than the hills tells me that Bob Taylor is with Lever Brothers in Cambridge, Bill Temple is with a Denver sewer pipe company; Harry Thompson an Army Dentist, his brother Brad an Army Doc; Bill Thompson a construction engineer in California; John Tiernan back at Hanover (a June grad, now in Chicago); JackTobin with Gimbel's; Roily Tremble an AAF Contract Renegotiation Officer; Ward Tucker a cost accountant in Boston; Arnulf XJeland a law student at the University of Minnesota; Paul XJhlmann a flour miller in Kansas City; Walt Underwood the poppa of a boy on January 6, 1946; and Paul Vaitses, a securities salesman in Boston.
I've got a few lines more, but there is no telling what my mail will be like in the small month of February, so I quit here and now.
June's our time. The 20th to the 22nd our days.
Secretary-Chairman, 17 South Willard St., Burlington, Vt. Treasurer, 88 Howard St., Rockland, Mass.
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