1908

Howard Cowee attended the Yale-Dartmouth hockey play-off the first week of March and saw Dartmouth win the Ivy League hockey championship. Howard reports that Yale was heavier, but that Dartmouth was much faster on the ice and showed all-around superiority.

Ev Marsh answered the telephone in his office at the Equitable Life Assurance Society in Chicago (adv.) late in March. The call, however, was for another man. Ev offered to take the message and he was asked to have the other man "call Captain Frothingham at the Palmer House." Ev asked "It is not Don Frothingham by any chance?" and sure enough it was. The Captain was as much surprised as Ev was and they got together for a very enjoyable cocktail hour later in the day. Ev reports that Don looks pretty young to be wearing all the braid and ribbons with which he is decorated.

Arthur Rotch made his first trip of the year to Manhattan late in March. He counted on having Larry Symmes buy his lunch, but found that Larry was in Florida and was not expected back until about the first of April. He learned that Mike Stearns had celebrated Arthur's arrival in New York by falling down the stairs in the subway the day before, on his way to his office. Mike was ambulanced to St. Luke's Hospital where X-ray examination disclosed serious injuries to his left knee. He was later removed to Memorial Hospital in South Orange and he hoped to be out in a week or so with his leg in a cast. With characteristic ebullience and optimism, Arthur learned that Mike was figuring on getting back to his office at an early date if he could hire a room within crutching distance of Rockefeller City. Mike was also cheered by the fact that while he throws and bats and plays golf left handed, he kicks with his right. Arthur was glad to get back to New Hampshire where the snow was still in the woods and shady places and the rustic bandits were charging only six to seven dollars a gallon for maple syrup.

On March 28 at the Little Church Around the Corner in New York City, Virginia Reiter Brahm, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Lewis Reiter of Pittsburgh, Pa., became the bride of Frederic Waldo Rugg 2d, son of Mrs. Robert Billings Rugg of Newtonville and West Harwich, and the late Robert Billings Rugg. The Rev. Paul M. Rogers officiated at the simple ceremony at 6:30 o'clock which was attended only by members of the family and a few intimate friends.

The bride was given in marriage by her father and wore a pastel green wool suit with a band of mink trimming the long jacket, brown accessories, and a corsage of white orchids. Her only attendant was Mrs. Bette M. Steen of Mt. Lebanon, Pa., who was a classmate of the bride at Mt. Lebanon Academy, from which both were graduated. Edwin Bradford Holmes 2d, of Cohasset was Mr. Rugg's best man.

Mr. Rugg attended Harvard College and Wesleyan University where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, prior to serving in the Army for four years, two of which were spent in the European theater. He has resumed his studies at Harvard, from which he will be graduated in June and where he is a member of the Hasty Pudding; Institute of 1770 and the Speakers Club. Following a honeymoon spent at Daytona Beach, Fla., he and his bride are making their home at 19 Everett St., Cambridge.

Park Stickney and Ev Marsh, always faithful, attended the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Association of Chicago on March 21. Lt. Dave H. Skillin '42 of Wilmette, 111., Perc's younger son, flying officer on a B-29 Superfortress was reported missing in action on April 24, 1945, on a bombing mission to Tachikawa, Japan, about 20 miles west of Tokyo. After the expiration of twelve months, the War Department made a presumptive finding of death. The objective of the mission on which Lt. Skillin was lost was to attack and destroy by bombing a large aircraft factory north of Tachikawa, Japan. The target was known to be heavily defended both by fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft batteries.

His plane was damaged by enemy anti-aircraft fire and fighter attacks. On the return flight his crew made a forced water landing, in a fairly rough sea, about one hundred miles off the coast of Japan, southeast of Hamamatsu. The plane broke in two pieces and sank in about four minutes. Six or seven persons were seen to board a life raft by the crew of another plane on the mission who circled the area for approximately two hours. However, a low fuel supply forced the hovering aircraft to leave before rescue could be accomplished. The area was completely searched several times without avail. Three crew members who bailed out over Japan are liberated prisoners of war.

Lt. Skillin graduated from New Trier High School and attended Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass., for two years and Dartmouth for one year. He joined the National Guard in March of 1942.

He is survived by his wife, the former Lucy Ann Clunan of Nashville, Tenn., his mother, Mrs. Percy Skillin, and his brother, Edward J.Skillin '35.

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