1943

REMEMBER THE ALUMNI FUND DRIVE

Your scribe is about to take a three months' vacation after this column. The ALUMNI MAGAZINE is going back on the old system of an issue in July to tell all about reunions and class columns only for the reuning classes and then no issues in August or September. The next issue in which my column will appear then is in October.

I'm sorry I have to meet my deadline before our meeting in Hanover on the 16th to 18th of this month for the Class Officers. There will be lots of important information gathered then. With our Reunion coming up next year, I'll want to gather all the facts and figures I can so we'll have plenty to go on—this being our first real Reunion—the big Fifth!

Let's have lots of correspondence this summer in regard to several things—primarily on suggestions for a reunion chairman and his committee (present class officers being excluded so as to get new blood into the fold). We also want to get some artistic soul to make up a slogan and seal, or cartoon to put at the head of the column, starting next year. (You have seen them for other classes.) Any and all other ideas and suggestions in reference to uniforms, etc., will be greatly welcomed. I'll pass on all I get to the Reunion Chairman.

There's one other very important thing that I want to get lots of ideas on—that is a War Memorial to our war dead. As you have undoubtedly heard, one of the purposes of the Hopkins Center is to serve as a war memorial to those Dartmouth men who gave their lives in World War II. Some of the classes, most of them—are working up funds to provide some sort of tribute to their lost classmates. I am going to attend a meeting when in Hanover at which this subject will be discussed and ideas exchanged, maybe something will come from that. Before anything is done, though, I want to get the opinion of the Class. What I'll do is get suggestions and then send out a questionnaire.

Dartmouth Night at the Pops in Boston, May 21, will undoubtedly bring out lots of the clan. I attended a meeting of the New England Members of Sphinx last Friday and our class was well represented by Johnny Koslowski, Duke Dushame, "Jug" O'Connor, Stan Priddy, Ted Driscoll, and myself. Ted Driscoll is quite the married man now and says he thoroughly enjoys the life.

You fellows are taking me at my word by sending baby announcements, wedding invitations, etc. sorry I can't make all those weddings! Had baby cards from the following this month: Bill Burr has a daughter, Susan Lynn (stealing my stuff, Bill only my daughter's name is Sandra Lynn Stockwell). She was born April 12. Another Susan is Susan Arden Fuiks, born April 16 to Bob and the Mrs. Down Alabama way Dorothy Anne Armstrong put in an appearance on March 29 to Bud and Mrs.Armstrong. Thanks for the announcements, Fellows!

Recently awarded the Gerard Swope Fellowship from the General Electric Educational Fund for advanced study in industrial management, engineering, the physical sciences, and other scientific and industrial fields is William M. Jones of Cambridge, Mass. Bill will study at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Congratulations to you, Bill.

Weddings are again numerous amongst us. BillLeo of Scarsdale and Dorothy McLaughlin will be married on June 7. Tom Munn was married April 5, but I think I've already stated that in a previous column. Harriet Beach was engaged to Bill Zeitung in Summit, N. J. Bill's doing graduate work at Columbia now. Another New Jersey affair was the wedding of Brenda Lobdell to Corydon Taylor on April 19. Finally, the engagement of Frances Olson of North Adams, Mass., to Herb Gordon on March 8. The wedding is scheduled for June 28. Herb is finishing out at Tuck School, gets his M.C.S. in June, then will go back to North Adams to settle down to married life and to work with his father in the general contracting business.

Here are a few items of interest from Hanover. The following '43's were elected to Senior Societies this Spring: Sphinx Harold S. Fuller and Roily Higgins; Casque and Gauntlet Henry Garlick and Neal Tyler; Dragon John Goode, Frank Hussey and Robert Laggren. That's quite a delegation, when you consider the small number of '43's still in school. Congratulations, fellows!

The big news from Hanover in regard to our class is the election of Tom Gerber to be Editor-in-Chief of the Dartmouth! That really speaks well of '43, and especially of Tom. I wrote to Tom to congratulate him on behalf of the class and received a nice letter back from him which I will quote in part: "The paper is a madhouse, but a swell one; we are plagued by people trying to have their activities publicized, and receive criticism from all types of people. The paper this year is primarily a public service. .... The group of '43's at school now is dwindling to such an extent that some guys have started to call me "Pop" without the expected grin, and my age seems often to set me in a class by myself. Actually, though, there seems to be little differential; one of my roommates is 18, and we get along like brothers rather than father and son, as I might have intimated. I guess a sense of humor is the essential factor in getting along with another guy, or with running an outfit like this one." After being discharged from the Army, Tom worked on a weekly newspaper—sports editor, political reporter, advertising legman, associate news-editor, typographer and pressman. "Just before coming back to Dartmouth, the director of the New York State Anti-Discrimination Commission offered me the post as Assistant Director of Public Relations, but I decided to come back instead. After I get through in February, I'm either going into newspaper work, or do some writing."

George Tills on wrote a nice letter from Philadelphia announcing the birth of a son, Roger Henry on March 6. George is with the Bell Telephone Company in Philly as a Student Engineer, and enjoys it a great deal. Word from Bud Hall, out lowa way, has it that Jerry Sowers is working for the Advertising Department of Better Homes and Gardens and still backing it.

I have purposely waited for one of the big items of interest for this month's column. That is the ALUMNI FUND DRIVE! The class has been off to a good start. Good isn't enough, though, let's make it an excellent year loo% contributions! There's no reason why everyone can't send some amount along. Our class is supposed to produce quantity in numbers not quality in dollars. Put aside anything from a buck to a billion, well, I'll knock that down to fifty bucks, and send it along to: JohnKoslowski, Class Agent, 123 Cross St., Belmont, Mass. Do it right now—before you finish the column, and then come back, and I'll tell you of a really odd coincidence.

Now that you have mailed your contribution or have you? Well, if you have, I'll tell about BillWierman and "Doc" Fielding. Better still, I'll let them tell you in their own words: "This letter comes in place of the rather dinky card we get from you. If you want to know where we two Dartmouth '43's are, it's here on Truk, and let us tell you, if you ever want to give the world an enema start here. But we think the coincidence is startling enough. I was on Guam as obstetrician for Military Government care of the natives, and Bill was on Truk and then I got transferred here, too. Neither of us knew the other was here, but what a Hell of a swell reunion we had—after five years at Hanover (including Med school) that we should meet out here and be the two doctors in charge of the 18,000 natives on the Truk atoll is, we think, rather wonderful.

"Our work is very interesting, and we are probably the two of the very few young doctors in the service who are having much of a chance to see firsthand medicine in the raw, but here it is and that in itself is satisfying. The sporadic receipt of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE with your column (however self-deprecating you wish to make it) is one of the few highlights of a rather lackadaisical social life here.

"We' hope that by this letter some of our classmates may know where we are, and maybe take enough pity on us to write. Enclosed is a reasonable facsimile of two contented medics. But there just ain't no white women here—what a relief (???)."

That was really a swell letter, Doc and Bill, I'm sure you'll get lots of fan mail now. All the fellows have to do is write to you at: Lts. (j.g.) W. L. Fielding, W. E. Wierman, MC USNR, U. S. Military Govt., Unit, Navy No. 3410, Truk Island. How about it, fellows, remember how you enjoyed getting mail when you were overseas. Maybe if you write, we'll hear more from them for our column.

Out in Peleliu another "Island Paradise," Lt. (jg) Dave Hoffman, also a Doctor, is stationed at the local dispensary. Dave's wife and son are there with him, so that helps. He says, "There are about thirty Japs on the island that still haven't given up, and cause a little excitement now and then." Dave's address is N.A.F. Peleliu No. 3252, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco.

I am in receipt of a long, newsy letter from BillRemsen—at present, my Star Reporter. Bill sends news about the annual New York banquet at which fourteen of our class were present, and then tells about our own class dinner. "Those who attended either the '43 dinner or the Dartmouth Alumni dinner or both are: Emil Mosbacber (trying to learn the oil royalty business in his father's office and developing a good golf game in his many free hours), Maurice Dampier (who is to be thanked for his work in organizing the '43 party in the little time he gets free from his executive job in the textile business), Art Brown (attending Union Theological School to prepare to teach religion at some college or university), Howie Leavitt (studying for his M.A. at Columbia), John Hutchinson (working as a Yacht Broker in Greenwich, Conn.), Slats Heggie (working at the Author's League), Bud Lasser (Columbia Law School), Tom Morgan (developing a spaghetti sauce which has had amazing sales success), Herb Marx (working for the. Daily News), Norm Askey, Stan Lambuth, Jim Gilfillin, Doc Priest, Howie Geer, Bob Andree, Ted Hopper, Bruce Jones, Winger Munn, Bob Alesbury, Pete Johnson, Takanibi Mitsui, Bob Krum, Mike Diaz (in charge of passenger department of the Garcia-Diaz Line, quite a tycoon, and the same size and the same Mike), and Charles S. Feeney (considered by many as the man behind the man behind Johnny Mize's recent collection of home runs. Besides being vice president of the Giants, he's going to Fordham Law School so that he will be able to outsmart Rickey and Breadon and get some guys in the outfield at the Polo Grounds who can catch fungoes, at least).

Bill wants me to say that as the list of names and addresses that "Damp" had to work on was not complete and up-to-date, they want anyone that did not get a notice to write to "Damp" at the Dartmouth Club of New York and tell him to add your name to the mailing list. They plan to meet about every three or four months, and I'll run notices of the meeting in my column.

That about does it, for this month, fellows. Let me remind you to write to. me in regard to a Reunion chairman and committee, ideas for the Reunion, new Class Officers, our Class War Memorial and, above all, don't forget to send something along to Johnny Kos for the Alumni Fund! Let me repeat that—send something now, any amount of dough! (It rhymes).

See you in October.

FORMER CAMPUS CELEBRITIES: Two members of the Class of '43 are the only Navy medicos on the Pacific island of Truk. Left, Doc Fielding of variety show fame and Bill Wierman, football star.

Secretary, 11 Eliot St., Belmont, Mass. Treasurer, Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, N. H.