1912
With resumption of the "chore" of composing the monthly column of class notes comes realization that summer is overand with it disappointment, for Irma and I had planned to load up the station wagon, dogs and all, for a trip through New England, calling on classmates en route, including the Queechee Frenchs at Springfield, Mass., Eddie Luitweilers on the Cape, at al. Well, maybe this fall we will do some calling when a visit is indicated with son, Paul Urion '38, wife and grandchildren at Rochester, N. H., where a year ago he hung out his shingle for the practice of law.
Some items of interest have accumulated. One and all must remember that I am dependent upon receipt of news from each of you for I do not have the marvelous faculty of Lyme Amies that enables him to write two or three pages of his inimitable prose based on a single tangible item of news.
King Cole is connected with the engineering department of the Union Carbide & Carbon Co. at Wheeling, W. Va. While on a vacation trip to visit his father in Vermont in July, King and Mrs. Cole stopped for lunch with Henry Van Dyne at Troy, Pa., and then went on to spend a week-end with Boss andEsther Geller at Owego, N. Y.
Henry Bailey Stevens is the first recipient of the M. R. L. Freshel Award of -liooo for the best humanitarian book of the year by the Millenium Guild of New York, whose purpose is to "promote consideration of the rights of all races, human and subhuman" with particular emphasis on the unnecessary slaughter of animals. His book Recovery of Culture "throws a new and startling light on man's development and shows that soil erosion and war have come in recent times in the West where man deserted the food-bearing trees and gardens in favor of animal industry." G. B. Shaw has commented, "Mr. Stevens has a new and convincing argument for the constructive and nonpredatory way of life." Dick Remsen Jr., who captained the 1941 Dartmouth I.C. 4-A Championship golf team,received the following tribute in the NewYork Journal American of May 31st:
"You watch a chap like Dick Remsen, applecheeked and husky enough to be a fullback, and you wonder how many good golfers there could be in the East. Remsen is one of the best, and yet he hardly is known outside of the small Long Island area between Garden City and Westbury. He's so good that he and Tom Leboutillier have won the Meadowbrook Club invitation four-ball tournament for the second straight year. They beat_ Bob Knowles, of Brookline, Mass. and Earl Smith, 3 and 2, in the final round yesterday. Remsen, a 3handicap player, outslugged Knowles, who reached the national amateur quarter finals last year with a one under par first nine holes. What keeps Remsen, along with so many other amateur golfers, from gaining a national reputation is the fact that he is so busy working for a living that this tournament was only his second of the season. 'I work for a living', said the 29-year-old. 'I have such a good job with a textile firm that this is only my second tournament this year. That's why I am so tired on the second nine holes.' Remsen hits a long ball, chips up nicely and he putted like a fiend on the first nine. Good as he is, Remsen is not among the metropolitan area golfers trekking to Baltusrol, N. J., for the National Open qualifying competition over 36 holes. He hasn't the time."
Dick Jr. also won the first round of the Walter J. Travis invitation tournament at his home club, Garden City (L. I.) Golf Club, on May 20 and with his host won the medal in the annual member-guest tournament at the Greenwich (Conn.) Country Club. Not to be outdone, our Dick Kemsen and son Fred were in the thirtieth annual tournament of the Father and Son Golf Association at Garden City Golf Club on June 27.
Bob Belknap's son, Robert Brown Belknap 11, was married to Martha Richardson Alexander on August 20 at Bethesda, Md.
This fall, Defiance (Ohio) College will inaugurate a program, termed by officials of the Veterans' Administration the best they have seen, for helping young people plan their lives. The "Career Determination Program" will be directed by Warren Bruner. He began work on it ten years ago when his own children were faced with the problem of planning their careers and developed it to its present form since 1944 while handling admissions, counseling and placement at Ho Bart College and running a test course at Marietta College last year. Warren has a questionnaire concerning the course he would like to have you fill out. If you have not received one write Warren for a copy.
From Hi O'Neill comes the Twelfth Anniversary Issue of his Illinois Basin Oil FieldReport. In 1254 issues, published every Tuesday and Friday since June 29, 1937, the Report has given subscribers accurate record of every permit, location, drilling test, completion and production record of every oil lease in the Illinois Basin. Hi states that this vital aid in exploration and development will be continued as long as the Basin, which embraces southern Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, is an oil area. Hi's daughter, Dorothy 11, is in her senior year at Marietta College. A postal from Hanover early in August said he and family were on their way home via Chicago after a trip through the east to Quebec.
Bishop Brown, director of the research bureau for retail training at the University of Pittsburgh, has been named director of distribution management research and development program, for the Society for Advancement of Management. He intends to place chief emphasis on merchandising problems in his new activities. Many stores, he said, are several years behind other industries in their application of principles of scientific management.
Elmer Bloom spent August on a fishing trip in Canada. From Sioux Lookout, Ont., came a postal saying "this is the jumping-off place where I take a plane 100 miles north into the bush—it's wonderful country. Last winter I had a rather mean operation—my first surgical experience and I hope my last."
During July Abe Lincoln was visited by his two sons, their wives and three grand-daughters. One of Abe's sons will soon get his Master's degree and will then start towards his Doctor's degree in psychology. "Not like his old man, is he?" says Abe.
Harry Wanner belatedly reported the arrival, on February 4, of his first grandchild, Julia Hunter Gilchrist, to Harry's daughter Janet and Tom Gilchrist Jr., graduate of Yale and Columbia Law School.
Summer visitors at Hanover Inn included Harold Stearns and wife, Fletcher Clark,Harry McCaffrey, Mert Baker, Pike Childs,Tom Lampee, and Dr. and Mrs. EdmundDaly and daughter.
COL. PATTERSON '11 RETIRES: Col. Russell B. Patterson, Adjutant General Division, accepts letter of appreciation from Lt. Gen. Gerow at Review in honor of his retirement from active duty at Ft. Meade, Md. on March 29.
Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y. Treasurer, Court House, Dedham, Mass. Memorial Fund Chairman, Box 521, Troy, Pa.
