1941

Labor Day sneaked up on us this year to end once again the summer siesta granted every year to class secretaries. It just doesn't seem like September with the Dodgers thirty games out ahead of the Giants. I think all Dartmouth men took to the hills during the past summer, because I can't recall running across anyone since last May. At that time Stew Steffey and I attended the meeting of class officers in Hanover, and '41 was represented as well by Ray Welbourn, secretary of the Laconia, N. H., Club. We spent one evening with Dick McCornack and his wife at their home in Hanover and I guess that's the last '41 I've seen. Except for the barrister, Monk Larson, who kibitzes our Long Island R.R. bridge game occasionally.

However, there has been some activity started this fall. I have been in correspondence with Stew Steffey and he has something special cooking this year. He plans on getting started early collecting class dues. The dues this year are $5 but Stew is going to ask for $5 plus whatever else you can send along. The reason? We are organizing a Spider Spinney Memorial Fund everything over actual expense will go toward this fund. The executive committee of the class decided to do this in honor of Spider, whose untimely passing last fall was such a shock to all of us. I have told Stew I would do what I could to help him get the ball rolling and get his job done with as soon as possible. You'll be hearing from him soon if you haven't already.

Now into some of the press clippings which have accumulated during the summer months. Yes, the men of '41 are fast becoming headline stuff in the newspapers of the country from coast to coast. Take Joe Hill for example. The New Haven (Conn.) Register reports that Dr. Joseph K. Hill has been appointed assistant professor of public health and preventive medicine at the College of Medicine, New York State University, Syracuse, N. Y. Prior to assuming these new duties, Joe was assistant professor of public health at New Haven Teachers College, as well as a lecturer in education and public health at Yale. Joe received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1939. I have a letter from his wife, Jean, who says their new address is 19 Ely Drive, Syracuse.

Now here's news on Ernie Hamilton, who hasn't been in these notes since I took up the burden two years ago. The New London paper says that Erine, now a civilian employee at Lackland Air Force base, San Antonio, has written a fictional short story which has been purchased by Esquire magazine. Ernie is a transplanted Nutmegger and his story shows a true and valid picture of Texas based on almost two years of living happily in Texas and among Texans."

A Boston paper carries a story on Hubert J.Murphy, ye master life insurance salesman. The State Mutual Life Assurance Cos. announces that Murph has been appointed agency manager for Southern Connecticut with offices in New Haven. How're things up that way Mr. Murphy? Maybe we'll see you at the Yale game.

And '41ers still get the degrees. Last June lan Brown received the degree of Doctor of philosophy in neurology from the University of Minnesota. And Jim Kelso secured a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard during the same month.

A letter from Jack Ferguson '15 of Tulsa, Okla., encloses an item from the Tulsa Tribune concerning Ed Patterson. Ed is an Air Force Reserve major and is now commanding officer of Tulsa's 9851st volunteer air reserve training squadron. For the past seven years Ed has been treasurer of the Patterson Steel Cos. They've got Tulsa both top and bottom, with Ed in charge of the air squadron and his brother Sid '42 the city street commissioner.

Two more men on the steps of matrimony. First from Bradford, Vt., comes word that Chuck Weisker is engaged to Miss Margaret Ryan of Richmond. And cocktails were served at the Automobile Club of Buffalo in Clarence, N. Y„ in honor of Gretchen Ruth Coit, who is engaged to Bill Havanan. Of course news on engagements is so stale that these people are probably happily married by now. If so, many happy returns.

Don't forget to make a few gridiron classics this fall. With the game back to eleven men and substitutes it ought to go a lot better for the Big Green. Hope you had an enjoyable September 26, watching the Holy Cross game. Did we win?

Secretary, 47 Hook Lane, Levittown, N. Y. Treasurer, 1140 Wightman St., Pittsburgh 17, Pa.