1929
We have recently heard, with a great deal of pleasure, that Larry Lougee has been promoted to colonel in the regular Army. It was just twelve years ago that Larry received his commission as a second lieutenant of Infantry at Fort Benning, Ga., where he attended the Officers' Candidate School. He had enlisted in March 1942 and taken his basic training with ski troops at Camp Roberts, Calif. Larry is now serving his second tour of duty on Governors Island, New York, where he is deputy judge advocate general of the First Army.
Larry told us, very briefly in the 25-Year Report, that he had been an attorney before entering the service, but there's a lot more that is very interesting. He was transferred to the Judge Advocate General's Corps in 1943 and during the period when the Alaska Highway was being built, he served as staff judge advocate of the Northwest Service Command in the Yukon Territory with station in White Horse, Alaska. Late in 1944, he was sent to Europe as foreign claims commissioner for France and Belgium, and on V-E Day he accompanied Task Force "A" into Norway to take over the German prisoners. While on duty in Norway, he had the additional duty of being observer at the Quisling trial. He returned to the United States for discharge in January 1946 but returned to active duty in June 1947, when he joined the Regular Army. For the next five years he served as assistant judge advocate of First Army at Governors Island then, after a brief tour of duty in the Pentagon on the Judge Advocate General's Board of Review, he received his second assignment with the U. S. Army forces in Alaska, from which he returned in December 1953.
We also hear interesting news of another attorney, Art Nighswander of Laconia, N. H. At its 40th annual meeting and Christmas dinner party, Art resigned as president of the Golden Rule Farm board of trustees after seventeen years of service in that capacity. He will continue his interest in the farm, however, as a member of the executive committee of the board of trustees. Art's wife Esther, daughter Mildred, and sons Andrew and Warren were honored at the dinner and he was presented with a "This is Your Life Album," containing a copy of the evening's script and pictures taken over the years marking outstanding events of his association with the farm. He was also presented with a book, which each boy at the farm had autographed, and a tape recording of the entire program.
An announcement has been received from the Pandick Press, Inc., 22 Thames St., New York 6, N. Y., that Ray Hedger had joined the organization as a member of the sales staff as of December 6. Ray has been with the Sorg Printing Company during the past five years.
While in Hanover on a quick trip early in December, we noticed that the notices were up for the annual ski school for children, which is held between Christmas and New Year's. We haven't heard whether any '29er's children attended this year's school but if so, we would welcome any pro or con correspondence on the subject. We're not sure if it had anything to do with the Ski School, but Bob Monahan reports that Trunky Brittan, wife and three daughters were seen wearing down the ice on Occom Pond while praying for snow, and that Dick and Markie Sanders and son Bobby were also in Hanover during the holidays. For those of you who did not see Bill Cunningham's column in The BostonHerald about the December 27 marriage of John Piane's daughter Joan, Inches Pierce's son John was best man for Richard Fowler '54, and Inches was one of the guests. Bob also reports that Ed Phelps was in town, but on a literary quest to Baker Library. Before, during and after Thanksgiving, other chance information indicates that Ed Spetnagel and Jane, Mike and Anne Sherman, Walt Crowley and Anna, Harry Enders, Farley Morse and Mary Clare, Walt Gutterson and Bernadine, Paul and Mary Jameson, Mort and Peg Jaquith, Bob and Betty Friend, Sonnie Hetfield, Lyt Johnston and Maxine, Ed Fowler and Pauline, Charlie King, and Nat Barrows and Billie were in Hanover.
Although the nation's press has reported the Bicentennial Convocation at Columbia University last October 31 and the impressive ceremonies in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, there is no more logical spot than this column in which to record the participation of one of our classmates in this historical event. We were very pleased that John Dickey was the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and. from the New England academic world, that he shared this honor with President Charles W. Cole of Amherst, President Victor L. Butterfield of Wesleyan and President James Phinney Baxter of Williams. Among the 48 recipients of degrees at this commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Columbia's charter, which was granted by King George II, were Queen Mother Elizabeth of England, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak, Sir Sarvepalli Radhnkrishnam, vice president of India, Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States and Adlai Stevenson. In commenting on the convocation, Prof. Richard R. Powell, Columbia's director of the Bicentennial, said,
"The solemn grandeur of the Cathedral should be a fitting place in which representatives from throughout the world intellectual and academic community may reaffirm their devotion to and the common need for a world in which the Bicentennial theme-'Man's right to knowledge and the Free Use Thereof - is a genuine reality."
Most of you are aware, undoubtedly, that the Trustees of the College have directed that plans be made for the development of all phases of the College during the next fifteen years, looking toward the Commencement of the College's third century of service in 1969. We are very glad that Dud Orr will be serving on the Trustees Planning Committee to carry out this work. We also understand that Dud is chairman of a subcommittee which has already given consideration to the optimum future size of the College. And, coincidentally, Dud is doing a similar job on a Trustee's Committee at Phillips Exeter Academy and was the principal speaker on this subject at the annual December dinner in Boston of the New England Alumni Association of Phillips Exeter Academy.
It is unfortunate that many circumstances added up to make the Class dinner at the Dartmouth College Club in New York on January 5 a very small affair, although nonetheless a very interesting one. The notification cards were apparently sent out in the midst of the Christmas mail and some were either not received or not noticed. According to those present, the January 5 date was a bit too close to New Year's, and the January issue of the MAGAZINE did not get into enough people's hands in time to serve as a reminder for this dinner. Although no other '29 class dinner is planned at the Club between now and June, there was considerable sentiment for another one in the spring and we will let you know, well in advance this time, if a firm date is established. Those who did make the dinner and who obviously enjoyed a very conversational evening were: Walt wilson, John Cornehlsen, Larry Lougee, John Tompson, JohnMinary, Jimmie Loveland, Ray Hedger and Chris Born.
ANNUAL BOSTON ALUMNI DINNER Hotel Statler, Feb. 16, 1955
CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE PRESIDENT: Nelson Rockefeller '30 is welcomed byPresident Eisenhower to the new job of Special Assistant on Foreign Policy at the White House,where he will serve as coordinator of the nation's cold war strategy.
Secretary, 26 Wampatuck Rd., Dedham, Mass.
Treasurer, 1728 Beechwood Blvd., Pittsburgh 17, Pa.
