1916
The Class can take great pride in the showing made in the Alumni Fund Cam- paign. We finished first in the Tribal Sweepstakes for the classes 1915-1921, with a participation of 120%, — the next nearest being 1921, far in the rear with 103%. Congratulations and all honor to Alec Jardine, head agent, and the members of his committee.
Gran Fuller reports a recent fine visit with Ed Knight on his 700-acre farm, Tuscawill (Twin Lakes), at Lewisburg, in the mountains near White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Ed raises shorthorn cattle and Tamworth hogs, which have won many blue ribbons. His son, Edward 3d, is his partner in business. Ed also serves on the State Soil Conservation Commission. Cast your peepers, Jeepers, on Ed's picture and you will note from his trim figure and dark thatch that he is also good at conservation along other lines.
It is with deep regret that we record in the In Memoriam column this month the death of our classmate, Holmes Green. We express to Mrs. Holmes and to the other members of Holmes' family our sincere sorrow at his passing.
Where Did You Go? Out,— to New York, Boston and Hanover. What Did You Do? Nothing, - except have a heck of a good time, as well as an instructive one. This refers to your correspondent and Stirling Wilson, who attended the Class Officers Meeting in Hanover the first of May. Stirling came up from the South and I met him at Philadelphia. We went to New York for the final 1916 Dinner Meeting of the season. 1918 was holding forth in grand style at the Club that evening, but I noticed that the party broke up and some of the old boys came into our diningrooin to say goodnight just as we were at the shank of the evening. Stirling and I took the midnight train to Boston, met Alec Jardine and drove to Hanover in his car. The countryside was beautiful in the May sun, but there was considerable snow in the shady north gullies. Rod Soule drove up by himself. Jim Coffin and Ruth also attended the meeting, as did his son, Carlton (Kelly), '43 class chairman. We went to the ball game and were much pleased to see the Green continue its winning ways against Cornell. Later we inspected one of the ultra modern dormitories on display and then went to Mrs. John Giles' home, where all the 1916ers, including John and Elsie Stearns, gathered for a very pleasant hour.
The dinner that evening was at Thayer with the announcement of the various awards and an address by John Dickey. Incidentally, if you want to read class notes as they should be written turn to the 1909 column. Jack Childs, the News Notes Editor, received a well deserved award for his excellent writing. Next morning were the various meetings and conferences. The ball game with Columbia was rained out, but the crew races took place and it was my first sight of a Dartmouth crew on the Connecticut. We drove up to the Brundage Ski Lodge, which some of us had not seen, and were greatly impressed with the whole set-up. It gave us pause to read the inscription on the wall and to realize that Peter Brundage had been killed at Okinawa, May 3, 1945, just thirteen years before, —to the day. We stopped off at Lyme to call on Jess and Sally Fenno, and their sons, Larry and Stevie. Larry, a Hanover High School boy, is one of the ski patrol at the Dartmouth Skiway. Their eldest son, John '48, and his family were also at home, as he was attending the Class Officers Weekend as treasurer of his class. I drove back to Philadelphia with Vic Smith '17 and Irene, and Stewart Steffey '41. Stirling was headed back to the hospital in Bethesda in June for further observation and treatment.
A goodly company met at the Dartmouth Club in New York on May 1 for the final '16 dinner of the season. We were highly entertained with the exposition which our classmate, Dr. Irving Wolff, made of his subject, "New Horizons in Electronics." Irving is the vice-president of research of the Radio Corporation of America, in Princeton and his affable manner and easy style of explaining what to the layman would seem to be a most complicated subject made the evening a delightful experience and one long to be remembered. After explaining the general set up of his research department, which has a technical staff of 250 and a supporting staff of 500, Irving told us that it had proceeded over the years upon the basis of three general propositions; the first might be called "Damn Better Well"; the second, "Wouldn't it be Nice?" and the third, "How? - Why?" The first had to do with the pressing problems that had to be solved, such as those presented in the late war, submarine detecting devices being an example. The second dealt with products it would be nice to have if the basic problems could be solved in such a manner as to make production economically feasible. The third category builds the foundations for the first two, - the scientific basic research which supplies the understanding of new physical and chemical effects. Without the inquiry into fundamentals the application to new products would not be possible.
Irving explained that the age of atomic fission will be followed by the age of atomic fusion (which is in the field of electronics). Fortunately the elements necessary to fusion are much more abundant than those for fission. The source of power in the future may well be from the fusion of atoms of heavy hydrogen. This hydrogen is found in sea water, and he explained that the fusion of these atoms contained in a cubic mile of sea water has the power potential to run all the power plants presently in the United States for a period of 15,000 years. He thought that such power might be produced commercially within 25 to 50 years, and that this would have the effect of easing international tensions since the importance of oil would be greatly diminished. (Cairo and Moscow papers please copy.) Irving gave a very clear exposition of stereophonic sound and also spoke of the work being done by electronic computers in helping solve problems of economics, weather prediction and control, mass psychology, and the automatic control of motor vehicles on the highway and at intersections, i.e., the prevention of collisions. He also told how the basic mathematical processes, such as addition and subtraction, were now being carried out in presently available computers in several millionths of a second, and stated that they were now researching on computers which would be able to do the same in a billionth of a second. An expert has been described as a man who knows all the answers, but unfortunately doesn't understand the question. Well, our expert understood the question and knew all the answers.
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small (Dartmouth) head could carry all he knew.
The anomaly was partially explained when Irving, with a twinkle in his eye, gently reminded us that he did his graduate work at Cornell. All in all it was an evening o£ erudition (a good word) and enjoyment which mine host Dutch Doenecke provided for us. For this and the many other enjoyable parties which Dutch has arranged this past season the assemblage gave him a rising vote of thanks. The others present: John Ames, George Dock, Rog Evans, Charley Jones, Mac Macartney, Johnny Pelletier, Freddy St. George Smith, Irving's brother, Lawrence (Pete) Wolff, who modestly ascribed all the brains in the family to his big brother, Charlie Cressy and his son, Charlie Jr., Rutgers '40 and the School of Oriental Languages at Yale.
Ed Knight '16 with prize shorthorn at his 700-acre farm in Lewisburg, West Virginia.
Dorothy and Howard Stockwell '17 (center) had the great pleasure of getting their entire family of thirty together this summer at Waterford, Maine. The family groupings (1 to r) are Fred Stockwell '43 with Sandra beside him, wife Marjory in front of him, and sons Dick, Craig and Bill front, left; Stewart Stockwell with wife Elayne, holding Jill, in front of him; son-in-law John Tarbell with wife Joan, holding Charles, in front of him; Howard Stockwell Jr. '40, flanked by John and Susan, with wife Jane, holding David, in front of Susan and son Tom seated front center; son-in-law John Eaton with wife Martha, holding Virginia and Patricia, and daughter Nancy front, third from right; and Dick Stockwell, with wife Virginia, Mary, Sally and Dick.
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