1932

Bob Monahan '29, College Forester and Manager of College Outing Properties, has very kindly given us the news that Ed Crafts has been appointed director of a new Bureau of Outdoor Recreation established in the U. S. Department of the Interior on April 2. The Bureau will have over-all responsibility for initiating and guiding a na- tional effort in outdoor recreation and will administer a program of federal assistance to state agencies. Laurence Rockefeller, chairman of the Commission that recommended the new bureau, told the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior, "I'm grateful to you. This is wonderful, exciting news and I am delighted Mr. Crafts will head it."

" Since 1950 Ed has been assistant chief of the Forest Service, in charge of longrange program development, legislation and Congressional relations. He joined the Service 29 years ago after acquiring 8.F., M.F. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Michigan. In 1960 he received the Distinguished Service Award of the Department of Agriculture.

From Falls Church, Va., JUdo Cappio writes that he and Anne with their two girls drove their little wagon a total of 1300 miles over Easter weekend to visit son Jim '63 in Hanover. He reports that the Phi Psi's proved most hospitable to the family of their new treasurer, including a dinner date for high school junior Jill, appropriate games for 6th grader Jane, as well as songs and properly surrounded ice cubes for Mom and Dad. Bill Thibault '64 was a member of the hospitality group. Jim is spending his spring term mostly in Boston researching the City Council in connection with his Government major.

Cap says that in addition to crabgrass and painting white trim on their brick box he is worrying about the new Manpower Development and Training Act, as one of three assistants to the director of U. S. Employment Service in the Department of Labor. He got all this information, and more, on the back of a postcard and offers to write us a letter if we will provide the space. Carl Baker please note;

Our lone'32er in Rhode Island, Frank Eggleston, tells us that he and Barbara just celebrated their 24th and that their two daughters are still in school, Betsy a sophomore at Jackson College and Judith in grammar school. Frank is manager of the Civic Department of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce and has just completed twelve years as secretary of the Dartmouth Association of Rhode Island.

The Allegheny Ballistics Laboratory of the Hercules Powder Co., specializing in solid fuel motors, has a new associate in Johnny Weissenfluh, who writes that he and Marge have bought a new house in La Vale, near Cumberland, Md. He cheerfully states that even passing through this territory is incredible, but that if any of us is forced down halfway between Washington, D. C., and Pittsburgh they would be absolutely elated to see us.

Clare Farr writes that the big news in his family is that last October they settled down in Reed's Ferry, to become New Hampshire residents again after a lapse of three decades. Rog and Anne Needham have sent us an announcement of their daughter's marriage to Dr. Erwin Philipps '57 on April 21 in Gardner, Mass. "Rog adds that, counting himself and the groom, ten Dartmouth men attended the wedding.

Never before has this department enjoyed the luxury of a guest columnist. Here is a feature on Bill Kendall, written especially for the '32 Class News by Kenneth Beal, secretary of the Class of '99:

At Big Shanty, Ga. (now Kennesaw), north of Marietta, April 12, 1862, the little old Confederate locomotive "General" was hijacked fey a dozen Yankee soldiers in disg uise, the Andrews Raiders. The rogues almost got the locomotive back into Union territory. But the dogged pursuit by the actual Southern crew, aided by volunteers and the commandeering of some work cars and extra engines, brought the famous little iron horse back home. Two years later this same slender line of rail connection between Atlanta and Chattanooga was the lifeline for the steady moving of Sherman's reinforcements and supplies for the final conquest of Atlanta.

This event 100 years ago was celebrated in April, 1962, by the triumphant return journey of the rejuvenated "General" to a brotherly celebration at Big Shanty to commemorate an exciting episode in the War Between the States and to symbolize the peaceful reunion of North and South. |

But why this century-old yarn in our '32 column? Because one of the leading spirits in the entire celebration was Bill Kendall, president of the Louisville-Nashville Railroad. Now Bill didn't tell me this, but I know that it was he who arranged for the rehabilitation of the famous "General"; he also had the dilapidated Big Shanty Station renovated with Steamboat Gothic architecture, and his L. & N. Railroad then donated the same to the town. Pulling a single car, likewise rejuvenated and carrying distinguished guests, together with two accom- panying excursion trains loaded with guests from 32 states following, the "General" was the center of gala events in Big Shanty, and again on returning to Chattanooga over the same route taken by the would-be Yankee hijackers before their capture and summary hanging in 1862.

At a notable convocation at the University of Chattanooga, April 14, Bill Kendall and an associate, Harry A. DeButts, chairman of the Board of Southern Railway System, were each awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The speaker at the convocation, Emory University professor of history, Dr. Bell Irvin Wiley, pointed out that the American Civil War was the first "railroad war," and praised the great contribution of railroad men "to the people of our community and our region." Among the numerous dignitaries on the excursion trains following the "General" were Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Kendall, Bill's parents, Warren himself Dartmouth '99 and a distinguished railroad man in his own right.

Our fall reunion this year will again be on the weekend of the first home Ivy League game and by popular acclaim Bonnie Oaks will again be the gathering place. Remember to make your reservations early, and so long until then.

Secretary, 341 West End Rd. S. Orange, N. J.

Class Agent, 95 Browning Rd., Short Hills, N. J.