1942
As other class functions are providing written material in increasing quality and volume for your digestion and requiring some cogitation on your part, the writer will stick to the facts in recording recent activities of note.
An indication of the far-flung lines that bind our group together is found in the following words from Jim Froude, Major, United States Air Force. Our best wishes are extended to him and Ruth.
"First it is strange to think that I am ac- tive in the third war we have been involved with since I bade farewell to Dartmouth I am in the Bth Tac Fighter Wing flying the F-4 Phantom on daily strikes and reconaissance against the VC/Pathet Lao. I am sure that many of our classmates and friends are split as to the wisdom of this war and of course a letter such as this is not really the appropriate place to discuss it, but I do feel rather strongly after having spent a good part of my life in the Orient, and, after having been in practically every country in the Rice Paddy league, that without the help we can give both militarily and economically the Chinese Communists would have overrun all of Asia years ago.
"I sometimes wonder how I manage to hang on and fly after all of these years. This last week I celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of my first solo flight at the old White River Junction airport. I sound like I am at the reunion already.
Now that I am on the subject of the reunion, tell one and all that I hope to be at the festivities if possible. I retire from the AF next January and at present I intend to come back to Bangkok in a flying job for another three years. I am planning now to take the month of June off, return to the States, pick up my wife Ruth and continue on to Bangkok. So if all goes according to the plan I will see you at the dates set. This should really be something. I will have to win some sort of prize since Bangkok is exactly one-half way around the world from Hanover. Watch some one come up from Antarctica or someplace like that."
The February issue of U.S. Ski News featured the avalanche training school in Bozeman, Mont. John Montagne, professor of earth sciences at Montana State University and long-time national ski patrol member, is northern Rocky Mountain division avalanche advisor. Early in the school's history John experimented with simple meteorological recording instruments to collect data relative to avalanche conditions and studies. These have been replaced by an electronic telemetry system so data from remote locations can be collected and analyzed at a central avalanche station and warnings issued as necessary. An excellent photograph, on site, shows John to be in fine physical condition and obviously enjoying the snow covered mountain slopes of the Bridger Bowl ski area.
Dr. David S. Smith has been appointed director of inpatient services at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. Dave, a University of Pennsylvania Medical School graduate with extensive training and practice in pediatrics, previously served as chief of pediatrics at Nazareth Hospital, where he will remain on the consulting staff. He is associate professor of pediatrics at Temple University School of Medicine, with which St. Christopher's is associated.
Dick Rugen, director and secretary of the Warren Woolen Company, Stafford Springs, Conn., recently was elected a member of the associate board of directors at the Stafford Springs office of the Connecticut Bank and Trust Company. Dick resides in Stafford Springs and is active in local civic affairs. Luis Zalamea was unanimously re-elected to a second two-year term as director of the Colombia National Tourist Board, with headquarters in Bogota. Merrill McLane has been promoted to colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. He enlisted in the corps after high school in 1934, completing a four-year enlistment prior to entering Dartmouth, and served as a rifle platoon leader in the Okinawa and Guam campaigns. Now residing in Bethesda, Md Merrill has worked for the federal government in Hawaii, Latin America, and Washington, D. C. Ralph Morrison has been elected first president of the newly formed Dartmouth Club of Merrimack Valley. The membership is drawn largely from the Dartmouth Club of Greater Lawrence and Greater Lowell, Mass. Orton Hicks '21, vice president of the college, was the keynote speaker at the founding dinner.
Three 1942 couples have signed up for the Alumni College Program to be held in Hanover this summer, August 14-25. The Art Hucks, Trum Huntingtons, and FrankMalavasics will be here for a two weeks' stimulating intellectual experience led in part by our own Professor Harrv Bond.
Our Hanover reporter writes of a recent brief encounter with Dr. Brad Thompson in the First Aid room at the Boston Garden. It seems that the Hanover High School hockey team, playing in a New England tourney, required stitching attention and got same from Brad whose labor of love occasionally finds him treating wounds of th" Bruins while off duty from his regular pratice and association with the Newton Wellesley Hospital.
As spring approaches upstate New York your secretary is beginning to thaw out and emerge from hibernation. You folks who keep the pot constantly boiling now may feel free to send along a veritable deluge of glad tidings - I feel confident of handling
Maurice "Moe" Frye '45 (r), newly elected to the Massachusetts Legislaturefrom Wards 3 and 5, Boston, is congratulated by Massachusetts' GovernorJohn Volpe.
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