1923

This is my second column for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and I am beginning to get newsy letters from a few members of the class. I wish some of you quiet classmates would send along something even if just to say "Hello, I'm alive and well."

I regret to say that happy talk has been too deeply dimmed by the loss of six of our classmates. Two, Hartley Caldwell and LewisWoodruff, have already been noted. And now even before we go to press for the April issue I have to report four more whose obituaries will, I hope, be in this issue. They are Truman Metzel, Babe Miner, Pem Whitcomb, and Luther Hussey.

Pete Jones reports that he and Peg are back at Hope Sound for the winter and that MettyMorse on Cape Cod is busy fixing up houses for rentals.

Walt Dodge reports that Jim Young has been honored by resolution of the Barre, Vt., city council as a member of a citizens' advisory committee and the board of civil authority and as a justice of the peace and the tax collector.

Stu Summers writes to Cap Palmer that life without his wife Lulu was dismal and that he has again married and is more comfortable. Cap's wife Marion is confined to a wheelchair but can cook and play cards.

Howie Alcorn has continued to serve as special referee for the Connecticut court system for many years, with recognized distinction.

There is quite a contingent of alumni here at the Hillsboro Club in Pompano, Fla., where I am spending the month of February Walt and V. Friend, Bill Boies '24, Sumner Kilmarx '22, Dorothy McLaughlin (widow of George '23), and Kendall and Ann Smith, as well as your new class secretary and his wife Beatrice.

And now that there are thoughts of renewal of ROTC at Hanover, I would like to quote from a letter from Babe Miner written very shortly before his sudden death and just after his only appearance as a member of the Alumni Council: "I favor ROTC strongly. Reliable information is that the student body voted two to one in favor. The council voted in favor with only seven who opposed it 'philosophically.' The faculty was divided in their stand purely from the academic side, believing too much stress would be placed on military courses rather than the 'liberal arts courses.' They, in fact, I believe, overlook 'duty, honor, and country.' Functionally, financially, and job-wise it gives many students security and a free education in these presently expensive times. My experience of five years of active duty convinced me of the importance of having a pool of 'reserve officers,' for many of the ships and naval stations were manned wholly, or in part, by 'reserve officers.' There would be no Dartmouth, as we know it, were we 'subjected to a Communist regime. As I understand, there has not been a Marine commandant who was from Annapolis all came from ROTC programs."

An example of military life in an exemplary manner has been that of our recently deceased Hartley Caldwell and his abiding faith and loyalty to Dartmouth.

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