1920

Too late for the deadline of the special April issue came this splendid letter from Lowell H. Holoway '53: "I would like to describe some contributions my father Lowell H. Holoway '20 made to the nation's defense in World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.

"Dad took time off from Dartmouth to be a pilot for the U.S. Air Force in World War I. When World War II was in the offing in 1939, the government established a program at M.I.T. to educate the naval architects needed to make possible a larger navy. Dad made a mid-life career change, becoming a naval architect after scoring highly in an examination that led to his acceptance in the program. In the war, he supervised for the navy trim dives, which were the tests required to determine the seaworthiness of scores of submarines before they were commissioned and sent out to fight in the Pacific.

"In 1953, Dad supervised the trim dives before the navy accepted the first atomic submarine, the U.S.S. Nautilus, from its manufacturer, the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics. The Nautilus was the forerunner of a fleet of ballistic submarines which deterred the nuclear threat of the Soviet Union." If other relatives of Dartmouth alumni were to send us mini-biographies or anecdotes about their illustrious forebears, they would be most welcome for future issues.

Alice W. Weymouth, 42 Lebanon St., 4A, Hanover, NH 03755