1914*
To Hal Bean, Mart Remsen and the Dartmouth Alumni Fund, your Secretary owes sincere apologies. Hal sent in his check last May, which was inadvertently misfiled and only recently came to light. We really believe this is the first time we have mishandled a piece of Dartmouth correspondence and we assure you, Hal, that it won't happen again.
Incidentally, Hal writes that he is now on active duty in the Navy as Commander in the Medical Corps and when last heard from he was stationed at the United States Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Good luck, Hal, and we know you will serve in this emergency with excellent credit to yourself.
George Wheatley writes that he is still busy with his insurance company in Abington, Massachusetts, and he is busy organizing work with the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety. He is a City Warden and they are building an organization which he hopes will be ready if ever needed. George sends his regards to all.
Dud Colby's part in the defense setup is trying to furnish telephone service where and when required. He is located, as he has been for years, in Omaha, Nebraska. He writes that it seems to be a habit with his daughter, Elizabeth, to break her arm in the odd years and this summer it happened for the third time, but after three weeks' vacation in Colorado it was healed so she could do some writing. Dud also has a son, Norman, in the eighth grade. Dud writes that he is graying, fattening and still trying to break go, with the least success in the last.
Mac Johnson writes from 19 Harrison Avenue, Springfield, Massachusetts, that his defense job is Director of Gasoline Conservation for the City of Springfield. He regrets that the younger generation disagrees with the older, at least to the extent that Bill Jr. graduated from Princeton last June, while Pierce is a sophomore at Harvard.
Up to the present recording Rubber Floyd's family holds the record for enlistment. He says he tried to get his old army commission renewed but he had no luck. Therefore, he has joined the State Defense Corps of Georgia, while making tire fabrics which eventually find their way on defense vehicles. His second son enlisted in the Navy last June and has been assigned to the aircraft carrier Hornet at Newport News. His eldest boy attended Georgia Tech one year and he, too, felt the call of the sea and last month likewise joined the Navy. His youngest son, a senior in high school, plans to join the Navy next June. Rubber is naturally highly proud of his boys and ends by saying that Mrs. Floyd allows that if the Navy will take her she, too, will join up!
It is now Lieutenant Paul L. Perkins of the United States Air Corps. Paul was recently called up as ist Lieutenant and has been sent to Patterson Field, Fairfield, Ohio. He says it's all very new and exciting and will write more later.
Ellsworth Buck reports that in connection with his membership in the Board of Education of the City of New York, he is charged with the training of faculty personnel for defense industry. They have some ten thousand trainees enrolled and are operating some of their defense schools twenty-four hours per day. His daughter, Nancy, is in her third year at Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, while his son is with the 126th Air Corps Observation Squadron now on maneuvers in the south.
Bill Hand's son, John, is finishing his last year at Thayer School and has been commissioned an ensign in the American Aviation Reserve. Bill is still with the Food Sales Company Inc., 99 Hudson Street, New York City, and sends his best regards.
Thorndike Saville, as you know, is Dean of the College of Engineering at New York University. He tells that in addition to the regular enrollment of 2500 engineering students, he has this year the supervision of 1500 additional students, providing for them special engineering defense courses. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Engineering Defense Training of the United States Department of Education. He likewise continues his duties with the Water Resources Committee of the National Resources Planning Board. He has done a great deal of work in connection with the supply of water for defense undertakings, and when he can spare a few minutes he attends meetings of the Engineering College Administrators of which there are thirteen whose activities have to do with planning national defense courses in engineering schools. This makes Thorndike a very busy person and we feel sure he is handling all jobs well.
We are glad to hear from Ben Quarles. Ben writes that he is a member of the firm of Millender & Quarles, prescription chemists at 7th and T Streets N. W., Washington, D. C. He says that his only child, a daughter, is entering Mount Holyoke College this fall and, incidentally, he had the pleasure of visiting Hanover last fall for the first time in twenty-seven years. He sends best wishes to all.
From Hal Castle we learn that his young son, Brace, entered Dartmouth this fall and is rooming in the same room in Massachusetts that Jim Blythe and he occupied freshman year. His second son, Alvin, started at Dartmouth and later transferred to Wabash where he is in the senior class. His oldest boy, Robert, was graduated from Harvard in 1940 and is now a flying cadet. His youngest daughter starts school this year.
Ralph Jenkins, President of the Danbury, Connecticut, Teachers College, is busily promoting Civil Aeronautics Training Program and defense courses in Connecticut. He is district governor in Rotary International and busy travelling about their twenty-eight clubs in the district, stressing defense and national unity. His youngest son, Ward, enters his first year at Dartmouth Medical School this year. He also has a son in the Library of Congress, while his oldest boy is a junior geologist for the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. His wife has just been elected Secretary of the New England Conference of Federated Women's Clubs.
Bino Knight reports that he is still continuing his travelling work with the Presbyterian Church of New England and occasionally has the pleasure of running into a Dartmouth man. He has been appointed representative of the First Army Corps Area for the Presbyterian Church Emergency Service Commission, whose function it is to supply the necessary spiritual aid to the boys in camp in this area. He has a daughter in her first year at Middlebury, while his son is doing graduate work in Physics at Duke University. His son, Walter Jr., known as "Ginger" is with the United States Army Engineers building a dam on the White River in Arkansas.
Jesse Stillman reports that whereas he has no direct connection with defense activities he is, however, busily employed by the du Pont people handling several projects, which we think are more or less directly connected with defense activities. Naturally he could not go into details. He says his family are well. His eldest daughter is a senior in high school. Recently at the convention of the American Chemical Society at Atlantic City he met Herb Babcock for the first time in fifteen years. He also had the pleasure of spending a vacation on Lake Winnipesaukee this summer. His address is 13 Lindsey Place, Wilmington, Delaware, and he hopes he will see some of the boys as they pass through.
Bill Washburn, in addition to a very large practice of surgery in San Francisco, is spending a great deal of time with the Surgical Consulting Board for the Selective Service Committee in the State of California. His son, Edward, is now enrolled in the freshman class at Dartmouth. Bill hopes to be back in Hanover this fall and looks forward to seeing many classmates at the games.
Secretary, 16 Grove St., West Medford, Mass. Treasurer, The Stanley Works Bridgeport, Conn.
