1907*
A receipt of a V-mail letter from one ofour classmates is and will continue to be anunusual event. Dick Southgate has recentlyreceived the following from Mike Smith.If Mike receives his copy of this MAGAZINE, he will recognize this as our evidence ofinterest in him and his activities.
"Your Christmas card reached me today and I was much pleased to get it. I judge from the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, as well as letters, that Hanover is a very different place than in peacetime. It must be still interesting though, perhaps more so than ever. I enquired of my nephew whether his class was still called '45 in view of the fact that they'll be graduated ahead of time and he said yes. He is taking pre-medical work and would like to enter the Medical School in the fall, so I hope he will be accepted. His father writes me that his scholastic standing has been good. We are in England running a hospital. It is a satisfaction to be on the job professionally again. It is hard to realize, but it is nearly a year since I nulled out of N. Y. I am enjoying the experience of being in England and have had an opportunity to do a bit of sightseeing. All good wishes for 1943. Sincerely, Morris K. Smith."
Mrs. Kenyon and Bob announce the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth to Lt. Richard Brooks Dietz on January 17 at New Rochelle, N. Y.
Commander Charles McKendree MC, USNR reports that he is still at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., in charge of the Neuro-Psychiatric Service.
Judge McLane reports on his sons' service activities;
John Jr. '38, went into the Navy last April and was commissioned as ensign in June. He attended an indoctrination course at Cornell in the summer, had a few weeks of special training in Washing- ton, and since September has been stationed at 150 Causeway Street, Boston. His exact duties are still considerably shrouded in mystery as far as I am concerned, and a policy of Naval secrecy seems to discourage all curiosity. He has applied for sea duty and may very likely get an assignment shortly.
Charles '41, enlisted in the 87th Regiment, Mountain Troops, in November, 1941, spent the winter with Company A on Mt. Rainier in training, got to be Staff Sergeant, and in September was sent to Fort Benning, Georgia, to an Officer Training School, was commissioned 2nd lieutenant in De- cember, and he came home on a week's leave over the Christmas Holidays and is now back with the Regiment at Camp Hale, Colorado.
Malcolm '46, entered College in July and finished two semesters in December. He fs now in the Air Corps with the Dartmouth group of boys who left Boston, January 8, for preliminary .training at Nashville Army Air Center, Nashville, Tenn.
Bill Sanborn, who has been employed in Denver for a year or more, is now at 126 Park Avenue, Herkimer, N. Y. A fuller report of his change of residence and business activity is expected in the near future.
Our classmate Charlie Ryder died on January 5 in Los Angeles, leaving his wife, Mary Saunders Ryder, two children, Charles Jr. and Doris Watts, and four grandchildren. George Grebenstein, Charlie's team-mate and captain, has maintained a close association with Charlie and reports that he had been seriously ill for a long period before his death.
George Liscomb, unheard from since our May reunion, reports that after spending several lonesome months in fortification and troop facilities construction for the U. S. Army Engineers at Fort Nathaniel Greene, Point Judith, Narragansett, R. 1., he is back again at Camp Edwards with the same outfit this time in airport construction.
George was the chief inspector, for the Lumber Inspection Bureau, of all the 54 million feet of lumber that went into the building of Camp Edwards and then acted as construction inspector at the camp, just a few miles away from his delightful little home in old Sandwich Village on Cape Cod
The Daniel Webster Inn remembers him As do the hill-winds of the Cape And the proverbial granite is still a part Of his muscles and his nape.
Secretary, : 140 Federal St., Boston, Mass.
