1927

Sometimes our pleas for news bear fruit. Several months ago in this column we informed you that Norman Swift was attached to the American Legation in Stockholm and said we hoped he would write us something of his experiences there. We now have a letter from Norman, written March 27, which arrived in Washington on April 21. His letter follows:

"I have just received the February issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, the first copy I have seen since I left the States in August 1944. I have always looked forward to its arrival, but here in Sweden it was an especial pleasure to hear from home. I am a Foreign* Service Auxiliary officer attached to the Legation here as an economic analyst. Although there are a considerable number of Americans in Stockholm on various assignments, I am, as far as I know, the only Dartmouth alumnus in this town of 600,000 people.

Although I was in London for ten days last summer and saw thousands of Americans there and in various bases en route, I was disappointed not to run across anybody from '27 or its neighboring classes. My family, Ruth and the children, arrived here in February, and the youngsters (Don, age 9, and Debbie, 5) were, I think, the first American children to arrive here since the blockade in 1941.

In spite of Scandinavia's reputation for hard winters, the climate appears, to be milder than New England—less snow in this area at any rate. The drawback is the lack of sunshine in the winter. However, the long days in summer do compensate to some extent. The way things are moving to the south of us here, it will not be too long, I trust, before the blockade is lifted and then I hope there will be a Dartmouth man or two here to constitute the nucleus of a Dartmouth Club of Stockholm. P.S. Note mailing address: U. S. Embassy APO 413 c/o Postmaster, New York City.

S/Sgt. Elbert A. Gruver Jr. has been assigned as chief clerk of Air Corps Supply at Camp Davis, N. C. S/Sgt. Gruver has recently been returned to the States after spending two and half years in the China-Burma-India theater of operations. Bert entered the armed service on March 19, 1942. Camp Davis, an installation of the AAF Personnel Distribution Command, will function as a convalescent hospital and redistribution station.

Ed Fowler writes that he particularly wants us to know that although the enrollment at Dartmouth now is quite small he is doing his best to take care of the future. Eddie Fowler expects to enter, in the fall of 1948 and Dick Fowler in 1952 and on January 6 another guest, Robert Brooks Fowler, class of 1967, arrived at the Fowler Home. Ed and his fine family are living in Ardmore outside of Philadelphia, Pa., where Ed is doing an important supervisory job for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. Ed complains that there is a dearth of '27 men in the Philadelphia area, but hopes to seen many of us in Hanover for the Twentieth in 1947.

Rog Braman writes, "You can report a new addition to the Braman family and at last it is a boy, Roger P. Braman Jr. It all happened March 23, 1945. I had thought I was just another Eddie Cantor the way things were going."

Mike Furbush who spent the first year of college in our class and then continued at Middlebury, has recently been appointed Director of Industrial Agencies of the American National Insurance Company of Galveston, Texas. A native of Salem, Mass., Mike began his insurance career with the John Hancock in 1930. Later he was promoted to assistant manager and then manager of the John Hancock office in Oakland, Calif. In 1939 he was made Director of Industrial Agencies on the Pacific Coast for that company. Lt. Commander Will Shaw sends his check for the Alumni Fund from somewhere in the Pacific and with it the following.note:

Just a few words to accompany my check and let you know that I am still one of the living alumni of the Class of '27.

I have covered most of the Pacific area, went through a little Hell at Iwo and recently left the scene of another pretty good show when my part of it was completed. What is next I don't know, although I certainly would like to see some orders calling us Stateside for general rehabilitation that, however, seems quite unlikely.

So far as health goes, I am in the "pink" and I must say that it amazes me sometimes when I realize that most of the kids serving under me are young enough to be my own children. However, they haven't started calling me "Pop" yet (at least not to my face) so it is hard to realize that I really am an old timer. Best regards to all and the greatest of luck with the Fund.

Dick Simpson has recently been promoted to lieutenant commander in the Navy.

Stan Manon has recently moved to 65 Windemere Road, Rochester, N. Y.

You may write Lt. Commander Hiram W. "Buck" McKee at 3055 North Meridian St., Indianapolis 8, Indiana.

We have a new address for Dud Bonsall at 1155 Park Ave., New York City. We presume this means that he has completed his work for the Government in Washington and is now back at his law practice in New York.

This is the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE prior to the closing date of the Alumni Fund Campaign. As President Hopkins said, the financial need of the College at this time is directly proportional to what the Dartmouth family wishes its College to be in the postwar years. We hope to see 1927 among the leading classes, who will again demonstrate that the Dartmouth family wants to see its College, as ever, tops among American educational institutions in the postwar years. Let's be sure to get that check in before the thirtieth and to give it a little oomph this year if we can.

Secretary, 134 Vine St., Chestnut Hill 67, Mass. Treasurer, Box 1412, Pittsburgh 30, Penna.