1911
Within three months from the time that you peruse this column we shall be about to depart for our 35th Reunion at the Mountain View House, Whitefield, N. H. In case anyone has missed the announcement about Reunion, the main facts are herewith repeated. Frank and Mary Dodge have invited the class to hold their Reunion at their hotel from Saturday afternoon, June 15, to Wednesday morning, June 19. This will be in place of the Hanover Reunion which otherwise would be scheduled to take place on July 5-7. Not only will you have the advantage of all the comforts that Frank and Mary will furnish, but imagine a Reunion without a Reunion tax, or at least not much of any tax, and at the low rates at which Frank has been generous enough to set for the occasion. Again the request is made to notify the secretary whether or not you intend to reune and also make reservations with Frank. It may be of interest to know the number of men attending previous Reunions. Here are the statistics: sth-Q7; 10th—158; 15th—123; 20th—93; 25th—129; 30th -90.
Furthermore, 33 men have attended all 6 Reunions and 31 have attended 5. That makes a total of 64 who may be called habitual reuners, which is a good record tor a class of our size. Here's a chance for the numbers game using the past record to see who can come nearest to the number that will be returning for the 35th. Here's a suggestion for Chub Sterling to start the game and raise some money for the Alumni Fund.
The humble thanks of the secretary go to all of you who have so promptly filled out the questionnaires and returned them. Also he appreciates the many letters which have been received and which in due time he hopes to reply to. If the blanks keep on being returned at the rate they have been coming in recently, you may look forward to having a small directory by Reunion time. May this be a silent reminder to those who have not complied that compliance is a great virtue.
Bob Sanderson writes: "That's swell news about Reunion. Whitefield is sure the place; no 1911 Reunion without it and the Dodge's hospitality would be complete."
Warren Agry accepts and adds: "Frank is a wonderful guy and we are fortunate to have him in our class."
Pat Parttridge promises to come provided a marriage and a prospective grandchild scheduled by members of his family don't upset the apple cart.
Other yeas come from the Bill Harts, the Ken Ballous, the Cap Hedges, the Jack Russells, and Jim Conroy. Hal Card won't be able to make it; neither will Log Jackson nor Leo Muhfelder because of ill health. Herb Clark writes:
I would like nothing better than to see the gang once more. It so happened that just about all my darn life I have not been able to make a Reunion, as June always finds me in the state of Georgia mixing it with Peaches. And so it will have to be this year. However, I'd sure like to send up some peaches by express if they are good. Usually the variety moving at that time are only skin and stone, but good flavor if the weather has been dry; otherwise, they are flat and tasteless. If they are good, I'll try to remember.
Notice has just been received of the death in action of Capt. Perry T. Jones, eldest son of Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Jones, April 12, while taking part in the drive on Baguio. Capt. Jones was a graduate of West Point in 1941 and had been overseas two years. He was commander of a field artillery battery of the 33rd Division and stationed in the Hawaiian Islands, New Guinea, and the Philippines since going overseas. A memorial service Was" held in Trinity Methodist Church in Merchantville, N. J., on Sunday, May 20. A Silver Star was awarded posthumously which was received by his wife with the following citation:
Capt. Jones, with the Field Artillery, without regard for his own personal safety, advanced forward beyond the leading elements to a position affording observation of the enemy position. Exposed to enemy; fire and to considerable danger from his own artillery he calmly adjusted devastatingly accurate artillery fire on the enemy position 150 yards to his front. As the "assault progressed, a bitter fire-fight developed at close range with the enemy position. Capt. Jones voluntarily left his observation post and advanced forward to the fight to see if any further artillery fire was necessary. The assault was successful and the enemy was annihilated in his position.
Carroll's other son, Major John, has returned to this country after a long period of active service in the South Pacific with the Marine Corps, and has been assigned to Plans and Policies at the Marine Headquarters in Washington. Carroll's daughter, Sarah Ann, was married in October 1944 to Master Sgt. Clement G. McDonough. They have a baby girl and live near grandpa and grandma. He is a graduate of Stephens College. Carroll's wife, Madaleine, is a volunteer worker one day a week at one of the U.S.O. buildings at Ft. Dix. Carroll has served on the Committee of Management of two of the U.S.O. buildings at Ft. Dix, one for colored troops, where he is still active. The Colony was awarded a Certificate of Commendation for services to the Second Service Command.
Carroll, himself, is superintendent of the State Colony at New Lisbon, N. J., which is described in the masthead of the paper published by the Colony as, "The Colony is a training school for mentally exceptional boys of all ages. Social adjustment—moral, mental and physical improvement for the pupils; temperamental co-ordination with their environment—constitute the aim of the institution."
Alt and Rebecca Jackson are spending the winter in Bangor, Maine, at 46 Madison St., but hope to get back to their farm in New Boston, N. H., this spring.
Colonel Frank Robinson, having been put on terminal leave on November 1, is market master of perishable freight at the Market Terminal of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, South Boston, Mass. He is living at 61 Shattuck Road, Watertown. He has just completed 25 years of active and reserve duty in the U. S. Army. His principal assignment in this war was at Camp Myles Standish, Mass., where he was Director of Supply and Facilities and later Director of Intelligence and Security. During 1944 he made five trips overseas as transport commander.
It is now Captain Tindall if you please. Floyd was promoted from commander to captain in the USNR Medical Corps. He is on active duty at the U. S. Naval Hospital in Charlestown, S. C. While he has been in the service his wife carried on as a nurse, who, with her co-chairman, selected, enrolled, trained, and kept active the personnel of the volunteer nurses' aides of Rockford, 111., where some 250 nurses' aides were selected and trained. Floyd expects to continue at his present assignment for the present, hoping to be transferred eventually to the regular service. His son Tony is a third-year student at Northwestern Military Academy at Lake Geneva, Wis. His son-in-law, Major John E. VanDuyn, a graduate of Military Academy in 1943, is a major (a B-29 pilot) who returned to his family from Tinian just in time to spend Christmas. His daughter Rosemary plans to return with her husband who will be assigned to the Marianas with headquarters on Guam. Floyd writes of bumping into Mark Wright at Floyd Bennett Field where he was Flight Training Officer and that he helped him to get a- flight up to Quonset so fast that Floyd almost forgot his shirt, and then later Mark got him a flight to Chicago.
Since inviting the Los Angeles boys to call on Rolfe Bond, another letter from Rolfe states that he has been discharged from the Los Angeles Hospital and has returned to Calexico, Calif., where he had made his home for about a year prior to his hospitalization last October. He plans to continue to stay in Calexico with address at P. O. Box 822, and still would like to see any Dartmouth men if they are in that vicinity.
The January 19th issue of Business Week contained a lengthy article about the Regal Shoe Cos. and made reference to John J. Daly who is now president of this company. The article tells of the Daly Brothers' securing control of the company and the probable public sale of 300,000 shares of stock. It refers to John as an aggressive New Englander who has dealt with various aspects of the shoe industry throughout his life; also that he is the active chairman of the Boston Spencer Shoe Corp. (assets over 52,500,000). In reference to John's career it states:
He was long associated with his father's company, C. H. Daly Shoe Cos., Inc.; earlier still he was active for some time on his own as a partner in Hall, Doyle & Daly, a Brockton, Mass., shoe manufacturer and in Beckwith Mfg. Cos., a maker of box toes.
Daly, a heavy-set six-footer in his fifties, hasn't confined all his recent activity to the shoe trade. For some time he has been a director of Republic Aviation Corp., which in 1943-44 turned out almost $650,000,000 of fighter planes for Uncle Sam. He likewise has found the time to become quite a sailor, and to maintain a year-around home at Hyannisport on Cape Cod so that he can indulge in that pastime whenever possible.
The January issue of Advance, which is "The National Journal of Congregational Christian Churches" of which John Scotford is editor, has a handsome picture of Bob Barstow along with a complimentary account of Bob's career under the title, "Skipper Bob- The story of a man of action who is now persuading our churches to give generously for European relief under the auspices of the World Council of Churches." Tertius Van Dyke is the author.
Jake Lovejoy helps out by sending in the following:
Chuck Emerson is, as you probably know, factory manager of one of our plants located in Call, Colombia —it's a plant operated by our Export Division Two of Chuck's boys, Chet Jr. and Hugh, are now'working here at the Naugatuck plant learning the footwear game from the ground up, and so far they are both doing all right for themselves. Chet Jr. came here in September 1945 direct from our munitions plant in Des Moines where he had done a swell job, and Hugh came here in December after getting out of the Air Corps, though he, too, worked in Des Moines for awhile prior to going into the service. They are both nice boys and will, I think, do well with the company. We are considering changing the U. S. Rubber Cos. name to the Emerson Rubber Cos. I ran into Boli Sherwin a month or two ago down in Providence where he is working for Jeff Newbury Stores. He is a sort of trouble shooter for the outfit and goes around to different stores in the chain, working on departments that seem to be slipping. Boli has all of his old pep—well, most all of it and looks swell.
WHEN DRIVING TO REUNION was an achievement —Art and Asunta Winship at an earlier 1911 Reunion at Whitefield.
Secretary, i Webster Terrace, Hanover, New Hampshire Treasurer, 631 Walden Road, Winnetka, 111.
