Norwich University Record, Volume 40, Issue 17

News Issue of the

NORWICH U N I V E R S I T Y

R E C O R D NEW SERIES, VOL. 40 MAR. 18, 1949 N o . 17, WHOLE NO. 1061

I n Which 5 0 - 5 0 Are You? Norwich alumni are an independent and aggressive group, according to a

53% return from a postcard survey in which alumni designated their occupa-tions. Because of this high return, it is assumed that the data will hold true for all alumni.

Major executives total 404 or 22% of the returns.

Second in number were engineers and engineer-execu-tives—349 or 19%.

Next were 6'owners of own business"—269 or 15%, with 4'still in the Armed Forces" following close behind with 218—most of them majors, with lieutenant colonels, col-onels and generals a close second.

Salesmen and sales managers, including sales engineers and insurance people, listed 138.

The balance included educators, physicians and den-tists, advertising and publicity people, state employees (in-cluding a governor), bankers, lawyers, chemists, authors, students in graduate and undergraduate work.

Taking these figures from 53% of the alumni and projecting them to the total alumni gives 80.5% in positions calling for high executive ability and initiative.

IF YOU HAVE NOT YET SENT IN THE POSTCARD,

PLEASE USE THE ONE ENCLOSED IN THIS ISSUE

ALUMNI HOCKEY PLAYERS SURPRISE UNBEATEN CADETS, WIN CARNIVAL CONTEST

Undefeated in six games, the Nor* wich hockey players were handed a surprise during Winter Carnival when a team of alumni returned to North-field to try the Cadets' new rink in the old riding hall and then proceeded to take the measure of their younger op-ponents by an 8-to-7 score. A big second period, in which the varsity slammed home six goals, made it ap-pear that the losers were about to re-deem themselves, but the alumni roar-ed with power in the final frame to score four times while holding the Ca-dets to a lone count.

Players who skated for the alumni were* Chuck Sellars, '44, Andover, Mass., Charlie Wright, '43, Spring-field, Mass., Chub Simeone, '44, Med-ford, Mass., Sterl Melendy, '46, Leba-non, N. H., Jim Wharton, '45, Welles-ley Hills, Mass., Frank Collins, '44, Ipswich, Mass., Chuck Sweeney, '46, Mountain Lakes, N. J , Jim Marr, '44, Maiden, Mass., Charlie Boynton, '44, Cambridge, Mass., Fran Mclntire, '46, Wakefield, Mass.

The summary ALUMNI—Sellars, g, Collins, rd,

Wharton, Id, Simeone, rw, Melendy, c, Wright, lw Spares, Sweeney, Mc-lntire, Marr, Boynton.

NORWICH—Switzer, g, Reagan, rd, Lamson, Id, Adams, rw, Wilkins, c, Niconchuk, lw. Spares, Jordan, Mc-Williams, K. Wright, Curley, Simeone, Moriarty, Phillips, Hoare, Hedberg.

Score by periods 1 2 3— T Alumni 2 2 4— 8 Norwich 0 6 1— 7 FIRST PERIOD—Goals Simeone,

7 10; Wright, 12:40. SECOND PERIOD—Goals Wright

(McWilliams), 4:40; Curley, 5:20, Ad-

BASKETBALL

Scores Norwich 38, New Bedford 23 Champlain 48, Norwich 40 Clarkson 71, Norwich 61 Vermont 56, Norwich 44 Norwich 54, Devens 49 Middlebury 55, Norwich 50 St. Michael's 57, Norwich 28 St. Anselm's 96, Norwich 42 Assumption 59, Norwich 47 St. Michael's 83, Norwich 52 Norwich 53, Coast Guard 46 Norwich 53, Middlebury 48 Norwich 40, W P I 35 A. I. C. 63, Norwich 62 Massachusetts 71, Norwich 43 Vermont 50, Norwich 34

Final Game Norwich completed a 16-game bas-

ketball schedule by bowing to Vermont, 50 to 34, in a contest which was too one-sided to excite the home followers. It was the eleventh defeat for the Horsemen against five wins.

Off to an early lead soon after the game opened, the Catamounts never were overtaken. At halftime they were in front, 22 to 15, and their at-tack, sparked by the sharpshooting of Ed Kotlarczyk, Art Collier and Ham-mie Livingston, widened this margin following the intermission. Kotlarczyk was the game's high scorer with 12, and a Norwich man, Jake O'Connor,, ranked next with 11

ams (Wilkins), 6:03, Niconchuk, 11:30;: Wilkins (Adams), 12:00, Wright, 16:30; Simeone (Melendy), 17:25, Niconchuk (Adams, Wilkins), 19:20.

THIRD PERIOD—Goals Mcln-tire (Melendy), 5 17, Wright (Sime-one), 10:00, Melendy, 19:00, Nicon-chuk, 19:20; Simeone, 19:40.

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N o r w i c h D e f e n s e Day

Speake r In A r m o r y

This country must hold itself in readiness to support the proposed North Atlantic pact "with overwhelm-ing force," Governor Ernest W Gib-son of Vermont declared before a Nor-wich audience on Feb. 22 during a program which marked the observance by the military college of its 130th year of active participation in the training of men for national defense. The governor, a Norwich 1923 grad-uate and a World War II veteran of the fighting in the Pacific, viewed with favor plans of the United States to strengthen "freedom-loving nations a-gainst the dangers of aggressors."

"In accordance with this basic pol-icy, we are negotiating for a pact with a number of countries which is de-signed to strengthen the security of the North Atlantic area," Vermont's chief executive said. "This course is fraught with danger, but it is a danger that we must face, fully alert to its possibilities and with a determination that we will make it clear to all that any armed attack affecting the na-tional security of those freedom-loving peoples who join such a pact will be met with overwhelming force."

At another point in his address, the speaker stressed that the defense sys-tem of the United States recognizes that civilian authority is supreme over military authority, and he criticized the Truman administration for what he charged "has been a tendency to go the other way in its basic philosophy "

Speaking in favor of unification of the country's armed forces, Governor Gibson decried the unwillingness of tradition-ridden officers of the Army and Navy to solidly support the plan

BOSTON POST LAUDS NORWICH

President Truman's letter to Pres-ident Dodge, written in connection with the Defense Program held at Norwich on Washington's Birth-day, led the Boston Post to devote its leading editorial on February 23 to the old college. The editorial follows •

NORWICH In connection with the observance

of Norwich University's 130 years of military instruction, President Tru-man yesterday sent a message of con-gratulation to the institution. Nor-wich men, the President said, have stood high on the nation's roll of honor in every war from the Mexican on-ward. The tribute to this famed New England university which has played so important a part in the training of citizen soldiers was a deserved one. We in this part of the nation are well acquainted with the achievements of Norwich University, and it is pleasing to have the President call the attention of the nation to the accomplishments of this institution.

because of fear of loss of their pre-rogatives.

Dr Dodge Reads Truman Letter

President Dodge, who presided at the exercises, provided another high-light when he read a letter received by him a few days earlier from Presi-dent Truman. The letter follows

"I regret exceedingly that I cannot accept the invitation which you extend in behalf of the trustees and faculty of Norwich University for me to at-tend, on Washington's Birthday, the observance of the 130th year of active

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participation of the university in train-ing men for the national defense.

"The work of this fine old institu-tion in the training of citizen-soldiers in the art of war has long been familiar to me. Its men have stood high on the nation's roll of honor in every war from the Mexican onwards.

"I have been shown this week a re-port from rhe Department of the Army which reads in part Tn 1943-44 Nor-wich University provided instruction for 200 trainees under the basic engi-neering curriculum of the Army Special-ized Training Program. Official rec-ords also show that Norwich operated its program soundly, economically, and productively '

"This is indeed high praise and heightens interest in your advice that the 1821 catalogue of Norwich Uni-versity, at that time called The Ameri-can Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy, listed civil engineering a-mong the courses offered.

"May I express the hope that Nor-wich University, through long years to come, will continue its invaluable con-tribution to National Defense."

Cadet Major Gets Eugene Syms Trophy

Another feature of the exercises, which included selections by both the Norwich Band and the Glee Club, was the presentation to Cadet Major Eu-gene Ward of the Eugene F Syms Memorial Trophy as last year's junior in the highest quarter of his class se-lected for outstanding military pro-ficiency This trophy was established in memory of Lt. Col. Eugene Ford Syms, U. S. M. C., a Norwich 1934 graduate who lost his life in World War II.

Invocation was pronounced by the Rev George P Weiss, pastor of North-field's United Church and assistant Norwich chaplain, while the closing benediction came from the president

BOSTON CLUB WILL MEET MARCH 18

Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co. 33 Broad Street

Boston, Mass. Record Editor

The midwinter meeting of the Nor-wich Club of Boston will be held at Schrafft's, 17 West Street, third floor, Friday evening, March 18. Conven-ing will commence at 6 o'clock and should be completed by nine.

HOWARD A. STEVENSON, '34 Secretary

NEXT CHICAGO MEETING WILL BE HELD APRIL 9

247 North Hale Street Palatine, Illinois

Record Editor Meeting dates for the Chicago Nor-

wich Club follow Saturday, April 9, 1949 Saturday, May 21, 1949 All meetings will be held at the Ho-

tel Knickerbocker, Walton Street, Chicago. Starting time will be 6 o'-clock in the evening.

HENRY R. STODDARD, '27

NEW ADDRESSES

Lt. Col. Nelson K. Lyons, '20, now 5318 N. 7th St., Apt. R., Phoenix, Ariz.

Commander Winston A. Flint, '28, formerly Rockville Center, N. Y., now 74 Fairview Ave., Great Neck, Long Island, N. Y He is head of the His-tory Department at the U S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point.

of St. Michael's College, the Rev Dan-iel P Lyons.


NORWICH MEN IN THE NEWS

BOB JOHNSON, '19, NAMED P I. DIVISION ENGINEER

With a picture of Robert S. John-son, '19, the Troy, N Y., Record last week carried the following-A Troy engineer and prominent area

Boy Scout leader has been named to direct the rehabilitation of war-dam-aged roads and bridges throughout the Philippine Archipelago.

Robert S. Johnson of 70 Pawling Avenue leaves next week with Mrs. Johnson for Washington and then for Manila where he will assume his new duties as division engineer of the U S. Public Roads Administration for the Philippine Islands. For the last 19 years, Mr Johnson has been serving as division bridge engineer for the Pub-lic Roads Administration with head-quarters in Albany and with a territory which included the New England States, New York and New Jersey

Area Boy Scout executives with whom he had worked for the last eight years joined in honoring Mr Johnson at a farewell party given by the com-mittee of Troop 48 of St. Francis de Sales' Church which he was instru-mental in founding. Praise of his con-tribution to scouting was voiced by Clinton E. Rose, scout executive, Burton M. Follett, district scout com-missioner, George J Bohrer, Troop 48 chairman, Rev Patrick A. Crowe and Rev James S. Kelly of St. Francis' Church, and Samuel Godfrey, Troop 48 treasurer, who was host for the oc-casion.

Mr Johnson served as diocesan chairman on scouting for the Albany Catholic Diocese, chairman of the Central District of Uncle Sam Council, Boy Scouts, chairman of Troop 48, and is now serving as a member of the exec-

JOHN BUCHAN, >34, PRAISED BY PAPER

With a two-column picture of John Buchan, '34, the St. Michael's College Alumni News last month published the following article Two years ago this month, the her-

culean task of building the greater St. Michael's received a great boon in the person of Mr John Buchan. In the expansion of St. Michael's credit must be given to many individuals. The Very Rev President Daniel P Lyons on more than one occasion has express-ed publicly Alma Mater's debt to the past-president, Father James Petty, SSE, to the sacredotal and lay-mem-bers of the faculty, to the officers of the administration, to the capable board of trustees, to interested alumni and to all St. Michael's benefactors every-where.

In this issue of the News, we would like to re-introduce to the alumni a key-figure in the administration of the Greater St. Michael's—Mr John Bu-chan who for the past two years has served the college in the capacity of business manager and supervisor of maintenance. Since coming to the Hilltop from Norwich in January, 1947, Buchan has been of invaluable

utive board and as institutional rep-resentative of Uncle Sam Council.

A graduate of Norwich University in 1919, Mr Johnson served with the U S. Army in the Mexican Border campaign and World War I He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Association of Highway Officials of the North Atlan-tic States and has been attached to the Albany Office of the Public Roads Ad-ministration since 1929. Associates in the federal service tendered him a fare-well luncheon at Jack's Restaurant in Albany


service in directing the expansion of his adopted Alma Mater

Buchan, who arrived in Northfield by way of Waltham and Bernardston, Mass., received his degree in Civil En-gineering from Norwich in 1934. He was immediately employed by the university as assistant superintendent of buildings and grounds, a position he held from 1933 to 1942.

In February of '42 Assistant Super-intendent Buchan left Norwich to be-come Lt. Buchan of the United States Army His first assignment at Fort Riley, Kansas, found him doing the same work he had just left—much to his disgust. Further assignments with Uncle Sam were in 1943 with the 14th Cavalry Group (mechanized) as Cap-tain G4. He left for overseas in May of 1944 with the rank of major attached to Third Army Headquarters.

After release from service Buchan returned to Norwich in the same capac-ity He remained at the mid-state school until January, 1947, when he was invited by Father Lyons to join the forces at St. Michael's College. Father Lyons and Buchan had become acquainted as far back as 1934. In those days, Father Lyons as purchasing agent had met the Norwich representa-tive at various buyers' conventions. Buchan brought to the campus of St. Michael's College ten years of valuable experience, the enthusiasm of youth and a love for his work.

While his official title is business manager and supervisor of mainten-ance, it is difficult to determine just where his work begins and ends. A list of some of the more outstanding accomplishments under the Buchan reign will give an indication of the versatility of the man and the office.

Since his arrival he has built up a large maintenance crew, almost dou-bled the number of office personnel, completely re-arranged the office set-up on campus to guarantee maximum

JOHN SAWYER, '38, NAMED CHIEF DEPUTY

From the Rockland, Maine, News When P Willard Pease was elected

sheriff of Knox County, one of his first acts was to name John J Sawyer as his chief deputy—much to the latter's surprise, he admits. The new chief is a maple sugar boy—born in Burling-ton, Vt. He attended Northfield (Vt.) High School and graduated from Nor-wich University in 1938.

Out of Vermont, he became assistant manager of the Beneficient Loan As-sociation, in which capacity he re-mained three years, thence to Augusta, where he was employed by the same concern for a year and a half.

The war found him in the Cavalry service for four years, stationed suc-cessively at Fort Devens, Mass., Ft. Meade, Md., and Ft. Riley, Kansas, with the .rank of captain.

Back in civil life he entered the em-ploy of the Personal Finance Corpora-tion, coming to Rockland as superin-tendent of the local office in Septem-ber, 1946. He is secretary of the Re-serve Officers' Association of Knox County, Rockland's Junior Chamber of Commerce and Williams-Brazier Post, A. L., of Thomaston. He is married and has two sons.

efficiency, financed a first-class job of landscaping and tree surgery, black-topped all campus roads, arranged for painting practically every building on campus inside and out (some say he even had a hand in the Norwich paint demonstration before the '47 Norwich football game), supervised all con-struction in the last two years includ-ing the new Snack Bar in the wing cf Austin Hall. Aside from that and many other detailed jobs too numer-ous to mention, his time has been his own.


DA CUNTA BROTHERS, '49, HAVE IDENTICAL CAREERS

SIX FRATERNITIES PLEDGE 80 FRESHMEN

From the Somerville, Mass., Journal Who ever heard of twins that aren't

twins? If it sounds confusing, it is, but only because two Somerville broth-ers happened to be born a year apart. There the difference between Joseph A. DaCunta, Jr , and his brother, An-thony, stops. They look alike, dress alike, and to date their careers have followed identical patterns.

Both graduated from Somerville High in 1945, both entered Norwich University in the class of 1949 as pre-medical students. Both volunteered for the Air Forces on the same date, and both shared equally in the direc-tion of the famed St. Joseph's CYO orchestra. At Norwich they were the co-directors of the Norwich Grena-diers. And on September 18, 1947, both enrolled at Schillinger House in Boston, where they are currently studying music.

"Bach, Beethoven and Brahms learn-ed their craft by tediously studying the works of those who preceded them," Joseph, the elder of the two brothers, explained to an interviewer "The way we study, all music including theirs, is converted into mathematical patterns, our grammar school arith-metic taught us how to add and count, so we're able to do everything these masters could, and then some."

Both brothers play the saxophone, clarinet, electric banjo, and guitar, and together often play for weddings, banquets, showers, etc. Because of the war and the resultant Army stint, both felt that the delay would prove harmful to the youthful pursuance of medicine, so they turned to music as a career

At the conclusion of their four year course at Schillinger House, both will be capable arrangers and of double value to band leaders. Many of the

Eighty Norwich freshmen have been pledged to join fraternities as a result of a February rushing season conducted by the six Greek letter societies. Names and home towns of the pledged fresh-men follow

Chi Alpha Chi Harold Botti, Seymour, Conn., Wil-

liam Carter, Douglas, Mass., Ronald Cobleigh, Douglaston, N. Y , John Diana, Keene Valley, N. Y , Edward Helming, Bristol, Conn., Thomas Ken-ney, Jr., Wakefield, Mass., Keith King, Montpelier, Warren Messner, Spring-field, Mass., Frederick Rogers, Welles-ley Hills, Mass., Wayne Sherman, Lan-caster, N. H., Robert Wellott, Red Creek, N. Y , Norman Zundt, Need-ham, Mass.

Omega Iota Michael Basila, Schenectady, N. Y ,

Carlton Bausch, Oceanside, N. Y.; Mil-ton Greenfield, Bronx, N. Y , Kenneth Lare, Suffern, N. Y ; Arthur Mahon, Cambridge, Mass., David Paul, Win-throp, Mass., Hadwen Perry, Jr., Ros-lindale, Mass., Harold Sholk, West

nation's best known orchestra leaders select their new band members from the Schillinger House student body Interestingly enough, men have been taken from the school to replace mu-sicians who have left bands to attend the school.

The unusual combination of music and mathematics at Schillinger House is further highlighted by the school's director, Lawrence Berk, who graduat-ed from M. I. T as an engineer and later turned to music as a profession. He is considered one of the world's leading authorities of the system, and he personally tutors the two brothers.


Orange, N. J , John Smith, Lowell, Mass., Joseph Sobel, Elkins Park, Pa.

Phi Kappa Delta Paul Bauer, Schuylerville, N. Y ,

Stephen Beardsley, Shelton, Conn., Bruce Bidwell, West Hartford, Conn., Philip Briggs, Hanover Center, Mass., William Carlisle, Birmingham, Mich., Harry Covey, Wethersfield, Conn., Edward Hedberg, Brooklyn, N. Y , Robert Lawton, Lowell, Mass., John Swift, Lincoln, Mass., Sumner Wood-ward, New London, N. H.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon William Brady, Dorchester, Mass.,

Paul Bucknam, Jr , Winthrop, Mass., Neal Burgess, West Springfield, Mass., Joseph Comelli, Elmhurst, N. Y., John Danko, Jr., Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Robert Eaton, Needham, Mass., Walter Foss, Jr., Marblehead, Mass., Charles Fran-gos, Lynn, Mass., Michael Frangos, Lynn, Mass., Gerry Germain, Strat-ford, Conn., Clifford Hagberg, Wor-cester, Mass.

Robert Holmes, Westfield, Mass., Reginald LaRosa, Port Chester, N. Y , Kenneth MacDonald, Chester N. H., Charles MacKinnon, Medford, Mass., Peter Magazu, Brain tree, Mass., Ad-dison Minott, Brattleboro, John Mor-iarty, Winchester, Mass., Max New-brough, Northfield, James Orphanos, Lynn, Mass., Grant Scott, Manches-ter, John Thomson, North Hanover, Mass., Raymond Truell, Attleboro, Mass.

Sigma Phi Epsilon Avellino Bartoletto, Woonsocket,

R. I , William Cutter, Oswego, 111., Arthur Davidson, Jr., Arlington, Mass., John Dolphin, Fort Edward, N. Y , Joseph Forand, New Bedford, Mass., Robert Hanson, Springfield, Mass., Don Hassett, Hudson Falls, N. Y , Al-fred LaCroix, Springfield, Mass., Rich-ard Lovis, Lexington, Mass.

Gerald McCue, Rutland, John Mer-

1949 FOOTBALL CARD HAS SAME OPPONENTS

An eight-game Norwich football schedule for 1949, announced last week by Athletic Director Jack Heffernan, listed the same opponents as the Horse-men played last fall.

Williams again will open the Maroon schedule, but the contest will be played at Williamstown. In 1948 the Purple came to Northfield. A reversal in the locale of each game forms the only variation from the 1948 program.

The card is equally divided to pro-vide four home engagements and a like number away Trinity, Coast Guard, Middlebury and St. Lawrence will be the Norwich home attractions.

The schedule follows September 24—Williams at Williamstown October

1—Massachusetts at Amherst 8—Trinity at Northfield

15—Vermont at Burlington 22—Coast Guard at Northfield 29—Middlebury at Northfield November 5—St. Lawrence at Northfield

12—St. Michael's at Burlington

ian, Suffern, N. Y , Carl Peterson, Jr , Shelburne Falls, Mass., Angelo Rafhn, Medford, Mass., Robert Smith, Sioux City, Iowa, William Sullivan, Law-rence, Mass., Eugene Vitetta, Seneca Falls, N. Y , Douglas Warnken, Yon-kers, N. Y , Daniel Wood, Hudson Falls, N. Y

Theta Chi Robert Cone, Schenectady, N. Y ,

John Davy, Little Falls, N. Y , Ed-ward Fitzpatrick, Medway, Mass., Gilbert Gigliotti, Johnsonburg, Pa., John Hutchins, Jr., Weymouth, Mass., Elmer Swett, Worcester, Mass., Rich-ard VanNess, Jr., Cobleskill, N. Y


Class Notes 1 9 1 1

Secretary—Millard W Park 327 Woodbridge Street Manchester, Conn.

Since the original report made on the members of the 1911 class, three more reports have been received. Reports on these three have been held up in the hope that I would hear from other members of our class.

George E. Carpenter's present ad-dress is at Northfield Falls, Vt. He is head of the Division of Standards for the State of Vermont, and his business address is State Office Building, Mcnt-pelier, Vt. He married Annie B. Mor-rill of Northfield, Vt., on July 15, 1912. They have seven children and six grandchildren. George served as sec-retary, treasurer, and superintendent of buildings and grounds at the univer-sity until 1915 when he resigned to en-ter the service of the State of Vermont. He has worked for the State most of the time since then except for ten years, from 1926 to 1936, when he was postmaster at Waterbury, Vt.

He is a 32nd degree Mason and Knight Templer and has held mem-bership in Rotary International for some time. He served two years as a member of the City Council in Mont-pelier, Vt., and represented the town of Waterbury in the 1937 General As-sembly He is a Past State Comman-der, Military Order of Foreign Wars, and served several years on the State Executive Committee of the American Legion and he is a Past Commander of the Waterbury Post. He served in the armed services in France from July, 1918, to March, 1919, and at-tained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the 43rd Division and received the Silver Star decoration. His hobbies

have been hunting and fishing and his interest in Norwich University, having served on the Board of Trustees for 20 years.

Vincent H. Dunning resides at 108 Water Street, Randolph, Me., and is the proprietor of the general store in that town. He was married for the second time on March 10, 1943, to Maude E. Young of Winterport, Me. He has twc children by his first wife. His hobby is firefighting.

Ralph W Newcomb now resides at Spring Valley Road, Green Village, N. J He is a partner in a firm of com-bustion engineers and contractors lo-cated at 1312 North Broad St., Hill-side, N. J He married Mary S. Mor-rill of Northfield, Vt., in 1912, and they have two children and two grandchil-dren.

Ralph has operated his own con-tracting company for many years, working on industrial and commercial low pressure and high pressure filter plants, stokers, and oil burners. He holds membership in the Norwich Club of New York, the Madison Golf Club, Harding Township Game Club, and the Madison Rotary Club. His hob-bies are fishing, hunting and golf.

I feel that it would be of interest to our classmates if items of news could be sent in from time to time to be pub-lished in the Record. Suggested items of news might include new jobs, pro-motions, weddings, births, fraternal honors, vacations, etc.

NEW ADDRESSES Gordon P Luther, '25, now 1264

Brook Rd., Milton 86, Mass.

Gilbert T Perry, '36, now 155 Lau-renceville Rd., Decatur, Ga.

Irving B. Edwards, '08, now Kaba-con Rubber Plantation, Upi Rd., Cota-baco, P I.


1917 Secretary—Edward H. Walton

287 Wakeman Road Fairfield, Conn.

Almost 32 years have passed since we left the Hill to join the Army, Navy or Marine Corps in 1917 That was before our formal graduation, too. Since that time members of our class have been scattered all over the coun-try and have been in all parts of the world. Many of you have, no doubt, wondered what has become of different fellows and where they are now. The Record has carried altogether too little news of our class members. That has been our fault because we haven't kept it posted on our activities.

While making plans for our Thirtieth Reunion, Walter Upham and I sent out a questionnaire, prepared by the Alumni Office, to all members and for-mer members of our class whose ad-dresses were known. Twenty-three of them were returned giving some infor-mation of your activities since leaving college.

To those who replied I offer my humble apologies for not publishing the information in the Record before now I had intended to do it, but time passed and I didn't get at it.

In my letter of February 9, 1949, asking for news, I promised to start off in one cf the next issues with a report on the questionnaire. So here goes.

I shall make this report alphabetical, as near as possible, and will send to the Record, as a special item, any hot news which I receive.

Robert C. Anthony "Dinny" entered Ncrwich from

Rutland, Vermont, High School with the Class of 1916. Illness cut short his sophomore year, and the following fall he returned to join cur class in the electrical engineering course.

He entered the U S. Marine Corps on April 7, 1917 He served in France and Germany 1917-1918, West Indies, Cuba, Santa Domingo, Haiti, Virgin Islands, Nicaragua 1923-1933, Sea Duty U. S. Fleet 1920-21 and 1926-1928, South Pacific Area in World War II 1943-1945. He rose to the rank of colonel and is now retired.

In 1922 he married Ruth Jean Arndt of Scranton, Pa. He has two sons, Robert C., Jr., born 1923, and Charles R., born in 1924.

He has many decorations among which are the Victory Medal World War I, French Fourragere, Occupa-tion of Germany, Marine Corps Ex-peditionary Medal, Second Nicaraguan Campaign, American Area Ribbon, Asiatic, Pacific Area Ribbon, Victory Medal World War II and the Bronze Star Medal.

He is living at 3227 Curtis Street, San Diego 6, California.

"Dinny" was very modest and didn't give me any further information about himself. I am sure that in all of his travels with the Marine Corps he could have produced many more inter-esting news items.

Otto Ronald Bennett, Jr His questionnaire was not returned

but he is living in Bennington, Ver-mont, and working with Keseman & Bennett, Inc. How about some news of yourself, Otto?

Thomas H. Cahill Tom came to Norwich from the

Salem, Massachusetts, High School. In 1920, he married Genevieve C. Cross of Northfield Falls, Vermont. They have two sons and one daughter, Vincent E. and twins, Alan T and Alice M.

After about two years in business he went with the Massachusetts State

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Employment Service as Principal In-terviewer

He served in the Army in World War I from October, 1918, to May, 1919. Service was in England and France. He entered the service again in November, 1940, and served until September, 1944, attaining the rank of major Service was in Trinidad, British West Indies and Puerto Rico. He now holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in Coast Artillery and is at present with the Army in Wetzler, Germany, as Claims and Survey Of-ficer of the Wetzler Military Head-quarters. Mrs. Cahill will join Tom in Germany in May

Tom is president of the Boston Coast Artillery Chapter and a member of the Military Order of World Wars.

His son, Vincent, is a captain in the C. A. C. and is now stationed at Ft. Monroe, Virginia. He served during World War II in Panama and Hawaii and was one of the few who became a second lieutenant at the age of 19. Alan, who served in the Navy during World War II, is a pre-med student at Boston College. Alice is a graduate of Lasell Junior College and Boston Uni-versity last spring. She is to be mar-ried next April 23 to Mr Richard M Drown of Northeastern University

Winthrop H. Bent There is no information on Winthrop

other than his address which is West-minster, Vermont.

Wesley C. Brigham I have not heard from Wes since we

left the Hill. The questionnaire was never answered. The Record gave his address recently as Arlington, Ver-mont. I am anxiously waiting for some information in reply to my letter of February 9.

Stanton L. Burgess Stan is a successful doctor in Boston,

I am told, but, like so many others, he did not return his questionnaire. His address is 23 Bay State Road, Bos-ton, Massachusetts.

— „ Campbell L

f t Harold joined the Marine Corps m 1917 immediately after leaving Nor-wich. He served continuously with them until his retirement last year and rose to the rank of major general.

-He did a swell job with his question-naire and that together with the in-formation given by a mutual friend and the 1948-1949 issue of Who's Who in America give me enough information to fill a whole issue of the Record.

Here are some of the highlights. He was in Marine Corps Aviation.

Served in World War I for 27 months in France and Germany In World War II he served in the European Theater In 1942-43 as American Adviser to Lord Louis Mountbatten and on the staffs of General Eisenhow-er, Admiral Stark and General Patton. In 1943 he was ordered to the Pacific Theater where he commanded the Fourth and later the Second Marine Aircraft Wings. 1945 found him the Island Commander of Peleliu.

He returned to the U S. in 1945 and was Commanding General U S. Ma-rine Corps, Air Bases East Coast, and Commanding General, Ninth Marine Aircraft Wing, Cherry Point, North Carolina.

Between the two wars he served in Haiti, Santo Domingo, Nicaragua, Guam, Cuba, Porto Rico, Virgin Islands and various posts in the U. S.

He lists as his decorations Purple Heart, Navy-Marine Corps Medal, Legion of Merit and the following cam-paign medals Mexico, World War I (5 stars), Army of Occupation, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Nicaragua, American Defense, European Theater, American Theater, Pacific Theater and World


War II (4 stars) He also has nine letters of Commendation.

In 1926 he won the SchifF Trophy for the greatest number of hours in the air without an accident. Altogether he has compiled nearly 10,000 hours flying without an accident.

Harold is somewhat of an author and has written three books on Marine Corps Aviation subjects.

On February 23, 1923, he married Mildred Shattuck.

A daughter, Marilyn Denise, was born March, 1924, a son, H. Denny, Jr., was born April, 1926, and a daugh-ter, Nancy Jean, was born October, 1929.

Nancy Jean was tragically killed by a tractor at the age of twenty-two months in Quantico, Virginia. Mrs. Campbell passed away after a long ill-ness in 1947

Marilyn graduated from college in Boston in 1947 H. Denny, Jr., served in the Marine Corps during the last war and after his discharge in 1946 re-turned to Norwich.w

His clubs are Quiet Birdman, Ameri-can Legion, Marine Corps League, P K. D. His hobbies are fishing, boating, telling Big Ones and claiming the credit for what Nason did.

Harold, at this writing, is in Florida but his home is in Waterbury, Ver-mont, and mail will reach him there.

Alfred I Carlson No word whatever except that his

address is listed at R. F D., South Rye-gate, Vermont.

Joseph F Comerford Joe came to Norwich from Middle-

town, Connecticut. On April 1, 1917, he entered the ser-

vice and served as a sergeant in Co. C, 101st M. G. Bn., 26th Division. He was overseas until 1919 and served at Chemin Des Dames, Toul Sector,

Champagne-Marne, Aisne-Marne, St. Michiel and Meuse Argonne. He has the Purple Heart and World War I Victory Medal.

In 1935 he married Dorothy but he didn't give me her last name or home town. They have three children, Rie-boad D., Thomas J and Judy Ann.

Joe is Resident Manager of the Maryland Casualty Company with of-fices in the Raymond Commerce Build-in g, Newark, New Jersey

His home address is 638 Boulevard, West field, New Jersey

Russell G. Corwin Chelsea, Vermont, was the home of

Russell. He entered originally with the Class of 1916 and joined our class in our senior year No information was received from him. His address is 405 East 9th Street, Tucson, Arizona.

Edward B. Dowson Although I have heard indirectly

about Ed several times in the last few years, I really can't tell you much about him. He didn't return the questionnaire but did write a short let-ter saying that he couldn't be at the reunion.

He is with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in the elevator division at Jersey City, New Jersey

His home address is 2 Sisson Terrace, Tenafly, New Jersey

Perhaps he will send in more informa-tion later

NEW ADDRESSES

Frank E. Liebel, '43, now 2022 Wag-ner Ave., Erie, Pa.

Sidney J Lipson, '46, now 32 Froth-ingham St., Milton 87, Mass.

Capt. Richard F Briggs, '42, now 2626 E. Seneca St., Tucson, Ariz.


1 9 2 2 Secretary—Ralph E. Edwards

Bellows Falls, Vt. In accordance with announced pol-

icy, the Record is to publish a section devoted to news of the classes. I have agreed to act as the clearing house for such material as may be forthcoming from the members of the Class of 1922. In this connection, it should be ex-plained that there are some discrep-ancies in the Roster I consider any-one who entered the university with us in 1918, plus those who came along later, as shown by the War Whoop, to be members of the Class of 1922. Nor-wich presumes to take from us some illustrious members who dropped out, for one reason or another, and later took a degree with some other class. In turn, the illustrious ticket, "Nine-teen Twenty Tooter," goes to such men of earlier classes as actually received degrees with us, no matter whether they shared our fall session of "Fin-ning Out" or not. So, don't any more of you write me that my memory is fogging up. I use the list as presented by the administration and will correct it from time to time.

So, here we go. Elias J Peck is now the District

Sales Manager of the H. H. Baldwin Co., covering the states of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri for that firm with his office at 600 South Michigan Ave-nue, Chicago.

Brooks Hawkins is now the Super-intendent of Public Works for the city of Barrington, R. I His home ad-dress is 19 Chapin Road in that city

Ralph E. Chad wick of 67 Orchard Street, Belmont, Mass., is the sealer for weights and measures for the cities of Belmont and Lexington. His son, Roy E., is a junior in the mechanical Engineering Department at Norwich. He is one of the few cases that I know

of where a son of one of our "Nineteen Twenty Tooters" has followed in his father's footsteps. Ralph is very proud to have his boy pick Norwich, as he well may be. Like many others of our generation the Chadwicks, father and son, are concerned at the lack of ath-letic success prevailing at Norwich. This seems to be a common complaint of those of our generation with whom I have maintained a correspondence over the years.

Trentwell M. White is still busy administering the affairs of a college in Cambridge, Mass. He writes that he had time to have one additional book published and is at present working on two others. Several years ago Trent spoke in Bellows Falls. Busy as he must be, I have noticed that he is one of the most prompt in answering cor-respondence of any of our class. And, like many writers, he dashes off his thoughts in longhand without refer-ence to secretarial assistance which leaves the sort of glow that only a per-sonal letter can produce in this genera-tion when so much routine is strictly mechanical.

Harold E. O'Neill went on to law school at Yale after his departure from Norwich, graduating from the latter institution in 1929. He is now located in Laconia, N. H., and lives at 34 Clark Avenue, Lakeport. Wish I'd known you were located in Laconia earlier, Harold. I was in your city last sum-mer at the probate court and would have certainly enjoyed having a visit with you. Be sure to drop in on me if you are ever down this way

M S. Vincent is now living at 29 Wamesit Road, Waban, Mass., where he is a partner in the firm of Vincent and Curtis. His completion of the questionnaire again disillusions me, as do all questionnaires, he having filled in the blank following the word position as founder That leaves me wonder-ing if he means he founded the firm of


Vincent and Curtis, or whether they are engaged in the foundry business. If you give me more dope, Vin, we will give your firm a plug in the next letter The firm, by the way, is located at 220 Clarendon Street, Boston, Mass. Say hello to Jeff Sayer for me, Vin, and tell him I still remember my first few weeks as a Rook under his tender tutelage in Jackman Barracks. Sometimes I won-der if the Rooks now have as much fun as we did.

Curtis A. Haines is president of Wabash Corporation, a subsidiary of Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., with his office at Montoursville, Pa. His home address is 516 Vernon Avenue, Williams Park, Pa.

Samuel R. Ward is engaged as a consultant at the Ultra Violet Germi-cidal Lamp Industry His principal interest is in product protection and air disinfection. His office is at 702 White Building, Buffalo, and his resi-dence at 114 Ashland Avenue.

K. G. Allen writes that he is off completing questionnaires because the Record has not published the list of Norwich men who served in the war and concerning which those individuals were sent an elaborate questionnaire. However, he did write a brief note which was of too personal a nature to be answered in this column. You pitch 'em and I'll try to bat them, Kenny

Dick Tyler has accomplished what seems to me a minor miracle. He shows his address as Cumberland Cen-ter, Maine, yet claims to be a select-man of the town of Falmouth. He is still engaged in the same business, the storage warehouse field, in Portland. To those of you who did not get back for the 25th reunion, I can report that Dick still has that rugged habit of slapping you on the back in a way that starts you across the room wondering whether it was Mahoney or Fat White that did it.

1 9 2 4 Secretary—John E. Mazuzan

Northfield, Vt. Mel Fisher, like a good many other

1924 men, failed to respond to our re-quest for news, but his good wife, Flor^ ence, sneaked back the 1924 News Form without Mel's knowledge. Man-ager of the Central Station Advertising Division in the Apparatus Department of General Electric, Mel is among the outstanding executives in our class. Florence, writing from the Fisher home at 353 Glen Ave., Scotia, N. Y., re-ports that their son is a sixth-grade pu-pil and that Mel devotes much time to Boy Scout work.

MALE SCHOOL INVADED NORTHFIELD, VT.—A mas-

culine stronghold for 130 years, Norwich University has been in-vaded by 25-year-old Mrs. Burt Porter, who has been hired as ski coach. The former Carol Landon, Mrs. Porter was a widely-known skier before the war

145 Spring Grove Road Pittsburgh 21, Pennsylvania

Dear 1924 Secretary Kindly make note of the above dis-

graceful item in this evening's Pitts-burgh Press. And please re-imburse me for any contributions I may have made in a weak moment. What is this Norwich University Male School, a trade school for letter carriers? May-be that was that blue uniform I was cursed with after retreat 25 years ago —postman's blues. Now this business of females teaching at Norwich. Give me the good old days with the stable maids, the horses and assorted parts of horses, more parts than there were horses. I suppose there are still some assorted parts there in spite of the lack of horses.


I note by the last Record that Don Wood is (or was) employed as a teller at the Ware Trust Company I thought Ware was under water, or maybe it was the Ware Trust Com' pany Ed Stevens says he is active in church affairs. Can that be the Ed Stevens in our class? Or is he the janitor? Mike Mazuzan claims he works at the Northfield News. No comment necessary Art Woodworth is a chairman. Can't any of us be the bottom man instead of always the head of something? Carl Peterson is run-ning a girls' camp. I knew it! I knew it! It wouldn't be a boys' camp. Bob Walker sent his son to UVM (daugh-ters only, the old song said) Harold Orr invites us to his dam project.

JERRY AMBROSE, '24 P S. Seriously, as an alumnus, I do

not protest the appointment of a woman as coach for the ski team. I endorse the appointment. Nuts to the alumni of the Greater Bos-ton area. I hereby appoint 50 women to the alumni of the Greater Boston area.

From San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he is merchandising sales manager for International General Electric of South America, Rog Preston, whose home address is 1110 Ave. Piccioni, Condado, Santurce, P R., writes as follows

"Time passes. Oldest son in sixth grade, daughter in fourth grade, both prefer to speak Spanish to English— wish I could. Housing shortage caught me so had to build a home here, but business keeps me so busy don't see as much of it as I'd like to. Job requires that I keep running around, from the U. S. Virgin Islands to Santo Domingo and Haiti. Not old enough for golf yet, which may be unfortunate as we could play 365 days of the year here. Haven't seen any snow for almost 20 years and don't care if I never do a -gain."

1 9 2 5 Secretary—Orlando B. Swift

Tower Road Lincoln, Mass.

James T. "Shifty" Shaka, after managing a shoe store and then teach-ing school, has now established his own retail shoe business in Manchester, N. H., the home town from whence he came to Norwich. He lives there at 380 Chestnut Street with his wife, Rita, and 14-year-old son, George, now in high school and planning to follow his father's footsteps to Northfield in 1952.

Shifty was the first to respond to the call for news and says "I am looking forward with keen interest to our 25th reunion." We will all want to know if Shifty still bears the scars of the curry-comb that cushioned his landing in the famous stampede of 1924.

Kenneth A. Laughlin is following the proven formula of covering a reg-ular job, that of a die sinker in Port-land, Maine, while fitting up an orchard and small fruit farm for retirement at his home in Falmouth, Maine. Ken's true success in life is indicated by the high scholastic achievements and other worthwhile activities of his son, Rob-ert, who is now in the U. S. Army, and his two daughters, Barbara and Joan. We well remember Ken as a most tenacious distance runner Norwich could have made good use of the points he would have secured had he remained with us longer

Harold G. "Dutch" Rader must get a lot of fun out of life judging by his many interests. His base of opera-tions is Worcester Academy where he heads the mathematics department. For sidelines he operates his Wilming-

James M. Parent, '37, now 42 Loomis Ave., Westfield, Mass.


ton, Vt., farm, "The Schuss," as a head' quarters for skiers, and in the summer joins his brother, Bill, in the operation of a road building business in New Jer-sey His two children are Mary, 13, and Dick, 15, the latter a sophomore at Worcester Academy—and he better get good marks in math.

Edwin H. Griffin, who transferred to Dartmouth, graduated from there in 1925. He was in the hotel business for a while but is now with his brother-in-law in the New England Buff Co., Boston. In 1934 Ed married Rosanne Gore and has two sons, Edwin, 14, and Arthur, 9. He lives at 141 Circuit Road, Winthrop, Mass., a location well suited to his strong interest in sailing. He has participated in ocean racing for years, including the Boston-Halifax race in 1947 During the war he was a member of the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve.

Forrest J Silloway writes from the old home town, Montpelier, that he is the proprietor of his own tire business. Forrest is married and has two little girls, four and seven years old.

NEW ADDRESSES

James H. Burns, '29, now 11 Brown Ave., St. Albans, Vt.

John S. Smith, '09, now Box 176, East Gardner, Mass.

Thomas A. Morse, '37, now 31 Lin-wood Ave., Melrose, Mass.

Marden R. Nichols, Tl , now 33 S. Willard St., Burlington, Vt.

George E. Marr, '25, now 1331 Mad-ison Ave., New York, N. Y

Capt. Francis L. Nichols, '23, now 10 Forest St., Brattleboro, Vt.

Lt. Russell B. Sylvester, '42, now 3502nd A. F Base Unit, Chanute Field, Rantoul, 111.

1 9 3 6 Secretary—Robert W Ferree

44 Walbridge Road West Hartford, Conn.

Announcements have been received of the birth of a son, Robert F Hunt, III, on December 30 at Montgomery, Ala., to Maj and Mrs. Robert F Hunt, Jr Maj Hunt is attending Staff and Command School at Maxwell Air Force Base.

LT COL. McINTOSH, '23, ON TAMURA TRIAL

Legal Section, G.H.Q., S.C.A.P APO 500, c-o Postmascer

San Francisco, Calif. Record Editor

I have been meaning for several months to advise you of my change of address, but as usual old man "Pro-crastination" dogged my writing arm.

I was returned from China in late spring for about four months hospital-ization at Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco, returning here in mid-September

At present I am a member of the Military Tribunal trying Lt. Gen. Tamura, former Jap P O. W head, for war crimes.

LARRY McINTOSH, '23 Lieutenant Colonel

NEW ADDRESSES Lawrence E. Kent, '22, now 14 Kin-

ney Place, Barre, Vt. Nelson Lavergne, '49, now 1075 W

3rd St., Dubuque, Iowa. John T Howard, '25, now Head of

Communications, 6th Naval District, 86 South Battery, Charleston, S. C.

P A G E 1 6 N O R W I C H R E C O R D , M A R . 1 8 , 1949

Documents

Norwich University Record, Volume 40, Issue 17