Comments on: Engineered for Service

By: karenendicott

karenendicott — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:58:01 +0000

We’ll be happy to send Bruce a copy. Many thanks for the suggestion and for writing.

By: Dan Rooney

Dan Rooney — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:37:28 +0000

Greetings – I was wondering if a hard copy of the Dartmouth Engineer Winter 2008 would be available? I just spoke with Bruce Espy, who is quoted in the publication and is interested in reading a copy – he doesn’t recall reading it previously. Mr. Espy is 92 years old and doesn’t have an email address (surprise!). Please advise. A possible workaround would be to print off of the web and mail to Bruce. Any thoughts appreciated! Regards, Dan Rooney 651 452 6226

By: Charles J. Quinn '47 Th '47

Charles J. Quinn '47 Th '47 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:04:36 +0000

10-2-09
My Dartmouth V-12 years were very similar to Ben Brewster’s (recorded above). I did my Freshman year at Yale, but then joined the same Thayer School group that he was in, until we graduated in Feb. ’46, (listed as class of ’47). As he says, “it was a good place to be”. And it was a good group to be with, 5 Marines and 21 Navy: Roy Cahoon, Bob Harvey, Hjalmar Sundin, Harold Johnston, Dick Whikehart, Dave Wilcox, Jesse Chadwell, Bob Price, etc. etc. I could nearly name them all. Until his death in 2004, I kept in close contact with Rube Samuels.
Shortly after the Navy I entered a Catholic Seminary. I was ordained in 1955, and my first assignment was to the mission in Pakistan. I stayed there until 1972. Interesting years, amongst simple, admirable people, so different from the reports of Pakistan today. More recently I served in the Solomon Islands. Again, simple, wholesome people.
Will anyone else from that ‘Th 47 group see this? Ken Drew, Paul Blake, Chuck Howard, Doug Palmer? As I said, I can still picture them all.
For the past 7 years I have been here in Pleasantville NY, as one of the parish priests.