http://www.dartmouthengineer.com/2008/02/engineered-for-service/ Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:35:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.dartmouthengineer.com/2008/02/engineered-for-service/comment-page-1/#comment-2707 Charles J. Quinn '47 Th '47 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:04:36 +0000 http://dartmouthengineer.com/?p=85#comment-2707 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. 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.

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