1929*
Herb McCreery is stationed at Ft. H. G. Wright, some 9 miles out in New York Harbor, with B Battery, 11th Coast Artillery: "Up at 5:45. Eat at 6. Make up your bed, sweep under your bed, shave and fall out at 7:30. Back at 8:30 from infantry drill, change for artillery drill and stay down at the guns until 11. Eat, fall out at 1 for either more of the same or a very dull lecture on gas, or field strip a machine gun until 3:45. Back to eat and stand retreat at 5 when the flag goes down and the soldier's day is supposedly over. Movies and beer are about the only amusements After months all this becomes very monotonous Certainly many of us will feel a lot better if this release of men over 28 becomes a fact. There are a good many simple pleasures that will seem lots more important for having been deprived of them here It does wake you up to the fact that all those personal liberties and freedoms are pretty important things after all "
Al Miller allows that life in the Army is quite a change from a New York admiralty law firm. Reporting to the Commanding General, First Division, (Regular Army) one morning at 8 A.M., in response to telegraphic order, Lt. Miller was notified that he had been appointed Asst. Staff Judge Advocate on Gen. Truesdale's Staff and was ordered to take care of his own affairs and report for duty at 2 o'clock that afternoon. So that's how Al came to Ft. Devens, Mass., where he and his brother officer run the Judge Advocate's Section of an army which includes 17,000 men and about 2600 vehicles, and consists of three large infantry regiments, three large artillery battalions, a Reconnaissance Troop of armored vehicles and scout cars, Quartermaster Battalion, Medical, and Combat Engineer Battalion. Its road length is about 80 miles from end to end, and in fire power and mobility it has about three times the capacity as the old World War division or the present National Guard Division. "I assist in the administration of military justice, supervising court martials and trying serious cases , (46 so far)—robbery, forgery, etc In addition we act as the intermediary between the civilian, judicial and police authorities and do any legal work the General may require. In war, we supervise the administration of Military Government, the control over civilian authorities: fire, police, medical and public utilities, in the area of hostilities. During maneuvers we act as liaison officers and umpires, and coordinate the relation of the Military Police and Provost Marshall with local police Oct. 13 we go South for three months of maneuvers in Louisiana.... we eat and sleep well Even though one doesn't get rich, I wouldn't trade this experience for anything in the world Incidentally, Morton Jaquith, the Justice of Clinton, has been the greatest asset imaginable to a New Yorker."
Ellie Cavanagh, 1st Lt., Medical Corps, has been attached to the Air Corps at the Air Base at Tallahassee, Florida since June 16th. "With the recent crop of releases from Hollywood, you may picture as a Flight Surgeon. However, because of limited facilities locally, I am able to carry on an active practice in my chosen field, Obstetrics and Gynecology. This work takes up a good part of my time, and other wise, my efforts are devoted to Surgery. This is a new base, completed during the past Spring, and is a tactical unit of Pursuit and Interceptor Groups, consisting of advanced flyers. We have a rather complete 100-bed hospital, with twelve doctors and eighteen nurses to take care of the 2500 men and their families stationed here. There is a wing containing a delivery room and nursery, which strangely enough, is one of the busiest spots in the hospital, and is where 1 hold forth. I have been here all summer alone, while Marj and young daughter, Julie, remained in New York, and Jimmy and John were at camp. The whole family arrived September 1 and all are well. We have a house in town, there being no living quarters at the Base. Jimmy, the class baby, has grown so fast that I hardly know him. He has issued a challenge to meet on the tennis courts, but having seen him in action recently, I am holding off as long as I can. John and Julie are doing equally well.
.... The whole family is planning on attending the Dartmouth-Georgia football game in November "
Mace Ingram, Sgt. Maj., Hq. Btry., 84th F.A., 9th Division, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, has just left for war game maneuvers in South Carolina: "2/2 months on southern 50i1.... at present am in charge of 9th Div. Artillery personnel, about 2600 men Also have my Naval Commission of Ensign but as yet have not been called into active service.
Johnny Conlon is permanently located in Portsmouth, N. H.
Stan Bogardus is farming and raising a family in Canaan, N. H.: three boys and one girl. "We do mostly dairy farming- make syrup in the spring; have been at it 7 years, it's hard work but wouldn't trade places with anyone."
Bob and Alice Monahan spent a September vacation with their two small boys at their log cabin in the White Mountains. Bob reports that the one-room cabin he built ten years ago as a bachelor's winter hangout served the needs of his growing family with plenty of room left in the woodshed for a few more cots. Bob returned to his work with the U. S. Forest Service at Washington in time to sweat through two successive days with higher temperatures than ever recorded previously on any October day in Washington.
Wen Barney of Winchester, Va., resident manager of Leach, Rindfleisch & Scott, C.PA., keeps busy after hours as secretary of the local Rotary Club and director of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Reports seeing Brownie Waite some time back, and spending July 4 with Paul and Finnie Kelsey who live in Barberton, Ohio, where Paul is doing research for a brick and tile manufacturer.
Phil Mayher proudly announces the birth of William Sawyer, the second son, on June 16, in St. Louis, where the Mayher family lives while Phil travels the Middle West for Bauer & Black. He admits enjoying the seller's market after ten long years of a buyer's paradise.
Harry Winsor married Mrs. Elizabeth Whitridge Baird, the daughter of Mrs. John Clifford Whitridge of New Canaan, Conn. Sept. 4th.
John Bogar married Mary Elizabeth Estep, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Estep of Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 23rd. After a wedding trip through the South, John and his bride will live in their new home, "Belle-Nance" along the Linglestown road, Harrisburg, where John is in the lumber and construction business.
Jake Jaquith, earlier referred to as the Justice of Clinton, says that his chief occupation is telling the children stories to put them to sleep, but the truth is that he's very busy practicing law in Clinton with an occasional visit to Worcester and Boston. But the children are the most important: "Mary is seven and is in the third grade. Her friends believe she has a typical legal mind, rarely committing herself to any positive statement except when giving orders to other members of the family, including the writer. Peter is five years old and is attending nursery school, for the first time this year. When asked if he wanted to go he inquired whether he would have to learn his letters and numbers. On being told that he would spend most of his time playing he announced with pleasure that he would like very much to go. Susan is two, the youngest and most tyrannical member of the family. She is a born dictator giving orders in a loud voice and enforcing them with any instrument, blunt or otherwise, close at hand. She throws quite accurately too. Peggy and I spent an evening with Ken and Harriet Wilson last month in Hyannis. Ken seems to have the Cape Cod law practice pretty much under his wing. This is undoubtedly a good thing both for the people of Cape Cod and for Ken as they are expecting, an addition to the family shortly and two cannot live as cheaply as one "
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