1928*
At the rate the Army and Navy are calling up our aging classmates, our Military Service Roster will have grown to imposing length by Fall. The list is imposing right now when we remember that the expansion of our Army and Navy has only just begun. Our class has seven men in the Army and four in the Navy. Those in the Navy were all lieutenants in the Naval Reserve before being called to active duty; in the Army we have one captain, two lieutenants, and four buck privates. The Army captain referred to is Norm Costello who left Dartmouth to go to West Point and has been in the Army ever since, recently as Tactical Officer at West Point.
Of the ten men called so far "for the duration," three are physicians, two are teachers and five are business men. The business men, at least four of them, are privates and are pretty sour about being ordered around by young R.O.T.C. officers just a year out of some little Southern institution and 19-year-old hill billy noncoms. One of them, who spent a week at Camp Dix before he was transferred, says, "Camp Dix is a miserable place where you live in tents, get awful slop to eat and where the ordinary necessities of life can be taken care of only in the filthiest surroundings."
Those in the "Service" are Dr. SamBassett, a physician in St. Louis, who is married and has one child. He was a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve; we have not heard where he has been sent. Dr. ChuckHazzard, also a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, is on duty at the Naval Reserve Hospital in Brooklyn. He was practicing in New York City, is married and has one child. Dr. Art Nightingale of New Hyde Park, Long Island, N. Y., took a commission as a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps Reserve when he graduated from medical school in 1933. "Little did I think I would be called to active duty in 1941," he says. He left April 16 for Camp Livingston, Louisiana, and wants any of you who are around that camp to drop in to see him.
Lt. Bob Clark has been working since April 1 in the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, Room 1321, Social Security Building, Washington. His work is public relations, which isn't such a great transition from his civilian work as advertising manager of the Rising Sun Paper Cos., and also the Old Colony Envelope Cos., West Spring- field, Mass. He'd be glad to see any '2Bers who get to Washington either at his office or at the home he and his wife have taken at 1612 Orchard St., Alexandria, Va.
The Navy decided to begin a new psychological branch in connection with training centers, and opened up a new classification, H-V (S). Bill Hunt, Professor of Psychology at Wheaton College, got a leave of absence for the duration, and is now Lt. Hunt, the Navy's first H-V (S), stationed at the Naval Training Center, Newport, R. I. His job is to help keep the morons and the psychopaths out of the Navy. Doc Simonds, a teacher of math in the Pelham, N. Y„ high school, will be called in June; he, too, holds a lieutenant's commission in the Naval Reserve, but thinks his assignment will be a very "land-lubberly" job.
It was a distinct shock to learn that on April 2 a draft board in New York City . had taken Hank Granpner, despite the general belief that married men would not and should not be taken. So we wrote Pvt Graupner and asked how it all came about, in view of the fact that he was married two years ago. It seems that inasmuch as Hank has an independent income (apart from his salary) sufficient to take care of Helen, the draft board said he must be a soldier! He is now in the 9th Provisional Cos., 13th Infantry, Ft. Jackson, Columbia, S. C. He says "the Fort is fine—clean barracks, good showers and damn good food. After years of sitting at a desk this army life is no picnic, but I'm fairly well hardened up already. Helen is giving up our New York apartment and has taken a place near Columbia. We get week-ends off, also Wednesday evenings."
Assistant Alumni Fund Agent Herm Schnepel of West Orange, N. J., was inducted early in April and is now in Battery E, 7th Battalion, Ft. Eustis, Virginia. He is in a basic 3-month anti-aircraft regiment awaiting permanent placements after his orientation period is over. He says they feel down there that "we are making the world safe for the married men." Walt McKee was inducted March 17 as mentioned in these columns last month and on May 2 Jerry Luellen was inducted but we do not have their present addresses.
Draft 01- no draft, the boys are still getting married. Last month we gave you three marriages and one engagement; this month we have one marriage and two more engagements, which will mean that the number of '2B marriages in the first half of this years is 400% ahead of the first half of last year. Jerry Luellen of Bound Brook, N. J., was married in March to a very charming English teacher, Tibby Thompson, and on May 2 was inducted into the Army, which is tough luck in more ways than one.
Marching to the altar in June are CarlLundgren and Ken Turner. Carl is marrying Martha Eugenia Cleaver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Cleaver of Richmond Hill, New York City. She was treasurer of the class of '35 at Wellesley and is also a graduate of the Katharine Gibbs School, New York City. Carl is prosecuting attorney in Ansonia, Conn., and engrossing clerk of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut.
Ken's engagement to Fidelia Waite, daughter of Mrs. J. Parker Waite of 30 Beekman Place, New York, and the late Mr. Waite, was recently announced. Fidelia attended the Horace Mann School for Girls, Marymount College and the Sorbonne.
The prolificness of the Class of '3B is nothing short of astounding. The Green Derby goes to Long Island McGraths, John and Madeline, for their five children. The latest and fifth arrival is Robert Vincent, whose appearance on October 23, 1940 has not previously been mentioned in these columns. Reading from that date back are Peter Richard, January 21, 1939.' Barbara Ann, September 18, 1935; Jane Ellen, Tune 17, 1934; John Douglas, November 3, 1932- John sa}'s> "That makes five and from here on we shall let Joe Kennedy rest on his laurels!" John is assistant to the general manager of Bonwit Teller, New York City.
Second in the baby derby are Dick and Kay Klinck, of Summit, N. J., who finally produced a girl after three boys. The fortunate little girl is Louise Sterling, born March 8. Twenty-two other '2Bers have three children: Craig Haines (just under the wire with Linda, born April 24), Chet Kellogg (also qualifying recently with Daniel Brewster, born February 3), FredStone, Paul Cutler, Carroll Shepard, NealDowe, Jack Goodnow, Bill Lary, CrawPollock, Virg McNeil, Phil McLaughlin,Joe Hyman, Monk Davenport, GaylordFaunlleroy, John Heston, Hod Carver,Wes McSorley, Sam Magavern, TopperRobinson, Win Taylor, Bob Tyson and Don Benjamin (who really doesn't qualify at the time of writing, but who will before you read this). If there are any omissions please let us know.
Fred Davis, novelist and detective story writer of Pipersville, Pa., has just sold one of his latest mystery thrillers, Hearses Don'tHurry, to the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. Fred has written many novels which have been published here by Doubleday, Doran & Cos. and in England by Heineman, including, Alas, Poor Yorick, HeWouldn't Stay Dead, and Death Checks In.
We hear reports that several '2Bers in Massachusetts and New York are planning to attend Hanover Holiday June 16-20. The faculty speakers are just the ones you'd like to hear: Mecklin, McCallum, "Cheerless" Richardson, Sikes, Anderson and Griggs. Why not make it an "off-year" reunion? Among those attending will be Curley and Allene Prosser and Cal Billings. Your Secretary will be there that week-end since he is due to preside at the annual meeting of the Dartmouth Secretaries Association.
We were very much touched to receive a check and the following letter from Natalie Carr of Ridgewood, N. J. We are passing it on in the hope that other '2B wives may feel the same way. "Dear Os—l've just finished reading your April 15th 'Campaigner.' The Prexy Anniversary Alumni Fund appeal has so stirred me up I want to make a contribution, too, even though Wally has already sent his in.
"A trifle sentimental? Maybe. But I think that most wives of Dartmouth men feel a debt of gratitude to her for making their husbands such darn swell guys. And here is an opportunity for us to pay off a very small part of that debt. A good concrete way—such as having to forego that new pair of spring shoes, or that simply 'darling' .hat—instead of just singing the Dartmouth songs with the gang in a glow of Alumni fervor—which is all very grand, but just doesn't pay the bills!"
A Wah-Hoo-Wah for you, Natalie, and we hope you've started something.
The '2B Alumni Fund Committee, with Paul Kruming at the helm, is doing a masterful job. This being Prexy's 25th anniversary, everyone working for our class, or any other class, is determined to increase the amount collected. Let's all pull together and help '2B maintain its leading position among all Dartmouth classes. Mail Paul your check TODAY and "up" it as much as you can over last year's contribution.
Secretary, Troy, Pennsylvania
Class Agent, Room 835, Chrysler Bldg., New York, N. Y.
