1928*
Two 'aBers were among the ten Dartmouth men brought back on the diplomatic exchange liner Gripsholm, which docked in Jersey City, August 25. They were Jerry Warner, U. S. Consul at Kobe, Japan, and Chris Livingston, representative of the Texas Cos. in Hongkong. Chris was imprisoned in Hongkong and later transferred to the Stanley internment camp in Shanghai where the treatment of the internees was pretty bad. In the New York Herald Tribune of August 17 there was a picture of Chris over the caption "Officials of the American community at the Stanley internment camp."
Jerry caught a plane for California for a grand reunion with Rella and their two children, who had left Japan over a year ago. Replying to my request for a letter, he writes from Laguna Beach, California:
"I was interned in Kobe in my own house along with four others from the Consulate. We were thoroughly guarded and only four times during those six months was I permitted to go downstreet under guard to the doctor or dentist. So you may judge that the experience was somewhat tedious. Nor was it pleasant as relations with our guards were not always cordial. Then too the uncertainty as to when and if we'd ever be exchanged added to our discomfort.
"At any rate I'm back now, all set to pitch in and help with the war effort. It will have to be plenty of effort to beat the Japs and the Germans. It is discouraging to find how little we seem to realize as yet that the Japanese are all-out for our scalps. The military is in thorough control of that country and it is a case of do or die with them. We aren't doing much more than wiggle our little fingers thus far. It doubtless takes a long time to shift from peace-time to war-time production and the Japs have been preparing for a. long time for the war with us and their initial victories have enabled them to add considerably to reserve stocks of essential supplies. The Jap soldier fights like a fanatic, but he is no superman, and we can eventually get them, and we can't get going any too soon.
"I'll be out here for a few weeks and then go to the State Department September 25 to see what they have lined up for the future."
As an example of what we call "the Dartmouth spirit" I point out that his first act after reaching home and greeting his family was to send me a check for the Alumni Fund to supplement the one his wife had sent in for him.
IN SERVICE
The number of 'aBers in uniform has jumped from 60 to 70 since the August issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. The score is now: Army 40, Navy 30. Newcomers are Navy Bennet, Heston, Gillard; ArmyAbbott, Annable, H. B. Davis, Roy Myers, Reid, Walter, Wheatley.
Mrs. Chuck Bennet reports, "You can add another to the Navy contingent from '2B, and may the number grow by leaps and bounds. Chuck left early in August for the Naval Training School at Treasure Island, San Francisco. He got his commission as Ensign while in training and when through in Frisco goes to the Armed Guard School in San Diego." Thanks, Martha. How about more wives writing me?
Lt. Bill Alford, recent graduate of the Quonset Naval Aviation Training School, is now located at 2715 So. Olive St., West Palm Beach. Lt. Jerry Sass of the Army Air Corps is in the same city.
Lt. Jack McLaughlin finished in the first 25 of his class at Quonset and was slated for sea duty. When he was commissioned the Camden Courier gave him a whole column, one paragraph of which is herewith "lifted": "For the past 12 years he has been Campbell Soup's all-around man of good-will, a guy as familiar throughout the many buildings of the Camden soupery as the red and white label on the cans That's because he likes people and because he owns the 'light touch.' It is also because he is a tall, lean lad with a crisp, blond head and a way of walking that looks like the first part of an 'off to Buffalo' soft shoe routine."
Lt. (jg) Jack Heston, also of Philadelphia, is just completing his two months' course at the Naval Training School at South Boston. His permanent address is Wyndon & Roberts Roads, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Lt. (jg) Dick Foote, after two months of strenuous studying at Harvard, is attending the new diesel engineering school at Ohio State and will receive a new assignment in November.
Coxswain Budd Maring, on a coastal mine sweeper, writes, "The work is interesting—lots of fun—small crew good food and a chummy bunch of officers."
Lt. Jim Gillard has been sent around the country by the Navy since he was commissioned May 20. The pay-off is his latest assignment. Being a gynecologist, they sent him to Chicago to examine the Waves.
Miami Beach is drawing a lot of '28ers. In addition to the permanent residents (Beal, Beebe, Hankins, McKenney) Tubby Walter of Teaneck, N. J., and Steele Smith of Waterbury, Conn., are privates together in the 579 th Technical School Squadron, T.S. No. 347. Close by is Lanky Langdell in the 582 nd T.S.S. Paul Annable reported there on September 4 for duty as a lieutenant in the Air Corps. He was manager of Genung's department store in Danbury, Conn.; his wife and daughter will stay
there temporarily. Ed Wheatley, who was married June 2, was inducted into the Army as a private on July 13. He is in the 923 rd T.S.S., Group B, Room 934, Atlantic City, N. J.
Pvt. Stretch Davis, formerly a professor at Southwestern College, Memphis, is a student in the Intelligence Service at Fort Dix, N. J., and says, "Hope you and the gang will keep up the old work for Dartmouth during the crisis." Yet bet we will!
Cpl. Herm Schnepel is in the Quartermaster Corps at Fort Dix.
Bob Reid has had a commission of Captain in the Cavalry for the past 12 years, but was not called to active duty until August and then was put in the Air Corps. He is now at the Victorville, California, Advance Bombing Field. He writes, "It looks as if 1928 will have well over a hundred in the service by the first of the year." Bob, a bachelor, has been traveling the 12 western states for the American Pad & Paper Cos. for 12 years.
Lt. Cal Billings writes from Enid, Oklahoma,
"Had a small '28 reunion here recently—Ed Abbott and myself he read in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE I was here. Ed has been with Columbia Broadcasting in Chicago for the past six years and became one of the best critics of popular music in the country. The Enid Army Flying School's Public Relations Dept. asked him to reorganize their orchestra, so Ed enlisted as a private and came along. After he was there 10 days he had improved it 100%. He has some fine material to work with, three of the men in the orchestra having come out of Gene Krupa's band. This band broadcasts each Tuesday at 8 P.M. Central Time via KCRC."
Jack Phelan, Volunteer Officer Candidate, arrived in Biloxi, Miss., August 30 with the Army Air Corps and is taking a 7-week course at Keesler Field, Miss.
Art Vandenberg was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant on August 15 011 graduation from the Quartermaster Officers' Training School at Camp Lee, Va.
Clint Goodwin and Bill Monaco were classmates at the Armed Force Officers Candidate School at Fort Knox, Kentucky, all summer and helped each other pin on his gold bars (2nd Lt.) at their graduation. They were two of the ten men recommended for immediate promotion and were assigned as instructors at Fort Knox, Clint teaching tactics and Bill teaching medium tank maintenance.
Fred Cheever, advertising manager of Pepperill Mfg., was loaned to the War Department for four months and has been in Washington since June.
Stew Hoagland sold his printing company in July and is now with R. B. H. Dispersions, a small unit of Interchemical, in Bound Brook, N. J. He has another candidate for Dartmouth—Christopher, aged ten months.
One of the persons subpoenaed to testify at the trial of Herbert Bahr, former R. P. I. student who was sentenced to prison as a German spy, was Dick Schmelzer, a professor at Renssalaer Poly.
Phelps McKenney has moved to 47 Alhambra Circle, Coral Gables, Florida Irv Beebe is now living at 919 SW 9th Court, Miami "Moc" Gray is the new headmaster of the Wilton (N. H.) high school George Emery has been appointed manager of the N. J. Bell Telephone Cos. office at Long Branch John Sugden is now manager of the Nashua, N. H., office of the N. E. Tel. & Tel. .... Red Edgar, assistant to the vice president of the B. & M., recently spoke on "The Railroads War Effort" before the White River Junction Rotary Club Ted Howard has left New York and is now living on Vine St., Wrentham, Mass Gaylord Fauntleroy was recently elected secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Houston. What about telling us more about that Army uniform you're wearing in the picture on page 49 of the August ALUMNI MAGAZINE? Bill Kimball was acting dean of the Thayer School during the summer semester.
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