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Fall Hunting Notes, 1942
If you caught the poison-ivy hunting saboteurs in parks, If your setter will not set but only leaps around and barks, If you've felt your life-raft nibbled on by predatory sharks, If you sniffed, and bagged, and buried any nazismelling snarks, If you missed the Jap you aimed at and brought down a brace of larks, Or youive overheard some Dartmouths making quotable remarks About our Walsers, Kellers, Sheldons, Zimmermans, or Clarks .... Remember that your Secretary, Edward Bennett Marks, Has handed down his hunting-license to another scribe Who's hunting news of all the hunters in our noble tribe.
One of the active hunters about whom a report has come through is Dr. Seymour Jacobson, who compacted the results of his researches in the form of an article on "Childhood Appendicitis," which appeared in the June issue of the American Journal of Diseases of Children. Working in another part of the forest is Bo Wentworth, who writes,
It seems only yesterday that we were crowding around the beerkeg at reunion. Despite the press of additional work in the form of War Damage Insurance I am trying to carry on the usual pursuits of life and happiness including the always stimulating experience of moving into new business quarters and a new home. My residence is now at 88 Annawan Road, Waban, Mass., and our offices (Home Insurance Company) from August 20th onward at 71 Kilby Street, Boston. Classmates and all other Dartmouth friends are welcome at both addresses.
Hunting out recruits for the Navy in Birmingham, Ala., is Lt. Wilbur (Bud) Templin, who entered the Naval Reserve in April, got himself indoctrinated at Notre Dame, and went to Alabama (where the other stars fell) in July to assist Lt. Comdr. Meredith with district recruiting. He left a business in Elkhart, Ind., for the Navy job, which must come naturally to him, since he has two brothers-in-law in the blue Rip Miller, Annapolis coach, and How ard Kissell, coach at the Naval Air Base at Purdue.
Other service news includes Dick Hazen's new j.g. lieutenantship in the Navy's Civil Engineering Corps; recently he has been helping build the gobs a new training school on Lake Seneca, N. Y. Temporarily turned down by the Navy, Chuck Hall does priorities work and cost accounting for Cleveland Hardware and Forging Company, a new job dedicated 100% to war work. Tom Wollaeger has a civilian job in the Quartermaster's Division in Washington. Chuck Owsley is a first looie scheduled for overseas duty. Second looie Art Schlichter was training at Miami's Roney Plaza in mid-August.
News from Washington: John Clark spent some July time nipping back and forth over the Andes; Bill Brister is in the Transport Division of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Brandy Marsh and Morgan Hobart are both with WPB; diplomat Bill Cole has taken a new post in Newfoundland and Ed Marks kindly relays the following on Bill's "detention" experiences in Rome:
Bill had guards assigned to be with him 24 hours daily, three of them on 8-hour shifts. When not accompanying him around the city, they would sleep outside his hotel room. They were very obliging. If you were having a drink with a friend, they would leave the cafe and call for you at the end of two hours. It was much easier having them around than not, as with a guard in tow you were relatively safe from prying police. Bill said one guard had a brother in the Italian Army who was imprisoned in Australia. The brother was very lucky, the guard thought—plenty of food and comfort. Yes, said Bill, but suppose the Japs happened to conquer Australia. Oh, I never thought of that, cried the guard. That would be terrible!
Your recent Secretary Ed Marks adds of himself that with wife and small Kate he is comfortably settled at 3530 Quesada Street, N. W., Washington, and busy with his highly interesting job of Alien Resettlement, chiefly of respectable Japs. Four of the projected ten relocation centers are now occupied, and beginning to look like genuine communities. Sez Ed:
Slowly, from raw land, the communities are being fashioned. Manzanar has a ball team called the Hitless Wonders; Poston's co-op stores did a $60,000 business in July. Slowly, though as rapidly as is feasible, the evacuees are taking the reins of project government into their own hands. Dr. James Goto does an appendectomy, delivers a child. Bright hair ribbons are the style for the nisei girls. The Manzanar Free Press is transformed from a mimeographed to a printed sheet. Tule Lake's activity includes everything from geometry to judo (Jap-style wrestling).
This column would greatly welcome reports like Ed's or stories like Bill Cole's on the human aspects of the war effort, and will of course relay no censorable information. On tap for the next issue is a highly informative letter on Barefoot Ball-booter Andy Stollmeyer at famille, passed on by Don Simpson, whose latest address, by the way, is 824 North Washington Street, Wheaton, Illinois.
Two weddings of interest to Thirty-two men are those of Don Allen and Bob Hosmer, solemnized respectively at Wollaston, Mass. June 14, and at Cleveland, August first. Don married Catharine Cochrane of Quincy in an eight o'clock candlelight ceremony, and the report has Don engaged in graduate research at Yale. Bob married Grace (Toto) Mather in the midst of a ten-day furlough granted him after he had received his commission as a second lieutenant from Camp Davis, N. C. Most recent advices have it that Toto Hosmer is living near the camp where the tall, blonde lieutenant is stationed, near Williamsburg, Va.
Secretary, 210 Moore St., Princeton, N. J Treasurer, 44 Leslie Rd., Auburndale, Mass.
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