1939*

Your Acting-Secretary is now an Ensign, USNR, stationed at the Naval Training Station, Newport, R. I. It would be very much appreciated if you guys would address your correspondence to the address shown at the heading of this column, in lieu of the one which has appeared in the past issues.

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Straight from pretty blonde Jane Waters came word that her husband Buzz has been seriously ill with malaria, and further complications common to the particular region to which Buzz is assigned. Latest reports were that Buzz was recovering in good order. Incidentally, it is Captain Waters now, rather than Lieutenant To mention a few more captains of the U. S. Marines, we have Hank Welton, Jim Donovan, Austin Igleheart, Colby Howe, and Bill Stevenson In New Orleans, La., on August nth, Lt. (j.g.) Joe Batchelder became father of "Midshipmite" Joe Batchelder Iii..... Jim Powers, the mystery man who can rarely be located, has turned up in the Army, stationed in a camp in the vicinity of Boston Bill Webster, test pilot for Curtiss-Wright, while on a business trip to Washington, wined and dined with Bill Risley and wife. Ris is connected with Eastern Airlines, presumedly in Washington Four Dartmouth men spent a week's vacation under one roof, in York Harbor, Me. To enumerate, Jim Mathes and wife, Your Acting-Secretary and wife, Dusty Rohde and wife, and Rocky Rohde, aged 3 months, Dartmouth '64 John Fisher reminisced with Bill Borsdorff, Ensign, USNR, on a chance meeting in a train. John was on a vacation, Bill on leave from his New York station Bud Little, connected with the Blood Donor Centre, in Boston, has drawn blood from many sturdy '39er's arms, namely, Bob Cushman, Michael Ellis (M. Abrahamson), Kenny Mac Donald and wife, and Dave Long. Bud further passes on the word that Dave Reid is busy finishing up at Tufts Medical School From. Lt. Jim Fuller, meteorologist par-excellence, "Have been going to what they call Pre-Flight School since the early part of July, and am leaving for Primary School next week." This is in connection with a new scheme of making meteorologists more at home in their realm. Fulsy is at present at Santa Ana, Calif., after serving a long hitch in Spokane as Senior Weather Officer Chet Wiggin has been sworn into the U. S. Marine Officers' Training School and was last reported awaiting the final call Gene Weeks recently graduated from West Point and has been attached to the Signal Corps. ... .Dick Storrs recently received his doctor of medicine degree at Columbia Stan Brown finished his preliminary flight training at Squantum, and has been ordered to an intermediate base in the south for further training Ensign Gus Zitrides, temporarily assigned to the Cadet Selection Board of the 1st Naval District, has been doing a bit of public speaking around New England High Schools. Following this duty Gus is headed for the University of Georgia to toughen up the Air Cadets Phil Went worth, recently in the East, has gone back to Texas and his work with Stone & Webster Engineering.

To economize on words, it is necessary to merely list the weddings and engagements. My apologies for not being able to include the details. ENGAGED: Herb Hirschland and Jean Macintosh; Les Graves and Lucille Masten; Bill Tucker and Beryl Weisman; Doc Tower and Shirley McDuff; Cpl. Al Wolff and Adele Druss; Bob Wehmeyer and Beatrice Ann Smith; Tom Beasley and Elizabeth Doherty; Ensign Dave Thurlow and June Barrie. MARRIED: Bud Little and Mary Russell, formerly of Mary Hitchcock Hospital; Moose Wyman and Bettina Bell, of Fairmont, W. Va.; Herb Stine and Elaine Hammel, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; Pvt. Doug Farrington and Grace Reynolds, of "West Islip, L. I.; Cpl. John Parkhurst and Margaret Brewster of Carmel, Calif.; Lt. Bill Green and Joan Jacobson, of Deal, N. J.; Bud Richardson and Mary Raynor, of Albany, N. Y.; Bob Woodward and Virginia Sullivan, of York Harbor, Me.; Bob Catherine and Jeanne Du Bois, of Pelham Manor, N. Y.; Gene Weeks and Mildred Polk, of Knoxville, Tenn.; Bill Tomkins and Lois Jenkins, of Ridgewood, N. J.; Pete Talbot and Gertrude Flitner, of Englewood, N. J.; Ensign Bill Mason and Catherine Pratt, of Maplewood, N. J.; John Gaul and Ruth Jones, of Saddle River, N. J.

The Writer of the Month is Bob Kaiser, Lt. OCS, Gunnery Department, F.A.S., Fort Sill, Okla., who gives a good picture of life at Officers' Training School, in the South West.

"... .1 went through the three months of Officers' Candidate School here and managed to keep from flunking anything. But it really was a grind, and I don't mean perhaps; all the old West Point hazing and bracing, the equivalent of a week's college work each day, and that's no exaggeration. Two years of West Point in twelve weeks is no breeze. We were all physical and nervous wrecks by the time it was over. But they really teach you a lot in that time, and for me, the stuff is plenty interesting. So there were compensations for the drudgery.

"Anyway, they let me pin those little gold bars on about June 23rd, and I never felt that I had earned anything more honestly in all my life.

"Since then I have been right back here at the school, only now it is on the other side of the fence. I was assigned to the Staff and Faculty of the Field Artillery School, and am now hard .at work teaching in the Gunnery Dept. of the Officers' Candidate Division the same course that I had just finished myself.

"To be frank, I don't know whether it is tougher to be a student here or an instructor Six to eight hours a day of teaching, an hour's drill instruction, and three to four hours of study each night manage to keep my day pretty well cluttered up with work, and just to make sure that we have no time to fritter away, we have exams and writs to correct, records to keep, demonstrations and classes to attend, etc. Quite a factory!

"But it really isn't bad despite the hard work and long hours. At first I was pretty disappointed by not being sent out into the field but now that I have been here awhile, I rather like it. Teaching is good fun, even with the brow-beating methods we have to employ, and I've managed to get the hang of it pretty well at this point. The subject of Gunnery is pretty fascinating to me and the more I learn about it, the more fascinated I become. Then, too, there is really a grand bunch of boys here to work with, and opportunity to make friends aplenty. So, I found that it is not such a bad deal after all, and am becoming more used to it every day.

"....All this activity precludes anything but abortive attempts at any kind of social life. I do manage to sneak in a couple of beers now and then and a date once in a while up at Oklahoma City, or down at Wichita Falls, or Fort Worth, Texas, but they are few and far between However, your "Down the Aisle" remains strictly of academic interest to me only, and is likely to remain so for some time to come.

"... .As I've already hinted, '39 doesn't believe that there is such a place as Oklahoma. In a year and a half here I have yet to run across a classmate. This, despite the fact that there are hundreds of men coming here every week from all parts of the world. It may be that some have slipped through without my running across them. In a place where there is a new class every week the size of our college classes, and twelve of them here at any one time, that is perfectly possible."

THE CLEARING HOUSE

This department is in great need of letters from you guys, and a few pictures to give the old column a touch of color. Your efforts will be damn well appreciated; you can bet your bottom dollar on that.

LT. CARMELO GUGINO JR. 'gB Recently assigned to overseas duty with hisplane which carries Dartmouth Indianhead insignia.

1939 IN HONOLULU Lt. Chuck Grant of the Army Air Corpsand Ensign Herb Mattlage USNR.

Acting Sec'y, 19 Willard St., Hartford, Conn. Treasurer, Bishop Pt., Pearl Harbor, Hawaii