1942*

I write to you this month in a somewhat tired state of mind. Gutz Curtis had me throwing highballs up and down Broadway last night until I was dead; and the job of sorting and editing the tremendous amount of news you sent me this month hasn't helped at all today. Just hold onto your hats.

OUT OF A BARRACKS BAG: Digging deep into the blue denim, these somewhat old and musty, but interesting facts come forth. Harlan Strader was one of the leaders of his selective service quota when he left Freeport, N. Y., in June. He is now in O.C.S. (Officer's Candidate School) at Ft. Belvoir, Va. W ally Sigler is now a 2nd Lt. in the Marine Air Corps. Bate Ewart when last heard from was at Maxwell Field, Ala., in training for the AAF. Lt. John L. Williams has been stationed at New River, N. C., with the Fleet Marine Force. Carson Fleming has been assigned to the pilot group at Maxwell Field. Bill McMahon has been taking flight training with the Navy at New Orleans after working at Pratt & Whitney until March. Ed Self was called up to active duty with the Coast Guard Reserve about the first of July. He gets 30 days' preliminary training and, if a successful candidate, gets three months more of advance learning. John Valkevich received his 2nd Lt. commission in the AAF at Spence Field, Ga., in July. Glenn Brown is with Sid Bull and Brad Bates in the AAF Ground Crew Training at Kansas City. Bull, the mighty mite, is planning to run in the Sugar Bowl 3 mile come New Year's Day, provided he's near enough to New Orleans to make it. My monthly letter from tall, dark, and handsome Lennie Woods, now of the Ski Troops, tells me that John de le Montagne, HarryBond, and Jim Ban are partaking of the GI with him in the far-off state of Washington. Jake Nunnemacher hadn't shown up at the last roll call. He'll be there when he gets drafted, he writes. GeorgeRounds got his wings, commission in the NAC, married a Jacksonville, Fla., girl, and was ordered to the West Coast—all on the first of July. Haven't the name of the bride as yet. Cholly Jim Mulligan has received a commission in the Navy, and in between trips to Burlington, Vt., for social purposes, he's trying to get waived out of the Coast Guard. Doug Riley is now a Lt., having finished up in the Air School at Miami. Bill Martin starts in with the Air Corps in Boston around September first. Insult of the month, though, is from my own roommate, John Corwith, who got a commission in the Navy and is now at Cornell getting training. He didn't even let me know about it. Jim Lain is now a Cadet at West Point. Chick Camp is a Second Lewy and an instructor at the Marine's Reserve Officer School at Quantico. Wendy Neefus is now studying with the Signal Corps in Washington, D. C. Ensign PhilMoon has been in the Marine Hospital for an emergency appendectomy.

WRITER OF THE MONTH: Ad Winship sends along a letter that typifies what I'd like to get more of from you fellows out in the field. Here it is in part:

Almost any news these days is out of date before it is read, but I'll shoot what I can in the hopes that it may be welcome. While waiting for my orders for V-7, which are now overdue, I have been working in Boston. I have been taking my Saturday night relaxation in the Statler bar, which has proven itself to be the same old happy hunting grounds of Dartmouth men as of old. Have seen JohnnyMendes, Stub Pearson, and Ted Locke of the Squantum Dartmouth Squadron. By the time you get this they'll be about packing for the South. Ted was among the first to complete his primary hours, as was Bob Kirk. Last Saturday produced FritzDownes and Ed Milliken who are both in defense work. Tom Harriman has joined me frequently, between brain-twisters at M.I.T. Aeronautical Engineering School, Bob Giles is also studying at M.I.T.

Ray Wattles has dropped down from Hanover twice since starting his Naval training there. He and Ollie Quayle are both commissioned ensigns, and fortunate enough to have been sent to Hanover. The Statler has also produced Ed McLaughlin,Bud Tier nan the latter is in the Naval ReserveGeorge Hinckley who is in a training school for the Army Air Corps, and Mel Figley who is at Harvard Medical School. Have also bumped into DaveTeahan several times around town. He is at Tufts Medical School.

On June 13 th Tommy Worth en announced his engagement to Nancy England. He'll be a Flying Cadet by the time you get this. Have heard from Russ Greer, who is attending the Cornell Veterinarian School. The Army has commissioned him, giving him a couple of years to finish his course. Kent Barclay is a New York banker while waiting the call of the Army. He says that he and JimmyIdema attended Dick Levy's engagement party (Barbara Crane).

Just a couple more, Proc. Jack Harriman has been commissioned by the Army, and is working in a Buffalo plant while waiting for his orders. He may go to Buffalo Law this fall if he isn't called immediately. Johnny Wyper was shipped to the wilds of Maine soon after enlisting in the Army. BradBowman is taking his primary NAC training in Minneapolis.

Thanks a lot, Ad. This is what I want a lot more of.

Challenge to Squantum Dept.: High on Morningside Heights in uptown Manhattan there is a proud group of young men who are claiming to be the largest collection of Dartmouth '42's in existence today. At the latest count there were 24 of them. Unfortunately the publicity agent at this New York City Naval Training School isn't quite up to the tub-thumper at Squantum. But I do know that Bud Pogue is a twostriper among the Midshipmen there. That Ed Stafford was a big shot instructor until shipped some weeks ago. That Bud McKinley, the aforementioned Mr. Curtis,Bill Witmar, Jim Warden, Don Waesche,Bernie Teichgraeber, Dunbar Schuetz,Lowell (Pete) Peterson, Ed Moody, Warren Kreter, Chick Emslie, Alex Hooker,Bud Forte, Rum Ewing, Dick Clarke, BillHarris, and Birdlegs Nehring, in addition, are on hand. Dutch Cotton '41, Harvey please copy, was one of the boys' instructors. Dick Baldwin, Charley Hunt, and Carl Holekamp have departed. It sounds like a good group.

HANOVER HAPPENINGS: Monthly report fromBlack Robert Smith goes something like this: Horace Maynard was married to Sylvia Stahl on August. 8. Bob Moore was married three weeks previous—both living in apartments here at school. Sixmen from Tuck 2 and Tuck-Thayer 2 have applications in for Ordnance: they are Maynard, Stukey,Allen Hooker, Dave Warren, Sam Bell, and CharleyBrown. Bert Englert received his commission in theSupply Corps and will be married next Thanksgiving. Ted Schoonbeck will be married duringmid-year vacation (Caroline Putnam of St. Louisand Wellesley). Bob Strassenburgh is in V-7 andleaves for Notre Dame for his indoctrination coursein 2 weeks. Bud Sands and Ray Wattles from lastyear's Tuck 1 class are both up here in the Navy.

SWEET AND EVERYTHING: I'm thinking the jewelry business must be good. Since last time the following items have come to my attention. Engagedare Don Keer and Jean Hamilton Murray of NewYork and Vassar (Don is now at Columbia Engineering); Bob Campbell and Wayne Clark of Alexandria, Va., and Vassar (announced at a "traditional" Vassar bethrothal party); Bob "Hounddog'Garivick and Catherine A. O'Keefe (Bob takingAAF training at Maxwell Field); Craig Kugn andSally Jacobs of Pittsburgh and Bryn Mawr (Craigwas in the AAF the last I heard); Rollie Wilhelmyand Rosalyn Eidelberg early in the summer (Rollie'sin the Marine Corps); John Wright and Fran Kohl(Johnnie expects to go back to Hanover with theNavy); Bob Buckalew and Patty Boyd of Montclair,N. J., with the announcement coming from theRainbow Room late in August. (Bob is in the CoastGuard and the missus-to-be is the lovely thing thatdecorates the cover of the September "American.")Incidentally, Bob reports that he ran into MarinesHugh Corrigan, Matty Bride, Rollo Hummel,Butch Thurston, and others in Philly not so longago. Larry Falls and Elsa Tucker of Scarsdale andSmith (Larry is still at Thayer); Reed Griffith andLynne Wolfe of Lyme, N. H., on August. 7th; JakeNunnemacher and Jean Schmidt; Ed Spigel andDoris Dee Naylor on July 18; and Willard Wardand Janet Shepard in March. (Will is now in action "Somewhere in England.") Back issues arethat O. J. Buck was engaged in June to Miss PeggyBambach (O. J. is now in OCS in Miami); BobHill's fiancee is Harriet Chandler of Katie Gibbsand Waban, Mass.; and as I expected Lindy Difabiowas in on that Pete Bixby wedding in June. (I knewthey couldn't break up that Mutt and Jeff combine.)

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE: Better halves since the last issue have gone to Hal Harlow who married Elizabeth Harlow (no previous relation) of Northampton and Mt. Holyoke (Hal is a Corporal at Fort Devens); Bob Searles who married Barbara Pierce of Newport, Vt., and Middlebury College (Bob has enlisted in the AAF); Larry Holfelder who married Gwen Griffiths of Southboro, Mass., and Rollins on May 7 (I just found out about it); ArtHuck who married Faith Boyle of Greenwich, Conn., on August 16 (Art is going into Naval Reserve); Ben Joy who married Corinne Edman on July 30 (Ben is a 2nd Lieut, in the AAF); Wally Meckes who married Eloise Smith in Washington on August 15 (Wally is a Lieut, at Quantico); long-lost Cady Daniels Jr., who married Agnes Brown of Los Angeles in September 1940 (Cady III arrived in September, 1941); Phil Lee who married Margaret Thompason on July 7 (Bill is now an aviation specialist overseas): and Phil Thornton who married Marjorie Burns of Bethel, Maine, in Macon, Georgia, some time ago (Phil is a Ist Lieut, in the Air Corps now). As I said, the jewelry business must be good. The above list seems to make me and a couple more of the class quite eligible bachelors.

Joe Palamountain, who dropped out of sight along the first part of April, comes forth with the following: "Some news you probably know. A telephone conversation with Bill Mitchell revealed the following significant data: Mitch is working in a Jersey City Bank while awaiting consideration of his application for a commission in the USNR; Brickelmaier is, in his own words, 'co-pilot on a Nanuet garbage truck,' claims he is the only driver with an A.B. Me, I've been with the Navy since mid-March in Norfolk first, then Cornell from July Ist on."

THE CLASS BABY ISSUE: Since the question as to the holder of this coveted title may be coming up at any time now, here's a word to the wise. The class baby, as I understand it, shall be the first male child

born to a member of the class married after graduation It's a pretty clearcut rule. Now I can sit back and wait for the results.

ODDS AND ENDS: Andy Wood received a $500 prize for an essay on the Constitution, I have learned recently. Andy is now in Washington hoping to get a commission in Naval communications. Have heard from Jack Scolaro who is still at home in Franklin, Michigan. Bob Blood spent the summer in a Quaker Work Camp in Abbeville, S. C., his chief project being to destroy and rebuild a four room house. Rog Robison is studying at Oberlin Theological Seminary. Ira Berman reports from Hull, Mass., near Dartmouth-dominated Squantum, that the Big Green is setting a great pace for the rest of the flyers. Ira is working for his father after being unable to enlist. Art Cox is in 4T, but is doing his part by working for Lend-Lease in Washington. Ed Crane is a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at Harvard.

This should hold the wolves for the time being. Next month I'll start in on the cards. Be seeing a lot of you at football games this fall no doubt. Keep 'Em Flying.

ENSIGN DAVID M. CARROLL '42Commissioned in the Flying Corps USNRafter advanced training at Jacksonville.

Secretary, 100 DeForest Rd., Burlington, Vt. Treasurer, 105 Maple St., Belmont, Mass.

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