1934*
4 A.M.—OCT. 8—A.W.S. OBSERVATION POST This suicide shift gets better each time I get up here on the hill. New stove now, plenty of heat and a new system that allows me six good hours of sleep before I come up (if I have brains enough to go to bed early). So regardless of what this sounds like, I'm fresh as a daisy. So what!
Well this little city in the North Coun- try isn't so far off the beaten track as I had been led to believe. Os Ruebhausen dropped into my office a couple weeks ago, and we had a swell chat." He was making a quick trip up to Washington, Vermont (a Washington where you can still find a bed for the night, even if you can't find a hotel) to look over the family estate and be sure it was ship-shape for the winter. He hasn't been called yet but expects to be reclassi- fied and in some branch of the Service momentarily.
"U.S.S. TOPLIFF"
And speaking of ship-shape, Hanover is some town these days. A week ago Saturday I took a quick trip down to see Dickerson and Hayward about my unwanted and temporary monopoly of all *34 official positions. I wanted to see Dave Hedges and Bill Hartman who were there in the Navy school. So Dickerson phoned Dartmouth Hall where Dave was supposed to be teaching a class. We were informed by the man on duty that Mr. Hedges was on the 3rd deck. We called the 3rd deck and couldn't find Hedges. After several tries we were informed that Mr. Hedges had gone ashore. The inside story was that he had gone to the bulkhead. The boys are all living in the "U.S.S. Topliff" and the "U.S.S. New Hamp" and a couple of lesser dories up behind the Sphinx barge and I guess they must row to classes. But it was swell to cruise down the Hanover Ocean and Campus Cove is still the snug little harbor it always was. God forbid they ever swap the light buoy at the Inn Corner for a fog horn!
With all its new salty atmosphere the town still looks swell, the main change being neat uniforms instead of corduroys, and I don't know but what that's an improvement. Dartmouth is doing a big job, as if you didn't know it, and her men are making their presence felt in a lot of places.
Hedges attended the first Navy School this sum- mer and then was held over to teach seamanship. Just when he was getting into the swing of it, though, he was told to report in New York. Bill Hartman is in the 2nd school now in session. They work the gang plenty hard but the boys look as though they were thriving on it.
JEEPERS No CREEPERS
Even the Army gets to Vermont. Buzz Hartman is now at our Ft. Ethan Allen and seems to be having a whale of a time. He's a Ist Lt. and working with an outfit that literally "Keeps 'em rolling." He picked me up in Burlington last week and drove me out to the Fort to show me around. I expected to see him drive up in a jeep but instead he pulled up in his own car with Illinois plates. Had a swell after- noon with him. Made a tour of the whole plant. His outfit handles all of the rolling equipment for a big piece of the Army, but I must confess I can't keep all the branches of the various Services straight. I didn't see any tanks but I had a good look at all sizes of trucks and four-wheeled jobs. It made me feel good to think of my little crate when I saw them pumping gas into one of their ten-wheeled trucks—and me with an "A" card. I hope to have some hot dope on Buzz for next month.
WHEN LAST HEARD OF
I still have some news items from the early summer which I didn't have a chance to send out in the Newsletter. Here is one letter that beats them all:
Mr. Thomas Douglas, '44 Dartmouth College Dear Douglas:
I only hope that by the time you receive this you will not have left Hanover for whatever you may be going to do this Summer and that in getting this little note it will furnish you with a smile or two.
Last Fall my wife and I were in Hanover to see the Colgate game, along with three of my class- mates. It so happens that of all the football games I have taken my wife to, she had never seen Dart- mouth win (from this you will see that we haven't taken in too many games in the last 8 years). This always afforded her a great opportunity to rib me.
When we settled down for the kick-off last Oc- tober, she therefore said to me Well, I suppose the Big Green is going to lose again today, to which the only natural reply was Not a chance! She then came up with something of a gamble, when she said If they do happen to win today, we'll name our son after the player who scores the winning touchdown.
Of course, the outcome of that game is now an- cient history and when you went over for those second six points, you were elected (thank the Lord we weren't watching a Notre Dame or a Fordham game). The days and weeks finally crept by, and on February 18, 1942, Douglas Oakley Ford made his appearance.
Well, that's my little human interest story and here's hoping that he follows in your footsteps with the same ability for the Indians on the grid- iron in 1962, as you have now. If all of us are still around two years from now, we may get a chance to say "hello" to one another at your Commence- ment which will be my tenth. Best regards and lots of luck.
Bob Ford, '34
According to the papers, Ensign Bob M. Williamson was to be married late in Au- gust to Miss Doris Elizabeth Moore of Hinsdale, 111., a graduate of The Univer- sity of Colorado. Bob is stationed in the East. We'd like to know where.
Miss Onalee Stamp was married Aug. 15th in Elmira, N. Y., to Sgt. A 1 Hine. The bride is a graduate of Elmira College '39, and for the past three years has been dieti- tian at the Henry W. Putnam Hospital, Bennington, Vt. A 1 is now stationed at Polk Field, Ft. Bragg, N. C.
Miss Elizabeth Otis Brigham of N. Y. was married August 15th to Lt. Dick Pois- son in New York City. Mrs. Poisson is a graduate of Pine Manor and attended Smith College.
Miss Mary Rita Ryan of North Chelms- ford is engaged to Jack Corcoran. Miss Ryan was graduated from Kenwood Con- vent of the Sacred Heart, Albany, N. Y., and from Emmanuel College, Boston. She is on the teaching staff of Chelmsford High School. Jack is now in the USNR in Port- land, Maine. We'd like to know more about this Navy angle.
Here's a new slant on Ned Mudge. Last this department heard, he was on his way to So. America for the First National Bank of Boston. He changed his mind, though, and enlisted in the Army. At the end of six months he became a corporal, was sta- tioned at the Manchester, N. H., air base, later Ft. Dix, and has now been assigned to the Air Force O.C.S. at Miami, Fla.
I have just received, via Marty Dwyer, a card announcing the arrival of Alfred J. Cotton Jr., June 29th. Here's wishing the best to all the family.
That's the story for this month. And don't forget your dues. We need your help, now, if we are to keep the MAGAZINE roll- ing out to the whole gang. We'd like to get the job cleaned up in a hurry.
Secretary and Treasurer Upper Terrace St., Montpelier, Vt.
