1937*
This month brings some sad news about two very well-liked '37ers. Jake Shafer, twice lacrosse Captain, has left us. Hank Pierce, now of Stratford, Conn., one of Jake's best friends, has contributed a very splendid tribute to Jake which appears in the Necrology Section. From the Ponca City, Okla., News comes indirect word that R.A.F. Pilot Officer Thomas W. Prentice Jr. is missing since a raid in early August on Axis targets. He was last seen by his buddies as he swept through heavy anti- aircraft fire dive-bombing important ob- jectives. Another American in Tom's squadron leaves the tribute, "He was a great fighter, absolutely fearless, and dive- bombing with Kitty Hawks is no joke."
Making the difficult turn from events, the news of which must hit each of us with real impact, to our local issues which have their own continuing importance, let's lend our eyes to our Treasurer.
A letter to those who have not paid theirClass Dues:
This month you received the October and No- vember copies of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. It is the wish of the Executive Committee to have as many members of the Class as possible keep in touch with each other and with Dartmouth during these unsettled times. At present we have about 50% of our dues collected. I have advised the Executive Committee that I feel the war is largely responsible for this low return to date. It is our belief that those who cannot pay their dues now will be able to in the near future. With this in mind, the ALUMNI MAGAZINE comes to all of you this month with last month's copy which we withheld from mailing.
Through all these busy days, let's not forget Dartmouth, 1937, and our 10th Reunion. Keep Them Flying Rug
Art is tearing planes apart in Lincoln, Nebraska, as a potential Master Mechanic for the Air Force Ground Crew It seems Mutt and Corky Ray's baby is a girl. Whether she's to be named Carlotta or Corkemia our late flash didn't state A few of you light-reading fans might enjoy "The precancerous mouth lesions of Avita- minosis," by one Dr. H. Martin and the one and only Dr. C. Everett Koop, erst- while prexy of the Zetes. This choice mor- sel has been reprinted from the August issue of the American Journal of Sur-gery. Can you do that Camerer?. .. .Mid- shipman Claude Clark Jr. of the Naval Reserve married Jennette C. Empsall of Malone, N. Y., and Lawrence University, during the summer, and the news is just leaking out. Claude has Cornell Law School to his credit and was a partner in the Malone Law Firm of Genaway & Clark when he left for the service Ensign Jack Costello is now engaged to Peggy Eliz- abeth Palmer of Lowell, Mass., and Rogers Hall. Jack should be at Quonset Point if any of his creditors are looking for him. ... .Corp. Phil. Harlow is now married to the same Barbara Blydenburgh to whom he was reported engaged last issue Our ex-a-lot-of-things, Head Class Agent among others, handsome Mort Berkowitz, the pee-pul's choice, is now nearly an ex-bachelor. He's engaged to Carolyn Jane Wrensch of Rye, N. Y., and Finch Junior College Another engagement that didn't get broken is that of Bob Miskimon and Betty Blan- ton. They were married in late August, we hear Don McKinlay's as much the good Secretary as ever and his communi- que from that tropical island is a pip It's a daughter, Penelope Anne, at Ensign Bill Cash's house in Newtonville, Mass.
Briggs Austin has been moving around fast lately and may be in Cambridge for the Harvard Supply School Course. He quick-changed from the retail end of Eastman Kodak to statistical work in Eastman's war-production before his uncle quick- changed him into a uniform Mo. Cartwright was seen on a sweep in Frisco Bay 'tis said Bill Geraghty keeps climbing and is now a First Lieutenant. Dapper Bill's bars are making Birming- ham belles' eyes shine, we're sure Bill Car- hart had a close one, being passenger on a torpe- doed ship. He was taken off in a lifeboat and says the leave he got was more than worth it En- sign Roper, the one that went around the corner, turned up in Longmeadow, Mass., c/o H. C. Lap- ham, 32 Converse St Connie Schuck, now teaching at Peddie School Bob Kenney is now a Unit Chief in the Synthetic Rubber Sut. W.P.B. in Wash, and can be reached at 1605 New Hamp. Ave., N. W It's Lt. Allen Jacks of the U. S. Army now Bob Ewing, now with the C.A.A., is staying at 662 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach John Brown, known as J. Wilcox Brown to a few intimates, is now a Forester-Field Representative for the Otsego Forest Products Co- operative Assn., an important Farmer Coop in Cooperstown, N. Y Bill Henry is now with the Texas Cos. and can be found in Midland, Texas. . . . . Lt. Ed Eaton of the Army Air Corps, sta- tioned temporarily in Rome, N. Y., writes about his job in the Depot Supply end of the Air Corps. .... Boz Bosworth is still going straight out with Will Ross Inc., selling hospital supplies. With large demand and prices up, 'tis said he's hotter than a firecracker, but then there's a few mouths to feed in the Bosworth Cottage Bill Ashe, keep- ing things turning in the National Credit Office in Cleveland. It's not known here how his son Chris made out after that dislocated hip that was wrap- ped up in a cast last summer Bill Timbers' announcement of John William Timbers was subtly done, a small hunk of a birch branch with the new one's name burned into it Katherine Pierpont Stearns from Old Greenwich, Conn., and Dr. Kenny Stearns will be at home at 500 "W. 12th Street, N. Y. C. for awhile Brad Petersen, a loyal correspondent from South Pasadena, Calif., is head- ing for Notre Dame to start a Naval V-7 course. He doesn't expect to be able to tell them much after a year and a half practicing law, mostly in the Cor- poration Advisory field If Charlie "Red- Head" Schaaf's marriage to Fern Reid of Santa Monica has not yet been chronicled, here it shall stand. He's shouldered a rifle after a couple a years practising with a top flight San Francisco law firm.
Lads, there's a limit on the number of words than can be slung in these notes, but no limit on the number you can sling to the scribe. Family pictures, baby pic- tures, group pictures, even a picture of you flashing those Pvt., ist Class, stripes to the Missus on your furlough would look swell on these pages, so let's hear from you.
TEAM-MATES Cadet Howard A. Nopper '39 shows CadetP. Conti '37 how it's done at the Jacksonville Navy air school. The two fliers playedfootball together at Dartmouth.
Secretary, 94 Stone Rd., Belmont, Mass. Treasurer, Box 121, Deerfield, Mass.
