1941*
You can see how this married and engaged business is getting out of hand. I figure that about half of this column will be made up of the latest reports on 1941 weddings and betrothals. But for once we'll be up to date in such matters—until next month.
In the meantime: It was lucky that I took my vacation when I did, and got all built up and healthy in the nick of time, because Don Egan has just been to town. He came over to dinner one Saturday evening and the party broke up about 5.30 Sunday after- noon, so you see it was that kind of re- union and he was here for two weeks.
He is—or at least he was—in the civilian personnel division of the War Depart- ment in New York. He came down here for a departmental training course. Right now, he is probably in Chicago for the War Department or in New York doing some- thing else. He hadn't made up his mind when he left. It was a great time, and in the course of it I learned that Ed Rasmus- sen is in the Army out in Colorado, where he is taking courses in Japanese on the side.
Lou Young had a brief career as varsity line coach for Lehigh University. He was appointed in mid-August and resigned a couple of weeks later to enlist in the Naval Air Corps. He is now, according to his press chroniclers, in training at Chapel Hill, N. C.
Fred Leopold has also been around Washington lately. He is an ensign and is learning how to take bombs apart out at American University. And Johnny and Marge Kelley were encountered for a split second while they were whistling through Union Station on their way to a train. He's a Marine Corps instructor at Quantico.
"I am now at Camp Crowder, Mo., writes Clif Stratton, "attached to the 113 th Radio Intelligence Cos. I don't know why— I can't even change the tubes in the radio at home."
He says that Beck is signed up for Ma- rine officer training, and Herb Bailey is at Camp Upton, Long Island, where, after six weeks, he had yet to see a rifle—someone found out he could typewrite.
Clif, incidentally, left Yale Law last June, and I have a press clipping here that says he was awarded the Edgar M. Cullen prize for the highest ranking first year stu- dent.
And now with the romance department coming up, that's all. There's a letter here from Dutch Cotton, with many advices, but it will have to go over. You guys will get married.
These people are engaged: Fred Spencer and Peggy McCrea, of Springfield, Mass.; Bill David and Ann Rauschenberg, of Atlanta, Ga., and Duke; Ens. Sandy Courter and Maryetta Chris- tensen, of Great Neck, L. 1., and Smith; Ted Redington and Dorothy Cushing, of Lebanon, N. H., and Connecticut College for Women; Ens. Larry Norton and Kath- erine Britton, of Landsdowne, Pa., and William and Mary; Ens. Dick Wheeler and Gladys Carter, of Washington, D. C., and Mount Vernon; Bob Steele and Barbara Anderson, of Fair Haven, Conn.; Ens. Dick Engelbert and Vera Raset, of Binghamton, N. Y.; Dick Darby and Doris Stratton, of Patterson, N. J., and Skidmore; William Swanberg and Mary Hirschl, of Chicago, 111., and U. of Chicago; Lt. Jack Shattuck and Barsha Powers, of Boston, Mass.; Jack Devor and Gerry Thiele, of Chicago, 111.; Ens. Dick Hill and Martha Plume, of Mamaroneck, N. Y., and Smith.
These people got married: Dick Fisher and Barbara Beyea, August 8, at Englewood, N. J.; Ens. Johnny Lendo and Elizabeth Boyden, July 25, at Worces- ter, Mass.; Ens. Don Blount and Jean Cumming, June 27, at Providence, R. I.; Ens. Ray Hayes and Mildred Parks, June 13, at Wellesley Hills, Mass.; lan Brown and Eleanor Mary Gardner, June 14, at Green Ridge, Pa.; Dana Chase and Alle- thaire Medlicott, May 30, at Longmeadow, Mass.
Gil Stokes and Lillian Miller, June 14, at Brentwood, N. H.; Lt. Lewis Hart and Irene Levenson, June 11, at Boston, Mass.; Bob Koenig and Harriet Mclntyre, June 20, at Glen Ridge, N. J.; Ens. Earl Cotton and Caryl Lindberg, Aug. 5, at New York City; Lt. Joe Gross and Elsie Smith, at Merced, Cal.; Jim Cocalis and Eleanor Hopkins, Aug. 10, at New York City; Les Overlock and Fern Wilson, June 20, at River Forest, 111.; and Wes Harper and Jane Guilford, Sept. 14, at Cheshire, Conn.
LIEUT. BRAYTON SMITH '42 "Ready for combat duty" after receivinghis Army Air Force wings from a GulfCoast Training Center school on Oct. 9.
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