1925*
Now on October 8 Dick Colton was made glad hearted by the arrival of Richard C. Colton Jr. He will enter Dartmouth in i960. Due to the presence of a skillful doctor, Dick survived the birth in fine shape.
The boy who is always getting around, Ken Simonds, sends his greetings from Saint John, New Brunswick, where he went for a two weeks' job.
Gardner Howe has just been commissioned a lieutenant (s.g.) and will be assigned to Washington.
Mil Hart writes that he is the only childless educated white man in Chicago under 45 who is not running around in circles trying to get a commission. He is still analyzing real estate securities at the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Co.
Drenny Salters' wife, Maida, is serving this year as president of the Junior League in Evanston.
Hal Stevens was with Frank Kennedy in the same indoctrination group at Quonset, R. I. Hal has had a furlough and is now stationed in Tennessee.
Ford Whelden has finished his course at Quonset.
Cubby Cubbins, the trailer man, was offered a commission in the Motor Transport Service. An old football knee injury showed up in his physical, and the Army told him he was a wreck. Then they put him on the same job as a civilian. He has been in Detroit, Chicago, and finally is now back home in New York. He has thirteen acres and a 131-year-old house with bar, garage, a woodshed, chicken house, smoke house and a pigeon house up near Ossining, New York. The Cubbins family does quite a bit of farming on the side, and Cubby is raising some of his own meat.
Now that Curt Abel has gone to war, Doug Archibald will carry the ball as Class Agent. Knowing Doug as we do, we know that he will be an able and capable successor to Curt.
Frank Wallis has been commissioned a captain in the Judge Advocate's Offices, Assistant to the Surgeon General, on medical supply contracts. His address: 2436 39th St. N. W., Washington.
Ran into Bunny Levison while in Boston the other day. He has some notion of getting married. He and his intended were supper guests of the Bill Sleighs this fall and ate from the Sleigh vegetable garden.
We had always thought Pete Blodgett would be the perfect Army Aviation Officer. So did a lot of other folks with judgment better than ours. That is, everyone except the Army. Seems that Pete is a physical wreck. A bad ankle, etc., etc., etc. The fact that Peter is an able executive, piloted a plane to Alaska in the pioneer days of flying up that way, is one of the best big game shots in the East and can walk the average man off his feet in the bush has nothing to do with it. Nothing at all.
Jim Adams is now rated as an expert in the Economic Warfare Unit, Department of Justice, Foley Square, N .Y. His job is to try to find the weak spots in the Axis industrial system.
Herb Talbot is a major in the Canadian army. Address, Base Hospital, No. 17 c/o Postmaster, Montreal.
Phil Molloy hits New York now and then to buy hats for the females of York, Penna.
Last seen of Lt. Tubby Washburn USNR, he was heading for Chicago, from Newport.
Charley Haywood says that a Marine on Guadalcanal has ordered a copy of his book No Ship May Sail. That's a real compliment to the Haywood writing.
They aint happened much here sence the last riting. My dear cuzzin Chester Merrow of Ossipee, he got elected to Congress. He is getting himself a black suit, a pot belly and is heading for Washington. He is just a simpul country boy but he aint so much of a jug head as lots of them jug heads in Congress and should do all right. I got my sights on my buck and just then I see a good Republican in line behind the venison and dassent squeeze off. A fat old geester ast our Ration Board for wun hundred feet of deluxe copper cable to run a light to his outhouse. We give him permission to buy a lantern. I acted as Deacon at Communion a cupple of Sundays back and the next morning found a set of pre-Pearl Harbor retreads in my cellar. I guess it pays to live right.
CAPTAIN BRICE DISQUE JR. '25 Who was, until recently, script editor ofthe National Broadcasting Company andformerly writer of the widely-heard "GangBusters" and "March of Time" radio programs, is now assigned to active duty as astaff officer with the Fifty-second TroopCarrier Wing, Pope Field, Ft. Bragg, N. C.The Troop Carrier Command is that newest branch of the Army Air Forces knownas the "Air Commandos." It is their dutyto carry parachutists and airborne troopsinto the field of actual battle by planes andgliders. "Air Commandos" also evacuateany seriously wounded men to the rearhospital area, thus saving valuable timeand, in many cases, lives.
Secretary, Center Ossipee, N. H.
Treasurer, P. O. Box 428, Bristol, R. I.
