1937*

'37 Bachelors, though you may be scarred and wary from your many engagements, and though your ranks constantly dwindle, the worst news o£ all is at hand. Your mightiest member has fallen! Your Captain, Dr. Gordon Bennett, is now practically a benedict. He has slipped that ring on the finger of lovely Edith Leadbetter, also of Swampscott, Mass., and formerly of Auburn, Me. A Simmons and Katy Gibbs girl, Edie will have to be brave as the wails of the sorrowing bachelors of '37 go up when they learn their leader has fallen.

While on the subject, you all should know that Vince Turecamo is now engaged to Flora Elizabeth Griffin of Forest Hills Gardens, N. Y., and the College o£ New Rochelle Ensign Ben Eskesen USNR, likewise, to Elaine Dunning of N. Y. C. and Cornell Dave Pearsall who did graduate work at Penn's Wharton School after Dartmouth is engaged to R. Jean Tansing of N. Y. C. and Walnut Hill School Jim Murdock is now married to the former Nellie Louise Swan of Hamilton, N. Y. and Keuka College. Jim has been doing very well with Republic Steel as a mining engineer Ham Mathes was married in early September in Milwaukee to Lucille Jens of the city from whence all beer flows. Ham added an M.A. from Harvard to his list of distinctions after graduation, while his bride graduated from Marquette and Milwaukee Teachers. Ham is up to his neck in war production work at the G. E. River Works in Lynn, Mass., and claims that darn M.A. sure gets in the way.

Ensign Frank Butler USNR is a long way from Bronxville these days. He's stationed in Alaska, with the Naval Supply Corps, attached to a Construction Battalion. Frank spent some time following graduation getting an LL.B. from Michigan, is married, and his wife is staying at Grand Ledge, Michigan, for the duration Big Butch Nichols is returning his former buddies' salutes in snappy style these days. He's sporting both a new Lt.'s uniform and a new wife. The former Ellen Carlson is real proud of her new husband, as Butch came up through the ranks and was previously reported as Corp. Nichols, in case anyone has trouble recognizing the new handle Les Barrett, as salty a tar as Uncle Sam has on the payroll, helped W. and M. celebrate their victory over Dartmouth while in Williamsburg by going to their big Hallowe'en Dance held in their gym. Bet he doesn't tell his wife, Cecile, about chasing that blonde all over that same campus during the Spring Baseball trip in 1935. Neither of us could catch her Tony Genewich left for the Army and hasn't been heard from since.

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Milt Goldberg is with Times Litho. in N. Y., and would be glad to see any of the old gang. He has a small spot in Brooklyn where wife and child and himself are dispensing genuine hospitality, and what is more he shaves now Art Guyer, in a swell letter, lets us in on his life as first officer on a schooner where he rates as coxswain. As most of the class have done, he's put aside his pre-war ambitions, in Art's case, a Medical Degree, and is now chasing subs in the cold North Atlantic. With typical Guyer pep and enthusiasm, he likes the work a lot and is striving for a skipper's berth Duke Dumont sends swell news, and the lucky girl is Polly Williams, a Wellesley grad. They'll probably make it legal after New Year's says Duke. He and Dana Prescott are helping to process new Basic Students at Fort Monmouth, N. J. They're both officers, and as teachers at the Officers' Candidate School, they find many old buddies and Dartmouths passing through their classes. Dana has been observing manoeuvers in La Dick Saw- yer, wife Ruth, and small son are comfortably settled in Pelham where Dick is teaching and waiting for the time he can teach his husky to ski.

Ray Bauer knows what "grinding" really can mean. He's now finished Newark Night Law School and has taken his New Jersey Bar Exams. How'd you make out, Ray? .... Bill Hund and wife are enjoying life together while they can. Bill is joining the ranks soon. .... Bill Sayre is working hard in the Big City, but ready and waiting for his Uncle to beckon Jim Hathaway is just about completing his course as a cadet at the U.S.C.G. Academy That good-looking Marine captain, Mel Estey, as usual is insulting people. This time he sent a letter from the middle of the South Pacific. His darn fine communique lists Bud Reed as a fellow officer somewhere in that locality. Both Bud Reed and Grant Crane, also being captains, it looks as though Dartmouth '37ers in the Marine Corps are not lonely Hal Parachini passed around the cigars on September 20th. Hal expects David Charles Parachini will be swishing the net for the Green in the '6o's Another new Poppa, Lt. Furman Stanley, let fly with some ink, and his welcome letter lets us in on the fact that young Dave Parachini's going to have a classmate named Furman "Neal" Stanley Jr. Stan was commissioned from civilian life with an affiliated unit of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. He's going to school again at Officers' School in Asbury Park, N. J., and will be an important part of the Signal Construction Battalion where a new Unit is organized Pvt. Bibs Bankhart at Fort Eustis, Va., is soaking his tender puppies in hot water these days and is looking forward to Officers' School where he'll be developed into an Anti-Aircraft technician The Reverend and Mrs. Rog. Barney are happy to announce the birth of Alice Bannister Barney at No. Conway, N. H., last October 30th Ed Skowrup attended the Navy Course at Columbia. Saving the best for last, we have a couple of swell items. One is a letter from Jean Lutrell answering our call for letters from '37 better halves. She's traveled all over the U. S., "camp-following husband Jim," she says. Jim is a Marine pilot handling Martin B-26 Medium Bombers. "Camp-following" came to an end when Jean returned to Hanover in early September. Jim was given leave to be in Hanover October 20th for the birth of Peggy Anne Lutrell We're hoping to hear from other wives with perhaps a snap or two to use on these pages Major Don Otis lets loose with a blast from his battle-scarred post that leaves no doubt that Big Oats still has plenty of punch. Oats echoes other letters from battle areas in castigating civilian complacency. The boys hope that we at home realize that any act of ours that keeps them in their dangerous positions even one extra day is dangerous disloyalty.

MISSING IN LIBYA Pilot Officer Thomas W. Prentice Jr. '37,former resident of Ponca City, Okla., andmore recently a member of the R.A.F., wasreported missing about August 1. He waslast seen by comrades as he swept his Kittyhawk bomber through heavy anti-aircraftfire to dive-bomb axis targets in Libya.Shortly after his graduation from Dartmouth, Prentice began flight training atthe Ponca City School of Aeronautics. Atthe same time, he wrote a newspaper column known as "Plane Talk." Later, he attended the University of Oklahoma lawschool and passed the state bar examination. In 1941, he joined the R.A.F., andtrained at Glendale, Calif., and Ottawa,Canada, before going to England, where,after six months' additional training, hewas assigned to active duty.

'37ER WINS POKER GAME Ensign Don McKinlay, after a Tropicalpoker game, presents the winning handfour Queens and a Jack.

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