1939*
HERE AND THERE
Lou Oldershaw, recently graduated from the Yale law school, has joined the legal staff of the war department at the Springfield Ordnance District in Springfield, Mass Max Goldstein, Fit 2 Fitzpatrick, and Ernie Heydt are still holding forth at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia
From Jim Anderson comes word that he is connected with the purchasing division of the Army Exchange Service. "This is the branch of the Armv that keeps the Post Exchange Stores in all of the army camps supplied. Our particular outfit supplies all of the foreign exchanges. It was originally intended that I become an assistant buyer, but I was shuttled into the insurance section and have been there ever since, in charge of the claim department." .... From Fred Mowatt's Dad comes a brief biography of a busy son. "Fred received his degree at Boston University Law School on May 25th, 1942. He was admitted as an attorney at law by the Massachusetts Supreme Court, in June, 1942. In early August Fred was commissioned an ensign in the Naval Reserve, and reported for active duty at a training school in Noroton Heights, Conn. He was there a short while, and was then transferred to sea. His address: U.S.S. Alcor c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y." . . . . Chubsy Graham has been very silent since entering the army some months ago, but he came through with a bit of good news recently. He is now Second Lt. Graham of the Signal Corps, after completing the course in Officer Candidate School at Fort Monmouth, N. J. But that ain't all. Chubs was also admitted to practice law before all the courts of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia County, in connection with his law school work preceding his entry into Army life From E. J. Robinson comes word of his enlistment in the Army last June, at the conclusion of a third year at NYU graduate school. At present, Ed is attached to an Army Lab, at Ft. Banks, appears that Jim Powers was also located at the same spot, and the two good Dartmouth men reminisced from the opposite sides of the beer table. Both Ed and Jim are off for OCS now, and will have their officer bars in the near future. Henry Muller, Ed further reports, is in the armed forces and, rumor has it, is connected with the Navy Air Corps.
You can always count on Bob Dickgiesser to come up with a bit of news from time to time. Bob's latest, reveals that Lieut. Lloyd Nash is still instructing the air cadets at Clarksville, Miss. There was a gathering in Westport, Conn., on Aug 30th, when Lloyd was home on leave. Bill Cunningham, Pvt. Horton Wainwright and wife, Duke Lyons and wife, and Dickgiesser and wife were on hand. Wainwright is officially at Quartermasters' school at Fort Lee, Va. "Received a letter from Don Wheaton a while ago. He mentioned the initiation administered to the Marines while crossing the equator." .... From Herb Mattlage, "One night while sitting on the main hatch of the freighter that brought me back to the coast, we were having a song fest—the fellow next to me started to sing the 'Winter Song.' After we finished the song we looked at each other—Dartmouth? Yes. What Class? '39. Same. Turned out to be Bart Jones." Also seen by Herb, running around in Seattle, Wash., was Dick Durrance, whose particular activities were not described by Herb. Incidentally, in case you missed "ThirtyNine Out," Brownie's literary masterpiece, Herb was married to Virginia Ayers, sister of '39er B. K. Ayers Jr., on September 21st, in Seattle, Wash.
DOWN THE AJSLE
On October 30th, Joe Egan married Bernice Coleman, in Bridgeport, Conn. Joe is a lieutenant in the Army Air Force Ernie Heydt became engaged this summer to Ruth Fegley of Alpha, N. J. "No definite date has been decided on for the wedding, but we are at least finance and financee.".... At Saratoga Springs Ed Hammel took Miss Caroline Moore for his bride. Miss Moore is the daughter of President Moore of Skidmore College Lew Joel is engaged to Miss Lorraine M. Burton of Melrose, Mass Miss Jeanne Barbaresi became engaged to Ensign Ray Frese around the latter part of August. More recent word is to the effect that Ray has been married, although we have no details on this Miss Jean Carlile married Ben Ayers, USNR, at her home in Brightwaters, L. I., in August.
WRITER OF-THE MONTH
Thanks to Mr. Arthur Howe, the father of '39er's Colby, we have a letter from the Solomon Islands. There can be no doubt that Colby is the "writer of the month" as evidenced by his sincere and simple message to his father.
"Well, some time since I wrote to you last, but there is no sense in it when there are no ships. Today or tomorrow, however, there may be a way for a letter to get out, so here goes.
This makes the third time I have written to you since being on the island and I understand that perhaps my last letter will never reach you so the news contained in it I will duplicate in this one, just in case.
After all, as I see it, a note once in a while with the date on it is the most important thing for you for it gives you a date on which you know I am well and healthy and from these dates and the news you have at home in the papers and on the radio you can piece things together and know what has been going on around here without my telling you, which is impossible of course. We get no news at all here so I expect you know more of our situation at home than we do ourselves.
The best news possible came in yesterday that some mail from home will be here before long. It left home in early July and I am just praying that there will be a letter from you, for it will be the first word from you, you know. I am all excited over the prospects of this, but prepared for my disappointment, for this is war and anything can happen.
The above of course is the biggest news at this writing, and now for the next, which will interest you I am sure. You remember Bob MacLeod, of course; well he did himself up all right around here. Although I didn't get together with him, he appeared in this area some time ago and the first time he got himself two big ones and one little one, and then landed without any gear.
And that ends that news. And now in case my last letter didn't get through I'll go over again some of the things I wrote you about the last time briefly. As I said before we've seen a lot since landing here and although war is bad on the nerves at times, it's a great experience and in my position as company commander I've learned men in and out and can say in all humility that I believe I have made a good leader in combat, and that my men like me, respect me, and will do anything in the world for me; which makes me the happiest man in this war. So, with this feeling in my heart, and my body in the best of health there is nothing for you to worry about concerning me. And that's all the news of myself excepting to say that I can't hazard a guess even of what's to become of us next, but all that counts is that I keep kicking as 1 know I will as well as I know that I will be back home to you some day.
THE CLEARING HOUSE
Herb Mattlage wrote in requesting a "leave of absence" from his job as treasurer of the Class of '39. We all know what Herb has been up against in this war, and it only appears fair to pass his duties temporarily upon the shoulders of an acting-treasurer. Negotiations with the proper authorities in Hanover are now in progress, and a successor will be duly appointed, if agreeable to the class at large.
A Merry Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to '3gers everywhere. Let's look forward to a quick and successful end to this war, and then for that big fifth reunion.
DARTMOUTH ALUMNI AT NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL, NEWPORT, R. I. Front row: Ens. J. J. Mulligan '42; Lt. (jg) J. K. Lindle '36; Ens. G. H. Peck 36; Ens. I.Naitove '39; Ens. Robb De Graff '39. Back row: Lt. W. D. Gorton '25; Lt. (jg) F. W.Peyser '32; Lt. (jg) D. V. Flynn '33; Ens. C. W. Carleton '41; Ens. H. J. Coleman '42;Ens. R. S. Jackson '39; Ens. J. H. Macintosh '38 (Instructor officer). Not in picture: Ens.E. P. Stafford '42; Ens. F. Brown '42; Ens. A. H. Hooker '42; Lt. (]g) C. S. Johnson 32.
MAJOR DAVID C. SCHILLING '39 Commanding officer of a fighter squadronof the U. S. Army Air Corps, a crack pilotand aerial gunner. He formerly testedP-39's and P-40's for Bell and Curtiss Aircraft at Buffalo, N. Y.
Acting Secretary,P. O. Box 953, Round Hill Rd. Greenwich, Conn.
Treasurer, 312 Cherry St., Douglaston, N. Y
