1940*

Compliments of the Class of 1940 were left with the Nazis last month when Ist Lieut. Robert H. Castle navigated one of the Liberators to Lille, France, where tons of bombs were dropped on Hitler-enslaved war industries. Over on the other side of the world, 1940 was dishing it out to the Japs, for there are at least five of the class with the Marines in and around the Solomons. A pleasant note from Joan Faulkner relates that husband Jim is in the thick of it as a captain; news was also received of Bill Watson's appointment to captain; the other three officers known to be with the Marines are Johnny Peacock, JimTredup, and Ellie Bridge.

The marital manoeuvers and aisle activities of the class, as reported through devious channels, seem not to have slackened at all; the details follow, although some are of rather ancient vintage. ENGAGED: Miss Eleanor Grant, of Orange, N. J., to Herb Condit, who is stationed at Fort Dix with the Army Medical Corps. Miss Virginia Le Massena, of East Orange, N. J., to Ensign Fred Brownell. Miss Ruth Chaffee, of Belmont, Mass., to Stafford King. Miss Marcia Clark, of Wellesley Hills and Lasell College, to Robert Kelley, Bob is with Haskins & Sells, an accounting firm. Miss Marcia Perin, of Cotuit, Mass., and Radcliffe College, to Lt. Robert Jordan. Miss Elizabeth Beach of Washington, D. C., in September, to Capt. A. J. Smith; Bud is an Air Corps Weather Officer stationed in Washington. MARRIED: Miss Martha Hawley, of Hamden, Conn., and Stoneleigh College, and George King Johnson, in August at New Haven. Lt. Howard Stockwell to Jane Riley of Winnetka, 111., and Carleton College, on August 3rd; Howie had just graduated from Anti-Aircraft Officers' School, where he reports he saw Bob Jordan, JackTownsend, and Holmes Van Mater. An usher in Howie's wedding was Russ Hanchette, who himself was only recently married to Katheryn Yates of Aurora, 111., and Rockford College. Forced to postpone^his wedding, Lt. William Mercer finally consummated arrangements in August with Virginia Tomasson, of Newark; Bill was married in Sacramento, as he is an Air Corps instructor at Mather Field. Janet Jensen, of Glen Ridge, N. J., to Aviation Cadet Hodge Jones; Hodge is studying advanced navigation. Miss Turner Young, of Scarsdale, N. Y., and Bradford College, to Ensign BenBacon. Miss Lucy Hawkes, of Winchester, Mass., and Katherine Gibbs, and W etherbee Lams on. Back in July, Ensign Wm. Rob. Reid Jr. and Miss Mary Lou Eyanson of Hartford, Conn., and Bennington College; ushers were Dink Weiner and Ensign Bob Dingwall. Sidney Harrington and Miss Agnes Ring on Sept. 26th. Miss Janet Felton of No. Tarrytown, N. Y., and Smith College, to Seymour Wheelock, who is at Northwestern University. Miss Mary McClevey, of River Forest, Ill., to Ensign Robert A. White, on Oct. 17. On Sept. 19 at Valley Forge, Pa., Lew Lambert married Miss Dorothy Loomis, of Oakmont, Pa., and the U. of Penn.; Lew had as best man and usher those medical men, Bob Williams and Lew Chipman- the groom is now working with Westinghouse in Philadelphia.

Lt. (j-g.) Lee Blades is with the Navy in the Pacific; Earl Hotchkiss is with the Med. Corps at Camp Pickett, Va.; Bill Hayes is instructing in flying at Pensacola; Joe Armanini is at Bombardier School in Calif.: Ensigns 800 Hayden and Rick Davidson are still in Washington: 800 is with the Bur. of Aero., and Rick supervises Maintenance and Repair at the Air Base at Anacostia. G. K. Johnson, newly married, writes of life in Englewood, N. J.; George is working for Wright Aero. Corp., where Fred Porter was until he joined the Coast Guard; George says he has glimpsed Rollo Raymond in Patterson; S/Sgt. HarveyNoll writes from Indiantown Gap that he is nip-and-tuck between OCS and a boat ride; Bud Hewitt by now should be Lt. Hewitt of the Army Air Corps, and he writes from Miami Beach that Hank Haserot was in his class; Ensign William B.Reardon, on active duty in the Atlantic, has been promoted to Lt. (j.g.), and Lt. Welles Seller, advanced flying instructor in Greenville, Miss., is now a ist Lt.; PaulWessels has been commissioned an Ensign in the Navy Air Corps.

A New York City newspaper featured the following article in September: Brooklyn-born Sgt. Walter Bernstein, 23, bicycled around the world in 1936, came back and quickly began writing about America. At Dartmouth College, he edited the humor magazine, became a skilled fencer, began contributing stories and articles to smooth-paper magazines. In khaki since early 1941, Sgt. B. drilled as an automatic rifleman, found time to collaborate on a play produced in N. Y. As an Army man, he has written several breezy snapshots of Army life for the New Yorker as their "Reporter-at-Large," to be published in book-form this winter. After he turned actor, dialogue-writer and publicity man for the Broadway wow "This is the Army," Yank saw fit to absorb him, gave him a combined roving reporter and story-polishing job.

Letter-writer of the month is CecilMoore; his letter passed the censors, and so I take the liberty of quoting the pertinent parts from it:

"It's a God-forsaken place with one small road that goes nowhere. I know, because I helped build the road—all two miles of it. And road building is only part of the job a traffic man has with Pan American Airways on the continent of Africa. We are situated in the middle of a huge jungle; there is nothing else here—no town anywhere, and no way to get to one, no movies, no warm water to shave in, and no women. I've gotten in some good hunting and fishing when time permits. Hunting at night means one can only shoot at a pair of eyes; a few weeks ago we shot two leopards at night.

"There is something in the song about 'though round the girded earth they roam, her spell on them remains . . . .' and on it goes and how true! It sure meant a lot to me to receive some news of the college. Something to make people sit down and think about and then realize what fine things there are in this world and that they are worth fighting for a thousand times over."

WINGS OF GOLD For Henry G. Ingersoll Jr. '40 and Joseph F. Huber Jr. '40, ensigns USNR, who recentlycompleted flight training at Pensacola.

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