1928*
The number of '28ers in uniform has jumped from 33 to 30 in the past month! (We wonder if other classes of about the same degree of antiquity can produce an equally inspiring record?) Four men received commissions in the USNR and three joined the Army. The score now stands: Army 17, Navy 13. Seventeen of these men are married. Newest USNR lieutenants (junior grade) are: Charlie Gearhart, of New York (insurance), assigned to duty at go Church St., New York; Howie Rogers of Boston (attorney), now in Washington with the Bureau of Navigation in the Discipline Section of Enlisted Personnel, and living at the Officers Club (visiting '28ers please note); John Armstrong of Chicago (advertising), present station unknown; and Hoyt Thompson of Chicago (real estate), now training at the Naval Air Station at Quonset Point, R. I.
The three newcomers to our Army list are all from Chicago; Lt. Loren Stevens (advertising), is attached to Headquarters, 6th Corps Area, Chicago; Pvt. Dick Clark (commercial artist) is at Ft. Winfield Scott, California; and Don Dodd (attorney) has not yet found time to write us his rank or whereabouts.
Promotions reported by our own private f.b.i. reveal that the ranking member of the '28 Service Club is Lt. Col. Norm Costello, stationed in the Operations Division of the War Department General Staff. Norm says, "I'd give anything to get out with the troops where I belong." After four years as Tactical Officer at West Point (from which he graduated in 1929), he spent a year at Ft. Benning as an instructor before receiving his present assignment.
Hank Graupner reported April g to the Infantry Officers Training School at Ft. Benning, Ga., where he found Walt McKee had matriculated a few weeks earlier.
Lt. Al Kitts is now with the Headquarters Company of a Marine Division at New River, N. C., but is really a Navy man, as he explains: "Medical personnel for the Marine Corps is all drawn from the Navy, the Marines being a part of the Navy. So we are Navy officers and men attached to Marines. It is all fairly confusing to the bystander and, as we wear both Navy and Marine Corps uniforms, it is difficult to recognize your best friend as he quickly changes from one uniform to another on occasion. There are many Dartmouth men here, but most of them are younger than our class; Ruby '36, Igleheart '39, Stickney 'l7 are some of the names I remember." Al's rank corresponds to captain in the Marine Corps Lt. Bob Nespor has been transferred to the Navy Recruiting Station, Buffalo.
Our classmates are breaking records to sign up in either the Navy or Army, although first choice seems to be the Navy. Norm Nash, New York advertising executive (two sons, 15 and 12 years old), applied March 15 for a USNR commission in the Air Service; since September he has been a member of the U. S. Coast Guard Auxilliary, Flotilla No. 701 .... Chuck Bennet, of Chicago (daughter, Pat, is 15) has an application pending for a commission in Naval Aviation Special Service and if that fails will try the same service in the Army.... Jim Gillard, specialist in obstetrics in Muskegon, Mich., expects to be a Lieutenant in the Navy soon. Lew Hutcheson, Bill Goudy, and Johnny Cronin, all of New York, Jack McLaughlin of Philadelphia, and Lanky Langdell of Manchester, N. H., are trying to get in the Navy now.
Busier than a one-armed paper hanger is Al Lathrop, head of the Material Procurement Department (and 5 other departments) at the Curtiss-Wright airplane factory at Robertson, Mo Lanky Langdell has been appointed a member of the New Hampshire Aeronautical Commission, recently created to regulate aviation in that state Charlie Crosby is working for the War Production Board, Room 5317, Social Security Building, Washington Dick Schmelzer, of Rensselaer Poly, was elected vice president of the National Soccer Coaches Association.
Bud Ranney was appointed drama critic and movie editor of the Cleveland Press; he has been a reporter for that paper for 13 years Ed Hanes, secretary of the Cleveland Wire Cloth & Manufacturing Cos., reminds '2Bers (or those with tires) that his house is only two miles off Route go in Euclid, Ohio Dave Willard says he gets to the Dartmouth luncheons in Cleveland now that he is covering Ohio as a service representative for the Prudential Insurance Cos Bud Beidler's death is recorded in the Necrology section.
Chris Hackett is now assistant to the New York sales manager of the Ralston Cereal Cos George Foster has been National Director of the WPA Music Program since December Bill Murphy is vice president of the Star Brewing Cos., Roxbury, Mass Elliot Donnelly, president of Scale-Craft & Cos., Libertyville, Illinois, has switched his factory over to defense work; formerly he made model railroad equipment; his 4th son, David Elliot, arrived February 8, 1943 Bud McKenney is connected with "Theatre of the Sea" at Tavernier, half-way between Miami and Key West.
Every member of the Class appreciates the untiring efforts of Class Agent Craw Pollock and his Assistant Agents. This year there are several new faces on the team which lines up as follows: Lew Beers, Chuck Bruder, Howie Bush, Dick Canton, John Cronin, George Emery, Stu Goodwillie, Jack Herpel, Dick Lee, Jack McLaughlin, Sam Magavern, 'Gene Magenis, Makie Makepeace, Sonny Middlebrook, Tom Middleton, Bill Morton, Phil Orsi, Bud Osborn, Johnny O'Sullivan, and Jack Rose. They are all busy men, so mail them your check TODAY.
Secretary, Troy, Pennsylvania Class Agent, 118 Chestnut Street, Garden City, N. Y.
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