1938*
Four years we've been out, and one more to go for our glorious Fifth, and begorra, we're going to make it glorious. Save your furloughs, leaves, and liberties for it. It's good to get back at writing this again, though I'm apprehensive about how you'll make comparisons with our good guest editors. I no more got through with three months of school, than I'm back at Fort Benning again, though this time on the giving end; teaching Mortars. How long it will last only Jehovah and the War Department know, but at the moment I'm satisfying my teaching whim. Send your boy to the Benning School for Boys. As a matter of fact, the Infantry School is a good place for reunions. Dick Francis is here teaching Mortars too, Dave Duffy teaching Logistics, and Lew Williams, Bud Fox, and Jim Cooney have gone through the course. Same for Johnny Llewellyn, and probably some others I haven't even seen.
Thank heavens the Pace-Setter has been getting news to you, because there wouldn't have been enough space here. Marriages seem to be the order again, so here goes. Rosalie Gieser to Corp. Charley Mann, June 1. She was with the physical ed. department at the Chapin school, and is from Cos Cob. Cherry Hannan of Marblehead to Ensign Blake Johnson on May 13. Betty Carmody of Chicopee Falls to Bob Foley June 20. Some of this is repetition to you, but it's worth repeating. Bob graduated from Cornell Med. June 10. Faith Haviland of West Hartford to Lt. Dave Duffy May 3. She's a Smith. Estelle Clough of Montclair to Ensign Bill Moss April 25. She's a Bryn Mawr. Barbara Knight to Roge Buffinton April 25, in Lynn, Mass. Louise Jordan of Worcester to Chuck Blumenauer, April 25, with Foley, Harry Connors and Fran Reilly among the ushers. Ann Grover of No. Adams, Mass. to Ensign Leon Canfield April 8. He's on the U.S.S. (censored). The date is unknown on this, but Dorothy Mulhern of Jamaica Plain to Ensign Robert Carroll. Bettina Loheed of North Middleboro, Mass. to Jim Towne April 18. What are you doing, living on Staten Island? Clara Morley of Buffalo to Herb Rathbun March 24. Virginia Wells of Waban to Ensign Jim Chandler June 20. She's a Colby.
Now for the engagements. Clarinda Turner, Maiden, Mass. and Wellesley '42 to Ensign Morgan Marshall. Dorothy Perry, Newport and Smith to Eric Vaughan. He's an instructor in electrical engineering at Ohio State. Helen Linehan of Lynn to Dr. Austin Grant. Evelyn Carroll of Philadelphia to Lou Freedman. Lucile Cate, Wellesley Hills to Sgt. Lawrence Hull. Rita Sullivan of Walden, N. Y. to Charley Brown. I think that gets the swelling list for the moment.
Charley Wiggins got his commission in the Air Corps. John Meachem is training as a navigator at Ellington Field, Texas. Dick Schmidt is a staff sergeant at Fort Chaffee, Ark. Warren Chivers has been training at the Naval Academy as a physical instructor. Elliot Herrick got his commission in the Signal Corps. Jim Cotter was elected president of the Master Plumbers' Association of Boston.
She weighs 160 lbs., and she's all muscle. She's a Texas tomboy. She wheeled freight in a warehouse. She hauled pipeline in California. In 1935 she brought her parents and a two-ton truck to Alaska, opened a laundry, got a mail contract, ran a jitney for the gold miners, started a mink farm. In 1939 she picked up a hitch-hiker, and later they were married. He was Russ Dow, and he's now a ski instructor at Fort Richardson. She drives an Engineer Corps carry-all. Can your wife do that? Can Reno do it?
A short note from Matty says, "John and Mary Hall had a baby, John Stevens, six pounds ten, born on Easter Sunday. Maybe you could build this up a bit." What, the six and ten? Graham White is with Price Waterhouse in Washington. Last heard of, Frank Brett was with the 83rd Armored Reconnaissance at Camp Polk, La. Egelhoff and wife are expecting an addition to the family, though by the time this gets around to you, it will probably already have put in its application to Dartmouth. Enzo Bongiovani is a first class yeoman in the Coast Guard, if there is such a rank. Ed Grace is at the Air Corps Officers Candidate School at Miami Beach. Dick Niebling is the author of the "AdamsGissing Collection" which has been re- printed from the January issue of the Yale Library Gazette. John Nelson is at the Finance Training School at Fort Ben Harrison. Says, "Still single, and all my old girls are having babies. How are things with you?" I don't know. Jim Seaver is Chief Weather Officer at Grenier Field, N. H. Last heard of the Jughead, Thomas, was at Basic Flying School at Sumter, S. C., and if the Thomas hasn't changed, he's practicing ski jumps in the cockpit. Has anyone seen Ensign Archibald in Boston? Here Brandis is with United Air Lines in N. Y. Chet Emerson is in production planning with the U. S. Rubber Co., Des Moines Ordnance Plant. Paul Halstead is an aeronautical engineer at Mineola.
There's not much space left, so I'll hang up until October. There's a lot of confusion in the class notes, with everyone moving around so fast, going overseas, getting married, having children, and so on, and it may well be we're missing someone. Mail will reach me at the Academic Dept., 1.5.5.C., Ft. Benning, Ga., and I'll clear up any mysteries and welcome any news.
FREDERICK V. DAVIS '3B Aviation Cadet, USNR.
DARTMOUTH AT NOTRE DAME Included in the first V.-y Navy TrainingSchool located at Notre Dame were theDartmouth men shown above, left to right,front row: John D. Tate '4l, Iver M. Olson'4O, Richmond Ellis '4O, Richard Daby '4l.Second row: Earl Cotton '4l, RobertThomas '4l. Third row: Mel Wax '4O. Lastrow: Howard Rea '3B, Robert Sullivan '39,Louis T. Merriam '39. Not present in thepicture: Carl James '4O, Robert Nissen '4l,Fred Leopold '4l.
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