1937
The best news this month is that Harry Schultz, who was reported missing, is now reported to be a prisoner of the Germans. .... It is now Major Grant Crane with the Marines somewhere in the Pacific Another Marine Major, Don Otis, in the southwest Pacific writes of the outdoor life, its monotony and then its excitementheat, rain, lousy chow, the sudden jump for the slit trench; and then the air battles with 7 Americans lost as against 37 Japs. Radio Tokio reports later describing the same action as resulting in 49 American losses and 7 Jap losses. It is now 24 months since the Major has seen his wife Mona and daughter Nancy.
V-mail from India and Bob Aylward is sweating out the war with his bomber squadron. "It is getting damn hot during the day, but we seem to get a sharp shower every day between 5 and 7 P.M., which cools it off considerably. However, the rain begins to drive the wild life out of the ground and inside the barracks. I killed a 16-inch centipede beside my bed last week and two days ago one of the nurses found a 44-inch cobra in her bed when she started to turn in. Ah, New England!"
Fred Castle is concerned about the number of contributors thus far—-which hasn't been too large. A lot of the fellows in service just can't be reached, and thus the responsibility for filling their place in the Alumni Fund falls on the rest of the Class. Fred says anyone having a War Bond in mind can have an "F" or "G" bond made out to
"Trustees of Dartmouth College, a Corporation, Hanover, New Hampshire." If "E" bonds are being purchased through payroll deduction, instructions can be given to the employer to have these converted to Series "F" and made payable to the Trustees. It seems like a pretty good idea, because, by giving a bond, two birds can be konked with one stone. The deadline is only a couple of weeks away and this is the final reminder.
Claude Clark is back on destroyer duty again in the Atlantic after a brief fifteen day respite during -which he and wife Jeanette loafed around Malone, New York Another one of those Clarks, Charles W. "Duke" Clark is now at State College, Miss., getting ready to be one of those second Its. The Mrs. already has her commission, and Duke is worried about her out-ranking him.
Another Duke, this time Lt. Dumont, lets us know that Dana Prescott is now a captain and is probably at Camp Crowder, Mo Evidently Ray and Mary Bauer had a very nice dinner party, with Duke and wife Polly invited, and big blond Paul Dickson, newly engaged to Frances Diacheck of Whippany, N. J., crashing. Ray reports that both the boys have made pretty good choices of partners and he is pretty proud of his choice, too.
Allen Jacks is still at Fort Monmouth and sees Duke Dumont quite a bit in the office DickSawyer is the proud Poppa of another boy now. .... Dave Camerer and wife Caroline met MoriBerkowitz for a couple of drinks in New York recently before Dave caught the train back to Pennsylvania. 'Tis said that Cam cuts a wicked figure and looks the best ever. He has since reported for duty at Geiger Field, Spokane, Washington GusFar-well also an A.A.C. 1t. sounds as though he has landed on every field in the U. S.
The new Lt. (jg) Mort Berkowitz is still without any Dartmouth additions aboard. His Big Green sweater stands alone amidst the Orange and Blacks, along with four red H's. He has taught those lugs all the words to Dartmouth songs and is earnestly soliciting them for Alumni Fund contributions Another lt. (jg), Dick Thirlby of the Medical Corps, has been in about a year now after some time at the University Hospital in Ann Arbor. He is also celebrating his first wedding anniversary to the former Lucille Kauer. He left the States in January and after crossing the equator and international date line has now settled down for a while on a little Pacific isle where it is hotter than hell and muddier than the Campus in March (sans board walks).
For contrast, let's listen in on another It. (jg) in the Naval Medical Corps, Bob Areson, who is as far north in the Pacific as Thirlby is south. They practice medicine on a semi "horse and buggy" plane—a box of aspirin, some razor blades and a microscope. It is a test of ingenuity, and Bob feels that it is rather good for anyone brought up with a complete laboratory at hand and a couple of professors to help one over the rough spots. He doesn't mind it at all. _
Ensign Carl Erdman finished his indoctrination course at Fort Schuyler in the Bronx late in March. . . Lt. Dave Sampson, since his induction in August '41, has been overseas and then back to O.C.S. last July and is now at Camp Stoneman in California. Getting back home after foreign duty was probably the most exciting experience in Dave's life. After about five months of complete blackout the lights looked pretty good to him. JackGray and Dave had a real one in Denver last Christmas Eve. Jack is in the Naval Air Corps as an ensign, and Dartmouth talk was really flying then
Sgt. Ralph Griffiths, the old hard-boiled noncom from Fort Devens, has been doing a lot of hospital work. He reports that Tony Genewicz is still busy around in that locality Monk Amon who is pushing a group of sub-agents for the Alumni Fund recently had a letter from CharleyBrown who is busy in California working as an instructor for the Army Air Corps. Howey Longley of Lynn General Electric and Eddy Loveday of Swampscott, Mass., are helping out Monk Ed Price has quit the insurance business for the Navy, but we have no idea where he is stationed.
Whitey Fuller, our fast-moving Naval It., has now organized a ball team which is to take on Harvard. Ted Williams and numerous other big league stars now in the Navy will compose the Club. The Boston Post had the following to say in a facetious vein: "There may be some question, as a matter of fact, as to who actually will be the Manager of this Club. Cadet Williams, by virtue of considerable experience, would rate the job except that he is out-ranked by Lt. Fuller. It has been rumored that Lt. Fuller is very much interested in running this team, and if he asserts his authority Cadet Williams might not be the Manager after all. He will be but a one-time pinch hitter. Whoever thought that we would live to see the day when baseball's greatest slugger was forced to give way to a college publicity man? If Lt. Fuller stands on his rights, Cadet Williams will have to bow out and gracefully."
Dr. Bill Griffiths is now at Phipps Clinic, Johns Hopkins, doing research in psychobiology Bob Kirstein, now a private at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin Phil Swain is now an instructor in English in North Carolina State College at Raleigh, N. C.
.... Pfc Art Ruggles, now at Northern Field in Tullahoma, Tenn., is an aerial engineer on a B-25. He has to fly with the ship and check on the pilot and co-pilot and must be learning quite a bit. He is now a full fledged member of the Expectant Father's Club, along with Compton and Castle and probably plenty more EdEaton and wife Jo welcomed the arrival of their second girl on April 31st. Ed hasn't seen Carol yet since he has been down at the Storage Depot for the Army Air Forces near Baltimore for the last five months.
Eaton's former roomie, Bob Bosworth, has moved to Ludington, Mich., to work for Carrom Industries, a subsidiary of Will Ross, Inc., for whom he has been working. .... Ed Skowrup has just finished his basic 7 weeks at the sub-chaser school in Miami along with McKinlay Ray, Cash and as- sorted Dartmouths of other classes Lt. Henry Lenning was on the U.S.S. Portland before the War and up to February '42. Then the Caribbean and anti-sub duty and now at Miami. His wife Alice is with him, and their baby is in New York.
Don McKinlay is managing to combine married life with Barb at this same sub-chaser school and is certainly getting the most out of his stay in the States Lt. Butch Nichols is still with the Engineer Amphibian Brigade at Carabella, Fla., at Camp Gordon Johnson. His wife is living at Tallahassee so that he also is managing to effectively combine married life and Army training.
Pat Uhlmann was called last December, just finished his basic training at Camp Callan, California, and is now at O.C.S. for Anti-Aircraft at Camp Davis, N. C Will Bennett, a Medical lt. is teaching skiing in the Mountain Troops at Camp Hale. War isn't hell out there. He reports lots of Dartmouths, but Clark Paige is the only other '37er. Ed Davis has been promoted to the rank of lt. (sg).
John Burton is now engaged to Gloria Grumb acher of Larchmont and Mt. Holyoke College Vince Turecamo is now married to the former Flora Griffin of Forest Hills, N. Y., and New Rochelle College. Ed Smith and Lt. Jim Clegg helped out at the wedding.
Ed Jones, whose heroic exploits have been mentioned, had a couple of letters printed in the May issue of the Atlantic Monthly and also a very fine editorial about the same in the Boston Globe of May 5 th. Chel French has been moved to Santa Ana, Calif., to what he considers a pretty good set-up after being in the desert. His technical ability is coming in rather handy to the Army Statistical Control Unit of the Air Forces, and he and his wife are enjoying California while Chel expects orders almost daily.
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