1928
The following officers have been elected by the '28 Council to serve until the next Hanover reunion or for five years, whichever is shorter: President, Pvt. Paul Kruming AUS; vice president, Vic Hartjens; treasurer, Bruce Lewis; secretary, Os Skinner.
Paul has been transferred from the M.P. to the Special Service Division, Radio Branch, Room 2E585, Pentagon Building, Washington. He says, "Capt. Jack Rose is working like a beaver very near me. Am at present enjoying the hospitality of Lt. Comdr. A. G. Rydstrom '29."
Rupe Thompson has taken on the job of general chairman of the Rhode Island United War Fund, which is an organization of all the Community Funds of the state, and will endeavor to raise $2,500,000 for the National War Fund this fall.
Bill Whelan,d has been promoted to assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, where he has been teaching and doing research since 1937. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., will publish his book, TheTheory of Resonance, next spring.
Van Curll is office manager of Builders Iron Foundry, Providence.. . Bob Byrne of Hatfield, Mass., has a third son, David, born May 15 Wes Wood of Troy, N. Y., has a daughter, Judy, born April 19.
Cpl. Irv Engelman played a two-week return engagement on Broadway last month in The Army Play by Play.
Parker Chick graduates from M.1.T., September 6, as a weather forecaster, expects to stay on to instruct the next Army and Navy class.
Sgt. Phil Sherman of the Engineer Corps, Richmond, Va., says, "With news of all the lieutenants, captains and majors—haven't we got any sergeants in our class?" Sure, Phil, we have four besides you: Stretch Davis at Ft. Dix; Larry Miter in Egypt; Herm Schnepel in New York City, Investigators Corps of the Military Police; and Ed Wheatley, Biggs Field, Texas, crew chief of a mobile aero repair unit. We also have 35 corporals and privates.
Harry Gere echoes the thoughts of many '28ers when he says, "Hate to sit around while the boys are piling into the service. Doing a little locally as air raid warden and helping at Reports Center. Business demands frequent trips through the East, and that upsets any regular extra war work." He is coordinator of sales and advertisements for all sales efforts for Lever Bros. Co., Cambridge, Mass.
Dick Sullivan, librarian of the Lawrence (Mass.) Public Library, sought a Navy commission in April, passed all the exams, but so far has been unsuccessful in getting a bil let. He says, "Guess they don't need librarians." He and Jeff Glendinning, coal company executive, belong to the Lawrence Rotary Club. Joe Smith was a visiting Rotarian on two recent occasions.
Lane Dwinell, general manager of Carter & Churchill Co., Lebanon, N. H., (clothing manufacturers) is busy on Army and civilian work. He was turned down by the Navy on physical in 1942.
The Navy turned down another good man, Bill Goudy, because he once had a stomach ulcer. Bill trains regularly with the 7th Regiment of the N. Y. Guard. He is supervisor of advertising in the General Publicity Department of Union Carbide in New York City.
Promotions in the Navy are slower than in the Army, but two of our classmates have just moved up from lieutenants to lieutenant commanders, which for the uninitiate is equal to major in the Army and carries a $3,000 annual base pay. Salute Commander Doc Simonds, USNR Midshipmen's School, New York City, and Commander Bill Hunt, Naval Training Station, Newport, R. I.!
Capt. Ambie McLaughlin says that Col. Ham South '30 and Capt. Pete Marseller '38 are with him at the Marine Air Station, Cherry Point, N. C.
Capt. Lanky Langdell, just out of the Command and General Staff School, Leavenworth, Kansas, has been assigned to the Second Armored Corps, San Jose, Calif., as Corps Assistant Staff Judge Advocate.
Clark Harrington, manager of the Music Clearance Division of Columbia Broadcasting System, says, "Gordon Graham is doing something important at WABC, possibly he -is Commercial Editor. Gordon recently got a crew haircut which changes his appearance considerably."
Ben Heftier has left Chrysler to take a secret defense job with the Kellex Corp. in New York. He stays at the Dartmouth Club when not traveling to Detroit and other outlying points.
Lt. John Lawrence, in a V-mail letter from England, says, "Some of the cities have taken quite a beating, but the people have reacted with a courage which seems to be almost indifference. My chief reaction to date has been amazement at the way women have stepped into men's shoes in practically all occupations and have done a remarkable job. Things are rationed over here to the hilt—including Scotch, which is practically non-obtainable. Maybe one needs contacts to find where it is. I'm still looking."
LT. JOHN LAWRENCE '28 a member of the Army Signal Corps how on foreign soil.
'28ERS IN THE ARMY include Lt. Gordon Lowe, left, of the Army's Judge Advocate General Department, and Major Curley Prosser, AAF Office of Special Projects.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Inc., Troy, Pa. Treasurer, Lewis Historical Pub. Co., Inc. 80-Bth Ave., New York, N. Y.
