1939

The following letter has been received from Dr. Harvey B. Sanborn '02:

I wish to send you a little information regarding my son, Philip H. Sanborn.

In the fall of 1940, Philip enrolled for the four months' training to prepare for a commission in the USNR. He entered the school at Chicago in December and received his commission of ensign on March 14, 1941. He immediately asked for active service and was assigned to the Asiatic Fleet. Leaving San Francisco April 8 on the President Hayes and making stops at Hawaii, Kobe, Hong Kong and Shanghai, he arrived in Manila on May 7. There he was assigned to the Communications Department and stationed at the Port Director's Office in that city. He was still there during the month of December but finally moved to Corregidor. Following the capture of that place on May 6, he was reported as missing and no further word of him was received until July 1, 1943, when he was reported by the Navy Department as a prisoner of war of the Japanese and interned in the Philippine Islands.

Phil's address is as follows: Ens. Philip Harvey Sanborn USNR interned in the Philippine Islands, American P.O.W. Hq. Military Prison Camps of P. 1., No. 3 Tokyo, Japan. Via New York, N. Y.

HERE AND THERE

Several new commissions were announced recently as follows: Maj. James A. Feeley, Maj. James A. Donovan Jr., Maj. Austin S. Isleheart Jr., Maj. Hilleary F. Hoskinson, Maj. Auguste B. Ewing 3rd, and Capt. Don C. Wheaton Jr. Your secretary carries on a fair correspondence with Capt. Don, and from all reports he is still stationed in Australia and has, for a roommate, John Gauntlett.

Ted Wolfe and family recently moved next door to the writer and we have some great times together, particularly during Ted's talkative moods, while coming to work each morning. We both work in approximately the same locale and have to drive about fifteen miles each way. Both of us are definitely living out in the country, and as Ted has no fireplace, I am trying to persuade him to chop some wood. However, this hasn't been too successful as yet. I also run into Lou Bradley quite often as he is employed by a firm nearby, for whom we do work occasionally. In a few days, Ted expects to have Bill Bradford and family as guests, at which time I may be able to get some information from him for the next column. Any of you fellows living around Connecticut should try to get in touch with us as there are innumerable times when we are fortunate enough to get a considerable number of Dartmouth fellows together, particularly weekends, and it would be swell for any of you '3gers to give us a ring, as we can probably get together quite a group. In fact, in August, on two different occasions, we were able to get together Capt. Lloyd Nash, Bill Cunningham, Duke Lyon and family, Ted Wolfe and family, Lt. Horton Wainwright and Lt. (j.g.) Harold McGilpin. Lt. McGilpin has already embarked on a newlybuilt destroyer, as the only medico. Several pictures were taken on these get-togethers but as yet none are developed. I am hoping to get one or two of these for publication in a later issue.

Your secretary regrets to announce the death of Robert G. Whidden who was killed in the crash of an Army bi-motored cargo plane in New Hampshire recently. Further details are published in the In Memoriam section.

Joe Urban forwards a letter telling of his employment with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co., as traffic manager in Portsmouth, N. H., but his best announcement is the birth of Roger Frederic on June 1. He tells of Ens. Ev Woodman having a spell at the Chelsea Naval Hospital recently, but well now. Also born to Ens. Dick Baldauf and wife, a son, Richard Jr. on May 27. Received a letter recently from R. Haven Falconer, who is director of the Armed Forces Institute Film Services, requesting me to forward some information to Lt. Bob Alpert. As you probably remember, he wrote your secretary an excellent letter which was published as writer-of-the-month in a recent issue. Evidently Bob wished to get some films through to Bob Alpert in order to help him in his work. Any time you fellows would like to know addresses of these fellows in our class, I probably can help you out. In fact, I have a rather up-to-date listing of their addresses as they change from time to time.

There is one fellow I can't find and that is Moreau Brown. Where are you, Brownie? How about sending me a post-card, as I have mailed you several letters and they have been returned unclaimed.

Received a very good letter from Buck Ewing, who, you will notice from the above, has been advanced to the rank of major. Enclosed with his letter was a fine check for the Alumni Fund.

From a very fine picture in a local paper of Paul Winship's wife and child, your secretary gathers that Lt. Paul is now located somewhere in the South Pacific. Your secretary has also received considerable information as to the heroic offensive led by Marine Maj. William D. Stevenson against Jap six-inch guns in the Solomons. Quite an article written in the Manchester Union tells in great detail of the whole operation. Evidently Bill is doing a great job and only wish I could quote this article as practically all of it is in quotes from him.

ENGAGEMENTS AND WEDDINGS

Announcement is made of the engagement of Miss Shirley Baker of Santa Ana, Calif., to Orville P. Richardson Jr., Ens. USNR. Miss Mary Clay of Macon, Georgia, was married on July 31 to Ist Lt. James H. Brenner, who is stationed at Camp Wheeler, Ga. Married, on July 5, Lt. George Field Neiley Jr., to Miss Virginia Eve Railsback of Moline, Ill. He is an instructor in the Coast Guard Reserve Training School at New London, Conn. Married in June, Wyman R. Vaughan to Miss Hope Brutschy of White Plains, N. Y. They plan to live in Cambridge, Mass. On August 28 Lieutenant (j.g.) John Edward Kuhlke was married to Miss Viola Alcock. He is now interning at Brooklyn Hospital and will enter the Navy very soon. On July 2, William Alvord Green and Miss Cullen Snow were married. On August 21, John Randall Cathcart was married to Miss Ruth Estelle Pearson of Joliet, Illinois. Married in August, Lt. Paul Wheeler Dorsey, U.S.A., and Miss Dorothy Jane Peterson, Boston, Mass. Eddy Davis Palmer and Miss Jeanne Phyllis Walther were married on June 16. Ens. Frederich Wallach Mowatt Jr. USNR and Miss Ruth Eleanor Tarr of Everett, Mass., and North Wolfeboro, N. H., were married on June 20. In July, Ens. Robert L. Davidson and Miss Catherine Vilas, of Cleveland, Ohio, were married. They plan to live in Pensacola, Florida.

ENS. PHILIP H. SANBORN '39 USNR, missing for more than a year, has been reported a prisoner of war interned in the Philippine Islands. (See 1939 Class Notes.)

Secretary, 37 Trumbull St., New Haven, Conn. Treasurer, c/o J. M. Mathes, Inc. 122 East 42nd St., New York, N. Y.