1941
In reading a letter from Lt. (jg) Dick McCornack I was given a fine theme for my future columns. Dick is in the Carribean area and wrote to Don Stillman congratulating him for the fine job he was doing substituting for Bob Harvey, and asked him to continue in his policy of passing out facts and not prose. I will take these words to heart and with all the facts you Men of '4l are going to send in to me, we will all know the who, what, why, when, and wherefore of each other. I'm keeping an active file of all letters, addresses, important events, and other information of everyone in our class, so if there is someone you would like to know about, drop me a line and I'll reply promptly. This month I'm going to clean up a lot of miscellaneous dope sent in over the last six months to Don Stillman. Next month I hope to have scads of news of a more current nature. Now for Facts Not Prose!
Dick McCornack's letter stated further that if Dick Tousley had not left prior to their impromptu class reunion, they would have had over one per cent of our class present. Those present were PT Skipper Hank Gunst, Ed Phelan, Fred Leopold, and Dick.
Lt. (jg) Roger Sands, who picks the class of '41 as his reunion class, is on some advance base awaiting a change of orders, much to his chagrin. He can be reached c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.
Donald F. Hagen, Naval Aviation Cadet at Athens, Ga., says that Larry Andrews is in New Guinea or New Britain as an aerial photographer but is still dreaming of a lake in Maine. Jim Jacobs is stationed at Ft. Schuyler, N. Y., and recently married Miss Nelle Davis, Smith College '42, a real veteran of Dartmouth houseparties.
Sgt. H. D. McKinney has been instructing men in lithography on Governors Island, N. Y. His two wishes are that he would get more active duties and that his pal, George Guest, would break down and write to him. George evidently has not been inactive, as he recently married Miss Louise A. Smillie in Pelham, Mass.
Jim Page is smashing rocks for the Geological Seminary in Spruce Pines, N. C., Box 365. Monk Valentine is a sergeant in New York some place and Dave Slattery is the same up in Beantown. Pete Jacobsen is doing seismic prospecting for the Carter Oil Co. in the desert country of eastern Wyoming. Bill Broer is a first lieutenant with the AAC in India and says Scotch is §25 a bottle, but that where he was going in China it was $60. Capt. Larry Dwyer writes from England that all is well, but that his crew are all a little "Flak-happy."
Lt. (jg) Edmund A. Tanzi has been visiting at the home of his parents in Hanover, after an exciting experience off the coast of Sicily in the recent invasion. He was gunnery officer aboard a destroyer which was sunk by Axis planes, and he was among the few survivors that were thrown into the sea, and afterwards picked up and sent to Africa. While there he saw Bjorklund '41, who took part in the invasion. Ed reports that the swimming is better in Mink Brook than in the Mediterranean.
Lloyd Fishman recently graduated from Princeton Naval Training School. Bill Sleepeck has probably left the West Coast by now. Lt. (jg) Bill Hanavan has been on a destroyer for the past year in the South Pacific. Lt. Roger F. Haley is a pilot in the Air Force. Hank Palmer is a metallurgist working for the Corbin Screw Corp. in New Britain, Conn. Lt. (jg) Jack Bowe is instructing in aeronautical engineering at the Naval Air Base at Daytona Beach, Fla. Ens. Ashley D. Pace Jr. instructing at Corpus Christi, Texas, not long ago gave "thumbs up" to one of his students who was Cadet Wm. F. Dau. Lt. Bill Hahn, who left Dartmouth before graduating, to finish at M.1.T., is playing nursemaid to tanks, peeps, and half-tracks, in the California desert!
Solomon Lifton is in his last year at N.Y.U. Medical School. Lt. (jg) Walt W. Kuhn Jr. is in Honolulu. Lt. Leslie Davis is at Camp Chaffee, Ark., with the 16th Armored Force Division. Ens. Richard D. Cords is Ships Secretary of the U. S. Naval Small Craft Training Center, Roosevelt Base, Terminal Island, Sai Pedro, California. Lt. Robert U. Frondorf is in the Hawaiian area, and says 30 men showed up for a Dartmouth meeting. He has seen Bill Morrow. Everett M. Stevens Jr. is in the Marines and is at Capip Elliot, San Diego, Calif. Art Spoeneman is working hard at McDonnell Aircraft in St. Louis, Mo.
Bob "Red" Taft says life as Production Propeller Sales Coordinator at Curtis Propeller is a fast-moving and interesting job. His wife, the former Miss Ann Morrison, presented him with a son, Jerry, but he will be called "Red," too. Do you suppose he would like to meet Jo Anne, the new Else offspring? Big Red says that Harry Douty is an ensign at Harvard and that Chet Stothart is an ensign in charge of an Armed Guard crew on a cargo ship.
Lt. Wesley W. Harper writes from North Africa that he is in a maintenance company that played a big part in the final rounding up of the Jerries there. Bob Frothingham's envelope was addressed c/o FPO, New York, and he says he is now top air officer on an advance base. Edward (Cam) Farmer is a first lieutenant in the Marine Corps and has received the purple heart for wounds on Guadalcanal. Now for some marriages:
Ens. C. Landon Martin to Miss Mary Louise Nolker; Cpr. Richard A. Potter to Miss Muriel O'Brien; Sgt. Philip H. Hall to Miss Shirley Kinney; Richard W. Olmstead to Miss Barbara J. Andrews; Ens. Carl C. Krogh to Miss Mary E. Baston; PFC. G. Courtland Drake to Miss Lorane Myers Sherwood; Lt. Charles F. Schlenker to Miss Virginia Chiras; Ens. Joseph E. Griffith Jr. to Miss Alice Ann Cross; Lt. James W. Keating to Miss Bernice M. Ross.
Engagements include: Ens. Felix Lilienthal Jr. to Miss Elaine Joy; Allen H. Keniston to Miss Julia Denton Cuddeback; Lt. (jg) Shackelford Reeder to Miss Sara M. Erwin; Lt. Charles Bolte to Miss Mary B. Elwell.
Be sure and fill out our next questionnaire promptly and completely: Tell us something about what you are doing!
LT. CHARLES G. BOLTE '41, well-known officer of the King's Royal Rifles, British infantry regiment, married the former Mary Elwell in New Haven late in July.
GUS BROBERG '41, of Big Green basketball fame, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the USMCR after completing flight training at Pensacola, Fla.
Acting Secretary, Chester Arthur Apt. D11, Presidential Gardens, Alexandria, Virginia Treasurer, 17 N. Park St. Hanover, N. H
