1928
Each of the twenty-eight members of our class known to be overseas has been sent a little Christmas remembrance (a carton of cigarettes) by the class. After you've read the names below, please write me if you note any omissions or errors.
Most distant are Capt. Paul Annable AAF, and Capt. Art Nightingale, who is in an amphibian brigade. Both are in Australia, but were unable to get to the meeting on Oct. 7 of the fifteen alumni who formed the Dartmouth Club of Tokio via Manila.
Two who attended our Fifteenth in New York last June are now overseas: Sgt. Bud Weser and Lt. Hank Leach. Hank, just out of a hospital in India, asks if there are any '2Bers there. Look up George Bell, Standard Vacuum Oil Co., Calcutta.
In the Pacific theatre are—Army: Cpl. Fred Burleigh, Lt. Don Chapman, Lt. Ray Hyman, Capt. Francis Reynolds; Navy: Lt. Al Kitts; Marines: Gordon Jamison. Censorship makes its difficult to find out how many of our classmates are in Italy, but the number is considerable. Capt. Tax Connell, ex-Dartmouth professor, is head of an Army malaria survey unit there. During the North African campaign his unit visited all the largest cities.
Believed to be in Italy—Lt. Norm Chamberlain, Lt. Bill Evans, Lt. Collie Weeks, Sgt. Jim Hardy, and Capt. Barney Nova, all of the Army. Lt. Dick Foote was C.O. of a "Landing Craft Infantry" which was in Naples.
Capt. Johnny Lawrence and Capt. Walt McK.ee are in London; Capt. Rocky Keith is attached to a general hospital near London. Lt. Art Perkins has just returned to England after a long sojourn in Ireland. The whereabouts of Capt. Milt Hoefle and Sgt. Bud Weser have not been reported yet.
In the Caribbean area are Navy lieutenants George Boughton and Jack McLaughlin. Navy Lt. Parker Noyes is in Alaska. Lt. (jg) Jack Heston is at sea in command of an Armed Guard gun crew. Lt. Bob Reed gets his mail at a Miami Beach APO. Sgt. Larry Miter is in Egypt.
After six months on a carrier in the thick of things in the southwest Pacific, including the battle of Midway, Lt. Hoyt ("Tommy") Thompson was sent home on furlough in June. The last I heard he was at Quonset Point Naval Training Station passing on some of his experience.
Lt. Comdr. Chuck Hazzard has just arrived home and is now stationed at the Naval Hospital at St. Albans, L. I., after eighteen months on a hospital ship—a year in the Atlantic and the last six months in the southwest Pacific.
Lt. Dick Rendell of the Army came back from London recently.
Time magazine says that "when Ed Lockett flew in from London last week he had lunch in Scotland—dinner in Icelandbreakfast in New York!" Ed is Time's Bureau Head in London.
Jerry Warner, Rella, and their children, have been in Buenos Aires ten months and like it very much. Jerry is on the Embassy staff there. He finds it a welcome post after his long internment in Japan.
Lt. (jg) Jimmy Fowler is executive officer of the V-12 unit at Central Michigan College of Education, Mt. Pleasant, to which he was assigned one week after attending the Fifteenth reunion in New York. On arrival he was pleased to find that the medical officer of this unit was none other than Lt. Jim Gillard.
Lt. Bob Morrison is an instructor in the Army officers' training unit at the University of Connecticut.
Bill Morton is performing a patriotic service—he writes and publishes a monthly newsletter (four to ten mimeographed pages) which he sends to all Syracuse boys in service. Why don't some of you fellows follow his example in your home communities?
Bob Rockhill is in the Adjutant General's Officer Candidate School at Ft. Washington, Md.,—graduates January 5.
Wes and Dorris Wood of Troy, N. Y., have a six-months' old girl named Judy. Ernie and Jean Wright's second child arrived August 23, and will stagger along under the name of Ernest Apelles Wright 4th.
Brougham Wallace was promoted in August from assistant treasurer to second vice president of the Guaranty Trust Co., New York.
The engagement of Cynthia Cuddeback of Port Jervis, N. Y., to Lt. Ken Cuddeback USNR was announced recently. The Herald-Tribune explained the CuddebackCuddeback situation thusly: "The couple are sixth cousins." Ken was detached from the Armed Guard July 20 and is now in the Pacific Northwest.
Also relieved of sea duty with the Armed Guard is Lt. (jg) Chuck Bennet, who, like Ken, sailed the seven seas. Chuck is now on permanent (?) duty at the Armed Guard Center, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pay your class dues NOW. Send your check for $7.50 ($5 for men in service) to Treasurer Bruce Lewis, 80 Bth Ave., New York, N. Y.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Inc., Troy, Pa Treasurer, Lewis Historical Pub. Co., Inc. 80-8th Ave., New York, N. Y.
