1936
The mail bag has been particularly heavy this month as a result of the return postcards that were sent out with the bills for dues, and so without any rambling around, let's get down to some news-casting until space allotment calls a halt.
Bill Gates reports sitting on an iceberg in Greenland as a Tech. Sgt. in an Antmagnificent the landscape does not lend itself to winter sports SK a/c Rog Morse is one of those much publicized-of-late Navy Sea Bees and has been overseas for six months out of the twelve he has been in active service Speedster Bob Button hit the tape a winner with a promotion to captain Norm Simon is also now sporting two silver bars, and as a medic is attached to an air squadron at Abilene, Texas News has it that Dick Treadway, former scribe of this column, is by now one of Uncle Sam's marines
Ens. Ed Brooks up at the Portsmouth Navy Yard received an interesting letter from Al Phipps who has been in Johannesburg, South Africa, since June 1941, as managing director of Muller & Phipps, South Africa Ltd., manufacturers' representatives. Al spent four months in the Belgian Congo and about 2,000 miles of the trip was covered by hitch-hiking, as it was the most convenient method of transportation.
Dick Stowell in Binghamton, N. Y., reports a 4F classification and what with the manpower situation, is busy turning out the goods in his bakery. .... Bob Stokes received his silver bar in June and is now at Camp Davis at Officers Cadre School. .... John Mallory, one of the few left in the New York area, is with Fritzche Bros., dealers in essential oils Livy Ferris up in Stamford, Conn., is still working with test tubes and trying to synthesize some "rat exterminators," and on the side is an auxiliary policeman at night, helping to protect the local girls from the wolves around town Dick, Ken or Wilss (take your choice) Wilson, now a full lieutenant in the Supply Corps USNR, has left for a base in South America and reminds yours truly that it was he who pinned on to me the name of Jacko Ens. Lou Benezet is now Educational Services Officer at Great Lakes, organizing voluntary off-time classes, etc., in order to keep the boys on the beam
If any" of you have seen the Big Green in action this fall, you may have rubbed your eyes a minute when the cheerleader called for a Wah-who-wah. No, it wasn't the refreshments before the game, for that individual with the megaphone (and still turning flips) is our own Brint Schorer. He volunteered his services and Maestro McCarter accepted, so after eight years Brint is back on the firing line after a stint at the Georgia game in 1941. He is looking forward to seeing all of the '36 gang between halves for the rest of the season. In addition to leading the cheering section on Saturdays, Brint is still holding down a full-time job with the Schorer Co. Inc., and a part-time job on an automatic lathe a Holo-Krome Screw Corp., and anxious to see any '36ers in Bridgeport.
Dick Ruby who has been a major in the USMC since last February is now commanding a battalion out in California after seven months' duty in the southwest Pacific. Dick returned home on February 24 to find that Ann Sutton Ruby had arrived by the Stork Express on February 19 Lt. (jg) Art Funk reports he is anti-submarine and Radar officer aboard one of our new destroyer escorts Pvt. Art Lynch, Hdqts. Bty., 989 th F. A. Bn. at Camp Forrest, Tenn., writes in that he has not seen anyone from the Class, where he is, and would welcome getting in touch with any of you who might be there Bob Brenner now a Ist Lt., and after duty for months in Miami and San Antonio reports the cold breezes of Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, where he is attached to Hdqts. of Air Service Command Huff Huffman, please take note. Huff, who is in Dayton and would like to see any '36 men, reports seeing Red Riley at Lake Placid where he teaches and coaches at the Northwood School and lives with his wife and daughter Basil Coutrakon transferred from the Coast Guard to the Navy and is an ensign at the Deck School at Cornell
Blake Hughes, after his return from Russia several months ago, was one of seven men awarded letters of commendation for courage, leadership, and resourcefulness. He is now a lieutenant USNR at Sub-Chaser School in Miami. Congratulations. Capt. Jim Lancaster is chaplain of 334th Bomb Group at Greenville, S. C., and is anxious to meet any '36er in the area Lt. Bob Birchall of Medical Corps moved recently from England to Scotland Capt. John Cartwright is registrar of the 24th Station Hospital somewhere in the Middle East and has a nine months' old daughter Susan here at home Lt. (jg) Len Florsheim is at Jacksonville studying aviation ordnance and from there expects to go to Pensacola for aerial free gunnery instruction, and then on to school at Yorktown to study aerial mines—No, Len, it was my namesake in '37 that played polo Lt. Jim Tindle is in Washington at Naval Bureau of Ordnance, expediting and allotting steel, and a new member of the family is expected early in November Ens. Joe Millimet of Coast Guard is now instructor in anti-submarine warfare at Officers Indoctrination School in St. Augustine Lt. Lou Deßus is a glider pilot overseas Lt. Frank Hight is at school at St. Simons Island, Ga., and expects to go to sea soon. Ens. Locky Barr is in the same class Best wishes to Stan McCoy who received some head injuries in the Marines and has received his medical discharge Capt. Al Meyer who is a medic with the Air Force has been overseas since May, 1942, and at present is in New Guinea Capt. John Ovitz, another Medical Corps officer, is Division Artillery Surgeon of the 38th Div. in La
Hugh Chase is in Teheran, Iran, as confidential secretary to the Administrator General of the Finances of Iran Lt. Ed Pike is the author of Physical Training Procedures and Activities Bob Warren is 4F and studying aviation mechanics, as well as arranging for eleven radio shows Bob Ireland who graduated from Stanford in '38 is in the movies; first as associate producer, and currently as an actor; one of his recent pictures was Mission to Moscow
A few vital statistics: marriage of Jim Stephens in September to Katherine H. Hammond of Springfield, Mass Marriage of Bob Latham in September to Dorothy E. Morrison of Norway, Me of Corp. Briant Patterson on Sept. 19 to Harriet E. Wheeler of New London, Conn Marriage on Oct. 16 of Bob Frank to Betty Burritt of Rockford, Ill Cable from Stoney Jackson to his father reports arrival of Andrew Jackson on Sept. 5 in Melbourne, Australia Arrival of Phyllis Anne McLaughlin on August 27 in Pittsburgh to Bill McLaughlin's.
There is a great deal more news and other vital statistics to report but we will have to wait for the next issue. Please send in your dues at once if you have not already done so, and will the individual who has an account at the Third National Bank & Trust Co. of Springfield, Mass., and who sent me his check No. 482 in payment of dues, please drop me a line. Credit for the quickest reply in sending in your checks this year goes to Hugh Chase, Red Riley, Bob Warren, and Bern Woods. See you next month.
Acting-Secretary and Treasurer, Bank of New York 48 Wall St., New York, N. Y.
