Chicago
OUR REPORTERS for news of Service men from the Chicago area are still on a
"leave of absence," but we hope that they will become more active in the near future.
Again, for the sake of the record, your secretary's address is Suite No. A-1040, Insurance Exchange, 175 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Ill.; Telephone: Wabash 8522.
The first item of news that we have received from a "Man in Service" comes from Sgt. Hugo Schnabel Jr., Hq. Co., Savanna Section Ordnance School, Proving Ground, 111. The following is his letter, and we trust that no military information is being divulged:
"First my name and address: Sgt. Hugo Schnabel Jr., Hy. Co., Savanna Section Ordnance School, Proving Ground, Ill., Dartmouth '42. Also four months at Tuck school working for a Masters
degree—then the draft. "I am an instructor here at the school teaching Army Supply Procedure to aviation ordnance students. I have been teaching here for several months and that keeps me very busy, but this month I have nothing to do and have put in for a furlough. Since I have this month off I have been going through the ALUMNI MAGAZINE thoroughly, and read your article in the June MAGAZINE tonight.
"I am genuinely sorry that I have not made any contributions to the Alumni Club concerning news of my fellow Dartmouth men. We do not get many students with a college education, but I am- still looking for a Dartmouth man to come to this school. I had a man in my class from Amherst last month but that is as close to Dartmouth as any student I have had.
"If it is news you want I can give some information of several of my roommates. "Charles Hunt '42 is now a It. (j.g.), and has recently been shipped to Hawaii. He was married several months ago to Louise Morrow and I was his best man.
"Richard Smith '42, is in the Merchant Marine and has had many exciting voyages. He has been shipwrecked twice that I know off: once off the coast of Brazil, and was hospitalized with several broken ribs and a punctured lung. He could not tell me the nature of the accident. While he was recovering" at a hospital in South America he flew several missions as a gunner on anti-submarine bombers. But when he gets home he has plenty of money and flies to Cleveland to see his girl, and from there to Parris Island to see his brother, who is in the Marines. His work is dangerous, but the money he makes and the vacations between trips sound good to a hard-working sergeant.
"William J. Ay I ward Jr. '41, Lt. (j.g.), has been stationed in or around Hawaii for over nine months, and expects to come back to the States soon and stop off here on his way home. Bill has.been assigned to a sub-chaser during the time "he has been in Hawaii but due to the strict censorship I can't find out anything more from his letters.
"Walter Eisenman '42 graduated from Dartmouth Medical School, and is now at Michigan Medical School. He was recently inducted into the Navy and will be going to school on Uncle Sam's payroll.
"Charles Crenshaw '42 also finished Dartmouth Medical School and is now at Northwestern Medical School. I called him up when I was in Chicago last month, on my one week-end a month off, but he had left temporarily to be sworn into the Army and will then finish school as a soldier.
"Edward Leene Jr., Ex-'43, enlisted in the Air Corps, and was finally shipped to Laredo Army Air Base, and is a power turret mechanic on medium bombers. He is still a private and rather bitter about the continual state of change within the Air Corps. I know what he is -talking about because I have the job of teaching Air Corps men something about Ordnance Supply Operations to the Army Air Forces. Every day some soldier will spout off with, "That isn't the way we do it at our base." But being the tough Sgt. that I am, or am supposed to be, I tell him I don't give a damn how they did at his baSe; here is the way it should be done according to regulations._ Then I have to try and show him why my way is the best. But the Air Forces are really getting the job done and that is what counts in the end; the fact that they are doing a grand job."
Many thanks to you, Sgt. Hugo Schnabel. Let us hear from you again.
Here is some news in a rather different vein. We are very glad to see that Dartmouth Fathers are reading the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Mr. J. D. Campbell of Swift & Co., San Antonio, Texas, writes to the Chicago Association:
The following letter has been received from: Pvt. David C. Campbell, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y "Well, the trip is all over with, much to the relief of most of us. The voyage itself was not bad, wonderful weather all the way but the trip got pretty monotonous without anything to do except read. It seemed very funny to me not to be with the family while crossing the ocean, and also the conditions we were under were different. I suppose, Dad, you know how it was. I am in North Africa; where, I can't say. The country around here reminds me very much of where we were last time we were in North Africa, but I am not where we were then. As yet I haven't had a chance to use my French but hope to as soon as I get a chance to go to town. The minute I hit land so many memories came back to me that it made me homesick for the whole family. I know that it is going to be twice as bad if I go to any of the countries where we once lived. But I think that I will survive all right. Write me often and I will do the same."
The Executive Committee of the Chicago: Association met on September 24 to make plans for our fall operations. The most Essential items on the calendar were plans for the Scholarship Fund Drive and resumption of our regular monthly luncheons. The Scholarship committee is going into a huddle to try to figure out the best way to handle their problem and when they arrive at their decision it is up to us to support them in every way we can.
As to the luncheons, we hope that those of you who read this will take advantage of the announcement. Luncheons will be held in Private Dining Rooms at Mandel Brothers Department Store, on the second Monday in every month beginning October 11, 1943- We urge you to attend these luncheons, as it gives us all an opportunity to find out what is going on at Dartmouth and in the Chicago Association.
MOST REMOTE DARTMOUTH CLUB probably is the one on a South Pacific island, 10,000 miles from Hanover. Attending one of the monthly dinners were, left to right, Lt. Col. Henry Fowler '17 USA, Lt. Bruce Smith '36 MC USNR, Capt. Herbert Harries '38 USMCR, Lt. (jg) Robert Eakin '37 USNR, Lt. Richard Thirlby '37 MC USNR, Lt. Bruce Lemmon '38 MC USNR, Brig. General Howard Fuller '15 USA, Ens. Edward McLaughlin '41 USNR, and Lt. (jg) Frank Maiavasie '41 USNR.
