1929

We've been doing a little business last month and this, with fair success to date. But it would be much better if it could all be cleaned up and out of the way before the end of the year. So, if you've mislaid the bill don't wait for a follow-up; just be reminded that your check should be $2.50 for the MAGAZINE, plus such contribution we civilians make to the '25? Service Fund. And with it a line or two of encouragement for your secretary: news, gossip, comments, criticisms or funny stories.

When last heard from Joe Webb was on the C.C.N.Y. faculty, in the Biology Department, with much time taken up with volunteer teaching of Defense courses and Air Raid Warden activities.

Have had several good letters from Mo Heath who is stationed in Seattle with the 260 th CA (AA). So far, he relates, he has not been before His Honor, Jim Hodson of the Municipal Court. Mo's former fellow-townsman, Dick Sanders, is now an across-the-street neighbor of Phil Rising in Needham, Mass. Both are charter members of the Neighborhood Improvement Society which is designed primarily to provide mutual aid in the performance of the heavier household chores. Between jobs last weekend they remembered that Bob Monahan is still with the natural rubber operations of the Department of Agriculture, which, says Bob, "is an interesting assignment as we approach the really critical period in the availability of rubber." Bob had a very interesting article on beavers, entitled "The Return of Ix>ng Pond in the September issue of the AmericanForester. Hal Leich was with the last Navy indoctrination group at Hanover before the V-12 program went into effect. As would be expected Hal made the most of his opportunities to spend the weekends in his old haunts skiing and shooting rapids. He is in Miami now. Bill Dodge is still in Canada with International Paper and gets down to the States only occasionally. Recently seen and reported in satisfactory shape: Pres Randlett, government inspector; Johnny Calver, home on a visit from his government job in New York; Don Dudley whose orchestra is the main attraction at Boston's swank Sheraton Hotel; Ben Stacy who is now with the Civil Service Commission.

The Charlie Goldsmiths have a son, James Theodore, born October 6th.

Had a nice visit with Art Nighswander the other day when he was in Boston on business. He reports a very busy law practice in Laconia and such a heavy schedule of civic duties that evenings, Sundays and holidays are just overtime opportunities. But he looks well and is bearing up without noticeable change other than a sprinkling of gray in a full head of hair.

Lt. (jg) Johnny Bryant writes from the Fleet Sound School at Key West where he was about to finish a course and then return to Miami to rejoin Dick Johnson, Hal Leich and Ed Heister, all in SCTC.

Lt. (jg) Herb Ball looks good in blue, too. He's all over the country, even gets to Boston once in a while. But the letter which arrived a few days before his recent visit tells his story better than I can:

"In September 1942 I was offered a billet in the Radio, Radar and Underwater Sound Division of the Bureau of Ships. My papers took the usual month and a half to go through and now it is almost a year since I donned the blue. While at Fansteel as Special Assistant to the President I became a "talking mettalurgist," that is, I learned enough about tantalum, molybdenum, tungsten and the other rare metals to know what should be done. It is a far cry from the law, but as you know, even while in College I liked to try my hand at business. I had my indoctrination schooling in Washington at the Bureau of Ships, although I wanted to go back to Dartmouth. It was tough, working all day at the Bureau and then going to School after the day's work (I suppose it was really easy compared to what some of the boys have been through). I am now the C.O. of the Controlled Materials Plan section of the Division and have taken under cognizance of the section requirements of Bureau of Aeronautics, Aviation Supply Office Naval Aircraft factory, Naval Research Laboratory and the various other Naval activities using electronic equipment. We deal in addition with about five hundred prime manufacturers contracting for electronic equipment. I have had a chance to see most of the equipment and its uses are, needless to say, almost miraculous and amazing. To date I have made eight applications for a release to sea duty and have been turned down. The Executive Officer has indicated that as far as he is concerned I'm to stay on the job until the war is over and no ruse will work to be released. I am living with my father, mother and sister in Arlington, Virginia and am in the phone book if any of the fellows care to give me a call."

Bruce Sutherland is the author of "Pierre Henri Treyssac de Vergy" which appeared in the September issue of the Modern Language Quarterly.

Trying to locate familiar faces at the Cornell game- at Fenway Park, Boston was not very successful, numerically. In the distance towering over the crowd was Tommy Maynard, and close at hand for a few words was Steve Balkam, who manages the Sears Roebuck store in Quincy, Mass.

Secretary, 75 Federal St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn 383 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y