1935
It's only one little word sitting up there, and a few letters after the name, but it certainly means a very great deal to us.
'ROUND THE GIRDLED EARTH THEY ROAM Sid Hayward has passed on a very
interesting letter from Howie Croninger, from which we've culled the following excerpts:
. Since joining the Navy I have been assigned to Armed Guard duty— i.e., Navy gUn crew duty aboard merchant ships. During my travels I have seen—with varying degrees of clarity—Trinidad, Capetown, Durban, Mombassa, Aden (Ed. Note —we don't even know where these last three places are!), Suez, Cairo, Buenos Aires, Rio Grande Do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Natal and Puerto Rico. Entirely unexpectedly I encountered Alex Schnee and his charming wife in Buenos Aires. In a few well-chosen words I said, 'Hello, Alex, haveyouanyAlnmnimagazinesY Of course he did and it was great fun to catch up on the news a little bit after six months of drought.
"After being blown out of a tanker in the South Atlantic, we floated around 'till our boat was picked up three days later and we were landed in Brazil for a stretch in the hospital.
*>' After Cairo.... we were eventually flown back to Brazil, where I was shown the beauties of Rio's Capacabana Beach by Lt. (jg) Bill Stock '37, I believe, who is the NOB disbursing officer in Rio. During a short stopover in Miami I encountered Lt. Charlie Gow USNR who was bitterly disappointed to find the local Howard Johnson emporium closed, but he felt that a five-mile walk 'just around the corner' was worth the effort to see the place. Charlie has found his duties in Panama not too rig- orous nor unpleasant but, like the rest of us, will be glad when it's all over. He had seen Capt. John ]ewett, Army Medical Corps, several times, and said he seemed well and happy.
"In New York I found a letter from John himself, and also visited with his parents. John apparently found the going a little tough at first, but at last 'snapshot' he was regaining weight and hoped to get home 'sometime this winter,' and to get a more active assignment afterwards. Also had a letter from Ist Lt. Ted Harbaugh USMCR, who recently graduated from a Navy language school in Colorado, and looks forward to active duty of an interesting type. His wife and brand new daughter were with him in Colorado. I have not heard from John Howe directly, but understand he is now an ensign. While in New York I had lunch with Lt. (jg) Bill Fitzhugh one day; he and his family are fine, and he is hoping for an assignment to sea duty before long.
"I am just completing a very enjoyable leave, and am about to embark for the winter months in Florida—at the Subchaser Training Center." Howie's address is 220 Union St., Schenectady.
ARMY CATALOGUER
We quote the following from the "Town Crier" column in the Detroit Free Press, issue of October 2, 1943:
Bud Hulett got in from Washington this week just in time to help his charming mama celebrate her birthday. Bud got interested in printing when he was a lad, and when he finished at Dartmouth the printing business was what he picked for a career, naturally enough. Along came the war and Bud found himself working for Uncle Sam, as editor, publisher, custodian and what-have-you of the super Sears-Roebuck catalogue the Army gets out for its supply sergeants. The catalogue is divided into five sections, or volumes .... each a pretty hefty tome.... and the whole thing contains more than 20,000 items, ranging from carpenter's kits to ski boots Way the Army moves around these days, items are continually growing obsolete and new items come along to replace them, so the catalogue has to be revised about every six months.
ODDS AND ENSIGNS
Grapevined out of Cleveland is the scuttlebutt that Wild Bill Hawgood has exchanged that prefix for the one-stripe and more staid existence of an ensign headed for, or already at, Quonset for indoctrination in A-V (S) Reg Bankart is a Lt. (jg) now, still in Washington Ens. Frank Corlett, c/o T. B. Corlett, 4412 18th Ave., So. Minneapolis, sounds like a seaduty address to us, as does Ens. John Howe, c/o Orange National Bank, Orange, Mass. .... and possibly Ens. Elias Sousane, 54 Ash St., Nashua, N. H doesn't anyone in this man's ARMY ever write?
MORE ADDRESSES
Rode Hale, planning and production engineer at 64 Parkwood Rd., West Islip, N. Y Dr. John Ross, research fellow at Harvard, Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital, Boston 18, Mass Edwin Drechsel, journalist for United States News, lives at 916 W. Broad St., Falls Church, Va Bid Chase, 62 Prince St., West Newton 65, Mass
Phil Scully isn't far from there at 134 Oakleigh Rd., Newton, Mass Bill Davidson, Plant Mgr. 8c Secretary of Davidson Mfgr. Corp., lives at 2517 Colfax St., Evanston, 111 Capt. Barker C. Carrick, A.P.O. 528, c/o Postmaster, N. Y. C
Russ Erwin is teaching at Springfield High School, living 127 Southview Homes, Springfield, Vt.
Merry Christmas .... and may the NewYear be kind to each and every one of you.... and be a year of peace on earth andgoodwill towards all men of peace
Secretary-Chairman Gates Mills, Ohio Treasurer, 5036 Juanita Ave., S., Minneapolis, Minn.
