1944
It was with deepest regret that we learned that another of our classmates, Kim Urion, had given his all. Kim, a Navy Ensign, was killed when a torpedo bomber he was ferrying to the west coast crashed in Tennessee. The class extends its heartfelt sympathy to Kim's family.
Ray Zrike writes to say that he, Chuck Richardson, Ed Rehurek, and Bob Gifford are all Midshipmen at Harvard Business School. Fred Heidner and Buzz Brenner are Ensigns taking a four months course at Harvard. Walt Burke is a Midshipman at Columbia after almost a year as an enlisted man Len Landry's father relays news that Len sent from Kiska where, separated from his company, he was on reconnaissance and living on abandoned Jap food. Joel Coffin is in Len's outfit, the 87th Mt. Inf Jim Bodine is at the Big Spring, Texas, Bombardier School. A card comes from Alan Howard, in the 419 th Night Fighter Squad, advising that his address is now c/o Postmaster, San Francisco. Wally Benjamin is stationed at Peterson Field, Col Bob Gilchrist is at Aberdeen, Md. in an Army Specialist School studying engines John Handwerg is in A.S.T.P. at the University of lowa.
Frank Behrle and Wiley Hitchcock were among those I bumped into at the Yale game. Wiley is an ASTP, studying Japanese, and has Nobu Mitsui as one of his instructors. I heard via an extensive grapevine telegraph, which reached me at Northampton, that Dick Whiting may soon be doing the same thing. Dick wrote last from the U. of Miss, and told of escorting six Southern belles at one time during a part of a weekend in Memphis.
Tom Miner has been on the staff of the Navy Bomb Disposal School in Washington and is now headed for Midshipman's School Dave Patterson is in the Coast Guard, whereabouts unknown Red Peabody writes from Seymour Johnson Field, N. C. that he expects to go to Aerial Gunnery School Johnny Eaton is getting pilot training at the Army Air Base in Santa Ana, Calif A 1 Howland is at Notre Dame V-7 School
Jay Downing is seeing action aplenty as a pilot in Italy Perry Craver has his wings, has been assigned to a combat unit, and expects to go overseas shortly—meanwhile is at Westover Field Ave Clark continues in the news, this time making the cover of the Nov. 1 issue o£ Life standing beside a Thunderbolt Fighter. .... Hank Best is at the Naval Air Station at Glenview, 111 There's a big group of '44s training at Maxwell Field, Ala. including: Gil Anthony, Dave Templeton, Dale Brougher, Hal Cannon, George Galbraith, Charlie Martus, Jack Snobble, and Whit Wells Chev Hyde is waiting to go overseas as pilot of a ship-based observation plane.
Joe MacFarland is in ASTP at the U. of New Hampshire Don Pfeifle and Bill Gatlin are at Colgate as Naval Air Cadets Jim White is an Army Air Cadet at Garden City, Kansas, and Mo Distin is in the Air Corps, stationed at Miami—a long way from skiing joe Maleno sends news in a long letter that he, Irl Rose, and Jack Handy are in ASTP at The Citadel in Charleston, S. C Rog Feldr man is now situated in Coleman, Tex John O'Connor is a mechanic on the U.S.S. Ranger Joe Dryer is in a Candidate Class at Quantico Jim Rudnick and Bill Harrison have gone from P. I. to Radar School in Chicago Johnny Lesher is an Air Cadet at Corpus Christi. .... Don Weir was seen recently in the Cafe Rouge—has graduated from Navy Radio School Lt. Carl Spaeth is statioried at March Field, Calif George Cummings is in ASTP at the U. of Nebraska
In the Nov. and Dec. issues of Harper'sMagazine there is a complete story of the adventures of the crew of the Coast Guard yawl Zaida—of which Ward Weimar was a member—in the storms of the Atlantic. Ward is now the navigator of the vessel, and had command during a recent series of gales off the New Jersey Coast.
Ham Rowan and Jean Tanch, daughter of Prof. Tanch, were married in October and are living in Motave, Calif. Chuck Secor and Pauline Holcomb of San Diego were also married in October. Both are students at Stanford, Chuck in the med. school. Engagements to report this month are those of: Phil Brown and Mary Bates of Bath, Me. and the U. of Maine; Dave Merrill and Ann Findeisen of Pasadena and a graduate of UCLA; Joe Thorton and Kathleen Hourigan of Tulsa, Okla.; and Gordon Ross and Elly Loiseaux of Port Washington, L. I.
COVER MAN on the November 1 issue of "Life" was J. Averell Clark '44, a Thunderbolt pilot flying with the Army Air Forces in England.
MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1944, enrolled at Dartmouth during the fall term, gather on the steps of Dartmouth Hall for a picture of as large a group as could be rounded up. The first two rows are medical students, the third V-12 trainees, the rest civilians.
Secretary; 403 N. Fayerweather, Hanover, N. H Treasurer, c/o Robert J. Holmes 10 Post Office Square, Boston, Mass.
