1937
We're all joining together in our best wishes for a continued recovery to Edith Leadbetter who was engaged to Ben. You will all be happy to know that she is now able to be up and around a bit. Tributes to Ben, as a fellow, as a promising surgeon, and as a leader, continue to overshadow everything else in '37 interest and in the mail. Many suggest a memorial. It's a capital idea and the first one that must come to '37 attention when the present mess is straightened out. A tribute that vocalizes '37 sentiment for Ben comes from a lonely sailor on his Pacific outpost—"Since hearing of Benny's death, I have been wondering wondering what it is all about? He was the best, the very best. You and I know that and then, on the verge of becoming a great doctor and a boon to us all (just to have "Benny" around was that), he is called away. This old earth must be a very temporary sort of place, a testing place perhaps, to do the best with what we've been given Too often the really fine persons leave first, the undesirables stay on and on. Yes, that's the only way I can understand it."
Army life, coming with the swift completeness of its change from post-college days, has brought a new set of values to many '37ers, as the mail bag amply demonparachutists, strates. Lt. George Skinner, training a colored regiment at Camp Stewart, Ga., has the highest praise for his soldiers and feels unworthy of the respect they accord him. Having his wife close to him, regardless of his home's location, is what's important. He wonders at civilian apathy. He sees clearly that the "waiting for the other fellow to do it first" idea just won't work in winning this war. Clearly a war to exhaustion is about as bad as a loss Don McKinley, appraising his college-war period, used to think working up in a large city was the thing. But now he sees that doing a good job wherever you are is the important thing and perhaps some town or small city will claim lawyer Don after the war.
The engagement-marriage-birth cycle continues in full swing despite hostilities. Kay and BibsBankharfs 7 lb. 5 oz. Richard Ward Bankhart rather cleverly announces his own arrival in late December Sgt. Art Sprague and the new Mrs. are now at home in Bangor, Me. The former Helen Norma Donahue, of St. Johnsbury, graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy Jake Mosser USNR, now engaged to Marianna Gooch of W. Medford, Mass., Kennebunkport, Me., and Bradford Jr. College Lt. Corb Moister of the Naval Medical Corps, now engaged to Jean Smithers of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Prouts Neck, Me., and Vassar. Jim Murdoch and the former Nellie Louise Swan of Crown Point, N. Y., and Keuka College are now at home at Port Henry. Jim is still carrying on for Republic Steel Sgt. Henry DouglasCochran now married to Isabel Ann Laing of Plainfield, N. J., and Hartridge School Rev. Cedric Hoil en Jaggard now engaged to Jean Dale McGiffert of Montclair, N. J., and Oberlin College. Classmate Cedric has been getting around since '37. He's received an M.S. from Haverford College. Then after a year of study at the University of Basel, Switzerland, he completed work for the Bachelor of Divinity Degree at Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. For the past two years, Cedric's been a post-graduate student at Princeton Theological Seminary. Ordained at Grace Presbyterian Church, Montclair in July, 1941, he has since been serving at the Luxemburg and Berkshire Valley Presbyterian Churches at Wharton, N. J.
Dave Pearsall 111, who spent some time at Wharton after Dartmouth, was married to Jean Taussig of New York City and Walnut Hill School in Natick, Mass. Dave plans to take his bride to Chile to live We're looking at Jack Costello's wedding picture including the former Peggy Palmer, her sister Eleanor and Jack's brother, Clem. Both Costellos are in their ensign uniforms, but those good-looking girls really steal the picture Lt. and Mrs. Pat Patterson's daughter, Merrilee, all of iy2 lbs., was born late in November at the Providence Lying-in Hospital Dr. Jack Schilling now engaged to Barbara Whipple of Rochester and Swarthmore College. After Harvard Med, Jack landed at Roosevelt Hospital in New York where he is now resident surgeon. Jack may be able to pick up a few pointers from Barbara, as her father received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1934 Franny Gray, now living in Melrose, and a valuable cog in the B & M wheel, lets us in on the birth of a son, Bradford M., to him and the Mrs. several months ago
Our Olympic skater, Ed Shea, popular young lawyer of Ogdensberg, N. Y., recently engaged to Shelia Houlihan, is now an ensign stationed at the Naval Base in Norfolk, Va Bill Burford, who picked up a Master's Degree in Education at Graduate Teacher's College, Winnetka, 111., came up the hard way, serving as an enlisted man at Randolph Field before being appointed an Aviation Cadet in October, 1941, and finally being graduated from Kelly Field Navigation School as a lieutenant and continuing up to the present as a navigation instructor at the world's largest navigation school at Hondo, Texas.
Sgt. Vince Sullivan, one of the first volunteers from Middleboro, Mass., was recommended for Officer's training, but declined and accepted a sergeant's commission in the Investigation Division of the Provost Marshall General's department. He recently completed a two months' course at Oglethorpe, Ga., and has been assigned to confidential work for the last seven months Lt. (j.g.) BillStorck is now an assistant Naval attache at the embassy in Rio de Janeiro Lt. (j.g.) FrankDavis sends along his three fish for class dues from the U.S.S. "Essex.". .. .Pvt. Tony Genewich shakes his 220 pounds out of a hard seat in the Finance Department at Camp Devens and agrees with Sherman. Tony isn't missing any bets, but he can't quite figure how he can get a branch of his Tydie-Dydie Service operating at Devens. If MuttRay and Dave Camerer don't write to Tony quick, they are in for some punishment.
Tinny Taft has the responsibility of the disbursement office of the Navy Pre-Flight School at Athens, Ga. Judging by the number of cadets, officers, and enlisted men on Lt. Taft's payroll, and the practice he'll get, he shouldn't have any trouble keeping his checkbook balanced after this war. ....George Roe-user's two kids and Peggy, too, are pretty glad to see their old man back in Rockport after having his appendix lifted JackMorrison left a darn good advertising job to take a commission in the Navy. He and his wife and kids have been at Harvard for a while while Jack breaks in Dr. Crawf Hinman is now at the Boston Lying-in Hospital Monk Amon, that Boston lawyer, and wife, Dot, were in Worcester a short while ago and report that Al Maclntyre was looking healthier than ever.
Ensign Briggs Austin, erroneously reported in the Supply Corps, is now in the Photographic Division, Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington and can be reached at 2322 4th Place, N.W Ed Jones, in the American Field Service, has been up at the front in Egypt since the last advance started. He reports that it is quite a nervewracking job to drive an ambulance in the dead of night with only a peep-hole through the window and four or five wounded men behind, over a road that would make a plowed field seem like the Boston-Post Road. And to add to the confusion, he has to compete with the largest tanks and lorries built by man going over the same road.
HOW ABOUT SOME SNAPSHOTS, BOYS?
" 'ROUND THE GIRDLED EARTH" Capt. John F. Ohlinger '37 USAAC, shownhere with his plane "The Big Green" uponarrival at Kunming, China, after a triphalf way around the world. Besides piloting planes to China he helped to evacuatecivilians from Burma, and carried suppliesand munitions to the United Nationsarmies for the Burma campaign.
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