1940
Yesterday a letter arrived from Hanover, after it had traced me through my three previous residences, informing me that the next 1940 class column was my responsibility. This wouldn't have been so bad except for the fact that the dead line is tomorrow night, which gives me a matter of hours to collect the limited amount of information available with our class scattered on every continent in the world. For this reason I cry out "Praise the Lord and Pass the Information."
Lt. Scott Rogers was forced to give up the excellent job he was doing with the class column because of his duties in the Army. Scotty is in training at Fort Benning, Ga., with the Maintenance Battalion of the 10th Armored Division. He writes that they are putting him through what seems like a ten-day week but is enjoying every phase of it. He expects to take the big leap before many seasons have passed.
Bill Bumsted, after much confusion, was drafted and is stationed at Fort Monmouth, N. J., with the Medical Corps. Ham Dawes is an instructor with the Navy Air Corps and from the last report is stationed at Pensacola Clem Burnap was last seen in Hanover on furlough directly after induction into the Army. Where he will be stationed is still a mystery Bill Wrightson has recently been transferred from Fort Monmouth for more training and has recently announced his engagement to Miss Mary Ely of Rutherford, N. J.
A V-mail letter from Don Fox received yesterday shows him to have sailed through his basic training in the Army, plus Officers Training School, and to be stationed in the Hawaiian Islands Jim Young has left the Field Artillery at Fort Bragg and is attending Officers Training School Ensign Fred Porter has just completed his Coast Guard training at New London, Conn., and is in command of an 83 ft. patrol craft. He was picked with 12 others out of a class of 200 Van Cleve finished Columbia Law School, passed the Bar Examinations and is now an ensign serving in New York.
Last heard from, Bob (Whizzer) White was stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
Captain Fred Eaton is now back in the States from the Pacific. He is recuperating in Washington and gaining back the 35 lbs. that the Japs paid so dearly to get. In between snoozes, Fred is giving some firsthand information to those in the top posts. Diz de Sieyes was drafted last November in order to get another shot at his friends, the Nazis. His wife writes that he is spending the winter months at Miami Beach training for the Ground Force of the Air Corps. Beezy Smallwood, recently married, is an Armament Officer in the Air Corps.
Big Don Schott is foreman of several departments at the Union Carbon and Carbide Corp George Johnson, last heard from, was working with Wright Aeronautical in Paterson, N. J Ken McCotter is with the Propeller Division of Curtiss Wright Don McMahon is working with the Public Service in Plainfield, N. J. ... .John Case, and family, are situated outside Chicago and is a field representative for The Magniflux Corp Eb Cockley has finished his Law with flying colors and expects to be drafted soon Lew Lambert writes from Philadelphia, where he and his wife are now living, that "right after graduation from Penn. (Wharton Business School) and after Uncle Sam decided he didn't want me to sail his boats, I went out to Westinghouse. I am working in the improper relations department (industrial relations)."
Johnny Schliecher has been serving part of his internship at Belleview Hospital in New York and expects to continue his training at Hanover. Lt. (j.g.) Bill Rearden stopped in on me last fall just before being shipped out again to parts unknown. Bill has been at sea since a few months after graduation, but although he has seen much during his travels, he still doesn't know what being I-A in the draft means.
Jack Rourke has been put on the graveyard shift at C.B.S. He broadcasts from 1:30 A.M. until 6:30 A.M. over WABC, and then broadcasts for the OWI during the daytime. He has his hands full but still found time on New Year's Eve to hook up with Doc Auleman and Tuffy Reeves for a bit of a party, which, I understand, still hasn't ended Bill Huffman and Bob Williams are studying medicine at Reserve University in Cleveland, 0., and expect to finish their respective courses at the end of this summer.
This about concludes the information that I have on hand at the present time, but next month more names and more de- tail will follow, as I won't be so pressed for time.
ENSIGN CALHOUN STERLING '40 USNR Received his commission and gold wingsrecently at Jacksonville Naval Air Station.
Acting Secretary, Bldg. No. 5, Village Green, Orange, N. J.
