1942*

This has been a slim month. Only 19 letters. But no mistakes have been called to my attention so I'll settle for matters as they are.

First came the formal announcement of Charley Brown's engagement to Elizabeth Ann Godfrey of Marblehead (she's Dick's sister). Brownie followed this up with a letter from McGraw, N. Y., where he is awaiting orders to report for Naval training. He says Dave Warren is headed for Fort Schuyler as an ensign, Tom Wagner is working for the time being in his father's plant in Monaco, Pa., that Ensign Dick Godfrey is an instructor at Virginia Beach, and BobMoore is in the Army at Wright Field,

Then there were a couple of long letters from Ankle Deep Jim Farley who says, once he gets through alibi-ing for the standing of the hapless Detroit Red Wings, that Bob Gale and Ed Chalfant have graduated from an Air Corps School at Lowry Field, that Bob Dewey and Lindy Difabio were commissioned just before Christmas, Lindy celebrating by getting German measles and going into sick bay, that Dewey was headed for Norfolk to begin with, that John Teal has become engaged to Martha Howard of St. Louis and Radcliffe, that Matt Rapf, now in V-7 training, writes "(Al) Goldman is on the sea somewhere, I believe,....

Jerry (Tallmer) and Babe (Fanelli) are in the war zone but can't say where. Jerry says it is not actual combat zone, but it is tropical and a 'city' is within reach." In his second epistle Farl says that Hank Reynolds, like himself, is waiting the pleasure of the Navy for V-7 call.

Then there were a couple more from Sid "The Traveler" Bull who joined a "Lost Battalion" in Spokane before finally catching up with his outfit in deserty California late in January. Sid pens that he ran into Ford Sayre, Ist Lieut, at Spokane.

Bob Hill's father writes that Bob and Harriet Chandler of Waban, Mass., were married in Waban on January 23 A card from Dick French notes that he got his A.B. from A. I. C. in January and then was going into the Army on February 5. .... Bob Smith writes from New Britain, Conn, that he is working for New Departure in Bristol, Conn., that Dick Baldwin is in the Navy off the Carolina coast, and that Sam Bell is awaiting the Navy in Pittsburgh.

From Duke Frieman comes word that he's finding Naval Flight training some grind at the Pre-Flight School in Athens, Ga Dick Goss, now a lieut. in the Air Corps and an instructor at Miami, writes that he married Janice Lowe, former New York model, last December. He adds that Gerry Garduno was in Miami for a while and is now a lieut. somewhere over the Caribbean, that Ensign John Kelsey married Meriel Reed in Marblehead on January 6, and that all Dartmouth is welcome at the Goss homestead in Miami.

A couple of letters from Gutz Curtis say that the Nazis finally caught up with himhe got German measles. The little one wrote from his Admiral's quarters at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital. Reported that Carl Holekamp has been stationed at Jacksonville where so many Green '42's have been going to town, that Bob Stasenburgh, like himself, got submarine duty, that DaveBiggs is getting Naval Flight Training at Gelenview, Ill., that Dick Cardozo is a torpedo officer, and that Johnny Earle has been shipped to Libya with an ambulance corps.

Private Dave List in Salt Lake City writes that Guy Swenson is in AAF Armament School at Buckley Field, that Bill Richards was in AAF at Fort Logan, that Ed Rasmussen is an instructor at Lowry, that Ensign Box Lanius is in the South Pacific and that Ev Johnson is in AAF Radio at Kansas City. Dave is waiting for Air Corps Administration OCS..... Ensign Dave Carroll corrects me from the Pacific. He is not an as once mentioned, but a patrol flyer in the Pacific area. .... Randy Gilpatric jots from Maxwell Field, Ala., that after two years of foot soldiering hie has been transferred in grade (lieut.) to the Air Corps for training.

Dutch Schaefer adds in his most recent letter that Texas was a tough place to be at Christmas time.. . . A/C Mike de Sherbinin, also in San Antone, writes that Harry Jacobs' marriage to Marie Stevens of Hanover on New Year's Eve, with Mike as best man, was a big event in those parts, that Bob Headley is complaining at ARICO for not getting an ALUMNI MAGAZINE to him in Libya where he has started the newest Dartmouth club, that Kelley is in Marines OCS at Quantico, that Bate Ewart is a 2nd Lieut, in the Air Corps (previously announced).

Russ Greer cards from Ithaca that he's studying to be a veterinary for Uncle Sam, that GeorgeHinkley is in Seattle with a Weather Squadron, and that Ad Winship is at V-7 Columbia Bob Giles also cards that he is doing research at that he's run into Roy Eldridge and DaveTeahan at Tufts Med, that Pat Re'tlly is in a TNT plant in Texas.

Odds and Ends: Dick Craw's engagement to Nancy Jane Taylor of Upper Montclair, N. J., on January 30 Ensign Jim Ingersoll's marriage to Courtney Reid in Winnetka, Ill. around Christmas Hans Huessy's engagement .to Ellen West of New York Dick Bolton's engagement to Marian Wygant of North Greenbush, N. Y John Bolt en's engagement to Ruth Trott of Winchester, Mass Duke Frieman's engagement to Virginia Wyatt of Bay Shore, N. Y JohnnieDills marriage to Joan Nelson in Johnstown, Pa., in December Ensign John Middleton's marriage to Kathleen Roth in Bronxville, N. Y., in December Bob Giles' marriage to Patricia Wellington at Amherst in January. .. „ : JohnGlaze's engagement to Helen Ames of Ransomville, N. Y Ensign Ned Skinner"s marriage to Kathryn La Gasa of Tacoma, December 29 TomHarriman's engagement to Eleanor Levet of White Plains Tom Hunter's marriage to Jane Bagley of Lockhaven, Pa., January 12 Bob Rill's engagement to Martha Choate of Bridgeport, Conn. .... Don Patterson's engagement to Frances Smith of New York .... and Private Fred Shelley's engagement to Virginia Shaw of Doylestown, Pa.

ALONG THE GAY WHITE WAY: MartyKleckner down from Penn for the Columbia basketball game A few familiar faces at South Orange for the Seton Hall game Ensign Black-Jack Corwith haunting the Commodore Bar with BobAlesbury, Ralph Raclin, Bill Enos, JohnnyGliesman, Jack Stinson (recuperating from a shoulder operation) thrown in BillKoester champing at a chance to get into V-7 training Bail Walton at Camp Lee as a private Bob Walgron in Grand Central after graduating from an AAF School in New Haven. Now a and looey. .... Enough for now.

ENSIGN WILLIAM KELLER '42 Another Dartmouth flier who has wonluings and a commission. He trained atJacksonville.

MEN OF 1943 As THEY APPEARED AT THE CLOSE OF 1942 Left to right, Cadet Philip O'Brien USNR, training at Pensacola; Lt. Joseph E. Rhodes USAAC, commissioned at Ellington Field; En-Slgn Neal A. Tyler USNR, who received his wings at Jacksonville; and Lt. Gordon D. Bingham USAAC, who was trained and commis-sioned at Foster Field. All four of the men left Dartmouth to fly for Victory.

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