1932
This column is delighted to be able to lead off this month's newsbatch with an announcement of two new class officers whose acquisition will be welcome news to the class. Joe Carleton is now editing the Thirty-Two Newsletter, copies of which will undoubtedly have reached class members before this item appears. The first issue of the Newsletter carried the very welcome news that Air-Mail Morton has taken over the job of Head Agent. Your support of Bill in a trying job is most earnestly solicited, while you will greatly assist Joe Carleton, of 52 Church Street, Winchester, by sending him choice news-items for future issues of his Newsletter.
Correction: There is no Miss Eddie Toothaker. A typographical slip a few issues ago made one sentence read like this: Brown Dickinson is working for Procter and Gamble in Prairie; Miss Eddie Toothaker has moved to Belle-air Street in Denver. The semi-colon was several points off. The Miss was intended as an abbreviation of Mississippi, and not as an insult to the sturdy ball-carrier of Dartmouth's grid-club of a decade ago.
Marital-Martial Department: It is a pleasure to lead off this month's departmental items with a good letter from Lt. Ken La Vine, stationed at HQ, Replacement and School Command, in Birmingham, Ala.
After several months last year with the 77th Infantry Division, says Ken, I graduated from the infantry school on November 30. While there I managed to make sharpshooter with the rifle and expert with the other infantry weapons. Not bad for a guy who once considered it lucky to hit the stationary gong at a shooting gallery. Since then I've been stationed here, surrounded by regular army generals and colonels. It's part of the War Department General Staff and I'm in G-1, in charge of assignments to all officers from the various service schools and replacement centers to the units of the Army Ground Forces—lnfantry, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, Cavalry and Tank Destroyers While on a short leave I married Mary Virginia Dailey at St. Pat's, New York, on December 5th. (Editor's note: Mary comes from N. Y. C, formerly from Rochester. The wedding occurred in the Lady Chapel at St. Patrick's, and the bride wore white satin, trimmed with chantilly lace, by gum, and carried in the crook of her arm a bouquet of white orchids of bouvardia. Makes quite a picture, don't it?) Ken continues with the remarks that Mary is getting her first taste of Army social life at Birmingham, and is slightly bewildered at the lavish expenditure of calling-cards.
Looking back on his days at the Infantry School, Ken ruminates that his three months there were the most grueling and strenuous of his life .... "but looking back at the long hours of dry runs with the weapons, reconnaissance here, there, and everywhere, all on the double, night problems in the rain, and a week as student company commander, I believe it was the best three months. We had some close friendships during that time and I trust we'll all be together at the end of this affair."Amen, Ken.
More news of Bud Templin comes from Ken, who met him at the Officer's Club one Saturday night in early February. Templin was transferred the next day to Atlanta, taking thence his wife and family, including the very new little Cynthia Sue, born January 9, in Birmingham. Cynthia is the delight of her elder brothers, Bill and Jon. Father Bud is now Asst. Inspector of Recruiting and Induction in the Fourth Joint Service Induction Area, with rank of It. (jg) USNR.
NEWS FROM AFIELD, NEAR AND FAR: Leon Warner, 2nd Lt. USAAC drops a card from Stuttgart, Ark., where he works out with a glider detachment as administrative officer. His Army life dates from April 18, 1942, and he has shifted from Columbus, 0., and Nashville, Tenn., to his present post. He reports seeing Dr. Ed Judd at Christmas in Minneapolis; Ed was then about to enter the Army Medical Corps with the Mayo Hospital Detachment. Newshawk Marv Chandler reports news of Bob Newfang at the Naval Training School in San Diego. Marv is busy with his Cornell-bossed construction company which builds for the Government.
Os Skinner, sec'y of the Van Dyne Oil Cos., in Troy, Pa., thoughtfully sends in the following communique from Lt. Benioff '28, at USNTS, Batt. 4, Tucson, Ariz.: "Al Boncutter is in my battalion and we are managing to survive the dust of Tucson while imbibing some of the sunshine they dish out here every day."
Ed Farrell was named Asst. Treasurer of the Worcester Morris Plan Bank of that Massachusetts city on January 19- Some ten days earlier word was received in Glens Falls, N. Y., that Sam Englander had arrived "somewhere in Australia" after a 10,000-mile flight from Washington. The CAA sent him out as an air-field engineer, after a successful tour of government duty of some years' duration in Buffalo and Washington. Dr. John Brett is captain in the AAF and began training at Miami Feb. 23. He reports a phone-talk with Jack Eliot when Jack was in Dayton on business for Lockheed, the fellers that put out some mighty fine planes.
John Zimmerman is bee-busy in and out of his own regular job, being Treasurer of the Trustees of the Brooklyn Y. W. C. A. and a defense policeman practicing two to four nights a week in the vicinity of Amityville, L. .1. Bo Wentworth just now sends in some more news on Johnny Brett, who leaves two daughters behind him as he journeys to Miami, one aged three and the other a small tyke of seven months, though by the time this appears she will be going on eleven months. Bill Steck is reputedly a "country squire" with four chilluns and a whopping big but very beautiful V-garden. Between brood and bean-poles, he barely has time to reach his law offices, says the alliterative correspondent.
Bo Wentworth spent a good chunk of March working in New York for the Home Insurance Company and living at the Dartmouth Club. Bo reports a remarkable total of 215 remittances of Class Dues, for which record the class tenders hearty congratulations. Further remittances would, however, be welcomed. Bo reports a missed visit from John Weston, who may, thinks 80, have been on a tour of selling cattle, of which he has some excellent herds in his north country habitat. Anybody looking for a steak may write to John, although no promises are forthcoming. Cavalryman Jay Whitehair is now a It. colonel. Ray Bartlett left Princeton Naval School in February with orders to report to Norfolk; Ed Miller also departed, but this column lacks news of his present location. Ed can be reached, however, through Mrs. I. B. Smith, 500 27th St. Drive, S.E., Cedar Rapids, la. A 1 Levi holds a place with the American Council of Education in Chicago.
This column's pleas for communiques from men doing the country's tasks brings in two more fine letters this month. Max Wolff writes as follows from Selfridge Field, Michigan:
The past year has brought much into the life of MHW. On July 1, I joined the USAAC, and after basic training at Miami Beach was sent to the Air Force Radio School at Sioux Falls. The course took 4 1/2 months of work in radio operation and mechanics. When assigned I inwardly ranted much, as I felt my mechanical ability was nil. As always, however, the Army was right and I developed into a pretty fair code man. Came here towards the end of December and am now (Feb. 11) working with a communications squadron for duty "somewhere." The work is fascinating! All code work, it entails message transmission and reception on an area network. Whoda thunk a public relations man would end as an International Morse Code man with the Air Corps. Some war! I recently qualified for Air Corps Administration OTC but have no idea when I'll be called for training. It'll be a happy day when this mess is over."
And from Paul Leach in Washington, D. C., the following: "My 41/2 year old daughter Judy now has a brother Robert Paul, born Jan. 21 at the University Hospital, Baltimore. The hospital averaged twelve babies a day for the entire week, and the overworked nurses were having trouble finding places to lay them down. In fact some had to be kept in wash baskets and bureau drawers like Kayo Mullins. I'm still with the Ass'n of American Railroads and since about Sept. 15 have been at HQ here in Washington, working on car supply for troop movements..... With all the millions of men now in training it's a tremendous job to see that passenger and baggage cars are where they're needed." Paul speaks with admiration of his Dartmouth boss, W. R. Eastman '99, who left a job of retired ease to get back into the Washington madhouse. "Mr. Eastman is a Vermonter and had a good many years of service on the Canadian National-Grand Trunk System, often far from his native haunts, but still sounds like Vermont when he talks, which is music to my N. Y.-N. J. ears." Paul commutes from Baltimore which means leaving the house at 6.15 A.M. and returning towards 8 P.M. He guesses he'll run into classmates sometime in a railroad-car vestibule. None yet, he says.
There you are: Thirty-Two in the Nation's Service, from Miami to Michigan, and from San Diego to Washington, D. C. Who's next with a letterful of the facts of his life?
Happy Easter! Time to set out Victory onion-sprouts.
Secretary, 210 Moore St., Princeton, N. J. Class Agent, Stratton Road, New Rochelle, N. Y.
