1941

Lieut, (j.g.) Phil Shribman is reported missing in action in the Pacific by the Navy Department, according to the newspapers. No more word than that.

Phil has been serving with the Pacific fleet for more than a year now and was in the Solomons action. Last November, you'll remember, Bill Aylward wrote that Phil was coxing a landing boat when the Marines went ashore at Guadalcanal.

Until we hear otherwise, we'll still look for him.

MATTER OF A MEDAL

Larry Dwyer's mother passes on the word that Capt. Lawrence P. Dwyer Jr. USAAF was decorated in London, Jan. 24, receiving "the Air Medal for gallantry in action over German-occupied Europe." He's in command of a Flying Fortress named "Stupintakit" which he flew to England last October. He's been a flight leader on European raids ever since then.

George Baine has just received his second lieutenant's bars in the Army Signal Corps after completing officer training at Fort Monmouth. They say he's headed for Washington. Also commissioned is Second Lieutenant Tom Littlefield, of the Armored Force, out of Fort Knox in January. He's headed for Camp Chaffee, Ark. And Frank Simpson, of the USMC, is now a captain.

A postcard from Tinner Gordon shows he knew what he was talking about when he wrote last month that, "I won't be in Omaha long." He's now an A/C at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center.

From last month's notes you may have inferred that we have had a communication from Dick Hill. The inference was correct, and here's more of the letter: " '41 is flying high in New Caledonia, .... The roil call at present has been answered by Ist Lt. Bert Hedin USMC, Ens. Willis Nelson USNR, and Vice-Ensign yours truly USNR. Bert is stationed here, Bill Nelson is waiting for a ship and I am supervising bomb disposal activities in the area. After graduating from NTS at Hanover in September, I went to the Bomb Disposal School in Washington where I studied with Fred Leopold Fen At will had preceded us at the school and is now in the Pacific Last spring I became engaged to Martha Plume of Mamaroneck, N. Y. That was one blind date at Smith that I'll never forget.

"P.S. Xmas card from Vic Schneider with kangaroos on it."

MATTERS DOMESTIC

First it was the parents, and now it's the gal friends who are sending along the news. But as Madeleine Connolly, Jim O'Hearn's fiancee, explains, "With this war on, women are doing most everything." What brought up the subject was that she gets the credit for reporting the marriage of Lt. Burr Andrews, Signal Corps, and Yvonne Cochue on Feb. 6. And we're off.

Grooms: Hank Palmer and Louise Culpepper, of Philadelphia, on Dec. 26; Sandy Courter and Maryetta Christensen, of Great Neck, N. Y., on March 6; Frank Watters and Helen Harper, of Longmeadow, Mass., on March 13; Ens. George McCallum and Fanny Welsh, of Montclair, N. J., on Jan. 30; and a note from the bride at Vassar gives us way overdue mention of Chuck Frantz and Mary Atherton, on August 29.

Grooms-elect: Lieut, (j.g.) Don Stillman and Patricia Robillard, of Washington; Lieut. John O'Conner and Jean Hotchkiss, of Great Neck, N. Y.; Lieut, (j.g.) Pete Scott and Margaret Anne Grover, of Washington; Jim Bailey and Dorothy Cornwell, of St. Louis, Mo.; and Ens. Wayne Hill and Glenora Jean Whitman, of Washington.

And by no means should we longer delay announcement of the arrival, Jan. 16, of Leslie Charles "Skipper" Overlock Jr., who "will now take over the ground crew at the Lieut, and Mrs. L. C. Overlock hangar." Colorado Springs, Colo., was the locale.

Back for a moment to Madeleine Connolly's note, she tells that Jim O'Hearn is in England with the infantry—went in the Army last May and sailed in September. Also that Harry Maxwell had been heard from in a reception center at Fort Eustis, Va.

For future reference: start sending the letters to Lt. (j.g.) Don Stillman, Instructor, Photo Interpretation, U. S. Naval Air Station, Anacostia, D. C., who has agreed to do the honors as acting secretary. This reporter, as they coyly put it in the trade, is about to be relegated to the role of correspondent—if all goes well—from Parris Island.

For immediate reference: you've seen those little green communiques the Alumni Fund has started to send around? You know what to do with them.

LT. JULIAN ARMSTRONG JR. '41 Newly graduated officer from the AAFNavigation School at Hondo, Texas.

DESERT BREAKFAST Roscoe V. "Jupe" Lewis '41, ambulancedriver with the AFS in North Africa, prepares a morning meal.

Secretary, City Room, Washington Post Washington, D. C. Class Agent,20 Walnut Street, Evansville, Indiana