1929
VISITORS OF THE MONTH
Jack Brabb, Detroit lawyer, whose visit I missed by being out of town, so it remains a secret whether he still travels with his silver trumpet. Lt. (jg) Bill Morgan recently graduated from the Naval Indoctrination School in Hanover where, in addition, he acquired pneumonia, measles and an infected ear. Hale and hearty again, he is now completing a special course at the Fargo Building, South Boston, and has set up housekeeping with wife and son, c/o H. Hartwell Greene, 135 Marsh Street, Belmont. In spite of his siege of sickness, Bill looks fit and handsome in his uniform and is very impatient for sea duty.
Seiior Doctor Coles, Venezuela's leading international lawyer, financier and operator, who just flew north for a week's business in New York with side trips to Boston and maybe New Hampshire. Bill reports that the interests he represents down there are progressing successfully and that Eleanor and little Christopher are very happy and well. However, the real stories can be told only by Coles and so must await the 15th Reunion.
. Sergeant Herb McCreery, the bridegroom, who called as he was passing through Boston on his way to Ft. Benning, Georgia, to enroll in the Officer Candidate School, after which he hopes to be assigned to the Mountain Infantry, Larry Lougee's outfit. Herb was married on March 31 to Elizabeth Baker of Moosup, Connecticut. Jerry Swope has been in and out of Boston twice lately, representing the Navy Department in its negotiations in connection with the establishment of Naval schools and shore stations.
VISIT OF THE MONTH
With Chris Born in Montgomery, Alabama, where Chris and his family have been living while Chris has been on duty at nearby Maxwell Field. When you are all alone way down in Alabama and a damn Yankee at that, it certainly makes you feel good to eat and drink with the Borns, be driven around in a station wagon with Massachusetts plates on it, enjoy a personally conducted tour of Maxwell Field and finish off the evening in the Captain's spacious living room. Really more of us ought to get to Montgomery more often. Chris was looking very well and feeling pretty good too, his promotion having just come through.
Other recent promotions: Chick Shea, to It. commander and Bill Alexander to an Army captaincy.
Johnny Schabacker has, as he put it, had the good fortune of being selected by his company, Colgate Palmolive Peet, to act as the right-hand manager of the Assistant General Sales Manager at the home office in New York.
Jim Hodge sent along the happy news of the arrival of Dale Loudon Piret to Mr. and Mrs. George A. Piret, of New York—also mentioned having enjoyed a good visit from Lt. Commander Dick Johnston, formerly of Chicago, who has been practically around the world during the past year.
From Lt. Bill Mooney by V-Mail: "Just a line to tell you that a carton of cigarettes from the Class of '29 caught up with me today. I want you to know how much I appreciate this and how it must please all Dartmouth men in the field to know that they are being thought of. You know more of the complete war picture from where you are than we do here. But what we see lately is very encouraging." Bill is with the Air Force Service Command somewhere abroad.
DARTMOUTH GETS FIRST WAVE
Bob Fairchild married Ellen Irene Peterson of Breckenridge, Minnesota, at Northampton, February 6. The bride, a lieutenant (jg) USNR stationed at the Naval Reserve Midshipman's School at Smith College, became the first woman officer to be married. Mrs. Fairchild (Lt. Peterson) is in charge of the instruction staff at the school and formerly was Dean of Women at Pennsylvania State Teachers College. Bob graduated from Rush Medical College of the University of Chicago, was a fellow in surgery at the Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, and is now an instructor at the Syracuse University Medical College, is a member of the staff of the University Hospital and maintains a private practice as well.
A son is born. "The Bronson Purdys, Mount Vernon, N. Y. To Collector of Internal Revenue, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: This is to advise you that on February 8, 1943, at 9:09 P.M., the undersigned acquired another deduction of $350.00 for income tax purposes. Kindly correct your records as follows: Deduction—One son. Name—J. Gerry Purdy. Born—Mount Vernon Hospital. Weight-7 lb., 7 oz. (stripped). We would appreciate your cooperation in not permitting the above information to influence your recommendations to Congress for the 1943 tax program. Triumphantly and Facetiously, the Purdys, Ray and Bud."
Herm Magnuson writes on the stationery of the U. S. Navy.
Capt. Al Porter is stationed at the Quartermaster School, Camp Lee, Virginia, where he is on the staff and faculty. His position of Adjutant of the Second Quartermaster School Regiment calls for administrative work rather than teaching.
Capt. Al Welch is in the Army Finance Department at Camp Crowder, Missouri, in charge of payrolls. He recalls spending a Missouri Christmas in his shirtsleeves, a far cry from Hanover's cold north. From San Francisco, Mart Crowell claims the distinction of being a sort of a grandfather, his stepdaughter having recently had a baby boy. Mort says that all the boys are behaving themselves out on the West Coast. Everybody is working too hard for any fun.
Ben Scales' reporting business, as he puts it, was knocked out in the first round by the war and a couple of government regulations. In anticipation he had attended a series of government-sponsored courses which enabled him to start at scratch at Carnegie Illinois Steel Company in the metallurgical Department at Duquesne, Pa., where he has since progressed to the Industrial Engineering Department where, a neophyte among experts, he does time study, rate setting and job evaluation.^
A V-letter from somewhere across the Pacific from Lt. Johnny Gill recalls his former wanderings in the Outing Club as picnics compared to the jaunts he has taken in the Army since induction December 23, 1939. Throughout the year 1941 he was an umpire in all the maneuvers in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and North and South Carolina and talking to an assembled battalion completely cured him of stage fright. Later, as executive officer in a rifle company, he spent his pass on December 7, 1942, in Pearl Harbor on the so-famous Waikiki Beach. In his theatre of operations he says things are going well. He is very busy but has so far experienced no pain.
Fred Cook's mother, acknowledging the Christmas cigarettes, writes that they were received too late to accompany him overseas so she turned them over to a U.S.O. center. In the meantime Lt. Cook has an A.P.O. address which can be furnished on request.
It is with a great sense of personal loss that I report the death of Gus Herbert on March so. He passed away in Boston after a long wasting illness. An obituary will appear in In Memoriam of the next issue of the MAGAZINE.
Secretary, 75 Federal St., Boston, Mass. Class Agent, 725 13th Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.
