1931

It's a small world and I imagine that many of the fellows in the Army and the Navy have this same thing as they have met friends in some of the far corners of the earth. Captain Johnnie Feltner had one of these experiences recently in Africa, where, according to the Hudson Star— John's home town paper—he had quite a thrill when he looked into the face of one of the wounded soldiers he was treating and found that the chap was one of his old friends from Hudson. It must give a doctor a great boot to be the one to administer to an old friend in the war zone and to restore him to good health.

The other day we had a nice letter from ist Lieutenant Doug Wilson. Doug accused your scribe of provoking him into writing through a deliberate error. This is not a bad idea and if it would get some of you other guys off your tails and to the writing stage this column would be the most deliberate falsifier of accounts you could imagine. However in Doug's case it was purely unintentional; but he did write to set me right—l had Doug all nicely set up in the Air Corps—"To keep the record straight, I am in the Chemical Warfare Service and have been ever since I've been drafted. It's a comparatively small and over-looked part of the Army and even if we never have to use gas, we're the ones who produce smoke, flame and incendiaries. At the C.W. School we teach the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard how to use them and how to protect themselves against them. I don't do any of the actual teaching myself but have a very interesting job as the assistant secretary of the School." Thanks, Doug, for setting us right, but don't make me make another mistake before sending us another letter.

The vital statistics department continues to add names to the married column and the most recent additions are Ed Gruen and Lee Abbott. Ed and Miss Berta Asch were married last fall in Bethesda, Md., .although Ed did not let us know about it until last month. You'll have to keep after him, Berta, and make him write us once in a while. Ed expects to be in the Army by the time this goes to press.

Our other benedict, Lieutenant Lee, and Miss Elaine Kelley, of Portland, Maine, were married at the Post Chapel of the Harlingen Gunnery School in Texas, where Lee is stationed.

Best of luck to the four of you, and when the war is over we'll look forward to welcoming you more officially at the fifteenth reunion.

And speaking of Hanover—a post card from Spence Cram, who often manages to get to Hanover about this time of the year, saying that he was just in the middle of one of those visits and that he had seen Nick Rogers who teaches in the Physics dept. and Dave Larrabee—of the U. S. Bureau of Mines—both of whom live there. A trip to Hanover these days sounds like a real treat. Thanks, Spence, for the card.

Here are some of the more recent changes in addresses which have just come through: Charlie Mumma, R.F.D. i, Millersville, Pa.; Hugh Neely, 20 Mt. Hope Blvd., Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y., USN; Capt. Rollie Petersen, 801 Channing Place, N. E. Washington, D. C.—USA; Dr. Joe Rushton, 709-11th St. SW., Rochester, Minn.; Fred Tetzlaff, 1442 Agawela Drive, Knoxville, Tenn.

And our final item of the month comes in the form of a newspaper clipping from the Erie, Pa., Dispatch-Herald, telling about the recent naming of Pvt. Wally Rusterholtz as the historian of the U. S. Near East Forces. He will receive his ist lieutenant's commission and will be made a member of the commanding general's headquarters staff with the title of historian for all of our forces in that part of the world. Wally is the author of AmericanHeretics and Saints, and his past work and background should be mighty well equipped to do the job they have assigned him. Congratulations, Wally.

That's all fellows—see you in the Fall.

Secretary, 224 Beverly Rd., Scarsdale, New York