1937
Some heroic work is being done on the home front these days. The ever growing ranks of Poppas and Mommas have received some noteworthy additions lately. We received news of the birth of John and Jean Milne's daughter the day after the little girl arrived. We were in Hanover that Saturday and the old Doc gave us the news in person. Monk Amon was emphatic that it was going to be a boy and he certainly did a selling job on Dot because a boy it was. He is a lefty, too, and Monk has already shown him how to hold his fingers on the ball to get that fast breaking curve with which his ball playin' Pappy used to baffle the batters.
Assistant Treasurer Marge Ruggles kept the books right up to the last possible minute and, 'tis said, was as cool as a cucumber. However, soldier Art was making so many left turns when he should have been about facing that the Colonel decided to give him a leave, so Art Jr. was around when Art 111 came on the scene.
John Wright and the Mrs. now have a daughter, Judith Gail. Judith is a few months older than some of the more recent arrivals, and is certainly one wonderful baby according to very reliable sources Don Miller says his new babv girl is named Linda and that mother and daughter are doing so well that they are able to get up to Maine for the summer All concerned were really on edge awaiting the babies that were due at FredCastle's and Gail Compton's houses. Fred, with that competitive spark that featured his activities at Dartmouth and has resulted in such a fine showing in our Alumni Fund race, brought in Duncan Kilburn Castle just a few days ahead of Don Martin Compton II This is only the beginning, folks. Returns are really starting to roll in. That Dean of Family Men, Ensign WarrenCrumbine, hasn't any additions to report. He and wife Tommy and the children are now at SubChaser Training School at Miami, and he reports on activities at that favorite watering spot of '37ers. Mutt Ray is instructing there and is certainly cut out to be a professor according to reports from various sources on the superb job that he is doing.
.... Don Mc Kinlay and Bill Cash are looking forward to an assignment afloat, having completed the course Henry Esberg is also doing a fine job instructing at the school Bill Lyons is going to some service school in Miami John Lindsay and Viv Edwards may also be seen in that locality, the former now being in the Naval Blimp Control, and the latter reported to be an Army pilot.
Having disposed of the Miami situation, let's move up the coast to Washington where '37ers are also very ably represented. Frank Kaufman has been working for Lend-Lease since '4l and has just returned after spending 14 months in Turkey. Washington looks pretty good to him, but Turkey is a critical area right now and Frank expects to be shipped out shortly.. . . .Bob Kenney is now a chemist in "Pandemoniam on the Potomac" and may be reached at the Dodge Hotel Bob Brown can be reached at the Westchester Apts. in Washington. He is purchasing agent for the Briggs Clarifier Co The aforementioned Don Miller can be reached at 1701 16th St., N.W. and has been working for the Canadian Munitions and Supply Bureau. His work has been weighty and has involved carrying out policies of the Canadian and U. S. Navies regarding Canada's escort vessel program. It has been the sort of work that no one could take lightly and now that the destroyer escorts our Miami boys are going to handle are being delivered, and the sub menace has greatly subsided, he can look back on months of almost terror,
especially during the early part of this year. Ed Ryan may be reached at the Washington Post where he is doing a top notch job and almost daily writes the lead article Lt. (jg) Bob Maynard is itching to transfer his belligerent spirit from the "battle of Constitution Avenue" to active duty aboard ship or at least a bureau assignment over- seas. He is connected with the Bureau of Ordnance in the Navy Building, and spends most of his time on Underwater Ordnance. Most of these boys have been so busy getting something to eat in that city they describe as "the only asylum that is run by the inmates" that we haven't had a very accurate or up-to-date dissertation on the picture behind this 8-1 Girl-Boy ratio. Perhaps Ryan can be bullied into writing a lead article for the Class Notes on this phase of the local Washington situation.
Treasurer Ruggles, now located at Anti-Aircraft O.C.S. at Camp Davis, has persuaded Fran Fenn to take over the Treasurer's job. Fran can be reached at Sunset Farm, W. Hartford, Conn., if anybody is worried about his Class dues Mai Merritt says he is not in the service yet, but the physical reconditioning necessary after two years in New- foundland should be complete any time now Bob King, now a foreman and gauge maker, is living at 3423 Ashville St., Philadelphia.
Dick Spring, after Hanover, studied accounting, finally landing in Rockland, Maine, where, not being able to get into the services, he has had to content himself with canning food for the Government at the Medomek Canning Co., brand name "Maine-Maid(Get it ?). He is still single and doesn't want to be, so if any of you classmates have any prospects that you want to shoot into the race for Dick's hand you can reach him at the above address.
Ensign Doug Meredith is right here in Boston kicking about the high cost of living. He and wife Ruth have an apartment while Dick is still studying to be a sailor. He finished at the Naval Communications School at Harvard last April and since then has been at the Patrol Craft School in South Boston. Some day he actually expects to get to sea.
Ensign Hal Parachini has been at Chapel Hill, but his transfer should now be completed to a flight base at Norman, Okla. He ran into WarrenChivers at Chapel Hill while he was there doing work in athletics. His wife and young Indian have been with him and they expect to stick together out in Oklahoma. He speaks of Johnny Dingle as be- ing in St. Paul. We haven't heard directly, but we understand that John now can be reached c/o J. F. Broeker on Mill Road in Arden, Del., in which city he is working as an accountant.
Jack Devlin, the "we" of these ramblings, has left a soft branch manager's job in the banking business and is finally earning an honest living. The 4-F'er is now grinding cutting tools for the New England Carbide Tool Co. in Cambridge, Mass.
Another war worker, John Wright, lets us know that his Mrs. has been getting mail indicating that Dartmouth seems to feel that he is in the Navy. It's Dr. Mike Wright who is in the Navy while John is with General Electric in Schenectady. They have been giving him workouts on various production and material procurement assignments with particular emphasis lately on the WPB controlled materials plan as it affects G. E. operations. His enthusiasm for the way his company is doing their level best to shorten the War is catching.
Bob Turner, the former Glee Club Ace, is the only other '37 man living in Schenectady. Bob's daughter, Linda, is nearly a year old now, but Bob doesn't get much chance to see her as he is out of town nearly as much as John.
Dex Smith, now Ensign Smith, is engaged to Margery Mortimer of Brantwood Hall and Plymouth, Conn Ced Jaggard, who took a whole paragraph in these Notes several months ago just to describe the schools, degrees received, and churches where he has served since Dartmouth, has married Jean McGiffert, as it was announced that he intended to do. Jean went to Oberlin and has lived in Montclair, N. J Lt. (jg) BillWhyte recently married Mary Linn Packard of Katherine Gibbs School and Peekskill, N. Y. Bill and Mary plan to make their home in the Bucking- ham Apts. in Scarsdale, N. Y Lt. Jim "Phi Bete" Gray and Dorothy Louise Ellis of Pine Manor Junior College and Hartford, Conn., were married recently. Al Mayer ushered at the wedding. Al and Terry had their fourth wedding anniversary recently. Albert, III is now and Marcia Ellen, whom we should have included in our opening summary, is still only a few months old. Al's essential business and more essential family keep him from looking too longingly at a Naval uniform. . . . .John Burton is now married to Gloria Grumbacher of Mount Holyoke and New York City. John is with the Sperry Co. and he and Gloria will live at Great Neck, Long Island Dr. Al White-hill, our VermOnter, and Marie Batterman of Courtland Normal School and Sayville, N. Y., were recently married. The wedding had a real academic touch with a Ph.D., Dr. Tony Turkevitch of the University of Chicago as best man while Al, who received his Ph.D. in bacteriology from Cornell last year,' is now professor of bacteriology at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Ensign Marsh Roper finished PT training school and has been under Lt. Commander Bulkeley of "They were Expendable" fame. Marsh can't tell us much except that it is hot as the devil, a long way from home, and he would walk five miles for a glass of fresh milk Wil Coe is now assistant to the factory manager at the Fisk Tire Co. at Chicopee Falls and has not had much time for extra-curricular activities lately Jack Foley, Marine major, is now out of active service with his entire company in a rest area after 8 months in the jungle Lt. Bob Weeks, now finance officer at Camp Siebert, Ala., has plans to be married in September to Madeline Johnson of Jackson Heights and Glen Cove, N. Y. Bob is keeping his fingers crossed on the proposition of keeping the camp's books balanced until September.
Capt. John Maloon writes from Los Angeles, having touched N. Y. City, Virginia, S. Carolina, Lousiana, and most recently Pheonix, Ariz., in his career as an Army Medico Les Barrett has gone from Hanover to Princeton as a Naval School- boy. It is a familiar route to Les..... ClarkyPaige has transferred from the Mountain Troops to the Marines and is now a lieutenant at the Corps' newly developed Radio School at Harvard.
Ensign Davey Taylor can be-now located at the Destroyer Administrative Office at the Boston Navy Yard Lt. (jg) Carl Noyes is supposed to be in one of the hottest spots, but claims his most exciting moment was being chased by a shark while in swimming. His infallible system for contacting Classmates is hanging around the biggest beer dispensary available Fran Evans took time out before leaving for camp to pop the question to Florence Wilkie in San Francisco.
Dr. Art Tucker says we can thank his wife Martha for the letter he sends and accuses himself unjustly of not being a good correspondent. Since the Boston City Hospital, he has been enjoying a wonderful experience as Dr. Kimpton's assistant in Boston. By this time, he is located with Dr. Parker and the Mallory Institute of Pathology. He seems pretty grateful for the well full of knowledge that he is obtaining. Art's daughter is now over a year and half old.
Other Boston medicos: Craw Hinman has finished the Boston Lying-in and will shortly finish the Free Women's Clinic and Bill Thomas likewise in reverse order.
Bob Kirstein, from Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, speaks of seeing Ralph Griffiths at Camp Devens and Bill Geraghty at Camp Benning. Better answer Bob's letter, Bill Art Guyer, at sea, has a new and higher rating. He had a commission offered to him recently, but muffed the physical. He is planning on becoming a married man the first of August but didn't let us in on any details.
Keep the letters coming, fellers, and pictures, if you can dig one up!
'37 NAVY MEN in the South Pacific—Carl Noyes, Brad Peterson, and Shel Wagnermanaged a small reunibn in California before leaving on their destroyer assignments.
'37ER WOUNDED—during the last days of the battle for Africa, Ed Jones of the AFS sustained a perforated ear drum and was evacuated to an American hospital.
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