1944

Bob Miller writes that he, Snook Hughes, Bill Craig, Pinky Carroon, and Rock"Davidson are in an ASTP unit in the infantry at Fort Benning, Ga. (Dick Whiting please note.) Dick, incidentally, was in Hanover a short time ago for a one day visit before heading back to Fort McClellan, Ala.

Jack Shellenberger is now in pre-flight training at Maxwell Field, Ala., having been reclassified from navigator to pilot. Bob Rader and Ralsey Scofield are also at Maxwell. Jack Haffenreffer is training to be a fighter plane mechanic at the Army Air Base in Lincoln, Nebr. Jim Lang is in the Army Signal Corps, taking a full Communication Engineering course at Ill. Tech. Andy Barbour is working as a meteorologist for Continental Airlines in Denver and awaiting call by the Navy for service as a weather forecaster with rank of Ensign.

Fritz Witzel wrote from Nashville where he was awaiting shipment somewhere else for flight training, probably Maxwell. Dud Wilson is an air cadet at Boca Raton, Fla. Bob Campbell is a 2nd It. range officer with the AAC ground forces, stationed at Peterson Field, Col. Len Landry is at Fort Ord, Calif., undergoing Amphibian Training with the Mt. Inf. Regiment. Vic Morgan is getting Navy pre-flight training at San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Cpl. Bob Cummins recently arrived in England and is with the Provost Marshall's office. Says he had a deluxe suite every 24 hours on the uneventful trip across. (Must have slept on the deck every other 24 hours.) Budd Welsh, Craig Macbeth, and Hank Marshall are all with an ASTP unit in the Infantry at Camp Wheeler, Ga.

Bill White sends word of a flock of '44s who are at Michigan Tech along with himself: Charlie Schumacher, Moe Mulhern, Dick Ranger, Mark Peisch, Jack Weeks, and Al Peterson. When Bill wrote, Moe was walking tours on his open post, some thirty hours, as he didn't quite get in on time one evening, a matter of four hours or so. Bill was married to Alice Virginia Horn on June 5. Congratulations, Bill.

Ensign Ed Roewer substantiated the rumor that he-had been on duty in Brazil, and when he wrote expected to be moved out again for parts unknown. He also tells us that Eric Barradale is on patrol some- where in the South Atlantic; and that Bill McElnea was somewhere in Africa. Jack Landon wrote from Lowry Field, Denver, 'where he is a private along with Dick Pleasants and Chuck Foster.

Tubby Crawford tells us that after leaving Dartmouth he attended Ohio U., where he played football and was on the track team; is now in the Marine Reserve. Rog Feldman, Jim Bodine, Larry Flower, and Bill Hinson are all at San Antonio in the AAC. Dick Lesser is getting his basic at Camp Wolters, Tex. Fred Harrsen is in the midst of advanced flight training at Corpus Christi. Murray Mondschein, when last heard of, was at Camp Hale, Colo., a corporal in the Mt. Inf. Jay Downing has his wings and commission in the Army Air Corps.

Bob Murphy is a navigator on a flying fortress in New Guinea. Bob Blair's parents send news that he has been in North Africa with the American Field Service

when last heard from was writing from a slit trench. Max Edwards writes from Fort Knox, Ky., where he's in the armored force, learning to fire "everything from the MI rifle to the 81 mm. mortar." Kim Urion is an aviation cadet at Pensacola, and doesn't have much that is good to say about Florida. Frank Jones is somewhere in the wilderness of Oregon, in the Combat Engineer Corps, 15 miles from a town and 135 from a railroad.

In the "hearts and flowers" department. .... Lt. Tom Kunau was married to Josephine Crowley, of Greenwich, on May 24, and they are living in Houston, Texas; Tom Miner, who is now stationed in Washington, D. C., is married to the former Mary Shoemaker, of Plainfield, N. J. Among the engagements reported are those of: Joe MacFarland to Dorothy Shelton of Lyndhurst, N. J.; Ronnie King, a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy, to Joan Illingworth, of Springfield, Vt. and Colby College; Jim Bodine and Elizabeth Matthews, of Morristown, N. J.; Harry Carey and Patricia Slater, of Providence and Wheelock College; and John Kimmey to Jane Kennedy, Albany and Wellesley. Congratulations to all.

ENS. BURGESS H. GRIFFIN '44 has completed training at Pensacola and has been assigned to a Navy air training center.

Secretary, North Fayerweather, Hanover, N. H,