Sample Returns

PAUL SAMPLE 'SO, Dartmouth's artist in residence, returned to Hanover early in July from the Pacific theater of war where he has been on a painting assignment. During his four months' stay in the Pacific, he collected data and sketches for paintings of life aboard submarines and on the remote American bases in the South Pacific.

Flying west from Hanover last March, Sample boarded an Army transport for Hawaii where he made his headquarters. While he was in Hawaii he made preparations for a series of paintings on submarines at Pearl Harbor and for another series on Hawaii at war. Then, working out of Cincpac—Navy terminology for the Pacific operations headquarters—he flew to outlying garrisons in the area to obtain material for the series on our Pacific bases.

Mr. Sample's assignment, which took him some 18,000 miles by air, was done for Life Magazine and will record Army, Navy, and Marine life. Already he has completed a series on airplane carrier duty in the At- lantic, which Life reproduced not long ago. His work, along with that of other prominent American painters stationed in foreign posts, will form a fairly complete historical record of service life in this war.