1932
The bushy individual whose stalwart figure appears on this page is, as his classmates will lose no time in guessing, Adriano A. Walser, globe-trptter extraordinaire. The following letter from him will explain the locale of the picture and also the present predicament of its central occupant.
The August issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE reached me recently here in Managua (Nicaragua), and both Adeline and I were delighted to receive news of the class. I doubt very much if you know what I am doing for the coordinator's office here in Central America, and perhaps a little explanation is not too censurable. I have been in Nicaragua since December, 1942, heading a program "which is attempting to increase food supply in the East Coast area, which is important in rubber, mahogany, and balsa activity. The region is mostly wet jungle, relatively uninhabited, and has the second highest rainfall in the world. A group of American technicians, engineers, soil and agriculture experts are working with me to increase rice, beans, and corn production by building storage facilities, clearing land for farms out of the jungle, and improving trails and other means of transportation. We have had some measure of success. Last month I returned from an extended trip to the Coco River, longest river (600 miles) in Central America, and the most important rubber-producing area. Most of the travel was in pit pans (native dugout canoes), and we walked along primitive trails for many a long mile. Malaria mosquitoes galore. We lived on rice and beans most of the time in the bush. The enclosed shows the region (Coco river) with its brush, and a little brush on my /ace. I had to take sick leave recently and went to Guatemala, for a month. Although I am on my feet again, this hot climate doesn't seem to agree with me very much and I don't feel too strong. Cool Hanover is much in my mind these days. Now that Clark is in the Army, Bill Brister is my boss. We expect Bill to arrive in Nicaragua in mid-November, since he has taken over the direc: torship of the food supply division. It will be good to see him and reminisce about the Tenth. Best regards to any members of the class who may be around.
Chuck Adkins, short-haired English professor at Millikin University, Decatur, Ill., reports that he is still teaching a little English, but like so many other men in the humanities subjects, has been converted since spring to physics, which he teaches to Air Force cadets at Millikin. "I've gone over the early part of the course so many times now that I don't even mind their asking me questions in class," says Chuck, and adds that he can even answer some of them, which is a modest but admirable understatement. To Chuck Adkins, however, we owe congratulations on another count than the help he is giving the Air Force: the Adkinses have a second daughter, Jameson, born September 6. Daughter One—Terry—now tips the age-scales at two.
My wife and I had the pleasure of a late afternoon highball, Dartmouth week-end, with Lt. (jg) Art Moreau and wife Andree. Art has now completed his indoctrination course here at Princeton Navy Training School and by the time this appears will have been assigned either to Ft. Schuyler or to Harvard. Next month's column will be graced, editor and space willing, with a picture of Andree and their two boys, Brice and Charles (Jack and Chuck to you), aged 7 and 4, who tell their Manchester friends that their Daddy is out of the country. "I'm just memorizing at the moment," says their Daddy. Art reports a brief conversation over stadium hotdogs with another Navy man, Lt. Art Allen, bronzed and thin and just back from an assignment in Italy, awaiting further orders. Art Moreau also notes the presence here at Princeton of Lt. (jg) Bob Newfang, your good friend and mine, whom 1 have not seen, being busy myself. Bob was scheduled to leave here December 10, too. While I am on the boys in blue, there's a report that Howard Newcome of Los Angeles became a lieutenant (jg) on November first, after serving in Navy for two years.
A smitch of new addresses reaches this desk in time for inclusion:
Capt. Morton Burden, 3 Linden Place, Sewickley, Pa.;. Lt. A 1 Gerould, Apt. 21, 4809 Chevy Chase Dr., Chevy Chase, Ma.; Elwood LaForge (AUS), 525 So. Maple, Glen- Rock, N. J.; Bob Kendal, 42 Massachusetts Ave., ' New Britain, Conn.; Max Heavenrich, Dayton Chamber of Commerce, Biltmore Hotel, Dayton, Ohio; Lt. John Collins (USN), 165 S. McCadden PL, Los Angeles, Calif.; Ben Burch (AUS), 2209 Eye St., N. W., Washington, D. C.; Bill Britten, 847 Dorian Rd., Westfield, N. J.; Bob McConnochie, 493 Carol PL, Pelham, N. Y.
And from Lt. John Sheldon, the following fine letter:
"News from the Milwaukee front is scarce. Jim Hannan is the only '32 in this vicinity as far as I know, and although we haven't met since I came here seven months ago, we have talked on the phone. He's a war worker for Globe Union. Hours: long. Charlie Doerr writes that he successfully completed a round-the-world trip on Armed Guard duty. Australia, Iraq, and Brazil seemed to be the high spots, and he says he's going to Brazil the next time a depression hits this country. After a few weeks in St. Paul with Ginny he was ordered to Camp Pendleton, Calif., to do some liaison work with the Marines. I'm still struggling here with my personnel job: 750 civilians, 50 officers, and 10 enlisted men keep me plenty busy, but I have an interesting job and I like it. Milwaukee is a good place to live, and I'm near enough my family to see them occasionally. All in all, I'm damn lucky and I know it."
That's all for this merry month, lads. Time to throw away your dried-up Christmas wreaths, but preferably into the furnace: every little bit added to what you've got makes a little bit more.
Fund Contributors for 1943
Contributors: 296 (67% of graduates). Total gifts: 12,965.25 (73% of objective). WILLIAM H. MORTON, Class Agent.
1932
PARENTS
(We have tried to list with the respective classesall the parents who gave such vital assistance tothe Alumni Fund of 1943, whether through giftsof their own or through sending gifts for theirsons. To those parents whose help in sending giftsfor their sons we may not have identified, equalthanks.)
Brown, Julius A. Crone, Louis L., Sr. DeStefano, Mrs. Frank Doerr, George V. Rose, Mrs. Mark A. MEMBERS Anonymous Abbott, Reginald H. Ackerberg, Robert E. Barry, John F., Jr. Bartlett, Raymond Y. Beaton, Lindsay E. Benezet, Roger P. Bennett, Joseph R. Bennett, William J., Jr. Black, Robert S., Jr. Boak, Charles R. Boldt, Joseph R., Jr. Boncutter, Albert C. Boynton, Carroll A. Brett, John D. Brister, William C. Britten, William E. Brookby, Raymond F. Brown, Francis Brown, James B. Browning, Francis L. Buckley, Robert B. Burch, Benjamin D. Burden, Morton, Jr. Burleigh, Philip W. Butterfield, Stephen E. Byram, Joseph G. Campbell, Everett C. Cappio, Jildo E. Cardozo, Michael H. Carleton, Frank N. Catron, Eugene H. Chandler, Marvin Chesterman, John F. Chinlund, Harold C. Christie, Alexander Clark, John M. Clarke, Richard T. Coakley, Edward A. Colby, E. Laurence Collins, George S. Collins, Laurence W., Jr Coltman, Robert Corbett, James D. Cowden, M. Benjamin Cowden, Robert E., Jr. Coxon, George S. Crankshaw, Orrin F. Crone, Louis L., Jr. Cummings, Edward M. Curtis, Thomas B. Dalrymple, Donald E. Daniels, Belden L. Davis, William H. Dearborn, Edmund G. DeStefano, Aniello F. Dickinson, T. Brown Dillon, James C., 2nd Disque, Neil E. Dixon, E. Clark Doerr, Charles D. Douglass, Henry H. Drake, Harold H. Drew, Ben W. Dunn, Paul C. Dyche, George F. Eames, John P. Eggleston, Franklin S. Eichler, Edwin H. Elden, Leonard L. Eliot, John V., Jr. Elliot, Howard W. Elliott, Frank R., Jr. Ellis, Theodore Englander, Samuel H. Farr, Clarence W. Fish, John E. Fisher, Robert D. Fitton, Clifford W. Fitzsimons, Francis R. Flint, James E. Foley, Francis A. Foster, Charles H. Fox, Paul H. Frankel, Julian Frigard, Aarne A. Frisbie, Howard A. Gage, Daniel N. Gage, Frederic P. Gardner, James E. Geary, Calvin B. George, J. Jackson Gerould, Albert C Gerstley, William, 2nd Goldberg, Newell B. Hahn, George A. Hall, Charles A. Hall, Edward 8., Jr. Hallamore, Warren S. Hamel, John R. Hammond, Warner S. Hand, Wilfred C. Harper, Harrison Harper, J. Russell Olmstead, Ronald W. Olmsted, Richard W. Ostafin, Peter A. Palmer, John H. Parsons, Carl O. Pearson, Nathan W. Peart, Franklin S. Perrino, John J. Pettengill, George 3rd Peyser, Frank W. Pierpont, Howard W. Pike, Richard G. Pinney, Dean C., Jr. Pipe, Gordon E. Pletz, William H. C. Power, Frank A. Read, Ben S., Jr. Reed, Sheldon C. Reinhardt, Robert D. Rice, Albert E. Richardson, Donald S. Richardson, John M. Riley, Charles E., Jr. Roberts, Joseph Y. Robinson, Joseph D., Jr. Roe, Addison Roe, Frederick S. Rollins, Edward A. Rose, M. Allen Rowe, Harry P. Rushmore, Walter S. Ryan, Charles Ryan, Robert B. Sack, Harold M. Saia, Bruno M. Salit, Leonard Sails, Clarence H. Saltzman, Max Sargeant, Howland H. Sauer, William E. Sawyer, George C. Schlichter, Arthur I. Sheldon, John W. Simpson, Donald A. Slattery, Joseph V. Smith, Edmund S. Smith, Robert H. Smoyer, Winston R. Snite, Albert O. Stern, David 8., Jr.
Adkins, Charles E. Alexander, Nelson S. B. Allen, Arthur E., Jr. Allen, Donald S. Allyn, William G. Alpert, Milton Altman, Jerome J. Auten, Hanford L., Jr. Baker, Carlos H. Ballou, James A. Harrison, Robert L. Harwood, Stephen G. Hatcher, Rodney N. Hawkes, Nathan W., Jr. Hazen, Richard Heavenrich, Louis B. Heavenrich, Max P., Jr. Henderson, Donald J. Hill, Benjamin B. Hill, George P. Hill, Kenison M. Hobart, Morgan L. Hobson, Julian Hodges, Henry P. Hofheins, Roger W. Hokanson, Everett P. Holbrook, Edwin A. Hollern, John M. Holway, Richard T. Hope, Thomas C. Hosmer, Robert C. Hubbard, George M., Jr. Huckins, Robert B.1 Huse, William N. Isaacs, Myron S. Jacobson, Seymour S. Jeffery, B. Dewitt Judd, Edward S., Jr. Jump, Ellis B. Keane, Robert Keirstead, Calvert G. Keller, John B. Kendal, Robert L. Kendall, Kennett R. Kendall, William H. Kenworthy, George, Jr. Keyworth, R. Allen Kingdon, Henry R. Kingsland, John R. Kirby, Davis G. Knight, Charles L., Jr. Kraft, Daniel F. Kramer, Irving W. Kurson, Newell B. Lane, Gordon M. Langley, Joseph W. Lanoue, Ernest W. Laub, Felix L. LaVine, Kenneth N. Leach, Paul S. Leach, Stanley M. Leich, Martin L. Levin, Norman G. Lewis, Edmund S., Jr. Lewis, Holden C. Leyser, Frederic D. Lieson, William A., Jr. Litzenberger, Harry Littwin, Ralph J. Loeliger, Edmond L., Jr. Logan, Francis D. Lott, Thomas L. McCall, William T. McConnochie, Robert W., Jr. McCoy, James E., Jr. McGuire, Francis F. McKenna, Robert A. McKenzie, Alexander A. Mackinney, William R. McKinnie, Paul F. McLaughlin, Alfred F. MacLean, Malcolm F., Jr. McNicol, Edward H. McPhail, Donald Mcßae, John T. Manville, Richard H. Marcus, Donald E. Marks, Edward 8., Jr. Marks, Franklyn Marsh, R. Brandon Matson, Frederick G. Mead, Everett Z. Merrill, John L. Merrill, Richard C. Meyers, Charles F. Milgroom, Lawrence Mitchell, Robert W. Modarelli, Walter H. Moore, James 8., Jr. Moore, John W. Moreau, Arthur J. Morton, William H. Mutterperl, Martin Naylor, Emmett K. Needham, Roger G. Newcomb, Howard R., Jr. Nitschelm, Adrian J. Noyes, Elliot B. O'Brien, C. Russell Odegaard, Charles E. Stoiber, Richard E. Stone, Percy G. Sundeen, Daniel A. Swartchild, James H. Swartchild, Robert K. Templin, Wilbur W., Jr. Thompson, Donald A. Thompson, Edward M. Titcomb, John A. Todd, Barnard P. Tomlinson, James S. Toothaker, Edwin A. Tucker, Morrison G. Unobsky, Bertie D. Vanßuskirk, John C. VanDusen, William D. Wakelin, James H., Jr. Walker, C. Gordon Walser, Adrian A. Walton, William C., Jr. Ward, Carlton J. Ward, Stephen D. Warner, Leon C. Watts, John M. Wentworth, Nathan H. Westheimer, Frank H. Wheelock, Ralph D. Whitcomb, John F. White, Frederick R., Jr. Whitehair, Jay C. Whitehill, Albert F. Whiton, James S. Wile, Howard P. Wilkin, Robert C. Williams, Robert P. Wolff, John 8., Jr. Wolff, Max H. Wollaeger, Thomas A. Woodman, Robert T. Wright, John A. Young, Alexander M. Yudicky, Stanley W. Zimmerman, Gustavus H., Jr. Zimmerman, John O. Zinggler, Albert E. MEMORIAL GIFT FROM: 1 his father George L.Huckins '99
WHIP WALSER '32 rides a "pit pan" down Coco River in Central America.
Secretary, 178 Prospect Ave., Princeton, N. J. Treasurer, 7 North St., Old Greenwich, Gonn.
