1928
For the second time in two months the class is saddened by the death of one of its Servicemen. Pfc. Gordon Jamison was killed in action on Guam, July 26, as reported in another section of this issue.
When, in one month, two of our old bachelors suddenly up and marry young girls, it's deserving of banner headlines and loud wah-hoo-wahs.
There hadn't been a marriage in the class for a long time until June 23 when Major Jack Rose and Mary Jane Neel of Hollywood, Calif., were married in the chapel at Fort Jay, on Governors Island, New York City. After a honeymoon on Nantucket Island, they are living at 130 East ,35th St., New York. Jack had been dividing his time between Washington and New York, but a kind-hearted colonel ordered him to stay in New York. Jack's job with the Army Morale Services Division is to procure and send abroad the tremendous number of educational motion pictures, which will be shown to our troops while they are waiting to be brought home.
Lt. John Scott USNR and Evelyn Attwood of Jacksonville, Fla., were married July 1 in Coronado, Calif., and left for a wedding trip en route to Holtville, Calif., where John is stationed temporarily. Evelyn, who made her debut in Jacksonville in 1940, is a graduate of Smith College.
An event of no minor importance was the arrival of Catherine Skinner on August 19 at the Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, Pa., where she tipped the scales at a mere 9 lbs. 10 oz. Fortunately she bears no resemblance to me. After three months of searching, I finally found an apartment (address above) and am looking forward to bringing Mary,Scotty and little (?) Cathy down here in October.
The addition of four new names to our Service Roster this month brings the total up to 177, which may turn out to be the peak now that the Army is preparing to release men in large numbers. The class is mighty proud of that Roster, for it represents 42 per cent of our 411 living graduates.
A 1 Thompson left the M.I.T. faculty in March, 1943, to become a "sanitarian" in the U. S. Public Health Service, which was equivalent to the rank of major in the Army, and was sent to Washington. I had lunch with him here in August just before he was transferred to the Army Engineer Corps and ordered to New York City.
Two other members of the large Washington '2B group recently pulled up stakes. Xt. (jg) Vic Hartjens left in August to start his indoctrination course at Ft. Schuyler, New York, which he will finish October 20.
George Foster, who has been head of a division of the W.P.A. Music Program, left to accept a position as manager of the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra.
Lt. Comdr. John Cronin has been ordered to Washington after a long tour of duty at Key West, where he was executive officer of the large Naval Air Station. I had lunch with him a few days ago and he is already fighting the battle of the Potomac—looking for a house or apartment so Anne and the children can join him.
The first of our fifteen lieutenant commanders to be promoted to commander is Chuck Hazzard, of the Medical Corps, who is now on duty at the Chelsea Naval Hospital, Boston.
From France, Major Rocky Keith writes: So much has happened since I wrote you a year ago that it is hard to recall more than the high lights. After leaving Northern Ireland, I spent eight months in Oxford. Most of the surgery there was on B-17 crews who used to get it pretty tough before they had the fighter escorts.
When they opened a hospital in London I was assigned to it in charge of orthopedic surgery. During that interval I spent a very profitable month on an exchange basis in a British military hospital. They are much shorter on medical staff than we are and consequently have more concentrated work. Did more operating in that month than I had in any previous three months.
Left the London hospital in February to be head surgeon of the 9th General Dispensary. Saw quite a bit of Walt McKee and on occasion would run into Jerry Sass at the Senior Officers' Club in London. Walt has had his majority for several months and is right in there doing a grand job.
At present am in France living a moderately rugged existence—at least compared to life in London. Came over with the forward echelon of com. Z. Frankly it was a relief to get away from the buz bombs—they were a hell of a contraption. About 2,000 of them landed while I was there—a day and night procedure—the February blitz was tame in comparison.
HEADING FOR OVERSEAS duty with the Chemical Warfare Service, Capt. Pete Bennett '28 bids his daughter "au revoir."
THE FIRST LADY at HAS, Guantanamo Bay, is escorted by Lt. George Boughton '28.
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