1927
Wish we could delay the writing of this pillar for another four or five days until after the Notre Dame game for then we would have more hot news for you right off the griddle. The class is having a luncheon before the game at the Hotel Lenox, and a goodly crowd is expected. We hope to see a lot of out-of- town visitors, and we know that josh Davis and Cliff Randall will be there for they will be in town this weekend to attend the Alumni Council meeting on Friday.
Art Armstrong has moved to the West Coast where he now works as Tax Counsel for Douglas Aircraft Co., in Santa Monica, Calif. Art is living at 352 S. Orange Grove Ave., Los Angeles 36.
We know that George Friede who is now overseas would appreciate hearing from many of you. His address can be had by writing to me or the Records Office in Hanover.
Wayne Hancock has left his native Henniker, N. H., and is now in Danbury, Conn., where he is supervisor of education in the Federal Correctional Institution located in that city. Wayne is living at 25 South St., Bethel, Conn.
Lt. Bill Hoge, one of the two 1927 men who attended the Navy Indoctrination School at Dartmouth, is now stationed at the U. S. Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md. Bill is working in the Security Office. Dick Hood is still teaching at the Waltham High School in Waltham, Mass. Leon Loeb is director of the Industrial Design Division of Kent Studio Service, Inc., in New York City.
Write to Lt. George E. Morcroft Jr. USN, 481 Dawson Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. We do not know what George's present assignment is, but assume he is at sea.
Norman Swift must be having an interesting time these days for he is at present at- tached to the American Legation in Stockholm, Sweden. Norm is Foreign Service Auxiliary Officer and Economic Analyst. We hope this MAGAZINE is getting to him regularly and that in the near future he will find time to write us something of his work and experiences.
Johnny Blanchard is working for a concern in Peabody, Mass., as purchasing agent. Our informant does not give us the name of the concern, but we believe it is one of the leather companies for which that city is well known. Johnny is living in Marblehead. Hal Low works for General Electric at their plant in Lynn, Mass., where he is stock supervisor. He lives at 67 Pine St., Greenwood, Mass. Jesse Miller is now living in Cos Cob, Conn. Carlton Porter is living at 23 Boulevard, New Rochelle, N. Y. Ernie Massucco has recently been promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Army.
We are happy to report that Bob Stevens is now in this country and recently . spent a weekend in Hanover. After several years in Europe with General Motors, Bob spent a year or so in this country in New York's GM Export Offices and was then headed for Europe when the war broke out. He was rerouted to Batavia, Java, where he arrived in 1939 via Japan, China and Singapore. Just before Pearl Harbor Bob went to Australia on a brief flying trip in order to establish a home for his wife Peggy and baby daughter Diane. Scheduled to return to Java December 8, 1941, Bob found himself a more permanent resident of Australia when the Pearl Harbor attack his clothes and belongings were in Batavia where he figures the Japs have helped themselves but he does not think any Jap has feet large enough to wear his shoes.
GM work in Australia has been extremely busy for Bob—huge factories were transformed from production of cars to tanks, and a hundred and one other items of vital war equipment. Bob brought his family home in the late summer and is at least temporarily located in New York, care of General Motors Overseas Operations, 1775 Broadway, New York 17. One of the first things he did was to visit Hanover last month for a reunion with his old roommate Sid Hayward, who gives me the above report, and I hope many of us will have the pleasure of seeing Bob this fall.
In the lost and not found department this month we must list Frank B. Polachek. The last address we had for him was in New York City. If any one knows his current address or has any clues we would appreciate your information.
Word from Hale Ham's wife informs us that the Major is still at Edgewood, Md.
Recently had a friendly greeting from Lt. Don Gardner USCGR. We are sure he would appreciate hearing from many of his classmates. His address: Naval Staging Area 16, Fleet Post Office, San Francisco.
Dean Askew, we learn, has recently accepted an executive position with R. H. Macy in New York City. We believe his work has to do with personnel and public relations. Lew Beyer is now located in Cleveland, Ohio, and lives at 1591 East 115th St. Guy Bostwick has been made manager of the New York Telephone Co., office at Riverhead, N. Y. Write to Capt. Charles A. Carroll, APO 956, Post Master, San Francisco, Calif.
A fine letter from Curt Wright informs us that he has recently bought a house at. 617 W. Spring- field Ave., Champaign, Ill. Curt is on the faculty of the University of Illinois, which is located in Urbana. Like most of the big schools it has had a huge Army program for the past several years, although the enrollment in that program been dropping off very rapidly of late. Curt says: "I had been teaching English in the ATS, but during this summer have had 'civilian' patients only. At the same time, I have been going to the Law School, and will graduate next year. As you can well imagine, it is an extremely interesting experience for one to study law after a number of years in business." Curt's daughter is now age two and one half, and his wife Eleanore is practicing medicine at the Carle Hospital in Urbana.
NAVY FATHER OF NAVY SON. Lt. Norman C. Nash '28 is the older half of the class's first father-son service combination.
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