1930

Once during our term as class agent, Al Dickerson sent us a welcome batch of news which had been cut out of his class notes column because he had written too much .....correction.....exceeded the limitations of space allotted by the MAGAZINE editors. At that time the "overmatter" was most welcome to help fill an issue of the "Fund Thirtyteer," and we were jealously envious of anybody who could write more than necessary to fill a column. At last we have arrived, having carved out a similar niche of fame for ourself by writing too much for the October issue. The next four paragraphs were left over from that one and Charlie Widmayer has also apologized because it was necessary to leave out .the obituary article and picture of Pudge Hartmann, which is unfortunate because he was our first war casualty.

Art Behal, recently promoted to lieutenant commander, has, moved to a Naval Air Station in the Canal Zone, from the N.A.S. at Shawnee, Okla- homa.

Bob Bottome, captain and expert rifleman of the USMCR, is now at Quonset Point for a ten weeks' course. To become a captain in August, after being drafted as a private in March, sounds typically Bottome, but the truth is that Bob was one of three in a class of seventy-five at Quantico to be chosen for a captain's rank at the completion of the course there.

In a letter to Al Dickerson last' spring, Dave Rubin, of the probation bureau of New York City's Domestic Relations Court, said: "I have not seen any unmarried mothers for a long period of time. Errant husbands are more numerous but less interesting. I guess there is no chance of getting into the Service as I passed the benign age of 38 in June 1943. I am, however, somewhat close to the draft situation since I am the medical field agent at my local board, that is, preparing social histories for the psychiatrist at induction head- quarters and interviewing rejects."

Tiny Tasker, director of Republic Aviation's Foreign Thunderbolt Field Service, which he started and developed in the past two years, is now on a seven-month globe-circling trip by plane. He will visit every theatre of operations where P-47's are in use, and the men on duty in them, who are under his direction. He is traveling for the purpose of bringing about a coordination of inter- theatre techniques and information relating to Thunderbolt maintenance.

Since that item about Bob Bottome was written he became a battle-scarred veteran to his kids by falling down and breaking an arm. As Al Dickerson puts it, "Bottome has landed and has the situation well in a sling."

Out in the Pacific Dud Ferguson's recovery from a tussle with scrub typhus was speeded by his promotion to a captaincy, which came through while he was in the hospital. More news from the Pacific was received in a letter Frank McLaughlin wrote to Inskip: "I received yesterday a letter from Si Chandler and expect to see him soon. He stated that Bud Fisher was within shouting range and that he had seen Pete Lillard and Hammy South on Guam. I can'hardly wait until this war brings Frank Ryder in here. I just can't imagine him bobbing about the Pacific in charge of an LCI. Bob Jordan was with us not so long ago. Having cleaned up the Atlantic he is about to do the same out this way. His experiences have left their mark on him. He seemed to enjoy being with our family and meeting Frank Leahy, the Notre Dame coach, and the hamburgers cooked outdoors were to his liking, as were the drinks we serve out here these days— Molokai Specials."

Said Chandler has been reported by one of our ace scouts as back home on a thirty-day leave, at the end of which he may have an assignment in Boston. And Lt. Col. Ham South wrote the Alumni Records Office: "Still recovering from D-Day on Guam—can still hear 'em whistling, and a very unhealthy sound it is too."

Penelope Peck, about seven or eight months old by now, has brought joy to the home of the Phil Pecks in Glens Falls.

The engagement of Miss Barbara Hope Mindlin to Lt. Jesse S. Lichter has been announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mindlin, of Law- rence, L. I. Jesse is now stationed at Fort Hamilton, N. Y„ having served in England, South Africa, Italy and Sicily.

Mr. and Mrs. Elbert L. Smith announce the marriage of-their daughter Margo Smith Anderson to Lt. George Drew Mosher USNR on Saturday the twenty-third of September, Washington, D. C.

Charlie Raymond confirms the report that he has taken a new job in Pawtucket, R.I., as assistant to the plant manager of Lawson Products, Inc. Like many others, he is having trouble in finding a place to house his family, but has high hopes.

From Charlie we also received news of Cotton Holmes, Navy two-striper and escort commander, or commander task unit,. (CTCJ) consisting of five ships, at a convoy control center in Florida.

Ed Jeremiah writes from Fisher's Island: "I've been a watch officer right along but two months ago they grabbed almost all the officers but me, which reminds me I should check my body odor This is an interesting, job, but the desk work is not very beneficial to my muscles and frankly my posterior and fronterior have gone their own separate ways so that now I look terrible in slacks and women no longer turn to take a second look at my personality."

Biggest surprise of the month was seeing Al McGrath walk into our office in civilian garb. Al explained that he had a chance to beat the rush of dischargees and took advantage of it to take a position with an import-export firm doing a large business in the West Indies. Al has opened an office in the Empire State Building for the Consolidated Mercantile Corp., and has moved his family up to Westchester county.

Capt. Don Shaskan has been transferred to a position as chief of the .Neuropsychiatry Service of Torney General Hospital at Palm Springs, Calif. He writes, "I was sorry to say goodbye to Dale Wallace who is one of the enlisted men at Camp Callan, and who is doing a swell job in his capacity. The ability of fellows like Dale to handle them- selves as enlisted men when so many of their classmates are officers is a great tribute to the training we had at college and to the democratic way we have all been raised. I have also heard from Milt Fleischmann who is a sergeant at Hamilton Field, and. barely missed meeting Capt. Ben Parish who was here for some time."

Ben is now in England with a bomber group, from where he answered our letter with the details of his brother Warren's death at Guam. Ben says that their group can strike at Jerry very nicely from their base, a thing they are doing quite often.

The 1930 executive committee vote on the subject of class officers is virtually completed and the results will soon be passed on to you through other media. The next topic on the class agenda for consideration by the committee is appointment of a small group to solicit contributions to the Class Memorial Fund for our 25th Reunion Gift to the College. Suggestions and recommendations from the class will be most welcome.

ORDNANCE OFFICER at an Eighth AAF Composite Station, Ist Lt. Lee K. Abbott '31 is shown at work somewhere in England.

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