1943

The writer is embarrassed this month by another of those "moves" which have left baggage and stacks of letters somewhere in the hands of railway express. This is written from a few letters pulled out of dusty pockets and old barracks bags:

OVERSEAS DEP'T

Ensign Spic Waterbury reports the following from Cpl. Bob Fieldsteel, who is in the Service Company of a unit in the 3rd Army: "He's been kissed by every gal in Paris. He's got all the best champagnes, wines, and cognac under his bed-roll, but he can't get used to the men kissing him. He says he's going to pull the fastest marriage in history and hole up in a DOC shack as soon as he gets back."

To be added to the overseas list this month are Ensign Bob Stokes, who is lurching about on an LCT in the Pacific area .... and Technical Sgt. Herb Schaffner who has moved to an APO out of New York with an artillery unit. These are listed in order of rank—not of weight.

Back home again after a term of overseas service is Lt. Bob Dunn, who was a navigator in the ETO for 5 months and flew on 42 missions. Bob, who holds the DFC and the air medal, arrived at Miami Beach for reassignment.

Also located overseas is Lt. John Jouett who is Hqs. of the Northern Combat Command. Lt. Al Coons notes from a Pacific APO that he has been assignd a job at GHQ of the South- west Pacific theatre and is known as a "Queen Street Command." "In the past few months," he writes, "I have chanced to meet quite a few Dartmouth men in town. Got a note from George Shimizu before he left. Have seen Baily Walton, who was doing some Signal Corps work in a nearby headquarters, and Capt. Conrad Jordan, who left after his sophomore year to join the air corps, and Capt.Dyk Krolik and Scotty Mitchell who is a Corporal in the sth Air Force Service Command." Al would appreciate hearing from Bill Allman, who was last located in California studying Japanese.

FROM OVER HERE:

Dick Morner, formerly with the Chemistry Dept., has been commissioned an Ensign Lt. JohnJenkins and the Mrs. are now at Alexandria, La., within striking distance of the Alexandria Air Field and the Bentley Canteen Room Orm Birkland was commissioned an Ensign in the Naval Reserve last month Flight Officer Norm .Askey writes that he's finished bombardier training in New Mexico and is now taking crew training. He's like Jack Behringer, and George Eady to write. Norm's located at a field near Dyersburg, Texas Pvt. Larrabee Johnson writes from Washington that Norm Probstein is there working for the OWI and notes with a string of compliments, that HerbMarx's wife "works in my office," adding that Lt. John Pritchard is in the aerology branch of the Navy and is stationed in Manhattan Pvt.Marty Meigs is at Boca Raton, Fla., studying under the Air Corps Bill W ogthaler writes from the Dartmouth Club that "Jim Ewing seems to be prospering at Penn Med School," and that he saw Fred Geller last winter. . . . . Tom Munn's mother writes that he's at Chanute Field, Ill., after a year in the hospital.

"ATTACHED, UNASSIGNED"

Engagements: Frances Gould Arentz to EnsignJohn Walton Mary Spelman to Marine Lt.Gail Smith (Pensacola) Margaret Goodell to Bill Hunt (Med. School, Minnesota) Mary Ruth Hazen to Bob Alesbury Doree Gongwer to Bill Baker (of Germantown) Priscilla August to Bill Glovsky Glenys M. Johnson to Earl Harris Esther L. Simpson to Ted Hopper Dorothy Bisselle to A/C BobFosdick Mary Kremer to Bill Lothman Anne Berninger to Jim Dinsmoor (now at Columbia) Helen Mills to Lt. Bill Alpert Jane Balf to AIS Doug Ferry (at N.Y.U.) Patricia Roberts to John Paidar Eleanor Johnston to Ensign Bob Stokes Barbara Clark to Midshipman Jim Boak Jane Gillespie of San Francisco to Lt. Russell Gordon Smith, now at Tule Lake Japanese Relocation Center .... and Dorothy Chase of White River Jet. to Pfc. Art Cohen, now a Med. Student at Long Island U.

Things will really liven up next month when that old Sphinx Johnny Koslowski takes time off from counting his funds to write a guest column. It is by way of a Yule-tide gift to the class and so a Merry Christmas to all from the present writer who. has enjoyed hearing from so many of you.

"YOU CAN'T IMAGINE what I would give for another look at that good white snow," says J. Weston Dunaway II '43, who is now in the South Pacific theater.

Secretary, 84 Wheeler Ave., Westwood, N. J. Treasurer, Shelburne, Vt.