1925

Saw Lane Goss the other night who was week-ending up this way. Lane has taken on another job as Trustee of a high grade school for young females. He helped re-organize the investment portfolio. Asked how it was done he replied "Just selling off the poor stuff. Buying good stuff when it was low and selling when it was up." Sounds simple to hear Lane tell it, but just try and do likewise!

Lt. Dick Gratz has been transferred to the Naval Air Station at South Weymouth, Mass. Dick handles communications at that base which houses some of the blimps patrolling this section of the East Coast. He is living at 24 Lakewood Road, South Weymouth. He has seen quite a bit of overseas service.

Gam Rogers has been busy since the shooting started. He put in a year at Wilmington, North Carolina, in charge of certain phases of army cantonment building. For the past six months he has been helping his brother-in-law at the Smith Shipyards at Pensacola, Florida, building Navy tankers and doing subassembly work on LSD's. Gam has a good size place in Winter Park, Florida, with seventeen acres of orange groves. His two sons, aged five and seven, are duly enrolled for Dartmouth.

Paul Jerman is up Chatham, New York, way and lives on the RFD route there.

John Packard is now at the Publick House at Sturbridge, Mass. Like as not if you called there you could get a really good meal.

Had a perfectly swell letter from Lt. Tubby Washburn. The ever modest Tubby says that he has not done a thing since the war started and hardly seen the ocean or knows which part of a ship leaves the dock first. But for real human experience I would put Lt. Washburn well up on the list. On December 7, 1943 Tubby started training the famous Seabee outfits at Camp Peary and saw the raw recruits become highly efficient construction and fighting units.

In June of '43 he was shifted to Shore Patrol and has had duty in Chicago, Detroit, Boston and now Newport. He writes that a typical day's work may run anywhere from a murder charge to a complaint that some shopkeeper has overcharged a sailor. Birth, death, romance, love of liberty, greed and philanthropy are all grist for Tubby's dai;y grind. Already he has one thousand and one variations of the "wrong berth" story.

Doc Tanzer is at Cushing General Hospital, Framingham, Mass. His' present rank is Captain.

Freddy Smith is with the Carrier Corp. at Syracuse, New York.

Don Lawson is in New Hampshire at 18 Cass Street, Exeter.

They aint much happened sence the last riting. A bunch of fellers went out to shoot deer by jacklight. The fine, costs and Federal amusement tax come to six hundred bux. Real good fun for them as like it. I am still moving frum my apartment tew our fambly home. We is rigging up wun room for my Dreadnaught's music and my guns. Joint occupancy. You fellers drop around when you get a chanst. You might like it.

Secretary, Centre Ossipee, N. H. Treasurer, P. O. Box 428, Bristol, R. I.