1934
With questionnaires rolling at an exciting clip, and each one reporting a little news of interest, we have so much in our sack of material this month that we won't be able to do much more than brief information that deserves considerably more space. Some of the birth notices are almost late enough to coincide with grammar school graduation announcements, but since they are new to this column, and working on the theory that you'll be interested in knowing who your chillun will be going to school with and dating within a few years, here's the story the way it's been told to me.
Lt. Comdr. Earl Draper is the pappy of a second child, name of Phillip Sherwin, who will be two years old in January. The Dana Redingtons made it two boys with the addition of young Richard Raymond on February 22, 1942. Bob and Susan Brown made it two in January '43 when Elizabeth joined the family. Frank Everts joined the long list of fathers back in May '42 when Charles was born. Frank, incidentally, is now an agricultural economist with the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Lt. (jg) Bill and Grace Baird joined our exclusive "family of five" group last December with their third child, Janes Staves. Capt. Perk Bass, -who is now with the 14th A.F., formerly stood on our books with a goose-egg under the "off spring" column and now comes forth to tell us of two: Alexander born in February '42 and Katherine Mitchell in December '43. Lt. (jg) Art Grimes made it three with Nancy Herrick in June of '43. Art is now in charge of a Navy gun crew on one of the slickest tankers afloat, so he says, and has had a chance to spend a few days at home while the unit is getting a wash and polish job to be at its best on future trips. Sam Carson had a first child in August 1943; he goes by the name of Russell Lloyd. In November of the same year, Sam joined the Merchant Marine and is now rated as a purser.
Lt. Dick Poisson was plenty excited in July '43 over the arrival of Susan Elizabeth, and has had lots more excitement thrown in since. He was shipped overseas in 1943 on the staff of the Commander of U. S. Naval Forces in Europe. He was later assigned to an LST for the Normandy invasion and spent 100 hours on the assault beach with no injury. He is now on temporary duty in Washington in Censorship Branch of Public Relations. Allan Jacobson now has a second child, Susan, born in 1942. He has been in the Army since- April of this year and was already mixed up in the shooting part of the war by the middle of September. Since last heard from, Ens. John Hallenbeck has not only married, but had a first child. And you can guess how long it's been since we heard from the Ensign when we report his marriage to Miss Luella Drake of Dunkirk, N. Y., in 1937 and the birth of their child, K. Torrey, in 1938.
Another lad who hasn't given proper publicity to events of interest is Dr. Kirk Spitler. Kirk was married to Miss Eleanor Bosworth of Denver, Colo., on July 25, 1942. They now have a daughter, Barbara, born on March 19 of this year. And the same crack goes for Al Marks who now has two daughters, Linda Ann, who arrived May 25, 1942, and Behna Jane, who has been celebrating her birthday on the 4th of July since 1943. Paul and Thelma Ebbitt now have a daughter, Karens, born in April 1942. Bill and Helen Eldridge have a second daughter, Lynn, born February 13, 1944, and Gardner Bassett not only has been promoted to the rank of captain, but also has a son, Michael, who was three years old this past August 7. Barriss Mills, who has now moved to lowa State as an assistant professor of English, adds to the record that he has been married to Lola Jones of Cleveland since August 1937, and they now have a son, John, who was born in January 1941. Art Wood has also transferred his affiliations from the University of Buffalo to Bucknell where he is an assistant professor of sociology, and advises at the same time that he has been married since 1939. Herb Heston is staying with the front runners, now boasting of two girls and a boy, the latest being Frank Craig who dates back to April '43. Herb is claiming some sort of citation for sitting through both the Notre Dame and Penn games this year without flinching.
The above represents a mighty imposing list of additions to the already generous size of our '34 family. However, I can assure you that it in no way represents more than a fraction of what we've really got to offer. There's other news to be told and space is running out fast. So come back next month and meet some more new folks.
Cal Calmon is now wearing a silver bar as a -first lieutenant in the Army, after having finished his swell work on the desalting of seawater and the prevention of corrosion on government materiel. Joe Lehmann has moved to Cleveland where he is working as a psychiatric case worker for the Youth Bureau of Cleveland. Lt. Dick Hardt is now acting as a special assistant to the Supply Officer-in-Command, at the Naval Air Supply Depot in Philadelphia, which officer is charged with the responsibility of procuring and supplying parts for maintenance of all Naval aircraft. George Donehue has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant (jg), and Jake Hekma, who is now a full lieutenant, has been stationed at the Naval Air Station in Wildwood, N. J., after two years of foreign duty. Lt. (jg) Line Daniels has just completed a tour of duty working out of Miami and expects to be heading for those lovely south sea islands soon. Line and Virginia have adopted a lovely step-daughter who is now eight. Bam Brennon has been in the Army since February as a private in the Medical Corps, and reached England in July.
Capt. Milt Fabricant has been helping clear up most of the Pacific area, having spent two and onehalf years in that section, serving in the Guadalcanal and Bougainville campaigns, then being stationed at such points as Australia, New Caledonia, Tulagi, Florida Islands, and similar hot spots. During that time he was attached to an evacuation hospital, an infantry unit, and an artillery battalion. He is now at Carlisle, Pa., in a medical pool awaiting further assignment. Ens. Harry Wallace is also a veteran of Pacific trouble, having taken part in the Palau invasion. He's still roaming those waters on an LCI. Lt. Harry Brague is another who has an invasion successfully behind him. Harry's was the Normandy Coast. He was also with the first troops to march into Paris and then went on as a liaison officer through Northern France, Belgium, Holland, and into Germany. He has now been transferred to his old outfit (AMG) and is stationed just outside Paris.
Stan Smoyer is still with the WPB in Washington writing up regulations, many of which carry numbers now as familiar to box makers as our own birth dates, telephone numbers, and street addresses. If I'd only known sooner who was composing that tripe, things would have been handled much differently. (If Stan or any other member of WPB is reading this, I'm only clowning, of course.)
A note from Steve Briggs, . My status is still that of a civilian and our work remains allout war, but we are beginning to feel the pinch of cancellations as well as the first reconversion headaches Rumor has it that I may soon be transferred to our general offices at Johnson Motors, Waukegan, Wise., where my work will take me back, partly at least, into the export end of the business as well as administration of certain phases of our large cosmetic accounts." And Lt. Bob Griffin writes, .. . After teaching navigation to the A.E.F. (Americans Exiled in Florida) at Camp Gardon Johnson for eight months, I jumped from T4 to Warrant Officer Junior Grade and was assigned to a harbor craft company of the Transportation Corps. Then in September, without benefit of OCS, I was commissioned a first lieutenant in the T.C. and put in my present company. We are now in the midst of training with our crews on 180' Army boats. As near as I can get to the Navy and still be in the Army."
Bill Adams, who is working in the Division of War Research for the University of California, seems to have run into more Dartmouth men than you would find in Hanover these days " I've organized a'regular meeting of Dartmouth men here in San Diego—see October ALUMNI MAG— In our class, Hank Bryan was here for two months before going overseas. Bumped into Curt Howard at the West Goast Sound School in August. He was taking additional training in sound and expected to be assigned to a newly built ice-breaker for duty off Alaska in the Bering Sea. Chick Chickering came through here last week as C.O. of a gun boat headed for the South Pacific. We had an oldfashioned outing and hit night spots without number "
That's all tor now, except my Best Wishes to each of you for A Very Merry Christmas and the best of good things for the New Year!
'34 CLASS BOY, EDWIN R. MOORE 111
AT A NAVAL BASE, ENGLAND. L. to r.: Lt. Stan Neill '34, Capt. Bob Smith '34, a visiting fireman, and Lt. Bob Hage '35.
Secretary and Treasurer, General Box Co. 816 S. 16th St., Louisville 1, Ky.
