1941

News this month is somewhat more plentiful for which I am thankful, however, only one letter was received during the month from a member of the class of '41. Not a very good record you'll admit.

I got news of a new doctor in the class of '41 in Harvey J. Dworken who recently graduated from the School of Medicine, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, on the 25th of September. He was discharged from the AST unit at that time and placed in the Medical Corps AUS as a first lieutenant in a reserve status for the time being. He is now serving his nine months internship at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.

James G. Morgan is a production engineer at the Repauno Works, of E. I. duPont de Nemours and Co., Gibbstown, N. J. He lives in Woodbury, N. J.

Word from Lt. Peter C. T. Glenn of the Royal Sikhs, Bth Army, Central Mediterranean Forces, via Prof. A. J. Scarlett informs us that Pete has been in training in India for some time and expected to be sent to Italy scon after he wrote. Pete is anxious to get back to Bari, Italy, where he had been held prisoner so long. Maybe he would like to thumb his nose at some of the Italians who were so inconsiderate of him then.

Edwin A. Walten has been promoted from first lieutenant to captain at an Eighth Air Force Bomber Base somewhere in England. Ed is the adjutant of a B-17 Flying Fortress Squadron and supervises all administrative work concerning the ground men who maintain the heavy bombers and the airmen who fly them in their bombing attacks on airfields, bridges, supply dumps and gun emplacements in support of the Allied drive through France. The new captain entered the AAF in August 1941, and received his commission in August 1942-

Both Lt.(jg) John F. Curran Jr. and Lt.(jg) Clinton S, Scholes Jr. received their Doctor of Medicine degrees from Tufts College at a degree convocation of the Tufts Medical and Dental Schools on September 24, 1944.

Sad news has reached me concerning two of our boys. Lt. William A. Dorney'Jr. USNR of Portsmouth, N. H., has been reported missing following an operational flight over the Atlantic. Details of the mission are lacking. Bill entered the Service in 1941 and was commissioned in June 1942. He is married to the former Miss Margaret Craighill of Washington, D. C., and has a two-months-old daughter.

I shall have an obituary next month for Lt. Eugene M. Valentine who was killed in action on September 19 in Germany according to a War Department telegram received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Morgan Valentine of Arch Road, Millbrook, N. Y. He was an artillery officer. Such losses are deep-felt by all the members of the class of 1941.

First Lieutenant Lee Barrett of Brookline, Mass., has been awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in combat at a ceremony held at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, Calif. He was presented the award by Capt. A. H. Dearing USN, Commanding Officer of the Hospital. Lee saw action at Cape Gloucester, New Britain.

First Lieutenant Richard Whittier is in the Air Corps and is stationed as Transportation Officer at the Intransit Depot No. 12, Norfolk, Va. He sees Harry Douty every once in a while when his ship hits Norfolk and is married to the former Miss Louise Cooney, Smith College '41. They are expecting another Whittier in December. Dick has been in Norfolk sixteen months now and sees no chance of leaving.

Friday night, November 10, was Dartmouth Night and we, here in Washington, were fortunate enough to have Dean Bob Strong as a guest from the College, to put us in touch with the latest happenings on the Hanover Plain. A number of '41'ers were present. Pete Keir, Pete Scott, George Baine, Chuck Carleton (who is leaving Washington shortly) and yours truly. We arranged a picnic at the time which we held last Sunday and to which Peg and Pete Scott, Audrey and Pete Keir, Betty and George Baine, and the Elses attended. Chuck Carleton (the old bachelor) was invited as well as Dick Fisher, Dick Wheeler, and Dick Hill with their spouses but none could make it for one reason or. another. It was fun to play touch football, roast wieners, and sing Dartmouth songs beside a warm fire with the invigorating coolness of the fall weather to top things off.

Marriages were quite numerous this month, and I will close with-some facts concerning them. Lt. Richard B. Paul wed Miss Margaret Joyce Yates at Oldham, Lancashire on October 6. Miss Yates was educated in England and since her graduation she has been doing war work. Dick has completed over fifty missions in the European theatre and has been overseas twenty-five months. He has the Pre-Pearl Harbor ribbon, the Asiatic ribbon, the European African ribbon with four battle stars and the Air Medal with two silver clusters. After completing his missions as navigator of a B-17, he served as an instructor at a school in North Ireland. He has recently been transferred to England.

Miss Betty Jean Doremus and First Lieutenant George F. Baine, Army Signal Corps, were wed at the Presbyterian Church in Red Bank, N. J., on the 16th of September. Both are from Red Bank and lived within two blocks of each other for a long time before they met in the summer of 1941. George proved that sometimes that which is in our own backyard is often the finest. They were another lucky couple to spend their honeymoon in Hanover at the Hanover Inn.

Lt.(jg) Lloyd Fishman married Miss Esther Deitch at the Manchester Country Club in Manchester, N. H. They will live temporarily in Miami, Fla. Esther attended Mount Ida Junior College and Katharine Gibbs School.

Dr. Robert Rainie wed Miss Dora Merino in October at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Lewiston, Maine. As do all Dartmouth men when given the opportunity, they journeyed to Hanover. They will be at home at 843 Main St., Lewiston, Me., where Bob is the assistant resident doctor at the Central Maine Gen'l Hosp. He received his M. D. at Boston University, School of Medicine. Dora is a registered nurse, having graduated from the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. She has been head nurse in the surgical ward at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital.

Lt. Arnold W. Bartlett USNR was married to Miss Jessica Palmer at Memorial Chapel of the First Parish Church, Weston, Mass., in September. Jessica is a graduate of Weston High School and Katharine Gibbs School. Arnie is a veteran of nineteen months of service in the Pacific as commanding officer of a patrol vessel. He was commissioned as an ensign in January 1942, following training on the USS ; and later served in the Caribbean, Central and South Pacific.

Secretary, James Buchanan Apt., B 12 Presidential Gardens, Alexandria, Va Treasurer, 17 N. Park St., Hanover, N. H.