1942
The leaves have all gone now and old man Winter s tap on the front door is growing louder each day. The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November passed last week along with the passing of many other elements. With this passing there appears the resumption of the regular radio programs, and Frank Sinatra returns to persuading Bobby-sockers with his crooning, rather than voters with his profound utterances upon the philosophy of politics. It is all over and the Democrats rub their hands together in contemplation of four more years and the Republicans close their eyes and plan the "Change" of 1948. All that can be said now is that you people on foreign shores really missed some astounding innovations in political persuasion.
I am now faced with a problem. The news receipts for this month are quite scarce. I could probably take up the space with such commentaries and dribblings on the situation in the U.S. today such as the above. But I have decided that not only do you have no desire whatever to read them but that I now have the opportunity to strike a nice bargain. Some day in the future when your letters really pile up a lot of news I will need a bit more space than the usual allotment. There- fore in this issue I mean to make the trade in the hope that the day will soon come when I have more news than I can handle. That, my friends, is up to you, not that you aren't making enough news, but rather that you are not letting the rest of us in on it enough.
I am happy to say that the lack of news has had one good aspect. I have no deaths or casualties to report, this month. The only items of this nature appear in such announcements as the marriage of our own Joe Arico to Miss Muriel Leavitt on September 18, 1944. Joe, who as you well know is now a Naval med student at Boston University has among other things settled the employee shortage problem as the new Mrs. Arico is a nurse. So as long as I am into events of this nature I might as well continue by stating the marriage of Miss Sidnee A. Sittig to William H. Lohman Jr. UNNR; Miss Edna L. Gordon to Pfc. John B. Glesmann AUS on September 30. John is now attending the College of Medicine of New York University. For the benefit of those who did not receive the news Miss Margaret Creek was married to Robert O. Blood. Bob is a divinity student at Yale and the newlyweds as of August will make their temporary home in New Haven. And lastly the marriage of Miss Frances M. Kendall to Lt. Philip G. Moon USNR on October 28, 1944.
It must also be noted that the number of mar- riages is not likely to increase as there are very few engagements to be listed this month. Among these are Miss Janet R. Millen to Lt. (jg) Edward Moody; Miss Evelyn M. Caulfield to Lt. Bernard F. Curry AUS, who is now serving in the South Pacific; and Miss Sylvia Dennison to Thomas W. McElin who is in his last year at Harvard-Medical School. This all goes to show that if we accept assumption that the number of marriages varies directly with the number of engagements, the quantity of material in this column will be decreased for some time in the future. But I shall not be the one that recommends this method of supplying news, although I must confess that I believe in it.
In the line of promotions word comes of the receiving of a first lieutenant's commission by Jack Chandler along with his receipt of an M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. To stay with medicine a moment,, the word has been received of a like degree and commission by Ward Jenkins from Yale School of Medicine. Jim Rendall has just received his bars after completing one of the toughest forms of OCS. He was conimissioned in the field from a Pfc. when his outfit was moving in to take over the operation of Marseille. Congratulations certainly should be in order for that. In addition to these the list proceeds as follows: Lt. Rovert E. Flanagan; Lt. (jg) John D. Wright Jr.; Lt. (jg) Samuel L. Frank; Ens. Horatio E. Reily; 2nd Lt. James S. Erwin; Lt. (jg) Ernest G. Friez Jr.; Lt. (jg) Warren G. Kreter; Lt. (jg) Edwin B. Leslie; Lt. (jg) Edward F. Moody Jr.; Lt. (jg) Frederick S. Matthews.
In the news from here and there we find that Doug Stewell is an assistant coach of football at Exeter. A newspaper clipping tells of the action of Marine Lt. Merrill F. McLane in leading his platoon in two hours of the toughest combat; and that Mac was a Marine before his Dartmouth days, serving four years in the Corps before coming to Hanover. Mrs. F. J. Mathews writes that Scotty is a lieutenant (jg) and is flying a dive bomber from a carrier in the Pacific since last February. Proc Page writes the only news letter of the month and obviously with the knowledge of what is wanted, in this part, as well he should. On the envelope he is known as Mr. Page so I should draw the presumption that he is now warrant officer. But of course I have no confirmation as he fails to mention any more. Proc reports from various sources of information that 2nd Lt. Dutch Schaefer is a navigator on a B-24 somewhere in England. Dutch remarks that he ran into Ted Schoomacher in London and that he was getting ready to return to the States. If memory can be reliable, Ted is a captain and a pilot. Proc received two other letters from England, one from Sid Bull who is with the ground personnel of the Air Corps, and one from Jack Stinson who is with the Medics. Jim Mulligan, a jg who was on the staff that brought the boys into Southern France, where he saw several '42's, among whom was Lt. Harry Bond,_ is on his way back to the States and is expecting to move to the Pacific theater. Bob Smith who was working for his father in New Britain is moving back to Providence to get some more industrial experience. Proc also states that the latest news in his theater is that Capt. Jerry Guarduno is on his way back and that Jerry gave forth with the fact that George Clark, a second lieutenant in Finance is a new member of the theater. Also present in that district are Ist Lt. Ken Jones, Sig. Corps; Capt. Pete Kurst an A.G. with the ATC; and 2nd Lt. Fred Worthen, A.C. Fred gave out the information that Capt. Trum Huntington is now a wing navigator in England and has seen some pretty hot times, and that Jake Davis is a father of a daughter. Fred is up to date in that department also with a son, as of April, now known as Peter Thatcher.
Well, this ended Proc, and likewise it ends me. I really do want to ask you if you won't take a moment and jot down a few words about yourself and your '42 acquaintances. I would also appreciate it if more of the families would help make up for the lack of information coming from you by sending a few words. If something doesn't happen soon I shall be forced to employ Superman and send him around. But you know he's pretty busy these days and I hate to take up his time when you can do the trick without him.
C. L. STEVENS '43 has been commissioned a Lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve.
Acting Secretary, R. D. No. i, Rensselaer, N. Y.
