Tuck School
THE SUPPLY CORPS CANDIDATE SCHOOL continues to claim almost our entire attention. As we reported to you last month, our Supply Corps unit now numbers close to 300 trainees. Of these 300, about 135 are in the first term of the program, 80 in the second term and 80 in the third term. The 135 men in the first term have been sent to us from many colleges and 'universities in the area north of the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Mississippi River. Notre Dame, Harvard, Wabash, John Carroll and Yale, to name a few, have sent us quite large contingents out of their V-12 Basic Programs. Some of these men had been with the Fleet before transferring to V-12 and thus come with much valuable experience.
Dean Olsen is serving as Assistant Director of the Study of Higher Education for the Committee on Education of the U. S. House of Representatives. He returned to Hanover for ten days at the beginning of the November term, and reported that good progress is being made on the Study. He expects to wind up this work in Washington by Christmas. Dean and Mrs. Olsen gave a very pleasant tea for the Tuck School faculty and their wives on November 8.
Professors Duncombe, Sargent and Woodworth attended a series of professional meetings which took place in New York in midNovember: American Management Association, Academy of Political Science, and National Industrial Conference Board.
It is with deep regret that we have learned of the death of Lt. Harold G. Payne Jr., U.S.N.R. T'34 who was killed in action while serving on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. Before entering the service in March, 1942, he was sales representative for Lentheric, Inc. All Tuck men who knew him well share with us a deep sense of sorrow.
Major Robert Howe D' 39 is stationed in New York, and is attached to the Finance Division. He wrote us of having seen Lt. Charles Hathaway T'39 at Finance, and also of a meeting between them in Bizerte a few months ago.
Lt. (jg) Ben R. Page D' 43 who is in the Pacific wiote us last month concerning the possibility of returning to Tuck to complete his Master's. Similar letters have been received from a great many men in the Service.
Ensign William M. Falion 111 T'38 wrote us again from Guadalcanal where he is sta- tioned as one of the Assistants to the Supply Officer. He had heard from William H. Storck T'38 who is now Supply Officer of the U.S.S. , a light cruiser. He also re- ported that Frank Butler D '37 is attached to a seaplane tender in the South Pacific.
Captain H. Clay Mellor T '37, who was reported missing since his bomber crashed over enemy territory April 1, has cabled that he is safe in England. We recall that flying was one of Clay's extra curricular activities in college. His classmates will remember that he flatly refused to ride in an automobile even as far as Shanty Shane, Lake Fairlee, on the occasion of the student-faculty graduation picnic. Instead, he dropped down out of the blue in a pontoon job. Perhaps here is an extra curricular activity that saved a life.
Ira Berman D '42 writes Mr. Wellman that he is capitalizing on his sales training at Tuck in an unexpected manner. He is attached to the 6th Service Command in Chicago as a Recruiter in a WAC recruiting drive. He calls on eligible young ladies in a Plymouth sedan to sell them the WAC bill of goods. It sounds good, Ira, if you can stand the gaff!
Tuck jrs.: Lt. L. A. Cate, U.S.N.R. T'41 became the father of a son, Lawrence Abbott, Jr., on October 20. Also, Captain Carmelo Gugino, Jr. T'39 announced the birth of a daughter, Frances Elizabeth, on September 15. Our congratulations!
Robert T'34 and John Paidar D' 43 paid us a recent visit. Bob has been with Wood Struthers, a large investment counsel firm in New York, since graduation. John has been working in the Emil Paidar Company during the day and teaching in the Training Within Industry Program at night.
Sgt. Dale Ruedig, USAF, D' 43 has been in the Pacific theater for the past sixteen months. He writes that Lt. Harry Lockwood, U.S.M.C., D' 43 is on Guam, and that Lt. (jg) "Sparky" Adams D' 43 is in command of a subchaser in the Atlantic.
