1932
As the curtain goes up on this month's batch of news, you see in the place of honor, picked out by green spotlight, the industrious treasurer of your class. Howdy's interim Christmas report indicates that the class has been backing him up pretty well in his task of collecting the per capita tax of four dollars, but that there is a considerable way to go if we are to equal last year's record intake. 'Taint, says Howdy, a question of going to the ant, thou sluggard, but a question of going to the checkbook, thou laggard. Wives of Armed Forces classmates have sent in dues for their husbands quickly and with a smile, because they know how much it means to their fighting swains to keep getting news of the Big Green by way of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Howdy thinks this is a good sign, and wants to urge all classmates to pay as soon as possible so that the one hundred per cent subscription plan can continue. As Mort Collins used to put it, with his skill at the domination of Americanese, "Socking out four bong won't take much skin from your pocketbook." Charlie Widmayer and assistants will do their best to see that you get your money's worth. Excelsior.
A TRIP TO THE ARMY AND NAVY STORE brings out the following items: that Capt. Orrin Crankshaw AUS, commanding some tanks, can be reached through APO 256, Camp Cooke, Calif. .... that Lt. Bob Black USNR is Assistant Naval Attache at the U. S. Embassy in the sunny city of Quito, Ecuador .... that Mr. Joseph G. Byram, late of the Mechanics National Bank, Worcester, entered the Army as of December 21, 1943 .... that First Lieutenant Steve Butterfield, Ordnance Department AUS, who had been attached to the Ordnance District in Springfield, Mass., since June, 1942, was transferred as of November first to the Army Transportation Corps for further assignment.... that Major Herb Friedman's recent moves read like the adventure-saga of Richard Harding Davis. Letters have followed the major round South America, to La Garde Hospital in U. 0., to Huntsville Internment Camp (for German W.P.'s) in Texas, to Camp Swift, Texas (for tank destroyers), to Camp Polk, La., for tanks. Although the major wasn't exactly sorry to settle into a nest in seventydegree Louisiana weather, he was shortly expecting overseas orders when last heard from. Herb's been over before. Lt. (jg) Ed Holbrook, USNR Dental Corps, has been on active service since summer at the Dental Clinic, Brooklyn Navy Yard. While being indoctrinated at Columbia, Ed reports good fortune in hearing lectures on Naval history and tradition by Lt. A. L. Demaree, formerly of Dartmouth's history department. The Holbrooks acquired a third daughter, Sally, late last summer, and congratulations (however belated) will reach them at 200 Waverly Ave., Brooklyn Lt. Dick Clarke was to be seen not too long since at Port Hueneme, dodging mud and finding (as he puts it), "What makes the Seabees buzz." He reported in California in midAugust, and spent two months of duty at Small Craft Training Center, Roosevelt Base, San Pedro, and before that at the "whalishly interesting" North Island Naval Air Station. Dick says the Seabees buzz a tune that spells plenty of sting for the Japs, and that his admiration for the job they're doing has risen one thousand per cent Bob Harrison has been promoted to first lieutenant, and Ralph Elias has been made a captain, to both of whom congratulations. Ralph's APO address is 913, San Francisco Lt. Don Richardson USN can be reached at 324 Harvard St., Cambridge. .... Bill Shaw is the proud wearer of a Marine uniform, and can be written to at 58 West St., Worcester, Mass Lt.(jg) John Zimmerman is living at 1705 Hoban Rd., N.W., Washington 7, D. C.
STILL DEFENDING THE HOME FRONT FLAG are Brownie Dickinson, now reported back in Dayton, Ohio (8.35 Manhattan Ave.): Don Henderson CPA, 543 Lincoln St.', Manchester, N. H.; Jim Corbett, security analyst at 70 Pine St., N. Y. C.; and Dr. Ellie Jump, assistant professor of anatomy, College of Dentistry, University of California, San Francisco 22.
Letters from Bud Hubbard, Bob Hosmer, and Handy Auten will have to await the deadline for next month's column, to which their comments will lend considerable fire and verve. I bring this month's news batch to a close with the following letter from that old sea-dog with the salt spray on his collar, Jim Moore.
Sic Jacobus Scrip sit: "Once in a great while I have a bit of news for that grand '32 Column of yours (Editor's Note: IT'S LETTERS FROM FELLERS LIKE JIM THAT GIVE IT ITS GRANDEUR) and, here's a bit. On November 4 my favorite wife presented us with a boy, James B. III. He weighed in at six pounds, twelve ounces, has blond hair and blue eyes. Undoubtedly he will bless his old man in years to come for tacking that III on his name. Mother and child are just swell, and the old man is a bit prejudiced and one-sided about the whole affair Can't say much for myself. Still plugging away on production and inspection work for the Navy and doing considerable traveling. In fact, I'm certainly seeing the country, and it's a wonderful place. Heading for California shortly for a bit of duty which will complete the circuit, meaning I have yet to get that far west. It's all most interesting and very self-satisfying, for I'm busy and able to see some of the fruits of our labor which helps the old morale. Some shore jobs leave lots to be desired, as you may know. News of Art Allen reached me in a letter from my brother who is at an Air Base in Casablanca right on the Atlantic, and said that Art Allen pulled in there for a day or so with his subchaser. They raised a few to Eleazar for old times' sake, though they had never met before. Now if Art would only get back here and give me a firsthand report on the Bro, I'd be quite pleased, as would our family. I note from the October column that Charlie Odegaard reported seeing Art in the Mediterranean. The Bro was class of 1940. If you see any stray SC craft needing a skipper what would love a taste of saltwater and you know the admiral, tune me in. Boy, how I miss the water!"
Which brings Jim's fine letter and this month's column to the concluding caution that if you try to dig in your victory garden at this time of year you will get nowhere. Sloan's liniment is good for aching muscles if judiciously applied at strategic points. Happy Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays!
TACKLING A TACTICAL PROBLEM in the wilds of San Antonio are Lts. John H. Paull Jr. '33 and Robert Hi Brenner '36.
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