1943
Of all the '43 delegations to enter the services as a group, by far the largest was the shipment of V-7 candidates who in January of last year were packing their things and preparing for South Bend. These '43s are now Ensigns, most of them on active duty, the continuity of their military careers are fairly easy to follow.
Not so well known and not so easy to follow are the activities of that handful of Dartmouth '43s who signed for the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps while in College and who were called out to Fort Devens on a marrow-chilling day last February. Unlike their Naval counterparts, our Army Reservists are still largely enlisted men, which accounts a good bit for their wanderings. Of this crew, Jud Waldron is now slogging through mud and fire somewhere in Italy. He is an infantryman in a rifle company. Another, Sgt. Al Hardie was last reported (see last month's issue) in Algiers. We have two letters on the "Devens Platoon" this month:
From Hqs, Fifteenth Bombardment Operational Training Wing, Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho, Pfc. Warren Williams writes: "After we all took Basic together at Miami, Chet Roche, Don Taylor, and I went to Administration School at Fort Logan. Upon graduating, May 12, from an Engineering and Operations Clerical course, Roche left for a Port of Embarkation while Taylor and I went to a Replacement Center in Salt Lake City where the two of us were asked to remain as interviewers. Toward early September, Bill Parmer '42 came through the replacement center and Taylor talked him into joining us as an interviewer. Early in November Don crossed to England to join a Classification Audit Team. In November I joined a similar Audit Team for this Wing. We check classifications and assignments at bases from here to lowa to insure each outfit is at full strength before going over On our last trip I came across Tim Donovan who is an E & O clerk at Fairmont Army Air Field, Geneva, Nebraska. The Wing Weather Officer here is Captain John Bird '40 Ensign Dick Longacre is Supply Officer aboard a destroyer in the Pacific. Scholl and Tostman have completed Chapel Hill preFlight. Pfc. George Tillson is at ASTP at Illinois. Ensign Bob Gray is instructing Naval Cadets in Atlanta, and while at the Yale-Dartmouth game on furlough, I ran into Bob Rockwell who was with us at Miami—home on a CDD."
"Called to Ft. Devens with Bill Maeck,Fred Stockwell, Bob Fosdick, Dave White, and a lot of others, and after a week of almost solid guard duty in the cold Devens winds, they took pity on me and sent me south," writes Corp. Herb Gordon (Hq Det, 62nd Training Regt, Camp Blanding, Fla.). First stop was Camp Robinson, near Little Rock, where I took 8 weeks of Branch Immaterial basic training. I got accepted for Army Administration OCS and while waiting for quotas, they closed up the school I have been a clerk ever since. We moved to Camp Fannin, near Tyler, Texas, where I worked with a Replacement Battalion for a while. There one morning a fellow across the table from me asked for the coffee; I looked up to see the face of "Killer" Kane, the life of many a Zete party. He was waiting to go into the air corps and we finally shipped him to Keesler Field, Mississippi. I hear from some old pals, occasionally. Bud Miskell is studying Navigation at Monroe, Louisiana; Eddy Tuffly, now happily married, is an Ensign instructing at Northwestern; Ensign Jim Qilfillan is on active duty somewhere; Bill Burr was at Keesler Field waiting to be sent to an Air Corps School."
WOMEN
Ensign Dick Livingston married Shirley Stickney of Thetford, Vt., on Christmas Day in Wilmington. He is at present stationed at Norfolk, Va. .... Miss Anne Marie Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., is now Mrs. Alfred Crowley after a ceremony at Lowell. Crowley is now at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma. Pvt. George Tills on married Violet Neal of Chillicothe, Ill., and the University of Illinois on Christmas Eve.
As for engagements: Aviation Cadet Bill Burr and Geraldine Krayer of Great Neck, Long Island. .... Ensign Howie Leavitt and Margaret Amanda Mentzer of Smith and Brooklyn. Howie is now at the Harvard Naval Training Station Ltt Johnny Robinson of the Army Air Corps and Mary Jane Davies of Coral Gables, Fla., and the University of Miami And, in case we forgot last month, Ensign Leo Silverstein and Phyllis Riddle of South Bend, Indiana. Bud is now on active duty.
WITHOUT A PROGRAM
Naval Air Cadet Bob Varney was last tabbed at Pensacola—but he should be an Ensign by now. . . . ; Jerry Souers is now Pvt. Jerry Souers, taking basic (air corps) at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri after the Army changed its mind Corporal Herb Schafjner sent us a Christmas card made up at Camp Butner in his Div. Arty headquarters. A pin-up girl that could hardly be pinned up in public. Herb writes that a huffy adjutant TILTed his chances of going overseas early Ensign Chuck Donovan got his wings and commission at Pensacola recently Also.at Pensacola now is Aviation Cadet Harold LincLley .... and Ensign Ed Lider graduated about the same time as Donovan at Pensacola Ensign Peter Heggie is now serving on a warship which the nearest copy of Jane's Fighting Ships describes as one of the World War I fourstack destroyers and which looks uncomfortably small.
Jim Capps is now at the N. Y. U. Medical School Sgt. Sam Mills address is: APO 858, c/o PM, New York City John Kimball Jr. is now a shavetail Ensign Paul Parker sends greetings from the U.S.S. "America's answer to the Japanese Navy" and adds a jeer at the long Army training we are getting in the states. Well, the U.S.S. according to Jane's, is a former freighter now used as a supply ship. Nothing stands between it and Japanese wickedness but a few small guns and Paul Connor Shaw is now an M.B.A., having graduated from Northwestern with a thesis on "Trends of the Decisions of the War Labor Board." He says he's always running into '43s in Chicago but they are always passing through and they never have too much time for chatting.
Connor included a vigorous and provocative opinion on Post-War economics and the job situation. Since we can't run it here, we'll give you all two months to get any contributions in for a '43 opinion sheet which will be a mimeographed bullsession. If anyone has anything to say mail it to us and back will come our sheet. Write about anything from sex to post-war problems .... we'll include it. It's just an experiment based on the assumption that college men no matter where they are ought to be concerned with current problems and would like to talk or write about them.
ENS. EDWARD W. LIDER '43 just received his "Navy Wings of Gold" at Pensacola.
ALEXANDER L. McPHERSON II '44 is now in training at Columbia University, and by February will hold the rank of Ensign.
Secretary, 84 Wheeler Ave., Westwood, N. J. Treasurer, Shelburne, Vt.
