1940
Wartime changes have again mixed up our class organization. This time we have lost our stellar class agent, Jack Rourke, who has gone to the Coast with N. W. Ayer and Son and will travel, at least for a time, with the Horace Heidt show. Jack's efforts on behalf of the class through the Indian Drum and the Fund have been tops. Our thanks for a job well done and sincere regrets at losing him go with him to his new work.
Reports this month come in from all over, directly contrasting with last month's famine. First on the list are the following service promotions: Bob Foss was promoted to captain and is now serving as personnel officer for the 511 th Parachute Infantry; Johnny O'Shea, upped to captain, is now officer in charge of the Waltham Warehouse of the Boston Quartermaster Depot; Dave Fish is now a major and in the course of his travels has visited every burg that could be called a city in North Africa. Second Lieutenant Bruce Miller, graduated from Harvard on January 8, is now stationed as Statistical Officer at Kelly Field, Tex.; they now call 'em Lt. (jg) Iver M. Olson, Lt. (jg) Malcolm M. Howard, Capt. Sydney G. Craig, Capt. Francis B. Reeves Jr., Ist Lt. Peter Shedden, Lt. (jg) Edward E. Banta, Ensign Robert I. Wetzler, Major Allan L. Feldmeier, Ensign Thomas J. Dunford, Capt. Colin E. Campbell, Ensign Edmond A. Basquin, Ist Lt. Robert W. Armstrong. A letter from Copper Nye enclosed this about Danny Sullivan, who at the end of a long series of Navy Schools, ended at Quonset with Bombing Squadron 114 (Liberators) as Gunnery Officer. His wife Agnes has been able to keep up with him on his jaunts to these schools. Danny saw Sgt. Butch Heneage, soon to be a Marine Officer, at Camp Lejeune, and Phil Dostal, back from the South Pacific, also stationed at Quonset. Another helpful Hannah from Dick Babcock tells about Bob Raclin, Marine captain, who has been convalescing on the Coast. He was invalided home from the South Pacific after eight months of action and wants to be off again as soon as possible. Capt. Syd Craig is with a Fighter Squadron in England. Ken McCotter, in Boston, writes, "Things are O. K. with me—l have been up here for about two and one-half months and in the Navy for seven. There is a great group of Big Green men here—Chuck Dostal, Skip French, Mickey Miller, Bill Rutherford, Bob Draper, Jules Wachs and a few others—this is God's forgotten band but we will be out in two more months." Ken intimates that he has finally found the girl. Powell Holbein, captain, Army Engineers, is at Camp Pickett, Va., doing amphibious training.
Sid Morley writes from Sicily that his bunch's New Year's fling turned up a few good groupers from Yale, Harvard, etc., but none from Dartmouth, although he has run into Ted Lewitt and Al Rosenthal over there. Mae Cross, returned from the deep south, now reports from Baltimore,, where, still with Rheem Mfg. Cos., he takes care of their personnel problems at Sparrows Point, Md. The job, Mac says, is a pipe, due entirely to the almost complete absence of labor in the area. He yearns for a return to the good old days when people could be hired. The War Labor Board regulations were something to fret about, and the United Steelworkers camped daily on the neck. Mac announces one more Smith '64 for the class, born at Baltimore on November 5. Art Ostrander, now comfortably ensconced in a newly furnished apartment in New Britain (Conn.), with new wife Dotti, continues to put the pressure on customers of the Corbin Screw Corp. in his tried and true method developed over three years of running a Hanover laundry route. Cec Moore writes from North Africa objecting to my omission of 800 Hayden's wife's maiden name in the announcement of their wedding. It seems that Cec was married by Boo's father- in-law, the Rev. Hollister, down in Chevy Chase. Cec finds nothing new in North Africa, "same old vino, same old Arabs, same old Quonset huts."
Ted Miller, after long absence from these columns, shows up in charge of payroll at Bethlehem's Fore River shipyard, which means a weekly struggle with the complicated devices marketed as IBM machines, adding up to about 85 hours per, and trying to keep up with the deductions, etc., of 27,000. Ted reports Chet Berry almost finished with his doctorate at Cornell, Ken Newbert still accounting with Dennison at Framingham and Walt Goodrich with the Maritime Commission in New York. Ted says he acquired a prospective tuba player for the Dartmouth Band in the person of Donald Charles Miller, born October 25, at Richardson House, Boston. They've tried Dartmouth songs on him, but his reactions so far are limited to a toothless smile whenever mother tunes up with "Silent Night." Ed Fritz, second-hand, found out that Bob' Kinsman is on his way home from the Pacific with some kind of spinal arthritis, which certainly sounds like a hellish thing to have. Bob has been in the Bougainville operations since the start as a language officer in Japanese, and expects to use this in Washington work while recuperating. Tough. Ed also enclosed an excellent and lengthy letter from Art Christensen, reporting the reactions and the good times of a Dartmouth man in North Africa. We hope to do a fuller job for you on this in the first Indian Drum which, though promised a month ago, is yet to go to press.
Bob Foss is the proud parent of Halcott Pride Foss, born December 26 at Pinehurst, N. C. Ken Hamilton and Beverly Mae Hess were married on January 8 at Rutland, Vt. Ed Schechter and Betty Jane Goodrich were married January 16 in New York. Hugh Scwarz and Mary Louise Conners married December 18 in Bangor, Maine. John Fonda .Willson and Fanny Scranton Garrison were married February 12 in Brockport, N. Y. Chuck Wilde and Elizabeth Gibbs were married January 15 in Passaic, N. J. Malcolm Howard and Claudia Willena Renehan of White River Junction were married January 5 in New York.
75 MILLION PAIRS OF SHOES have been purchased by Capt. John D. O'Shea '40, officer in charge of Waltham Warehouse, Boston Quartermaster Depot, procurement center for all Army footwear.
Acting Secretary, 1 Terrace St., Montpelier, Vt.
