1945

Rex Felton and Eliot Mover did a swell job of writing this column for the past two months due to yours truly being completely snowed under by Thayer School and all her elements. The volume of incoming mail has decreased to a very slow dribble, so slow that one column was not even written one month. It takes news to make news, so once again, won't you just take a few minutes out to drop a short line?

Charlie "Moose" Rowan wrote via V-Mail from "somewhere in England." "I was very disappointed, as I imagine many other '4sers were, to find that there was no column in the December issue, which all five of us Dartmouth men at this place look forward to so much. We landed here in August and there is definitely no women shortage with Wrens, ATS, WAFS, Land Army Girls, plus civilian pulchritude in Merrie Old England." Tom Mover writes from Wheaton College, Wheaton, 111., that he recently visited Bill Gelln in Toledo who hopes to be hired by the Hudson Bay Cos., as an outpost man up in Northern Canada. He also has heard from Bill Hufstadn who is due to receive his wings at Valdasta, Ga., and from Bill Berge who is "still a lucky civilian awaiting call from the Army Air Corps."

Word has been received that Sterling Black has been transferred to Army Air Forces Redistribution Station at Miami Beach as assistant control officer. Charlie Youmans received his wings in the Army Air Corps on January 6 at Waco, Texas, and is now flying the B-26 and hoping to be overseas soon. Congratulations are also in order for Howie Burdick who won his wings at Randolph Field.

We have many new names coming under the Hearts 'n Flowers Department. A list of recent engagements includes: Miss Elizabeth Franklin to John Kirby, Miss Shirley Hull to Charles Curtis, Miss Ann Campbell to Lt. John Campbell, and Miss Jean Jahr to Alex Conn. Charlie Cashin recently received his wings as navigator and bombardier at Santa Ana, Calif. Ken de Gruchy and Dick Simpon have graduated as Naval Aviation Cadets from Kimball Union Academy and are now in advanced training at Chapel Hill. Put Roger Washburn is attending Carnegie Institute of Technology under the ASTP. Cadet Philip Dermody completed the intensive Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill and has been sent for primary flight training to the Naval Air Station at Peru, Indiana. Harold Breen is now in intermediate flight training at Pensacola, Fla.

Last Sunday afternoon (Feb. 13) we held our class reception in the Richard Hovey Grill. It was certainly a far cry from what we expected 21» years ago, but for the few of us who were there it was a very effective gathering. President Hopkins gave a brief talk after which there was a complete meaningful silence for some moments. I think that during that silence many pensive thoughts raced through many minds many times. After it was all over, it was almost impossible to realize that our class reception had taken place.

INFORMAL SING-OUT FOR THE CLASS OF 1945 was held in the Richard Hovey Grill on Sunday, Feb. 13, with 65 men present. Seated in second row are George Pierce; Charles Williams; Prof. John G. Gazley, class adviser; Ralph Tyler, secretary-chairman; President Hopkins; Rex Felton and John Pine, members of the class executive committee; and John Little, new Alumni Fund Agent for the class.

Secretary, COSO, Hanover, N. H.