1936
Well, here we are again. After an absence of several months, it's swell to be able to continue from where I left off—bringing you what news comes my way. And by the looks of the meager pile Jocko Morrison has left for me, I won't have too much to tell this time. I'm sure I speak for the whole gang in complimenting Jocko for the grand job he has done both as secretary and treasurer. A darn fine double-duty guy, if ever I saw one! Good luck to you, Jocko. Or rather, Ensign Morrison, who will have reported to Fort Schuyler for his first taste of Navy life on April 28th.
Lee McGonagle reports the arrival on February 23rd of William Sargent McGonagle, a 9 lb.-9 oz. bundle who's slated for the class of '66. Bill is still with the Travelers Insurance Cos., looking after claims out Seattle way.
Jack Smith has left for sea duty in the Pacific on a carrier.
Fred Warne, now at the West Coast Sound School in San Diego, has, as he says, "a simple story—simple life—-just one blankety-blank school after another. Next one is Boston. VicSabary is helping me hold down the San Diego end. He goes to Boston too, so you can see we '36ers stick together."
Gage Aborn's father was good enough to pass along word that Gage, now a Major in the Air Corps, is situated in Orlando, Florida, where he is evidently setting up a new Meteorology Station for that district. Expecting a transfer in the near future, Gage doesn't particularly relish the prospect of returning to the south Pacific where he was stationed for almost two years. But Gage, like many of the rest of us, knows the Army.
Dick Treadway has been a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps since the first of March. He got his bars at Parris Island, but where he is now—we don't know.
Lt. Ed Nilsson and Evelyn Brown were married in late February, in Tarry town, N. Y. They'll settle down, for a while anyway, on Long Island where Ed will attend the Army Air Forces Controller School. Before entering the Army, Ed served with the Civil Air Patrol, flying as a pilot-observer on coastal patrol in the vicinity of Cape Cod.
War Department Researcher Bob Fernald has evidently found it's possible to meet a person you're looking for in hectic D. C. Bob recently found Miss Tanna Brown, who hails from Gurdon, Arkansas, and who has joined him in announcing their engagement.
The Gardner, Mass. News carried a story of the Red Cross War Fund Drive planned for that area, sub-heading the item with "CharlesC. Brooks Jr., Named Campaign Chairman." This responsibility seems to be nothing new for Charley who, in between office hours at the Conant Ball Co., manages to sandwich in work on many civic activities.
John and Helen Weisman, Bob and Theo Prentice and Norb and Pic Hofman saw the Big Green smear Catholic U. in the first of the three magnificent games the boys played in Madison Square Garden for the NCAA championship. The above sextet looked around, in vain, for other '36ers. But after all, the Garden is a fairly roomy place.
Frank Wetstein is still up to his neck in facts and figures for Arthur Young Company. Having travelled about the country for many months of last year, Frank is currently making New York his headquarters.
Were it not for the unfortunately small quota of news from you all, I would not impose the following confessions of a returning class correspondent. But, to bring you up to date on Hofman: After having spent over six months in the Armored Forces down at Ft. Knox, Ky. (two of said months in the hospital recuperating from fractured ribs and stuff), I was suddenly transferred to N. Y. to fight, for the time being at least, the battle of 42nd Street, under the auspices of the Army News Service. Perhaps some of you boys outside the country have read or heard news from home as reported by ANS. It's our job to dish it out via cable, shortwave radio and super-speedy airmail. How long I'll be here I don't know. But I trust I'll still be around for our next '36 installment, at which time I hope the mailbag will be a >vhole lot heavier.
LIFE IN THE NAVY is just "one blanketyblank school after another/' according to Lt. (jg) Fred Warne '36, recently stationed in Florida, now in Boston.
First Ass't Secretary 130 East 39th Street, New York 16, N. Y. Treasurer, 163 -11 43rd Ave., Flushing, N. Y.
