1937

Lt. Harry Marschalk married Anne Wynne McKay of New Jersey College for Women and of New York City. Before Harry went into the Navy, we understand that he had progressed to Assistant Sales Managership of the Vicks Chemical Company First Lieutenant Emil Martocci, now stationed at Camp Stewart, Ga., was recently engaged to Mary Reta Braca of the College of New Rochelle and New York City Captain Herb Bottjer recently broke into print when Herb's father lost the watch Herb had given him to care for during the latter's absence in the Service. Since the watch was lost somewhere between Herb's home at 32 Davidson Ave., E. Rockaway and the Center St. R. R. Station, E. Rockaway, anybody finding the same would certainly oblige both Bottjers Fran Evans was recently made a corporal and is a present located at the Prisoners of War Camp at Aliceville, Ala Capt. Frank Richardson has been moved up to Assistant Group Operations Officer after participating in four bomber missions over enemy Europe Bob Kenney was married recently to Dorothy Alice Egan of Alabama Polytechnic Institute and Detroit. Bob has been with the Plastics Section, Chemical Bureau, War Production Board and during the past six months has acted as chief of the Veny L. Resin Unit The near miss which injured Pat O'Sheel and killed and wounded others who were in the same group when the bomb landed won Captain Pat the Purple Heart. Pat is now Public Relations Officer with a Marine Unit and the action happened during the Bougainville campaign Lt. Vinnie Sullivan and Helen M. Callahan of Boston University and Brockton, Mass. are now engaged. After leaving B. U. Law School, Vinnie joined the Army. For the past two years, he has been an agent of the Provost Marshal General and was recently graduated for the Corps of Military Police OCS at Fort Custer, Mich.

From the Laurinburg-Maxton Army Air Base in North Carolina, Rip Ripsom reports sooty slush as being the only ski condition encountered during the current season. Rip is still pushing along with the glider flying program and was recently put in a, class with Casey Rafter. Ex-lawyer Rafter and New Yorker Ripsom confirm reports that the glider program is really fabulous WallyFisher, Mack Burke, and Bill Thomas are all now Lt. (jg)'s Roscoe Philbrick is connected with Firestone's Synthetic Rubber Program as an accountant at Wadsworth, O. AI Zenns sticks to the old fashioned classification for his job. He calls himself a "Drummer" for the E. G. Budd Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia. Al can be reached at the Kennilworth Apts. in Germantown Bill Bell is now a major as is Marion Reed. Bill is doing his best to help keep the supply dumps and provisions in step with the progress that is being made out in the South Pacific. Marion Reed went out with the first Marines who landed on Guadalcanal and has had a rather hectic service ever since. He was recently reported as being in New Britain. .... Cyrus Sheppard is a weather observer at the U. S. Weather Station at Ephrata, Washington Julie Leslie and Arthur Hislop are both new first lieutenants. Julie is connected with the Army transport system Bibs Bankart writes a note from Camp Edwards and reports no '37ers locally although there were enough Dartmouths of various classes to form a Camp Edwards' Dartmouth Club Bill Sayre is now an ensign Chaplain Rog Barney is still located at Parris Island, S. C., and can be reached at P. O. Box 603 El Eldridge is located at the rectory of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Nashua, N. H. Dud Meredith, Lt. (jg), left Miami last fall as communications officer. He recently went to a Dartmouth Dinner at Miami Beach, but saw no '37ers—also no '37ers on those long tours of sea duty Lt. Ed Eaton has been at various stations in England and has promised us some sort of a picture ringing in the British locale.

Mai Merritt has been spending the war so far at what he claims is a litle vacation spot called Camp Stewart. His article about his war experiences will feature Savannah, the local oasis, and will be titled "Way Down Upon the Soignee River." .... A very welcome note from Frances Turecam.o states that husband Vince is a new lieutenant (jg) now serving in the South Pacific. Evidently he picked up J ere Duffy's trail somewhere in that area and they spent the evening together on Vinnie's ship. .... Bill and Jean BreitingeS s clever announcement tie the Air Force in with an announcement of their new son, William James Breitinger and entitled their announcement "A Direct Hit." .... Bob Kirstein kicks in with a little news along with his Alumni Fund contribution and already is wishing that he could be in Boston next fall to take in the Notre Dame-Dartmouth football tussle. Marcia, Bob's very talented wife, is opening at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe at New York on April first under the stage name of Dail. She certainly would welcome seeing any of Bob's classmates Another Alumni Fund contribution accompanied a note from Russ Tompkins. He has now left the Section Base at Port Everglades and has gone on to Camp Allen, Norfolk, for some training, then out to an advance base. Russ is looking forward to the departure from routine duty although he did manage to find a few classmates, principally Crumbine and family, in Florida.

Letters from both Sam Dillon and Sey Oschner underline the tragic death of Jean Wolfs killed in action February 26th at the Anzio-Natuno beachhead below Rome. Sey Oschner's splendid tribute to Jean should be found in the In Memoriam section of this issue. Sam. spent a few minutes with Jean the night before his death and reports that despite the fact that Jean had been working many long hours for many weeks, he was in his usual radiant spirits. The dry wit which had marked him through his years at Hanover was effervescent as ever, and he was happy that he was really busy, professionally speaking, for the first time since he came overseas. They discussed the work which EdSmith and Brad Varnum had been doing on the beaches south of Rome and the battle which was raging there at the time.

Doctors in the Navy have to go through exasperating periods of idleness quite often. Such had been Jean's fate during the past year. However, he was evidently not bitter about it. Sam reports that he took it all with a hearty smile and expressed a hope that he soon might be able to launch on a career for which he had yearned for so many years. Sam's comment is worth repeating: "It is unfortunate that men such as Jean have to die just when they are on the threshold of a very useful and successful life, but it is the law of war and we who are left are pledged that his death shall not be forgiven until the last gun ceases to fire, and never forgotten."

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