1937

Lester Garvin writes from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is a hard working banker having gone down to South America with the National City Bank in 1940. Lester accuses himself of having become badly affected by the Latin trait for leaving everything until manana. However, this does not extend to all his activities as he married a Smith girl in Chile about a year and a half ago and is now the proud father of a seven months old daughter. Lester's comments on Argentina and her domestic and international policies are enlightening. No one there seems to know which way the Government is turning. He sums it up by saying that the Government is composed of militarists who have been too long under the influence of German doctrines. Technically, Argentina has broken relations with Germany and Japan, but actually, Lester reports, she seems to have done very little about it All Sey Oschner's friends will be glad to know that he is continuing to get healthier and healthier It is said that PatDoherty is now on active sea duty.... RussBishop is now in the Service Les Barrett writes from Plattsburg, N. Y. He is now Company Officer of too V-12 students and he likes it better than teaching.

Curt Cooper is now ranching at the El Coronado Ranch, Inc., Pearce, Arizona Jim Collins is in technical service work for the Tape Research Lab at the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Cos DickCooper and Fred Mayo are new Naval lieutenants, while Alex Hunter and Les Bratten are ensigns Latta McCray writes that Miss Melonnie McCray was born on Income Tax Day. Wife sue and daughter Melonie are getting along fine Jim Sage is an advertising copywriter for Buchanan and Co. in New York City., Ernie April is combining his school committee job with teaching in Salem, Mass., and also owns and operates a filling station in his spare time. Ernie expects to be in the Service very shortly and as soon as his application is cleared will say goodby to the wife and kiddos for a while Warren Hopwood, is now an Army lieutenant and Art Hislop is a captain Lt. Don Ross writes from the U.S.S. , that Rog Petty and himself are still waving the flag for Dartmouth. Don finds destroyer life rather monotonous from a medical point of view. He sees Brad Vennum and Ed Smith regularly. Mike Petti and DickThirlby are around, but he hasn't been able to contact them. Don would like very much to hear from Mutt Ray and Bill Bell BillBreitinger is located in Alexandria, La., and an instructor and navigator in the B-17. He has had two good strokes of fortune lately— a son William James was born in March and in April Bill was promoted to captaincy George Mackey and Dex Smith are new Lt. (jg)'s Sam Lofman is now a weather observer at the Base Weather Station, Bo'ling Field, Washington, D. C Phil Conti and Roy Hatch are new majors. Phil is in the Southwest Pacific and Roy is at Maxwell Field in Alabama George Hull has entered the Army Air Forces Training Command School at Yale for Aviation Cadet Training in Armament. Upon successful completion of this course he will be commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to active duty with the Air Forces as an officer Bob Miskimon, now a member of the Army Medical Corps at Cushing General Hospital in Framingham, Mass. has received a letter from the Navy Department for conspicuous performance of duty as .ship's surgeon on the first landing craft to reach the beach during the invasion of Salerno last September. A press dispatch mentions that Bob's exploit was performed under a constant succession of bombings and attacks by enemy strafing planes Roy Abbott talked on "Chemistry in Nazi Germany" recently before the American Chemical Society in Springfield, Mass. After doing advance work in chemistry at the University of Frieburg, Roy went to work for G.E. and is now connected with their Pittsfield works Luciano Sclafani is now a cadet at Yale in the same program with Hull. .... Fran Fenn has been told to wait until late October by the draft board and so accordingly. will continue to act as treasurer until called into the Service GarryLowe in a newsy letter confirms what we mentioned last month, that Fred Bunce has drawn a second lieutenant's rating after graduating from an OCS somewhere in Australia. Fred has had some tough assignments in the New Guinea area Warren Crumbine dropped a note after a recent safe convoy on the U.S.S. Mort Berkowitz says it has been some time since the U.S.S. has been in port Captain Bill Geraghty is still kicking up the dust in Georgia Claude Clark and Carl Gram were at school together for six weeks in Philly. Claude is on the U.S.S. doing the same sort of duty as Mort. Last call for the Alumni Fund!

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