1938
What's the matter with you eggs. Here the Alumni Fund drive is almost over, and we look like that dog I bet on in the Fifth. Does anyone know where Lew Williams is? He was here for awhile, went away, and then the other day showed up when I wasn't around. I'm sure no one would come here just for a visit.
Love still continues to pursue us. Duncan Dobie, Coastguardsman extraordinary, is engaged to Ann Weed, Summit, N. J., and New Jersey College for Women. Frank Richardson has gotten the Air Medal for five combat missions over Europe, and is now a major. He's a Flying Fortress pilot.
Ev Dearman was killed April 10. See In Memoriam.
Reno writes a hot letter from San Diego. Can you imagine that lover in the Marines? He says, "We fired the M-i this week, and needless to say, they're not sending me to Sniper's school." Mattimore writes from aboard the . Says he saw Baldy Hosman out there, wherever that is. Says Red Heath is aboard. Saw Jughead Thomas, whose only comment on being sent back to the States was, "Me need a rest. What the hell do I want with a rest?" Muff Davis is back in Washington, on some kind of consulting duty after thirteen months' flying in the Aleutians. Ted Hunter is the author of "Toll House, Stowe, Vt., built for skiers" in the April issue of Pencil Points.
The Navy's rubberneck Lt. Richard Egan Keresey got himself engaged, and there's one girl I sympathize with. She's Barbara Latham, Montclair, N. J., and Pine Manor. Keress is back from the Pacific, and stationed at Melville, R. I. Frank and Ann Doane announce the arrival of George Woodbridge Doane 11, born March 29. To complete the story on Jughead Thomas, Mrs. T. writes that he's a captain, instructing at the Rapid City (So. Dakota), Air Base. Now to straighten up a mixup. Herm Holt says, "Herm Holt 111 was born not on July 2 but on June 22, 1915. But it is true that on July 2, 1943, my daughter, a female child, arrived not a son, as reported. Her name is Carol Lamson Holt. She is a girl. I am the father (Herm Holt III). I do not have a son, only a daughter Carol, and a wife Rosalind. Both are females." Says he saw Val Cravens, who's an ensign aboard a DE. Lt. John Emerson is in AMGOT. He took two months at Ft. Custer for some military government, then a month at Western Reserve, studying German .... language, history and economics. I don't know where he is now, except that he's got a New York APO address.
Don't know whether I've announced all these promotions, but it's now Lt. (jg) Lew Moorman, Major Ted Bear, Lt. Herb Christiansen, Lt. Don De Puey, Lt. (jg) Jim Miller, Capt. Kenny Herschel, Lt. (jg) Dick Nelson, Lt. (jg) Tom Roberts, Major Ed Thomas, Capt. Jim Yakauer, Capt'l Charles Hathaway, ist Lt. John Merrill, Capt. Ernie Foss, Capt. Bev Smith, Capt. Len McChesney, Ens. Fred Bill Blees, Lt. (jg) Charles Hitchcock.
A 1 McSwain is a training supervisor at Johns-Manville in Nashua, Lew Titus is a purchasing agent for Standard Remote Control Co. in Pasadena, Cal. Jack Graham is director of overhaul publications at Pratt & Whitney in Hartford. Better overhaul that title. Speaking of promotions, I almost forgot that roomie Dick Francis is now a captain. So long as we live in a hut, I suppose I should call him a huttie.
Indirectly from ist Lt. Bob Frese, A. G. Section, Allied Force Hq., comes the following. "I've been conducting a sort of clearing house for recent Dartmouth graduates in Africa the last few months. Phil Thompson has been in town the last few months. He is a captain in the Medics and is attached to an ack ack outfit. Bob Lang was made a lieutenant here several months ago and stops in occasionally. Art Shoemaker is supposed to be in town, but I haven't seen him as yet. A few of us gather occasionally and wave the green as much as possible in this hotbed of Harvard men." Something from Reno I forgot to mention. He says that any Pfc. in the Marines is easily worth his weight in Army second lieutenants. And also that the war in Europe would fold up like a tent if they'd only send a few Marines east instead of all out into the Pacific. What an imagination that guy has. He'd heard from Jake Carey, who is supply officer on some Pacific island, and enslaving natives who carry five cases of Coca-Cola on their heads. Let's hear from some more of you, and if you haven't made your Fund donation, do it NOW.
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