1913

News was received in Manchester, N. H., that Lt. Charles F. Gordon, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Gilbert Gordon was missing in action after a bombing mission over Germany on April 18. About May 18 Gil received official War Department Information that Lt. Charles, previously reported missing over Europe, is a prisoner of war of the Germans. His wife Mrs. Helen Jane Gordon of Baltimore, Md., received the news and notified Gil. Charles was co-pilot of a Liberator bomber and is the holder of the Air Medal. He graduated from the Central High of Manchester and the University of Alabama. Before entering the Army Lt. Jordan was with the Monarch Fire Insurance Co. He was married on June 26, 1943, at Walnut Ridge, Ark., Army Air Base. His last letter home was dated April 18.

Don Evans has changed his home address to 2929 North Oxford Street, Arlington, Virginia. He is now with the Bureau of the Budget.

Major Richard Frank Blanchard USAAF was married on Monday, the fifteenth of May, to Margaret Rodgers Lyon at Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Chip Semmes finished his work of inspecting tank corps to see if they were ready for overseas duty and returned to Italy several months ago. He has been too busy for letters-but we hope to give some news direct from him in the next column.

Pop Warren completes 25 years with Minute Tapioca Company, Inc., Orange, Mass., on August 4. He started in the Production Department following a chance meeting in Cincinnati with Dean Thompson who was. sales manager at the time. Pop is now president of the company. Janet, his elder daughter, graduated from Wellesley in 1943 and is in Washington in the office of Strategic Services. Harriet is completing her studies in occupational therapy at the Milwaukee Downer College in Milwaukee. She will go into hospital work this summer. John is 19 and in the V-5 Naval Aviation Cadet program. Pop's and Arlene's time are filled up with letters, civic duties, too much lawn and a garden. The company has been dehydrating potatoes since 1942 and are packing abbreviated K-Rations for the Army. As tapioca normally comes from Java they have very limited tapioca flour, getting a trickle from Central and South America.

Captain Rollo Hutchinson, our only naval captain, has been ordered back to Newport, R. I„ from Parris Island, So. Carolina, where he was commanding officer, Medical Department. He is now medical officer of the Naval Torpedo Station. His son Peter, who is 16, is taking his last year in prep school at the Priory School in Newport, headed for Dartmouth.

Dave Morey is Civilian Administrative Assistant to the Commanding Officer of the U. S. Naval Auxiliary Air Facility, Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

Secretary, Box 2057, Boston 6, Mass. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.