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On Saturday, July 1, 1944, in the presence of witnesses Al Perkins said "I do." Mrs.. Perkins was Mrs. Jane Wagner Deane of Des Moines and New York. She is director of women's war activities for the National Broadcasting Company. As you know, Al is director of film, radio and television for Look Magazine.
Jack Reeder, Young and Rubicam vice president, spoke recently to the Binghamton Advertising Club. Jack gave one of his always competent talks on the mechanics of the large agency, public opinion polls and their use in the advertising field.
Major Len Larson has been appointed Chief of Civilian Personnel and Training Division Service Command at Oakland, California.
The engagement of George Chamberlain was recently mentioned. Now it's the marriage. On May 5 he was wed to Mrs. Lothrop Dana at Weston, Mass. They are making their home in Weston.
Service promotions among '2501s are Comdr. Bob Reading; Lt. Col. Bob Warren; Capt. Harry Scott; Maj. Don W. Moore and Lt. Comdr. Bob Reynolds.
Phebe Coykendall writes a perfectly swell letter regarding Phil's activities since the shooting began. He became interested in the Navy well before Pearl Harbor and was a reserve officer. In February of 1942 he began traveling on a series of Site Selection Board trips to pick locations for air stations. Part of the time he was with officers from the Bureau of Aeronautics and part of the time with the Marines. He covered the country from coast to coast. In September of 1942 he was ordered to Clinton, Oklahoma, as officer in charge of construction of the .Naval Air Station there. Since he had chosen the site of the station, he got a real kick out of building it.
The fall of 1943 saw the major part of the work done and he was given duty with the Seabees, training at Camp Peary, Williamsburg, Va., in the capacity of Battalion C. O. In December he was ordered to the South Pacific to take over a battalion. Right now he is up where there are loud noises and things happen suddenly. He writes home that he has never been busier and that he is in love with his job. If you get time to write, send your letter to the records office, Hanover, and they will forward it to Lt. Comdr. Phillip C. Coykendall.
Captain Bill Calvert is overseas and may have been in the invasion. He is a medic and when the war broke got into uniform. Mart Hubert has got himself a Park Avenue address, the number being 460 Lou Kimball has joined the Marblehead delegation and is a 7 Myles Standish Road in that pleasant and conservative town Deak Blodgett lunched recently in Cleveland with Church Bacon. Church is with Allied Mortgages, National City Bank Building in Cleveland.
Larry Leavitt is very happy at Vermont Academy, for some alumnus who wishes to be anonymous has just laid thirty-two grand on the line for new athletic fields. This sum will provide two football fields, two diamonds and facilities for track and field events.
As of last May 18 the Dr. John Springs of Nashua had an heir born to them This spring has been busy for the Ken Simonds. Ken bought a Cape Cod style house at 6 "Wildon Road, Wellesley, Mass. and Blanche had a six and one-half pound daughter born on March 31. This is their first child after sixteen years of marriage and they are superbly happy.
The other Saddy night it being raining and blowing hard I crawled into my humble cot, with its built-in bookcases and radio, figgering to have a cupple of uninterrupted hours re-reading for the tenth time Paul Hexter's swell book "Make Your Pictures Sing." Along about 11:30 above the beating of the rain they is pounding on the door and a voice allows that a marriage is wanted. Not knowing wheather it was a marriage or some city slickers intending to hi-jack our Ration Board I put a prayer book into my left hand dressing gown pocket, a snub nosed Colt into my right hand pocket and a fountain pen and cigarettes into my breast pocket and pits-pats downstairs in my carpit slippers to investigate. The thing is on the up-and-up and I weld the happy cupple, trying, to use awl them changes of pace and voice infleckshun what Prof Utterback used to try to beat into the heads of me, Milt Hart, Frank Wallis, Eddie MacNamee, Ross Pearl and other worthies in his Publik Speaking course on the top floor of Wentworth.
Wun nice thing about living in the country, they aint never a dull moment.
IN COMMAND of the Boston Area Office of the Army Air Forces Materiel Command is Lt. Col. William P. Farnsworth '26 USAAF.
Secretary, Center Ossipee, N. H. Treasurer, P. O. Box 428, Bristol, R. I.
