1926
My thanks to Don Norstrand and Bob Salinger for the June notes and for giving us a once-over lightly of culture and the Broad A. The only trouble with guest editors is the resultant feeling that my own standard equipment is a bit shabby. But regardless of that, I have unfailing confidence in my simple and elegant prose and I'm always grateful for the aid of guest editors.
On the same subject, Reg Hanson has been good enough to volunteer to handle the next nine issues of the MAG. While it doesn't seem cricket for your duly elected scrivener to thus dodge his responsibility, Reg's generous offer is appreciated and he will take over this column from time to time. Is there anyone else who would like to tackle an issue?
A number of service promotions have come to hand. Bill Willard and Walt Pillsbury are now lieutenant commanders and Don Mackay a lieutenant colonel. Bill incidentally is studying Japanese for the Navy AMG at the University of Chicago. Oz Fitts and Win Edgerly are majors and Pat Allen a lieutenant, (USN). Rollie Eaton is another lieutenant commander and on duty at the Naval Supply Depot at Norfolk. Tish Hoerner joins the elite circle of lieutenant colonels and Moon is now Lt. George E. Douglas.
It's nice to know that henceforth Johnny Gearhart will be a member of the Alumni Council. He has been elected to succeed Nate Parker as representative from western Pennsylvania. Bob Loomis has moved to Cleveland to join up with the firm of Robert Heller & Associates, industrial engineers and consultants. Hank Merry, whose tennis is still pretty good for an old guy, is sporting the title of V.P. of the B.V.D. Corporation. His office is at 350 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. C.
From Bob Minton, some place in England with the American Red Cross—"l have just come out of an army hospital where I spent ten weeks. I had an operation on my back. Thanks to the expert care and attention I received from the army hospital personnel, I am quite fit again. It was quite a coincidence that the dpctor who made the rounds in the ward was no other than Major Ed Fowler. He is doing magnificent work and is very highly thought of. We had many conversations together and it was mighty pleasant having a familiar face around.
"I am Field Director and the work is most interesting and, I feel, fulfilling a worthy and necessary need. I was in the Coastal Air Patrol for two years and joined the Red Cross after the Coastal Patrol was discontinued. Maybe Jud Bellaire, (who's also Field Director, A.R.C.) will be sent over here. I hope so and shall look forward to seeing him."
Also from England writes Ralph McClure-"Running across the April issue of the MAGAZINE at division headquarters the other day, I had a pleasant half hour going through it. Although a wayward '26er, I couldn't help but write. I'm E. T. O.—the Air Force—and have been over so long I've run out of dreams, even of how to get back to God's country.
"It isn't that I want to see a class secretary function, but I do want an address of an old friend with whom I went through Grammar, High and D (as far as I went). He was tossed up to my vision in the class notes. Yep! E. Allan MacDuffie. Unseen and unheard of for many a year. And to think he is married and has a chi-ild. Poor woman, little does she know!"
At the Tactical Training School at Hackettstown, N. J., Snipe Esquerre recently was crawling through the bushes, on offensive patrol. The enemy suddenly popped his head out of the same bushes and who should it be but Tom Herlihy, up from the Delaware State Guard to participate in the same exercises.
At the recent Hanover meeting of class officers, Bob Salinger was elected president of the Class Treasurers' Association and, strangely enough, your scribe was given the same job for the Class Secretaries' Association. Did I hear an uncouth whisper that someone's fine Italian hand rigged the elections?
Secretary, Welsh Farms, Inc., Long Valley, N. J. Treasurer, United Shoe Machinery Corp. 140 Federal St., Boston, Mass.
