1939
Marine Captain Bob Barvoets has accumulated 250 hours o£ combat flying as a dive bomber pilot in 80 missions against the Japs. Twenty-one of these missions were against Raboul where he is credited with direct hits on strategic gun emplacements, airfield installations, etc. Previously he was stationed on Munda and Guadalcanal. Captain Joe Egan recently was "stateside" on leave after 83 combat missions in the European War Theatre. He is.credited with 8 confirmed kills, 6 probables, and 4 damaged. Major Lloyd Nash was transferred to Columbus, Ohio, for Fortress training and recently transferred again to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he is undergoing training in piloting the Super Fortresses.
Ensign Bob Richmond when last heard from was touring the Southwest Pacific since July, 1943. Joe Urban writes of being commissioned an ensign on June 28, reporting for duty at Ft. Schuyler, New York. Captain Don Wheaton is now rather nervously sitting behind a desk at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, connected with the Candidates Detachment, after 22 months of service in the S. W. Pacific. Lts. (jg) Bob Jessup and Johnny Johnston were in England as doctors on their respective ships, when last heard from.
Vinny Else, acting secretary of the class of '4l, writes of meeting Harry Gates. He is still "working for the Lord," and is most anxious to hear from his friends and classmates. His address is: c/o Mr. Gleason, Reading, Massachusetts. From Ensign "Muggs" Bly comes the short history of working as a construction engineer for DuPont in Wilmington for a couple of years, and next turning up on one of the Marshall atolls after being moved through ten different stations in the United States in short order. Marine Lt. Les Chase also located in the S.W. Pacific ran into "Ike" Iglehart in the Cape Gloucester campaign. For the past year Lt. Dave Smith has been the communications officer on a cargo ship and has seen very little of Dartmouth men other than Lt. Robinson who is the medico on a "can."
Lt. Bill Green had the distinction of setting up one of the first Marine Headquarters in the Marshalls, the first land belonging to Japan before the war, invaded by our forces. Steve Bachelder received his Bachelor of Divinity Degree from Yale University Divinity School on May 28. For the past two years he has acted as student minister at Center Church on the green in New Haven, and has since been appointed Minister at the First Congregational Church, Montclair, New Jersey. Lt. Sam Hurd was promoted to first lieutenant and is still stationed in Italy—attached to the Field Artillery Observation Battalion. Sam Thurm recently was promoted to first lieutenant and is stationed in the South Pacific. Recently he had a son, Andrew Russell Thurm.
Undoubtedly every one of us was pleased to hear of Moreau Brown's appointment as assistant dean at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Moreau certainly has done an excellent job with class affairs, particularly in recent years with the Alumni Fund and his "'39 Out News Letter."
Recent service promotions are as follows: Capt. Dayid I. Walsh; Ens. Robert S. McGurn; Ist Lt. Colin B. Holman; Lt. (jg) Walter J. Trautman Jr.; Capt. Ludwig J. Pyrtek; Lt. (jg) Louis A. Highmark; Capt. Robert Alpert; Lt. (jg) Robert J. Winton Jr.; Ens. Earle D. Stevenson II; Lt. (jg) Ralph E. Holben; Lt. (jg) John W. Finocan Jr.; Lt. (jg) John S. Cumming Jr.; Capt. James C. Kelso Jr.; Capt. Joseph S. Hoover; Lt. (jg) Seymour S. Rutherford; Capt. William S. Green; Lt. (jg) James E. MacPherson Jr.; Capt. Albert V. Gorman; Ens. Joseph J. Urban; Lt. (jg) William J. Conway; Capt. Arnold K. Childs; Major Gordon K. McCoun; Lt. Daniel H. Webster; Lt. William N. Mulkie; 2nd Lt. Ward F. Porter Jr.; Lt. (jg) Albert Meyer, Jr.
The only "down the aisle" feature this month is the announced engagement of Miss Virginia Zalloom of Pennsylvania to Warner DePuy of Milford, Pennsylvania. At present he is a member of the House of Representatives in Pennsylvania.
Your acting secretary regrets to announce the death of Lt. (jg) Raymond Frese, killed in a plane crash at sea on April 6, 1944. For more particulars, see the In Memoriam Section.
Robert Haven Falconer will take over the "acting secretaryship" for our class beginning with the next issue. I wish to thank you fellows and your respective families for their cooperation in forwarding news to me in order that I in turn could publicize this to the class in general. On your requests for addresses, etc., and all future bits of news, kindly forward . them to Haven Falconer, Visual Aids Dept., U. S. Armed Forces Institute, 205 East 42nd Street, New York 17, New York.
IN THE THICK of the battle of the Pacificare Lt. (jg) George C. Darr '39 MC USNRwho is a medical officer on a destroyer, andhis wife Ann Russell Darr, who won herwings as a service pilot with the WAAF, nowstationed at Stockton Airfield, California.
Secretary, Bethany Woods, Bethany, Conn. Treasurer, c/o J. M. Mathes, Inc. 122 East 42nd St., New York, N. Y.
