1940

The omission of last month's column makes this the first postwar scrivening of the class. News of discharges, hopes of discharges, plans for changed employment, and the rest, bring immediately to mind the fact that we were cheated of a reunion this year, that, as a class, no gatherings of any sort have been held for three years, and that something should be done to correct both situations. We hope that, by the time this gets to print, you will have heard from other sources about a local gathering of '4O, and you've probably read somewhere else in this MAGAZINE that '46 will be a big reunion year.

A bit of class business was recently conducted, whereby it was decided that the present incumbents in class office will remain legal until our first reunion. This demonstration of democracy in action was completed through 'he class executive committee, who registered approval by unanimously marking (not counting those who lost, etc., their cards) the appropriate square. Another business transaction for this fall is the collection of class dues. We are receiving the Magazine, since July, on the house. Ed Miller is building a campaign based on the current status of the treasury, unknown to this corner, plus the needs of the class for MAGAZINE subscriptions and necessary class expenses. We are confident you will hear more by direct mail.

Appropriate to the first postwar column, we think, is the listing of discharges, of which the following is an incomplete list: Jamie Thomas, Bob Breech, Bob Austin, Bill Cleaves, Ghal Carothers, Steve Gray don, Dave Fish, Steve Jewett, and Tom Braden. Some of those can be sworn by, others we have had indirect word on, and at least two are just rumors. Let the class know, will you, when you get out and where you're going to be.

Although the war is over, '4os are still being promoted in the services. We have heard that: Rollie Hall is now Lt. Col., CO of the 3rd Tank Battalion, part of the veteran 3rd Marine Division; that it's now Capt. Bob Graham, Capt. Bill Grimshaw, Capt. Al Humphries, Capt. Ed Bovill, Major John Goodman, Capt. Bill Coulson, Major John Reitzell, Capt. Hugh Dryfoos, Capt. Ted Bartelmez, Capt. Ken Gross and Major Scotty Treeman. It would appear from this list that it must be discouraging in the extreme to be in the Navy.

Our old roomie, Art Ostrander, now possessor of a late model car, a wife, and a sevenmonths-old daughter also lays claim to a sales management job with Robert Heller and Associates in Cleveland. Any '4O Clevelanders can get in touch with Art at the Heller office in Cleveland.

Our main credit line again goes to Don Rainie, who seems to have overcome the tendency of '4os who get to Boston to disappear from this column. Don spent his honeymoon in Hanover, and found the College and town as wonderful as ever, despite Navy occupation. In attendance at Dartmouth Night at the Pops in Boston last July, Don spotted Major Jack Fitzgerald, Bob Austin, Hugh and Mrs. Schwarz, Ted and Mrs. Miller and Phil Albee.

News of the boys still in active service is scarce, but we do know that: Lt. Joe Sudarsky has been assigned to the War Crimes Board in Paris, transferred to the judge advocates office following infantry service: Capt. Joe O'Hare was stationed at Calcutta flying C-54's for the Transport Command after transfer from the North Atlantic; Capt. Les Nichols was still overseas with the Army of Occupation; and Capt. Howie Stockwell was in the Philippines at the end of the war, and presumably headed Japan way soon after.

Information we received in the summer which were crowded out in August are: Lt. (jg) Jack Faunce, back from minesweeper duty in the Mediterranean, was in school at Little Creek, Va., for instruction in naval mine warfare, presumably accompanied by wife Katherine and son John; John Maynard, drafted last February, was a yeoman striker (whatever that is) as a member of Ship's Company at Great Lakes Training Center; Hugh Schwarz was back in Boston with National Research Corporation after much traveling, planning to go south this winter on work connected with a new type food plant; Capt. Ed Curtis was still instructing, after three years, as we remember, down at Waco, Texas; Capt. Fred Michel had received a second Distinguished Service Cross, also holding the Air Medal and five clusters; Capt. Howie Stockwell was back in the Philippines after attending school at Washington and Lee, during which duty he had visits with Lt. Bill Hayes and Marion, Lt. (jg) Russ Hanchette and Katie, and his one and a half year old daughter Susan, whom he had not seen before .... Bob MacMillen was stationed at Ft. George Meade, Md., in close proximity to Lt. Jim Kuhns, then taking a special course at Annapolis in communications, finding time in a visit to Cleveland to see his fiancee, Jane Eccles, to visit with Herb Foster and wife and Ginny Bruch; holding the fort for Karl, at that time in the Philippines; and Major Jack Fitzgerald, back from more than two and one-half years overseas with a Marine amphibious tractor unit, had been fighting malaria at the Chelsea Naval Hospital.

AWARDED A SECOND CLUSTER to his DFC, Capt. Frederick H. Michel '40 received it for leading a successful strafing attack against the enemy.

Acting Secretary, 1 Terrace St., Montpelier, Vt.