1946
Fall has come to Hanover again. The leaves have turned, we have had a small amount of snow, the thud of toe against football and the crashing of bodies is heard every afternoon at Memorial Field. A new semester has started (the first of November) and the vets are back in school in great numbers. By this time next year the college will be back on a two-semester a year basis, fraternities will be open and a lot of you guys will be back in school.
Seen about Town .... Ensign Nemo Anderson after much duty at sea ... . Don Fitzsimmons, in Divinity School at Yale Austin Chin, who along with Al Belinkie, is at Yale Law School .... Don Hutchinson, now at Columbia Med School (Hugh MacNamee and wife are also there) .... Bruce O'Brien after being commissioned an Ensign in the Seabees at Camp Endicott, R.I.....Lt. Hank Durham, back from overseas with the Air Corps and expected back in school in November. He mentioned seeing "Chippie" Coleman in Italy and Joe Donahue here in the States during his stretch of service.
Among those coming back next term are Bob Doran (discharged after many ETO missions with the AAF), Bob Hailer, who spent quite some time in a German Prison Camp, and Dick Howe, who left school to join the AFS but never got a chance as V-J Day came soon after. The '4.6 Meds at Dartmouth will remain in town for several months as clinical aides before going on to third-year Med Schools. Those leaving are: Ed Attix, going home to Detroit.... Bud Bennett, who will work in the University of Nebraska Hospital arid then go on to Mexico City; he will enter the U. of Nebraska Med School in the Spring ... .Wayne Frericks has entered the University of California Med School at Berkeley, and, by the way, is the only one of the '46 group still in the Navy. The rest have gotten voluntary discharges.... Mel Johnson is acting as a hospital aide in New Orleans before entering Tulane .... Art Naitove is at Brooklyn Hospital.... Chan Bowen is still at Hitchcock but might leave to join his father in the Army Medical Corps at Camp Maxey, Texas Jim Brod is home in New Rochelle, N. Y., before going back for his third year.
Had a nice letter from Ensign Harlan Brumstead, who has been all over the South Pacific in Amphibious service and mentioned running into Bill Branch and Bob Bensing among others. Harlan reports becoming engaged recently to a home town (Batavia, N. Y.), girl and a graduate of Cornell. Sorry we can't remember her name. Also heard from Lt. Bill Priest, who wrote in to tell us he was flying C-46S and C-47S for the 63rd Troop Carrier Group in the Philippines. Bill says he's sweating out that trip stateside and will soon have 1000 hours overseas.
Wah hoo wahs.... Craig O'Brien gets a big fanfare for quite a few months overseas as a lieut. with the AAF in Europe. He received the Air Medal and was recently discharged at Truax Field, Wise. In our last issue we mentioned the fact that Jud Hannigan had won a commission in the Marines. Until recently, however, we did not know that it was a battlefield commission with the sth Marine Division. Nice going, Jud! Congrats go to Lt. Pete Goodspeed and his wife who became proud parents of a baby girl, not long ago .... I'm not sure, but I believe this is the first Class baby .... how you go, Pete.
Notes—Andy Thompson and Dave McDowell are both at Annapolis .... Pete Mallet has been discharged from the Mountain Troops and is now at the University of Vermont .... Don Bithens is in the Navy, though we know not where In our last issue we mentioned Tom Leech being out of Miami in Amphib Service. Please excuse our mistake. Tom was training at Melville, R.I., and is now at sea on a P.T. Boat Add to those receiving degrees in the past month Bill Wallis and Dick Dunnavan. Both were at Tuck but we don't know what they have in mind for the future.... Don Drake's wife is working at Hitchcock Hospital and tells us that "Ducky" is back in Washington with the Army Ran into Jack Rankin (Ensign) at the Penn game and he had just gotten back from much duty in the Pacific. With him was Win Sargent '45 (recently married), who told us that Jim Dougherty was back in Canton, Ohio, with the Canton Malleable Iron Cos. Jim had come back to school after being discharged from the Field Artillery, but had gone to Arizona last winter due to service injuries .... Bill Nagle, who is at Harvard Med School was recently married, although he hasn't written in to tell us who the lucky girl is .... Russ Durgin is a student at Columbia University and his home is now in New Haven .... Bob Grey is back home in Beverly, Mass., after overseas service, with the American Field Service Ensigns Dave Weld and Joe Poole both have F.P.O.'s out of San Francisco. Dave is a communications officer but we don't know what Joe is doing Charlie Cashin '45, back from overseas and in town the other day, told us that Bill MacDougall and Bud Schuster were together during service in Europe with the AAF. Bill was shot down, captured and spent sometime as a prisoner of war. Both are back now and Bud has married Bill's sister.
Hearts and Flowers—Congrats are in order for the following affianced—Jud Hannigan and Grace Chandler of Kittery Point, Maine. Bruce Durkee and Pat Cole of Winchester, Mass., and the Women Marines. Sgt. Ray Hellman and Anne-Rousseau Holbein of Bennington. Ray incidentally has received the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star for action in Italy.
That's all for now but after November the address will be: 726 Torrington Place, Dayton, Ohio.
A MARINE CORPS AIR OBSERVER, Second Lt. Edwin G. Strasenburgh '45 has been in the Pacific area following his training as a "flying eye" for troops.
Acting Secretary, So. Main St., Hanover, N. H.
