1947

The past month has brought with it a slow trickle of news and the temporary return of a few of our number to Hanover, so a newsletter should be in the making soon. Any short notes written immediately won't be late but will be very much appreciated.

Jim Shanahan was back in town for a short day and returned later for the Holy Cross game and weekend. Jim was called to the ASTP Unit at Harvard shortly after we arrived at Dartmouth, and after four months at that noble institution, was transferred and was soon sent overseas. He was with the first group to relieve Bastogne and wears the Combat Infantryman Badge. Jim was finishing out a 30-day furlough and said that when the chance comes, he will return to Dartmouth to finish up his schooling.

Others were also in town for the Holy Cross weekend. Don Cambell, Wink Crosen, and Mel Nelson were here after taking a summer's vacation from school. Dick Madison returned from Holy Cross where he has been for sometime with the NROTC unit. Bob Shiftman took the weekend from Hingham, Mass., whei'fe he is doing Ordnance work as an Ensign in the Navy. Tom Viets, still in the Army, was also in town.

Pfc. Don Page returned home recently on a 30-day furlough. Don received his basic training at Camp Blanding, Fla., and was sent overseas in January 1945, to join a tank destroyer battalion and see service in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Austria. Bon Keane has become a recent member of the Navy and is now the clerk for his company at Bainbridge. This seems to be the job to get for he says he escapes the "regular college schedule with classes eight hours a day, including one hour of drill and one of PT." Bob reports that Lt. Avery, former V-i athletic director here at Dartmouth, is now stationed at Bainbridge.

Dick Perkins writes pessimistically from Keesler Field, Miss., where he has been waiting for some time for admission to preflight school. He now has the choice of signing up for three years, which sounds rather distasteful to him, or awaiting discharge through the usual channels. In his thirteen months in the Air Corps, Dick has been to school for only four weeks, learning a little navigation, meteorology, and some other subjects, but he has been taking flying lessons on his own and hopes to get his private license soon. I imagine others of the class have met with the same situation in the Army Air Corps, as Dick.

Dick Menin has returned to school this semester after a year in the Army. Dick was sick for much of the time he was in the Army, probably because of the southern climate of Camp Stewart where he was stationed from March '44 to February '45. Dick went through seventeen weeks of anti-aircraft basic training during which time he attended a school in Army Administration for eight weeks. He then held duties as battery clerk, battalion clerk, group sergeant major, and finally regiment assistant sergeant major in charge of orders of the day and shipping orders. During this time Dick attended radar school and also played with the Camp Stewart Post Dance Orchestra. He saw Bob Schlicting at Camp Stewart and spent a weekend with Milt Hofflin at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Here at school, Dick is playing with the Barbary Coast Orchestra and intends to enter Tuck School in the fall of 1946.

As far as we know, Skip O'Rourke is the first member of the class to make the finaj step to matrimony. Just recently Skip mar. ried Miss Mary Lou Devlin of Larchmont She graduated from Bradford Junior College in 1945, where she was active in school activities. Skip has just recently received his commission at Columbia Midshipman's School.

Chuck Barton is now assigned to Fort Schuyler, N. Y., where he is presently awaiting transfer to Miami, Florida, at the Naval Train, ing Station for sea duty.

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