1925
Lt. Comdr. Phil Coykendall ambled in to see us the other day after sixty-five months in the Navy. Outside of Col. Stud Wright, who has been in the regular Army for a long, time (and who trained the flyers who dropped the atomic bomb on Japan), we think Phil has the longest service record in the class—five years and five months. Phil joined the Reserve in 1937 and was called in July 1940. In college, Phil was on the football squad and was champion at his weight in boxing. After getting his C.E. from Thayer School, Phil worked as a civil engineer in Springfield, Mass. Later he went to California, where he built roads and bridges for seven years. When he went into the Navy, he was on the Site Selection Board in Washington. From there he went to the 5000-acre Clinton (Okla.), Naval Air Station as officer in charge of construction. Here he had an experience even more exciting than his later ventures in the Pacific when a bronco he was riding fell into quicksand. Phil says it was grim for a while, but he managed to get on solid ground and pull out of the sand what seemed like a 10-ton horse.
In charge of the 104th "Seabee" Battalion, Phil turned his bull-dozers against the Japs in the New Guinea and Admiralty Islands campaigns, sometimes using the big caterpillars as an offensive weapon. Snipers were the big headache and there were plenty of them. Once Phil was driving a Jeep along a shell- pocked road when a bullet went past his nose. He says, "I jammed my foot on the gas and that rough road seemed like a beautiful boulevard!"
Phil plans to return to California with his wife, to whom he has been married for sixteen years. Until he's settled, mail will reach him at Georges Mills, N. H.
Two '25ers are with Bendix in Baltimore. Paid Reed is assistant advertising manager o£ the Home Radio and Television Division. Pres Tanner handles sales for the Export Division of Bendix. Pres recently returned from a long trip through South America.
Jerry Greenbaum travels up and down the East Coast selling for Consolidated Lithograph Company of Brooklyn. Jerry lives in Scarsdale, which is also the home base of Stan Litchfield of the Sinclair Oil Company.
Have you got an attic room, a spare couch or even a doghouse that Major Curt Abel, now out of the Army, can use? We don't know why such a foot-loose bachelor should have trouble finding quarters in New York.
Dud Smith writes that he's still in Denver, has two step-children—a girl 12 and a boy 10— and his own son Dudley Tyler Smith Jr., aged 2.
Park Merrow played host at Center Ossipee, N. H., to Line Davis and Lin White over the Columbus Day weekend. Bob Bingham, driving through that town while returning to Manchester from a White Mountain tour, joined them for a short visit.
Lt. Comdr. Neil Williams of 221 Bristol Rd., Northfield,Ill., is a civilian after three and one-half years in uniform. For the last twenty- five months he was assistant to the legal aide at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Wash. He has been living on Beloit St., Bremerton, with his wife, Mardi, and sons, Neil and Ronald.
Andy Edson spent a recent weekend with Ken Hill in Hingham, Mass. He was up looking over the housing conditions for an apartment in Cambridge. He is just winding up at FEA and returning to the State Department In a couple of months he plans to take a leave of absence and write his thesis at Harvard for his Ph.D. in Economics. It is rumored that he will call the book Funny Money, based on the Bretton Woods Conference plus his international experience in various European consulates.
Twenty-one members of 1925 turned out for the '25-'26-'27 dinner at the Dartmouth Club of New York on October 26. Dr. Ernest L.Slebbins '26, Commissioner of Health in New York City, was guest speaker. His subject was "Health in Europe." Among the '25ers present were: Jim Adams, Joe Allen, Doug Archibald,Hank Bevins, Eddie Blake, Deke Blodgett,Norm Clark, Dick Colton, Nate Colwell, JackDavis, Milt Emerson, Perk Fitch, CharlieGraydon, Dick Heydt, Paul Jerman, TibbyMarshall, Lt. Comdr. Terry McGaughan, BobNuisch, Dick Nye, Patch Tompkins, and Dr.Puclge Wheeler.
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