1936
Last month's guest column idea was really a grand success, for while it was a bitter pill for you fellows to swallow, or read rather, it will relax all future class literary slaves—nothing else can ever be so lousy—and already letters are pouring in, one and sometimes two a week. Keep it up!
But before slitting these envelopes, the big news is that while nothing can be definitely settled until March—what the Navy does is a good bit the deciding factor—the College wants to hold reunions, and plans are going ahead for them. Classes who have missed reunioning will have the opportunity to make UP this year. For example the weak classes of 33. '34, and '35 are tentatively scheduled to reune with the grand Class of 1936 on July 5 and 6. While things will be pretty crowded, wives are definitely expected—some of you boys better get busy—and headquarters tents will be in full swing as usual. Remember all this is tentative, but reservations will have to be made plenty early; so start making plans and lining up grandmothers to care for the young. Anyone with two or more grandmothers and only one young can ship one grandmother postpaid to the Acting Secretary. All this info comes from our brand new reunion chairman, one Richard Morton of 21 Leewood- Rd., Wellesley, Mass. Richard was selected from a long list of eager candidates mainly because he promised to have champagne as well as beer on tap at the head- quarters tent, and while we'll all be hearing from him soon, I know he'll appreciate criticism and suggestions, meantime.
Dick doesn't say what he's doing now—between reunion planning—but must have close connections with a stork, as he tells of four new arrivals—females—to (respectively) the Macurdas and the 'Wentworths, the Macphersons and the Mortons. All parents, these in- cluded, should send in details and names so that these poor infants may be listed in the class record book and become legal. Norb Hofman's wife, Pic, must have a inside information, too, for she reports that John Wiesman has a second daughter, Constance Parker. Also Pep Mintz is back from Guam but Norb is still in Rome, a sergeant now.
Another letter is from Mrs. William CratigleJr. Bill has been in the South Pacific for seventeen months, but hopes to be "home for Christmas" with the Mrs. and two daughters. Bill must be spoofing his wife, as Rog Morse left New Orleans in August '44 and since then —as near as I can tell—has been on every island in the Pacific at least twice. However, he doesn't mention seeing Bill, though he did see Wheelock Hauson on Guadalcanal. Rog is a lieutenant (jg); his boat was in the assault waves at Okinawa and Linaten; and he wears the Philippine Liberation Medal with a Bronze Star.
A Navy man with hopes of being a civilian by Christmas is Bob Burr. Bob scribbles he's been fighting the battle of Newport since last fall; that Jack Hatzinger is a lieutenant commander, Stubby Harris an electrifier in Houston, and, best of all, there'll be a little Burr come April. Farther along, to an ex-Navy man already civilian, we have two news clippings on Davis Jackson who "has rejoined the Dartmouth College administrative staff as special assistant to the committee on academic adjustments." Luckily Stoney has also written himself, and explains he's working on the readmission of veterans. Since his return from Australia he was stationed in Boston, but was on his way to an attack transport in the Pacific when the point system caught him. Now Stoney, wife, and Andy, two, have an apartment on North Park Street and I'm sure he'll take us all in at Reunion.
A contact for all of us to keep these days when we want a home is Fred Babcock, the Pittsburgh lumber king. Fred blames EddieChamberlain for keeping him a civilian—Eddie plays dirty football—but he hasn't been loafing, as until recently he was President of the Dartmouth Club of Western Pennsylvania. Blair Rainey is vice president—and is raising three daughters, Ellen, eight, Jean, four, and Dorothy Ann, one. Life in Pittsburgh is quiet and pleasant. Ed Nilsson and wife, Evy, blew in from Cleveland a month ago.
Other bits of information have Attorney Dean E. Nicholson of Haverhill, Mass., engaged to Sylvia Elaine Brettschneider of Philadelphia, and—this one made Time—CaptainRoger C. Williams married to Jean Gannett at Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Service promotions have James K. Tindie a lieutenant commander and R. Gordon Brown a major.
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