1940
The really enjoyable part of this secretary job is taking shape now that we're definitely postwar. It has to do with the projects underway in Hanover for 1946 reunions for those classes who missed 'em in the war. Of course, our big Fifth is included. It's on the schedule for July 12 and 13, Friday and Saturday, along with '38, '39 and '41 and the 30th reunion of '13 through '16. There's only one if, rather large in the considerations of the College, and that is that the Navy leaves before the summer term of 1946.
The plans include the usual reunion activities for the class, covering possibly a class dinner, class picnic, Alumni Luncheon, class tent, ball game, Glee Club, President's reception, Band, etc., according to the expressed wishes of the groups holding reunions. We're getting hot on it through a Reunion Committee set up by the class executive committee. Save those dates, and plan to be in Hanover!
The attempts made at long range to promote '40 gatherings in the metropolitan areas have, So far, fizzled, largely due to the lack of a classmate in any area in a position to give it the necessary time. It appears that Boston and New York are coming around through the efforts of Don Rainie and Bud Hewitt, but that leaves Cleveland, Chicago, Philly, and the rest without arrangers. Let's hear from some of you in those places. We'll help from this end all we can, and once started, a '40 group can keep moving on its own momentum. Write in, we'll give you addresses, help with mailing if you need it, and you'll have yourselves a time.
Don Rainie in Boston wants to get a '40 group together for the annual dinner of the Boston Alumni Association. Don will act as clearing agent for those in or near Boston who can plan to be at the Copley February 26. Contact Don at Area 7 S/O, Camp Myles Standish, Taunton, Mass.
Bud Hewitt, civilian again, can be reached at home, 400 East 52nd St., or at Hortense B. Hewitt, Inc., 37 West 39th St., two blocks from the Dartmouth Club. Bud would like an expression of opinion from any around New York on possibilities for regular luncheon or dinner meetings. Let him know.
Third on the month's agenda of class business is the very important dues campaign of which you've heard. Brownie writes that he'd like to clean up the campaign by the end of December, so hop to it, slip a check to '40 in the mail, four bucks will never be missed. This is the first dun since our senior tax of happy memory, it includes the class group subscription to the MAGAZINE, and provides funds by which we can continue existence as an organization. Get in the dough!
Two sources of dope for this column who are constant and, more or less, regular, are DonRainie for Boston and Bud Hewitt, lately of the air forces, for New York. So, if the rest of you birds get tired of reading their names, the only thing to do is write in yourselves. Don attended the reunion meeting in Boston for the class and his report is the basis for the first paragraphs of this column. He's presumably still passing out those beautiful inscriptions concerning discharges. Bud is back in the family business in New York, women's accessories, following medical discharge at the end of three years and eight months in the Army, including all grades from Private to Captain. Bud has seen George "Greek" Mahoney, arrived in New York from India, then on his way home in Indianapolis via Washington, to sweat out a discharge. George has been all over with OSS, mention of which, for the first time, can now be made. Bud also ran into Capt. Bill Blake, researching for the Army at a New York hospital.
Promotions for the month, previously unreported are: Capt. Tex Meyer, Lt. Col. RedHerman and Lt. Cmdr. Elmer Teare Browne. Brownie writes that, having signed with the regular Navy four years ago, he finds the urge to get out very difficult to translate into action.
Discharges for the month include: Lt. AlEiseman, after three years and eight months of Navy service, recipient of the Silver Star and nine battle stars; Lt. Col. Dave Fish, after five years with the Army air forces weather service, including visits in North Africa and Italy; Lt. Chet Garrison, fully recovered from injuries sustained in the paratrooper invasion of Holland, and now taking his master's degree at Columbia in English under the G.I. Bill; Capt. Bud Hewitt, mentioned above; BobBramley, back from Germany, and expecting to travel for a welding equipment firm in the Midwest: and Ray Dau, possessor of 150 points, and now a cog in the wheels of Dupont.
Chal Carothers, celebrating a year as civilian, attended the Penn game in company with Kel Doyle and their wives. He reports encountering Chet Garrison, a dischargee by one day at that point. Ray Dau, Hal Sommer and Bill Coulson. Chal had one evening with Bob Bramley following Bob's arrival on the Queen Mary, and has heard from Gardy Friedlander, then processing dischargees at Fort Sheridan, Ill., and sweating one out for himself.
The latest in marital affiliations, completed and scheduled are: the marriage of Major BillDaniels and Mary Alice Mason of Winchester discovered in a smiling and good lookin? picture in a recent Boston Herald, the encasement of Major Hunter Phelan and Mary Corbett of Wilmington, N. C.; the marriage of Lt. (jg) Jack Chisholm and Clarice McPherson of West Hartford; and that of Louis Chesley and Marion Harper of Port Washington.
FATHER ADMIRES DAUGHTER in this picture typical of so many of the happy incidents in the present home comings of servicemen. The participants in the pleasant scene are Lt. Donald R. Shippam '40 and his daughter, Carolyn.
Acting Secretary, 1 Terrace St., Montpelier, Vt.
Treasurer, 8040 Diggs Rd., Norfolk 5, Va.
