1941
Inasmuch as it generally takes two months to get any action from a plea for news, I'm still relying mainly on dope furnished by the Dartmouth News Service, bless their hearts.
On October 31st I met at the Dartmouth Club of New York City with Don Cameron '35 and other reunion chairmen and class secretaries to review a tentative plan for reunions come 1946. All plans for reunions seem to rest upon whether the facilities for housing and feeding will be sufficient, a condition which in turn depends much upon whether the Navy plans to stay on through the summer. It is hoped that definite word can be given by February or March that all reunions will be held. However, until we get the green light from the College, the plans as discussed herein are only tentative. The present schedule calls for reunions of the classes '38, '39, '40, '41, '13, '14, '15, and '16 on July 12th and 13th. There will also be reunions the two weeks before and for two to four weeks after for the other classes who have missed a reunion. You can see it is going to be quite wearing on all concerned at the College. Nevertheless, they are all ready and willing to do their share to provide facilities, entertainment and patience to make all reunions a real success. At the meeting Herb Hirschland '39 expressed the opinion that even if no other classes were privileged to have a reunion next year, he felt that the sth Reunions for the classes '38, '39, '40, and '41 should be held. These are the classes that have never had an opportunity to meet together as Alumni, and he stated that class solidarity, unity, and spirit demands that they should be permitted to reune. His words were not lost in the shuffle either, as several persons, even a 25th-Reunion man, expressed their beliefs that Herb was justified in his stand and that as far as they were concerned, they would rather wait a year if it meant the sth reunions could be held. A little pressure in the form of a letter to Don Cameron along this line might not be time ill-spent. What do you think?
An answer to the query, "Has anyone heard from Brud, Phillips '41?" has finally arrived. Brud, Lt. Arthur R., left New York with the 97th Infantry Division last February as liaison officer. The 97 th crossed the Rhine River below the Remagen bridge and fought in the . ttie of the Ruhr where they captured an airfield He was also in the last fighting in Czecholovakia. Brud was home for a 30-day fur- lough in July but left for JaPan with the same outfit for occupation duty. He is now stationed at an airport 90 miles north of Tokyo.
Audrey Keir says that Pete has been at Guam since June but was on his way to Japan with the U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey. He hopes to be getting home by the new year.
Hall and Mrs. Buzzell announce the arrival of Gerald Raymond who was born on November Bth and weighed 7 lbs. 2 oz.
Lt. Everett Lord-Wood, 20th Corps tour orficer, has been arranging two- to three-day tours for troops near Garmisch-Partenkirchen on the Schneeferner Glacier near the summit of Germany's tallest mountain, where the men can ski and otherwise enjoy winter sports. (Taken from a September issue of the Starsand Stripes.)
Jack Ripley is here in Washington going to the School of International Affairs. I don't know whether I would have recognized him at all if I hadn't been looking for him. He weighs 185 pounds now, and as I knew him in College Hall, he was a slight 110 pounds. A little of it is surplus. He's very happy to be out of the Army. I don't blame him. Yours truly hopes to be a civilian by January Ist.
News has reached me that our truant secretary, Bob Harvey, has arrived home after eighteen months in the Pacific, working and talking with American servicemen in order to provide a picture of the war for their folks back home. Bob was stationed in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and most recently was on Okinawa. While overseas, he was credited with many colorful war stories and with writing lyrics to a song entitled "Somewhere in the South Pacific." He is now home on leave with his wife, Barbara, but is not sure whether he will receive his immediate release from the Marine Corps.
Herb Bailey was recently promoted to captain in the Air Tech. Service Command at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Herb entered the service in June 1942 and received a commission as second lieutenant on completion of the Air Forces Officer Candidate School in 1943 and attended the Air Forces Statistical School at Harvard University. He was stationed at the Rome Air Depot, Rome, N. Y., before being assigned to Dayton. Before entering the service Herb had completed one year of graduate work at Yale Law School.
Captain Richard Krolik had the distinction of being on the first plane to fly direct from Japan to the United States. The plane reached the Army Airfield at Fairfield, Calif., on Saturday, after a flight that started Thursday afternoon at the Atsugi Airdrome outside Tokyo with stops at Okinawa, Kwajalein and Honolulu. "Dyke" then left for Washington to deliver films of the damage wrought on Japan by the Air Corps to General of the Army H. H. Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Forces. The flight across the continent was worse than any the fliers had encountered over 'he Pacific. One engine went dead, a very bad storm was encountered and all on the plane had parachutes on, ready to jump. Krolik had been in the Pacific area for three years without a leave but called on his family over Labor Day. If you are now in Washington, Dick, how about calling me up? We have started a Wednesday afternoon luncheon hour for all Washington '41ers meeting in front of the Dept. of Interior at one o'clock.
Secretary, James Buchanan Apt., B 12 Presidential Gardens, Alexandria, Va
Treasurer,. Interpron 2, Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Cal.
'41 Vets on Campus Among the Dartmouth Veterans who returned to the college at the opening of the winter term on November 5 were the following three men of the class of 1941: Richard F. Blanchard, Edward N. McMillan Jr., Philip A. Thompson.
