1943
Before I begin with the news, let me call your attention to the tentative 1946 reunion schedule listed in this issue. This is for your benefit; study it and, if possible, let me know whether the program meets with your approval. Either the and and 3rd or the 9th and 10th of August are the possible dates mentioned for our class.
Once again I have some very sad news for you. On October 3 Ens. Bill Tostman was killed when the PBY Catalina bomber he was flying crashed into a mountain in the Aleutians. Commissioned in August 1944, he had been overseas six months. John Bushnell, previously listed as missing in action, has been officially listed as dead. I don't have any details about John other than the fact that the fatal action took place somewhere in the Philip- pines last January. To the families of both, the members of the class of 1943 extend very deep, heart-felt sympathies. I know that we all hope sincerely that news of this nature will cease.
With the opening of the winter semester, nineteen members of our class are back. They are as follows: John Bartemus, Charlie Coffin,John Danhof, Bob Fieldsteel, Bob Garvie, Millard Goodfellow, Frank Hartman, RollandHiggins, Hex Harrigan, Art Lamoureaux,George Mitchell, Harry Semmes, Eliot Weeks,Alden Taylor, and Dan Winters. Seems like old times to see the '43 jackets back again.
Pete Heggie was back in town for a few days, after having completed a gunnery course in Washington. He is now in Norfolk, Va., awaiting orders for further duty. Pete saw a good deal of convoy duty in the Atlantic aboard one of those four-stackers, the type that was nearly obsolete in the last war. Tom Redstone has been aboard the West Virginia since May 1944, and is tentatively assigned to San Diego. He has seen action in Leyte Gulf, the Surigoa Straits, the Lingayen Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Ie Shima. Charlie Swatzbaugh passed through Hanover on his way to Boston and vicinity where he plans on being stationed for awhile. He was detached from the Hornet several months ago. Bill Milmore was, as of last June, an officer with an ack ack outfit in the Philippines. Howard Leavitt is, at present, a Communications Officer of a Naval Air Base on Saipan.
"Gus" Taylor has taken time off in these past few months traveling back and forth across France, evidently somewhat vague as to where his destination was. His last letter found him in an excellent mood, having just completed a five-day trip in one of those streamlined trains the French are noted for; I think they call them "40 and 8's." If all goes well, Gus will be back in the states and a civilian once again the first of the year.
Mel Fenichell has moved from Peru to Colombia, looking forward to his return to the States in May. Recently, he ran across Luis Zalamea '42, and the two of them tossed a few down the hatch and talked of old times Mrs. Souers writes that her son, Jerry, is a Photo Intelligence Officer with a Photo Tech. Squadron Dick Livingston was, as of last August, still on the Philippines, having come with the first permanent outfit on that particular island. Evidently he has done everything from surveying, building roads and Quonset huts to running in aircraft. He ran into Dick Remson '43, in a bar, strangely enough, but hasn't seen any classmates since Chuck Longfield and John Conn at Guadalcanal.
Here's an interesting bit of news from FrankWilliams "In the past 37 months I have been everything from an ambulance driver with the British Bth Army at El Alamein to an infantryman with the American 9th Army. In between there were brief hitches as a cadreman in the States and as a laboratory technician, based principally on the fact that I flunked Freshman Chemistry at Dartmouth back to Europe in time for the 'Bulge' and most of the action that took place after that." That was written in June and, at that time, Frank had 84 points. Hope by now that he is out.
On October 27th, Lucy MacPherson and "Doc" Proctor were married. "Koo" Delaney was best man and Hank Kramer '42, an usher. If all went well, Norm Askey, Dan Norton and Dan Kramer were present. Now that I have Doc's letter in front o£ me I'll pass along the news he sent me. Norm Askey was discharged recently from the AAF after 21 missions over Europe in a B-17. Bob Williams was in New York several weeks ago after 19 months of destroyer duty in the Pacific. Thanks for the news, Doc Back to weddings, Miss Dona Marie Ikeler was married in October to Bob McQueen who recently returned to this country after spending 18 months overseas. HarryGustafson and Miss Marjorie Jones plan on being married November 25, 1945. Sorry I can't give you more of the details.
Engagements were few: Miss Barbara Ann Bakewell to Bob Mustard, and Ensign Ann Teal to Lt. Charlie Bradley.
Service promotions were as follows: Ens. R.Donald Reich, Lt. (jg) Ralph T. Entwistle, Jr.,Lt. (jg) Norman B. Smith, and Lt. (jg) DonaldMcCorkindale.
All for this month.
Secretary, Kappa Kappa Kappa House, Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, Shelburne, Vt.
'42 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 16 men of the Class of 1942. Leslie D. Allen, Swift C. Barnes Jr., John D. Brewer, Ivar J. Brandt, Rob R. Carruthers, James S. Foster, George C. Fuller, Frank W. Garran Jr., Frank M. Haiston, Robert L. Headley Jr., Bynum E. Hinton Jr., Frederick E. Huntley, Robert K. Schoonmaker, Edward P. Stafford, William A. Stockdale, John Tiernan.
'43 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 17 men of the Class of 1943: John W. Bartemus, Philip P. Brooks Jr., Cyrus C. Brown Jr., Robert D. Brown, Gordon H. F. Carter, John J. Danhoff Jr., Robert S. Garvie III, Millard P. Goodfellow Jr., Frank W. Hartmann, Roland W. Higgins, Cornelius H. Harrigan Jr., Arthur A. Lamoureaux, George D. Mitchell, Harry H. Semmes Jr., Elliott B. Sweet, Alden M. Taylor, Daniel M. Winters.
