1947

An interesting letter comes to us from Jack Gray, now in China. It is rather well written, so instead of trying to condense it, we will quote it in part. Jack says:

The Signal Corps adopted me after I washed out of Aviation Cadets. My training was a seven months' course in telephone work. Since that time the Army has sent me on a vacation to Tampa, then skiing in Utah. The holiday ended when I looked out on the broad waters of the ocean. (We wonder which one.)

# India was our first stop. Story books and a few history lessons are revised after one sees exactly how these people in southern Asia exist. They just exist—they do not live as we know the word One of the best Army transports flew us into China oyer the Hump..... The C-54 is a fine ship, and is the workhorse in this theater. China at least has a few spots of dry land and people with a bit of meat on their bodies. American seem to act more naturally in Chinese pany. Maybe we are used to them.....

For a comment on the weather, Jack sav that "it is very hot, very wet, very dry," and he thinks that China will be the place where he will have to collect his points before final discharge.

Since Don Shedd was last in Hanover for the Winter Sports weekend, he has taken sixteen weeks of Infantry Basic at Camp Wheeler, Ga and was then transferred back to the AST and Penn State College, where he hopes to continue for another year. Don is now studying mechanical engineering but hopes to return to Dartmouth to continue his pre-medical work when he can.

A letter from, Neal Beard comes to us from San Antonio, Texas, where "Carolina" has been stationed since VJ day, first scheduled for an overseas shipment, but now in ATSC. He says, "I was one of the last 75 Cadets to leave Sheppard Field after the Air Crew program closed for good. We were supposed to go on OLT and then to B-29 RC gunnery, but both of those were revoked in favor of Chem. Technician, fire-bomb work in connection with B-29s and fighters I will probably go to some Separation Center.... All I do is push a pencil and get calluses on my seat There is a good possibility that my assignment will be Greensboro." We're sure that would satisfy our "southern" boy.

Harry Bissinger left this country last January with a Marine Regiment for Guadalcanal. .. . Shortly after arriving there, they left for Okinawa and he was one of the "chosen few" to go through the whole campaign without a Purple Heart. After retraining (the censor neatly handled the place of training), they were quickly off and arrived, in Japan with the first bunch of Marines at the end of August.

Al Hall writes an interesting letter from his ship, the Denebola, now at Eniwetok. The "Denny" finishes its job of repairing Tincans of the Third Fleet and returns to Philly for decommissioning by Thanksgiving time. Al, now a radioman 3/c has been stationed on the Denebola since he left radio training at Bainbridge. Al reports that Sam Doyle has received a Bronze Star and is now making the rounds of Army Hospitals. We would like to have this news about the Bronze Star confirmed and the particulars added, either by Al or Sam.

The ranks of '47 have swelled by 30 new members as of the beginning of the semester; most of the new men were members, of the V-12 Unit here. Old faces to return to the campus will only be listed, and the particulars will follow in a newsletter, expected to be out soon after you read this column:—Manny Banero, Bruce Mather, Joe Eisman, Ham Chase, Bob Green, Bob Bohn, Al Colton, Phil Booth, Wallace Bradway, Sax Fletcher, Frank Healy, Bob Kinner, Jim Lynch, Tom Wonson, and Jack Young. Others now on campus are: Barry Marks, Ed Ajemian, Ed Matthews, Ed Scully, Iggie Lohse, George Cohn, Pete Estin, John Kaufman, Dick Menin, Bill Moran, Gerry Phillips, John Slade, Wink Crosen, Mel Nelson, John Bill, Mac McCaleb, Jordan Eskin, and your Secretary and Treasurer.

John Tower is back in the States after a hurried trip back from Europe, in a C-54. After spending a few days in the Lovell General Hospital (his ears had suffered from decompression on the flight over), he was off for a weekend with the folks. John expected then to be discharged very soon and hopes for an early return to Dartmouth. Dick Mayo, now stationed in Austria, is expected home by Thanksgiving time. Charlie Tourtellotte and John Taylor were the first members of the class to earn their A.B. degree. Both are in Med School.

Notice is called to the "Laureled Sons" column, which notes the Bronze Star awarded to Dave Aldom. Ensign Russ Pfaff and Bob Keane were each in town for a few days, and we saw Link Cain and Dave Stahl across Webster Hall on Dartmouth night, but we don't know their status as yet.

Secretary, 304 Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 304 Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, N. H.

'47 Vets on Campus Among the Dartmouth veterans who returned to the College at the opening of the winter term, November 6, were the following 18 men of the Class of 1947: Manuel Benero, Robert G. Bohn, Philip E. Booth, Henry J. Brezinski, John L. Cain, H. Hamilton Chase, Josiah R. Eisaman III, Saxton W. Fletcher Jr., Robert S. Green, William B. Harding, Frank J. Healy Jr., Milton J. Hofflin Jr., Robert L. Kinner, James A. Lynch Jr., Bruce E. Mather, Julian W. Schmer, Thomas G. Wonson, John T. Young.