1923
T/Sgt. Win Weser writes, "It is a pleasure to stop traveling, even if it turns out to be only for a few days. Right now we are in an old French city, on the small side, but pretty in an ancient way. It has been occupied by both the French and Germans and has been the scene of fighting, but is not nearly so scarred as some poor spots I've seen. Most all the towns and villages show damage in one degree or another." Traditionally well-groomed and "showery," the immaculate Win said at the time of writing that he hadn't been able to shave for a week, nor take a bath in longer than he cared to think about.
In a good, newsy letter to Clary Goss, Dr. Bill Henderson says:
Until recently I've been plagued by the frantic calls of patients and the problem of securing able assistance for the type of work I am doing here. My fingers are crossed when I say that my organization is functioning smoothly now, and I therefore have somewhat more leisure than I had for the better part of 1944. I've been in active practice for the past eighteen years with the exception of eighteen months with the armed forces in World War 11. Upon my release in November '43 I started proffering my services to the denizens of Denver. Here I am on the staff of the Veterans' Administration and as a sideline I conduct a diagnostic set-up equipped for X-ray and electrocardiography. But enough of this before I chloroform you with trade talk.
On the distaff side, and contributed by your see's own Distaff Department, are two bits of news. Clary Goss's wife, Priscilla, president of the Simmons College Club of Westchester, recently presided at the Club's February dinner which was held at the Dartmouth Club. And Doug Manson's wife Else was guest singer at the January meeting of the New Rochelle Chapter D.A.R. where, incidentally, our own distaff spends most of her time.
Nick Bernard, in the Philippines, has been promoted from captain to major by Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger, commanding general. As special service officer, Nick provides movies, entertainment and relaxation facilities for the men a few weeks after they storm ashore in the Pacific invasions. Mrs. Nick lives at their home, 967 13th Ave., S., St. Petersburg, Fla.
Now that the pain of last November's election has eased up a bit and gives only slight, occasional twinges, we can bear to look at a picture from the Worcester Telegram showing Governor and Mrs. Dewey at the Worcester station, being welcomed by a group of the city's Republican leaders, and flanked by Governor Saltonstall and Alderman Ralph Duffy. Duff, whose many political and civic activities have been chronicled in this column from time to time, faced the Press Graphic's lens again when he was re-elected to the Salvation Army Advisory Board.
A while ago, Bill Cunningham made an appeal in his Boston newspaper column for phonograph records of old, familiar hymns for servicemen in hospitals, at outposts and on the smaller ships. First one to respond was Nonny Fay's mother, Mrs. Charles E. Fay. Bill writes, "Mrs. Fay's records came in so fast I thought one of my kids had ordered them, and I took them home and opened them before I discovered what they were." Bill, an old friend of the Fays', says, "When I saw who'd sent them, I played them all, holding a sort of one-man religious service of my own, remembering fine people and days and faces now mellowing in memory. They're on their way by this time to help some lonesome kids in some far place think of home and mother and the old church on the corner."
Sherm Baldwin, who sent us this news about Duff and Nonny, also reports that George Mason has been elected president of the Dartmouth College Club of Worcester County, which also elected Chick Burke to the executive committee.
After telling you last month about Johnny Foster's new position with the Vick Chemical Cos., we received word that the older of Johnny's two boys, S/Sgt. Charles E. Foster, has been awarded the Air Medal by the Commanding General of the Twentieth Bomber Command. Charles, who attended Dartmouth, is an aerial gunner on a Superfortress, and was commended for performing his duties "in such a manner as to reflect great credit to this Command and the Army Air Forces."
The High Point Club sounds very resortish, but John Moore didn't get his membership by being expert at good, medium or bad badminton. Says the New York Times. "J. E. Moore has been elected vice president of the High Point Club of the Monroe Calculating Machine Cos." For hitting the high point in sales, John, mille Congrats!
Sol Levine, recently Federal Tax Consultant in the New York Corporation Counsel's office, has announced the opening of his offices at 165 Broadway, New York 6, where he will practice law, and specialize in taxation, administrative law and appeals. No date has been set for an office-warming, but it's a safe bet there'll be one whenever any '23er drops in.
Shuck that shell of modesty, fellows, and let's have some news about you and your families and your sons in service! If you enjoy reading about the rest of the gang, they'll enjoy reading about you.
PROMOTION TO MAJOR'S RANK recognizes the successful efforts of Nicholas Bernard '23, Special Service officer with the Sixth Army, to supply en- tertainment and relaxation facilities to soldiers shortly after the invasion of the Philippines.
Secretary, 84 Hillside Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, 32 Ridgeland Terrace, Rye, N. Y.
