1936

This month's news is light, true to what, regrettably, we will soon regard as tradition. However, between this column and Tithe, noble greensheet now edited by Huff Huffman, we '36ers can keep in touch after a fashion. And we have a hunch that '36 families are forwarding both the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and Tithe, so that this news current may continue to flow all around the world, slowly but surely.

Well, off we go with the latest morsels. Lt. Norm Sherry has been in the ETO for the past year. Apparently, he's seen quite a bit of England and France Lt. Col. Dick Ruby was awarded the Bronze Star for valor during the Battles of Saipan and Tinian. Commanding officer of a battalion of Marine combat engineers, he is also a veteran of Guadalcanal and the Marshalls Pete Fitzherbert tells us that Gil Portmore's widow had a baby girl last July 3, Carol Murrell Portmore On a Duke Hospital letterhead comes word from Chuck Richards that he is now an assistant resident on the staff. It's a fine hospital, he says, and Duke has a really beautiful campus, "but of course it can't compare with Hanover."

Capt. Pep Mintz writes that he had an Italian tailor make him a jacket and on it he had sewn four gold bars. "The first time I had it on," he says, "six different persons came out with the standing gag, 'How are things back in the States?''" He continues, "Many changes have and are coming about, keeping me on the jump over snow-capped mountains in vehicles U.S.A., and planes, making speeches, fighting paper knee-deep, receiving visitors from up the line or down "

Walt Malby's out West doing war work with the Aluminum Cos. of America and Herb Higgins is with the American Embassy in Mexico. By way of the grapevine, we learn that Lt. (jg) A 1 Butler is, and has been for a good part of the winter, at an amphibious base somewhere in northern Florida. Sgt. Dick Spong wrote from inside Germany on December 19, "What little I have seen over here reaffirms my always strong conviction that what we personally can do is little enough, to acknowledge our thorough responsibility to the social environment which brought us to face our important problems, sane and clear-thinking. A large part of that environment, for me, is Well said, Dick—for most of us.

Vernon Moore is a sales representative with duPont up in Syracuse Nev Wiley is with UNRRA stationed in London We're a bit confused by an address change supplied by Hanover on Sub Harris. A Kansas City address is listed, together with one in Texas, and then the firm of Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., is mentioned. Putting one and one and one together, we speculate that Sub may be doing field work with Sylvania out of K.C., and for a while is in Houston. Or is our mathematics all wrong? Straighten us out on that, will you, Sub? .... Recently reported '36 service promotions include: Majors El Camp, Johnny Groh and Gene Austin, and Lt. (jg) Locky Barr.

And, believe it or not, that's all we can report this time. Hope many of you will be convinced that we could stand some more letters. The presses are already to relay your newsand our eyes and ears are waiting.... patiently.

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