1937
503 Concord Avenue, Lexington, Mass.
There were those of us who reveled in Hanover winters and there were those among '37ers who reviled the season and its concomitants. Had this New England winter of '44-'45 been part of our years, revelers and revilers each would have had reached all time heights (or depths) in their satiation. The ponds hereabouts yield an average of one crop of ice a winter six inches thick; this year two crops have been harvested, with the thickness varying from 18-24 inches. The latest storm piled on an additional 19 inches before our doorstep and although your correspondent is located on a main highway and the storm stopped two days ago, said highway is still clogged, unplowed, and impassable.
Crossing the equator should warm things up a bit. Bob Ewing is now an instructor in Airways Traffic Control at the Escola Tecnica de Aviacao, Rua Visconde de Pamaiba, 1316, Sao Paulo, Brazil Dana Johnson, RogePettee, and Roge Graves, have all been recently made Lt. (jg) Jim Luttrell has been promoted to the rank of major according to a recent announcement of the 15th Army Air Force Headquarters. Jim is an air inspector of a Liberator bombardment group which has flown more than 175 bombing missions against strategic enemy oil, rail, and industrial centers throughout central and southern Europe. He holds the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with two Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters Dick Mac Cormack has a duel role of rancher and geologist and can be reached at the JHJ Ranch, Kingman, Ariz Bob Johnson is now a second lieutenant "Skip" Brown has a new assignment and is now a full-fledged ensign! ... .Briggs Austin writes from the Naval Air Facility at New Cumberland, Pa., but says it's a very temporary assignment. He spent four months at the Naval Training School at Pensacola (Photography), expects to have about ten weeks at the Photographic Interpretation course at Anacostia, D. C., and then to sea he hopes.
Pensacola with its opportunity for outdoor living seems to have been just what Briggs needed after a long tour of desk duty in Washington. .... Bob Kenneys new assignment was mentioned in the latest issue of the Notes underneath his picture. He'd appreciate hearing from any of the boys and can be reached at 3066 Livingstone, Suite 8, C 1, Cleveland, 20, Ohio FrankIrwin writes from Camp Barkley, Texas, ruminating on his rovings since 1937 marriage in December 1937 a Ph.D. in English from Princeton in '41 Priorities Specialist from duPont at Wilmington, Del.—several rejections from the Navy—a son Terry in March '42 an instructorship at North Carolina State—July '43 with the Ski Troops in Colorado—Back to North Carolina in December '43 as a cadre-man and instructor to illiterate negroes June '44 to the Carribean area doing the same work with Spanish-speaking replacement troops Now to Camp Barkley with the Medical Administrative Corps. .... John Chapman and Frank Irwin discovered each other in a hospital ward at Camp Hale. They both grabbed for the same copy of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE at mail call and then it was discovered to be John's after Frank carried it off. .... Phil Swain, wife, and two children, Cynthia, and Phil Jr., at last reports were at North Carolina State College where Phil is working for the Army Air Corps as a contract inspector in the North Carolina area George Andrews is at Medical School at Duke University. .... "Butch"Nichols and Bob Weeks are newly arrived at the rank of captain.
"Wally" Fisher recently returned from New Guinea was married in August to the former Barbara Zaiser of Des Moines, lowa. Wally was boosted to two stripes by the Navy last October. He is now at Beach Battalion School at the Amphibian Training Base, Oceanside, Calif. At the course's completion he expects to ship out on an attack transport as beachmaster. Wally's reflections on a Dartmouth training are stimulating. ". . . . I would never recommend anybody's spending four whole years up there unless he could have world travel also, learn to speak several languages and know about the rest of the world; that's what we should know after spending four years up there soaking up the cold weather and then getting the general idea that we are pretty cagey birds and ought to make the world perk up and take notice of how smart we are. I figure that exchange education is the thing. A recent article in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE was pretty fair on that subject, but I had got around to the same opinion back in 1937, after taking a short trip to Europe with a five-piece orchestra (the Green Serenaders, we called them) and being so darn dissatisfied with life after I got back that I have been trying to get my education in the Navy, and am getting paid for learning more than I ever did in Deah Old Dahtmouth." Wally enclosed a liberal Alumni Fund and Class Dues check.
Ed Wynot waxes nostalgic and says his outstanding memory of Fran Fenn "will always be (Until the next reunion anyway) your solo rendition to the accompaniment of Ham Mathes' fiddle on a table in the bar of the Alpha Sig house at the Carnival of '36!" Ed is now connected with the Bureau of Aeronautics Mary Lou Falion lets us in on the good news that Bill is now a Lt. (jg). She and daughter Wendy are holding the fort in Germantown while Bill's away.
The latest good news from Fran Fenn is that there are around three hundred class dues in to date. Everybody's strong support of the dues' program is showing effect and should be a satisfaction to Art Ruggles, who would be waylaying everybody for a "Slug for Rug" if he were here.
Secretary, c/o Cutler Farm
