1929

The visitors of the month were Lt. (jg) Squeek Redding and Capt. Richard Rogers, and the event of the month was the Class party at the Alumni Dinner in Boston. Capt. Dick was back from two and a half years in the Southwest Pacific, his latest assignment having been New Guinea, where he was chief special service officer for the —— Air Force. Never a one to lose weight, Dick withstood the rigors of the far Pacific with a loss of only one pound which on his well proportioned hulk wasn't even noticeable. After a thirty-day furlough during which he will ruin his wife's ration budget he'll head back toward the Philippines and return to his duties as senior morale officer. To offset Rogers there were a couple of good Navy boys in the persons of Squeek Redding and Commander Chick Shea (at the head table). Squeek is studying at the Naval Communications School at Harvard after performing his trick in the North Atlantic aboard a destroyer escort. The civilians who crowded around the table were Johnny Davis, who makes brass castings in Brockton; Bob Friend who is one of the leading food manufacturers in the Boston area but who wasn't really complete, having forgotten to bring that old silver saxophone of his; Judge Jaquith, Red Ardiff, Ralph Butler, Art Nighswander down from Laconia; Arthur D'Elia the Cape Cod doctor; Paul Nourie, Don Childs, and Ollie Holmes who, as usual, did all the work and acted as master of ceremonies.

Phil Mayher is just back from the Pacific and is now at Quonset attached to a training unit in air support, the same type of work he did overseas.

A letter from his mother says that Brad Bradley is somewhere in the South Pacific apparently aboard the U.S.S.

Johnny Lopinto has been overseas for more than two years.

Eddie Vossler is now- a lieutenant commander overseas and Lloyd Johnson is somewhere in India. Capt. Nick Vincent is now stationed at the Ivfason General Hospital, Brentwood, N. Y. Lyt Johnston is a Marine first lieutenant stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station at Cherry Point, N. C., for duty with a Marine Aircraft Wing. Before enlisting, Lyt was a member of the firm McGinnis, Johnston and Flanagan. He was commissioned April 25, 1944. Lyt's wife and two children remain at home in Ridgewood, N. J.

Henry Baker's engagement to Miss Margaret Torgersen of West New Brighton, Long Island, has just been announced. Henry (Lt. USNR) is an instructor at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, on leave of absence to the Navy from the faculty of Queens College, Flushing

California has converted _ another confirmed Hoosier—Joe Ruff has been in Glendora, Calif., for over a year and he is planning to go in business in Pasadena after the war. He occasionally sees Professor Bill Davenport of Southern California, who is operating under a very heavy schedule at the University.

Woody Woodbridge (Lt. USNR) continues to criss-cross the country on special assignments. Recently, back at his Jacksonville headquarters, he met up with Lt. Commander Johnny Hubbard and Lt. Ken Wilson.

Thanks again for these good wives and mothers. A nice note from Mary Alexander from Santa Barbara, Calif., reports that Bill has just shipped out with a Marine Fighter Squadron as adjutant aboard a carrier. The Captain is most pleased with his new assignment. Mary also reports that she met up with Polly Parrott in San Diego just a few hours after he came off a carrier following ten months overseas.

Eddie Chinlund has been in Pittsburg for the past couple of years with Price Waterhouse. He claims that his doings are most routine and that he confirms the general reputation that Pittsburg has for being the dirtiest city in the country. For extra-curricula activities Eddie has two small daughters to bring up as young ladies. Eddie recently saw in the Uniontown Pennsylvania newspaper a picture of Lt. Col. Bill Hood recently returned from the South Pacific.

Lt. Herb Ball USNR is gunnery officer aboard the USS , a remarkable ship he calls her. No pictures have ever been published of her class and little is known about them outside the Navy, in spite of an article in the Saturday EveningPost which attempted to describe them but said little. He writes, "The woes and worries of a Gunnery Officer are many. I work long and hard and pinch-hit by standing 'officer of the deck' watches. For a landlubber who too old to go to sea (so they told me) I'm having the time of my life. The metamorphosis from radar to gunnery is a peculiar tale that perhaps I better save for the Twentieth Reunion. While on furlough I visited Hal Hirsch and Jim Hodson in Seattle."

Ed McGibbon, who is aboard the USS , a destroyer escort, somewhere in the Pacific, says, "There isn't much about our activities I can write about. We have had some excitement and our share of luck—enough to make me mighty proud of the ship. Through you I want to express my appreciation of the little leather snapshot case sent out by the class. No better idea for a gift could have been thought of."

In the same tone Capt. Bill Mooney from somewhere in the European Theatre writes, "This is my third Christmas overseas and again I thank you for the gift from the Class of '29. It is very thoughtful and I want you to know I appreciate it. I really get a real kick out of the class's remembering me each Christmas, as I know the others who are overseas must."

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