1930
Capt. and Mrs. Joseph S. Hancort announce the arrival of Mary Van Leer Hancort at the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C., January 28, 1945. According to the books this is the first Hancort offspring, and, we believe, the first Thirtybabe to be born in that famous hospital. The announcement also brought the first intimation that Capt. Joe had left Tucson and is presently stationed in the Pentagon Building.
Another first is Martha Louise, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Hermann N. Sander, who was born February 7 in the Christina H. Parker House of the Elliot Hospital, Manchester, N. H.
That completes the blessed events for this month, although there are several in the offing, including another for the Ewing I. Burns. Cupe says he hopes it will be a girl, as he thinks' a quartet of Burns Sisters should be worth ten grand a week on anybody's radio program. The vice president of the Consolidated Flour Mills in Wichita was back East last fall, took in the Notre Dame game and spent the following week in the hospital in Portland. Fred Scribner kept an eye on Cupe there.
Al Dickerson forwarded the news that Kip Chase is now a lieutenant colonel and is back at G.H.Q. in the southwest Pacific. Another V-mail from Harry Casler reveals that he had received "a breezy note from Kip containing hopeful references to what we're all going to do once we get back into 'store clothes,' " and that Rusty Morrill said he had seen many mutual friends while in Washington, and is now off to a new station. Harry also has a new assignment, at headquarters of an Air Force in Italy.
Lt. Col. Charlie Adams, when last heard from, was out at Great Bend, Kansas, but expecting and hoping to move again. His color scheme was baffling—the note written in red pencil, the return address on the upper lefthand corner of the envelope in blue ink, and the "Free" frank in the other corner in black ink.
Snub Poehler has apparently pushed off for the Pacific, for he wrote from San Bruno, Calif., that his family has been left behind at 17 A Garden Drive, Manchester, Conn. Must be neighbors of Jim Curtiss, who lives at 34 J Garden Drive.
Lee Chilcote passed through New York early in March and managed to get time for a telephone call while transferring to the Penn Station from the Grand Central. Seems he had been up in Boston and Providence and was headed for Washington, with a stop at Philadelphia. The Chilcotes and Ed Browns did some plain and fancy skiing this winter at Salamanca, N. Y. There was plenty of snow around there, as Milt Mclnnes of the Erie will tell you.
George Simpson has moved to Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., where he is associated with the Sunswick Corp., P. O. Box 16. Major Billy Moore's new address is 1231 North Park Ave., Winter Park, Fla.
One day this winter Shaw Cole saw Tiny Tasker at the Machinery Club in New York. Tiny had just completed a part of his globecircling trips to the various air bases and was about to take off on another lap. He told Shaw about his former partner at the Stratford, Conn., airport, Fred Moller, who is a codeveloper of the G-suit, the apparatus which prevents or retards gravity-caused blackouts for army and navy fliers. You may have read the article about this equipment in a recent copy of Life magazine. The suit is constructed to apply air pressure to the pilot's abdomen, thighs and calves to prevent blackouts in divebombing, sharp banking and turning. The suits are made by Berger Brothers of New Haven, with whom Fred has been associated since 1937. The air pressure is supplied by an automatic valve which Fred also helped to design, in collaboration with the Bridgeport Thermostat Company, who make the valves.
Since starting this edition of the notes we received from Jim Hodson 'ag a news article, and a picture of Senator Hugh Mitchell polishing the floor of his kitchen in preparation for the arrival of Bruce Cameron Mitchell and his mother from the Swedish Hospital in Seattle, where Bruce was born February 1.
It had been quite a long time since we heard from George Kisevalter, and his recent letter from Washington, where he is now living, was very welcome:
Thought I'd drop you a line now that I have perched at an assignment which is in one place for more than a few months. I am now a major in the War Department General Staff at the Pentagon Building. My branch is still the Corps of Engineers, but my work is quite different. It is by far the most interesting assignment I've had yet. My previous assignment as chief U. S. liasion officer with elements of the Red Army was also quite different from the usual army duties, but after a year and a half, the change was welcome, even though the Russians were a fine bunch to work with and both parties admired each other with mutual respect.
I ran into Merit P. White in the Pentagon and enjoyed a little comparison of notes, not having seen him since graduation. Merit is on a special assignment which takes him to London and Paris and back again. He is not in the armed forces but works for a military agency.
Before I close with a greeting to all Thirtymen you may run across, I'd like to express my admiration for the superb job Alex McFarland has done as class agent.
Alex is counting on all members of the class to help him make this year's Alumni Fund the greatest of them all to date.
And just in time to catch this edition before going off to press comes word, via Charlie Raymond, that the Bob Larkins "have been busy of late playing at being a new mother and father. A daughter, Kathleen O'Hare, arrived December 4, 1944. Bob is still at the Naval Landing Force Equipment Depot at Norfolk, Va."
A LT. COLONEL IN THE AMG, James S. Cullyford '30 MC is at Headquarters, First Army Group.
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