1932
Class Affairs Department: A number of news items having to do with the roster of class and Alumni Fund officers can now be reported. First is that Bill Morton of 18 Pine St., N. Y. C. will again run the Class Fund drive as head agent, and is going to make every effort to go over the top, which he and his faithful and hardworking assistants can do if the class gets behind them with a heave-ho. Joe Carleton, busy as a Massachusetts bee, newly a father again, and in the process -of changing jobs, has had to give over the editorship of the 1932 Newsletter, which he had run with rare success during the past two or three years. The thanks of all the class go out to Lawyer Joe, who punched a noble typewriter in the name of 1932, and we are sorry indeed to lose him. But we have been lucky in procuring the services of Editor Jim Whiton of the Denville (N. J.), Herald, the William Allen White of our class, who will carry on from here. You can help Jim get out newsful newsletters by dropping him a card about your latest activities.
Some items about Joe's latest doings came along with his surrender of the Newsletter portfolio. He and Peggy are pleased to an- nounce the birth of a brandnew daughter Ann, as of December 6, '44. Ann couldn't wait for the Pearl Harbor anniversary to roll around, which may be just as well, because then Joe and Peggy would have had to name her Pearl, and Ann is better. Joe has two years of law practice behind him, having worked with Oscar Haussermann, SEC expert, and a number one trust lawyer, Mayo Shattuck. Good luck in the new job, Joe. And the class's thanks for a splendid batch of newsletters.
Bob Coltman is to be congratulated on his new title of assistant vice president of the Provident Trust Co., of Philadelphia, and his new job of assisting the head of the Trust Department with general organization problems. Lt. Harry Litzenberger wound up his teaching duties at the Princeton Military Government School in mid-February, and after a brief leave and a week or so of relaxation in his home town of Denver, reported late in March in Monterey, Calif., (see Steinbeck's Cannery Row for pertinent details regarding Monterey). We are sorry to lose the pleasurable opportunity of seeing Harry, Mabel, and their boy around Princeton. The way things are going in the Pacific, it looks as if Harry lands. Col. Jay Whitehair, the first member of the class to attain that rank, is doing an outstanding job in the office of General Somervel in Washington, and paid Bill Morton a call in New York early in February. I failed to report a Christmas card from Lt. Gordon Mackenzie, aboard a landing ship on Pacific duty. Mac hopes the war will be over by the class's 15th Reunion. He missed the Tenth because of it.
Joe Carleton sends in a newspaper cut of the beaming Carl McGowans, married January 20, 1945 in the Leslie Lindsey Chapel of Emmanuel Church, Boston. I understand Lt. Carl (USNR) and his bride Josephine are living in Alexandria, Va., and that Carl's Navy duties take him daily to Washington. Another wedding was that of Bill Shaw to Helen W. Whitcomb of Millbury, which took place February 11, 1945, at the Millbury Federated Church near Worcester, Mass. Bill and Helen seem to have met while Bill was teaching history at Worcester Academy and Helen was serving as secretary to the headmaster of that same institution. The Shaws are now living at 50 West St., Worcester, where classmates may write to congratulate them. Congratulations also go to Milt Wheeler, who the first of the year joined the Maine State office of the OP A as a member of the legal staff. Milt got his law degree at Harvard, and the handsome face of Milt looking pleasantly out of the pages of the Lewiston (Me.), Journal suggests the kind of lawyer you'd trust with your income tax. Congratulations on a re- sponsible post. Already reported, I think, has been the promotion of Warren Hallamore of the Navy Air Arm to lieutenant commander's rank. Warren is executive officer of a.bombing squadron in the South Pacific.
Lt. Sam Allen got a brief leave around the first of the year, which he happily spent with Melba and his "oldest unmarried daughter" (aged four), and his new son, Bruce Samuel, born while Sam was on a tour of duty, which included twenty-six months in England and a month in Normandy. Sam says he has "formulated the most liberal policy for Bruce,viz. that he may attend any college he chooses so long as that college is Dartmouth." Sam is now back in Belgium, and says he feels like everyone else there, that "it would be mighty satisfactory to shake hands with a few fellows in the Russian Army." Lt. Johnny Davidson in a fine long letter reviews his Navy career to date, which has been very adventurous indeed, and included a description of his stint as liaison officer with a French destroyer escort. Last April he got nine days' leave, married in Chicago, and was planning to spend a ten-day honeymoon last fall listening to the call of "sweet cider" on the Hanover Plain.
I have to record with grief the sudden death of Lt. Morgan Hobart USNR in a passenger plane crash near Cedar Springs, Va., on February 24, 1945. Morgan was thirty-four years old, had been active in Washington since the war began, and in civilian life was one of the ablest young men in Technicolor, for which he held a sales-manager portfolio. May the war that brings such news to these columns end quickly.
Secretary, 178 Prospect Ave., Princeton, N. J.
Treasurer, 7 North St., Old Greenwich, Conn.
