1934

With flood waters giving us fits in this part of the country, I'm having a little trouble in settling down to these notes. If some of it doesn't make sense, blame me and not the chap who sent it in.

Bernie Cushman, who was formerly regional attorney for the WLB in Kansas City has been snapped up for a bigger post with his appointment as assistant general counsel of the National War Labor Board, where he will be Mr. Big of the disputes opinions section of the general counsel's office.

Capt. Ed Marceau is now the pappy of J. Edward II, better known around Springfield, Mo., as Superman. (From his picture, it's obvious the nickname is well chosen.) Dick Hayes is another to be numbered among the ranks of proud parents. Since January 24, 1945, he has been the father of Mary Porter Hayes. Dick has spent the past three years as a wage analyst for the Air Service Command and at present is located at Wright Field, trying to answer the question of how to get wages up and satisfy the civilian employees there, and still keep them down for the WLB. And since we seem to be back to the subject of the WLB, here's a note from Nick Nanos:

I am still one of the guys that are keeping the home fires burning, what with Phoebe, Irina, Barbara, and Anita serving as legal ballast The first name is my wife's I've been serving as senior attorney for the National War Labor Board in New York City, a damn red tape artist, as you would say. But only until January 15 (Gee I'm slow in getting these notes into print) when I join the firm of Kupfeo, Silberfeld, Nathan, and Danzigeo as counsel on administrative law, God and General Hershey willing

George Sayre, who is now a major writes:

No news as no change in activities—still running a laboratory for a station hospital in New Guinea. Haven't seen a woman in skirts for nine months—some beer, but how I would go for one of Allen's milk shakes. Hope I can get off this island to something civilized before too long.

And from Sgt. George Copp:

Have been in the service for twenty months. Am one of those lucky Gls who have been stationed in their home town for thirteen months. Am with the Provost Marshall of New York City. My brother-in-law, Harry Wallace, is now a lieutenant (jg) and somewhere in the South Pacific.

Service promotions this month also include June Kneisel, who is now known as Major Kneisel around the portable Surgical Hospital where he is serving; Dud Tibbits who now has to shine two silver bars: Bill Mock, who by now is probably racing through Germany as a captain; Bob Newman also now a captain; and John Hallenbeck, who was promoted to the rank of lieutenant (jg) at the Naval Repair Base in New Orleans. Johnny saw action in North Africa and the Mediterranean before receiving his present assignment in the Communications Department.

Recent word of Allan Jacobson is that after being sent to France in September '44 he was wounded in action on December 6 but is now doing all right in a hospital somewhere in France. Sol Jacobson is also wearing a Purple Heart, but there are no details available except that he is serving with the Infantry. Ned Mudge is now a captain with the AAF in France and has been overseas some fifteen months. Since we last heard from him he has been married to Miss Elizabeth Waterhouse of Stoneham, Mass., the exact date, October 17, 1942. Warren Schmid is another who has been married for several years without sending in word. The girl, Barbara Maurer, the date April 11, 1942, and the results, Ann Bigelow, January 29, 1944. A note from Lt. Seymour Dunn

I am still in the Air Navigation Training Program, currently at NAS Shawnee, Okla., of all places. The job involves a good deal of flying, and whatever else may be said about it, Oklahoma is a good place to fly from Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, New Orleans are all within range of our training flights Bob Reynolds '34 is also on the staff here. While the school was at Hollywood, Fla., I saw Stan Abercrombie when he was at Indoctrination School there and Dick Emerson when he appeared for Radar school. Last July while on a flight west we stopped at Albuquerque for gas and lunch, and incidentally a thirty-minute Tenth Reunion with Jack Feth, who was about to move on to Tucson and the University of Arizona.

Joe Swensson is back in civies after receiving a medical discharge from the Navy and is serving the Behr-Manning Corp. as an abrasive products engineer up in Newington, Conn. Hugh Logan is another that has been able to pack his sailor suit away and spend more time with the kiddies.

Sgt. Bob Webb, who is entitled to wear more medals and stripes than his uniform will conveniently hold gives a breezy sketch of what's been happening to Mrs. Webb's little boy Robert during the past few years:

Returned to the U.S.A. last September from Bougainville after 32 months overseas. We left in January 1942, spent a week in Australia, then occupied New Caledonia. Later, as a scout and patrol leader, I took part in the Guadalcanal campaign from November '42, until the island was secured early in 1943. Spent about eight months in the Fiji Islands, thence to Bougainville. Returned from Bogey as an infantry officer candidate but they rejected me at Fort Benning on account of malaria. I am classified as a "recurring malarial fever case!" Eight attacks in all, three since returning to the U.S.A. My fourth year of service ends in April of this year. I was one of the early draftees

At the New York annual Alumni Dinner at the Hotel Pennsylvania—6:30 P.M., April 26, Mac Collins is class representative and Perry Woodbury is on the publicity committee.

Lt. Bob Rodman of the Coast Guard leaves much to the imagination as to what he's seen and done during the past few years with the simple statement that he has served on invasion boats which participated in the North African, Sicilian, Salerno, Normandy, and southern France invasions. (Look here Rodman, you may get away with that now because you evidently are a bit too busy to do much writing, but we're saving three full issues of these notes for your exclusive use at the end of the war to tell us what's been going on.)

Whoops, here I am at the end on my space already. See you later.

ONE OF CHENNAULT'S MEN, Perkins Bass '34 is with the AAF in China. He is a major.

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