1913
Line Wilson, in the Trust Department of the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, writes that Ray Bennett has done a lot of good work with the boys and girls of the South Pasadena High School. Their favorite song is "As the Backs go Tearing by" and Line's daughter is annoyed when he sings the correct words.
Dutch Barends and Ottila missed a visit from Bill Towler when he was in Ottawa last December, for the big blizzard prevented the trip to Buckingham. However, it brought forth a letter from Dutch with some interesting ing material. He goes to Hanover every three years now for glasses at the Eye Clinic "for no other specialist can keep me going." His son Howard went to Queen's three years studying art, wound up in medicine, and graduated in April '44 wjth high standing. He held an internship in the Ottawa Civic Hospital, as a private in the RCAM (Canadian Army Medical Corps), and he was married a few days after graduating. In February he was commissioned a lieutenant and is getting his army training now, so by August he'll be ready for the Japs as a captain. Dutch has his garden, of course, and aside from curling in the winter, his hobbies are fishing and boating, when he can get some gas.
Mary Shepler has written that she and Annabelle are well, but that Annabelle's husband, a Marine officer, died of wounds in the Pacific on October 5, 1944. Mary is continuing the Ladies' Ready-to-Wear Store, operated by Russ for so many years.
Ensign Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was married on March 3 at Wilmington, Delaware, to Louise Brewer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell P. Brewer of Longwood, Rennet Square, Pa. Lieutenant Colonel Bart was his son's best man and the ushers were two Wilmington fellows, and the bride's brother. Young Alan graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in June 1944, and is attached to a destroyer in the Pacific area.
Lt. Comdr. Al Dessau has been in the. Navy since December 1942. His first assignment (December 1942 to September 1943) was with the Naval Advisors Office, N. Y„ expediting delivery of contracts; next (October 1943 to July 1944) Atlanta, Ga., with the Industry Cooperation Division O P & M, locating and recommending manufacturing facilities capable of handling Navy contracts; then at Alameda, Calif., with the District Civilian Personnel Office as senior member of the 12th Naval District Labor Board, which hires civilians who work at various naval establishments throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He and Heth had a marvelous overland trip from Atlanta to San Francisco. A 1 writes, "Maybe I haven't 'seen the world' since joining the Navy, but I've been in 26 of the United States." In eight months they still haven't found an apartment, so are living at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in 'Frisco. He has put in for inactive duty and expects to be in New York about May 1 "with bow tie and the privilege of paying an income tax." He has seen Chet VanderPyl in San Francisco, attended the wedding at Santa Rosa of Walter Fitzpatrick Jr., and George and Ruth Munroe's son George ('43), now a lieutenant (jg)> spent Thanksgiving with them prior to his sailing to the South Pacific.
Ralph Samuel heads as president the newly organized New York Chapter of the American Jewish Committee designed to protect civil and religious rights of Jews and to counteract bigotry and anti-semitism. Ralph heads, or is interested in, a long list of welfare boards and committees.
'09, Air Force engineer in the Northern Solomons as it appeared in 1943. STATIONED AT ALAMEDA, Calif., Lf. Cmdr. A. H. Dessau '13 USNR is at the U. S. Naval Air Station with the District Civilian Personnel Office as senior member, 12th Naval District Labor Board.
Secretary, Box 2057, BOSTON 6, MASS, Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
