1944

With deep sorrow we report the death of two more of our classmates. S/Sgt. Joel S. Coffin II was killed in action with the Infantry in Italy on March 3. Lt. (jg) Steve Holmes, our class treasurer, was killed in action on Iwo Jima while fighting with the Fifth Marine Division. He had been previously wounded and had recovered.

Lt. (jg) Edwin McGowan has been reported lpissing in action in the South Pacific since January 16, 1945. He had been in the South Pacific for a year as a pilot with a torpedo squadron based on a carrier. S/Sgt. Jack Landon writes that he is now home from India and China where for the past year he has been flying as a gunner on a B-29. Quoting from his letter:

"Chuck Foster was with me the entire time overseas and also returned to good old Shangri-La. Lt. Dick Meyer is a photo officer at the Charleston Army Air Base. Also have been hearing from Dave McGregor, who is on Palau, from last report. The 11th of April I go to Santa Anna for redistribution. From there, who knows? Please send my greetings to Bill Hinson and Bob Hyde." .... Win Martin has been plenty busy of late in the Philippines Steve Stephenson is overseas in C.8.1 Lt. Harry Davis recently graduated from an officer's radio communications course at Chanute Field, 111. He then was shipped to Florida for advance radio training Bob Rader writes from France, "Just received my January ALUMNI MAGAZINE and noted a coincidence—there were pictures of three Dartmouth men all in the same group here—Capt. H. H. Neele '4l, First Lieu- tenant Rick Crabtree '45, and mysef. Johnson '44, who is missing in action, and Churchill '44, are other Dartmouth men who were or are in this outfit."

This afternoon in quest of news we quizzed Monte DuVal,. who offered that he thought Frank Jones to be in France and Jim Howsen to be at sea on the USS —. Frank Ebaugh volunteered that he had recently found Spence Baird to be quite healthy in Hanover, and that the latter had reported Lou Capek to have been in Hanover not too long ago. Then this evening while waiting for a crosstown bus we were hailed by Vint Mitchell, newly commissioned navigator and on leave before reporting back to San Carcos, Texas. He had seen Bob Smith in Texas, but didn't know his present location. Vint had had a long letter from Dick Morse, now a S/Sgt. in. Burma, and at dinner we wondered about the whereabouts of many others including Rick Bradley, Moe Distin, Greg Rabassa, Tom Streeter, and # Dick Kerwin Horace Blood and Dave Merrill were bumped into in the past month at Bellevue Hospital "Haystack" Koenig gets into New York with some regularity, he being a medical corpsman on a big troop transport carrying wounded back from Europe From "Cutter" Jack writing from Italy comes the following: "Have just completed twenty missions as a navigator in B-4s. John Buck '44 just landed here at this group- He is in the Sqdn." .... Don Evans is in or about the Philippines Ralph Sitley is in Germany. Lt. Len Landry was wounded in action in Italy, and, we are happy to report, is enjoying a good convalescence in a hospital somewhere in Italy. Service Promotions: Ensigns Roy Briggs, Steve Flynn, Bill Hale, John Tyler; Lt. (Jg)s Nolan Benner, Bob Higgons, Dick Ostberg, and Dick Revenaugh; Lt. Ernie Rice; and Capt. Ja Densmore. Ja and his wife are d,ue for additional congratulations—on the birth of a baby daughter on Easter Sunday.

Bob Petersen is the father of a second baby daughter. Brides and Grooms: Nolan Benner is married to the former Barbara Young. He is now in the Pacific as disbursing officer on a Destroyer Escort; Ens. Bill Benoist is married to Irving Royster of Norfolk, Va.; Sgt. Dick Davis and Dorothy Holmes of Newtonville, Mass. Taylor Pratt's bride is Jacqueline Smith of Melrose, Mass.; Sgt. Don Comes and Jeanne Smyth of Midland Park, N. J.; Don is just recently back from fifteen months in the India-Burma theatre, and is now at Officer's Candidate School at Fort Benning.

Engagements: Ens. Tom Douglas and Suzette van Daell of Scarsdale, N. Y., and Colby Junior, formerly a test pilot in the Wasps. Here's one that really has to get a double stamp of approvalWiley Hitchcock and Ann Burnham of Westport, Conn. Wiley is studying at the University of Michigan; Harry Grieger and Virginia Wallace of Hamden, Conn., Harry now being stationed in the Philippines; Don Pfeifle and Maryann Trask of Bellerose, N. Y.; and Herb Storfer and Hope Buist of Mount Vernon, N. Y., now studying at Columbia. Herb is camp show director of G. I. Music Cos.

Boge Bogart is again doing a great job atthumping the drum for our Alumni Fundcampaign. Let's get behind him and put '44at the top!

CHECKING OUT OF INDIA on his way to the States to attend OCS, Sgt. Donald A. Conies '44 gets bellhop service from his Indian bearer "Sammy/7

Secretary, Cornell University Medical School 1300 York Ave., New York City