1932
Jack volunteered in December 1942, was commissioned first lieutenant March 11, 1943, promoted to captain in August of 1944, and in the following month sailed to the Pacific battleground. His C.O. stated that "Jack was not only killed in action but while performing a most important job and one which, surely as much as any other single job, was helping this war towards its completion." To his wife Janet, his daughter, his son, and his parents go the sympathy and best wishes of all those who knew Jack, and who add his name, with mixed sorrow and pride, to the lengthening list of heroic classmates who have died in the country's service.
News of Bob Wilkin reached this desk recently, by proxy from an undergraduate. Bob paid an April visit to Gotham on business for the Phelps-Dodge Copper Products Corporation, of which he is Pacific Coast manager, with business address at 6100 Garfield Ave., Los Angeles. Bob recalled the old jape of various students of James Dow McCallum on Old Timers' Day in the spring of '32 when all appeared for the English lecture in Wentworth Hall wearing reasonable facsimiles of the famed McCallum scarlet mustache.
The Jildo Cappio's daughter, Jill Anne, will be four months old June 22, and is the delight of her three and a half-year-old brother Jimmy.
Your secretary is delighted to record the birth of a son, Brian Arthur Baker, born May 1, 1945 in Princeton, and weighing seven pounds eleven ounces. As this is written, he is just girding his loins for the return journey from the hospital, and says he feels fine, and how about a steak and onions?
A good newsful letter from Lt. (jg) Whip Walser, who is assistant Boat Group commander and salvage officer of the landingcraft aboard an attack transport. Says his old water polo days have already come in handy, and he has qualified as a deep-sea diver. The Whipper relays news of Pete Mankowski, who took the communications course at Harvard, and is no doubt in the Pacific area by now. Whip saw Bill Phinney '31 "over several bottles of [New England?] rum," and Bill reported Don Richardson well and happy when last seen aboard another attack transport, sister ship to Whip's. During a two-weeks' preshipping leave, Whip was planning to fly east to Brewster, N. Y., to see Adeline and the fastgrowing Walser son. Good luck to him in what now remains to be done.
Recent service news indicates that Sonny Foley is now a major, as is Johnny Brett. We also have a slew of captains, including Dave Kir by. Art Robinson, and Rog Hofheins. Lt. Ed Cummings is active with the Navy, and has a home address at 4 Park Ave., Derry, N. Y. Doug Kelly is director of purchasing, C. R. Daniels, Inc., at 4900 Wetheredsville Rd., Baltimore 16. Dr. Barney Todd is beebusy at 57A Lothrop Street, Beverly, Mass. Dr. Waily Modarelli ditto at 1505 Central Ave., Union City, N. J. And Dr. Karl Andresen ditto at 312 Physician and Surgeon Bldg., Minneapolis 3. Lt. Carroll Boynton, erstwhile pilot and Dewey assistant, is working out of N. Y. C. with the Navy (section 233, Fleet P. 0., NYC). Myron Isaacs lives at 1228 65th Ave., Phila. 26; and Bill McCall at 3 Rossman Ave., Hudson, N. Y. Jim Tomlinson, who works for the Brown Cos. at Berlin (they didn't change the name), N. H., has a home address at 167 Washington St., and Bill Bennett occupies Apt. 10, 2260 Wooster Rd., Rocky River 16, Ohio, and Bob Kendall lives at 130 Maple St., New Britain, Conn.
That is all the news from this desk at the moment. For news hot off the griddle, see the 1932 Brickyard, under the editorship of Jim Whiton. It's not too late to help Bill Morton and friends with your Alumni Fund check the fatter the better.
Secretary, 178 Prospect Ave., Princeton, N. J. Treasurer, 7 North St., Old Greenwich, Conn.
Captain John Abbot Titcomb USMCR Killed in Action March 1, 1945, Luzon, Philippines Requiescat
