1946
It is now almost summer and Hanover has taken on its familiar coat of green, but not without a reasonable amount of cold and rainy spring weather. The big weekend of the semester (the Quarter Deck Hop) was held in the early part of May and took our thoughts back to house parties of freshman year. Storrs Pond will be opening soon and the senior fence is filled almost every evening with spectators watching intramural baseball. Varsity spring sports are well into their cam- paigns and most of the teams are doing pretty well. Carl McKinnon is. holding down the first-string catcher's berth on the baseball team and yours truly is playing No. 3 man on the golf team.
Once again we regret to report another death in the class. Lt. William (Whitey) Alworth was killed in action while on a fighter plane sweep over Italy. Our deepest sympathies are extended to his family. Ed Kirkland and Fred Wightman are both missing in action in the European theater, and Chuck Allen, Male McLane, Bob Hailer, and Gene Houlihan are all German prisoners of war. Since the battle in Europe is now over they will probably be liberated soon. We all certainly hope so.
Recently Seen in Town—Lt. Tony Brackett, lately commissioned in the Army Medical Corps (Administration) at New Orleans Ensigns Bill Trump and Harlan Brumstead; the latter was headed for Miami, Fla., after a short leave Ensign Don McCallister, who was headed for the South Pacific (Don's brother Al is one of the big guns of the class of '48, being a member of Green Key and playing varsity hockey and baseball) Dick Shambroom, commissioned in the Supply Corps at Harvard and now at sea.
In a recent letter from former Dartmouth V-12er Oweny Burns, he reported downing a few beers with both Bob Grant and Andy Bullis in Chicago. ... Al Belinkie is working and going to night school prior to entering Yale's Law School in July. (Working at home in Bridgeport.) Pvt. Bill Grant is in the South Pacific with Air Borne Troops, and took part in the Philippine campaign..... Bill Schulting is in Army OCS at Ft. Benning and expects soon to be commissioned. He was in town last Fall for a football game, with the little woman. Bob Canning is at Camp Bradford, Norfolk, Va. Jack Dellinger is a T/5 in Germany. Got a nice letter from Ted "Stretch" Fajen, who told us that Sgt. Jim Kennedy had been wounded and is back in the country at Percy Jones Hospital, Battle Creek, Mich. Also that Gene Bokor and Herm "Obe" Obermayer are in the same outfit in France, with Combat Engineers and enjoyed the boat ride over together. Ralph "Smitty" Smith was wounded in France and has seen a great deal of action. Lt. George Brown is in the same outfit Ens. Bobby Poet writes from the Pacific, where he is a supply and commissary officer. Bob was in V-12 here at Dartmouth till last June and ran for Harry Hillman on the track team. Some of the other old Crosby boys are also in the Pacific: Ensigns Jack Howard, and Rod Beach are on an LSM and a PCS respectively. Ensign Reg Pierce when last heard from was in Melville, R. 1., in PT Boat school. Reg was in training with Rod, Jack and Bob Poet, at Miami for a while. .... Bob Wilson has been discharged from the Army and is now at the University of Arizona. Dick Pringle is at home in Tulsa after graduating in February and expects to enter either Stanford or Texas University for graduate study. Ensign Phil Osberg was in Miami from last reports, along with Dale VanOtteran. Saw Lt. Dick Allen at the Inn for a few minutes the other day. He was up for a few days while on leave and expects to hit the C.8.1, theatre by mid-summer; he is now at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, in Ordnance work. "Magician" John Wolfe has returned to his pineapple plantation in Honolulu, with an A.B. tucked under his arm (or is it up his sleeve?). Jack Whitman (ensign) is in San Francisco after finishing mine warfare school in Yorktown, Va., and expects to leave for the South Pacific soon. Gil McDowell has been back in the V-12 unit here at Hanover after duty elsewhere. Phil Harper has recently been commissioned a second lieutenant in the AAFBob Grey is with the American Field Service in France. Lt. Tom Kerley is a pilot in the Air Corps in the ETO Lt. Bob Hooper, flying as a B-26 Marauder bombardier, has fifteen missions to his credit and has been awarde4 the Air Medal with two bronze Oak Leaf Clusters for action over Germany Harry Walsh has recently been promoted to the rank of captain and is acting as a pilot and flight leader in a B-24 Liberator group. Pfc. Roy Jerman has recently been liberated from a German prison camp by our advancing armies..... Manuel Soto received "distinction" on his comps in February and has returned to his native Porto Rico. Lt. Bill MacDougall, previously reported missing in a flight over Germany, is now in £ German prison camp. Co-pilot of a Flying Fortress, he holds the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters.
Tom Adams is now with Dun & Bradstreet doing industrial research work in New York. Ensign Bob Hodes has recently left Harvard after completing a course in Communications. Pfc. Bob Barrows is with the Infantry in France. Clark Judge and Don Furber are at Quantico in Marine OCS. .... Jim Dolan is a signalman on the U.S.S. in the Atlantic. Hal Marden is in the Army Medical Corps at Cornell Med School in New York City Ensign Bill Graulty is a gunnery officer on the U.S.S. out of Quincy, Mass. Ensign Jack Marlette is a pilot on a Mariner in the Naval Air Corps and is doing Atlantic coastal patrol duty. Bob Wenzel was commissioned an ensign in the Naval Supply Corps at Harvard last fall. First Lieutenant Bill Schuster, a bombardier on a B-24, has been awarded a third Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal. Pvt. Don Barr, Hanover boy and son of the assistant treasurer, was wounded in Belgium several months ago, but is recuperating rapidly. F/O Bob Doran is a B-24 navigator in the Mediterranean theater and has been twice cited "for outstanding performance of duty in armed conflict with the enemy." Phil Struhsacker has received an appointment to Annapolis in the class entering July 1945. Phil has oeen in the Infantry for two years and spent quite a bit of time in the ill-fated ASTP. . . . . Paul Lux (Lt.) recently completed a transition training course at Maxwell Field Ensign Dave Weld is in Miami after completing training in Communications at Harvard (certainly miss that golf we used to handle, Dave). Dave Blankenhorn and Clay Sikes are in Med School at University of Cincinnati. Johnny Potter recently completed Naval Air Corps Pre-Aight at Chapel Hill. Bob Bogart is back in town for several weeks after being wounded and discharged and plans to reenter school in July.
Hearts and Flowers—Ran into Perry Lesh in New York not so long ago and was surprised to find out he had been married in February, in Miami, to Barbara Drumm of Briarcliff and New York City; At that time the couple was headed for Washington. Louie Van Orden and Nancy Allen of Providence and Finch tied the knot recently. Lou Mills '45 was best man. Aviation Cadet Pete Daniel (remember his form on the diving board?) and Lydia Cruikshank of Alexandria, Va., were wed on Easter Sunday in Philly Bob Herd was married several months ago to Marian May of Pittsfield, Mass., and Syracuse U.
The following engagements have been announced recently:—Ensign Dave Lampert and Irma Mendelsohn of Brookline, Mass., and Wheaton. Dune Fitchet and Ruth Flint of Newton Center, Mass., and Wellesley. Dune is presently in OCS (Marines) at Camp Lejeune. Walt Emmett and Shirley Harrison of Calais, Me., and Kendall Hall (Walt is in the Navy). Lt. Jack Koeniger to Martha Weiman of Kenilworth, N. J., and Pine Manor. Jack is a fighter pilot in the Marine Air Corps.
That's all for now but let's hear from you guys—see you in August.
Acting Secretary, 431/4 So. Main St., Hanover, N. H.
