1947

To help us this month we have your information cards which you have returned to us from the last newsletter. The return has been good, but we hope to have many more of the cards in before the month is up. You may have noticed that we neglected to ask where you are now stationed, and I find that the only way I have of answering this question for many of the fellows who returned the cards is by the postmark.

Announcement of the death of David Aldom was received recently. Dave was killed in action in Germany on the 14th of April, 1945. An obituary is included in this issue.

We are happily surprised to hear that two members of the class are now commissioned. Arnie Kramer, a lieutenant in the Infantry, has been stationed at Camp Croft for some time and expects to see action soon. Don Edwards, a private just a few weeks ago, successfully completed his training at Fort Benning OCS, received his commission as second lieutenant, and is now headed for Camp Robinson, Ark.

The fellows who left from Dartmouth V-12 for midshipman school recently all report that the going is tough. Jeff Mills, at Cornell, says that he is mighty thankful for Prof. Goddard's courses in Navigation and Naval Organization. Jim Osborne is alone at Notre Dame and has just one thing on his mind, that gold stripe. For some time, Kent White has been at Northwestern University in V-12 and hopes to get his commission July 1946.

Bill Deevy sends us greetings from Norfolk where he has been for six months after graduating from aviation electrician's school in Jacksonville, Fla., in November. Bill says that the last he heard from Ralph De Fonce, he was with a chemical company in New Guinea. Bruce Mather is a private in the Army Air Corps in Yuma, Arizona, and pessimistically reports that if he is lucky, he will go to preflight training in about two years. Manny Banero reports having seen Bruce Mather, George Houze, and Bill Dahlin at Keesler Field, Miss.

Henry Brezinski has been waiting ten long months as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Corps for an opening in Navigation School. Richard Shribman, Ph. M. 3/c, leaves soon for the West Coast after spending ten months at different bases in Florida. Bill Melohn has gone overseas, while George Moses is now stationed in Portland, Maine, after leaving radio school at Sampson. Dick Leary has been overseas since October '44 with the 9th Army, and Bob Teaze is now in Minnesota after spending a year at the University of Michigan studying Japanese. Dick Sears, with the ma- rines, graduated as a Radar Technician from Camp Lejeune, in July '44, trained with the Air Corp at Cherry Point, N. C., and left for San Diego and the Pacific in January of this year. George Woodward, soon to be a Ph.M. 3/c is now stationed at Chelsea, Mass., and Bob Nelson has just completed his radio technician course and is now specializing. He is looking forward to a short leave before going to active duty.

Secretary, COSO, Hanover, N. H. Treasurery COSO, Hanover, N. H.