1939
There is hardly any need to go into the reporting of the first official 1946 class gathering, held in New Haven with the Yale game as a setting. Jerry Beatty has covered it fully in "Thirty-Nine Out." We might say in passing, that there seems to be a great deal of merit in such get-togethers, and many more are tentatively listed for the future in various cities throughout the country.
HERE AND THERE: Bob Kwis is now connected with "Better Homes and Gardens" (Meredith Publishing Co.) and is covering the eastern territory out of Des Moines, lowa, in a selling capacity Scott Taylor is owner of the Star Plunge Swimming Pool in Thermopolis, Wyoming. Scott advises that the temperature of the pool averages 94° F. and the water comes from the world's largest mineral hot springs. The Swimming Pool Czar is also the proud father of a son and a 1-year-old daughter The Rutland Herald says that Dr. Harland Deos has been appointed medical officer for the Rutland sub-regional office of the Veterans Administration Dick White is with the Union Box Co., Seattle, Wash Oliver Webb is now in Moscow with the American Embassy Hod Mecklem is a member of the V & M Operating Co., Nehalem, Oregon. This outfit has to do with logging in the grand old style of the great Northwest. Hod married the Senior Partner's daughter Jeanne, and has two young ones, Anne (3) and Peter (17 mos.) Endy Smith has been elected to the lofty position of Student Business Manager of the Boston University Law Review. Also a member of the same Review is Bob Winton. Sam Dearborn and Georgie Hanna are two late starters, in their first year of law, at the same institution
Kenny Mac Donald left for the West Coast in a red jeep and army trailer, to seek, his fortune. Wife Nono and son Douglas are following by plane.
WORD PICTURES: Dick Shaw with Lee, Shaw & McCreery, Attorneys at law, and Deputy District Attorney, in Denver, Col Steve Bradley doing graduate work at the Univ. of Colorado Bill Bradford with Worester Moulded Plastics Co., Worcester, Mass., as production manager Les Chase the Assistant Purchasing Agent for American Optical Co., Southbridge, Mass Fred Doll Assistant Manager of J. J. Ruff, Real Estate, N.Y.C. .... Jim Donovan stationed at The Basic School, Quantico, Va Bill Fairweather doctoring at Memorial Hospital, N.Y.C Bill Goodman with Bieber-Goodman Corp., Danbury, Conn., hat manufacturers Pep Gray with the U. S. Government in the Immigration & Naturalization Service, Mooers, N. Y.... Al Loberg a sales supervisor, Farm Service Division, General Mills Inc., Buffalo, N. Y Bill Martin a teacher and writer in Prattsville, N. Y.... Cornie Miller with Pratt & Whitney, 401 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. .... Phil Wentworth selling for The Texas Co., out of St. Louis.
DOWN THE AISLE: Jack Goldman married Larraine Budwig of Chicago, a graduate of the Univ. of Wisconsin, last July. Jack is in some manner of business in Chicago "O. P." Richardson announced his engagement to Miss Virginia Weeks of Fall River, Mass. No news on when the wedding is scheduled.
FOLLOWING THE STORK: Our able President, J. Moreau Brown has become a papa for the third time. Pamela Ashton Brown put in an appearance September 8, and joins her brother, young Moreau Stoddard, and sister Miss Christopher Knapp. Brownie now has himself a fine old home in Canton, N. Y., where he is Director of Admissions, at St. Lawrence University. Incidently the house is the birthplace of the well-known American Artist Frederic Remington. But it belongs to Brownie now On July 13 Emily Jeanne Robison arrived to gladden the hearts of Papa and Mama Earl and Jeanne. Earl is now the Treasurer of the New Milford Savings Bank, New Milford, Conn The Haven Falconers have recently had an addition, but we have no figures on the birthdate, weight, sex or name. Haven has since been reported on his way to India to handle matters of business.
WRITER OF THE MONTH: Foster Clippinger takes the honors this month with a long newsy autobiographical letter from the General Headquarters, Supreme Commander For The Allied Powers, Natural Resources Section, Tokyo, Japan, dated August 14. Excerpts are quoted below.
Well do I remember a year ago today. I had been living in a modern little brick house on Hickam Field, Honolulu, for about two months. At three o'clock in the morning a band came marching up the street with people following in pajamas, bathing suits, and some completely dressed. Torches, flashlights, and automobile lights illuminated the way. Overhead the sky was filled with criss-crossing searchlight beams playing back and forth, fire works, and tracer bullets from Pearl Harbor. "Twas a big night! The Japanese had finally and completely surrendered.
The next day we stood in a proverbial army line to draw carbine rifles and full field equipment preliminary to moving our headquarters to Guam. One gets a certain sense of futility in starting off to war the day after it is over I finally got promoted to captain which further added to my outlook on life.
Soon after our arrival at Guam, our headquarters established an advanced echelon in Tokyo and had to have daily couriers between the two places. So in September I came up here for a week and got my first look at a fairly completely devasted city. Entire areas were completely burned out, automobiles and street cars still stood in the middle of the streets, burned, twisted and rusted. The people were still uncertain what our attitude was going to be, so they ran into their little tin, hastily-constructed shanties whenever we passed. Tokyo and Yokohama were approximately 50% destroyed in three large fire bomb raids. They were tributes to our B-29's and a forecast of the end of the world if we get into another war. I took some trips to the neighboring villages and saw some towns entirely destroyed and others untouched. The people were tired, hungry, forlorn, and scared I returned to Guam to find out that our Strategic
Air Force HQ had been inactivated and the personnel were to be consolidated with the Far Eastern Air Force HQ to form the Pacific Air Command with headquarters in Manila
In Manila PACUSA was stationed at Fort William McKinley which is an old time Army Post and probably very lovely in its day. But it had been well reduced to shambles by the Japanese
In February I had a chance to act as an escort officer for movement of enlisted men from Manila to Korea. It was a leisurely week's trip on the nicest troop ship I've ever seen
After delivering our charges, we looked around the post town of Inchon and Seoul for a couple of days and then took a plane to Osaka where we hit bad weather. We had to stay there three days. In true sightseeing fashion we trudged all over town, rain or no, looking at castles, shrines, department stores, ruined buildings, and anything that anybody said we "should" see. I had phenagled temporary duty orders in Tokyo, so I came up here when the weather cleared. The trip from Korea was very interesting. We flew low over Hiroshima and circled it about three times to fully see the results of the atomic bomb. Then on the way to Tokyo we circled Mt. Fuji and looked at its snow capped peak and into its crater.
After arriving in Tokyo, I tried to see everything that I had missed on my trip in September dashed madly to and fro and, during a lull, someone told me about the possibility of taking a discharge in Tokyo and working here for the Army as a civilian for a year. The idea rather appealed to me since I wasn't sure what I wanted to do when I got out of the Army. I scouted around a bit, pounding the pavement as it were (I was then eligible for discharge). Finally found a job, which, because of my four years of army administrative work, offered me an interesting opportunity, a salary much more than I'm worth or could get in the States, and carried with it Field Grade Officer's privileges. That made up my mind. I went back to Manila, packed my things, saw a few sights I had missed, did some boating on Manila Bay, served as a Military Police one night, and came back to Tokyo for discharge. Once again I am wearing civilian clothes without a hat. Am still shuffling papers for the Army. The subject matter is certainly novel; the people are nice My biggest chore now is trying to learn to speak Japanese.
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1939 MERRY CHRISTMASAND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL !!
