1929

It was good to have a short visit the other day from Major Larry Lougee, just, back from Europe and the wars, perhaps a bit gray, but altogether hale and hearty, and casting about for a place to settle down. Lt. Squeek Redding is back, too, fresh out of the Navy, and already returned to the active practise of law with the Boston firm of Parks & Spencer. From Hyannis, down on Cape Cod, where a man can really live, comes word that Ken Wilson has reopened his law office after three years in the Navy. Another sailor boasting of his new civilian status is Lt. Corndr. Eddie Vossler, home again in Wheeling, W. Va., with his wife and their two boys, aged two and a half and one. Ed McGibbon has had his terminal leave and has opened new offices in Chicago.

Lt. Col. Bernie Berman is back in Waterbury, Conn., after three years in the Army Medical Corps, where he is enjoying his terminal leave, just hanging around waiting for a refresher course to start.

Lt. Bill Morgan got out of the Navy the first of November and is by now well settled back in his old job with the sales department of International Paper Co. But the really important event was the birth of Nancy Ross Morgan on January first, with whom the old man says he's as proud and pleased as Punch. What a way to start the New Year!

Stan Friedberg had two years of Array doctoring in New Guinea and the Philippines and is now back at his old stand, 122 South Michigan Ave., Chicago.

Eddie Walsh is out of the Navy and back with the American Can Co., in Baltimore. He says it seems good.

George Hersam has at last finished with the Royal Air Force and is now looking for civilian employment. Maybe George will have a chance now to send in a report summarizing his past globe-flying years.

Mort Crowell writes from Palo Alto:

It sure feels good to be sitting down to a desk to write instead of balancing a pad on your knee while sitting on a bunk. I enlisted early in '43 and spent one and one-half years in the Infantry with the 75th Division. Just before they went across, I was transferred to the Field Artillery and was with them a year. That outfit went to Japan, but I was too old to go along so they transferred me to the Armored School teaching gunnery. I was finally separated a couple of months ago and I can't tell you how good it is to be back in "civies." I'm not going to start up my old business until after the first of the year. In the meantime I've been relaxing and looking for a place to live. I finally had to settle for a house in the process of construction. We hope to have it completed January 15. I saw Jim Hodson and Dick Robin at the weekly luncheon in San Francisco the other day. They both looked prosperous and serious. I'm so darned tired of traveling that I doubt if I'll ever leave California again. This feeling will probably wear off in a year or so or in time for Reunion! Thank the gang for the two swell Christmas presents they sent me while I was in uniform.

Al Downing is back at his old job with theField Office Auditing Section of Air ReductionSales Co. He says he left Phil Gage behind atFt. Ord when he got out.

Earl Fyler is superintendent of Industrial Relations at Carnegie-Illinois Steel's South Works in Chicago, a hot job these days. A baby daughter has just joined the family. Son John is two years old.

Lt. Marv Braverman has recently become assistant to the Civilian Production Administrator.

A note from Mrs. Nelson Hartstone reports that Lt. Nel is still in the Navy on duty at Trinidad as Air Communications Officer.

Charlie Dudley reports a pleasant visit with Al Cooley in Buffalo. Herb Bissell writes:

Toledo suffered a loss with Ed Spetnagle moving to New York this month. Both Ed and myself have been with Auto-Lite about five years and my best wishes go with him to his new job and a bigger opportunity in New York, Standard Brands, I think it is. Eric Burgess and his wife visited our family from Akron several weeks ago. We went together to the Michigan-Minnesota game at Ann Arbor. The Bissell girls are now five and a half and nine—give every promise of being choice wives some day for a pair of lads that wear the green— of Hanover, N. H.

Dick Barrett has become associated with the Boston law firm of Powers & Hall, where he will specialize in tax law, continuing to carry on his tax practice, as well, in his New York office, 230 Park Ave. Phil Hoffman reports:

As of October Ist, my resignation as Assistant General Counsel of the War Production Board became effective. As of the same date, I joined the firm of Wegman, Spark, Hoffman & Burke, 60 Wall St., thereby completely collapsing a three-year-long rosy dream of a ninety-day vacation which was going to be taken between jobs. Such (to coin a brand new phrase) is life; and I suppose I should feel very lucky that I have a place to hang my hat. Things are humming here and the work I am doing is a most interesting and welcomed change from "bureaucracy." We are living in Orange, N. J. (177 Clairmont Terrace), where the family consists of the original wife and two children.

Phil Dinsmore reports:

I entered the Army June 25, 1943, and received my discharge October 25 of this year. In January 1944 I went overseas and after 21 months in England and France I was mighty glad to land in the U. S. again on October 19, 1945. Although I took basic in Infantry, I was transferred to the Signal Corps shortly after landing in England, and my duties from then on centered around the handling, servicing and the general administrative work connected with 16mm Motion Picture Projectors. It had its interesting angles, but as you can well imagine the work was considerably different from my civilian occupation with National Carbon Co., with which company I am again working, my headquarters being New Haven.

Rollie Nivison has been promoted to the rank of captain..... Dick Robin of Palo Alto tells of a visit from, the Hodsons and a more recent two-day reunion with Herb Ball.

Bill Irwin of the Ohio Pipe & Supply Company. Cleveland:

Mrs. Irwin and I were in Chicago last week and got together with Lew and Jerry Clark. They came in from Waukegan and we had dinner and a show together. It was really a big thrill for me to see Lew again and talk over old times. We both have a mutual interest in that Lew has an auxiliary sailboat while I have a power cruiser. Lew has been commodore of the yacht club in Waukegan. It is not very often that the sailors and "stink" boat operators get together and remain friends for very long, but I assure you we got along famously.

Dick Owsley wasn't complaining, he just wants things straightened out. He says: "In some way the secretary at Hanover has got me mixed with my brother and has bestowed the title of Major on me without benefit of the U. S. Army. If this is just a New Hampshire Major corresponding to the Kentucky Colonel, it is all right, but otherwise I wish you would correct your records and see that those of the College correspond."

After serving the United States Civil Service Commission in recruiting, placement and training activities for two and a half years, Ben Stacey has been appointed regional business consultant for New England of the Federal Department of Commerce. Ben was formerly on the staff of the Boston Chamber of Commerce in the Bureau of Commercial and Industrial Affairs. He will be available for consultation with veterans interested in establishing various types of business enterprises, and to assist small and large manufacturers and distributing firms to get the greatest benefit from the Commerce Department's many services.

Secretary, 75 Federal St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Batten, Barten, Durstine & Osborn 383 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y.