1944

We just recently received word of the death of Ed McGowan, who was shot down over Hong Kong Harbor in January of last year. Our deepest regrets go to his family.

This month brings a letter from MarshClark, who is back from Pacific duty on the submarine Seadragon and has been assigned to another, the Flasher. Quoting from his letter:

Familiar faces in the strangest places: At the St. Francis in San Francisco, Al Hirshherg '43 mumbling in his beer because he didn't have anything to wear but the dirty suit of khaki he had on. He had just arrived that day from Okinawa after being one of the few survivors when the ship he was commanding.—'an LSM—was hit by three Kamakazi planes. Norm Brown '45 almost ran me down with a truck in Guantanamo. He is a Navy Supply Corps Ensign, married, and at the time he was negotiating to have his wife join him because he expected to be there for about eighteen months. Dave Mills '44 turned up in Key West on an LCI. He was aboard the same ship in the Mediterranean during the invasion of southern France. Left Key West on leave September first and just missed Bill Remsen. He was on the submarine Medregal and is still there as far as I know. In Providence over Navy Day ran into Dick Rondeau wearing a most uncomfortable brace around his neck, but a cheerful smile. He went through the campaigns of Iwo and Okinawa without a scratch, only to break his neck at a rest camp on a supposedly safe island. Dropped into the BOQ at Boston for a short beer before dinner one evening and ran into Bud Welsh. He had just completed a successful five-round bout with the separation center and severed all connections with the Navy Air Corps. In the course of the evening we ran into Jack Lear '43, who was convalescing from an attack of pleurisy which sent him back from the Okinawa campaign. Bud said that BillBarrett was also in Boston for discharge from the Air Corps.

In New York: Don Gales '42, one-time art editor of the Jack-O-Lantern, on terminal leave from the Navy Air Corps and looking for a job. At the Biltmore Bar, Larry Noble '43 with some wild tales about PT boat duty in the Mediterranean, and wearing the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, which he wouldn't explain. Dick Riggs '42 was in and out of New York a lot before being discharged from the Navy Air Corps, Jim Elliman '43 turned up at the Dartmouth Club one evening with Jim Olsen's sister. He had just relinquished command of an SC prior to .going to the South Pacific. Tom Breen in civilian clothes and bending an elbow at the Blue Angel.

Around Washington: Jack Meleney '43, an ensign, and doing some sort of work in connection with the Army-Navy merger fight. Gene MacCarthy'43 IS a big gun in BuPers after a long tour of duty on PCs.

Incidental intelligence: A dance at the Greenwich Country Club brought out Jack Sterling '44 looking in great shape despite the beating he took on Saipan with the Marines; Hal Eckhardt '42 out of the Navy Air Corps and highly amused by the "gook" decoration bestowed on Dick Riggs by the Brazilian government. Bill Stewart '45, married and minus his Coast Guard uniform; and hemArnold, whom I saw but didn't get a chance to talk to. At Tilton General Hospital, Fort Dix, is WaltMuller '45, who flew a good many missions in Italy and then got hurt "in practice." Kent Hutchinson'43 writes that he is now a lieutenant in the Army and sweating it out in Manila, and Harry Davidson's father says the "Rock" is in Tokyo and quite pessimistic about an early return.

Thanks a lot, Marsh, for the letter and all the news.

Ted Colwell relays along a letter from JoeGoldstein, from which we quote:

I have one of the most fabulous jobs an Army man could possibly have here in Tokyo. It is my job with four other officers to censor all movies, plays, musicals shown in Japan, in addition to checking all records being made in Japan today. They have been under the rigid censorship of the Imperial Police for so long that it is hard for them to realize that they are free to write what they wish within the limits set by us, which are no more than preventing them from spreading Fascist doctrines, slurring other peoples and making fun of the new-won freedom of women.

Service promotions to be noted this month are those of Lt. (jg)'s Fred Cohn, Al Faber, and Dave Little Lt. (jg) Ross Higier is now serving on the Destroyer Escort USSScroggins in the Atlantic Dick Allenby is now a Radar Officer in Trinidad. His wife, the former Julie Zischke of Highland Park, Ill., is attending Scripps College in California. ....John Rexford recently received his degree, having completed his course after returning from service in the OSS..... Tech. Sgt. John S. Lewis recently met his brother Tom in the Philippines where John is in charge of the Radar unit on Samar.

Word of mouth has it that "Satch" Revenaugh is out of the Navy Air Corps, and planning to return to Dartmouth soon DickMorse is back from India and Burma, discharged from the Army and ready to go back to school Jock Brown is doing mathematical work for the Army. Hall Cannon is back playing on the hockey team, and BobMyers is the captain and large part of the basketball picture at Hanover Ben Jones is stationed in a resort town in Switzerland. ....Hal Woods is another of the many '44s who have returned to Hanover.... ClintGardner is home from a long tour of duty in the European Theatre.

Among those who have registered at the Hanover Inn in the past few months have been: Lt. and Mrs. Charles R. Ready, Tom and Mrs. Douglas, Jack Lovewell and wife, Ed and Mrs. Seidman, Henry Allen, JackSchultz, Brand Beacham, and Dan Donovan and wife.

Spence Baud and Betty Van Buskirk were married last month in New York.

Secretary, Cornell Medical College 1300 York Ave., New York 21, N. Y.