1932
Most exotic address of the year is Charlie Mayo's: Schooner Blue Sea, c/o General Delivery, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Ray Bartlett has another: Mademoislle, Advertising Dept., 122 East 42nd St., N. Y. C. 17. I'll take the schooner, and you, Keller, will you see what the boys in the back room will have.
A 1 Levi has a job at Black Mountain College amongst the Blue Ridges and forgotten coves of western North Carolina. A 1 Rose appears to be out of the Army and has a civilian address: 404 East 55th St., N. Y. C. 22. Major Paul Dunn is on inactive status at 3 Grove St.,. Winchester, Mass. Dr. Frank Brown can be found among the prominent citizenry of Henniker, N. H. Recently the Navy got wise to itself and promoted to the grade of lieutenant commander our own Dick Clarke and Rod Hatcher. Shel Reed, as earlier predicted, is now back at the Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, peeping and botanizing among his biological statistics. (Further note on Ray Bartlett, to whom the above crack does a slight injustice: Ray was assistant sales manager of the women's wear wholesale division of Botany Worsted Mills before entering the Navy; after discharge he became business manager for Street and Smith publications in the period January 1945-January 1946; in the latter month he became sales manager of the WWWD of Botany Mills, for which congratulations!) Bob Wilkin and his wife took a brief vacation at Hanover Inn over New Year's. Dr. and Mrs. Handy Auten were there in mid-January also. Early in December, Capt. Ed Smith was released from service at Orlando, Fla., after 59 months with the AAF. He served with the Third Air Force at various fields, and also with the OSS. Before entering the Air Forces, Ed was assistant general manager at the J. E. Smith Lumber Cos., in Waterbury, Conn. The word is that he's back at his desk. Early January brought the announcement of Bob Riddell's engagement to Elizabeth Lee White, daughter of former Judge David A. White of the Hotel Lenox, Buffalo. No date for the wedding has been set as far as my information goes.
The croix de guerre with sweaty palm for the best letter of the month goes to Major Dave Kirby, whose excellent account of various interesting matters I reproduce in full:
Now that the day of return to Real Life has been set and my orders issued for reporting to the Patterson Field Separation Center on 15 January, 1946, I want to report that what I missed most in the Army was civilian life. I have close to SO days' terminal leave coming, all of which will be gravy. In February I start work with an organization which specializes in Business Surveys and in Management Counseling: Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, with headquarters in Chicago. I look forward to crossing patter with more Dartmouth men in Real Life than I did in the Military.
John Sheldon, ex-Lt. USNR, returned to the Charles Stevens Women's Specialty Store on State St., Chicago, about the first of December. John and Midge recently had the great thrill of adopting a son, who was about three months old in mid-January. He sleeps in the crib with boxing-gloves hung at the head, and in the afternoon swaggers in a crewneck white sweater with big green "D" embossed thereon. He looks like such a fine young man, Adie and I are seriously considering sending our two daughters (aged respectively 3 years and 10 months) to Smith in order to keep up with him. Capt. Tom Wollaeger AAF was mustered out a few days before Thanksgiving. He had been stationed at Wright Field, assigned to the Procurement Division; with Gert and his two girls he returned to Milwaukee with ample terminal leave and general business acumen to insure a niche in Real Life in no time flat. Lt. Justin Stanley USNR returned several months ago from armed guard duty on merchant marine ships in the major oceans. And I mean major! He expects to resume his former connections with Isham, Lincoln and Beal, Chicago law firm. Red Tucker has recently returned from a most interesting assignment in Manila, where he was the U. S. Government's monetary representative in the office of President Osmena. Jim North, AAF major and special assistant to General Farth! ing, Pacific Overseas Air Technical Service Command, was given a distinctive award for initiative intrepitity, and courage above and beyond the call of duty for landing single-handed at his own insistence on the Island of Catalina, off the California coast. The award: a fur-lined bath-tub. Jim explains that in testing one of the AAF's new rescue boats he just couldn't resist making a landing. The major is now back with General Foods in N.Y.C. Peg, Jim, and son Nipper will soon be living in their new home in Greenwich, Conn.
Happy April Fool's Day!
Secretary, 178 Prospect Ave., Princeton, N. J. Treasurer, Room 1801, 80 Maiden Lane New York 7, N. Y.
