1933

Our spot in the College's mammoth Reunion program next summer has been set for July 5-6-7, a break for us, since the holiday will no doubt mean that quite a number will be able to come who would not otherwise be able to. The classes of '34, '35, and '36 will be reuning with us. Plans are in the making for the banquet, picnic, etc., and we'll be able to give you more dope on this next-month. In the meantime note the dates and plan accordingly.

Last month we gave you the bare facts of the marriage in December of Lt. Bob Doscher and Mrs. Alta Weber King at Miami Beach. Now this month, if the girl in the MAGAZINE Office who sent us a Valentine will find the picture we brought in a couple of weeks ago, we'll put flesh on those bones, and we mean—Congratulations, Lieutenantl

We've compiled the service record of Lt.Comdr. C. Lothrop Rich for you. Here it is: Loppy went into the Navy in 1942, took his indoctrination course at Notre Dame and afterwards attended Mine Warfare School at Yorktown. His first assignment was the command of AmC Minesweeper 54 patrolling off Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico for eleven months. Then, in command of Minesweeper YMS 347, he went to Europe in December of 1943, and was CO of a flotilla of seven minesweepers that worked off the coast of England. During the invasion he was in the group of minesweepers that led the way to Utah Beach. There followed four months' duty in the Channel, living on K rations, during which time his flotilla lost one ship. Back to the U. S. in March, 1945, for a tour of duty at the Fleet Minesweeper School at Little Creek, Va. Then to the Pacific as commander of the U.S.S. Pirate AM275 to take part in the Okinawa campaign and in the landing in Japan. Since the end of the war he has also been in Korean waters, in Formosa, and Shanghai. In this Pacific tour Loppy was first commander of section 38, six ships, then commander of Squadron xi, twelve ships. He is still in service.

Ran into Walt Bezanso?i in Harvard Square a couple of weeks ago, just as he was returning to Harvard to take up teaching again. Walt was up against the housing problem, which is as bad in Cambridge as in Hanover, but I held him up long enough to find out that his last tour of duty had been on the carrier Intrepid off Japan and China in the closing days of the war. Wonder how the avalanche of freshman themes in English A will strike him, after that. Walt put us on the track of Paul Zamecnik, who is working on cancer research at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Paul has been in this field for some time, and has published a number of monographs. When the war broke out he was in Europe, engaged in research at the Karlsbad Laboratories. Caught in Copenhagen he fled across Europe and just managed to get out.

In the back from the wars department DickMeyer reports his return to St. Louis late in January on terminal leave, and that PeteGrace is back there doing business at the old stand. Bill Dowling, who went into the Army as a private in 1941 and worked up to major, recently returned to civilian life. Medico Ralph Keyes has resumed his practice in Walla Walla, Wash., after serving in the Navy. Lt. Comdr. Bill Starr is back to his law practice in Manchester, N. H., as a partner in the firm of Wyman, Starr, Booth, Wadleigh & Langdell. Lt. Gay Milius is taking up the law again in the Washington Office of McManus & Ernst.

Capt. Vincent Merrill is back in Watertown, Mass., where he has resumed his practice as a landscape architect, after a couple of years with the engineers in the European theatre, in France and Germany.

Capt. Tom Noonan, AAF, became engaged recently to Helen Kennedy, of Hazelton, Pa. C. H. Wagner Jr. has been promoted from secretary to vice president of the Parker Appliance Cos., in Cleveland.

Wes Beattie and Wood Foster made pilgrimages to Hanover recently and we were out of town on both occasions. Our leave is running out, however, and with the opening o£ the Spring Term in March we'll be expecting all '33 pilgrims to check in at 20 Valley Road, as well as at The Hanover Inn.

LT. ROBERT DOSCHER '33 takes a wife. With his bride, the former Mrs. Alta Weber King of Miami Beach, he plans soon to return to Pearl River, N. Y., and to the practise of law.

Secretary, 20 Valley Rd., Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 2812 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.