1945
News from '45s in Hanover and elsewhere has reached a new low ebb this month, but at least there is no really bad news. According to cards from the Inn, men who sojourned up to Hanover for weekends during January include Sumner Dorfman, Sgt. Ed Harte,Dick Conklin, Joe Young, and Jerry Farrell and wife (which is news to us; you'd think we'd hear about these things that happen within twenty miles of our doorstep!), We imagine the campus at this time (pre-duckboard) with snow and happy, carefree students (the old grad speaking) looks much like the Dartmouth-in-Portrait (free plug) which hangs over our desk. Ah me!
The class continues to do pretty well for itself in the matrimonial department. Old Nelb did it at Christmas-time; he and former Virginia "Ginny" Greenwood (who 'most all Dartmouth men have heard of, if not met) were married in their home town, Lawrence, Mass. Spence Baird '44, Tasker Hatch, and Bill Ferguson were best man and ushers. Ginny graduated from Simmons; Bob is evidently still instructing chemistry in Steele. Allan Broivne was married in mid January to the former Miss Patricia Wilhelmi, both of Tacoma, Wash., in Tacoma where the couple will live. Roy Duke has engaged himself to Dorothy Marie Naughright of East Orange. (Everybody so far this month is pairing off with a hometown girl.) Roy served overseas for 20 months as a technical sergeant and is now heading back to finish up at Dartmouth. Lt. (jg) Bill Porter, according to a clipping we have, is due to be married to Miss Eve Breslin Peterson of Coronado, Calif., (not Bill's hometown) on January 12; so the chances are Bill is an old married man by now. The wife attended Ohio State and her father is a commander in the Navy.
Service promotions are naturally waning, but here are a few more: congratulations to Lt. (jg) Bill Porter, Lt. (jg) Chad Ramsdell, Capt. Al Gruer, and Capt. John Heminway (the last two are Army, not Navy, but nothing would surprise us.) Marty Anderholm received a citation for an action in which he was seriously wounded. The citation reads, in part:
For meritorious achievement in action during the period November 1, 1944, to May 8, 1945, in France and Germany: Pfc. Anderholm, a machine gunner, discharged his duties in a highly commendable manner throughout this period of combat operations. He especially distinguished himself on November 14, 1944, near Clairupt, France, when in the face of intense hostile enemy mortar and "artillery fire he courageously moved his weapon forward and delivered such accurate and devastating fire on the enemy that his company was able to flank the hostile force. Although wounded in this action, Pfc. Anderholm refused medical treatment until his mission was completed.
Courtesy of the Dartmouth News Service, we have the following:
Corporal Preston K. Aishton has received the Silver Star Award for gallantry in action on Peleliu as commander of a flame-throwing amphibian tractor. He made 8 successive close-range attacks against strong Japanese positions in caves and pockets on steep coral hillsides. His home address is 674 Hill Road, Winnetka, 111., where his wife, Dorothy F., lives.
Since last month, we have received a fine letter from Mr. V. C. Smith 'l7 telling us about little junior and one from Veec himself. (Veec still dots his "i's" the same way, but we are still glad to hear from him.) Quoting again:
You no doubt knew I was here on Guam—l was on the same ship, from San Diego to Pearl, as BudTyler. We broke up in Pearl at the Navy's request, and Bud shipped for Okinawa, while I was clapped into a NATS transport and flown to Guam. What the rush was, I'll never know—but I got here on 22 April and have been here ever since—B months. I was in CBMU No. 594 (we include these statistics for the benefit of anyone who understands Navy hieroglyphics) up until the last of November. Now I'm in CBMU No. 593, since No. 594 was inactivated. While there we maintained NSD Guam—supposedly the largest Naval Supply Depot in the world, though this may have been propaganda. The 593's job is maintaining NAB Orote (Orote being a peninsula on this rock). Some '4ss I have seen here include BobRoberts, Dave Davidson, and FI etch Clark. PappyTalbot has been on the island right along, but I've missed connections with him so far. I understand from the scuttlebut that Ty is back in Pearl now, but that may not be so. They also tell me TigerCandler has been roaming about the Philippines in the Admiral's Barge. I kept in touch with Quim (Warren Quimby, Marine) until he hit the West Coast, but he's owed me a letter for quite a while now and I don't know where he is (Quimby's past catches up with him). Well, in a fuzzy sort of way that brings you up to date on me. My chief occupation now is sweating out the point systemtoward the 43 required I have 27Vi. According to rough calculations this would earn me a pardon about September 1947, but maybe I will get out sooner.
Muchos gratias, Veec. Did I tell you I'd seen old E. B. Smith back at school in November? He looks just the same.
Also a short letter from WO (jg) Bob Epstein who is still moving hither and yon all over India, but plans to be back in this country and partaking of Hanover activities soon.
These notes are being written Carnival weekend, but not in Hanover, We can not speak as with a seeing-eye that the sun is brightly shining through the crisp cool air onto the dazzling snow covered with numerous guys and dates all gaily bedecked, but such is most probably the case. We have, however, followed the fun as closely as we could via newspaper and can repeat certain facts and know they are true: Dartmouth beat Cornell (in Ithaca) to take the EIL title again (for the tenth time in eleven years, or something like that); Dartmouth dropped the ski meet to McGill, but at least came in second in a field of eleven teams; Dartmouth beat Harvard in swimming (for further sporting details see "With Big Green Teams"). The really important news concerning the Carnival (and '4ss especially) is that out of a bevy of more than one thousand dates, the 1946 Carnival Queen is the former Miss Fay Phennel of Louisiana, now the wife of Russ Chase. How to go, Russ!
Let's hear from all you men!
SHARING THE HONORS with his wife Faye, named Queen of the Snows at the Winter Weekend, Russ Chase '45 maintains a safe hold on the cup and the Queen.
Acting Secretary, 273 Converse St., Longmeadow 6, Mass. Treasurer, Cos. E-2, ist Class, West Point, N. Y.
ANNUAL NEW YORK DINNER, APRIL 11 HOTEL COMMODORE AT 6:30 P.M.
