1942

At long last, I find that all of my not-too- subtle hints have not fallen upon deaf ears. Your old reporter, one Proc Page, is to return to you in the next issue. This I am sure will come as a great relief to all of you and that includes me too. I must admit that after each month's report is in, and all of the worry is over until the tenth of the next month, that I really enjoyed my close connection with you. It certainly kept the College close. But with all the Reunions coming up, and all the plans that they involve, I am happy to join the ranks of the readers. Therefore, this is official notice that any future letters or news bits will find their correct destination at the home of Mr. Page.

The sad news has been received from his family that Lt. Thomas W. Symons 3rd was killed in action over Germany on February 22, 1944. No further report of this tragic happening has been received and I am certain that I express the feeling of the class in its sympathy.

The news from the class is now normal. During the war, with '42's all over the world and being involved in events which should have normally occupied a whole column, the accounts had to be squeezed in. Now events

seem of slight importance as compared to those which happened every day during the war. For this reason I want to urge all of the class to send to Proc all the items of interest so that he will have something for his monthly writing.

Of course I can never say that marriages or announcements are ever of slight importance, so I will forthwith give you a list of those '42's who have either taken the fatal step or who are about to leap. They are the marriage of Miss Joan Rice to John J. Craig, and the engagement of Miss Mary Anne Niedringhaus to Lt. William M. McMahon USNR. I must say that with spring so near, the number of marriages and engagements is very small. Then again, it might be that there are only a few of the old singles like Stud Ewart and Burr Dewey left. Even they are not completely immune; so this department may contain some more names this spring.

The boys are still going back to Hanover and fulfilling their promises. Those returning last month were S/Sgt. John C. Rohrs; Lt. and Mrs. L. J. Caproni; Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Brown; Bud Dutton; Walt Haley; Bill Winternitz; Bob Wilson; Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Fanelli; Dave Hazelton; Bob Smith; Fred Brutschy; Chet Ray; Jim Mulligan; Lt. and Mrs. D. E. Williams; Mr. and Mrs. Bud Maynard; Don Amy; Ed Chalfant; Mr. and Mrs. Herb Swain; Lt. and Mrs. H. C. Englert; Bob Hickey; Don Gates; Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hooker; Capt. L. C. Wittaker; and Mr. and Mrs. Pete Giesler.

While I am listing items I might just as well turn right into the list of service promotions. They are Lt. (jg) Robert G. Hayssen; Lt. William McMahon; Capt. Harold Bond (inactive—but not in the Saturday EveningPost); Capt. Richard Ensor; Capt. Bate Ewart; Capt. Roily Wilhelmy; Lt. Comdr. Alfred R. Miller (inactive); Major George Hinkley; Lt. Comdr. Joe Fowler; Capt. Jim Fronde; and Ist Lt. Walt Hayley (inactive).

Bill Housel writes, and he is the only one, that he has just returned from his 19 months of assistance with the Navy, in which time he was in the Iwo invasion and the Okinawa affair. He saw several of the boys including Grove Wilkins, just before his death; Ed Ferbert, and Jim Mulligan. He has had a reunion with Dee Lamade and is now working for the Federal Reserve Bank in Philly. The only other news is some that you already know, namely that Roy Carruthers has been Captain of the Dartmouth squash team this past season, and that AL Miller (Lt. Comdr.) has returned after fifty-five months service in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Mediterranean.

1 think that that just about finishes the news for this month and in turn finishes me. I would like to remind you, however, that there is an Alumni Fund Campaign going on and the cooperation of every member of the class is being sought so that 1942 can lead the league. It may be interesting to note that Dartmouth has the largest number of Alumni participating in its activities through donations of any college in the United States. That has been so because of the loyalty and generosity of its sons. Let us keep that tradition from falling by all helping the College at a time when it most needs your assistance.

I hope that X can meet you all soon, if not this summer then at our regular Reunion in 1947. It has been a pleasure following you around the world and trying to hold the stretched strings together. Until such time as we shall meet again, I turn you over to the Sage of Calcutta, Burlington, and points between, your own Proc.

STILL THE WINNER, Ist Lt. Gus Broberg Jr. '41, famous Dartmouth basketball player, stands beside his bride, the former Mary Colwell, after the ceremony in Jacksonville, Fla., last February.

Secretary. R. D. No. 1, Rensselaer, N. Y.

Treasurer, 105 Maple St., Belmont, Mass.