1943
The Spring Term opened officially today with the Class of '50 conspicuous to the extent oF making us "old timers" aware of our age and our physical disabilities. Offhand, I can say there is a great increase in members of our class. Beyond that, however, I have very little to say as the College hasn't any list available, or if they have, I haven't been able to get my hands on it. I have met a few classmates and here they are.
Rog Thomas was discharged the 13th of February and is pretty well absorbed with second-year Tuck and domesticity. Rog is married to the former Mary Urquhart, Colby Jr. College '43. They are living in Middle Fayer, evidently having seen the right people at the right time. I caught Rog in Tanzi's shopping today quite a sheepish look on his face. He has to get two meals a day since Mary is a lab technician at the Hospital. "Kelly" Coffin is back for a semester, but due to the housing shortage, his wife, Georgia, and baby, Leslie Ann, are staying home. "Butch"Coningswood is down at Tuck after thirty-six months with the AUS. Bob and Janet Krurnm are living in South Fayer, I believe; Bob is another Tuck man. "Scotty" Mitchell, recently discharged from the Service after serving with the Finance Department in the South Pacific, is at Tuck, too. The same with Herb
Schaffner, who was discharged from the Army with sixteen months in the ETO behind him. ArtLynn was discharged from the Navy on the 20th of January, having served as a Flight Instructor at Corpus Christi. Art is a Thayer man and is back with his wife. More about them further down the column. "Gus" Taylor and Bob Hardy are two more Tuck men, BillMaeck, too. Binney Tower is down at Thayer having just been discharged from the Marines. Harry Hopper showed up in Hanover after a long absence. Harry joined the American Field Service back in the early part of 1942, then joined the Navy from which he was just released. A couple of semesters of economics and he will go back to Pasadena to work for his father. Ray Colby has a semester to go to get his degree and Stan Lambert is down at Tuck (or he will be) after a short stay in New York selling real estate. Roy Kirch and Harry Gustafson are here with their wives, Hank Coulter, and "Bud" Silverstein, too.
Jim Wellington and Paul Weinbrenner are back, but I haven't had a chance to see either of them long enough to know their plans. Next month, perhaps. Dave Hoffman, after nine months of internship at the Hospital here, is packing up for a career in the Navy. Dave's wife, Beverly and Davy Jr. will stay here in Hanover. "Doc" Wilson is on call, too, although he seems to prefer the Army. Just what their tour of duty will consist of no one seems to know. However, prospects are far from bright but "Why be irritated?" Dick Eymann is living in Hanover. Dick just got back from Okinawa and has his wife and son with him. Bob Purdy is back from duty with the Navy in both the Atlantic and Pacific. I might add that Bob is one of the few single men left in our class, judging from the way things look around here.
And now we'll leave this delightful town of
Hanover for news of the world in general. Our class secretary, Ed Bock, is once again a civilian but, I might add, is still in Japan doing work for the Government. I'm not exactly sure what Ed is doing; I did have a few notes about him written on the back of an envelope, but evidently that is a foolish thing to do because I can't find it. However, I'm sure he will write me a letter soon .... when he gets this copy .... with instructions, etc. Buzz Cutting and his wife, Olga, are in New York, address and nature of work unknown at this date. To this date, Paul Parker is still on the S. 5. Lejeune ferrying troops back from Europe. Fred Stockwell was discharged recently and is back with his wife and child in Belmont. Ran into Walt Pettit skiing at Woodstock one fine weekend. Walt was recently discharged from the Army, having served 31 months with a Troop Carrier Wing in the ETO. He is now at Columbia studying Industrial Relations. From Walt I learned that Al Eisenman is still in the Signal Corps at West Point writing or rewriting technical manuals. Jim Doucette and his wife are in New York, the former attending Columbia Teachers College. Look up Jim Evans, Jim. Bob Taylor is there, too, now that I think of it. The same afternoon I met Bob Frothing,ham '42, who told me that his brother Mike is still in the Navy somewhere on the East Coast. Mike wants to pick up a little practical experience in business somewhere, then return to Tuck. Jack O'Donnell, from the latest report, is still with the Army Weather Detachment in Arizona, thinking seriously about going to Forestry School and about a girl he met while he was stationed in Washington in the Pentagon Building. Powell Groner is a junior exec in Kansas City, and "Coyote" Tyler, discharged from the Naval Air Corps, is back in Wyoming as an "oil maggot" (to use his own words, not mine). Mel Fenichell was back in Hanover for a couple of weekends of skiing (if one can call it that) and will in all probability return to South America with Standard Oil. Johnny Jenkins is located in New York, Chuck Longfield in Ohio working with a steel firm. Sparky Adams is working in St. Louis with Woolworth.
Received a very nice letter from Don Clark, recuperating from an appendectomy. Don was one of the large group of fellows from our class who were commissioned at Notre Dame in the spring of '43. He spent two years in the Pacific on board the USS Washington. At this particular moment he is waiting for his discharge in April while being stationed on the USS Franklin in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In May he and Dottie Hoffman will be married. Any '43s in the vicinity of Scranton, Pa., on May 4 are welcome to come to the wedding. In the near future Don expects to go to Pratt Institute to study commercial art. Thanks for the news, Don.
George Van Petten is a physician at the U. S. Naval Hospital at Sampson, N. Y. JohnnyCook is in Chicago working as Transportation Agent for the Braniff Airways, Inc.
Weddings are as follows: On January 21, Miss Peggy Pounds was married to Lt. (jg) Lee Anderson Jr. Lee is back from the Pacific where he served eighteen months on a P.T. boat. Miss Lee Hensley was married on January SI to Roger Wolbarst. The bride was recently discharged from the Women's Marine Corps Reserve after serving for thirty months. Rog served three years in the AUS, including combat activities behind the enemy lines in Burma with the OSS. They will live in Providence. On February 3, Miss Natalie Smith and Lt. (jg) Walter Chisholm were married in the East Greenwich Methodist Church. Walt graduated from Tufts Dental College in 1945 and is now stationed in Norfolk, Va. Miss Constance Berkholtz was married to Chuck Longfield recently. They met in Honolulu where both served with the Marines. Miss Forrestine Smith was married to Art Lynn on the 20th of February.
And engagements: Miss Dottie Hoffman to Lt. Don Clark; Miss Barbara Vickery to PhilipBowie; Miss Dianne Levine to Lt. AllanHirschberg.
By this time I hope that most of you have decided what your plans will be. Write me what they are, and send any photographs that would be of interest.—PLEASE!
BACK IN HANOVER, FiVE '43 VISITORS having a look at its peace-time reconversion activities are, left to right, Mel Fenichell, John Hyde, Lee Silverstein, Henry Coulter and Jim Gilfillan.
Secretary, 3 School St., Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, Shelburne, Vt.
