1940
Reunion plans are in shape for the big time July 12, 13, and 14, final decisions depending upon agreement from Hanover as to scheduled times for the banquet, picnic, and so on. An ample supply of malt beverages is promised, the College has arranged several alumni functions, and everything points to a worthwhile weekend. Details will appear in the Indian Drum from time to time, probably some of them before this gets to you; dormitory reservations will be direct with the College, and we'll certainly get in touch with you on the item of finances before the end of May. If any of you have questions on Reunion, let us know. Hanover is undoubtedly loaded down from here in, and it'll help them, and us, to write here. If you haven't answered the questionnaire sent out in the first Indian Drum, please hop to it. We can't plan effectively without some idea of how many will be there. And if you aren't going to be able to make it, we'd still like to know in order to get the picture.
Two more '40's have been officially changed in status from missing in action to presumed dead by the War Department. Capt. DukeLyon, missing since February 23, 1945, was a fighter pilot in the Eighth Air Force. He was piloting a P-51 on escort duty to Zwickau, Germany, when reported missing. No clues on what prevented his returning to base have appeared since then. Lt. Bill Buttfield was in command of a B-29 shot down over Nagoya, Japan, April 7, 1945. No word has been received of Bill or his crew. The class will be saddened by this news of two of its members.
Changes of address, which are all too frequently the only dope we get on the progress some of you are making in society, are somewhat unreliable as sources of news. The only way to be sure of straight stuff in this column is to write in yourselves. Anyway, Doc Aulmann's new address is identical with that of J Rourke, entrepreneur. The assumption seems valid, therefore, that he is an employee of Jack Rourke Productions. Cec Moore shows up with another "care of" address, so we say that he has gone overseas again for Pan-American. Clay Macdonald changes his to Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara, Calif. Rog Thiele can now be found at a Howard Johnson in White Plains. Bill Coulson will answer if paged at the Corn Products Refining Co. offices in Brooklyn. DonShippam is training for store management with the Gamble chain, currently holing up in Brainerd, Minn.
The mailbag is somewhat lean, but newsworthy. Cliff Holmes wrote in from Fort Bliss, Texas, "In the last year I have made three changes of station, travelled 4000 miles on the U. S. The total movement can be reckoned in feet, the time to make it in seconds on foot. At this time last year I was in the next barracks, a student. Now, I'm an instructor, radar department, AAA school." Cliff is itching to get out and back to northern New England in teaching. A letter from Bill Bumsted has been overlooked since January. He wrote that the Army still held him, prognosis for June, and his latest stop was to be at Camp Stoneman, Calif- Herb Condit checked in after getting his discharge, finding a job with Newark Enameling Corp., in Bloomfield, N. J., locating an extremely unsatisfactory one-room place to live in for himself, wife and youngun, and settling down to life as a civilian. Herb was a captain, Medical Administration Corps. He reports visits from Bob Draper, newly enengaged to a North Carolina gal, and expecting early discharge from the Navy, and BillMercer, working for IBM in Newark and living with his wife and two sons in Glen Ridge, N. J. A month ago we heard from Bert Blake, pride of Scarsdale, home from the war and the large mahogany desk the Army provided him. Bert is working for a paper house out of New York, and evidently has purchased a home in Crestwood, heart of Westchester, for middle of May occupancy. He's run into or over, in the course of his travels recently, Bill Hutch, tied up with Coca-Cola, and Lee Brekke doing something with cosmetics.
Hanover's ever efficient press clipping service comes up with, for this month: Larry Burgin, minister of the Orient, Long Island, Congregational Church, is the newly elected President of the Suffolk County Council of Churches and Christian Education. Larry looks a little fuller in the face in the picture accompanying the article on his election. Capt. Joe Sudarsky was reported in January to be heading back to Germany for duty with the War Crimes Branch, European Headquarters.
Births, engagements and marriages always seem to wind up this column. Assuredly it's not intentional, it's just easier to write this way. Anyway, we have for reporting, the birth of Sheila Jane Fitzgerald to Major and Mrs. Jack last January 10, and the marriages of Hank Marlor to Martha Bissell January 12, and Bob MacMillen to Jane Crosbie March 30.
The 1940 visitors to Hanover in February and March who stayed at the Inn were Capt. Hank Dahl, Lt. and Mrs. Fred Johnson, Lt. Jack Schleicher, Ed and Mrs. Schechter, Perry and Mrs. Weston, Bill and Mrs. Hotaling,Walt Bernstein, Dick Glendinning, and DaveGibson.
TRAINEE for the position of store manager, Donald R. Shippam '40 has joined the company of Gamble-Skogmo. He is shown here with his wife Alice and daughter Carolyn.
Acting Secretary, i Terrace St., Montpelier, Vt. Treasurer, 8040 Diggs Rd., Norfolk 5, Va.
