1941
A big shiny gold star and a box of Mars Bars to our great and good friend Lt. Hedden V. Miller, who had the signal honor of being first under the wire with a letter in answer to my pitiful pleas. Leave us profit by his good example, friends, so I can cease these monthly complaints.
Hed is stationed at the Camp Atterbury, Ind., Separation Center, and writes thusly:
As you can see, I am busy separating other officers from the service and will be until the middle of May when I expect to go home myself. However separation centers are still separation centers so I have all fingers crossed until I actually leave here. .... Last November I married Jean Moir of Syracuse, N. Y., Wellesley '44, whom I met while down at Harvard in pre-Army days.
I have heard from Bill Hammond off and on all during the war. After V-J day he went down to Hong Kong via Japan for some Naval duty—flagship to an admiral or something like that—after four years in the Pacific and thereabouts. He's now on his way back to the States.
I was stationed at Devens for some time last spring and ran into Major Freddie Lynch, just back from the European Theater and the Eighth Air Force. Still the same old Fred.
Have heard several times from Phil Hall. He is stationed in Seattle with the Transportation Corps and was sweating out his promotion to captain along with his discharge. I gather that he will have both rather soon now.
Ran into Larry Kreielsheimer here at Atterbury last fall. He had completed his medical training and was just coming on duty with the Army.
I haven't heard from Bill Broer directly but I understand he is back in the States after a long tour in India. I don't know exactly what he is doing, but I do know that he is married.
I think that about winds up most of the info .... Has anyone heard from Fearless Freddie Maloon recently?
There's always bad news—and this month it hit twice.
Lt. Johnny Lendo was killed in action in the Southwest Pacific in December, 1944 Lt. Bill Dorney was lost on a Navy operational flight off Cape Cod in October 1944. It gets to sound like a formula with so much repeating, but it's just as sincere as ever: the condolences of the whole class to Johnny's wife, Elizabeth Lendo, whose home is at 16 Beechmont St., Worcester, Mass., and to Bill's parents, Dr. and Mrs. William A. Dorney, of Pinehurst Rd., Portsmouth, N. H. We all share their loss.
Ed Anderberg has reported in full from Chungking, first record of his doings to my knowledge since he was with the Tariff Commission in Washington. Seems he left the Commission in October 1945, finishing up as director of a special study on Japan's foreign trade and reparations potential. He went from there to the Foreign Service Auxiliary as an economic analyst, and wound up in his present spot with the U. S. Embassy in China. His address is American Embassy in China, c/o Division of Foreign Service Personnel, Department of State, Washington.
Bob and Constance Hatch are settled at 20 Brentwood Rd., Exeter, N. H., and surrounded by little Hatches—namely, Judith, 21/4, and Peter, 8 months. Bob is teaching and coaching football at Exeter High. Says his team won some games last fall, too. (This item, incidentally, was originally intended for my colleagues of Dope from the Duckboards, but my agents intercepted it. An unprincipled business, I admit, but a man facing a deadline has no conscience.)
The word has belatedly arrived of Gus Broberg's marriage in February to Miss Stewart Colwell, of Jacksonville, Fla. Rumors at that time were that Gus was planning to study law when his discharge from the Marine Corps came true. How about denying or confirming them, Gus.
Fairly reliable sources report that the Navy has finally dispensed with Pete Keir and that Pete, when last heard from, was headed for a Florida vacation. Speaking of Florida, Chuck Bolte was also down that way last month; his mission, however, was the world government conference at Rollins and not, he stoutly maintains, vacationing. And speaking of AVC, we forgot to report in the last issue that Dick Krolik has taken over as high sachem of the AVC publicity department.
Red O'Connor, whom we had still in uniform in the April notes, is now established as having been emancipated. He's working for a New York City law firm and attending law school on the side. Also added to the local contingent is Winsor Watson, out of the Army and on the staff of U.S. Camera. Everett Lord-Wood, on the other hand, is teaching skiing at the Olympic Ski Trails in GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany, which is just about as hyphenated an item as you could ask for.
A note found in our mailbox upon returning from a weekend revealed that Don Egan had been skulking about the premises. He was just passing through town on his way to Washington however, and we were too late to make connections; but at least we can testify that he's still wearing a brown suit with gold buttons and will henceforth be on duty in the Pentagon. Civilian or soldier, Egan always winds up in the Pentagon.
Bob Marcotte is now ex-Lt. USNR. He got out in February after 47 months, 17 of them in the South Pacific and the last few of them at the Naval Air Technical Training Center, Memphis, Tenn.
We have a couple of bare hints on the activities of the Baker tribe—just enough to make us want to know more. Jay Baker has checked in with the official address list as a newspaper editor, Box 147, Encino, Calif. And we haven't the slightest idea what Austin Baker is doing these days, but according to the Hanover Inn records, he seems to have spent February and March popping in and out of Hanover.
And that, by a fortunate coincidence, polishes off both our word quota and all available news. You've got a month to fill up the coffers again. Rally 'round, men.
Secretary, 14 E. 77th St., New.York, N. Y Treasurer, 17 E. Wheelock St., Hanover, N. H
