1945

We've tried before to puzzle out the reason why one month there are lots of marriage and engagement notices and few service promotions (like last month) and things are reversed another month (like now). The Malthusian theory must be behind it somewhere. Anyhow, there are only a measily two marriage announcements to fanfare: Sherman JohnstonCrough was married to Sarah-Jane Wright of West Newton early in April. Bill Brlndley and Bill Anderson were there to see that the groom didn't back out. Sherman was recently discharged from the Army after service in China and as an OSS paratrooper. Frank Edmands married Nancy F. Moulton of Danvers, Mass., in March, and the couple will reside in Sachem Village, Hanover; so it is fairly safe to assume that Frank is looking at a book now and then.

The service promotions already alluded to are those of 2nd Lt. Joe Byron, 2nd Lt. WoodieCarter, and Lt. (jg)s Fred Davies, GeoffreyMaclay, Rex Felton, Dick Southwick, AlGluek, Al Buehler, Bill Adam (Nugget 101 man) and Hayward Becker. And while we are in a listing mood, here are some of the boys who have recently strayed up to the old corral: Harry Bissell, Paul Cover, Fred Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Konigsbacher, lan MacKinnon,Paul Pillsbury, and Andy Ten Eyck.

We note on a sheet of recent address changes sent out by the Mag. that some of the lads are living in significant locales. Bob Dyer hangs his hat somewhere in Oak Ridge, Tenn., a highly important spot on this earth. KurtKonigsbacher is in Basel, Switzerland, and the following men have addresses in or within the sound of a giraffe's call of Hanover, N. H.: Bill Ferguson (Tri Kap House), Bob Joy—old quarteter (SAE House), Bill McNeely (AD same), and Mort Lewis (in Leb). Art Carey is also back from the wars (Marines) to bolster the football team and Mr. Hodder's crew. Burt Hicock is back from Europe after 15 months and may yet be in Hanover; and Swoose Alexander is somewhere aboard the USS Missouri (as a PhM sjc), expects to be discharged when he gets back from Turkey in time to get back to Hanover in the fall. Dick Brown is another veteran back at the grind. Dave Goldstein, recently discharged after being a Russian interpreter with the Military Intelligence Division in the south of Berlin, plans to get back to school in July. Dave is vice president and director of Goldstein, Inc., of Springfield, Mass.

Our father (class of '15) recently attended a Dartmouth function in Philadelphia and chatted briefly with Thorn Birdsell (still teaching down there we think) and the father of Vic Smith, who now says Vic may be home in June.

It is time to acknowledge a slightly aged (our fault) but otherwise very excellent letter from Ens. Dick Gilman who modestly andfrustratingly says little about himself, butdoes pass on the following info about other'45s:

Although we've covered a lot of territory in the good ship Shangri-La these past several months, I haven't managed to run into too many fellows from Hanover. It seems like years since I saw JimBroderick at the "O" club at Eniwetok in the Marshalls, who passed on some news of Rex Felton,Bob Pease, and a couple of other Supply Corps men. When we returned to the states last fall, Jim Shute '46, who recently joined the ship as one of the Comm officers, .reported meeting Barney Oldfeld of our class in Long Beach. Barney was exec on a "Yippee" (these Navy ,terms will be the death of me yet), and had just returned stateside after operating as a training ship out of Pearl for some time. It was a welcome surprise to have Fred Hoffman report on board for duty about six weeks ago, but he just called me now to tell me that he is on the latest draft list leaving the ship for discharge sometime within the next few days. Fred came aboard while we were in the yard at Bremerton and immediately got 30 days leave from which he.had just returned. "While back East he was up there in Hanover, and by the time you receive this he'll probably be back in college again for the spring term. An aviation ordnance-man, third class, Fred had nearly a year and a half in the Pacific, before reporting to the Shangri-La. Saw Aud Brindley '46 a couple of times in San Diego where he is playing pro ball with the "Dons" in the All-American Basketball League, and displaying plenty of his old form. Aud is a 2nd Lt. in the Marine Corps stationed at Camp Pendleton, north of here. Received a short letter from BillSwartzbaugh the other day. Bill is working with the Army Educational Service Forces in the Philippines (in Manila to be more specific), and like everyone else is sweating out the demobilization hub-bub and a boat ride home. Fred Berthold announced his marriage in January, but I don't have many of the details at hand. Both he and his bride are studying at Chicago Theological Seminary.

Many thanks, Dick.

Presumably most of you men are reading this in June, a month that brings to mind, among other things, Reunions. Don Cameron, Chairman of the Hanover Reunion Committee, has told me that soon all you fellas would receive information from him about our Reunion which will fall on August 1-2-3. This will be our first Reunion and the first real chance for any of us to see a big group of the class since early in 1942. Mr. Cameron would greatly appreciate a speedy return of his cards along with any suggestions any of you may have to make the weekend a really memorable occasion.. More will be said about our first Reunion next month; in the meantime, we wouldn't mind hearing from lots of you guys about the Reunion, yourselves, or anyone else, by golly.

Acting Secretary, 273 Converse St., Longmeadow 6, Mass Treasurer, Co. E-2, 1st Class, West Point, N. Y,