1944

Last month Bethesda and environs, to say nothing of the Nation's Capital, were stirred by a visit from Dr. Chas. Regan, who had strayed for a few hours from Philadelphia, whence he had journeyed in his official capacity as team physician for the Boston Navy Receiving Station football team. Games in Norfolk, Va., and in Florida are also on his team's schedule. From him we gleaned the following bits of news: Brad Long is stationed at some northern base (Greenland or Newfoundland, I believe); Brad Campbell is in Japan, with Carol and children due to join him soon; Lou Savage is spending the winter on an ice-breaker in the Antarctic; Bill Walters is at Fort Myers, Va.; FrankBehrle in Bethesda (haven't confirmed that, as yet); Walt Price has left duty in Germany; Ed Price is at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Mass.; Charlie Pierce stationed at Fort Todd, N. Y.; Joe Buckley somewhere in the Pacific Ran into Maj. Dick Paul in a movie here in Washington last month. He was then at Walter Reed Hospital for some repair work on his arm Ja Densmore and Mo Distin are coaching the Green ski team this winter, in the absence of Walter Prager, who is on leave to coach the Olympic team CharlieMottola is studying law at the Univ. of Georgia in Athens, Ga Win Martin is at the Harvard School of Business Administration.

Don May is in the family optical manufacturing business in N.Y.C. and living in Huntington, L. I Bob F. Miller is in law school at the Univ. of Colorado, Boulder. He was married in August to Mary Enid Fawcett, and she is also attending the Univ. of Colorado AI Myers is in the paper mill supply business in Salem, Mass Phil Penberthy is a salesman for the Greenwich (Conn.) Home Appliance Cos Al Pickard is at Stewart Field, Newburgh, N. Y., the flying field used by West Point George Recke is production and sales manager for the Pilgrim Maid Donut Shoppe in Quincy, Mass JimSinon is teaching school in Gloversville, N. Y. ....Dick Tarlow is manufacturing shoes in Brockton, Mass Bob Davis is studying medicine at Univ. of Louisville Sig Kulawik is manufacturing set-up paper boxes in Sioux City, lowa Bob O'Keefe is production manager for the Boke Mfg. Cos. in Springfield, 111 Jorge Pradilla is in the importing business in Bogata, Colombia DickRondeau is the Holy Cross hockey coach. Arch Welch is an electrical engineer with the Bellis Heat Treating Cos., Branford, Conn.

A letter from Al Cook revealed him stationed at the Navy Hospital, St. Albans, L. 1., N. Y., along with Monte DuVal. Al was married in October to Beatrice Tomlinson, and among the '44's present were Bill Craig, BillArd, Cy Thompson, and George Bruce. Al also mentions that Nick Daukas is at Bellevue Hospital in New York and has played some pro football this fall for the Brooklyn Dodgers; Whit Brown and Russ Burdge are stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and DaveBrown in the Army and in Texas when last heard from From Jack Tope comes word that he expects to winter in Pensacola, Fla., studying Aviation Medicine in the Navy. He informs us that Ted Mortimer is at the Navy Hospital at Mare Island, Calif., and that Elmer Nystrom is in Yokahama, Japan Among recent visitors at the Hanover Inn have been: Ed and Mrs. Eubanks, Bob Smith,John and Mrs. Sterling, Jack Riley, BuckMansfield and wife, Bud and Mrs. Talley, and Lou and Mrs. Schott.

HEARTS AND FLOWERS DEPT.: Weddings: BobCoith and Nancy Elleman, sister of Jim Elleman '43. Others in the wedding party were Jim Briggs and West Shell Berelle Katz and Donald Samuel Barbara Fildes and Will Sutherland. He is majoring in electrical engineering at Union College Norma Buchanan and Dale Sisson. They are living at 310 Riverside Drive, New York Dorothy Bockoven and Ralph Budd Welsh. Budd is with Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc. Engagements: Del Field and Carol Wollen of Patterson, N. J.

Secretary and Treasurer U. S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda 14, Md.