1945

Remember the red letter days of June 22, 23 and 24. The plans are being worked on. Let's all get behind this reunion. It could be our first and last, for a good long time.

Larry Bellows and wife are back from South Africa and recently checked in at the Hanover Inn. Wallace Barnes was also a recent Hanover guest.

Tom Davidson and Shirley-Helen Vanderveer were married in Westbury, Long Island. Mrs. Davidson attended Knox School in Cooperstown and Barmore School in New York City.

Jim Fannon and Betty-Jane Pratt of Washington and Salt Lake City have become engaged. They are to be married March 17 in Christ Church (Methodist) in New York City. Betty-Jane's schools are University of Utah, Maryland and Barnard College. Jim is with Sudler & Hennessey, an advertising art firm, in New York.

Another engagement announcement is that of John Meegan and Janet Coit of Buffalo. Janet is a graduate of the Elmwood-Franklin School and Oldfields School, Glencoe, Md. She was a staff assistant with the American Red Cross in Europe during what has become known as the last war. John was on the editorial staff of the Buffalo Courier-Express before returning to active duty with the Amphibious Forces in San Diego.

Bob Zildjian and Margaret McTavish, both of Wollaston, Mass., had their engagement announced January 14. Margaret is a senior at Radcliffe. Another engagement which was announced in January involved Dr. HenryBlansfield and Lorraine Lombardi of Danbury, Conn. Lorraine is a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Nursing. Henry is a resident on the surgical staff of the New Haven Hospital.

John Halstead went back on active duty in the Marines on October 2. He received a commission under the Marine Corps' meritorious non-commissioned officer's plan. He attended basic school in Buffalo and was scheduled to go to Harvard for further training. Bob Epstein has been called back to the Army as a lieutenant. His first stop was to be Fort Dix. Bob had been a buyer of dresses for Brown Thomson in Hartford. Dr. Bill Hatt was one of 600 Navy doctors ordered back to active duty for assignment to the Army Medical serviced He's been ordered to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Dr. Buell Kingsley is another of the Navy Reserve doctors to be loaned to the Army. Buell had recently been doing psychiatric work at a Veterans Administration Hospital in Minneapolis.

Rod Curtin is on duty in Africa for Pan American Airways. Ted Belfit is assistant swim coach and instructor in physical education in Englewood, N. J. John Buttler has his law office in the Equitable Bldg. in Portland, Ore. Ronald Egan is with Western Union in New York City. Dr. Ted Wilson is at New York Hospital. Bob Perry is a Chemical Engineer at the University of Delaware in Newark. John Kirby is on duty at Sandia Base in Albuquerque. Dr. Ed Menefee is at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. John Chanalis is in the publishing business on East 54th Street, N.Y.C. Henry Dutcher and his father have formed a new law partnership, Dutcher & Dutcher, in Rochester, N. Y.

Sometimes there is a lot of news and sometimes there is a little. This is one of those little months. Short note to the wives: why not take a minute to write me a penny postcard of the latest news of you and friend husband?

See you next month.

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