39 Marine Reunion

first campaigned together in the Alpha Delt basement and then fought side by side in San Diego, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Hawaii, old buddies Lieutenant Colonels Colby Howe '39 USMCR and Jim Donovan '39 USMC are reunited. Both are now at Headquarters, Marine Corps, Washington, D. C., and catching up on each other's news, according to a bulletin from The Leatherneck, U. S. Marine

Corps magazine. Colby returned to active duty in August 1950, with the 11th Reserve Battalion from Seattle, Wash., where he was acting as battalion executive officer during his spare time away from Bethlehem Steel and his fast growing family: Kathleen, 6; Howie, 3; and Barry, 6 months. He is now on temporary duty at Headquarters as a member of a promotion board. Before this assignment he commanded a battalion training replacements for Korea at Camp Pendleton, Calif. He met up with his friend Donovan just in time to give him experienced support through the ordeal of paternity, when Jim's wife Kay had a baby girl, Kathryn Blyth, born May 1.

Jim Donovan has been Editor-Publisher of Leatherneck for three years and expects orders to the Pacific this summer.

TOGETHER AGAIN, at Marine Corps headquarters in Washington, are Jim Donovan (1) and Colby Howe, '39 classmates and both Lieutenant Colonels.