1950
Ides, schmides, what's March got to offer? If you're lucky, you may have some good skiing in the far northern climes, but chances are the golf clubs are collecting their last month of dust and the Bureau of Infernal Revenue is breathing down your neck. May be forced to hunt up some good cocktail parties till the Yankees break out the World's Champs' bunting at the Stadium. Well, at least we have a couple of reports to jot down, so turn off Uncle Miltie, load up the briar, and take five in our corner. Won't keep you too long since class amours are at a low ebb, there being only one victim sacrificed in the past month.
That would be Court Cross who threw a matrimonial bowline on Marjorie Ruth Bethell in Montclair, January 26. On hand to see that order was maintained were Bob and DonAyres and Joe Hendrich.
This Is War?
While we're all too well aware that communiques sifting through our editorial paws will tend to be on the brighter side of the service scene, we can't help asking if this is the sort of thing people complain about when Uncle calls. Our own month in Boston was not at all tough to take, as fellow blue-and- golder Andy Wilde will testify. Together with Ens. Babe Boyce we made one trek to North Conway via Hanover, a week later did it all by ourselves to Stowe. Seems Brooks had to bone up on navigational problems aboard the Salem. Jim Moore missed the trip because the Worcester needed someone to welcome brass at the gangway.
These amatuerish hickory activities are nothing compared to the Olympic "bend zee knees" tactics employed by Johnnie Caldwell. Most of you probably know that he was whisked back from Italy for a month of T.A. D. at Sun Valley, where he affirmed rumors of good snow and better social conditions. Said Pete Chase's buttered rums made with frozen cider are to be commended highly, nothing like it back on the Chilton (APA 38).
Another one-striper on an attack-transport is Willie Frenzel on the Menifee (APA-202). Before he got his transportation to Nippon the Dutch Master and Ruthie mooched sea breezes from George and Janie Harris in Coronado, a hint for you West Coast visitors.
Busier than the proverbial one-armed paper hanger is George Nugent doubling as CIC and ASW Officer aboard the destroyer Sigourney following his year on the "Jolly Jay" Johnston. And to fill in the dull spots he peruses official correspondence as ship's secretary.
The fate cf Jim Myers and Dick Echikson has not been revealed to date and it's high time notice was taken of their comptrolling duties with the Air Force. It's tough in San Antonio ... can't fit in more than nine holes of golf a day. Ech should be in L.A. now and Jimbo down Atlanta way. Charlie Abbe, who got through Lackland a month or two ahead of those two, sent Christmas cards from Cheyenne, Wyo., expressed ecstatic joy with the deal (spouse Dodie was noncommittal), and mentioned the presence of Rog Mathes, sans stache' and Don Brown while in Texas. Last address for Cpl. Phil M. Chase was in that neighborhood, by the by, Randolph Field.
Like they say in the Broadway columns, we have it from reliable resources that Sgt. RayMyers has a reasonably decent billet at Fort Monmouth, N.J., where he can commute to the Ranger hockey games and still learn something about Army communications. Dick McSorley can't complain too much either for he's striking for a gold bar at Fort Riley. Next month you'll probably have to read angry answers from the less fortunates in the service, but from the above, we gotta ask, this is war?
Grapevine Reports
Love 'n' kisses from the breadwinner in the Jack Kent household arrived long ago with details on an "Ivory" tower existence there (plug free, Bush ... would appreciate a case of soap, though). Wrote J. E.,
"Barb and I came out to Cincy in early July and got a nice apartment, not too far from P & G. Our latest maneuver has been to purchase a house in a suburb called Wyoming. I am a Job Study Engineer making time and methods studies, trying to improve processes, and swabbing the head. Actually, though, it's a good job."
Gleaned some important news from TedBamberger's November note as follows: "JackAvery is trying to find new uses for burned- out light bulbs for the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. Frank Treadway and NedPetrequin's airborne outfit is near Frankfort, Germany. (Ed. note, wie geht's, mein Herren?) Tready is on the heirmail list as his wife is expecting. Ned has been brushing up on his Spanish with a side trip to Madrid. (Belay that last word, i Como esta usted, senor?) BillZiegler is the liaison man between two of the Reliance Electric Plants. Wife Joanne and daughter Nancy make his house on Austen- berg Road, Ashtabula, 0., a home.
"We answered The Call and got to Hanover late in October. Karen, aged five months, is anxious to meet contemporary males of Dartmouth stock."
Rog Gaylord inscribed some hieroglyphics on a roll of birch bark from Evansville last December and revealed his present employment in these words:
"Since last June I've been a travelling salesman. Procter and Gamble finally saw the light. After seeing how I handled the women with a tremendous pitch on bras and panties with Real Silk, they thought I should switch to cleaning their hair, I work out of E-town here, up to Terra Haute and Bloomington and in between in Hoosier land."
Season's salutations from Dolph Cramer included a likely number to call in Yokohama. Glad to exchange it for data on dollies in other foreign ports, especially Norfolk.
Mystery man of the month, Al Rust. Watta guy! Cazzully drops a line from Argentina to acknowledge a birthday card and we can't even read the post mark. Can anybody solve this one?
Last letter in the files came from Jim Melville who's still happy with his Air Reduction Co. job and comfy cubicle at the University Club. Think he'd be glad to find some more squash opponents around Albany. Jim does report Ed Poole's a fellow resident of the capital city.
Inkadental Intelligentz
Seward Brewster has transported the bag of bones to Deerfield Academy.... General Electric's Bridgeport, Conn., engineering trainees include John Conners.... SteveFlemer is getting Harvard's graduate school views on design. ... Still have Dick Ledyard with Graybar Electric in Syracuse.... DaveMcLean serves refreshments in the products of the Kimble Glass Division of Owens-Illinois around Chicago town.... The Dartmouth Club in New York records new members Stan Nelson and Fred Rogers.... Swede Oberg product engineers for the Chandler Evans Company, division of Niles-Bement-Pond Co., in West Hartford.... And Carl Reed is a lith- ographer in Buffalo.
Will have to ask some of you never-writes to slap a load of linen on us soon or tap the class funds for a fee to Mr. Keen, tracer of lost persons. Feelthy post cards avidly read, sometimes answered, and always appreciated. Okay, back to your video viewing, civvies. Now, where did that rabbit go with those Easter eggs? Here, bunny, here, bunny. ...
OLYMPIC SKIER: John Caldwell '50 (left), member of the U. S. Olympic team in the Nordic events, photographed with his brother Pete '54 at the time of the D.O.C. Invitational Meet in January.
'51 APPROVES THE BRIDE: Walter Bush '51 and his bride, the former Mary Relf, get all-out Dartmouth backing at their reception in Minneapolis, following their wedding, December 29. L to r: Hunter White, Vince Albo, Pete Bogardus, Rail McFarland, and Dave Leslie—all '51s.
Secretary, U.S.S. Waller (DDE-466) c/o FPO, New York, N. Y. Treasurer, 303 East Madison St., Ann Arbor, Mich.
