1933
The lead-off this month is a good letter,forwarded to us by the editorial staff in Hanover,from one of our most widely travellingbrethren and our best correspondent, Lt. Cdr.Gay E. Milius Jr. The letter dated 14 Decemberbears the cabalistic service address:Hedron 1, Wing Legal Office C.G. FMAW,FMF F.P.O. San Francisco, Calif. ("Hedron"is a new one to your reporter but smacks somewhatof Space Patrol. Do you suppose theAmerican public is not being told the fullstory about the advances of its armed forces?)Gay says:
"In the first place I don't have your address so I am sending this to the extreme other side of the world to be forwarded to you, if they do it. (Ed. note: They dood it!)
"I am in a country known as Korea. It is not beautiful, it is not romantic (as Japan) and they could use a good deal of chlorophyll for several reasons. My arrival was on November 15 and my tour of duty is supposed to be ten months. As luck would have it, I landed in probably the choicest spot in this land of mountains and rice paddies, on the shores of Po Hang Bay, known in the books as Yung Man-Gil, five miles away from the town of Po Hang. FMAW means First Marine Aircraft Wing.
"You may ask why a Naval Officer is stationed with the Marines. I am the law specialist for the Commanding General, which is prescribed by the Uniform Code of Military Justice. My main job is to review the findings and sentences of all Summary and Special Court-Martials which do not hand down a Bad Conduct Discharge. I have also been lecturing on military law at the Non-Commissioned Officers' Leadership School, helping with legal assistance and acting as defense counsel and trial counsel.
"I left Washington on September 1 and went to the Naval School of Justice at Newport, R. I. While up there in dear old New England I had the fortunate opportunity to visit one Amy Salisbury and Elsie twice in their hospitable home on the hill in North Andover. While there we went over photographs about twenty years old and shed many tears of reminiscenses. Upon graduating from the Justice School I took ten days' leave and then proceeded to San Francisco where I was to get transportation to this far away place. I got the transportation byway of Hawaii (where I didn't have time to see Honolulu), Johnston Island (where I stayed for twenty hours due to motor trouble), Kwajalein, Guam and Japan.
"It might be interesting to note that there is a Lt. O'Grady attached to the Hedron here who lives in Lebanon and works for Jim Campion when he (O'Grady) is a civilian.
"I wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Pass my best to the gang."
Thanks, Gay." Keep the military justice and the letters flowing as you roam the girdled earth.
Justin Stanley, who will remain as V. P. of the College, has been asked by President Grayson Kirk of Columbia University to serve on the Board of Visitors to the School of Law for two years. The Board will study the organization and work of the law school and make reports and recommendations concerning this work and possible needs of the school. The Class is honored along with you, Jus.
Edwin S. Lapham has become a member of the law firm with which he has long been associated in Riverhead, N. Y., and the firm will be known as Scheinberg, Wolf, Lapham & DePetris. Anyone thinking of committing a tort in that vicinity, see Ed.
From the public prints comes news that Robert M. Saywell, superintendent and production manager of the Rhode Island Lace Works, was appointed to fill an unexpired term on the Barrington Town Council at a six-minute special session of the council on November 16, he having the felicitous endorsement of the Republican town committee; that H. B. Naramore of Lebanon, N. H., owner of the Wah-Hoo-Wah Farm, was awarded third place in the gift-package division at the annual New Hampshire Dress Turkey Show held in Durham in December (How about mailing a sample of your wares to each member of the class, Nary - or anyway a circular for Thanksgiving and Christmas reference?); that Mahonri Sharp Young of Utica, who has been acting director of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica for two years, has been appointed director of the Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, and has assumed his new duties there.
Dr. Dunham Kirkham seems to have a spatial clientele. He is District Director of Public Health for Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. His address: Majuro, Marshall Islands.
Ford Marden, that movin' man, can now be found in Box 434, R. F. D., Deerfield, N. Y.
Kent Rhodes, production manager of TheReader's Digest (and what a production that is!) resides at R. D. 1, Bedford, N. Y. RoswellB. Thorstenberg has moved to 4227 H St., S.E., Washington, D. C.
As you have probably heard, Davis Hockey Rink was re-dedicated with its first artificial ice on December 4, and the ceremonies were fittingly concluded with a 5-1 victory over Harvard. An apt motto for the occasion was selected: Melior mechina quam natural President Dickey's remarks opened with the undeniable statement, "Tonight's hockey game with Harvard on manufactured ice marks the end of an argument and the opening of a new ice age on Hanover Plain." His closing sentence bears repeating for all of us, "Over the years may we who watch never lose our respect for the spirit of sport which has made all this both possible and worth while."
We know you will be interested in the fact that there were nine members of 1933 whose contributions to Friends of Dartmouth Hockey helped make this old dream come true. Among the many contributors representing every class from 1899 through 1956, are listed also two Harvard men, the Yale Athletic Association and the Yale Hockey Team. An Indian yell for them, say we.
Looking lor ward to next month's column and figuring that I have been writing to all of you here in this space for lo these many months, how about some revealing reciprocity from you reticent writers before my rendition is really retarded? Regards.
Secretary, 217 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, N. Y.
Treasurer,Quechee, Vt.
