1950
HEY! Over here, sandwiched in between '49 and '51 as usual, but surely as brief as any column you'll run into for quite awhile. Seems the mail-buoys over in the Med got off station during the last month and we're limping along on what little is left over from the last batch that arrived several weeks ago. But for once what remains does not include any weddings and nary a new papoose has been reported in the tribal tepee. Will wonders ever cease?
WALKING THE LAST MILE
Two braves have deviated from the strict rituals of bachelorhood, and one of them should be well hitched by now, while the other totters precariously on the brink of matrimony. Hugh Brower enclosed the clipping announcing the engagement of Jane Meacham and himself on December 6. Meach left Smith for Northwestern and after graduation toured Europe. Hughie has been touring the boards of the Windy City hockey rinks with the south-side athletes. During the holidays, '50s in Chicago Town included Tom"Red" Rowe, Bill and Faris Taylor, and JohnSchalles. The characters observed were seen through the mist caused by Curt Kimball's annual grain alcohol Yule punch, conservatively termed a tremendous success. CharlieSolberg and spouse Tommy were unavoidably unavailable due to a minor matter of employment with Westinghouse in Lima, Ohio.
STOP THE PRESSES!
Footnote on the above proceedings: TomRichmond has revealed he's been married since October 2 to the former Joan Gunther, but the extraneous details are lacking.
Betrothal of Ellen Laureen Lawson to Aaron Stevens was proclaimed in Springfield, Mass., December 4. Ellen attended the University of Denver, graduated from B. U., and now is a student at the Tufts College Medical School. Doc is serving his internship at the Maine General Hospital in Portland.
SERVICE SCENERY
Masquerading as a sailor in the Mardi Gras this year was Bob Kilmarx, a legal beagle with the Bth Naval District lawyers. Killic's concrete ship is a niblick shot from the Sugar Bowl and handy enough to the New Orleans' D-club for Bob to have run into Jim Melville at a cajun cocktail caper.
Webb and Merry Gault are finishing out a tour of duty with the Army in Germany. So far they have seen only Joe Ely, but just missed Pete Reilly, who left Paris a fortnight before the Gaults visited there.
GRAPEVINE REPORTS
We see by the papers that Hammy Gates was discharged at Fort Lewis, Washington, the end of September. Now at Tuck School, Hammy had been an Infantry company commander.
Also sans khaki these days is Bill Carpenter, who has returned to his former employer, the Navajo Freight Lines. He and Linda, along with Billy Junior, have moved to Denver.
A couple of months ago one of the many ex-NROTCs who decided to foresake the briney deeps dashed off a few lines while at the General Motors Institute in Flint, Mich. That would be Leo Appel who has been working with Appel Bruen Co., "Boston's Buick Dealer, according to our ads," since June.
Biggest editorial bobble accomplished to date occurred a couple of issues back when we moved Don Miner from his job with Boeing in Wichita, Kans., to a post with the Vets' Administration in Vermont. Changed him from a junior to a senior in that error, so an official acknowledgement is herewith tendered that he's still methods-engineering in the wheat country. Best man from Don's wedding, Male Riley, who toured the nation "building silos in lowa, testing rockets in California, and building dams in Montana and Idaho," is now an assistant editor for Methods and Materials.
Latest compilation of barristers would include a few fellows you may have known were practicing law here and there.... Doug Mann is in Detroit and Tom Cornwall in his home town of Spencer, lowa, - both lads happily married, by the by. Buffalo, N. Y., lawyer George Reid is with Dudley, Stowe & Sawyer, and "Swede" Swenson is a member of the bar in Chicago.
Other toilers far and near include JohnSirois, who is a sales engineer trainee with Trane Co. in La Crosse, Wise. John Knapp acts as controller for a firm in State College, Pa., Haller, Raymond & Brown, Inc. A Boston journal informed us that Bill Sapers resumed his insurance selling in November after a hitch with Uncle. Nearby Bill Tarlow passed his bar exams the month before and was contemplating potential associates in the Hub. Al Washburn is engineering in electronics for the Washington, D. C., firm of Schuttig & Co. At the American Embassy, care of APO San Francisco, Larry Starlight is a foreign .service officer. Is that Japan, Larry?
Recent visitors to Hanover according to the Inn's roster were. Owen Smyth, LarryHuntley, and Jack Harned. Time is growing short for the rest of you to start making plans to be back there yourselves for reunion the third week in June. Hope to see plenty of you on hand for the festivities!
Secretary,USS Waller (DDE-466) c/o FPO, New York, N. Y.
Treasurer, 506 Washington Ave., Wilmette, Ill.
