1953
Excitement is beginning to mount in this New Orleans-Mobile area as Mardi Gras week approaches, but a glance at the college calendar on this February 3 turns our thoughts to Hanover where Winter Carnival is getting underway. We would really like to catch a flight north tomorrow and exchange our bathing suit for ski togs for three days - but Uncle Sam said "negative." Were many of you able to make it up to Hanover Plain for the festivities? Let's hear about it.
A letter with a Lackland Air Force Base postmark brings us up to date on the activities of John Sigler. John is in his third week of OCS at Lackland and apparently his 05002100 work day leaves little time to worry bout any Mardi Gras or Winter Carnival. prior to entering the A.F. in late December, he and his wife Joanie had been living in Washington waiting for Uncle Sam to grab him (since their return from Grenoble, France, last summer). The Siglers did manage to get home to Indianapolis for the Christmas holiday where they saw Bob Robinson and Dick Buell. Dick is now a full-fledged Navy fly-boy while Bob, in his 3rd year at med school, is shortly expecting to become a proud papa for the second time. Johnny also mentioned that he had heard from Dick Nunley and Pete Mattoon recently. Dick is still in England studying and indicates he might do further study and perhaps some teaching over there following his tour of military duty. Pete's current assignment in the Navy, where he is a It. (jg) carries him up and down the West Coast, but we don't know whether he's still aboard the USS Merrick. After one and a half more years of service, Pete contemplates entering law school.
Another It. (jg) who hopes to exchange the Navy uniform for the oxford-grey law school suit in eighteen months is Pete Grenquist. Pete is now serving on the experimental cruiser USS Northampton, following the decommissioning of his old ship, the Mighty Mo, in late '54. We wonder if Pete's old friend Hans Kramer is still on the Hampton? We recall Hans awhile back saying she was very good duty. Sherm Horton does not intend to wait until '56 to commence his law studies. He expects to be released from active duty in the Navy this June and will enroll at Harvard Law School in the fall. Sherm spent his entire two-year tour of duty steaming between various Pacific liberty ports aboard the USS Chemung.
A recent letter from 2nd Lt. Bob Henderson USAF tells of his recent transfer from a postal assignment in Tsuiki, Japan, to a position as squadron adjutant in Nagoya. He finds the new work and location more interesting, and moreover is not too far from Tokyo and several Marine detachments. Bob and Pete Reich held a small reunion blast in Tokyo over Christmas, but he was disappointed not to see gyrenes Dick "Goose" Collins, Russ Srnale,Charlie Jacob, etc., while in the area. Dick and Russ were busy playing in the Marine all-star football game while Jake apparently hadn't completely recuperated from a severe head cut he suffered accidentally a few weeks earlier. Russ and Pete are both assigned to the 4th Regiment, and Goose is with the 12th. Al Ives is also assigned to the 12th and both he and Dick are stationed at Camp McNair. Jake is a member of the Division Engineers with, we gather, no special home base.
Although it might seem that all the Marines are in Japan or Korea (Bill Vitalis, Hank Fry,Jack Boyle, Jack Hall, Barlow Goff, RossMoyer, Fred Hitt, and Smiley Schoder all located in the land of Syngman Rhee) we understand that there are still some here in the U. S. Second louies Dave Florence, Phil Fenton, and Pete Wagner continue to call 29 Palms, Calif., home while Dick Thomas has just been transferred to California from Quantico, where among others he left behind 2nd Lt. Jay Hague. Jay has recently recuperated from an eye operation; present plans call for him to report to Air Control School, Cherry Point, N. C., in March. Jay writes that fraternity brother Dave Halloran hopes to tie the knot that same month if he can get a couple of weeks' leave from his Navy flight training at Pensacola.
But before we turn to this topic of weddings and betrothals, a few miscellaneous news items. . . . Dick Werner now living on the West Coast where he is associated with the Bear Creek Mining Co. as a geologist Jim Neville, who left school after freshman year, reported to be working as a landscape designer in, Sarasota, Fla. Another nongraduate, John Hayashi, holding down a job as a junior designer for General Motors. . . . Pete Spaulding, a groom of six months (his wife the former Heidi Stubbs, sister of Bill '53) currently engrossed in the Sun Oil training program. . . . Dan Woodward very busy starting his own advertising firm, Daniel E. Woodward Associates in Montreal. His clients already include DuPont of Canada, Canada Bell Tel., etc. . . . Dayt Smith Jr. representing the Reynolds Metal Co. in the Minneapolis area. . . .
Boyd Johnson in the midst of second-year studies at Princeton Theology 5chool. . . . BobYetter studying across the Atlantic at the Univ. of Munich. . . . Jim Oberlander (pvt. USA) now stationed at Ft. McNair, - and lastly, Marine pilot 2nd Lt. Dud Milliken located in southeast Texas where he is partway through an advanced naval flight training course.
CUPID'S CORNER. . . . For the first time we believe since commencing this column in 1953, there are no new wedding items to announce. However, conditions are a little brighter as regards betrothals.
In mid-December Frima Lee Goldman of Lewiston, Me., announced her engagement to Gil Shapiro. Gil, also a "down Mainer," is a second year student at Tufts Med School, and Frima conveniently is a sophomore at nearby Simmons College. A summer wedding is planned. Late that same month Turner Austin and Margaret Joyce Waugh made public their betrothal and summer wedding intentions. The prospective bride hails from Mansfield, O., and attended Depauw Univ. Turner has been associated with the Aetna Life Ins. Co. since graduation.
New Year's Day saw Larry Barnett and 2nd Lt. Pete Wagner both decide they had had enough of bachelor life. Larry, a 2nd year student at Stanford's Graduate Business School, succumbed to the charms of Mayes Wishart, a senior at Stanford. Mayes previously attended Vassar College and is from Wayzata, Minn. Pete gave the big diamond to Sally Peabody, an aspiring opera star, who claims Portland, Ore., for her home and both the Univ. of Washington and Oregon as her alma maters. This should make 29 Palms, Calif., mighty fine duty for Pete.
RATTLE-PRATTLE. . . . Just one addition and one correction to the papoose scoreboard this issue. The addition is a baby boy in midDecember to Wade and Virginia Sherwood. We have not heard from Wade since '53 at which time he was a student at the Strong Memorial Hospital. The correction concerns our mistakenly reporting in the January issue an addition to the John Dickasons. It seems that the baby is not due until late February. Sorry to scare you that way, Johnny. Also our apologies for locating John in CIC rather than in the Personnel Management branch of the Army.
Well, that's it for this month. How about a few more letters, please!!
Secretary,USS Glacier AGB-4 Pascagoula, Miss.
Treasurer, 305 17th St., Wilmette, Ill.
