1957

Hello out there. Army life is much harder than I had expected. However, Dick Van Riper and Leo McKenna '56 are here to help the time pass at dear old Ft. Dix. Larry Karaki is also on the Post but is in a different training company. Recently, the Army Officer Corps, with which I have no connection, gained '57s. Among the new second lieutenants are Charles Ashley and Stephen A. Weiss who have recently graduated from their Basic Officer Course at The Infantry School, Ft. Benning, Ga. Lee Beattie has recently been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marines. For the next nine months he will be stationed at Quantico in the Marines Basic Officer Course.

Late in December Bob Holland and Miss Lucia H. Taylor were married in Chatham, N. J. The ushers were Larrie Calvert and Ed Matthews. Bob and his wife will be living in Vancouver, Wash., where he is stationed in the Army. Also married this December was Ted Bradley and Miss Enid Siewart. Dick Schramm and Miss Daisy P. Sharpies have announced their engagement. Dick is presently studying at R.P.I. Robert Vogel, who is at the Med School, and Miss Penny I. Hopp and Allan Vendeland and Miss Ellen Berg have announced their engagements. Allan is now at the Law School of Western Reserve. Miss Terry A. Herter and Tom Patterson will be married in May. Tom is now at the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. In June Bob Slaughter and Miss Carolyn R. Evans plan to be married. Bob is an Ensign in the Navy. Also from the Navy, Jack Cramer and Miss Elizabeth A. Kirk have announced their engagement. On New Year's Day Ed Dodge was married to Miss Sandra Wifley.

Monk Bancroft, after taking an insurance course given by the North America Companies, received orders from the Air Force to report to Warren AFB in Cheyenne, Wyo., for a twelve-week officer supply training course. In May he will become a Far Western representative of the Big Green, being stationed at Itajuke AFB in Osaka, Japan. Good Luck, Monk, don't take any "wodder yen."

Clark Bryant is at Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia, where he is digging deep into anatomy at the present time.

Jack Breitenbach is presently living in Seattle, Wash., where he is going to the University of Washington. However, his main interest is in being a guide in the Grand Tetons and he hopes shortly to be one of a party making an ascent on one of the unclimbed faces of Mt. McKinley.

Bob Ramsdill has just completed eight weeks at Ft. Dix (wherever that is) and is now stationed at Ft. Bliss, Tex. He plans to complete eight weeks of advanced supply training there and then continue into Army ocs.

A letter from Bob McDonald provided this month's BMOC Award. Bob Shirley is the New Hampshire Golden Gloves Heavyweight Champion. He is currently scheduled to be in the New England Regionals but may have to quit his promising ring career because of lack of conditioning. Modestly, Bob claims that he looked worse than the man he beat. Between bouts, the "champ" relaxes at the Medical School.

That's all the sarge will let me write. Back to the foxholes. Don't forget to write.

Secretary, Constitution Hill, Princeton, N.J,

Treasurer, 3962 Jewell St., San Diego 9, Calif.