1959

A plea is being registered by yours truly and that is for some photographs of a large '59 group and if this is not available a picture of some of those pretty wives and girl friends would make a lot prettier print than all my rattling on and also it would save me a lot of writing. Please think about this and at the next wedding take a few pictures and send them on.

Scotty Palmer according to Jack McLaughlin was last seen in the Meadows in Framingham, Mass., having a last fling before leaving the States for Chile and grad school. JohnJensen is working in the Real Estate Office for Sinclair Oil in Chicago, having spent the last six months in a service station on the Indiana Toll Road at Gary, Ind., for his preliminary training.

Pete Collins a recent graduate of the Codington Point Military Academy (OCS) is now stationed on the "Cromwell," a destroyer escort and Larry Toal is also on the same type of vessel going by the name of "Tossic." Jim Rex and Bill Long are at the Navy Supply School in Athens, Ga., possibly learning how best to acquire that necessary money for a new car. Soon to follow in their footsteps is Steve Plank who graduates from OCS in February and will be arriving in Athens on the fifteenth of that month. Another set of orders issued to a Dartmouth man in the Newport OCS Program is a Landing Ship Tank (LST) stationed out of Guam, and the lucky guy is Wayne French. A third set of orders from the same place, I believe puts JohnHessler on a destroyer out of San Diego.

John Hansen is at the University of Oregon doing grad work in education and psychology and working towards an M.A. He also has an assistantship - resident counselor to 65 freshmen (good luck, John!). TimCrane is now engaged in a training program at the Hanover Bank and according to him is working his trousers to the bone.

George Pearse, whom I reported to be at Newport in a previous issue, I find is not there but has been working for IBM in Kingston, N.Y., since graduation on some kind of advance warning system for the Continent. As for Jack McLaughlin we find that he has just recently become engaged to Pat Barrow, a junior at Wellesley, and also has reported to the Coast Guard OCS program in Yorktown, Va.

According to Bob Josefsberg, I have neglected to mention the graduates doing work at Yale but, as he stated in his letter, I am no mind reader and for any of this interesting type of information to get into print I have to hear it from you. Also a reminder along these lines and that is, it is better for you to give me the straight scoop than have some one of your buddies send some wild story in. I must say, however, that some wild stories would surely liven up this column and thus please do not hesitate.

Studying at Yale for the present are John Horan, Lloyd Relin, George Lefcoe and Bob Josefsberg, all in the Law School. John Edwards, upon completion of the Glee Club presentation at Radio City, entered the Yale Drama School. Howie Greenberg has dropped out of the Law School and is now doing some work in the journalism field. One final student at Yale is Harvey Galper who is attending the School of Economics and it looks like maybe gunning so as to return to Dartmouth as a professor and terrorize those poor frustrated freshmen.

A letter from Jim (James for Short) Bybee arrived and I find that he is headed for a Western Pacific Cruise which, if I am not mistaken, lasts for a grand total of seven months - not so good for such a newly-married man. Another of the ole AD clan, Charlie MacVain, is on a ship out of Newport and I was most pleased to find he is happily enjoying his job of collateral duty officer or might one say miscellaneous duty officer. He is hoping that by June he will be oft to Nuclear Physics school with the U.S. Navy and thus getting away from sea duty for some time.

Before taking a look at the long list of marriages I must mention those recent graduates from the service schools and camps. In the Marine Corps as 2nd Lieutenants are Don Peterson, John Marsh, Scott Booma, and Art Duggan, and ahead of them lies another nine months of good Platoon Officers training in Quantico, Va. One guy seems to have found the right angles in this service and I quote, "I actually sidestepped basic training (Fort Jackson, S. C.) by landing a job in the Orderly Room of my basic training outfit. I didn't pull any details at all, which include no KP or guard duty. All I did was sit behind a typewriter and learn how to be a clerk-typist. (Later) ... However, since I have had plenty to do with that (typing) while in Basic, the school (typing) is very easy for me. I am even a squad leader, and getting out of all the dirty details again." None other than Private Doug Wise who now looks forward to a possibility of counter-intelligence school in the German Alps. Some guys have it made.

One other service man whom I would not say had it so good is Bob Foot (Mr. New York Times) who has just recently been commissioned an Ensign in the Coast Guard and has been assigned to the cutter "Storis," a utility cutter doing rescue, icebreaking, buoy procurement and patrol duties in the North Pacific, Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean and is based in Kodiak, Alaska. Boy! Ed Labinski ends my list of Uncle Sam's men and he has just recently completed the officer basic course at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga.

J. Clarence Davies was married to Barbara Schonfeld on December 20, in Newark, N. J., and also is doing graduate work at Columbia University as a Ford Foundation Fellow.

Marine Lieutenant Dave Marshall was married in the middle of December to Cynthia Hall, just two weeks after receiving his Marine Corps commission. Acting as ushers were Dirk Frankenberg and Dick Hoehn. Following his honeymoon trip to Bermuda, Dave will live in Fredericksburg, Va., for the next nine months while completing a basic officers school.

John Davis took Susan Miller as his bride in a late December wedding and will be making his home in Amherst, Mass. The final wedding for this month is that of GeorgeFisher to Frances Gilbert in a late December wedding and following their wedding trip the couple will reside in Washington, D. C„ where George is studying for his Ph.D. in geology on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.

As for engagements, there are a few more. Tom Magill is engaged to Marjorie Brown of Wilbraham, Mass. Jimmy Mueller is engaged to Nancy Ingram and here a June wedding is planned. Dave Spencer has also taken the great step and is engaged to Sherry Mackie, while John Goodrich has been accepted by Mary Yudicky with a summer wedding being planned.

Bob Lewis made known his engagement to Joan Todd on December 30, and he is at the present time stationed aboard a Military Transport Service troop ship making monthly runs between New York and Bremerhaven, Germany, carrying Army wives and children.

Last but not least we find that Bob Josefsberg and Marlene Danto were engaged on December 22, and are planning on getting married in Detroit this coming July.

I thank you all again for your many letters and ask that they keep coming for this is the way you all will get the word. Also if any of you have any suggestions I would certainly appreciate them as this is the way the column will improve.

See you next month - Horse.

Secretary, USS F.T. Berry (DDE 858) Fleet Post Office, New York, N.Y.

Treasurer, USS Massey (DD 778) Fleet Post Office, New York, N.Y.