1961

Idea of the Month: This is the Valentine Month, right? So let us all send a Valentine (preferably one just covered with cute little hearts and cupids and vampires) to Mr. T. V. Mauro, 17260 Osborne St., North Ridge, Calif. Tom has just fallen madly in love with a young, vivacious Hollywood starlet and she will be very, impressed if he sends her lots of Valentines. He doesn't have enough scratch to buy them all himself so he can use yours over again. Her name is Flicka Beautyface, and she is just the girl for Tom. He has blond hair and blue eyes and she has blue hair and blond eyes and a complexion like twenty miles of bad road. This is the time for classmates to band together in the cause of a Brother-in-need, and, brother, is Mauro in need.

Not too many letters this month, but those that came were goodies. One FrancisJ. Eicke who attended Dartmouth under the pseudonym of "Duck," wrote saying that he is now stationed in Amarillo, Texas, as an Administrative Officer of a Field Training Squadron in the Air Force. He travels a bit and hopes to see some of the boys here and around. "Duck's" wife ("Duckling," of course) sends along her best to the Class too. This brings up a good point. Any of you gentlemen who are now husbands should make every attempt to encourage your brides to feel that they are very much a part of our group now. Perhaps you should let them take over the detail of correspondence with the poor, old, downtrodden Class Secretary and that way we'll get more info on the pages each month.

Harris McKee sent a Christmas card and gently reminded me that I had not yet mentioned his marriage to Miss Mary Madden. Johnny King was an usher for Big Bonar. Mary is teaching at Hartford High while Harris toys with Thayer school. Any of you who were married or engaged (like John King and Jane Peterson) before last June please feel free to remind me of the news and I will gladly put it in print. Send $3.75 with each application. Anybody who gets left at the church will be refunded $4.98.

Bennett Tarshish got hit by lucky lightning twice. He won a scholarship to the Law School of the University of Chicago, and engaged himself to be married to Miss Deborah Beth Dashow of Glencoe, Ill. Reports have it that "Tough Guy" Bob Rosier and Al Orschel are at Chicago Law as well.

I have two Just-As-Planned's this month. Miss Ann Robinson is now Mrs. SamHughes, and Miss Barbara Hey is the new Mrs. Fred Fields. The Hughes are in New York; the Fields in California. Be sure and write to each other now, kids.

Miss Dorothy Jane Ansaldi will be wed to Joseph A. Carter next June. The parents of Miss Patricia Sheldon Cox have announced the engagement of their 'daughter to SkipKendall.

Mike Mitchell filled a Christmas card with news of his wanderings. Mike says that though he loved the Green dearly, his native California blood couldn't take the cold so he finished up his education at U.C.L.A. (the team that grand, glorious, helpful, friendly, etc., Minnesota downed in the Rose Bowl). Mike married the former Miss Lisbeth Jane Schmitt of Sheboygan, Wis. and is now a proud papa.. It was good to hear from Mike and we would very much like to get letters from any of you '61s who for some reason or other left Dartmouth before graduation. Everybody loves you still so don't hide out in alleys or anything.

Late news flash: Miss Ann Martin and Bill Sheehan were married on December 23. Ann and Bill are living in Hanover while she teaches and he learns (at Dartmouth Med). Miss Jeanne McGuffin and John Willis enjoyed a Newton, Mass., wedding back in November. The Willises are also residents of Hanover. I hope all you married couples in Hanover have some good bridge clubs going - there certainly are enough of you up there.

It's time for ARMY NEWS - presenting all the latest scuttlebutt about your favorite soldiers. John Schnackenberg has completed the Infantry Officer Orientation course at Fort Benning, Ga. Steve Auer, who was unjustly accused of working in the November column, is also a recent graduate of the Infantry School at Fort Benning. Norm Carpenter has been assigned to the 3rd Training Regiment at Fort Dix, N. J.

Both a news clipping about and a letter from Frank Greenberg arrived a few days ago. The clipping stated that Frank had been elected (wonderful democratic system) to the vice-presidency of his class at Columbia Law. Frank stated that Bob Snider, MoeBanks, Pete Hanauer and Bob Vincent are classmates of his and undoubtedly served as his campaign committee. Ed Holscher, JerryFoote, and Bill Matthews are at the University of Missouri Med School and are welcoming any freeloaders who stop off on their way to Aspen.

Speaking of traveling, remember way back when I mentioned running into a tour of collegians in Naples. Well, it seems that Olson Tours out of Chicago was the name of the group and they are planning on going back this year. I anticipate being deployed to the Mediterranean again this summer and will probably be following the cute little girls in the tour around - why don't you and maybe we'll run into each other? If you don't plan on going to Europe, just start running and we'll probably run into each other anyway.

Secretary, U.S.S. Linden Wald (LSD-6) Fleet Post Office New York, N. Y.

Treasurer, Apt. 305 515 Delaware St., Minneapolis 14, Minn.