1943

My letters to classmates requesting news receive replies in direct proportion to 1) enclosing a self-addressed envelope; 2) enclosing a self-addressed stamped envelope. Maybe I should send a pen. Walt DeLany came through with a fine reply: "This is the ideal time to answer your letter. I have the duty tonight as the Polaris Duty Officer here on CinClant's staff. My only real concern on the watch is to be here in the unlikely event that it becomes necessary for the President to release nuclear weapons. Since we all hope that necessity never arises, you can see that it is a real quiet and dull watch. ... The last time I was in the column, I was on duty in Hamburg, Germany as Liaison Officer to the German Navy. Anne and I left there in May, 1963 after three interesting but full years. Living in a German environment, we returned with a good knowledge of German and the people there. ... We arrived in San Diego, June, 1963 and remained until June, 1964. I was attached to Submarine Squadron Five as Operations and Weapons Officer, and for six months, I had command of Submarine Division 51. ... Upon leaving San Diego, Anne, Mary Anne (our nineteen-year-old), and I camped across the country in our Volkswagen camper. ... Saw many of the national parks. ... We arrived in Norfolk, July, 1964, where I am on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic with the title of Nuclear Warfare Plans - Missiles - interesting and a new field. After years of moving around, owning and renting various houses, Anne and I have become apartment dwellers for the first time. Why didn't I discover this before? Instead of mowing weeds with a lawn mower, I can now do it with a 9 iron. Mary Anne has returned to San Diego, where she is a freshman at California Western University. Anne is going back to college full time here in Norfolk, hopes to go on and get an M.A. in Linguistics. (Walt has his own Stanford M.A. in Education). ... The big new information as far as I'm concerned is that I was selected for captain this summer, but won't get promoted until June, 1965. Now that I've been that lucky, I hope to be able to return to Dartmouth as head of its NROTC unit." Walt also reports seeing Captain Whitey Fuller '41, who is on full-time active duty and head of the Norfolk Air Intelligence Center. Walt and Anne live at 100 Marcy Street, Apartment 3, Norfolk, where they will feed and board classmates wandering by.

John Odeneal has been appointed product manager, synergists and adjuvants, Fairfield Chemicals operation, Niagara Chemical Division of FMC Corporation in Middleport, N. Y. John has been with Fairfield since 1950, has held positions as technical sales representatives, director of technical service, and manager of sales development.

Ned Redman '06 thoughtfully sends me a clipping about Mosbacher the Sailor now turned Mosbacher the Banker, trustee of the Dollar Savings Bank of New York City. Bus has numerous business kudos including a directorship of Lily-Tulip Corp.

News has been short from the West Coast. Hanover must be remote from L. A. George Kimball has lived on the San Francisco Peninsula in Los Altos since the war. Number one son, Ron, is 6' 5", 235 lbs. and a freshman at Menlo College destined next year for Stanford. He was all-league tackle in football and all-league center in basketball. Now how did he ever get away from Dartmouth? The younger son is a junior in high school. George is superintendent of agencies, north Pacific region, for the U.S. Life Insurance Co. of New York, having been in insurance since his Lt. USNR days. George occasionally sees Jim Adams, reputed real estate tycoon in Redwood City, Calif.

I'm heavy on the life insurance boys this month with a fine letter from Winger Munn, who intended to attend the class reunion, had to make last minute changes in plans. Tom is regional director of agencies, the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, having no specific region but traveling where Mutual opens new agencies and putting out fires in others. Tom will be at the Yale game not without a regret about the Princeton schedule change this year. Lots of us in the Middle Atlantic area feel the same way, Tom. Nothing quite like watching Princeton beaten on a cold November afternoon. Dartmouth will be in Philly against Penn on November 21.

Howie Thomas returns to the U. S. after many years living abroad (to face the shock of income taxes). Howie is executive director, Fund for International Social and Economic Education, 1506 Girard Trust Bldg., Philadelphia, a philanthropic organization.

With winter on us Bob Andree hopes everyone will turn up the thermostat in Ithaca. ... Herb Harrigan has moved farther away than ever from the Philadelphia Inquirer - way out in Bucks County. According to my own survey, Bill Sweeney and Tom McManus are among Ford's top dealers in New England. ... Ray Wolfe probably observed Checkerboard Day with either a checkerboard shirt or tie or both. Everyone with Ralston Purina does. ... Fun to walk into the Leverone Field House with Phil Jackson, who put every piece together with loving care. Phil has left his marks on the Hanover campus in some magnificent construction. ... George Burke uprooted his specialty in radiology from New Jersey to Rock Island, Ill. ... After revisiting Hanover, Dick Kimmel is sorry he stayed away so long. ... In case you didn't know, the picture on ray desk is Squadron VN3D8, Whiting Field, and the white suited officer with the real military bearing is Robert Reed Gray - some twenty years ago.

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