1944

Naval Reserve Captain Merle Hagen was reading his Navy Times the other day and came across an article about the big welcome that San Diego gave to the Marine regimental landing team that just returned from Viet Nam. As he looked at the accompanying photograph, the face of the commanding officer returning the regimental colors looked familiar. It was none other than Col. Adolph Schwenk. Adolph's RLT-27 unit was rushed to Viet Nam by President Johnson for the Da Nan offensive. The regiment was awarded more than 1700 Purple Heart medals and 216 personal decorations. Their effectiveness in battle was evidenced by the more than 2000 North Viet Nam and Viet Cong which the 27th killed.

I see where Fritz Hier is now one of the editors of "The Bulletin" which the school sends out every month. It was interesting to read in the last one that Coach Blackman has instituted a "Dial-A-Coach" system. He prepares a three-minute recording of the game that was played on Saturday and after 6 o'clock that night, you just dial 646-DC-AC and you get the whole story.

As I drove home last night, I heard on the radio about the gun control law they sent to the White House and that the man making the last ditch stand against the bill was Clark MacGregor.

Hardy Caldwell was recently elected a director of the Interstate Life and Accident Insurance Co. in Chattanooga. This, together with his Modern Maid Corp.; golf company; his work in the Rotary; and his work in heading up the United Fund in Chattanooga, seems to keep him out of trouble. Hardy seems to like the Southern schools. He has his children in schools in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. I hope that some day that the boys can add New Hampshire to the roster.

Also active in the United Fund is HarryCarey who is serving as chairman of the Taunton, Mass., drive. Harry, as you perhaps know, is now president of the Bristol County Trust Bank. He had been with National Shawmut until taking over the new position last December. He's also on the board of directors of the Taunton Chamber of Commerce.

I guess if you're an effective executive in the automotive industry, it's hard to ever settle down and call one place home. Or, at least, that's the way it seems with DickRanger. The better he did in the Carolinas, the shorter they cut his stay and jammed him over to Richmond. Apparently he did too good a job there because he's now been transferred out to Tustin, Calif., with the Ford Motor Co. Dr. Charlie Secor is now making his home out in California in Kentfield.

I spoke with Boston Bob McLaughrey on the phone last night and explained why I was unable to make the Princeton weekend. It seems as though there's going to be a considerable turnout of '44's. During the conversation, we got reminiscent about the student revolts in our time. After World War 11, Bob and I, for some reason, represented the Class in some very terrible grievance (just what it was neither of us can now remember). At least, it was our intention to confront the new 37-year-old upstart president of the college. As it turned out, John Sloan Dickey greeted us very graciously, had his wife serve us some beer and after listening to the terrible grievance, completely charmed us out of our position. When we left, we were happy and satisfied and thought that we had won, which we hadn't at all. I guess that's why Bob and I never got to be great labor leaders and why John Sloan Dickey has become one of the great college presidents of our time. But that's how student unrest was handled in those days.

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