1942

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Bert Anger sent us a card from the Taj Mahal, no less, claiming that "tho round the girdled earth they roam her spell on them remains," and that we had still not anted up for the '87 fund. We did so promptly. Bert's trip was part business, part pleasure which suggests that he now has the best of both worlds.

Joe Wilder's son Nick has been accepted into Dartmouth class of 1991. Congratulations to both. Getting into Dartmouth is still by no means easy. By the time this lad graduates, we'll be working on our 50th! CarlHolecamp is a winner too. His son, another Nick (Nicholas), graduated this spring from the St. Louis University School of Medicine and took the Hippocratic Oath in May. Congratulations are certainly very much in order.

A book came out recently from Presidio Press entitled Devil Boats—the PT WarAgainst Japan by William Breuer. The dedication reads, "for Rumsey Ewing—a gallant and daring Devil Boat skipper who typified the spirit of American Sea Calvary." A little digging turned up the information that Rum and his PT boat crew sank something like a dozen enemy ships in the Pacific during WW II. The most recent data I have on Rum is a couple of years old when he was splitting his time between a bank job in St. Louis and his ranch in Colorado. Write if I'm wrong, Rum.

If anyone needs a loan he should see AlBritton who now presides over the prestigious Dartmouth National Bank as chairman of the board.

We received a letter last month from one John B. Dwyer (513/890-5654) who is a professional U.S. Naval historian. He wrote in part, "In mid-to-late 1942, then Lt. (j.g.) Douglas Fairbanks Jr., USNR, visited Dartmouth and recruited a number of its students into a special naval unit he was forming at the time . . . one which later came to be known as the 'Beach Jumpers.'

"Working with Capt. Fairbanks, USNR Ret., I am writing a history of that WW II unit. It is my hope that you might recall Fairbank's recruiting visit to the campus and may recall some of the people who signed on and—after training in and around Amphibious Base Little Creed, Va.—served with the tactical deception and diversion 'Beach Jumpers' in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters, 1943-45."

If any readers of the column can be of any assistance to John Dwyer they should give him a call in Dayton, Ohio.