Jan1945

TRINITY COLLEGE

ALUMNI NEWS

January 1945

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE OFFICERS

President: ELIOT L. WARD, '13 Vice President: ALEX W. CREEDON, '09 Secretary: J. RoNALD REC:NIER, '30 Asst. Sec.: ]AMES HENDERSON, jR., '37 Treasurer: HARVEY DANN, '32

OFFICERS OF LOCAL TRINITY COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS BERKSHIRE - Acting President: William G. Oliver, '10, Eaton Paper Co., Pittsfield, Mass. BOSTON - President: john A. Mason, '34, 33 Fair­mount St., Brookline, Mass.; Secretary: Morton S. Crehore, '14, 30 State Street. BRIDGEPORT - President: Louis F. jefferson, '15, 228 West Avenue, Darien, Conn. CAROLINAS - Acting Officers: Arch W. Walker, ' 14, 617 Woodlawn St., Spartanburg, S. C .; Chester D . Ward, '13, Montgomery Building, Spartanburg, S. C. CHICAGO - Acting President: Edgar H. Craig, '34, 2526 Hartzell St., Evanston, Ill . CLEVELAND - President: William G. Mather, '77, 12417 Lake Shore Boulevard; Secretary: David S. Loeffler, '26, 1197 St. Charles Avenue, Lakewood DETROIT - President: Norton Ives, ' 16, 252 Moross Road, Grosse Pointe Farms; Secretary: james B. Webber, '34, 16913 Maumee Avenue, Grosse Pointe HARTFORD - Vice President: Nelson A. Shepard, '21, 39 Hickory Lane, West Hartford ; Secretary: Kenneth W. Stuer, '26, 82 White Street HUDSON VALLEY- Secretary: Edward L. Sivaslian, '33, 91 Delaware Avenue, Albany, N. Y. NAUGATUCK VALLEY- President: Paul E. Fen­ton, '17, Crest Road, Middlebury, Conn.; Secretary:

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Edward S. Wotkyns, '29, 1 Central Avenue, Water­bury, Conn. NEW HAVEN - President: Raymond A. Mont­gomery, '25, 76 Carew Road, Hamden, Conn. ; Secre­tary: Francis J . Cronin, '25, 409 Norton St.

NEW YORK - President: Richardson L. Wright, ' 10, 420 Lexington Avenue; Secretary: Frederick C. Hinkel, Jr., '06, 63 Church Avenue, Islip, L. I., N . Y.

PHILADELPHIA - Presidwt: Ronald E. Kinney, ' 15, 401 Walnut Street; Secretary: Charles T . Easterby, ' 16, 323 Walnut Street. PITTSBURGH - President: Hill Burgwin, '06, 1515 Park Building; Secretary: joseph Buffington, Jr., '18, 1500 Peoples Bank Building RHODE ISLAND - President: Louis W. Downes, '88, 67 Manning Street, Providence

ROCHESTER - President: Elmer S. Tiger, '16, ~tna Casualty & Surety Co.; Secretary: Edwin J. Nugent, M.D., '28, 1325 Lake Avenue

SPRINGFIELD- President: Kenneth B. Case, ' 13, 1200 Main Street; Secretary: Sidney R. Hungerford, '17, 21 So. Park Avenue, Longmeadow

WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE - President: Paul H . Alling, '20, State Department, Washington, D. C.

Alumni Fund Drive As we go to press, a total of $4,730 has come into the Alumni

Office for the current Alumni Fund Drive (see Page 4). This is a

fine beginning - as a matter of fact, three classes have already

topped their quotas - but our goal is $35,000, so a good bit of the

road is still ahead of us. If you have not yet received a letter from

your class agent, you will in time. Since the fund raising is in the

hands of individual class agents, the appeals have gone out at various

intervals. In a later issue we will print the names of those who have

contributed. We hope that every alumnus will try to make the list

longer by at least one name. Our goal of $35,000 is higher than ever

before. We shall have to work hard to attain it.

BARD McNULTY,

Acting Alumni Secretary.

TRINITY COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS PUBLISHED NINE TIMES ANNUALLY BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

Edited by J. Bard McNulty, Acting Alumni Secretary

VoL. VI JANUARY· 1945 No.3

Navy V-r2 Program To End In June

The Navy V~12 Program at Trinity will be concluded at the end of June 1945, ac~ cording to present plans. The program began at Trinity in July 1943, with a quota of 410 Navy students. For the period of Novem~ ber 1944, to March 1945, this quota has been reduced to 245 men, and the quota from March to June 1945, will be 135 n1en. The Navy is effecting similar reductions at other colleges. The ultimate plan is to merge the few remaining V~12 Programs with

The following two paragraphs from the October Report of the Acting President will be of interest to alumni. This report recently appeared in printed form:

"COLLEGE CALENDAR

"It is my recommendation that the present accelerated program be regarded as a tern~ porary measure. The College should return to a calendar of two full terms as soon as possible . . . Some modification of the ac~ celerated schedule may be desirable, such as an eight~week summer term, but our program should not demand continuous attendance of our students year after year. College men should have time to mature properly, to assimilate the material presented in the classrooms, to enjoy in leisure the atmosphere of a liberal arts college, and to do a large amount of collateral reading. The needs of returning veterans and the pressure of a military service law in post~war days may force us to alter our plans, but we must

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R.O.T.C. Programs at a few of the larger institutions.

Upon the completion of the V~12 Pro~ gram the College calendar wi ll revert to the traditional September to June (two term) operation . It seems to be the concensus of opinion, at least among the New England colleges, that the accelerated program, though useful under certain circumstances, is not desirable as a long term policy.

succeed in retarding the present breakneck pace of college education. Very sensibly the epigrammatist observed in imperial Rome that 'a estate pueri si valent, satis discunt.'

"RENSSELAER~ TRINITY CURRICULUM

"We have concluded negotiations with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for a joint R.P.I.~Trinity course of study, com~ bining the princi pal features of a liberal arts program with professional training in engineering. A young man who spends three years at Trinity in our Engineering major is admitted to R.P. I. for his fourth and fifth years of work. We confer the Trinity B.S. degree on him at the end of his first year at Rensselaer and a Bachelor's degree in En~ gineering is granted by R.P.I. after one more year of residence there. Thus, in five years a student will have received two degrees and will have obtained an excellent preparation for the engineering profession.''

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Alumni Association News On November 18 a group of Alumni Class

Agents met at the College in Goodwin Common Room to discuss plans for an Alumni Fund Drive. It was the general opinion of the group that we should aim for an Alumni Fund total this year (July 1, 1944 - July 1, 1945) of $35,000. Further, it was the opinion of the group that the money should be raised, as far as possible, through the work of the Class Agents. Each Agent agreed to write the members of his class asking support for the Alumni Fund.

The reasons why Trinity's Alumni Fund needs stronger support than ever this year were set forth in some detail in the Alumni News of last July. These reasons boil down to this: Though the rate of return from the College's investments is very good, and though this return gives us a good backlog, it is not enough to meet the expenses of the College for two terms per year, let alone three terms. Trinity's civilian student body, and therefore our income from these students, is about 15% of normal. Prospects for next year, at least, are for a student body of minimum size. The present drive is not

On the evening of November 18, a number of the Class Agents who had attended the Class Agents meeting at the College in the morning, met with Hartford Alumni at the University Club for dinner. About thirty persons attended. Eliot L. Ward, '13, Presi­dent of the Trinity Alumni Association, spoke briefly and introduced Acting President Arthur H. Hughes, who gave a short resume of current events at the College. Your Alumni Secretary showed half an hour of recent films of the Navy at Trinity. No new officers were elected.

On December 6 the New York Alumni held their annual meeting. President-elect G. Keith Funston, '32, was present and said a few words to the fifty-six alumni who

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merely for the maintenance of the Alumni organization or for special alumni projects, important as these things are. Its purpose is to give help to Trinity College in a year which promises to be one of heavy financial strain.

It is unfortunate that some of the Class Agents were not able to attend the November Alumni Fund meeting. I have been in touch with these Agents, many of whom have agreed to help in the drive. Those who at­tended the meeting were Eliot L. Ward, '13, President of Alumni Association; Owen Mor­gan, '06, Director of Alumni Fund Council; Melville Shulthiess, ' 18, Director of Alumni Fund Council; Acting President Arthur H. Hughes, Howard Greenley, '94, Allen R. Goodale, '05, George C. Capen, ' 10, William P. Barber, '13, Robert S. Morris, '16, A. Northey Jones, '17, Sydney D. Pinney, '18, Harmon T. Barber, '19, Paul A. deMacarty, '22, Thomas J . Birmingham, '24, N. A. C. Anderson, '25, Kenneth W. Stuer, '26, Frederick J. Eberle, '27, J. Ronald Reg­nier, '30.

attended. Richardson Wright, '10, presided, and Colonel Philip J. McCook, '95, Acting President Arthur H. Hughes, George C. Capen, '10, and Dan Jessee said a few words. Again your Alumni Secretary showed movies of the Navy at Trinity. The officers of the New York Association for 1944-1945 were elected as follows: President, Richardson Wright, '10; Vice Presidents, Alfred J. L'Heureux, '13, John A. Ortgies, '21, Glover Johnson, '22, Robert B. O'Connor, '16; Secretary-Treasurer, Fred C. Hinkel, Jr., '06; Executive Committee, William S. Bu­chanan, Jr., '09, Leonard J. Dibble, '09, Walter W. Canner, '23, George Thoms, '26, John S. McCook, '35.

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Veterans and the College Next to the question of when our men in

service will be coming home, the hardest question for home~fronters to answer is What sort of job will the men want when they do get back? We all know some fellow who once looked to us like a sure~fire poet, but who turned out to be a first~rate Army engineer. Or perhaps we know of a former footba ll player who is teaching classes in Italian to his fellow servicemen. At any rate, as we look to the future we realize that we have to ask ourselves two questions: In what kinds of jobs will returning service; men feel that they can do best? and What kinds of jobs will be available?

I have recently received letters at the Alumni Office from business concerns looking for men to fill good positions. I hope that

The College has instituted a veterans' counseling service in cooperation with the Greater Hartford Veterans Service Center. Trinity offers to counsel veterans with edu; cational problems, whether these veterans

Ray Oosting Reports on Athletics

VARSITY BASK ETBALL

The only intercollegiate sport to be span; sored by the Athletic Association during the winter season of 1944~45 is basketball. At this writing the Trinity team has played seven games of a fifteen game schedule. l n spite of the fact that the team is probably as strong as the average Trinity peacetime quintet, the team has suffered five defeats against two victories. The schedule is made up of unusually strong opponents. However, in each game the Blue and Gold representa~ tives have given a good account of themselves. Yale and City College of New York, two of

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many more such letters come in. When our alumni start coming back in good numbers, it will be a fine thing for Trinity to help them get the right job quickly. And Trinity can help if those of you in business, industry, and the professions keep the College posted on positions which are to be filled.

To those of you in service Trinity is sending a questionnaire asking about what sorts of jobs you hope to get, about what specialized training you have received, and so on. It seems a little previous perhaps to be talking about peace;time jobs when the war is still in full swing; but, like our fellow colleges, we must begin to lay plans now if we are to give our alumni effective help on that good day when you come home.

happen to be interested in coming to Trinity or not. The present members of the Coun; seling Staff are Acting President Arthur H. Hughes, Professor Edward D. Myers, and Professor James A. Notopoulos.

the leading teams of the East this year, were given a real scare before their superior strength finally won out. Trinity has in its center Edward " Red" Faber, one of the best court performers ever to represent the Blue and Gold. In each one of the seven contests played to date he has been the outstanding player on the floor and in each game has been the highest scoring man, averaging 20 points. He scored 26 points against Yale and 23 against City College. With a little more scoring help from his team mates these two contests could easily have resulted in Trinity victories. Dan Dickerson is another scoring threat, although he has been ham;

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pered by an injury to his shoulder. In a recent game played, however, he netted 18 points, and if this pace continues Trinity may well win several contests of the re~

maining 8 games to be played.

FUTURE ATHLETIC PROSPECTS

There is a big question concerning the immediate future of intercollegiate athletics among the smaller colleges. A tentative baseball schedule is being arranged for this spring without any assurance that we will be able to see it through. Other small colleges are in the same predicament. If our present enrollment remains substantially the same for the term beginning March 1st, we hope to be able to sponsor a varsity baseball team.

In spite of the fact that the Navy V~I2 program is being brought to a close, other colleges of similar classification as Trinity are making plans to have a football team on the field next fall. We would like to be able to meet such opponents as the "Little

Three" colleges - Amherst, Williams, and Wesleyan, plus Union and Middlebury, among others, and every effort will be made to arrange a tentative schedule of this kind. At present the number and caliber of civilian students on the campus would not make this seem advisable, but we hope a new class of seventeen year old students next fall, with the possibility of a few athletes among returning veterans, will provide sufficient athletic material to make football possible. Other colleges will find themselves in a sim~ ilar situation. It has been made clearly evident that our present students and pros~

pective students want intercollegiate athletics. We will make every effort to provide it for them if it seems at all feasible .

FIELD HO USE

As most alumni know, the Trustees of the College, at a meeting held in the spring of 1943, approved the expenditure of approxi~ mately one hundred and seventy~five thou~

Left to right: Red Faber - average 20 points per game for the first seve" games of the season; Coach Ray Oosting; john Koch iss, regular guard; Dan Dickerson, high-scoring forward

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sand dollars for the immediate construction of an athletic field house. It was felt that, along with the many other needs for such a building, it was important to have this unit of the proposed new athletic plant available to aid in the Navy V-12 conditioning program. Because of the urgency of the need, the plan was to begin construction immediately and later to start a field house fund campaign to raise the necessary amount. It was a bitter disappointment to all Trinity men when it was learned that the War Labor Board would not approve the construction of the building. Shortage of both labor and material was given as the reason. In addition, it was learned that the contractors found it necessary to increase the estimated cost of the structure considerably because of the rapidly increasing price of materials.

The project is still uppermost in our minds. It is predicted that immediately after the war all colleges will be taxed to capacity. Returning veterans, with the cost of their education partially, if not entirely financed by the government, will flock back to the colleges. Trinity sorely needs this building and the other athletic units which are planned to center around the present swimming pool building, to provide a modern physical education and athletic plant. Returning veterans, as well as most prospective students, consider recreational and athletic facilities important to college life and often will not

consider colleges which do not provide them. Trinity men - let us keep this uppermost in our thoughts as one of Trinity's most urgent needs.

- Ray Oosting

TRINITY COLLEGE

VARSITY BASKETBALL ScHEDULE

ScORE

DATE OPPONENT TIME T.-0.

Tues. Dec. 5 Submarine Base 49 51 Sat. Dec. 9 R . P. I. 34 50

Wed. Dec. 13 YALE 46 61 Fri. Dec. 15 *M. I. T. 54 42 Wed. Dec. 20 *Wesleyan 46 57 Sat. Dec. 23 *C. C. ofN. Y. 49 74 Sat. Jan. 6 WILLIAMS 50 43 Wed . Jan. 10 *Yale

Sat. Jan. 13 *Coast Guard ----Fri . Jan . 19 M . I. T.

Wed . Jan . 24 WESLEYAN

Sat. Jan. 27 *Middlebu!y Fri. Feb. 2 UNION

Wed. Feb. 7 COAST GUARD

Sat. Feb. 10 HOLY CROSS

*Games Away

Mail Forwarding Service From time to time Trinity alumni send me

letters to be forwarded to other Trinity alumni in other parts of the world. I am always glad to help out in this way, and I wish to invite all alumni to make use of this forwarding service whenever they care to.

In the early months of the war we printed address lists of our alumni servicemen from time to time, but the changes of address soon began coming so fast that our lists were

seriously out of date before we could get them corrected, printed, and mailed. Then, too, the government has placed restrictions on the circulation of address lists of service­men. Our forwarding service provides the readiest solution for these difficulties. If you do not know the address of a fellow alumnus, simply send your letter, % Alumni Secretary, Trinity College, Hartford 6, Con­necticut. I shall be glad to send it on.

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Necrology Name Class

Otis G. Hammond 1892

Benjamin W. Morris 1893

Rev. William M. Bours 1894

Herbert T. Sherriff 1897

Alfred H. Timpson 1898

Louis F. Jefferson 1915

Charles J. Muller 1918

Rev. William Cleveland Hicks 1922

Allan C. McLean 1926

Most Rev. Maurice F. McAuliffe Hon. LL.D. 1935

John E. Barss Hon. M.A. 1936

Rev. Endicott Peabody Hon. D.O. 1941

Sgt. Sidney A. Mills 1941

Lt. Herbert R. Gilman 1942

T /5 Roderick]. Murray 1942

Capt. Frank C. Jones 1943

Sgt. Richard W. Dexter 1943

Sgt. Richard M. Farnsworth 1944

Ensign William H. Beatty 1945

Pfc. Thomas W. Flanigan 1946

Pfc. Charles E. Frazee 1946

Pfc. Rex E. Greene 1946

Date

October 3, 1944

December 4, 1944

November 11, 1944

July 26, 1944

November 3, 1944

December 12, 1944

November 16, 1944

December 15, 1944

March 25, 1944

December 16, 1944

November 21, 1944

ovember 17, 1944

Killed in France December 1, 1944

Killed in Italy January 31, 1944

Died in New Guinea October 22, 1944

Killed over Norway August 8, 1944

Killed in Corsica December 3, 1944

Killed in Caroline Islands June 13, 1944

Killed in action in Pacific area

Killed near Cologne December 4, 1944

Killed at Metz, France, Novem~ ber 9, 1944

Killed in Germany November, 1944

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Alumni Notes HON . 1938

THE RT. REV. W. APPLETON LAWRENCE, Episcopal Bishop of Western Massachusetts, ordained to the Diaconate WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD, JR., '44, son of the REV. WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD, ' 14, on November 30.

1883 THE REV. WILLIAMS. SHORT is rector emeritus

of the Church of the Incarnation at Santa Rosa, California . He recently became a great-grandfather.

1895

RT. REV. S. HARRINGTON LITTELL preached a sermon on inter-racial relationships at St. Paul's in Boston a couple of months ago. He cited Hawaii as an example of a region in which inter-racial problems have been faced and well met. A notice of his sermon appe.'lred in the Honolulu Advertiser for December 5, and was clipped and sent to us recently by S IEGBERT KAUFMAN, 46, who is now stationed there.

1899

THE REV. DR. ORROK COLLOQUE is now a resident of Tujunga, California - street address : 10438 Hill Haven Avenue.

1902

THE REV. EDMUND j . CLEVELAND, rector of the Church of the Ascension, Fall River, Mass., for the past twenty-two years, resigned his rectorship on the 1st of january because of ill health .

1906

ELMER M. HUNT has been appointed Director of the New Hampshire Historical Society at Concord . For the past year he has been engaged in special research in New England and New Hampshire history. The New Hampshire Historical Society is now 121 years old and owns one of the largest collections of books and other printed matter relating to New Hampshire in existence.

1908

THE REV. HENRY E. EDENBORG celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination on November 25.

KARL A. REICHE, Superintendent of Schools in Bristol, Conn., was honored at the sixth annual fall convocation of the State Board of Education at Teachers College, New Britain, when he received a citation for his many years of outstanding leadership in education .

1912

WALTER A. JAMIESON is director of the Bio­logical Division of the Lilly Research Laboratories, Indianapolis, Indiana.

MAXWELL KENDALL writes that his son is in the Army Air Force and that his daughter was married recently to a lieutenant in the Navy and is residing on the West Coast.

1914

THE REV. JAMES A. G. MOORE, after twenty­three years as minister to Congregational students at

Cornell University, became in the fall of 1942, Asso­ciate Superintendent of the New York Congregational Christian Conference, and is now located in Rochester. " It was good to see Ted Wessels' picture on the front of the November Alumni N ews, and to know of his fine record ."

CAPTAIN ARCHIBALD W. WALKER is in the Coast Artillery. His son, David, is at West Point.

1915 THE REV. JAMES A. MITCHELL was recently

elected first president of the Ministerial Association in Englewood, New jersey, and he was elected to .the Chapter of Trinity Cathedral in Newark. He is rector of St. Paul's Church . The Rev. Mr. Mitchell has three sons, james A., Hugh, and john.

1916 EDWARD A. NILES is a member of the Executive

Committee and Legal Committee of Aviators ' Post No. 743, American Legion . Formerly restricted to World War pilots and observers, it now welcomes men with night-crew training from World War II. He is also on the Copyright Commission of the New York City Bar Association. A tennis enthusiast, he is on the Executive Committee of the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association, Chairman of the Constitution and Tour­nament and Rules Committees, and a member of the Veterans Ranking Committee of U.S.L.T.A. "Being still navigable and living at Forest Hills, I even play tennis."

1917

LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN McK. MIT­CHELL is Executive Officer of an American Hospital in India. He served as a line officer in the first World War,

1919

MAJOR HERBERT E . P. PRESSEY, a Chaplain of the 43rd Division, has been cited for "patriotic sacrifice and service to God and country" by General W. R . Arnold, Chief of the Chaplains Corps.

1922

LOUIS M . GUZZO writes that Naval Aviation Cadet L. ROBERT GUZZO, '46, was recently com­missioned Ensign in the USNR at Pensacola, Florida. Bob is undergoing further training in carrier and torpedo bomber work.

MAJOR MILTON H. RICHMAN has been abroad in France and other countries assisting in the estab­lishment of local governments.

1925

LIEUTENANT COMMANDER ISIDORE S. GEETER has been in the service since December, 1943, in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy.

GEORGE P. jACKSON, Jr., has been in Wall Street since 1942. He has a young daughter at the Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn.

CHARLES R. MORRIS has prepared a new edition of Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America and Augustine Birrell's Edmund Burke for publication in january by Harper and Brothers. The edition is for secondary school use. Among Mr. Morris' students in eighth grade English at Milton Academy is Corwin

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Fleming, son of DR . ROBERT FLEMING, '25. Mr. Morris writes, "C. C . Buell, formerly history instructor at Trinity, and Vernon Street resident until his family home became the Alpha Chi Rho house, is now teach­ing at St. Paul 's School, Concord, New Hampshire. "

ROBERT W. ST. JOHN came out with a novel on November 22, It 's Always Tomorrow (Doubleday Doran, $2.50). It takes the reader over the face of Europe, watching Nazi occupation, tramping roads with refugees, and dodging German bombs.

1928

MAJOR JAMES E. BENT has recently returned from the European-African theatre and is now serving on the staff of the Air Communications Officer, AAF Headquarters, Wash ington, D. C .

CAPTAIN CHARLES G. JACKSON has been in Australia since August, 1943, in the Medical Corps. He has a young son (Junior) born since he went away, and two daughters.

MAJOR A. HENRY MOSES is engaged to Mrs. Charles John Crockett, Jr., of Philadelphia. Notice of the engagement appeared in the Hartford Courant for December 22.

1930

MARCEL L. DOUBLIER is now connected with the R .C.A. Victor in Camden, New jersey, in the Central Planning Division . He is the father of two sons, Rene, aged four, and Richard, aged six months.

LIEUTENANT SIGFR!D E. GREEN is now a Chaplain in the U. S. Army stationed at Fort Bragg. He has been in service since june, 1943.

1931

THE REV. EZRA S. DIMAN was ordained to the Sacred Order of Priests on the 18th of December at the Church of the Intercession, Stephens Point, Wisconsin .

LIEUTENANT JOHN GOODING, JR., USNR, has received the Silver Star Medal for "distinguishing himself by meritorious achievement as Commanding Officer of an LCI (L)." The citation points out that Gooding, under fire, managed his ship with coolness and leadership even after the steering controls had been put out of operation by enemy fire. He was in the Pacific area.

EDWARD W. LJONGQUIST is now teaching at Trinity in the Engineering Department. He is living in North Granby with his wife, the former Martha Alice Downs. He has two sons, Halvard, four, and Eric, three.

THE REV. LAURISTON L. SCAIFE has been sworn into the Navy as a junior lieutenant in the Chaplains Corps. He has been rector of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island, since May, 1942.

1932

RICHARD P. MELOY moved to Lansing, Michigan, in September, 1944, to accept the position as Assistant to the President of the Novo Engine Company. Pre­viously he had been in Dayton, Ohio, as supervisor of Customer Research for Frigidaire Division of General Motors.

1933

ANGELO ANTONUCCI is now teaching mathe­matics, science, and civics in the Glastonbury (Conn .) High School.

'Births

1934

JOHN A. MASON became the father on December 24 of a son, Nicholas Bayard.

1935

Ll EUTENANT HORACE BARNARD, IV, be­came the father of a son Horace V, on September 10, 1944. He was married on April 10, 1943, to Miss Mary B. Woolsey at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Horace IV is at present with a Cavalry Division in Italy. '

ROBERT M. RODNEY (formerly Roney) became the father on September 15 of a girl, Judith Louise.

LIEUTENANT (jg) RALPH G. SLATER became the father on October 9 of a daughter, Karen May. Writes Slater, " This makes two girls, no boys. Trinity better become coed."

1936

REUEL A. BENSON, JR., became the father last May of twin daughters, Sabra and Louisa.

OLIVER CARBERRY became the father last February 12 of a son, Timothy Oliver. Timothy is already practically as large as his sister, Gwendolyn, who is two and a half years his senior. Oliver writes, " I had the pleasure of seeing LIEUTENANT (jg) GUS UHLIG, '35, and SIS SAMPERS, '35, not long ago. Sis was toting in his arms his delightful seven months old daughter, while his blond young son reversed his field beautifully."

1939

THRUSTON WRIGHT, JR., became the father on August 5, 1944, of a daughter, Alexis.

1941

WILLIAM C. WILEY became the father on October 21 of a son, Don Craig. Bill lives at 1655 7'2 Preston Avenue, Akron, Ohio, and is . working as a research chemist for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.

1942

DONALD J . VIERTNG became the father on November 9 of a daughter, Donna-Marie, born at the Hartford Hospital. "Wish the Trin boys would drop out to Collinsville when they are on leave to take a look at our new Trin rooter."

1943

1ST LIEUTENANT ROBERT W. WELLES be­carne the father of a girl , Linda, recently.

1944

FRANKLIN R. HOAR became the father on December 20 of a daughter, Stephanie Bradford.

1945

JOSEPH W. INK became the father on July 26 of a son, Jack Daniel. Mrs. Ink is the former Miss Betty jane Sinclair of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

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LIEUTENANT LEONARD P. JAHNKE, (MC) USN, has been at sea for about a year and has seen much Pacific action. He spent nine months as flight surgeon for an Air Group and is now attached to a ship. "TOM WADLOW and I are in correspondence, and I'd like to hear from some of the others of the class of '33."

1934

LIEUTENANT COMMANDER NATHANIEL T . CLARK, USNR, was recently promoted to his present rank.

SERGEANT FRANK G. COOK, now in France, would like to hear from his classmates of 1934, we learn from LIEUTENANT (jg) GUSTAV H. UHLIG, JR ., '35, USNR.

LIEUTENANT (jg) ROBERT H. DAUT was promoted to his present rank on the 1st of june. He is now with the Seabees in the South Pacific.

DAVIDS. HARRIS is a teacher of mathematics at Friends' Select School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has a daughter, Faith LaForge, five and a half years old.

JAMES B. WEBBER, JR., is Vice President and Assistant General Manager of J . L. Hudson Company, Detroit. He is also State Chairman of the Michigan Retailers War Savings Committee, and serves as either Director or Trustee of the Detroit Board of Commerce, the Detroit Better Business Bureau, the Detroit University School. He is on the Executive Committee of the Detroit War Chest, and is Chairman of the Detroit Council of Veterans' Affairs.

1935

LIEUTENANT HARRY C. OLSON, USNR, writes from an advanced base in the Pacific that he recently ran into ENSIGN LEWIS M . WALKER, JR., '38, on a transport .

LIEUTENANT JOHN J. RIMOSUKAS is now serving with an infantry division in Germany. He was inducted into the Army in August 1941.

WILLIAM A. ROOS, Ill, after nine years service on the New York Daily News, has been appointed to the Advertising Staff of Liberty.

LIEUTENANT (jg) RALPH G. SLATER is now in the PT branch of the USNR.

1936

PAUL C. ARMSTRONG will become a member of the staff of St. Thomas Church, New York City, as vicar of St. Thomas Chapel on February I .

CAPTAIN BERT R . SCULL writes that New Caledonia, Guadalcanal, New Zealand, and several islands in the Southwest Pacific area have been his " home" for the past twenty months. "Tell WALT COLLINS I would like to hear from him."

1937

LIEUTENANT DEXTER j. ANDERSON is serving as Executive Officer on board a vessel in the Pacific.

HOWARD A. EDSTROM was host to LIEU­TENANT HOWARD A. GALE, '37, in New York over the Christmas holidays.

THE REV. ALEXANDER VAN C. HAMILTON has become rector of Christ Church, Providence, Rhode Island, anci lives at 66 Benefit Street.

LIEUTENANT ROBERT S. HAZENBUSH re­ports briefly, "am 'somewhere' in New Guinea with the rain and the mud in my hair."

ENSIGN WILLIAM G. HULL, USNR, received his present commission in january, 1944, and was stationed at the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, until june. He graduated from the Har­vard Supply Corps School in October and is at present stationed in San Francisco, California .

DR . MICKEY KOBROSKY is now a 1st lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps.

HARRY SANTOORJIAN has legally changed his name to Harry Sanders. He now has two sons, Gregory Burr and Donald Harris. Harry is now associated with the Enthone Company in New Haven .

1938 LIEUTENANT (jg) L. MORAY ARMSTRONG

writes that he recently met BOB O'MALLEY, '38, in an officer's club somewhere in the Pacific. Bob is a Navy doctor attached to the Marine Corps. Needless to say, the sixth reunion of the class of 1938 was held . Ray has been in the Pacific for ten months.

LIEUTENANT THOMAS D. BENSON, of the Army Medical Corps, has just left for the Pacific after serving on hospital trains out of San Francisco for several months.

CORPORAL ALDEN H. CRANDELL, who has been in England for some time, is one of a number recognized for achievement. In addition to a personal commendation from his Commanding General, he has been ordered to wear two Bronze Stars on his good conduct ribbon. His wing unit has been given a citation . He is in the Unit Office in an important capacity.

CAPTAIN WILBER R. GRISWOLD was recently transferred from Camp Phillips, Kansas, to Fort Warren, Wyoming. He is in the Administration and Supply Branch of the Status and Inspection Division.

,SERGEANT SPENCER P . KENNARD has been attached to the Civil Affairs detachment, serving in France as an interpreter. He has managed to get to Paris and was there during the first momentous days of its liberation . He has also been in Germany, where the Civil Affairs group is known as "Military Govern­ment."

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM N. LINDSAY has recently been home on leave from duty in the Pacific. While here he sang with the Choral Club of Hartford, with which he has been associated for a number of years, in their fall concert.

LIEUTENANT ARTHUR M . SHERMAN, JR., USNR, is back in the United States after a year and three days overseas in Scotland, England, and France. He was in the Normandy invasion with the Seabees who installed the artificial harbors. He is now Chaplain of the Armed Guard Center, New York, and is living with his father at 242 E. 14 St. He ran into one of his former Trinity roommates at Camp Endicott, Rhode Island, LIEUTENANT (jg) STEVE BARTLETT, '39, MC, USNR . Art had a good chat with Steve and with his wife. Art also ran into a brother Psi U -LIEUTENANT ADOLPH HOEHLING, '36, USNR, at the Armed Guard Center. "Several good chats with this hoary veteran of four years' service."

1939

IST LIEUTENANT WARD P. BATES was re­cently promoted to his present rank in the Army

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Medical Administration. He is stationed at Honolulu in the Headquarters Office for Central Pacific Area.

LIEUTENANT EDWARD L. BURNHAM, co­pilot of a Flying Fortress, has been awarded the Air Medal for achievement while participating in bombing German industrial targets, airfields, and gun em­placements.

LIEUTENANT Ug) WILLIAM H. GORMAN has been at the Small Craft Training Center at San Pedro, California, we learn from ALBERT GORMAN, '41.

CAPTAIN GEORGE D. GREENLEAF writes that he has met Ll EUTENANT RAYMOND THOM­SEN, '41. He has had "something of a tour, " having been with an amphibian outfit. He was in the United Kingdom before the African landings, and after Africa was in Sicily, Italy, back in England, and then Nor­mandy, North France and currently Belgium.

HENRY HAYDEN was ordained on October 9 to the ministry of Guerneville Community Church, Guerneville, California.

ROBERT C . MADDEN is out of the Army and is now at the University of Michigan studying at the Forestry School there.

LIEUTENANT FRANCIS A. STOCKWELL, JR., writes that he has been on the island of Corsica since last April at the Headquarters of a bombardment wing. On a trip to Naples in September he ran into LIEU­TENANT ALBERT B. STARKEY, '36, who was also visiting the city. Frank also met LIEUTENANT QUENTIN McCULLOUGH, '40, on Corsica last summer. McCullough is with an AA outfit.

CAPTAIN ARTHUR C. WEBB is stationed in Egypt with a Weather Squadron. He . entered the service in 1942, and received training in the Air Corps.

MAJOR JOHN T. WILCOX writes that he, BILL YATES, and TOM SKELLEY, AXP's of the class of 1939, "are in the same division, having been inducted into the service on the same day, February 1941, have all been overseas twenty-five months, and all have the same rank . What's more, we are all pulling for old Trin. "

1940

CORPORAL EDWIN A. CHARLES was awarded a prize of a hundred dollar war bond in October for an essay, What Victory Means to Me. Along with the hundred dollar war bond he was given a five-day all-expense tour of the Isle of Capri .

LIEUTENANT C . ROBERT CRABBE writes that he is "still alive and kicking despite foreign entanglements off Samar."

RICHARD K. MORRIS after two years as a master at the Loomis School in Windsor, Conn., was forced to retire because of health . He underwent two operations in November and now reports steady improvement. He is living at his home in Centerbrook, Conn.

WILLIAM G. SPEED, III, graduated from the Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1943. He served his internship in medicine at johns Hopkins Hospital and is at present resident physician at the Hospital for the Women of Maryland in Baltimore.

JOHN S. WHITE wrote recently, " Had an old­time 'Deke' reunion recently with JACK PARSONS, '39, LT. DICK MOODY, '41, and LT. ERNIE HEATH, '40, participating. Once a Deke always a Deke, and for a few swell hours we really went to

. town .. . You know, Trinity and Delta Kappa Epsilon combined to produce some darned good boys and we're going to make sure the process continues as soon as this mess is over. " (White is a Deke. - Editor.)

THE REV. WILLIAM J. WOLF has been appointed by the Trustees of the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to teach systematic theo­ology beginning February I , 1945.

1941

CORPORAL FRANCIS J. DONAHUE is sta­tioned at Norfolk, Virginia, as a member of the Army Air Corps, assigned as a radio operator on B-29's.

HERBERT B. FELDMAN has been with the Genera l Electric Electronic Engineering Depart­ment since 1941, and is now in the Radar Field Service Department stationed in New York.

MAJOR WILLIAM G . OLIVER has been awarded a second Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster to his Air Medal in the European Theater of Operations. He dropped paratroopers and supplies on Cherbourg peninsula in the invasion of Europe.

PVT. WALTER J. PEDICORD has been with a Marine Detachment at the College of the Ozarks, learning to be a radioman.

LIEUTENANT C . CULLEN ROBERTS, USNR, writes that he hears quite frequently from CORPORAL jOHN T . CARPENTER, '41, USMCR. John has seen a great deal of action in the Pacific.

PFC. J. FRANKLIN STEERS is at an Army Air Field at Mt. Home, Idaho.

CAPTAIN ALTON J .' WALLACE has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for the fourth time. He was cited for achievement while serving as a pilot of a P-51 Mustang on a strafing mission over Germany. While starting to make a low level attack on an air field, he encountered a heavy barrage of flak. At the same time he was advised that ten Focke Wolf !90s were attacking from the rear. Captain Wallace, turning about, engaged the ten German fighters . Two went down in flames . Captain Wallace has to his credit a sixth Oak Leaf cluster to his Air Medal.

1942

T / SERGEANT RICHARD C . BESTOR "after two years spent in jolly old England, plus a month in the wilds of muddy Normandy," is now stationed and enjoying life in the "Heart of Gay Paree. Paris is indeed the city of wine, women and song and, strangely enough, champagne is more plentiful than beer."

JOSEPH J. BONSIGNORE received his M.A . in English at the University of Chicago, and is con­tinuing to study there toward a Ph.D. He has kept in contact with SERGEANT FOSTER RHINES, '42, with the Air Force in Chungking; Ll EUTENANT JIM MIRABILE, '42, with the Air Force in Spokane; and with LIEUTENANT HANK ROTHAUSER, '42, USCGR ; with MAX HAGEDORN, '42, and other men at Jefferson Medical College. joe writes that he ran into JACK CAREY, '42, and TOM FORD, '42, and that he met KEN ALBRECHT and .JIM DI NIGRIS in Chicago.

SERGEANT FRANK J. BRAZEL writes that he had a telephone conversation with T / SGT. RICHARD C . BESTOR, '42, not long ago. He is in France and hopes to be able to get together with Bestor even­tually. Frank is a radio operator with an Artillery Unit and hopes for a good deal of action .

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Part of the Trinity V-12 unit passes the reviewing stand on Main Street during the Sixth War Loan Drive. Reviewing officer: Admiral Thomas C. Hart .

....Marriages

1932 DAVID L. WHITE was married on Saturday,

November 25, to Miss Betsy Aron at the Church of the Ascension, New York . The couple plan to live in Washington where White is Administrative Officer of the Construction Machinery Division of the W.P.B. He attended the Harvard School of Business Ad­ministration. Trinity's president-elect, G. KEITH FUNSTON, '32, and the REV. JAMES 0 . CARSON, '32, were ushers.

1933 CLARENCE K. ANDERSON is married to the

former Miss Edith Bates Edmondson of Plymouth, North Carolina. His wife is a graduate of the Univer­sity of North Carolina .

1937 2ND LIEUTENANT PAUL E. BURDETT, QMC,

was married to Miss Elizabeth Brown of Englewood, New Jersey, on September 16 in St. Paul's Chapel, Englewood, by the REV. JAMES A. MITCHELL, ' 15 .

1939 CROMBIE J. D. GARRETT was married on

October 12 to Miss Sarah Adelaide Wilson in New Haven, Conn.

1940 ARTHUR M. RINEHART was married to Miss

Louise Gail Schmeisser of Northway, Maryland, on October 2.

1941 LIEUTENANT (jg) GEORGE J . PRENDER­

GAST, USNR, was married on November 22 to Miss Mary Oliver of Winters, Texas.

JOSEPH N. RUSSO, USA, was married to Miss Rosemary Thayer of Burlington, Vermont, on Decem­ber 20 in St. Paul's Church, Burlington. Mrs. Russo attended Radcliffe, and graduated from the University of Vermont, where she majored in Economics, and was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. The couple are living at 242 South Winooski Avenue, Burlington, while Joe completes his senior year at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

G. KENT STODDARD was married on October 14 to Miss Lois Virginia Crawford of Niles, Ohio.

HON. 1935

PROFESSOR CLARENCE E. WATTERS, head of Trinity 's Department of Music, is planning a Festival of French Organ Music for the early months of 1945 . He will tour the United States from coast to coast and visit Canada, playing recitals of French music. He writes, "Can it be doubted that the or­ganists of France never forgot their high mission? No! For they were not truly alone. In the lofty vastness of Notre-Dame, in the clear radiance of St. Ouen de Rouen, in St. Eustache, Ste. Clotilde and La Trinite, in countless places dear to memory, were the spirits of loyal friends and admirers. Among these last I find myself. Now, it may be asked why an American should present a Festival of French Organ Music. There can be only one answer: In no better way could be demonstrated to America and to France the grati­tude we owe to that great company of French or­ganists, living and dead, who have restored the organ to its rightful place as King of Instruments. To them these recitals are dedicated ."

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1942 (Continued)

PFC. RUSSELL BURRAGE, JR., who is with an infantry unit in the 3rd Am1y, received a Combat Infantryman Badge on October 22 for "exemplary conduct in action against the enemy." Wounded on November 5, he received the Purple Heart. He has been returned to active duty with his regiment.

JAMES M. CANNON writes that "for the past sixteen months I have been stationed in (censored ) forecasting weather for the AAF. Courses pursued at Trinity College have proved to be invaluable. Met S/ SGT. JOHN CRICHTON, '42, who is a lso in weather and was stationed for a while at Antigua, B. W. I. Life in the tropics is not as bad as has often been depicted . However, as everyone in the services will agree, there's no place like the U.S.A."

LIEUTENANT ROBERT B. DILTS, a fter com­pleting his tour of duty with the Eighth Air Force, returned to the States and spent four months re­cruiting for the AAF in West Virginia, where he met BOB NICHOLS, '42. Not long ago he was trans­ferred to the San Angelo Air Field in the capacity of Assistant Public Relations Officer. He says that while he was in England he didn' t happen to run into any Trinity men. .

1ST LIEUTENANT FRANK F. FASI, USMCR, writes that he met 1ST LIEUTENANT JACK FAY, '43, in Honolulu one Sunday not long ago while he was waiting for a plane to take off. Jack has been in the Marshalls and Mariannas. "Took two months getting out here. Was seasick two months and two days." Frank is a Recreation and Morale Officer. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant in December, 1943. "The Marines win island championships in baseball, softball and football."

THE REV. HENRY B. GETZ was ordained to the Priesthood on December 21 in St. Mark's Church, San Antonio, Texas, by the Rt. Rev. Everrett H . Jones, Bishop of West Texas.

CAPTAIN CLAYTON E. JENSEN is in the Philippine Islands.

LIEUTENANT JAMES W. MARLOR is a bom­bardier in a Flying Fortress in raids over Germany. His unit received the Presidential Citation for gal­lantry in action.

LIEUTENANT JAMES D. MIRABILE was graduated a 2nd Lieutenant from Army Adminis­tration OCS in June, 1943, and was promoted to 1st Lieutenant in March, 1944. He is now sta tioned at Fort George Wright, Washington, as Commanding Officer of the Headquarters Squadron.

1st LIEUTENANT ROBERT K. PILLSBURY in a note from Luxembourg, said that he heard from CULLY ROBERTS, '41, and JOHN CARPENTER, '41, now and then. " I work with an old Wesleyan grad these days."

LIEUTENANT (jg) HENRY G. ROTHAUSER is serving aboard a tender of the USCG after a long tour of duty on the Greenland patrol.

PHILIP W. SCHWARTZ is a 1st Lieutenant in the Marine Corps at the Marine Corps Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina .

THOMAS J . C. SMYTH was ordained to the Orcier of Deacons on November 2 by the Rt. Rev. Edward Peneck, Bishop of North Carolina, at St. Paul':' Church, Winston-Salem, N . C .

CAPTAIN NICHOLAS N . TURLEY, after grad­uating from School for Personnel Services at the Washington and 1..4!e University, was transferred to

Bradley Field, Conn., and later to Mitchel Field, New York.

LIEUTENANT DONALD S. VINCENT is a Communications Officer. He writes that he likes his job very much and that it gives him a chance to brush up on his electricity and radio.

1943

LIEUTENANT (jg) STEPHEN R. BARTLETT, ] R., who is in the Navy Medical Corps, saw the invasion of Normandy from the deck of an LST and helped in evacuating casualties. Now stationed in Rhode Island, he has seen LIEUTENANT (jg) ARTHUR M . SHERMAN, '38, and LIEUTENANT "SOUP" CAMPBELL, '43 .

LIEUTENANT (jg) MATTHEW A. BAXTER is at present instructing in the Naval Air Corps in Indiana. In 1941 he married Miss Anne Wright of New York City, and now has a two year old son, Matthew A., Jr.

ENSIGN PHILIP J. CASOLINO, D-N, USNR, after his training at the New York State Maritime Academy, received his commission in the Maritime Service in New York City. He is now stationed on board ship as third mate.

LIEUTENANT ROBERT H . HINCKLEY was commissioned from Yale last May and then went to Harvard, graduating on October I . At present he is at M .l.T. for a few months studying radar design and operation. He is living in Cambridge with his wife, the former Betsy Griswold, sister of JOHN GRISWOLD, '47.

LIEUTENANT MA UR ICE J. KENNEDY, JR., having served in Colorado, Texas, and Georgia, recently completed OCS at Fort Benning. He is now in Texas with the infantry. He was with TED LOCK­WOOD, '46, with the Ski Troops in Colorado.

HUGH F. LOWETH, after a year's graduate study in public administration at Syracuse University, is working as a fiscal analyst for the Social Security Board, Washington, D. C. He is also acting as a temporary member of the USCGR Port Security Force. He has recently seen a number of Trinity men, including LIEUTENANT CHARLES JONES, '43, and LARRY KAVANAUGH, '43, who is with the Army Signal Corps.

LIEUTENANT DAVID R. LUTKINS has been in active service through Normandy, Belgium, and in Germany. He has been wounded and awarded the Purple Heart, but is now back in active service.

ENSIGN DWIGHT S. PAINE is on active duty in the Mediterranean following the battle of Nor­mandy and Southern France. He has seen plenty of action.

1ST LIEUTENANT ROBERT W. WELLES is a B-25 Instructor at Turner Field in Georgia. Bob wrote that RICHARD M. CHEETHAM, '43, is still in Iceland .

1944

CORPORAL JAMES A. BIGGERSTAFF had completed six months of electrical engineering in the ASTP at the University of Alabama, when the ASTP was discontinued. He was sent to Signal Corps at Camp Crowder, Missouri , and was later sent on to Signal Corps at Ft. Monmouth, New j ersey, where he completed a course in communications. He is now studying radio and radar and has been selected to be sent to Washington for further stud)' upon completion of his present course. In January, (944, Jim became engaged to Miss Katharine Vosel of Manchester, Conn.

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ENSIGN JOHN C . DAWKINS enlisted as a seaman in the Navy on the day after Pearl Harbor, while he was still a student at Trinity. As a member of the crew of the USS Vincennes, he was with that ship in four engagements in the Pacific before she finally went down off Savo Island in August 1942, with three other cruisers in a midnight engagement. Later he was on Midway Island as an Aviation Ordnance man. In June 1943, he was sent back to the United States as a V-12 student at Yale. Graduating from Yale in July 1944, he was sent to Midshipman School a t Cornell, where he graduated as Ensign in November 1944. He was married on November 2.

L. RICHARD DOTY, II, writes that he has recently heard from PFC. JARVIS HARRIMAN, '44, who is in a Field Hospital Unit in lllinois. Jarv was lucky enough to have almost a month at home - two furloughs came together. Dick has also had a letter from Mrs. Ayer saying that WINSLOW B. A YER, '43, has been promoted to Flight Lieutenant, though he is still a prisoner of war. Dick has been made Special Events Director and Associate News Editor of WEBR, the Buffalo Courier Express radio station.

OFFICER CANDIDATE CLEMENT DOWD writes that he met BOB VAN DE WATER down at Fort Benning at Officers Candidate School. Clem Dowd when last heard from was in OCS at Fort Benning, after having been in the Infantry for a year and a half.

EARLE W. EPPS is working in the Research Division of the Calco Chemical Company, and plans to start training at the Albany Medical School next July.

PVT. HENRY H . FORSTER has been stationed in various parts of Africa and Asia for the past twenty months, and is now on the Gold Coast. " The life is uneventful, but cannot complain."

PFC. C. JARVIS HARRIMAN is now a labora­tory technician with a Field Hospital Unit. He writes that PFC. REED SCHROEDER, '46, and PFC. JIM BURBANK, '44, are overseas in an infantry division, and that STAN WOODWORTH, '43, is gunnery and liaison officer with an LST in the Euro­pean theatre.

PVT. J. H. ECCLESTON JOHNSTON, after serving in the Eighth Army in Africa in the American Field Service, is with the U. S. Marine Corps in the South Pacific.

ENSIGN DONALD C. PAINE has completed his training at Midshipman School Prairie State. He specialized at Cornell on Diesel engines. When last heard from he was located at San Pedro training a crew.

EDWARD B. RISLEY left Thomson's Greenhouse in West Hartford in September, 1942, to major in floriculture at Massachusetts State College. From March to October, 1943, he was with the U. S. Army Records Office in the Quartermaster Corps at Camp Lee, Virginia, as a private 1st class. On October 4, 1943, he returned to Massachusetts State College to resume his studies in floriculture and plant genetics. He has been high on the Dean's list, with a 91 average.

OFFICER CANDIDATE ROBERT B. VAN DE WATER arrived back in the States in July from twenty-three months in Panama before becoming a candidate in the Infantry OCS at Fort Benning.

2ND LIEUTENANT JOHN M . VERDI is now stationed in India, having been graduated from Aviation Cadet School at Yale University on January 6, 1944.

ENSIGN CHARLES H. WACKER, III, AVN­USNR, has begun operational training in PBM's at Banana River, Florida. Charlie received his gold wings at Pensacola in September.

ENSIGN WILLIAM B. WALKER, USCGR, now has two major campaigns under his belt, and is looking forward to more. He writes that he is also looking forward to coming back to Trinity, playing football, managing basketball, etc. He is in the South­west Pacific.

1ST LIEUTENANT HENRY R. WICKENDEN recently returned home for leave after completing a term in England. He has been awarded the Dis­tinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters. He is pilot of a P-5I Mustang. In a recent 10-day period, the group in which he flies destroyed 108 German planes. Earlier he had set a distance mark for British-based fighters when his group escorted heavy bombers on a 1,600 mile round trip to Gdynia, Poland .

1945

PVT. MICHAEL R. CAMPO is a laboratory technician in a hospital overseas.

FLIGHT OFFICER ROBERT S. CROSS, PHIL JACOBS, '44, and PAUL WARREN, '43, had a pleasant reunion with LIEUTENANT LYON H. EARLE, '42, at Cushing General Hospital, Framing­ham, Mass., where Earle is convalescing from an arm wound received in Italy. All would like to hear from any of their friends scattered over the globe. This note comes from PAUL R. WARREN, '43 .

TECHNICIAN FIFTH GRADE ARTHUR D. KEEFE is with a Medical Laboratory serving in New Guinea.

CORPORAL COURTENAY K. PAGE, JR., com­pleted one year of service on Guadalcanal in Decem­ber. He is in the Signal Corps and received his cor­poral's stripes not long ago. JOHN E. BIERCK, ' 17, sent us this note, adding that Court welcomes mail and always answers it.

PFC. JOSEPH D . PINSKY, who is now in Ger­many, has written that his Trinity German course has come in handy. Under the Army ASTP Joe spe­cialized in French for eight months and for a short time taught his buddies French.

1946

LIEUTENANT WELLES V. ADAMS, AAF, was reported a prisoner of the German Government on September 18, 1944, after being missing in action since July 7th. He was navigator on a Liberator bomber, which took part in a mission over Bleck­hammer, Germany. The engines and fuel tank were hit by flak, and the crew bailed out over Yugoslavia. Lt. Adams entered the AAF in May 1943, received his commission at the Pan American School of Ad­vanced Navigation at Coral Gables, Florida, in April 1944. He is at Stalag Luft 3, Germany, and has written his parents (on August 23) that his health is good and that food is sufficient. The prisoners have an orchestra, a dramatic company, several softball teams and a library. All equipment is supplied by the Red Cross and Y.M.C.A.

CORPORAL THOMAS C. AUSTIN has recently been transferred to Topeka, Kansas.

STAFF SERGEANT EDWARD J. COSGROVE was awarded an Air Medal and citation for meritorious achievement for missions accomplished from June

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10 to July 10, 1944, in the Southwest Pacific. His unit was given a Presidential Citation.

REDDING L. CROFTS, Seaman 2/ c, according to our latest information, has been attending Signal­man School with the expectation of graduating in January.

CORPORAL ROBERT E. CUSTER was sent to Radar School by the U. S. Marines and has been stationed at Corpus Christi, Texas.

SERGEANT SAWARD J . EPPS was recently promoted to his present rank in France. He is now attached to Patton's Jrd Army and has been overseas since last August. Just before going over he received a good conduct medal and the Expert Infantryman 's Badge.

PVT. SAMUEL S. GOLDSTE IN is in the Army Air Corps and is attending Radio School at Scott Field, Illinois.

PFC. JOHN M. L 'HEUREUX is stationed in Assam, India, with his Air Force Squadron, we learn in a note from ALFRED J . L 'HEUREUX, ' 13.

PFC. S IEGBERT KAUFMAN is stationed in Hawaii, and writes that he has not seen a Trinity man since he left JARVIS HARRIMAN, '44, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, last April.

ENSIGN MERLIN C . KOLAKOWSKI was gradu­ated from the Naval Air Training Base at Corpus Christi, Texas, on October 18.

SEAMAN 1/ c BENCION M. MOSKOW was graduated from Signalmen's School and was sent recently to Great Lakes for four weeks training as a Signalman for a merchant vessel.

APPRENTICE SEAMAN JAMES D. WICKEN­DEN is undergoing training at Del Rio, Texas. He will enter flight training in the A.A.F.

KENNETH WYNNE, PETER TORREY, '44, DON CRAIG, and ROBERT SMITH graduated from the V-12 Training Program at Trinity in October to begin training at the USNR Midshipman School, Fort Schuyler, New York .

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