THE SPRINGFfE-[D--tOLLEGE BULLETIN

Vol. XVIII, No.3 SPRINGFIELD, MASS. November, 1943 THIS ISSUE DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO NEWS OF MEN OF SPRINGFIELD SeA TT ERED AROUND THE WORLD

1895 Rev. Worthy F. Maylott, for 28 years pastor of the First Congregational Church in A NEW YEAR WISH Derby, COnIl., which was organized in 1677, To the men and friends of Springfield scattered throughout the world, President and took the trouble to write the College his ap' Mrs. Ernest M. Best extend the season's greetings and the sincere hope that the year proval of the October BULLETIN-the view 1944 may bring closer the victorious peace for which so many millions are praying, book of the College. "It will make every striving, and sacrificing. Springfield man proud," he declared. But more important, he enclosed a greeting for Christmas which his church is sending to its 1902 When most of the news has a war Hawkes is living at 15 Lexington Road, Con' men in service. flavor, it is refreshing to get a budget from cord, Mass. Though the greeting is personalized by men' Dr. Elmer Berry out in Vida, Ore., that can' Elmer Burnham, chara·cterized by news, tion of the chm-ch, it is so much like the tains a few homely items. For the benefit of papers as "the ever,grinning head man of the message many of us would send to our boys his many friends, we quote brief sections: undefeated Purdue Boilermakers," was cited all over the world that we take the liberty of "Glad to say that Mrs. Berry is in good shape last fall as "United Press Coach of the Week." reprinting it below: now and enjoying good health-when I can He has been a coach at Purdue for the past keep her from working too hard. Fighting nine years and his teams have a habit of First Congregational to keep the deer out of her gardens has been winning games. We can do no better than Church rather strenuous. I had a little hospital vaca' to quote the United Press story about him which went all over the nation: Derby, Conn. tion myself last June, but am feeling fine A Christmas Greeting agaih. We have spent the summer repairing "His boys are laughing their way through DEAR FRIEND: flood damage of last winter and have just com' one of the toughest football schedules in the You are missed by relatives and pleted a 'Chinese wall' to keep the river out country, but the way they are winning foot, friends more than you know. of our property when he goes on future ball games is no joke. This message is sent you to re' 'benders.' I actually caught three trout for "He swears they are playing football 'just mind you that "Out of sight is supper the other night! We'll beat the ration not out of mind." We do think for fun' but successive victories over Great of you and your loved ones. books yet." Lakes, Marquisette, Illinois, and Wisconsin There may be dark days and are real accomplishments, so meet the 'United 1914 Maj. Herman A. Lorenz, who has months of trial and sacrifice Press Coach of the Week-Elmer Burnham, ahead of us. May this bring you been overseas in special service for a year, is the ever,grinning head man of the undefeated some comfort and encourage' now back in this country and stationed at the Purdue Boilermakers. ment. Engineer School at Ft. Belvoir, Va. The Old Church Pastor and "'... These boys are playing football for people pray for you God's Bless' 1915 Victor A. Welton has changed his fun all the time and that is the way it should ing and protection. We all fight home address in San Diego, Ca1., to 1344 be played,' Burnham said. 'We don't take in His name at home and far away. May the shi'eld of faith Seventh Ave. ourselves or anyone else seriously.' " and the sword of the Spirit which 1916 Maj. Howard Hawkes, stationed at There's a lot more of the story, but that is the Word of God enable you gives the general idea. to say with St. Paul, "I have Camp Mt. Vernon, 111., with the 739th Mili, fought a good fight." tary Police Battalion, and Mrs. Hawkes re' 1917 Harvey J. Rutherford has retired Our Chur-ch history goes back cently -celebrated their silver wedding anni, from the White Plains, N. Y., Y.M.C.A. and to the PILGRIMS and a former versary. Maj. Hawkes is a veteran of World is now in business selling and repairing hear' Pastor wrote: "Laws, freedom, ing aids in Port Chester, N. Y. truth, and faith in God came War I in which he was in active service from with those Pilgrims over the 1917 to 1919, rising from the rank of private waves." We are in the same to Second Lieutenant after attending the offi, TELL IT TO THE MARINESl battle today. cers' candidate school at Saumur, France. After May the NEW YEAR bring all the PEACE America has ai, the war he became professor of physical educa' ways treasured and a better tion at Western State Teachers College, was WORLD because of your sacri, director of physical education at Biwabek, fice and service. You have ai, Minn., and occupied a similar position in the ready justified our faith in your courage and fitness to serve. We city of Concord, Mass., when he was called are proud to recall that members to the colors in 1940 with the rank of Cap' of this Church have fought in all tain. the wars in which we have been He attended the Provost Marshal School at engaged. Your name is now en' Arlington, Va., and from there was' sent to graved upon our records with those who have gone before. the Rock Island Arsenal in charge of military LINCOLN said, "Let us have police company. In 1943 he moved to his faith that right makes might and present location in Illinois, where he received dare to do our duty." his promotion to the rank of Major. He has Your friend, REV. WORTHY F. MAYLOTT, two sons, Robert, 21, who was a member of Pastor. the Class of 1944 at Springfield College when Ze~e, ah cain't see a thing. 'That tl111r he entered the service, and Theodore, 15. Mrs. war sti,ff is jest noospaper tal~! Page 2 SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE BULLETIN November, 1943

Weare proud to publish a recent photo' In 1921 he went to Hong Kong, China, to Lieut. Ted Nordyke is now executive offi, graph of one of Springfield's distinguished do work in physical education and five years cer of the Physical Training Department of alumni in active service. We present Lieut. later returned to Springfield to take his the N.A.T.T.C. at Memphis, Tenn., having Commander Henry O. Dresser, head man of Master's degree. A year later he went to been transferred from Jacksonville, Fla. the W elf are and Recreation Department of Seattle, Wash., "Y" as physical director and Lieut. Roy B. Clogston, former Director of the U. S. Naval Training Station at Sampson, remained there until 1930 when he joined the Athletics and football coach at St. Lawrence N. Y.-the second largest naval tratntng sta' staff of the New York City Y.M.C.A., West University, is now on active service with the tion in the world next to Great Lakes. Side Branch. Navy Air Force in the Pacific area, according Lt. Comdr. Dresser is the organiz.er and Henry Goddard is now employed at the to word re.ceived from his home in Canton, administrator of an enormous welfare and American Hammered Piston Ring Division of N. Y. He organized and directed an exten' recreation program which reaches some 35,000 the Koppers Company at Baltimore, Md. sive athletic program at Grosse Isle, Mich., men daily and that makes him a pretty impor' 1922 It's Lieut. Harold Evans now and Training Station after an indoctrination course he's stationed at U. S. Naval Air Station at at Annapolis Naval Academy. Key West, Fla., instead of with the Depart' 1929 Lieut. Walter J. Lake is a Chaplain ment of Physical Education at Dartmouth on the U.S.S. General A. E. Anderson. College. Donald C. Large, former teacher at Mepham A note from Lieut. R. B. Macomber, High School at Bellmore, N. Y., is now Di, U.S.N.R., tells us that he is on the Welfare rector of Physical Education at the Junior and Recreation staff at the Charleston, S. C., High School at Westfield, N. J. Navy Yard for the sixth Naval District, doing C. Herbert Cochrane, who for the past two important work on the rehabilitation program. years coached three sports at New Britain, His office is in the Fort Sumter Hotel. He Conn., High School, has affiliated himself says Ensign Paul Johnson '35 is Assistant with the East Orange, N. J., High School as Welfare and Recreation officer at the Navy head football coa<:h and Director of Physical Yard. Education. 1924 Andrew J. Danielson left his post as Lieut. Harrison B. Mosher, U.S.N.R., is a director of the USO unit in Bath, Me., in battalion commander at Murray (Ky.) State September to become general secretary of the Teachers College, where he is teaching swim' Y.M.C.A. in Norwich, Conn. ming and track. 1925 Lt. Col. Ray Hanson of the U. S. Lieut. Alex.ander Oliver of Mt. Holly, N. J., Marine Corps, athletic and morale officer for recently with the Pittsburgh, Pa., school sys, the ,San Diego area of the Fleet Marine For<:e, tern, was transferred to the Physical Training adds a boost to the prestige of Springfield Department of the U. S. Navy Pre,Flight College in a recent note. "Springfield men School at Athens, Ga., and assigned as an are cp.rtainly making history. A lot of them assistant instructor in military track. The pro' Lt. Comdr. Henry O. Dresser are passing through this area." gram there called for 26 streamlined track U. S. Navy Official Photo Frank W. Sawyer is now Director of Health meets totaling 130 events each month in addi, and Safety for the F. W. Sickles Company in tion to 14 races against time over the obstacle tant person in Uncle Sam's sight. Like many Springfield, Mass., manufacturers of radio <:ourse. Springfield men occupying key positions of electrical apparatus. 1930 John Caswell Smith, Jr., club director this sort, Lt. Comdr. Dresser has played a 1926 "Inspiration and training under Pro' for the American Red Cross, has been assigned major role in placing the prestige of Spring' fessors Mohler and Burr contributed largely to overseas duty. field College at a high level as an institution to my being able to win a First Lieutenant's training men for leadership in specializ.ed fields commission in the A.M.G. Division of the and this prestige is going to count heavily in Provost Marshal's Department," writes the postwar era. George E. Berthelon. He has resigned his 1918 Dr. A. H. Marvill reports a <:hange of position as director of the USO at Denton, address from Roselle, N. J., to Rollins College, Tex., where, he has been stationed since last Winter Park, Fla. May. Norman J. Noftle is now Physical Director 1920 Capt. Milton R. Johnson, U. S. at the Lowell, Mass., Y.M.C.A. Army, is stationed at Camp 46, Big Flats, Franklin Ott took over important football N.Y. coaching duties at Niagara Falls, N. Y., High 1921 Dr. Arthur E. Dome of Brooklyn, School last fall when Harold Cripe, head where for the past five years he has been execu' coach, became ill and was unable to continue. tive secretary of the Brooklyn Central Mr. Ott has been assistant <:oach at Trott Y.M.C.A., has accepted a <:all to become Ex: Vocational School in the same city and had J. C. Smith, Jr. A. Roughgarden ccutive Director of the William Sloane House considerable success in this capacity. Y.M.e.A. He is recogniz.ed as one of the George L. Meylan, Jr., is now assistant field Capt. Ralph W. Erickson, U.S.A.A.F., leaders in the National Y.M.C.A., particularly 1927 director for recreation at Westover Field in is now Director of Physical Training at Basic in the field of physical education. His first Chicopee Falls, Mass., after doing a "hitch" Training Center No. 10, Greensboro, N. c. post was with the "Y" in Boston in 1915, with an army detachment in Alaska for some after which he enrolled at Springfield. There 1928 Thurlow Halsey has been appointed time. his college education was interrupted by two Athletic Director and Physical Education In' Harold O. Boyer is now a member of the years of service in , but he re' structor of the Rye Nc<:k, N. Y., Schools. Physical Education Department at Chester, turned to the College and resumed his studies. He started his duties there in September. Pa., High School. November, 1943 SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE BULLETIN Page 3

Philip S.Seitzer is now Director of Physical Warren Edward Bryant has been made a Dexter Linton has been named Physical Di, Education at Columbia High School, South lieutenant in the U.S.N.R. rector at the Junior High School in Natick, Orange, N. J. Mass. 1933 \Valter Horsley has been promoted Lieut. Brantford Benton is now in the Naval to Scout Executive of the Long Trail Council, L. Richard Tilden, former Springfield track Air Combat Intelligence . service and when Boy Scouts of America, in Burlington, Vt. star, is now a .chief specialist in the navy, sta' last heard from was at Memphis, Tenn., await, tioned at Norfolk, Va., with the Gene Tunney Lieut. R. W. Cheney is Welfare and Recre' ing new orders. outfit as an instructor in defensive swimming. ation Officer at the U. S. Naval Hospital at Safe arrival in Australia of William V. 1931 Abram Roughgarden, American Red Sampson, N. Y. Cross program director, reached London in Brook, a field director for the American Red George C. Anderson is now located at the November, according to advices received at Cross, has been announced. Before his over' Burgwin School, Pittsburgh, Pa. Springfield College. Until his Red Cross ap' seas assignment, he was Director of First Aid George W. Pauff is now a teacher of science pointment, he was Administrative Director of Water Safety, and Accident Prevention Serv: in the J unior,Senior High School at Scarsdale, Camp Hope, Paterson, N. J. Mrs. Rough, ice for the Hartford, Conn., Chapter. N. Y. garden is living at 133 Howard Street Pitts' A. Huntley Parker, Jr., has left his position 1935 Grant W. Koch is an Ensign in the field, Mass., during his absence. ' at Williamson, N. Y., to take over the position Navy and when last heard from was stationed Lieut. Comdr. Donald D. Dunn, U.S.N.R., of Director of Boys' Athletics, Health and at the indoctrination school at Ft. Schuyler, for five years Physical Director and athletic Physical Education in the public school system N. Y. He was a teacher and coach at Tech, coach at Fairhaven (Mass.) High School, is at Dansville, N. Y. nkal High School in Springfield, Mass. now a Welfare and Recreation officer stationed Howard Simons is Director of Physical Ed, Lieut. Frederick Kosiba, former coach of in Northern Ireland. ucation in the public schools of Farmington, athletics in Thornton Academy, Saco, Maine, Lieut. Harry C. Thompson, U.S.N.R., for' Conn. is a swimming instructor at the new air station mer coach at Roeliff Jansen High School in Lieut. Clair C. Kelley is one of the officer,s at Beeville, Tex. His young brother, Richard, Hillsdale, N. Y., has reported at the U. S. stationed at the U. S. Navy Pre,Flight School t7, has received an appointment to the Naval Navy Pre,Flight School at Athens, Ga., to join at Chapel Hill, N. C. Academy at Annapolis. a staff of famous coaches and physical instruc' Doing pretty nearly everything on the books tors who .conduct one of the most intensive Francis Mear was last heard from in Camp in the Army Air Force is Lieut. Littell R. Stone training programs ever devised. Peary, Va., from where he wrote that he had just seen a movie short .called "Basketeers" who is at the air base in Salt Lake City, Utah, Lieut. Robert Nelson, Jr., U.S.N.R., writes which contained "some grand views of Spring­ as an administrative officer in charge of plans a postcard to say that he is now the skipper of field College. It certainly gave me a thrill to and training program. Among other activities one of those racy "PT" boats in the Pacific see the dormitory where so many pleasant days he has carried out he lists assistant adjutant area. were spent." of a !iquadron of 700 men, instructor on the Lieut. Sterling Geesman, U.S.N.R., is sta' rifle range, in charge of Sunday athletic pro' tioned at the U. S. Naval Flight Preparatory grams, troop train commander, conducted the School at Ohio Wesleyan University, Dela' mid,week chapel service in the absence of the ware, Ohio. Chaplain, and has managed to find time to 1932 Gordon O. Merkel was graduated make the grade of sharpshooter with the from the Officer Candidate School at Ft. Ben' Springfield rifle. Versatile men, these Spring' ning, Ga. He now holds a commission of field graduates! second lieutenant in the Army. Ensign Paul Y. Johnson is Assistant Recrea, Inman A. Breaux is now a Master Sergeant tion and Welfare Officer at Charleston (S. C.) in the U. S. Army Ordnance service and after Navy Yard. lengthy training at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Huron John Smith of Churchville, N. Y., Md., has landed at Camp Abbott in Oregon. received hIS Master's degree at Pennsylvania Lieut. John R. Peck, serving with a regiment State College last fall. of engineers, has been decorated for his par­ Weldon J. McCluskey is now Director of ticipation in the North African campaign, ac' Adam A. Cameron William V. Brook Physical Education at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., cording to word received in this country. A Y.M.C.A. native of VvT orcester, Lieut. Peck entered the 1934 Adam A. Cameron has arrived in Henry Hansen Tise has received a com' Army in May, 1941, as a private in the Medi' England, according to advices received at the mission as lieutenant in the U.S.N.R. cal Corps. In April of 1942 he went to Offi, College, where he will act as a Club Recrea' cers' Training School and was commissioned tional Director for the American Red Cross. 1936 Lieut. Robert J. Friery is stationed three months later as a second lieutenant, as' Until his appointment with this organization, at the Army Air Field at Pecos, Tex. Mr. Cameron was Physical and Athletic Di, signed to an Engineer Regiment and later pro' When last heard from at the College, Lieut. rector at Arkport, N. Y., Central School and moted to first lieutenant. He has been overseas Wilfred Aitken Sugden, U.S.M.C., was at the had served as football line coach at Bates since March, 1943. U. S. Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla. After taking part in the invasion of North College and Massa.chusetts State College at Lieut. J. R. Ellis, U.S.A., was also heard Africa, Lieut. Sam F. Schneider, U.S.N.R., Amherst. from some time back at Camp Stewart, Ga. went across in the Sicilian invasion and re' After nine years as coach, athletic director, turned to the United States last September and teacher of sociology and economics at the James T. Hatton is in Australia with the and for the first time saw his daughter born Winston,Salem Teachers College, Harold Tay, American Red Cross. last April. He was stationed temporarily at lor resigned last summer to join the Y.M.C.A.' In recognition of his growing leadership in Lambert Field in St. Louis, Mo., but expected USO staff and after training was assigned to the field of social science, Dr. Ronald Lippitt to return to sea duty at any moment. the Greensboro, N. C., USO Club as Director. has been appointed Editor of the Journal of Ted C. Jarvi has accepted a position at Edward Whittemore Farmer has been com' the Society for the Psychologkal Study of Boston University, where he is studying for missioned a Lieutenant in the U.S.N.R., and is Social Issues, an affiliate of the American his Doctorate. now at Babson Institute, Wellesley, Mass. Psychology Association. Page 4 SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE BULLETIN November, 1943

Lieut. Edward N. Loke is at Camp Upton, for combat training at Camp Lejeune, New River. I have my wife with me and have N. Y., with the 1253rd SCSU. River, N. C. rented a ranch house not too far from the camp. I am enjoying my work very much and 1937 Edward A. Readel is serving as a Roy Holmes has been promoted to Director field director for the American Red Cross in of the Physical Department of the Vancouver, feel that at last I am actually doing some North Africa. B. C., Y.M.C.A., and writes that he is in good in the Army." Jack F. George received his commission as process of completing his Master's degree at Lieut. Carroll M. Newstrom is a flying in' structor at the Army air field in Garden an Ensign in the U.S.N.R. and has been sta' the University of Oregon. City, Kans. tioned at Princeton University for a course of Cpl. James W. Clemenger is in charge of the study. He expects to leave there for sea duty swimming pool at Minter Field, Bakersfield, Lieut. Kenneth Dustin is now a pilot on shortly. Cal., and writes: "It is a lot of fun doing the the Liberator four'motored bomber and when A surprise visitor on the campus recently work one is prepared to do and carrying out so last heard from was at Mitchell Field, 1. 1. was V. B. Bensen who is at present studying at far as is possible the things we learned at Ensign Bob Weech is stationed at Great the New York Medical College at Fifth Av' Springfield .... We really put the cadets Lakes Training Station and is second in com' enue and Flower Hospitals in New York City. through their paces here." mand of the rifle range there. He is anticipating receiving his M.D. next 1940 Zeng Pratoomratha is physical direc' year. Benson spent nine months in the Army 1941 Ensign Charles Sparaco is taking an tor at the Labor Temple, New York City. indoctrination course at the Training School in 1941, most of it in Ft. Jackson, S. c. Rudolph J. Matousek has changed as physi, at Hollywood, Fla. 1938 Oliver E. Wolcott, for the past five cal director of the Rochester Y.M.C.A. to a David Grinnell has been promoted to the years physical educator in Y.M.C.A.'s in New similar position in Syracuse, N. Y. York, Kansas, and Missouri, has been named rank of Captain in the Army Air Force at Physical Director of the "Y" in Lockport, Lieut. K. H. "Ken" Dustin, who has put in Carlsbad, N. M., where he is a group com' N. Y. over 600 hours of operational duty as a pilot mander. William A. Donovan, for the past three with the U. S. Army Air Corps, recently re' Lieut. Price D. Rice was in the news dis' years connected with the Hampden County turned to his old office at the Central patches from Italy recently where his, Army Training School for boys in Massachusetts, has Y.M.C.A. in Montreal, Canada. He brought Air Force pursuit squadron is winning fame been named assistant director for the USO back with him such decorations as the Dis' for its strafing and dive bombing of the Ger' Club N.C.C.S. at Portland, Me. tinguished Flying Cross, the , and mans. Lieut. Rice is credited with pOpptng the American Medal and ribbons for action off a German soldier in Italy, who when the Joe Tracy is an Ensign now in the U.S.N.R. on three fronts. Though reluctant to discuss plane came over, climbed a tree to escape it! stationed at Whiting Field, Milton, Fla., where his achievements, it is a matter of official record Lieut. Rice joined the air forces from Mont' he is an instructor on instrument flying. that the flying cross was awarded for his feat clair, N. J., in February of 1942 and he and Ensign Herbert P. Almgren is at the Naval in routing 10 German planes while they were his fellows aspire to take on commercial flying Training School at Harvard University. protecting a U~boat pack in the Bay of Biscay. after the war-if they can't remain in the George C. Cooley is a Chief Specialist at Army. the Naval Training Station at Sampson, N. Y. Harry W. Raw' Pfc. David Suher is a member of a military strom, well known police escort guard outfit quartered at Camp Bob Berry is with the Ski Patrol as staff one,time swimming Gordon, Ga. sergeant, last heard from at Camp Hale, Colo. champion at Spring' Ensign J. G. Mallen writes from "some' 1939 A flight deep over enemy territory, in field, has been pro' where in the Blue Pacific" of living a rugged Europe which ended when his plane ran out mated from second sort of life. "The only entertainment is oc' of gas and smacked into the English Channel, to first lieutenant at casional moving pictures I saw a year ago back won an air medal for Lieut. Edward M. Prais' Selman Field, Mon' in the States," he writes, "and some very ner of Chicopee, Mass. He and his crew roe, La., where he is pleasant swimming-with the exception that spent 20 hours bobbing around in a rubber an instructor in the the coral on the beach is hard on the feet. life raft and were finally rescued by a speed, physical training The island is a flat, treeless mound of coral boat 42 miles off the coast of England. He is department. constantly baked by the sun. The uniform of a bombardier in the Army Air Force. the day consists of a he'avy pair of Marine Capt. Philip A. Neal of Fairview, Conn., Lt. H. W. Rawstrom field shoes, shorts, and a tropical helmet." is armament officer in North Africa with a Maj. Daniel F. Riva of East Hartford, Newspapermen are of the opinion that if bombing outfit that has a reputation of being ever a collection of the exploits of American "the best pinpoint bombers in the business," Conn., commands an Army Air Force squad, ron in England that has been credited with fliers in the war is made, Lieut. Arthur E. according to an Associated Press correspon' Smith and his bomber "Buffalo Gal" should dent. shooting down 24 enemy fighters in one raid over Germany, with six probables. place high on the list. He was one of a Roberts G. Hettler, when last heard from seven,man crew aboard the plane, a Martin in September, was an Ensign at the Naval T./Sgt. Bill Lewis is located at Camp Marauder, on an important bombing mission Flight Preparatory School at Cornell College, Mystic, Hunt, Tex., where he is program di, over the Continent. Anti'aircraft batteries Mt. Vernon, Iowa. rector, athletic director, waterfront director, ripped 128 holes in her fuselage, started three Word comes that Krum K. Jordan, former' lifeguard, swimming instructor, and evenmg fires bla~ing, and set the ammunition in the ly physical director of the "Y" at Richmond, program director. This is one of the first tail exploding. Two men were wounded and Ind., is now occoupying a similar position in Army Air Force convalescent camps for men hy the time the plane had dropped her eggs Portland, Me., Y.M.C.A. injured or who have contracted illness during "smack on the target" and turned for home Lieut. Alanson D. Mott, U. S. Marine their training period in the Gulf coast area she was a wounded bird. Coming in for a Corps, writes that he has been through a rigor' sent there for rehabilitation after being hos, crippled landing, Lieut. Smith found his land' ous course of training in varied subjects since pitali~ed. ing gear was jammed and when he finally got Dec. 3, 1942, and when he wrote, last Septem, Writes Bill: "The camp is located right in it down, discovered his right tire had been ber, was still attending a weapons platoon class the heart of the hills on the Guadaloupe shot away! He came in "on a wing and a November, 1943 SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE BULLETIN Page 5

prayer," judiciously braking his one good Doyle, too, on their way to Washington from Alden R. Setnas has been commissioned an wheel and swinging the ship into a side run­ their home in Branford, Conn. Ensign in the U.S.N.R. way so the rest of the planes following him Ensign Gordon O. Larson, U.S.N.R., re­ Ensign K. Kurth, Jr., is somewhere in the in could land safely. "We landed safely," cently ,finished an indoctrination course at Pacific area, while Ensigns W. K. Antilla was his official report. Something like "Saw Hollywood, Fla., and has returned to the and Gordon Dooley are at a Navy base in sub-sank same," what? Aviation Base at Memphis, Tenn., where he is Eureka, Cal. Cp!. Don Roberts, with a fighter .squadron to be a navigation instructor. Hewing soft ball and basketball courts out in the European theater of war, writes that Comes a nice letter from Paul Rose's wife, of the forest wilderness "somewhere in the he hasn't met up with a Springfield man since Alice, dated in Wilmington, N., C., where he Pacific" was one of the jobs Lieut. C. A. Bo' arriving overseas and misses the campus. "I was taking a special course in automotives. berg had to supervise last summer. can't help thinking with the approach of fall," It was to end Dec. 18th and they were then Nicholas Sabetto was named physical edu' he wrote, "that the campus at Springfield will bound for "destination unknown." Says Mrs. cation instructor in the Mepham high school be the prettiest spot in the city. I am sure Rose: "This marks my fourth month as a at North Bellmore, L. 1., last fall. there are several hundred fellows bes:des my­ vagabond army wife . . . they have been self who miss it as much as I do." Gerald F. Harrington is now Associate Sec' pleasant, though ... we miss the invigorating retary of the Monmouth .Federation of Alan E. Hugg is now executive assistant for New England climate. . . . Please share our Y.M.C.A.'s, working out of Red Bank, N. J. the Canadian Youth Commission at Toronto, greetings to Springfield folks everywhere and Can. although it is difficult to say 'Merry Christ­ Leonard Morton is a social science instruc' Lieut. Louis J. Segalla is with an Armored mas' this year, we will say 'have a good tor and sports coach at Irving School for Boys Infantry Regiment overseas in Europe. Christmas!' ... We were shocked at some in Tarrytown, N. Y. T./Sgt. Edward E. Safford is somewhere in of the news in the recent BULLETINS." Lieut. Leo H. Nover is with a Parachute Infantry Outfit, last heard from at Ft. Ben' the Pacific area with a rad:o station section Rev. Forrest Higgins has resigned his pas­ ning, Ga. of the Signal Corps. torate of the Goshen (Mass.) Congregational James B. Delamater, a member of the fa<:ulty Church, which he has held since 1940, to be­ Howard D. Gould is now chaplain of a at the University of New Mexico, at Albuquer­ come pastor of the First Congregational bomber group on active duty in the Pacific que, has an Ensign's commission now and is Church at Wenham, Mass. war area. physical training officer of a naval unit sta­ After doing just about everything on the Pvt. William Sohofield, Jr., Jeft Nov. 22 for tioned at the University. books in the Army, Edward Jorgenson gradu' San Antonio, Tex., Army Air Force Training ated from Officer Cand,idate School at Camp Lieut. Raymond E. Schmidt is with the Center and is in a psychology research unit Davis, N. C., and received his commission as Army Air Forces in India. there. Bradford Bramhall has been promoted to a Pvt. Charles M. Browdy is in an infantry a Lieutenant of Antiaircraft Artillery, but captaincy and is still flying transports in the training batt-alion at Camp Wheeler, Ga .. somehow had the feeling that he would get into South Pacific for the Marine Corps. Special Service eventually. "In order to get all You can put Ensign ahead of Charles H. sorts of doors opened to me," he writes, "all Warrant Officer Harold Amos, recently Schlingheyde's name now. He graduated re­ I had to do was mention Springfield College stationed at Camp Butner in North Carolina, cently from the Corpus Christi, Tex., air and then the only problem left was to work has gone overseas to the European war theater. training center. hard and carryon the ex<:ellent record that Sergt. John Lysak, U.S.M.C., is somewhere S. 21 c J'Oseph A. Ross was recently heard some previous Springfield man had set in the in the Pacific area. from at the U. S. Naval Amphibian Training job. I have been mighty proud to state that Lieut. Bill Woodworth/ a weather officer Base, Solomons Branch, at Washington, D. C. I graduated from that little college on the shore in the Army, is stationed at Pendleton Field, Ensign Howard C. Doyle and Lieut. Fred of Lake Massasoit!" Ore. "As far as my work in weather goes," S. Eyster, U.S.N.R., are now at sea. 1943 Charles "Irv" Adams has been com' he says, "I find it more interesting daily now John M. Heiden has been named physical missioned a lieutenant in the Marine Corps. that I am working close with an experienced instructor for the Ipswich (Mass.) high schoo!. Ensign Dale Harper is now at the naval Army forecaster in this outfit. With winter section base at Mayport, Fla. coming up and the nearness of this station Sergt. W. R. Lawrence is with a medical to the beginning of the storm systems in this and psychologi<:al examining unit at Greens' Richard W. Foster is an aviation cadet at country, I will be challenged as I never was boro, N. C. Maxwell Field, Ala. before, even by those economics exams of Dr. Garland "Dixie" Murray is an Ensign Cross's or those psychology tests of Dr. Sea­ aboard a mine sweeper operating in the shore's." Some challenge, did we hear you Pacific. boys say? Capt. Ernest B. Edgett of the Royal Cana' Cadet Dean Richmond Stickney of Cole­ dian Air Force as we were going to press was brook, N. H., i.s at Greenwood Army Air officially listed as "missing in action." He had Field in Mississippi for basic flight training. seen active service as a fIying officer in Scotland, C.P.O. Paul Hedman, U.S.N.R., is a physi­ England, Egypt, and S'icily and had an official cal edu<:ation instructor at the School of record of shooting three German planes out of Mines, Butte, Mont., for a V-12 program. the sky, one prohable and one destroyed on the ground. 1942 Lieut. Ralph ,M. Goglia, U.S.A.A.F., Pvt. Bob Bush is attending the Tufts Medi, writes from his training station at Flushing, cal School under the Army training program. L. 1., that he recently spent a few enjoyable days in Hartford and New Haven, Conn. At Pvt. Donald J. Sundholm was a visitor on the latter place he ran into Ken Higgs, who the campus in N'Ovember and at that time was is teaching at Yale and taking graduate work with a medical detachment stationed at Little there also. He saw Ensign and Mrs. Howard Hey! Are YaH scairt of water moccasins? Rock, Ark. Page 6 SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE BULLETIN November, 1943

Howard F. Lorenz has been promoted from to Parris Island, S.i C., for Marine Corps second to first lieutenant at Selman Field, training. Monroe, La. STORK Ale Arthur C. Laufer has just been heard Ensign Edward J. Keyes, Jr., when last from at the Air Base at Santa Ana, Cal. heard from in October, was with the Fleet Sound School in Key West, Fla. MARKET Way back in June an air mail letter from Pfc. Robert "Art" Lawson placed him on ac­ Pfc. Harry Lehmann cabled from England REPORTS tive duty with an aviation signal squadron on Nov. 4 that he had just arrived there somewhere in the Pacific. ','My army career so safely and was connected with a provisional far has shown me the States from coast to ferrying squadron. coast, north to south, half the world down to Pvt. Wesley G. W 011, J r., is in the medkal Australia and New Guinea," he wrote. Prob, detachment of an Infantry glider outfit at To' Mr. and Mrs. Wallis T. Hyde '25 of ably he's seen the other half by this time. Ft. Bragg, N. C. Pittston, Pa., a son, Richard Wallis, May 29. Pvt. Eugene D. Hilton has gone overseas Ensign Bob B. Burgess took a submarine To Mr. and Mrs. James A. Straton '28 of to the European theater ot war. warfare course and when last heard from was Sydney, Australia, a daughter, Carolyn Clark, at Norfolk, Va. Says he: "The work is very September 5. Ross Merrick is at the Maritime Service interesting here, but the nature of it is con­ training station at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y. To Mr. and Mrs. Walter Horsley '33 of fidential, so I'll have to stop there. But it is Burlington, Vermont, a daughter, Jane Beebe, Robert Esty recently wrote from his home thrilling to feel that when you go aboard ship in November. in Maine where he was on a week's leave that you are the only man who knows something To LIeut. and Mrs. Edward N. Loke '36 of he was nearly through his traIning at the about what you are there to do." If that isn't Camp Upton, New York, a daughter, Diana Merchant Marine Academy at King's Point, designed to drive any woman frantic! Sue, October 12. N. Y., and was hoping to enter the 'Navy and Frazier O. Ferguson has been appointed To Ens. and Mrs. Jack F. George '37 of get assigned either to duty in the South Pacific teacher-coach at Westwood, N. J., High Sohool. Mexico, New York, a son, David Douglas, on PT boats or a destroyer. He said he craved Pvt. Leonard Conner, last we knew, was November 14. action! working in the Adjutant's office as a clerk­ To Lieut. and Mrs. Arthur Coons '37 of Cpt. Norm Hoff was last! heard from at Ft. typist at .camp Bradford, at Norfolk, Va. Poland, New York, a daughter, Elizabeth Bragg, N. C., F.A.R.T.C. Ensign Ray Waters notified the Alumni Anne, October 20. C. Sp. David B. Williams is attached to the ~ffice in October that he is in active service in To Lieut. and Mrs. Richard A. Greene '40 athletic department at the Navy Aviation the Pacific area. of Belton, Texas, a son, Richard Alonzo, Jr., School at Quonset Point, R. I. November 23. Lieut. Robert M. Bruce is director of A recent recipient of the decora­ physical training for the 26th College Train­ To Private and Mrs. William J. Knowles tion is Marine Sergt. Tom W. Dusault, ing Detachment at Mt. Union College in Alli­ '40 of Arlington, Mass., a daughter, Barbara former Springfield letter man (football, basket' ance, Ohio. Lee, July 20. ball, lacI"Osse, and swimming teams) and one­ Ensign Calvert Hall is at Annapolis Naval To Sgt. and Mrs. Keith R. Calef '41 of time physical instructor in the Little Falls, Academy. Farmington, Maine, a son, Keith Ronald, Jr., N. Y., Y.M.e.A. December 18. Sgt. Donald R. Tasman, when last heard In October came a card from Lieut. George from, was at Camp Pickett, Va., after under­ To Private and Mrs. Frank L. Smith, Jr., R. Hearn ,that his Antiaircraft outfit was at going a strenuous but interesting course of '41 of Montclair, N. J., a daughter, Carolyn Camp Hulen, Tex. training in mountain climbing at Elkins, W. Winslow, October 1. Emil Taav,itsainen is an aviation cadet at Va. To Mr. and Mrs. Howard H. MacMullen, Selman Field, Monroe, La. Ensign Colby Bent is at the U.S.N.T.S., Graduate Student, of Springfield, Mass., a son, Jacksonville, Fla. Howard H., III, November 2. 1945 Robert Randall is at Maxwdl Field, Ala. AIC Walter Bally is undergoing training at Maxcy College, University of South Caro­ CpJ. Herbert E. Barwell is stationed at Camp Edwards (Mass.) with an antiaircraft battery lina. Ph.M. 2/.c Kenneth C. Chivers is attached to the U. S. Coast Guard Barracks Sick Bay and writes that he has been there seven It's Captain Samuel N. Smith now and he months. is serving at a port of embarkation in Brook­ at Neptune, N. J. lyn, N. Y., with the Ordnance Department. Ph.M lIC Joseph E. Poges, on fleet duty 1944 Lieut. William L. Crocker, Jr., is on in the Atlantic, writes his appreciation of At last accounts Roscoe Brown was under­ active duty with the Marine Corps in the what Springfield College is doing to keep in going primary night training at Tuskegee Insti­ Pacific area. communication with its men in service. "I tute, Ala. Arthur F. Disque, now in the Navy, has do appreciate this service," he says, "and it Lieut. Jack Pennington is now overseas, been honored by having his biography includ­ inspires my hope to return to the college every serving as provost marshal and assistant ad­ ed in the 1943-44 edition of "Who's Who time the BULLETIN reaches me." jutant of his outfit. Among Students in American Universities and Late in November the Alumni Office heard Colleges." Lieut. Sterling Geesman is now serving as indirectly that George W. Zeller was at the athletic officer with the Navy V-S program Amby Burfoot is with a bomber group at preflight school at Maxwell Field, Ala. at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Chatham, Ga. It was in November, too, that a newspaper Vern Cox, as we went to pre~s, was at Ham- It was last October that we heard from Pvt. dipping reached us to the effect that Ralph N. mer Field, Fresno, Cal. ' Harold L. Snedeker that he was receiving Moore had completed his aviation training medkal training at Lawson General Hospital, And A. W. Coty has finished his V-12 course at .colgate University and had gone to Atlanta, Ga. training at Dartmouth College and has gone preflight school at Chapel Hill, N. C. November, 1943 SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE BULLETIN Page 7

}ohn O. Hart was recently appointed a Naval Aviation Ca, det and was trans' HERE COME ferred to the train' ing center at Pen­ THE sacola, Fla. BRIDES CPO Fred R. Fel, ton is at the Naval Training Station at Class of 1907 Ensign James M. Dryden, U.S.N.R., and Norfolk, Va. Milton Darke Wood and Mrs. Gertrude A. Gloria Johnson at Orange, Mass., in April. John o. Hart Dill at Waterbury, Conn., September 25. Lieut. Roy Y. Lang, U.S.A., and Elizabeth Hale Corser at Fort Benning, Ga., Septem' After doing an exciting hitch with the Class of 1918 initial invasion group that went into Northern ber 13. Sicily, Sergt. Francis S. Minnerly has returned Dr. Albert H. Marvill and Louise Ragnhild C.P.O. George W. Linck, U.S.N., and Jane to this country to do special studying at Am' Palmgren at Orlando, Florida, in October. Elodie Dunham at Morehead, Kentucky, in herst College and hopes to successfully pass Class of 1934 September. examinations for West Point. Leonard Harry Morton and Eileen Mae Pow' Lloyd J. MacFarland and Verna Mae Wagner Recent advices place Pvt. Roth B. Holt at ers at Springfield, Mass., September 11. 4 at Center Brunswick, N. Y., in October. Camp Chaffee, Ark. Lieut. (J.G.) Alfred Nordstrom, U.S.N.R., Sgt. William A. Squires, U.S.M.C., and Edna Pvt. David S. Terry is overseas in Europe. and Margaret M. McCarty, at Clifton, New Elizabeth Richards at Washington, D. C., October 9. PEc. Theodore Smith graduated from the Jersey, October 30. armored tank school at Ft. Knox, Ky., last C.Sp. William F. Swettman, U.S.N.R., and Class of 1937 October and when last heard from was at Ft. Pearl Edna Darling at Springfield, Mass., Cambell, Ky., awaiting further assignment. Ruth Firth Fielding and Lester Earl Green at October 2. Springfield, Mass., October 9. Sgt. Wilbur A. Bolling has gone overseas Lieut. Frank Turek, U.S.A., and Eva Virginia to the European theater with an ordnance am' Class of 1938 McMinn, Spartanburg, S. C., on November 12. munition company. Lieut. Charles G. Bohlinger, Jr., U.S.A.A.C., Sp. (A) James B. Fulton, U.S.N.R., is and Lieut. Bernice M. Horton, A.N .c,., at Class of 1943 attached to the athletic department at the Oswego, New York, November 27. Navy training school at Ottumwa, Ia. Lieut. Charles 1. Adams, U.S.M.C., and Ger, Lieut. Archibald K. Bowes, Jr., U.S.A.A.C., trude R. Powers at Pensacola, Florida, De­ A/S Avery H. Thresher is in the V,12 unit and Georgianna Lillian Reinisch, at Marian' cember 7. at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. na, Florida, August 21. Lieut. Theodore 1. Bailey, U.S.A., and Mar­ Pfc. Howard H. Lyon was last heard from Lieut. Charles E. Bryan, U.S.A.A.F., M.C., garet Sybil Gilmartin at East Hampton, serving with a medical company at Fitzsimons and Dorothy Eloise Booth, at Cranston, New York, November 20. General Hospital at Denver, Col. R. I., October 16. \ Ensign Charles Colby Bent, U.S.N.R., and Pvt. Douglas S. Bray is with the Army Air Class of 1939 Louise Elaine Arthur at Mt. Holyoke Col, Force at Greensboro, N. C. Corporal James W. Clemenger, U.S.A.A.F., lege Chapel, South Hadley, Mass., October 2. Lieut. Ernest Eng is at the Quartermaster and Florence 1. Diechman at Los Angeles, School at Camp Lee, Va. Calif., August 7. Private Donald J. Sundholm, U.S.A., and Marilyn Giles at Little Rock, Arkansas, Received a nice note from Ken Peary in Stanley Raymond Fish and Marion Jean Mc' De<:ember 31. October while he was with a College Training Allister at Garden City, New York, in No, Detachment at State College, Pa., expressing vember. Class of 1944 his appreciation for college publications sent Class of 1940 to him. Kenneth R. Robinson and Dorotlhy 1. Parker Lieut. James Patnck Ryan, U.S.A., and Mary Lieut. Frederick W._ Pratt was last heard at Woodside, New York, December 12. Blandina Noonan at Springfield, Mass., No, from at Lowry Field, Denver, Col. vember 8. Burt Charles Sheehan and Margaret A. Mohler Heard from Alfred Lawrence Wilson in Lieut. Frank R. Whaley, U.S.A., and Alice at Springfield, Mass., December 18. October that he was then an aviation cadet K. Brown at Buffalo, New York, August 14. at Maxwell Field, Ala. Class of 1945 Class of 1942 Came a note in September that Pvt. Edward Corporal David Ferris~ U.S.A.A.F., and Eliza­ H. Toomer at Camp Crowder, Mo." had passed Lieut. Robert W. Allen, U.S.M.C., and Mari, beth Campbell at Norwich, Conn., August his Army Air Corps mental test. lyn Inez Miller at Seattle, Washington, in 15. John H. Barry finished his College Training December. ' Cox'n Wilbur H. Hornstra, U.S.C.G., and Detachment work at Birmingham Southern, C.P.O. Myron A. Angier, U.S.N.R., and Mar' Lois Miriam Walter at Gardena, California, College in October and went to Max:well Field, jorie A. Gabrielson at Brooklyn, New York, October 10. Ala., as an aviation cadet. October 23. . Pr,ivate Rublee C. Soule, U.S.A., and Yeo­ D. C. Molten is a Navy aviation cadet at C.P.O. James E. Cook, U.S.N.R., and Edna man Third Class Marilyn Ann Warner, the Univertiy of South Carolina. Sue Fulbright at St. Louis, Mo., Novem' W AVES, at Chevy Chase, Maryland, in ( Continlled on Page 8) ber 23. December. Page 8 SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE BULLETIN November, 1943

1946 Robert W. Gooch had just completed Ale Harold Sutliff is taking advanced SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE BULLETIN a course at the Quartermaster School at New­ training at Napier Field, Dothan, Ala. port, R. 1., when he was accepted for V·12 Vol. XVIII NOVEMBER, 1943 No. training and went to Bates College in Lewis­ AIC Richard Farrington is at the Naval ton, Me. Preflight School at Chapel Hill, N. C. Published monthly, except june, july, August and january, by the International Young Men', Chri.tian Norman A. Gray, S 2/C, has completed AIS Gene Gatens is with a V-12 naval A.sociation College, Springfield, Mall. Entered a. Second training at the Newport Naval Station and training unit at St. Lawrence University in Clas! Matter at Springfield, Mall., under the Act of has entered gunnery school. Canton, N. Y. Auguat 24, 1912. Douglas Rofrano is with the Navy V-12 Pvt. John T. Hall is located at Ft. Benning, unit at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. Ga. It was back in October, but at that time Cpl. John Balise was heard from wlth the PPC. Robert B. Chapman is with a· medical George Hugo is now an aviation cadet with infantry at Ft. Ja-ckson, S. C. t1he Army Air Force at Jackson, Tenn. unit at Camp Gordon, Johnston, Fla. Dave Higgins has been around some--his AIC John W. Goodell is at the Missouri PPC. Charles H. Kahn is in training at travels took him to Ft. Devens, AtlantIC City, Institute of Aeronautics at Sikeston, Mo., with Keesler Field, Miss. Pennsylvania State College, Maxwell Field, an A.A.F. training unit. Mason B. Ellison is now a sound man, third Ala., and Union City, Tenn., where he was Pvt. Russell Hutchinson is at the Medical class petty officer, serving on a destroyer es­ when last heard from tn August. Service School at Ft. Sam Houston, Tex., cort in the Atlantic. after being with the armored force in Louisiana It was September when AIS H. R. Cook Latest ad vices place Pvt. Raymond B. Keliy for quite awhile. He writes that the BULLE­ wrote from Santa Ana, Ca1., that he expected at U. S. Army Camp 46 at Big Flats, N. Y. to TIN looks good to him whenever it comes spend the winter in tratntng for the Army along and he appreciates having it sent to him. Roger S. Eddy is now a private first class Air Force out there, but "would rather be back home 10 tlhe snow and cold." A/oS Breckenridge Dayton is with a Col, at Georgetown University in Washington, lege Training Detachment stationed at the D. C. Pvt. Oharler R. Ford is at the Alabama University of Nevada. We hear that Donald H. Abraham, S lIC, Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, Ala., for specialized Army training. Bobby Knowles has been sworn into the is training for Landing Craft Infantry service at the Solomons Branch Navy training station Navy and went to Sampson, N. Y., for train­ Pvt. David Warner, U.S.M.C., is at the in Washington, D. C. ing. Naval Technical Air Traimng Center at Nor­ Pvt. Frank E. Nesdale in training at Colora­ Lloyd Belton was at the Quartermaster man, Okla. do State College at Ft. Collins, .col. Training outfit at Texarkana, Tex. Pvt. Ralph Ballou, U.S.M.C., is "somewhere Pvt. James Kopp is in training at the Uni­ PPC. Robert A. Hunter is with a N.A.W.' in the Pacific"- and writes that "it is Olce versity of Maine at Orono. F.N.F. outfit at Cherry Point, N. C. weather over here and the work is easy."

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