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I. PHI GAMMA DELTA (Registered U. S. Patent Office) A MAGAZINE PUBLISHED CONTINUOUSLY SINCE 1879 BY THE FRATERNITY OP PHI GAMMA DELTA

FEBRUARY, 1943 No. 4

TABLE OF CONTENTS 751 er, Gear Fraternity to Crisis 255 War Story— Continued /75 Landlord's Bowl Team 284 Greek Meets Greek in Conference 786 Missionary Returns from China 293 Snug Little Nook by the Fireside 296 :res Qui Fuerunt Sed Nunc Ad Astra 300 .ens of White Star Dust 304 - Here. There and Everywhere 311 • As Press Sees Them 314 Graduate Groups Are Doing 320 • Issue as the Editor Sees It

THESE days are dark enough without muffling the mazda in every coastal city. But we're glad to do it when it means lives saved and cargoes even no- delivered. And some places you'd not September 22, ice at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, tice the dimmer glimmer — The Fiji Club, for instance. Here .—eidera tsseconhesecond-class of matteratt73 18 a79.t the postoff Act Act of you'll for in Section 1103, find food, friends and frolic served up to your recipe. tance for mailing at special rate of postage provided August 21, 1918. geared down to your wallet. Rally 'round, men — there's no dim- - 3. 1917. authorized issued seven times a year, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and -d by The Torch Press November, December, February, out at the Fiji Club because — we're on the beam. volume appearing in October, -n numbers in each advance; single copies, 30 cents. April, May. Subscription price, $2.00 per year in r.scription, $25.00. Athertising rates on application. of DELTA should be in the hands .:.ter for publication in THE PHI GAMMA intended publication. .-.ditor at least one month preceding month of THE PHI GAMMA DELTA CLUB CECIL J. WILKINSON 106 West 56th Street (Ohio Wesleyan '17) Editor and Manager NEW YORK CITY Washington, D. C. Rust Building. 1001 15th St., N.W., ilIIIIIllIlllllllllll1lt1mflh1h1t ililillit *"5." 254 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA * subjects discussed. The ever-present ters which permit unofficial jeweler to question was, however, how best to solicit their business. face the crisis which the war is bound FAVOR PAID ACCOUNTANTS —Continued to cause in the fraternity. As able a Story The Our War report on the current status of affairs chapter bookkeeping situal was covered and Win as could possibly have been given was professional account- Safety, Three Fiji Generals ing systems were :)isregarding Personal presented by Ritualist Mead. who, as pointed to as the means Bravery in Frontline Action president of Washington College in of preserving fiscal continuity in these D.S.C. Citations for Maryland, is one of our dark days — even Councilor Chambers, outstanding WILKissos (Ohio Wesleyan '17) educators. The Chiefs could not help who pointed out the great values to be By CECIL J. I GAM MA DELTA drawing certain conclusions from the had by the undergraduates in handling Editor of THE P ti their own books, assenting, with reser- discussions that followed. Simply of the vations. the few remaining members stated, they are that our fraternity, hero this issue is Briga- by Gamma And so on — far into the night. R Fiji chapter and initiated into Phi through the zealous devotion of its lier-General Clovis E. Byers Theta Deu- As hat sizes increased with accumu- Delta by a sister chapter, members and officers, is as well forti- State '21), who was shot in the on June 3, lated knowledge and chests teron at Ohio Wesleyan, fied to face the problems as it could Japanese sniper on De- \Vest Point. heaving with heartfelt loyalty, the .lit hand by a 1918. He then went on to possibly be and that our undergraduate while leading an American including thumping of Oliver Dibble's tern- liber 16 where he starred in football, chapters should he called upon to keep Village. 1919. He was (he wore rif, upon Buna Army-Navy game in working at the current tasks of chapter porarily-accuired cane tornmygun into the superintendent spats and derby this time) could be The general carried a graduated in 1920. The operations so that when normalcy re- trigger hand was Academy at the time heard as an ominous note in the back- e attack. When his of the Military turns they will have no regrets for lost weapon to a sol- MacArthur. ground. 011ie has won for himself a: mashed, he gave the was Douglas opportunities. direct the assault. returned to \Vest the Ekklesiai the dubious honor of be- 'er and continued to In 1926. Clovis On looking back on the agenda, it staff for member of the fac- ing the most adept "adjourner" in the General Byers is chief of Point to serve as a must have been the magnum opus of Lieutenant-General assistant coach of fraternity and he wanted to preserve his .s chapter-mate, ulty and to serve as all of our Wilkinson's literary efforts. (Ohio State distinction. ol)ert L. Eichelberger the gridiron sport. And how it was ever covered in fifteen brothers to general of the New York Sun It had been good for '7 commanding A sports writer in the hours is still a mystery! Every phase serious in the south Pa- gallant Fiji officer: dwell together in unity for the i.nerican land forces recently said of the of chapter operation Point and organization deliberations. luster of a \Vest State Once again the was discussed. These were made as cur- So long as Phi Gamma Delta ca. General Byers' wife, an Ohio reflected in the serious Columbus, football heritage is battle. rent as possible by the presence of for- members answer its call over is now in conflict on the field of have its Beta Phi, who business of . will take DELTA on Clovis E. Byers. . mer Field Secretary Calvin C. Stod- thousands of intervening miles to 'rote to THE PHI GAMMA Brigadier-General Weigh- hospital dashing play. ... dard (Oregon State '38, so long Clovis was in a be recalled for his gentle- Iowa '38). part in its sober councils ailtiary 2 that pounds, quiet, poised, a His hand about 160 his who visited every chapter in the fra- the path lead forward. T, the Australian mainland. ing well as by breeding, by instinct as ternity last healing nicely and man flared, yet burned ever academic year. reported to be in action never as first flame This characteristically Scholarship Chairman will not lose any fingers. steady intensity. Riverda H. re- with mood in leading an ad- Jordan •-d. "After three weeks he will would have been his Clovis (Yale '93) reported that Phi Wardall Is Trustee New Guinea. . . . added proudly. vance recently in memory Gamma Delta had moved ahead to the front," she in this writer's slightly boy. He Byers has lingered man- in ILLIAM J. Wardall Byers is a Buckeye for his ingratiating its standing amongst all fraternities Clovis through the years never '07), the "business doctor" (1, Columbus on November for comradeship, last academic year. W born in ners, his instinct serene appeared with but always cerning whom an article 1899. He entered Ohio State boisterous, never loud, The question of an official jeweler of this magazii: wagon the December issue class of 1921 and hitched his and sincere. was discussed and the Chiefs were the fr Deu- for the has been elected a Trustee of the white star. When Omicron Clovis was selected strongly in favor of maintaining Sick suspended In 1936. schools at our ternity, succeeding John S. Chapter virtually and staff officer long-established policy of buying 'ron World command spring of only (City College '08, Columbia '11), wi .oerations during the First Leavenworth and in the from the recognized manufacturer pressu Delaware Fort and had resigned because of the War, he was taken to nearby as equally strong in condemning chap- of professional matters. DELTA 257 256 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA THE PHI GAMMA pri- -General Charles Emerging from "boot-camp" as a 1939 spent several months inspecting General Eichelberger and Brigadier assumed com- tralia, '14). vate first-class, he was sent to the cavalry schools in Germany, France mand the I Army Willoughby Gettysburg Corps at 1 scout-and-sniper school and subse- and England, leaving those countries lumbia. S. C.. he Willoughby, who had pre- became his Fiji 1)1 Brother quently to the tactical school. He sailed just before the war began. ther's chief of staff. They awarded the Silver Star went to A ii;tisly been last June for the Pacific area. Upon his return to America, he was tralia together. the Philippines before or heroism in His outfit was included in the inva- graduated from the Army War Col- And now General MacArthur, comes word that G ‘e came out with which landed on the Solo- on sion force lege and in June. 1940, was assigned Byers has been Pitt (ANT M DELTA awarded a .vrote to THE mon Islands on August 7 and 8. He to the general staff at Washington. He guished Service the following note: Cross for "ex' )ecentber 10 participated in the hot engagement on often visited the headquarters of Phi nary heroism" in the Buna Sep- engagt:. cumulative graduate the Island of Gavutu until early in Gamma Delta and was I enclose check for most gracious The citation read: an inquiry for was transferred to :ues, etc. There has also been tember when he in endeavoring to find the answers to the body of until Immediately prior to launching an attack ay address, which I include in Guadalcanal where he remained service questions propounded by Fijis on 500, c/o Postmaster, platoon enemy positions, Byers, without regard ''ae letter, viz., A.P.O. his death, rising to the rank of all over America. to personal safety, visited frent line tr, Calif.; the official address is -an Francisco, sergeant. When General in close proximity to the enemy . . homi as above (General Headquarters, F.ichelberger was as- Intelli- is an excerpt from a spiring the men to greater efforts by outhwest Pacific Area, Military The following signed to activate the 77th Division at ', function: received social example. Section, General Staff] ; my letter his father in Portland Fort Jackson, S. C.. he called Colonel 2ence When the attack was launched he a VC. of S. G-2. him: Byers as his chief of chapter- from staff. Later, when to a position within 50 yards of the Could I trouble you to advise my to le: you This is my first opportunity ing troops. - Gettysburg, Pa? have probAly all only yes- know where I am. You When i‘ounded by ail. It may be of interest to you that of the marines circumstances, read newspaper accounts my sniper he contiune- errlay, under most dramatic points lately. If you midst of the haying landed at several observation action -! 1.encountered two Fijis in the 7 and 8 then_ was you know remember, on August couragement of trcx ew Guinea jungle (I suppose the Coral Sea and One quite a bit of action in he was evacuated. H:, rom the communique where we are). especially in the area Eichel- the Solomon Islands, spiring example of her .as Lieutenant-General Robert L. Tulagi and Guadal- -General around the Islands of contributed greatly t” v-ger and the other Brigadier 8th, when I landed, — well, canal. Ever since the 132; the KING'S Order the :lame of success of the attad• loyis F.. Byers, his chief of staff small island in this but I have been here on a * airther details are subject to censorship, demolished the Japs ..51(1't. tdOlant t.‘ric &a/is atom's, R r.scv group. We literally -le thing was fantastic. then we have Two other medals for whole first few days. Since H those and holding have be' cleaning up around here was puhtished in the London Game on gallantry We refer you again to the editorial been what we have. it awarded to Fijis. THE PHI wonderful and some :n the December issue of Lord, I've eeit some as mentioned M a Despazch for distinguished mnice. War I)epartment entitled have experienced every ;\MM.& DELTA (p. 212). terrible sights and I am charged te re.ami month announced t:at human can, I guess. However. 'School-Bov Stuff!" emotion a I am His Maksris high ccfPreCia.jon. Mac.'• a bit and believe that General Douglas wasn't harmed is to It * having seen how it thur had bestowed • a better man for been especially interest- Seryite Gamma -carry on." It has I Distinguished Upon the honor roll of Phi corporal and working with my - ing being a welfare Cross "for extraordini: /vita is now placed another gold star had to look out for their squad. I've have had FWSt Loa ,he courage, marked efficit. marine corps own. but especially I Hiemory of a gallant as well as my that I executpin sacri- of things to lead them cy and precise cant who made the supreme to do a lot under any been afraid to do FOR SERVICE To His of operation (luring • in of Guadalcanal. would have . . . MAJESTY the jungles circumstances or by myself. other I can tt Recognition of the services of a Papuan campaign" .T is for Richard Garrigus happc day for me when gallant young Fiji he star It will he a you in is afforded in the citation issued by the six American officers, ol killed in Portland and see all of British Admiral- bite Idaho '42 ). who was go back to how the ty in reporting the loss of . . . and tell you Lieutenant Eric S. Ditmars whom two were member' . 71, 1942. your new house started. (British Cotunthio '37). The :ction on October the war the Japs original report stated that of Phi Gamma Delta: -marines finished have hr as recommended for Japs made their dastardly then, though, we all gallantry and distinguished serv- Rob- When the Between now and be ice in Greek waters on Lieutenant-General Dick's blood do. One thing you can September 11, 1941. The ship — •k on Pearl Harbor, a lot of work ti the H.M.S. Salvia — WaS ert L. F_',ichelberger bank on is the fact that presumed lost on December 24, d. He went quietly to the recruit- sure you can and 1941. While the citation in the '07). com- s.ill win. If the spirit above reproduction is is- Ohio State in Portland United States halfway sued in the name of Sub office of the marines witnessed here are -Lieutenant Ditmars, he had re- manding general of the courage that I ceived his full •; December 8. 1941, and enlisted. lieutenancy prior to the action. 1 Army Corps in Aus- THE PHI GAMMA DELTA 259

KILLED IN ACTION bv the people at home there will Lieutenant Edward P. NIaliszewski be any doubt about the final outcome. (Denison '42) he was informed by the faralb Amara t4t4ristopItrr 0, atcharb William *annum * * * Fiji co-pilot that Northwestern '41 ) 3 one of his ship's mo- (Rutgers '39) i Gamma Delta's highest-ranking tors had been shot away at Lille on (lIztrirs ?lame filator itiritarb Lilt as previously reported in these November 8 by 30 Focke-Wulf 190s, (Richmond '39) 7, (Georgia Tech. '39) Ins, is Lieutenant-General Robert but the American proudly added: "We com- got four of them and four probables.- william(Ealtill Link. 31r. Nrrbrrirk Illrbrr /EWA c.11elberger (Ohio State '07), Pennsylvania On another inspection trip the King '42) (Knox '37) ]ing general of the I Army Corps visited the American outfit in which faui f. 31olitts, 31r. istralia. He ranks 18th among the Stattlry -Urn iloRtlas, 31r. Captain Dean Ritchie (Kansas '40) is t ashington -al officers of the United States. '42) (Washington and Lee '39) have no major-generals, but an officer. Earjrnt Earte ).mirk. Wichita. Jr. iiirharb (6arrigus :ien who wear a white star upon Writing to his parents in Wifliam Jewell '411 Ritchie, state golf '42 , breasts have one star upon each Captain Kansas champion in 1940, said: am one of :0 :heir shoulders as brigadier-generals MISSING IN ACTION that everybody wants t. :he American army. They are, ac- those people Fair *putts littittars say they have." Thus re- fart= Engem. ilulluson lg to their files: touch, just to (British Columbia '37) calling the old story about the man who ( Brown '37) (Wittenberg :lorrison C. Stayer wanted to shake the hand of the man William Franz-is laillerh (Larl Davi?! frtffrr 13. Lafayette '03), medical corps. who had shaken the hand of John L. (British Columbia '43) (North Carolina '38) Leroy P. Collins (Union '05). Sullivan. *tauten Nrrbrrirk litre Frank E. Lowe (Worcester Tech. * * * Uni,rn '37) ), reserves. An Associated Press dispatch from U. Haig Shekerjian (Colgate '10). Calcutta, India, in December told of the S. ARMY DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS JACK Thohurn K. Brown (Tennessee '10). experiences of Captain Wynn D. Mil- WILLARD HALL CLOVIS E. BYERS (William Ward H. Mans (Kansas '14). ler (Missouri '37), who reached that Jewell '38) (Ohio State '21) ROBERT L. Charles A. Willoughby (Gettysburg city after hiking 200 miles through the EIC H ELBERGER CHARLES A. WILLOUGHBY (Ohio 4 . jungles of Burma to escape Japanese State '07) (Gettysburg '14) F!hridge G. Chapman, Jr. (Colorado troops into whose territory he had U. S. ARMY SILVER STAR parachuted when his engine failed. It LES A. Miller. a pursuit pilot, was WILLOUGHBY CECIL EDWARD COMBS ,.;igh 1'. Mayberry (William Jewell Brother (Gettysburg '14) flight of bombers in a raid (Chicago '33) '15). escorting a -held Mandalay on Decem- U. S. ARMY Clovis E. Byers (Ohio State '21). on Japanese DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS ber 7. CECIL 4, 4. EDWARD COMBS RICHARD EWING MILLER "When I came out of the clouds all (Chicago dense jungle," '33) (Indiana '40) The "knights so bold" have been I could see below was a consorting with royalty. he related. "I dropped through the tall U. S. and NAVY CROSS When King George VI paid his first jungle trees without a scratch I' HARALD JENSEN CHRISTOPHER visit to the American Air Forces in landed flat on my back. I wasn't hurt (Northwestern '41) 81-gain, according to the Associated a bit and the greatest break of all was a trail leading U. S. NAVY Pres, lie inspected stations of the that I landed right on DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS LiHtth Bomber Command, showing to the Indian frontier. RICHARD BULL interest in the ',lanes and the "After I got out I was told that I (Georgia Tech. '39) -. many of whom had bombed Lille, could have wandered in that jungle for Nazaire, Brest, Rouen and other months without hope of getting out." of in Occupied France. Then began an 18-day hike. Part A'hen Ti i s Majesty shook hands with the time Captain Miller was escorted THE PHI GAMMA DELTA THE PHI GAMMA DELTA 261

utenant Richard E. Miller (In- long the secretary of the Shanghai '40 who won the Distinguished Graduate Association of Phi Gamma the list of Americans who 'ng Cross as a member of the flight Delta, is on American bombers who raided To- are soon to be repatriated. * * * last April, has bobbed up again orth Africa. where press dispatch- An United Press dispatch from Lon- report that he participated in the don tells the amazing story of Emmet bing of Sfax, an important port E. Edwards (Arizona '38), who flew railway center on the east coast of with the Royal Air Force for 14 isia. The attack was a lightning months without injury and then broke Swooping low over the targets, his leg by falling down a black-out Americans dumped tons of high staircase. losives, blowing up oil tanks, ware- Pilot Edwards has recently trans- ,,-es. dock and installations. The ferred to the United States Navy. _ding railroad yards and ships in * * * iarbor were attacked with machine Gallant Thomas Taggart Young un tire. (Virginia '43). youthful Indianapolis * * * lad who left the quiet peace of the of the University of Virginia Now we really are fighting mad! Lawn overseas with the Royal Cana- The former S. S. President Coolidge, to serve Air Force, has gone ad astra. ied after the distinguished Amherst dian death in Calcutta, India, on No- lp of the class of '95, pressed into His vember 15, 1942. as a result of injuries ice as an army transport, hit a mine two days before, has been re- .,:e South Pacific and sank. sustained ported by Ottawa. Tom, a flight ser- .rortunately. only four men were A Fiji MARINE geant, was the sole occupant of a Hur- COLONEL TAKES TIME OUT FOR CI:0'A IN SA: III Coffee and ricane which crashed five miles east of crackers are served at noon at the Clifton B. Cates jungle-bound cotntnand post of Col Railway Station, Bengal, (Tennessee '16), United States Kanchrapara second from Marine Corps, in Guadalcanal. Colonel Ca: left, facing camera and with Our total number of men in uniform was in shirt collar open, a hero of the World II India. command of the supporting First b floW 5,200. The Canada when 19 Japanese unit of the first American land offensive ogoir,:. probably more than Toni enlisted in in the Solomon. In that In capacity he aided Colonel Leroy Dellion Chapter reports that 16 per age in September. 1940. commander of the first unit to I'. Hunt (Berke years of land. The two colonels are fast cmt of armed England and spent a night ashore friends and within its membership is in the May, 1941, he left for together in the Fiji Islands, just Bridge, for sentiment's sake Ice. Applying that scale to the total had his final training at Sutton for by Indian Army membership of the fraternity we Lincolnshire. He left England advance patrols, but During later much of the time their arduous • 5.280. Egypt in December, 1941, and he was alone. through * * * the jungles they subsi- * * * on to India. tirely went Another on wild lemons and be. • Tom's flight sergeant (of the R.A.F. saga of the return to civili- A i)onald A. O'Kieffe (Wabash '30) zation of a runner brought the first Squadron) wrote to his mother Fiji aviator was related in an one of the 629 Americans in Japa- 79th an Associated American air base in northe: follows: Press dispatch from New dia held territory at the outbreak of as that Lieutenant William that I have to Delhi, India, on December car. He was returned to the United is with extreme regret 10. reached his village It Tom's un- The hero was and he was agreement convey to you the sad news of Lieutenant Cecil I). ated in under the exchange so young an Williams a small trainer plane aft. fortunate accident and death at (Washington and the Japanese through the Swiss for words. Jefferson tives had chopped down trees age. It is just too tragic '36), who, with a t: been employed in you will no companion soldier, a landing rnment fie had Ere this letter reaches you, bailed out strip. the authori- of a plane and tramped bare- Hong Kong branch of the Chase doubt have heard officially from foot * * • but I am sure through tortuous !onal Bank. ties of the sad occurrence, mountain trails. There's that man obtain some fuller again! .\lbert R. Hager (Wisconsin '97) that you would prefer to 262 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA THE PHI GAMMA DELTA 263

details from one of his personal inter- friends, as Honour and the story of the Colonel Hunt was recently I have the honour to consider myself. unit records staying with us. But now viewed by Bing Crosby on a nation- The sad and tragic mishap that I hal-, took place on fly with another fellow colum- Friday the 13th pilot, I'll m4, • wide broadcast. A New York (November 1, while Tom cheerfulness and the was out on a thumbs up. givicz reported that one incident was flight, but it would appear that the ready for nist later during another flight, of my fa the course of low flying the wing ot friend. . . eliminated from the script. his plane accidentally fouled a palm tree, God the desperate fighting bless him and God bless you, It concerned with the result that the plane overturned, ma .- fierce en- inflicting Tom along the Tenaru River — a fatal injuries on Tom, from which Young was a native of were he succumbed after gagement in which 900 Japs two days. Tom received vile, Ky.. where he was born in r_ special medical attention. killed. Of that invasion force, there Two specialists He was a grandson of the late worked on him day and night and they Ser_.: one live Jap left and he was did Thomas Taggart, for was only everything possible to medical science, but whom he I named. taken prisoner. really and truly think it was just Provi- He attended Episcopal Hunt dence "Only one prisoner?" Colonel that took Tom away, because had they School in Alexandria, Va., pulled and : "What could you do with Tom through there was every likeli- was graduated was asked. hood of his from Park Scho.:,. having lost his reason and Tom, ,)tie prisoner?" I know, Indianapolis. He spent one year a: • explained, would never have been able to rec- "Well," the marine officer oncile University of himself to that. Virginia, where he some damn fool who Tom was "there's always unconscious the whole time and initiated into Omicron Chapter. ET accordingly I curiosity seeker." do not think he suffered much. ineligible for the air is a That, of American * * * course, is a very small ray of com- without fort in the two years of college. he the Southwest tragic circumstances, but I wish From -somewhere in to convey to listed in Canada. Sullivan you not only my personal con- Major Goodrich M. dolences and * * * Pacific,- sympathies in your sad be- has made good the reavement but (Minnesota '25) also those of the whole squad- From Brisbane, Australia, can the bon ron, with whom promise given the Editor when Tom was extremely popular. the United His funeral States Navy Fleet P was given at the fra- was arranged and conducted voyage handclasp by the R.A.F. office, Lieutenant (j.g.) Ham, COUNTRY that he would authorities, in cooperation GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ternity headquarters, i.e., with the American Davis, Jr. (Western Resery, getting consulate. The funeral Richard G. White (Idaho '42), a platoon and tell us how he was was well attended and writes to write the very large num- fraternity headquart: ,'rgeant in the United States Marines, was ber of floral tributes along: left on his grave points killed action on Guadalcanal on October to his extreme Here is an item for your "coincideno in appears that my earlier popularity. . . in the corps the day Well, by now it umn." This letter is prompted by my ri 21, 1942. Dick enlisted reposing in Davy Mrs. in the thick of correspondence must be Young has also ing today [November 181 the October :• after Pearl Harbor and was again. Alack a received a letter more than two Locker. So I'll try from Flight of THE PHI GAMMA DELTA which ca: the fight in the Solomons for Jones' literary com- Officer Pierre G. One- What a loss of a great mom, a the story of Lieutenant William \V. months. day! Free Frenchman in position! the same grave (Hanover '37), who made his apparently missing squadron with Toni. The The substance of the following is back to civilization after his plane that my transport an excerpt from of coincidences. All brothers are assured a epistle was to the effect that communication. forced down on the shore of a lonely S. exitement and also sans royal purple welcome when they visit this trip was without It is with great west Pacific Island. (fortunately). sorrow that I write this "down-under" land. mal de mer letter —a letter that The story is a short one — I was the • -!-Ie ward-room what I never imagined I On my first visit to would have to write navy paymaster who took Brother Hari- Flyer Hargrave is now reported to correspondence from your one day. I do it, hoping should I see but that it will help Vou up on my payrolls as a casualty acc States on leave. Dugdale (Pennsyl- bear your grief for the be back in the United office to William M. loss of your son so gave him a few quid (Australian later met this excellent far away in a foreign * * * vania '38) and I country. so he could buy some clothes u during the balance of Fiji, seeing him daily In losing Tom our formed more closely to the regu:... Hunt ( Berkeley on board I found Dan squadron has I. 1st one Colonel Leroy P. my voyage. Then. too, of its beh members uniform than those he was wearing officer '40) and John E. and I my best 14), the gallant Fiji marine C. McNeil (DePauw Tom was, indeed, a friend. arrived safely in Australia. and the meaningful marvelous pilot and American land offen- Flint (Allegheny '36) ways a cheering al- He was so modest that I learned who led the first rounds. friend for all of :is. He Guadalcanal handclasps went the and I used to fly in about what happened to him by re:, sive against the Japs at (where? —you will have to pair, knowing that we Arriving here were in together, for THE PHI GAMMA DELTA than from see November, 1942, issue on Fijis took a drop, the good or for the cover of wait on that), my score worst. and having the he had to say at the time. was the John Perkins Buck confidence ii each of THE PIII GAMMA DELTA), but I finally unearthed other that only a solid I am disbursing officer for the mv officer and Southern friendship can create. guest of honor at a dinner given by the (Alabama '40), an We, in our squadron, Brisbane. Unfortunately, two other hadn't seen THE Pitt will keep alive his Graduate Chap- gentleman, sub! Buck memory.. . . His whom I have met cannot he named fe Washington (D. C.) left the States, so name is on our Roll GAMMA DELTA since he of curity reasons -- thereby spoiling a c, ter in January. 264 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA THE PHI GAMMA DELTA 265 I have supplied him with all my copies up try it again in "boot" at Parris Island, S. S. A. Poppy, c/o Postmaster, San Fran- to and including the such-and-such a way. (Wabash '44) i:, a October number, which Jack JU.,t Ramsey (Pittsburgh cisco, Calif. . . . Ralph H. Dreyer (Colum- arrived the other reached the climax of his . . Frank H. day. Now we're both hap- he slipped instructior private, bia '29) has left the insurance business in py. and fell overboard. '10), who enlisted in the corps as a Jack, According to cor- Rochester, N. Y.. to accept a commission My earlier the crew fished him out despite his years, has been promoted letter contained a further mat- smile without bastile as a junior grade lieutenant in the reserve. ter of on any lip, but he knew poral of the guard in charge of the most serious import and I refuse to that they et: J...... Nelson Parry (Worcester Tech. '35) consider joyed his mishap tremendously. the barracks at Cape May, N. this closed no matter how many . R, of been commissioned an ensign and is of ports reaching Toronto Lieutenant Eugene C. Swift (Brown '42) has my letters fail to reach their indicate that a " University of Arizona. . . . destination ing was held recently to stationed at New River, N. C. . . Lieu- studying at the for any reason at all. That matter, install a new is Stewart Y. Mc- sir, is nate chapter" in J. Harrington (Yale '39) is Junior Grade Lieutenant a scandal— one that I personally London. Present wen- -ant Martin service of (I hope!) tenant-Colonel abroad. . Lieutenant John H. Mullen (Chicago '29) is in the shall see brought before the Hubert 13. Keenleysid( service Lieutenant next Ekklesia. ronto '23), '40) is flying for the supply at Pearl Harbor. . . . I shall personally accuse Major John R. IvIcGilior, .rtindale (Cornell the author of rol- (Toronto Lieutenant Robert Patter- Hugh Riddle (Chicago '30) is a flying in- licking ballad, "Boom, '28), Major James D. Wits,: .,i1 Dogs. . . . boom, when the Fiji (Toronto been flying a dive structor at Pensacola. Fla. . . . Lieutenant- moon is shining," with '12) and Lieutenant A. Gra: son (Kansas '41) has having been here ("Jo-Jo") Guadalcanal. . . Lieutenant Commander Grant Calhoun (Washington prior to composing same Stirrett (Toronto '24). Our opei ' mber over and with the knowl- ative in the '41) is in the Pa- '28) is superintendent of aviation training edge he gained by said Ontario city reports that detai. 7.1 V. Shawyer (Kansas visit that he did then of the William M. at Los Alamitos, Calif. He writes to Sig- and there, with meeting have not yet reached his ear- .c area. . . . Lieutenant malice aforethought, will- but he addressed as ma Tau Service Letter, the cracker-jack fully, deliberately, feels certain that it must have Lesher (Bucknell '38) may be feloniously, unlawfully, a be. publication issued by the Seattle Fijis: "If with "very, very interesting" gathering. follows: Marine Corps Unit 585, c/o Post- premeditation, etc., etc., use the words Lieu- any of the brothers coming here will give he did with intent Lieutenant-Colonel J. Douglas Conover T master, San Francisco, Calif. . . to bring disgrace and (Virginia '41) me the grip or the Fiji whistle, I'll assign disrepute upon ronto '23), deputy assistant adjutant ge' tenant William B. Hill, Jr. our noble order, well know- Lieu- them to one of our best Fiji instructors. A ing that the eral of Canada's largest military cam; is "somewhere in the Pacific.". . . words "Boom, boom- during left Fiji-trained Fiji pilot should pack one hel- all times herein Camp Borden, was the principal speaker tenant Townsend Paul (Iowa '38) has mentioned did mean and now litya wallop."... Another letter in the pub- do mean the act the annual pig dinner of the Toronto Fij: his practice of orthodontia in Osceola, Ia., of sexual intercourse. I will lication is from Aviation Cadet William insist that in December. He was substituting to service in the dental corps with Marine this be heard by a full bench for E' Hubbach (Washington '39), who comments (with the liott M. Little (Toronto Corps Unit 300. . . . Staff Sergeant Wil- emphasis upon the "full") and '25), who has r: Jacksonville, Fla.: "Last month was guarantee I signed as Canada's manpower liam B. Fagan (Iowa '44) has gone over- from that the halls shall ring with czar.... season here in Florida, but the indignant the Lieutenant James H. seas.... First Lieutenant Robert A. Oakes, hurricane oratory of Fijis far and Grinnell (Wash: only zephyrs compared to that Let this wide. '43) has written to jr. (Ohio Wesleyan '30, Chicago '30) is winds were be a warning! . . . his Fiji father, Char.. cyclones— Sigma Tau's rushing In any H. Grinnell stationed at San Diego, Calif., after having cyclone of case, we are O.K. and (Washington '19), of Var, . . Lieutenant Matthew H. ward to looking for- couver, telling him of completed his officer's training course at committee.". the days when we the rescue by the cre,k (Wittenberg '42) is aboard the U. S. "pledge shall again of the corvette of Portz hand to hand" as well as which he is an officer (:- may be reached through the heart." "heart to 91 survivors of a * * * S. Elliott and submarine sinking. Jim' Postmaster in San Francisco. . . . Lieuten- boat is now based in London. . . . Rober was 1300rn, L nited States Navy news. Tid-bits ant Robert Scott (Los Angeles '41) boom! does not actually J. Dixon (Dartmouth '41) is a leading air - was sunk ap- ot cannibalian aboard the 11..5'. S. Blue when she pear in the lyrics of craftsman in training at the flying school in . information about the waiting "Fiji Moon," but the japrats. He survived and is has been sung Aylmer, Ont. . . Responding to a request sallormen, of no value to the enemy, by Henry into the ballad by a return punch. . . Lieutenant imag- for his correct address, Hutcheson of God for inative gleemen, entirely Allen G. we hope. except to put the fear Nickerson (Wittenberg '40) and Lieuten- innocent, we (Allegheny '19) reports from London that '37) were fly- are confident, of its mto his heart: ant Jerry Fisher (Wittenberg quaint native sig- he is a lieutenant-colonel branch of service . Ensign nificance, ing from the U. S. S. Hornet. . . now discovered by not indicated. Lieutenant William S. Robb (Pennsyl- is in the Major Gene Heckathorn (Wittenberg '41) Sullivan of the judge * * Ma '34), former Field Secretary of Phi Leslie Phillips -advocate branch Solomon supply oorps. . . . Lieutenant in his Southwest Devil Dog department. News of amma Delta, is hack from the attached to the engineer- Pacific travels. operations officer of (Richmond '42) is Fijis who have Islands where he was the U. S. S. Dorsey. . . . * * * the situation well squadron. Bill was ing department of hand: an aviation fighting Fisher (Wittenberg '42) is an avia- Notes aboard the S. S. Saratoga when that Richard concerning the U. lieutenant and was last reported to be men in the Colonel Merritt B. airplane was hit by a Japanese tor- tion service of His Curtis (Berkeley '15 carrier Panama. . . . Charles Hazell (North Nlajesty, King and Em- is on duty at the 1Vashing pedo. He transferred to a destroyer by in insurance peror: headquarters in was '28) has forsaken his ton. . . . Lieutenant Richard M. Forsyth, means of a breeches buoy. He has now been Carolina Little business and the Raleigh (N. C.) Toronto Fijis (Western Reserve '32), medical corps, wa- assigned to a command at the Naval Air the re- are chuckling over an inci- tooffijcoei ni up. lislocated in dent reported in the thick of the action on the Solomm Station, Willow Grove, Pa. (See also "Very cTrinie i at itnrge kl- in a letter from Lieutenant in Charlotte, N. C John A. Bennet Islands. . . Second Lieutenant Thomas It Important Events!"). . . Robert H. Long at the (Toronto '32), who is over- Bruce Robinson (Idaho '44) is seas with the Norpell (Denison '41) has been transferrei 'Wabash '39) is in the midshipmen's school f red John G. Royal Navy in charge of a base in Pensacola, Fla. . . . motor torpedo from New River, S. C., to Camp Elliott at Columbia University.... Lieutenant Cor- air aboard boat. Jack's crew was doing Cumming (Ohio Wesleyan '42) is an assigned task Calif. . . Captain Joseph E. Atkinsor nelis E. Groenewegen (Occidental '28, Stan- Lieutenant (j.g.) in such a sloppy fashion as U. S. S. Indiana. . . . to bring down his (Georgia Tech. '35) has been on Guadal- ford '28), former Field Secretary of Phi the '30) is sta- ire. He ordered his men to Gould Justice (Lehigh canal. . . Private Roderick A. McManigai Gamma Delta, may he addressed as follows: Preston 266 THE PHI GANINI:k DELTA THE PHI GAMMA DELTA 267 tioned at San Diego, Calif. . . Paul R. Dotterer (Yale '26) has been commissioned fOregon State '40) has been flying in the air corps, is a squadron navigation officer a lieutenant and is stationed in Philadelphia. f-ific area. . . . Emmett E. Wolter (Los at Alamogordo, N. M. . . Vaughn S. Cary . . John. A. Boehck (Wisconsin '39) is a • .-des '43) is an aviation cadet at Los (Rutgers '38) is at the air Dase in San Juan, junior grade lieutenant in California. . . . _mitos, Calif, . . Ensign Charles M. Puerto Rico. . . .Ensign Charles E. Chan- Ensign • Donald H. Putney (Kansas '37) is cs (Ohio Wesleyan '38) is athletic offi- rung, Jr. (Virginia '40), onetime varsity at the armed guard reserve station in New - at the training school in Ames, Ia. . . . tennis captain, is attending school in Boston. Orleans. . . • The value of the Phi Gamma William Barr (Northwestern '41) . Jack Commodore Lackey, Jr. (Missouri Delta f'en Club of New York is again demon- 'andling recruits as a battalion corn- '41) is in training at Abbott Hall.... Lieu- strated in the following excerpt from a let- der at Great Lakes. . . Lieutenant tenant Lloyd R. Walker (Amherst '40) is ter from Ensign ‘Villiarn J. Dorworth, Jr. _ 1 Charles Edward Carroll (Northwest- commanding officer of the U. S. S. Ability. (Pennsylvania State '41), who is an instruc- '40) is permanent assistant officer of the May there never be a disability! . . . John tor of midshipmen on the training ship U. at the air station in Pensacola. . . . S. Trogner (Pennsylvania State '45) is S. S. Prairie State: "I get over to the Club •Atenant Tom Paul Emerich (Kansas '32) awaiting call to active duty as an aviation often and there see some familiar faces. A sea as a gunnery officer. He was for- cadet. . . . Ensign Joseph I. Marshall That means a lot during these times.". . . :v on the faculty of Rensselaer Polytech- (Washington and Jefferson '37) is on duty J. Patterson Fellows (Colorado College '45) Institute and resigned his position as an at the Fourth Naval District headquarters has received an appointment to the United •.omist on the staff of the War Produc- in Philadelphia. His brother, H. B. Marshall States Naval Academy and will report to Board to accept his commission. . . . (Washington and Jefferson '39), is also an Annapolis for training on July I. . . .Rob- nk Edward Little (Colorado College '35) ensign. . .. Forest Evashevski (Michigan ert E. Bronson (W ashington :45) is 1.f. been commissioned an ensign. His brother, '41), onetime star gridder for the Wolver- aviation an cadet at Pensacola, Fla Theodore W. Little (Colorado College '39) ines, is at the pre-flight school in Iowa City, thur P. Stauffacher (Wisconsin '39) is is a photographer's mate. . . . Washburn Ia.. . .Ensign John P. Cassillv (Yale '41) training in at Great Lakes. . . Edwin Whiting Steele is an ensign. . . . Thomas is aboard the U. S. S. Zeilin at sea. . . . Messe \V. (Wabash '34) was graduated Glenn. Jr. (Pennsylvania State '29) is a Lieutenant-Commander John T. Smith (New recruit from training as honor man in his lieutenant (j.g.) in the training school at York '25) was awarded his flight surgeon at company Great Lakes Training Station Tucson, Ariz. . . Ensign Norman Young wings at Pensacola in November. He is been and has selected to attend a service (Union '42) is engineer and communications now senior medical officer and flight surgeon Ensign school. . William T. Martin, Jr. (North othcer on a minesweeper operating from St. at the air station in Melbourne, Fla. . . lina '42), Caro- Ensign Donald Fletcher (Alabama :mos, Virgin Islands. . . . Charles H. Ensign Harry Valentine (Kansas '36) is '40) and Ensign Edward Drew McLaughlin (Kansas :lips, Jr. (Richmond '38) has been ad- teaching cadets to fly. . . Ensign '37) will soon has been called to complete their course in the KILLED IN CRASH IN INDIA '.anced from ensign to lieutenant (j.g.) in Ross Frisby (Yale '42) supply school at duty. . . . Harry H. Coon (North- Harvard and join the fleet. 1E. night Sergeant Thomas Taggar: the air corps. He is now stationed with his active . . . Among the Pi squadron western '44) is in training at Great Lakes. Deutecon men in the (Virginia '43). R.C.A.F., died in a at an advanced base.. . . Knowles navy are Lieutenant ... Carl Schipper, Jr. (Dartmouth '28) has Robert J. Rowlands (India) hospital on November 15, B. Smith (DePauw '36) has enlisted and (Kansas '37), Ensign Frank is closed his law office in Boston and is serv- Harwi (Kan- a result of injuries sustained two days stationed in the assembly and repair de- sas '38), Ensign as junior grade lieutenant in Washing- Donald Metzler (Kansas fore when the wing of the Hurricane he cm partment at Quonset Point, R. I. He is in ing V '38), Ensign Robert ton. . .. Bruce A. Goewey (Colgate '42) is Haynes (Kansas '41), 'Piloting fouled on a palm charge of equipment for which he was a Ensign Donald tree. He aviation cadet at Plymouth. Mass. . . Clinger (Kansas '40) and recommended for a sales engineer in civilian life As V (...—) an Ensign Hazlett commission. 7 Beattie (Knox '32) has returned Steiger (Kansas '38). a grandson of the .mail Christmas greeting comes to THE PHI William R. Robert R. - • late Senator Guatemala City, where he was execu- Tweedle (Wabash '37) is in Taggart of (csmmis DELTA from Lieutenant Omar C. from training at air Indiana, after whom representative connected with Braniff Corpus Christi, Tex. . . Wil- Fitch (Virginia '40), who is with the South- tive liam H. Gostlin, named. cargo service, to await his Jr. (Wabash '45) is a petty .t Pacific force. Omar's father is the dis- Airway's army officer at the air navyorders. . . . William A. Buzick, Jr. base in Glenview, Ill. . . . ltished Admiral Fitch. . .. Ensign Wil- Joseph E. Pietzuch Owen (North Carolina '43) reports (Kansas '42) has been commissioned an en- (Wabash '.N). has been if H. Parker (Missouri '41) is aboard commissioned a naval training base at Norman, Lieutenant (j.g.) David F. Tuttle lieutenant. . . . Edward Olch: U 5 Prairie State, the training ship, sign. . . . Hullinger B. Fiji chapter at the University (Amherst '34) has been called to active duty. (Northwestern '34) is a junior of 0;.- New York. His room-mate is Ensign grade lieutenant has been taking good care of us. The:* Lieutenant Ashley J. Little (Georgia stationed at the armed guard Thomas F. Morrell (Sewanee '39). . • . . . center in South a lot of thanks. The good old songs Naval Academy graduate, is Brooklyn, N. Y. . . . Genial . Ensign Walter E. Dickey (DePauw '39) Tech. '38), a Lieutenant Percy comfortable chairs are really somet: S. S. Mississippi. . . Robert N. Doremus (Gettysburg on duty somewhere in the Pacific. . . . aboard the U. '35, Pennsylvania the spirits when we (Georgia Tech. '42) reports hav- '35), dental corps, get a little li,• husign Curvin H. Stein (Gettysburg '40) W. Steudel York a New . Sheldon Hill, Jr. ( Sewanee '41) Club favorite, is now on VanAuken (Wabash r• at sea in the Atlantic. . . . Ensign Win- ing met Claude M. seas. . duty over- been promoted school at Groton, Conn. . Ensign Lauren F. to a junior grade lien'• '(imp A. Haviland (Yale '41), after having in the coast guard (Wabash Chamberlain He is at Pearl Warrant Officer '42) is an instructor Harbor.. . .Ensign -hed a course in meterology at Massa- They both should know ship at in seaman- Neill Arnold (Washington and Lee the indoctrination (Denison '37) has beer - os Institute of Technology, is a weath- Eugene E. Krewson Dame school at Notre armed guard Milan M. Milich University Cadet convoy service in the -aster at the air base in Iceland. ... '35), who is also there Raymond W. Pacific. . . is a third-class petty Lieutenant Byron W. :• 'ant Joseph S. Boulos (Maine '41), (Illinois Wesleyan '42) 266 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA THE PHI GAMMA DELTA 267 tioned at San Diego, Calif. . . . Paul R. Dotterer (Yale '26) has been commissioned . 7egon State '40) has been flying in the air corps, is a squadron navigation officer a lieutenant and is stationed in Philadelphia. acific area. . . . Emmett E. Wolter (Los at Alamogordo, N. M.. . . Vaughn S. Cary . . John A. Boehck (Wisconsin '39) is a mt.eles '43) is an aviation cadet at Los (Rutgers '38) is at the air base in San Juan, junior grade lieutenant in California. . . mitos. Calif. . . Ensign Charles M. Puerto Rico. . . . Ensign Charles E. Chan- Ensign Donald H. Putney (Kansas '37) is (Ohio Wesleyan '38) is athletic offi- fling, Jr. (Virginia '40), onetime varsity at the armed guard reserve station in New • at the training school in Ames, Ia. . . tennis captain, is attending school in Boston. Orleans. . . .The value of the Phi Gamma ,ign William Barr (Northwestern '41) . . . Jack Commodore Lackey, Jr. (Missouri Delta Club of New York is again demon- '•andling recruits as a battalion corn- '41) is in training at Abbott Hall.... Lieu- strated in the following excerpt from a let- der at Great Lakes. . . . Lieutenant tenant Lloyd R. Walker (Amherst '40) is ter from Ensign William J. Dorworth, Jr. . ) Charles Edward Carroll (Northwest- commanding officer of the U. S. S. Ability. (Pennsylvania State '41), who is an instruc- '40) is permanent assistant officer of the May there never be a disability! . . John. tor of vet midshipmen on the training ship U. at the air station in Pensacola. . . . S. Trogner (Pennsylvania State '45) is S. S. Prairie State: "I get over to the Club :tenant Tom Paul Ernerich (Kansas '32) awaiting call to active duty as an aviation often and there see some familiar faces. sea as a gunnery officer. He was for- cadet. . . . Ensign Joseph I. Marshall That means a lot during these times.", . ' 7!y on the faculty of Rensselaer Polytech- (Washington and Jefferson '37) is on duty J. Patterson Fellows (Colorado College '45 • Institute and resigned his position as an at the Fourth Naval District headquarters has received an appointment to the United :;omist on the staff of the War Produc- in Philadelphia. His brother, H. B. Marshall States Naval Academy and will report to ::. Board to accept his commission. . . . (Washington and Jefferson '39), is also an Annapolis for training on July 1. . . . Rob- :al( Edward I.ittle (Colorado College '35) ensign. . . . Forest Evashevski (Michigan ert E. Bronson (Washington '45) is an ...• been commissioned an ensign. His brother, '41), onetime star gridder for the Wolver- aviation cadet at Pensacola, Fla Nr- Theodore \V. Little (Colorado College '39) ines, is at the pre-flight school in Iowa City, thur P. Stauffacher (Wisconsin '39) is is a photographer's mate. . .. Washburn Ia.. . . Ensign John P. Cassilly (Yale '41) training in at Great Lakes. . . . Edwin Whiting Steele is an ensign. . . . Thomas is aboard the U. S. S. Zeilin at sea. . . . Messe W. (Wabash '34) was graduated Glenn, Jr. (Pennsylvania State '29) is a Lieutenant-Commander John T. Smith (New recruit from training as honor man in his company lieutenant (j.g.) in the training school at York '25) was awarded his flight surgeon at Great Lakes Pensacola November. He is Training Station and has Tucson, Ariz. . .. Ensign Norman Young wings at in been selected to medical officer and flight surgeon attend a service school. . . . (Union '42) is engineer and communications now senior Ensign William Melbourne, Fla. . . . T. Martin, Jr. (North Caro- officer on a minesweeper operating from St. at the air station in lina '42), (Kansas '36) is Ensign Donald Fletcher (Alabama Thomas, Virgin Islands. . . Charles H. Ensign Harry Valentine '40) and Ensign Ensign Edward Drew McLaughlin (Kansas Phillips, Jr. (Richmond '38) has been ad- teaching cadets to fly. . .. '37) will soon been called to complete their course in the KILLED IN CRASHIN IN INDIA lanced from ensign to lieutenant (j.g.) in Ross Frisby (Yale '42) has supply school at Harvard active duty. . . . Harry H. Coon (North- and join the fleet. C. Flight Sergeant Thomas Taggart Young the air corps. He is now stationed with his • . . Among the Pi squadron Knowles western '44) is in training at Great Lakes. Deuteron men in the (Virginia '43), R.C..A.F., died in a Calcuttz at an advanced base.. . . navy are Lieutenant .. Carl Schipper, Jr. (Dartmouth '28) has Robert J. Rowlands (India) hospital on November 15, 1942, OS B. Smith (DePauw '36) has enlisted and (Kansas '37), Ensign is closed his law office in Boston and is serv- Frank Harwi (Kan- a result of injuries sustained two days stationed in the assembly and repair de- sas '38), Ensign Donald ing as junior grade lieutenant in Washing- Metzler (Kansas fore when the wing of the Hurricane he partment at Quonset Point, R. I. He is in '38), Ensign Robert ton. . . . Bruce A. Goewey (Colgate '42) is Haynes (Kansas '41), piloting fouled on a palm charge of equipment for which he was a Ensign Donald tree. He had aviation cadet at Plymouth. Mass. . . . Clinger (Kansas '40) and recommended for engineer in civilian life 4 V an Ensign .Hazlett a commission. Tom Beattie (Knox '32) has returned Steiger (Kansas a grandson of mail Christmas greeting conies to Tog Pnt William R. Robert R. '38)• • • • the late Senator The Guatemala City, where he was execu- Tweedle (Wabash '37) is in of GA:stua DELTA from Lieutenant Omar C. from training at air Indiana, after whom he representative connected with Braniff Corpus Christi, Tex. . . . Wil- Fitch (Virginia '40), who is with the South- tive liam H. Gostlin, named. army cargo service, to await his Jr. (Wabash '45) is a petty iseq Pacific force. Omar's father is the dis- Airway's officer at the air orders. . . William A. Buzick, Jr. base in Glenview, Ill. . . tinguished Admiral Fitch. . Ensign Wil- navy Joseph E. Pietzuch Owen (North Carolina '43) reports ir•-u: (Kansas '42) has been commissioned an en- (Wabash '28) has been liam H. Parker (Missouri '41) is aboard commissioned naval training base at Okla.: Lieutenant (j.g.) David F. Tuttle a lieutenant . . . Edward Norman, the (I ç S" Prairie State, the training ship, sign. . . Hullinger B. Fiji chapter at the Oklah: has been called to active duty. (Northwestern '34) is a University of in New York. His room-mate is Ensign (Amherst '34) grade junior has been taking good Lieutenant Ashley J. Little (Georgia lieutenant stationed at the care of us. They des,- Thomas F. Morrell (Sewanee '39). • • • . . . center in armed guard a lot of thanks. Naval Academy graduate, is South Brooklyn, N. The good old songs and Ensign Walter E. Dickey (DePainv '39) Tech. '38), a Y. .. . Genial comfortable Mississippi. .. . Robert Lieutenant Percy N. Doremus chairs are really something lc': s on duty somewhere in the Pacific. . . . aboard the U. S. S. '35, (Gettysburg the spirits when (Georgia Tech.'42) reports hav- Pennsylvania '35), dental corps, we get a little liberty. • Ensign Curvin H. Stein (Gettysburg '40) W. Steudel York Club a New . . Sheldon M. Hill, Jr. (Sewanee '41) favorite, is now on VanAuken (Wabash '38) I' at sea in the Atlantic. . . . Ensign Win- ing met Claude seas. . . duty over- been promoted school at Groton, Conn. . Ensign Lauren F. to a junior grade lieutem: throp A. Haviland (Yale '41), after having in the coast guard (Wabash Chamberlain He is at Pearl know Warrant Officer '42) is an instructor Harbor. . . Ensign 0. • 'shed a course in meterology at Massa- They both should ship at in seaman- Neill Arnold Krewson (Washington and Lee the indoctrination school (Denison '37) has been in !setts Institute of Technology, is a weath- Eugene E. Dame at Notre armed guard there Milan M. Milich University. . . . Cadet convoy service in the S, :- forecaster at the air base in Iceland. .. . '35), who is also Raymond W. Pacific. Wesleyan '42) is a third-class petty . Lieutenant Byron W. St Lieutenant Joseph S. Boulos (Maine '41), (Illinois 269 268 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA THE PHI GAMMA DELTA Mc- Barksdale Field. La. . . . Burt H. officer with the captain-of-the-port detail in Beckner (Iowa '30) at is returning sat, (Colorado '37) is an officer candidate the coast guard at Savannah, Ga.. . James Camp Robinson, Ark.. .. Ghee The Major Ri) Aberdeen Proving Ground, 3.1d.. . . A. Garrison (Massachusetts Tech. '44) is Harrison (Washington '29) is at Hadley, Jr. with address of Lieutenant Homer L. in the coast guard and is studying for the Division at Camp Howre. Tex. . B 937, Se- ovd (Illinois '37) is B.O.Q. 1, A.P.O. examinations for the New London Academy. Chambers, Jr. (Denison '43) is a George D. Al- cadet at & attle, Wash. . . . Lieutenant * * * United States Military the 602nd Academy. ... Lien- men, Jr. (Oklahoma '40) is with tenant Clark D. Burton (Cornell Camp Carson, Hither-and-yon notes about Fijis in '41) ti Field Artillery Battalion at assistant military attache at the Ryan (Brown the United States Army, as well as the American Colo. . Private Thomas T. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro. . . Colo. . . . James Lieutenarn '42) is at Buckley Field, Army of the United States, with no Gene G. King (Dartmouth '39) is at '40) is in the Camp W. Rutherford (Ohio State sequence of mention according to rank Forrest, Tenn.... Captain William F. Miami Beach, Fret) officer candidate school in hoff, Jr. (Missouri '41), public - (Oklahoma and with no claim to all-inclusiveness Fla.. . . George R. McDannold (this officer at Camp Breckenridge, Ky., the 91st Division at Camp department never closes): '42) is with Allen THE PHI GAMMA DELTA a clipping . . . Private Robert H. Does White, Ore. (Nebr.) Lieutenant-Colonel Graham W. West Evansville (Ind.) Courier and Press te '- '43) is at the Lincoln (Oregon '34) know (Williams (Georgia that the "Spitfire" he of the splendid work which former NI .... Harold A. Ellison has been air base ord- using with such good effect against Picture Actor Thomas Macadam - a first lieutenant in the Jerry in Tech. '32) is -Colonel North Africa was designed by a (Johns Hopkins '32) is performing aq . Writes Lieutenant nance corps. . . air Fiji, Beverley Shenstone (Toronto '28)? cial service lieutenant with the 98th - Purcell (New York '27), Colonel Francis J. sur- West has recently passed the fra- Division. . .. Thomas H. Fickett Camp Rucker, Ala.: "I was corps, from work- ternity grip to Lieutenant-Colonel G. Morey Tech. '32) has been promoted to a majority delighted to find that I was Miller, prised and Wy- Jr. (Idaho '34) over there on the and is with the 12th Armored Division at Fiji, Colonel Lawrence B. ing under a fellow Mediterranean. Morey (paying his graduate Camp Campbell, Ky. . . . George A. Peck. State '16). He is a swell dues for ant (Ohio Allen 1943) also reports having seen Jr. (Williams '36) is a cadet at Edgewood . . . First Lieutenant Captain to be with." with the James R. McKeldin (Virginia '25), Arsenal, Md. . . Captain R. Murray (Virginia '32) is over-eas former Sowder A.P.O. 860, Field Secretary of the fraternity, man (Iowa '29) is a cavalryman at C force. His address is thereabouts, as (Pi armored H. Clapp, II well as Lieutenant Thomas Lockett, Calif.... Mason H. Lucas York, N. Y. .. . Eugene L. Leahy (Ohio State '26) is a the 10th Ar- ACTION New secretary of the '35). They should all lieutenant-colonel in MISSING IN (Lafayette '36), former make themselves known to Colonel mored Division at Fort Benning, Ga. .. Dobell, Chapter, is attached to the Ralph hi son of a Fiji sire, Roy H. Boston Graduate E. Bagby (William Jewell '17), who is on Lieutenant William S. McClellan (Laf3Ye'e in action Squadron at Hamilton Field, ,regon '43) is reported missing 326th Fighter (Massachusetts the staff of General Doolittle. . . . Another '41) is with the air corps procurement Roy H. Do- M. Roddy 1,1 the Philippines. His father, Calif.... Gilbert of • Fiji reported to be in Africa— if not in in Wichita, Kans. . . . Lieutenant 1, father was formerly assiAant treasurer 41, Sr. (DePauw '08), whose Tech. '31), In- Italy, by the time these lines are read — F. Snyder (Occidental '33, Oregon Stat Chapter, reports Manufacturers Mutual Fire :Ls() a member of Lambda the Boston of- is Captain Robert Milligan (Iowa '32). . . is at Fort Monmouth, N. J. . Dr. R October, Major Roddy, with . ;t his son went to the Islands in surance Co., is now division, Still another is T. Edward Munce, Jr. G. Freeman (Occidental '31) is a captain ir affair, cam- the ordnance :41, and was in the Clark Field fices in Boston in Lieutenant (Washington and Jefferson '39). . . . the medical corps at Santa Barbara, Calif machine branch. . . . Pri- out without a scratch, although private protection '38) vate Harold W. Johnson (Wisconsin ... Dr. Arthur H. Buell (Occidental '33) is another (Massachusetts Tech. '43) 'unned. He was then transferred to Robert L. Johnson plants is with a coast artillery outfit a lieutenant in the medical corps Roy private protection of at Bayonne, ;claw'. The elder Dobell believes that is in charge of Al- N. J. Ack! Ack! hell out of Icy B. Sutton, Jr. (Alabama '40) is a lieu- hidden Haven, Conn. . . . 'ern, Private L4y be in a small guerilla band, well in and around New avia- Johnson.... Lieutenant Harry M. tenant in the infantry school at Camp Ben prisoner of (Chicago '28) is in the Halstead tire mountains, Of perhaps a len S. Weller Tex. .. • (Rutgers '41) is with Force 5889 at Fort fling, Ga. . . King Hamill (Occidenta' at San Antonio, war at Tarlac, Luzon. tion cadet center a pri- Jackson, S. C. . . . South Pacific? India? Charles F. Hutchins, Jr. (Occidenta Mills (Berkeley '43) is James McV. . . Lieu- China? Even the father of Captain Robert and Alphonzo E. Bell, Jr. (Occidenta Leonard Wood, Mo. . '27, Johns vate at Fort (Tennessee '42) is S. Hussey (Maine '38) doesn't know exactly are privates in the air corps at Merced, Major H. Dudley Ives (Cornell Warren A. Vick Bat- tenant . . Private where his son is. Captain Hussey is liaison . . . Howard S. Gates (Occidental '32) Hopkins '29) is commanding the 1st Fort Benning, Ga. . For- stationed at is in train- officer for his field artillery battalion. private in the air corps at Mather Fielc talion 319th Infantry at Camp Cargill (Missouri '44) . . . of the Law- Drury H. Captain Selim Lewis F. Twichell (Colgate '42) is in Calif. . . . Lieutenant Harry M. Hali.tea Writes Captain James Field, Colo.... offi- rest, Tenn. .. . overseas: ing at Lowry commanding cer candidate school at Grinnell, (Rutgers '41) is assistant adjutant of the (Davidson '31) from (Arizona '28) is Ia. . . . retce Smith DELTA H. Franklin Pendleton Field, John F. O'Neill (Colgate '42) is in train- headquarters and service company of Fore' Two of THE PIII GAMMA sub-depot at issues of the officer of the Buck (Maine ing at Fort Knox, Ky. . . Aviation Cadet 5889 in Camp Davis, N. C. . . . John F !la‘e reached me in this far corner Corporal R. Jacques Roy to cover Ore. ... Okla... . Sergeant H. Uhlinger, Jr. (Allegheny '39) sends Whelden (Dartmouth '38) has been commi• warth. I have read them from cover Camp Gruber, in M. Mc- '44) is at (Pennsylvania $25 from his Tennessee station to make slotted a lieutenant and assigned to public re... rezeral times.". Lieutenant John Beerbower, Jr. commanding oft)- Ralph C. engineering him a Life Loyal Fiji. May he long enjoy lations. He was formerly on the editorial star (Wittenberg '37) is is overseas with an its Cabe Camp Bland- State '41) N. Mullen, Jr. benefits! . . John D. Lea (Ten- of the Springfield (Mass.) Union. . . .Liee of an anti-tank company at . Private Joseph nessee cer McAfee outfit. . . Sioux Falls, S. '34) is at the army flying school tenant James E. Smyth (Texas '39) is Pile' Fla. . . . Daniel Bosworth '42) is stationed at in mg. quartermaster corps (Maine Roswell, N. M. . . . Captain John 0. ing a Flying Fortress in New Guinea. (Lehigh '41) is in the GAMMA DELTA 271 270 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA THE PHI Bliss, Ralph is in an anti-aircraft battery at Fort D. . . . Lieutenant Robert L. Steenrod to be Arch . . The addre,s of Private Robi- Tifft (Lehigh '42), who is force.. Infantry, Tex.... Writes Lieutenant Ralph G. (Washington and Jefferson '31) is with the the kind of ( Denison '36) is Second New fellow a Fiji should be. E Lidster Lieutenant son (Colgate '41) from an A.P.O.. via 26th Quartermaster Training Regiment at and more I learn 5, New York, N. Y. .. . I got that our fraternity is - N. P.O. at the Orleans : "I hit the jackpot today — Fort Bragg, N. C. ... Edgar Gilmore Frey left behind J. Dienz (Arizona '41) is DELTA!" when college life's a tale fr.:. 1.'rniind Captain two copies of THE Ptil GAWNIA (Johns Hopkins '40) has completed the told." . . . in Walla Walla, Wash.... (Allegheny '40) Paying $25 to make hirr base . . . Private Jack W. Dale quartermaster officer candidate course at Life Duckstad (Gettysburg '39) is adju- quartermaster Loyal Fiji, Thomas A. Dvorsky t. Firic E. is in the finance office of the Camp Lee and has been assigned to duty 742nd Tank Battalion at Fort Charles in cago '42) reports that he is off to an in t:.^,t- of the depot at New Cumberland, Pa. . . . Richmond. . . . Dr. .... Some Syracuse men in has Howard M. Rogers tion camp as leader of a contingent of , . a i, Wash Moffat (Washington and Jefferson '39) (Pittsburgh '33) has closed Douglas Cagwin, '41, air corps lieutenant, af- his office in St. selectees. .. . Captain Bertrand H. Stn.: army : been commissioned a second Petersburg, Fla., and is in the Leon Dibble, '42, air corps lieu- Institute of medical corps Jr. (Pittsburgh '23) is in the air force :cutenant; ter a course at the California at Fort McClellan, Ala. . . . First Lieu- Merritt Switzer, '43, lieutenant; weather courses stationed in New York City. We hope' -nant; Oakley, Technology, and is teaching tenant Richard A. Walter (Washington '39), enjoying the .hn Bidle, '44, lieutenant; Harry States Military hospitality of the Phi Gar ' Allen, '44, to the cadets at the United who used to get up those nifty advertise- Delta ..-t, air corps captain; Andrew Thomas T. Wylie Club. . . . Henry R. Beeson (',\ lieutenant; Academy. . . . Captain ments for the Phi Gamma Delta Club in ington and ')Inenant; John Phelan, '43, Hendricks Field, Se- Jefferson '37) is with thi Richard Ar- (Rutgers '40) is at New York, is in England. . . . Lieutenant force in Africa.... First i• ibert Baker, '33, lieutenant; Lieutenant J. Neal Watt Lieutenant D. Howard Miller, bring, Fla. . . . Merle B. Snyder (Iowa '25) is in the medi- F. Kent (Pennsylvania Id, '40, air corps cadet; at Camp Gruber, Okla. '35) is in the r Lieutenant-Colonel (Oklahoma '42) is cal corps at Fort Harrison. Mont., where cal corps at Miami, which a'• .2, signal corps. . . . Francis J. Cox (Berkeley '29) has (Amherst '10) of the . . . Dr. become there is a commando and paratroop division. fornia. . . . Lieutenant Parke `.10on 1), Merchant Tulane Medical School to at Fort Hayes. left the . . . Lieutenant Carl F. Olenberger (Ne- (Union '33) is at Bay St. Louis. iaplain corps is stationed corps major at the general hos- Hamilton H. Webster a medical Captain braska '411 is with a tank battalion in Eng- Bernard A. LaBarge (Maine '4 '. . • . Lieutenant Fort Benning. Ga. . . . piloting a bomber at the pital in the land.... Captain William B. Sherman (Co- aviation cadet at Maxwell Field, Ai.. . . Denison '37) is Hamilton Bogle (Columbia '33) is at lumbia field. . . . Lieuten- John Mimi. . . • '27) is in the medical corps. His Captain George Warren Scott (Iowa .• an Angelo (Tex.) air hospital in Fort Snelling, address is (Denison '35) is a station (Wabash A.P.O. 663, Miami, Fla. . . . medical corps, who has been in Hawa: it Richard W. Ashley Lieutenant Edward H. Zeigner Lieutenant Midland (Tex.) air Psi Chapter's Francis M. Bradley (Florida '41) a year, has a sense of humor. Outsidr 'ight surgeon at the who wrote the history of is in Lieutenant Robert Greacen '42), an anti- the field artillery at Camp Phillips, first-aid shack he has erected a sign: "The • -hod, where for this magazine, is in Kans. .. Lieutenant John 75 years C. . • • . . . Joseph H. Harrison (Washing- Pill Parlor— Treatments for the sick, lame Rutgers '41) is a pilot. . battery at Camp Davis, N. ton base ordnance of- aircraft '36) is '33) is stationed at Fort Sill, Okla. and lazy. Curb service. Dr. Scott, Prop." ,sir,teti (Virginia '43) is Saville, Jr. (Richmond ... Mass.. where Lieu- Robert L. .1mbrose Major William A. Enemark (Stanford And along a nearby road is the islands' only • cer at Westover Field, officer candidate school '35) is at (Virginia '41) is a pur- in an '43) is an Camp Wood, Tex Lieutenant Burma shave advertisement, also a product •rnant James Nixon Broughton, Jr. (Dartmouth Charles Macon Arthur F. .. Major F. XVood (Oklahoma '42) is at of the Fiji medico's fertile brain: "Soldic- •uit pilot. . . . Private cadet at Camden, S. C.. Fort Bragg, N. engineers at Fort aviation (DePauw '34) is in C.... The address of Lieu- Boy —In Yokahama — Stubby Beard - Virginia '43) is with the Lawrence R. St. John tenant Robert Frackle- at Fort Leon- Herbert J. Bolin, Jr. (Davidson '41) Geisha Mama —Use Burma Shave.". ilelvoir, Va. . . . Private motorized engineering corps is 39th Iceland with an in- a Captain John Robert Infantry, A.P.O. 640, New York. Sergeant John Atwood (Colorado Collts,t !.on (Virginia '42) is in Wood, Mo...... William R. Tooker ard is at the Pre- Sergeant George E. Vickery, Jr. (De- '41) has been transferred to Fort Knox, Ky :antry outfit. .. • Private McCullough (DePauw '34) Pauw '40) is in the Virginia '43) is with the 1020th Service Calif. . . . Frank finance office at McClel- . . Captain William A. Bevan (Minnesnu sidio of San Francisco, lan Field. Calif. . . . Lexington Ave., New York City. '43) is a staff sergeant Private Frederic '36), once a star guard for the Gophe- '"'t at 'WI A. Gans (Indiana Standish Bunce Sergeant Oliver R. Toomey (Colgate school in Stuttgart, (Dartmouth '37) is with a in an anti-aircraft outfit at Camp Edw . . at the advanced flying bombardment group in the is in a quartermaster detachment at Roy E. Crummer (North- Pacific. . . . Mass Private Leonard N. Beinlu. Benja- Ark.... Private at Captain Paul B. Roesch !nut Ridge, Ark. . . . Lieutenant in an artillery battery (Western Reserve (Minnesota '32) is at Camp Wolters, Tex western '44) is Class '29) is now at Camp Lee, Swartz (Illinois Wesleyan '39) is Tex.... Private First Va. . . . Staff . Private Edward Tarangioli (New York ..X. Camp Wallace, in Sergeant L. Philip Harris \ Ireland. He should make him- Quittmeyer (Columbia '41) is (Colgate '44) is '29) is at Camp Croft, S. C. . . Lienten orthern Robert T. Breckenridge, at Kirkland Field, N. -If Brigadier-General LeRoy P. at Camp M. . . . Lieutenant ant Thomas Vaughn (Wittenberg known to the 390th Infantry Lloyd Alexander . Major Walter E. Robert Stiefel (Rutgers Grobe (Idaho '43) is with writes from Egypt that the last time Ir C-11ins (Union '05). . . Ky. . . . Corporal a ferrying group at has been with a field technician at Camp Great Falls, Mont. brought his bomber home it had five bulk' 1;rinker (Iowa '38) '40) is a classification Speaking of great Alaska. . . . Major Paul Philip Bissell (Colorado falls, how're you doin', holes therein. . . . Captain Robert Frank artillery outfit in Crowder, Mo. . .. adolf shicklgruber? '27) is stationed in his commission as a . . . Captain William Schirmer (Wittenberg '36) and Charles C E. Ketterer (Lehigh College '42) received E. Waddell all places! ... Lieu- Davis, N. C. . . . Lieu- (Washington and Lee '30) is Palmer (Wittenberg '39), rank not known Washington, D. C.—of lieutenant at Camp with a University of Fawcett (Washington '30) O'Rourke (Colorado College Virginia hospital unit are in Africa.... Colonel Charles D. Tres tenant John H. tenant Donald in North Africa.. . . Lakeland, Fla. . . . graduated from the parachute Lieutenant George A. ler (Muhlenberg '03) at .th :, in the air corps at has been Ford, Jr. (Williams is chaplain Jenks (Stanford '41) Gillespie; Calif.... Samuel '33) is with the general medical center in William Captain Christopher M. school at Camp purchasing board Washington. .. . department College '43) is an avia- of the service of supply R. Wainer been pr. '22) is in the judge-advocate's Newton (Colorado overseas.. . . (Oklahoma '29) has o- Calif. . . . James Ana, Calif. . Captain Lieutenant Charles H. North- moted to former alt.- and is living in Piedmont, cadet at Santa rup (Illinois the rank of major. A '32) is a medical tion Jr. (Pennsylvania '23) Wesleyan '36) writes from the line pilot with more hours to In• F. Lamb, Jr. (Rutgers Charles E. Lynch, • Oklahoma City air than 9,000 lieutenant at Percy Jones Harvard University. . . depot, which ain't in credit, he is the At- administrative in training at Texas: "On arriving ferrying planes across Battle Creek, Mich.... is (Oregon '33), whose here I was assigned lantic. . . . John M. (Richmond '39) '.-neral Hospital in McGowan Miller to quarters where my Toler DuVal (Purdue '39) room-mate turned out has been commissioned a lieutenant in !he ...nutenant Eugene H. 272 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA THE PHI GAMMA DELTA 273

drawings have illuminated the New York S. Gamble (Knox '41) Lubbock, Tex. . . Lieutenant Bernard E. Phi Gamma Delta Club advertisements in enant Charles Field, Tex. . . . Russell Ingram (Nebraska '39) and Lieutenant J. this magazine, is an air corps officer candi- at Meacham State '41) is in a medical de- Randolph Coupland (Virginia '42) are help- date. . . F. Carl Meyer (Lafayette '35), ce (Iowa Camp Swift. . . . Lieutenant ing activate a new ordnance training center onetime executive secretary of the Club, has ment at MacCallum (Syracuse '31) is at Camp Santa Anita, Arcadia, Calif. . . . been promoted to a first lieutenancy in the •arei R. corps at Camp Pickett, Va. An open letter to Colonel J. Victor Collier engineers... . Lieutenants Ehnore L. Wood the dental Edmund F. Ball (Wabash '27, (Oklahoma '21), prisoner of war in the (Maine '36) and Arthur R. Taylor (Wash- . Captain the Muncie Ball Brand may be Philippines, was featured in "The Plains- ington '41) are living at the Phi Gamma e '27) of Delta A.P.O. 1099, New York, N. man." a column in the Lubbock (Tex.) Club, which is not a bad way to fight essed at franking privileges and Journal. The letter was written by Charles the war. . . . Captain J. Noble Richards „. What with arrangement the Fijis overseas A. Guy (Oklahoma '23), editor and pub- (Ohio Wesleyan '23), Clifford F. Lincoln, Jr. V-mail Editor thanks lisher of the newspaper. Excerpt: "As I (Lehigh '40). Herbert P. Ewald having a field day! The (Colgate Christmas greetings sent contemplated your picture in the news mag- '21) and Lyman NV. Clardy (Davidson es of them for '34) has doubtless caused our azine [Lila with a lump in my throat, my have left the Club for other parts. . . a fashion that .Cap- Jefferson College mind jumped back, Vic, to the old days tain Carl W. Broman (Chicago unding Fathers of old '29) is sta- graves. Lieutenant in the Phi Gam house at Norman, when tioned at Fort Meade, Md. . . turn over in their THE Pm air you were a junior and I was your fresh- GAMMA DELTA on January hard G. filing (New York '41), 8 received a man, and how You made me your instrument radiogrammed Christmas is. former President of Nu Epsilon Chap- greeting from sergeant in the old horse-drawn artillery Lieutenant-Colonel J. -,who had been erroneously reported as Earle Dunford (Beth- captained. I remembered that even el '12, Richmond ing in action, sent this V-message: "It outfit you '15). who is somewhere for a fine army over the been quite a while since I have written then, Vic, you were cut out Atlantic. . . Lieutenant-Colonel on your horse; hose Andrew Barr you for any reason. I just wanted to career; how you sat (Yale Fac.) is stationed at schoolboy reservists un- Camp I) you a note to tell you how damned You understood the Pickett, Va. Andy, as faculty man- deeply resented ager, once ;kin' I am to keep receiving T HE PHI der you, many of whom took the Yale baseball team they to issue came having to be in the R.O.T.C. when Japan. He is looking forward to M MA DELTA. The October a revisit. the didn't want to. . . I want you to know . Guess where Lieutenant 'iy [December 121. It's like a slap on John H. Stark that I think of you as one of the cleanest, (Colorado '30) is. Ile k from an old friend. In it I was sorry writes to THE PHI finest, altogether lovable boys and men I GAMMA DELTA : "I'm COMMENDED By NAVY DEPARimi. to read of the untimely death of James R. drinking Guiness from ever knew; as the possessor of the raw the tap."...In the same E. The Navy Moody (New York '39) ; a more loyal Fiji command is Major Department has issued courage our country now needs so much Glenn Fitch (Iowa State mendation of never existed. Also in the October issue I '35). . . . Robert Lieutenant (1.g.) i: of shining strength of character which M. Eastman (Illinois Smith (Kansas read that Andrew Labash (New York '41) and '39), who had been '36) noting the sicie: has a soul." . .. David NV. Ames news editor of courage is in [censored] down in my part of the proves man Radio Station WKY at Okla- shown by him as officer in cha, a private in an army tech- homa City, has of world. I'm in New Guinea after spending (Wabash '44) is joined up as a radio operator the gun crew of the S. S. Mormacr. Miami Beach. Fla Ma- and has been [censored]. I have been over here a year nical school at assigned to an air base during the vo.yage of that vessel from .1: , (Wittenberg '33), miss- that city. near W. Courtney jot- George B. Hart . . . First Lieutenant mansk to Reykjavik last "It appea- now—almost. I met Arthur Corregidor son Frank Wes- spring. several ing in action since the fall of England (Union '43) is said the citation, (New York '39) down in Australia Philip- in with a task force "that you noticed em May 7, is a prisoner of war in the French Morocco. . . planes months ago. . . . I have been reported miss- on . Earle E. Tilton, approaching . . and opened fire the War department has advised his Jr. (Brown '38) is an them before ing twice but it happens I am still alive pines, aviation cadet at Santa the escort vessels saw them Cincinnati. . . . Lieutenant John Ana, which ain't in a result of and kicking; so if you hear any reports wife in Florida. . . Captain your gunfire, the plane (Kansas '39) is a surgeon in the Russell G. ‘Vayland diverted and about my being missing they're just not so!" Whitaker (Washington '35) is caused to drop their tc' . . William Bright (Kansas representing the army in so that they • . Fred NV. Schroeder (Ohio Wesleyan medical corps. the War Produc- passed harmlessly astern. at Camp Crowder, Mo. tion Board. . . Jasper For 31i) has been inducted. . . . Lieutenant Earl '40) is a captain H. Bowling (Ten- alertness, endurance and nalor she:, (Kansas '38), who nessee '36) is a during Donaldson (johns Hopkins '25) is stationed . Charles Henshall student in the air force this voyage you are hereby cc' officer can- physical training at Deming, N. M.... Sharing in an aerial was too tall for the navy, is an instructors course in Miami mended." Thomas Beach, Fla. He victory in New Guinea on Thanksgiving didate in a New Jersey camp. . . . reports in: "I used to think the goat morning was Lieutenant Warren Blakely Morris (Kansas '40) is a captain on battalion at ol' Kappa Tau James tough—but, was officer procurement (Colorado College '42), who entered the Coast. . . William C. Thoma whew! this really is." . . . district in Denver. ' the West Scott Merritt Jim reports that one army 1941. He was one of in an amphibian brigade (William Jewell '39), agitated applicant, rep, in September, (New York '42) is boy of the the play- ing on his four patrol over Buns Lieutenant Walter G. Betts Portland Ekklesia, is in physical examination, said, "1 1.7nited States fliers on in Ireland. . . . air the army doctors found who Japanese Zeros. instructor at Camp corps.... Colonel Claude B. some urine in my alcoh, were attacked by eight (New York '41) is an (Idaho '16) Wickelwait Another reported shot down and two Smith (Wa- is overseas — where that "my Wasserman v Three of the Zeros were Roberts, Calif. . . . James Q. (his good deponent higher than my I. any injury to the armored regi- wife) sayeth not! . . Q.". . .Major Franklin others damaged, without '33) is a corporal in an Section Erstwhile Edgecomb planes.... William Nos- bash James Chief William R. (Brown '07) is with the Berm: American flyers or Fort Benning, Ga., where '21) Goebel (Colorado Base on the ment at has been commissioned a Commission at Fort Monroe, Va. . ker (Ohio State '41), former guard (Vs'abash '39) is an officer can- captain in the Captain promoted C. Wagner adjutant general's department Bernard W. Crandell (Knox '3( Buckeye football team, has been and is in the is at didate. with a fighter command overseas. . • to a first lieutenancy in the air corps