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THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE OFFICERS President: ELIOT L. WARD, ' 13 Vice President: ALEX W . CREEDON, '09 Secretary: J. RoNALD REGNIER, '30 Asst. Sec.: jAMES HENDERSON, jR ., '37 Treasurer: HARVEY DANN, '32

OFFICERS OF LOCAL TRINITY COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS Ber-tram B. Bailey, ' 15, 170 Grand Street, Waterbury, Conn.

NEW HAYEN - President: Raymond A. Montgomery, '25, 76 Carew Road, Hamden, Conn.; Secretary: Francis J . Cronin, '25, 409 Norton St. NEW YORK - President: Richardson L. Wright, '10, 420 Lexington Avenue; Secretary: Frederick C . Hinkel, Jr., '06, 63 Church Avenue, Islip, L. I., N. Y. PHILADELPHIA - President: Ronald E. Kinney, ' 15, 401 Walnut Street; Secretary: Charles T. Easterby, ' 16, 323 Walnut Street.

PITTSBURGH - President: Hill Burgwin, '06, 1515 Park Building; S ecretary: Joseph Buffington, Jr., ' 18, 1500 Peoples Bank Building RHODE ISLAND - President: Louis W. Downes, '88, 67 Manning Street, Providence ROCHESTER - President: Elmer S. Tiger, ' 16, lEtna Casualty & Surety Co.; Secretary: Edwin J. Nugent, M.D., '28, 1325 Lake Avenue SPRINGFIELD - President: Kenneth B. Case, ' 13, 1200 Main Street; S ecretary: Sidney R. Hungerford, '17, 21 So. Park Avenue, Longmeadow WASHINGTON-SALTIMORE President: Paul H . Alling, '20, State Department, Washington, D. C.

BERKSHIRE - Acting President: William G. Oliver, '10, Eaton Paper Co., Pittsfield, Mass.

BOSTON - President: John A. Mason, '34, 33 Fairmount St., Brookline, Mass. ; Secretary: Morton S. Crehore, '14, 30 State Street.

BRIDGEPORT - President: Louis F. Jefferson, ' 15, 228 West Avenue, Darien, Conn .

CAROLINAS - Acting Officers: Arch W. Walker, ' 14, 617 Woodlawn St., Spartanburg, S. C.; Chester D .

Ward, ' 13, Montgomery Building, Spartanburg, S. C .

CHICAGO - Acting President: Edgar H . Craig, '34, 2526 Hartzell St., Evanston, Ill. CLEVELAND - President: William G. Mather, '77, 12417 Lake Shore Boulevard ; Secretary: David S. Loeffler, '26, 1197 St. Charles Avenue, Lakewood DETROIT - President: Norton I ves, '16, 252 Moross Road, Grosse Pointe Farms; Secretary: James B. Webber, '34, 16913 Maumee Avenue, Grosse Pointe HARTFORD - Vice President: Nelson A. Shepard, '21, 39 Hickory Lane, West Hartford ; Secretary: Kenneth W. Stuer, '26, 82 White Street HUDSON VALLEY - Secretary: Edward L. Sivaslian, '33, 91 Delaware Avenue, Albany, N . Y. NAUGATUCK VALLEY - President: Paul E. Fenton, ' 17, Crest Road, Middlebury, Conn.; Secretary:

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A Word from Your Secretary The response to our recent appeals for alumni notes has been so enthusiastic that it has seemed advisable to increase substantially the space devoted to alumni notes in the Alumni News. I hope that alumni will continue to send in notes on the business reply cards included in every issue of the Alumni News.

Since the College is now functioning largely as a Naval Unit, the news of campus activities is not the sort which would be of general interest to alumni. With the civilian undergraduate body reduced to a minimum, much of the task of keeping Trinity's fires aglow is in the hands of the alumni. The alumni notes offer an opportunity for Trinity men to keep in touch with each other, and to maintain that corporate spirit so essential to a strong alumni group.

- Bard McNulty (THE CovER illustration presents the latest photograph of Trinity's Acting President Arthur H. Hughes, and of Lieutenant I ves Atherton, Commanding Officer of the Naval Unit stationed here)

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TRINITY COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS PUBLISHED FIVE TIMES ANNUALLY BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

Edited by J. Bard McNulty, Acting Alumni Secretary VoL. V

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9th Commencement

Trinity's !19th Commencement was held this year on February 22. The graduating class was represented by fifteen men. Four of them were in uniform. It was the first commencement in many years to be held without Dr. Ogilby's presence making itself felt throughout the ceremony. His place was taken

by Acting President Arthur H. Hughes. A total of eighteen degrees, fifteen to Bachelors of Art and Science, two Masters' degrees, and an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree, were conferred. Eight degrees were conferred in absentia.

The principal address was delivered by the Rev. James Fairchild English, Superintendent of the Connecticut Conference of Congregational Churches. In his address on "The College and the Citizen," Dr. English asked for intelligence in government, and he asked for the same quality of personal integrity in public service as men expect of each other in personal affairs. Dr. English was graduated from Trinity in 1916 and from the Hartford Theological Seminary in 1921.

The February exercises are probably the last which will be held here at the College for some time. Though Trinity still has a number of regular undergraduates, most of them will have entered one branch or another of the Armed Forces before they have been able to complete the requirements for the Bachelor's degree. The exercises were conducted with the usual Latin ceremony, but the pre-war commencement week-end feeling

was notably absent. Spring had not yet come to the campus, alumni were present in very small numbers, and the archway by the post office was filled with a collection of seabags belonging to Navy men who were awaiting transference to another post.

The midwinter commencement was the second held by Trinity during war-time.

Honoring of Rev. James F. English Widely Acclaimed The awarding of a Doctorate in Divinity to the Rev. James F. English at Trinity's February 22 Commencement has elicited many congratulatory letters. An article in the March Congregational Connecticut reflects the general enthusiasm over the College's conferring of this much merited honor.

The citation attending the degree reviews Dr. English's long service to local churches as pastor, to students in training, to pastors in service, and to the wider church fellowship.

It gives high commendation on his scholarship, lauds his service to his country, and calls him a true Soldier of God. "In these days," the article reads, "when honorary degrees are awarded for various and sundry reasons, it is encouraging to have an outstanding college conferring a much merited honor upon one of her alumni."

The Rev. Mr. English received his B.A. from Trinity in 1916.

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Alumni Notes 1883 The REV. WILLIAM S. SHORT, of Santa Rosa, California, was recently installed as Rector Emeritus of his old Church of the Incarnation (parish of Santa Rosa).

1888 HENRY M. BELDEN retired on a Carnegie pension six years ago and is still editor of the University of Missouri Studies. He fills in the rest of his time on certain research projects, the results of which, as he puts it, " may sometime (and may not) see the light of day." He has four sons - one a Captain in the Army, another in advertising in Cleveland, another with the Board of Geographic Names in Washington and the fourth in Public Health service in Kansas City.

WILLIAM T . PUTNAM, of Hillsboro, Oregon, writes, " I am still on deck," and adds that he would be glad to hear from any fellow Trinity Alumni.

1891 The REV. CHARLES H . YOUNG is Rector Emeritus of Howe Military School, Howe, Indiana, and Honorary Rector of Christ Church, Woodlawn, Chicago. He is now living at 105 So. Lakeview Avenue, Sturgis, Michigan, just across the state line from Howe, Indiana.

1892 The REV. CANON ERNEST A. PRESSEY will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood on St. john the Baptist Day, June 24th of this year. Canon Pressey is Honorary Canon of St. Luke's Cathedral, Portland, Maine.

1897 The REV. WILLIAM C. WHITE, retired, is in charge of St. Paul's Church, Newport News, Virginia, during a vacancy of a rectorship there.

1899 VICTOR F. MORGAN, of Auburndale, Mass., has an unusual hobby which he calls "collecting treasurerships." It gives him a splendid chance of rendering service to widely different groups. To date they include the Auburndale Congregational Church (six years), the Auburndale Club, Inc. (three years), and the Rust Craft Credit Union (three years) .

1903 KARL FENNING was recently appointed president of the American Patent Law Association . This group is to the Patent Law profession what the American Bar Association is to barristers. While at Trinity Karl Fenning was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.

In the December issue of the official organ of that fraternity he was given a writeup embracing in outline his activities ever since his connection with the College.

Every patent attorney runs across some interesting and unique inventions during the course of his work.

Mr. Fenning is responsible for finding the original patent of Samuel D. Castle's baseball, which was patented in 1883. The inventor claimed that his baseball could not be affected in any way by changes in the weather. Since 1923 Mr. Fenning has been professor of Patent Law at Georgetown University.

He is the founder and editor of the United States Patent Quarterly.

1906 The REV. DWIGHT W. GRAHAM, in addition to his regular duties as rector of St. Thomas Church Bath, New York, has been active for the last two and a half years as chairman of the Bath Red Cross. One of the leading men in Bath said not long ago. " Graham is doing a bang-up job as chairman of the Bath Red Cross. Starting at a low tide in the interests of the citizens of Bath and the Red Cross, he has organized it into one of the strongest chapters of the Red Cross in America. " 1908 BRIGADIER GENERAL PHILIP S. GAGE, former Commanding General, Harbor Defenses of New York, has recently been assigned to command of Harbor Defenses of Boston, in the Northeastern Sector of Eastern Defense Command . Newspaper accounts have reflected the high place which General Gage has won for himself in the estimation of those who know him. One account read in part, " News of the change of station was received with deep regret locally both on and off the post. Enlisted men respected General Gage not alone for his rank but as well for his ever constant attention to their interests."

1909 CLINTON J. BACKUS has sold his business and home in Long Beach, has retired, and is now living in Midway City, California. He writes that jOHN T. CARPENTER, '41, made him a visit before john went to the South Pacific. Mr. Backus writes, " He was the first Trinity boy we have seen from the Army.

Hope some more of the boys will come out this way."

CORWIN BUTTERWORTH for many years has divided his time between his ranch, R . D . Templeton, California, and Sunset Farm, West Hartford, Connecticut. In 1942 the ranch produced fifty-eight tons of almonds. He recently added a grain and cattle ranch to his California interests and plans to live there with his family for a year-round home this spring.

MICHAEL A. CONNOR is now president of the Hartford Board of Police Commissioners. ANSON T . McCOOK, '02, is also on the Board.

1910 HORACE R. BASSFORD was one of the five actuaries appointed by General Hines to serve on the Advisory Committee of Actuaries on National Service Life Insurance, which covers members of the armed forces for almost one hundred billion dollars of insurance. Mr. Bassford is a vice president of the Actuarial Society of America and the chief actuary of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

E. SELDEN GEER was elected assistant secretary of the Century Indemnity Company and the Standard Surety & Casualty Company of New York in February, 1943.

1911 NELSON F. PITTS was honored at a Syracuse, New York, Chamber of Commerce luncheon recently, marking the thirtieth anniversary of his employment in the Department of Engineering, according to an item in the March 15 Syracuse Herald passed on to us by the REV. JOHN W. WOESSNER, ' 12. At the testimonial luncheon it was pointed out that the City of Syracuse wished to express its appreciation for Mr.

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Pitts' long term of service and for the example he has set before other aspirants in the field of public service.

Beginning as a rod man, he worked and persevered until he attained his present position of City Engineer.

1912 PAUL F . HERRICK is at present serving on the O.P .A. Ration Board of Eastern New Jersey.

1913 THOMAS G. BROWN, editor of the Brooklyn Public Library, has been director of the Victory Book Campaign in Brooklyn which last year sent 70,000 books to the sailors and soldiers in this country and overseas. Mr. Brown is also president of the Public Relations Council of New York .

HOWARD ]. BURGWIN has founded his own company in the investment business. It is called Howard J. Burgwin & Company, at 148 Union Trust Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

ALLAN B. COOK was recently made a partner of Dick & Merle-Smith, 30 Pine Street, New York City.

ELIOT L. WARD, president of the Alumni Association, has added to his many duties that of trustee of the Harlem Savings Bank, New York City. His daughter, Mary Louise, was married in February to Theodore F. Whitmarsh, Jr., Harvard, '41.

1914 The REV. L. MARK BREWSTER is rector of St. John's Church, Havre de Grace, Maryland. His two children are in the Navy, james a seaman 1/ c and Mary Cornelia an officer candidate in the WA YES at Smith College.

OSCAR MONRAD, formerly executive vice president of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce, left that office on February 29th to assume new duties as manager of the Industrial Development Department of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce.

CAPTAIN ARCH W. WALKER is now with the Coast Artillery Corps in Delaware.

1916 ROBERTS. MORRIS was named chairman for the eleventh annual Easter Seal Sale conducted in Hartford from March 9th until Easter. Funds from the Easter Seal Sale provide opportunities for medical care, education and rehabilitation of crippled children and adults of Connecticut and for the retraining of physically handicapped veterans of this war.

ROBERT B. O'CONNOR formed a partnership of R . B. O'Connor & W. H. Kilham, Jr., Architects, at 101 Park Avenue, New York, a few months ago to carry on the work of Morris and O'Connor, Architects, of which concern Bob O'Connor has been a partner for many years. BENJAMIN W. MORRIS, '93, who was the senior partner of the latter firm, remains as consultant of the new firm. Bob O'Connor is also president of the New York Chapter, American Institute of Architects, and a governor of the New York Building Congress.

CHARLES B. SPOFFORD, JR., is serving as supervisor for the War Food Administration in nine counties of Southern Florida, including the Miami area. Mr. Spofford is now a resident of Coconut Grove, Florida, where he has an avacado grove of several acres.

1918 CHARLES B. BEACH was promoted to the rank of Major on August 28, 1943, at the Personnel Adjutant Army Air Base in Fort Dix, N. ] .

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LIEUTENANT COMMANDER PARKER HOLDEN, after twenty-three months at a Naval Operating base in the Caribbean area, was transferred back to the United States earlier in the year and is now with the Headquarters Staff of the Ninth Naval District, Great Lakes, Illinois.

1920 COMMANDER STUART S. PURVES of the United States Navy is on duty at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland .

1923 CORPORAL WILLIAM F. MURPHY is a surgical technician with the Tiger Division. He took his surgical training at O'Reilly General Hospital in Springfield, Missouri.

1924 RANDOLPH B. GOODRIDGE after serving for three years in the Signal Corps as a corporal, was recently honorably discharged and plans again to place himself in work related to the field of his special interest, geology.

MAJOR JOHN V. MILLS is now stationed at Camp Livingston, Louisiana, where he is Signal Officer for his infantry division.

1925 WILLIAM K. APPLEBAUGH left the United States on the first of March to do cultural relations work in Chile. He left the War Department in Wash- 路 ington in order to do so.

DR . I. S. GEETER enlisted in the United States Navy early last October and received his commission on November 15th. Prior to entering the service he was medical director of the New Britain General Hospital as well as chief of the Department of Anesthesia. He was also chief medical officer for civilian defense of New Britain after the war emergency arose.

DAVID M. HADLOW has been appointed manager of the Hartford branch of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company. Mr. Hadlow has served both at the home office of the Hartford Steam Boiler Company Underwriting Department and as a special agent of the branch office of which he is being made manager.

1926 CAPTAIN DICK O'BRIEN was recently promoted to his present rank from that of 1st Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. He is stationed at Colorado Springs, Colorado, but is on the move much of the time on special assignments. Before going into service he was assistant superivsor of agencies for the Bankers Life Insurance Company of Montclair, New jersey. The title of "Captain" is not new to Dick for he held that position on the football team at Trinity.

WILLIAM F. WALSH was promoted to the rank of Major in February. He is on duty with the Demonstration Air Force in Florida.

1928 CHAPLAIN DUDLEY H. BURR of the United States Army was awarded the Silver Star on December 21, 1943, by Lieutenant General Millard F. Harmon, commanding the United States Army forces in the South Pacific area, for his participation in action at New Georgia, Solomon Islands, where he organized and led a carrying party of thirty men on repeated trips through enemy fire to bear vital supplies and to evacuate the wounded personnel from an isolated battalion on July 16, 1943. Burr was appointed chaplain in the Army in August, 1937, and went on active

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duty in june, 1941. Before going overseas, he served at Camp Blanding, Florida, Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and Ford Ord, California.

LIEUTENANT GEORGE SALISKE, USNR, was promoted to the rank of full Lieutenant on janua ry 1st. He is stationed in New York City attached to the District Security Force.

1929 LIEUTENANT FREDERICK W. READ, JR., USNR, is stationed at the U. S. Naval Air Station, Banana River, Florida, where, in addition to other duties he is serving as legal officer. He is a member of the Massachusetts and New York bars, having been graduated from Columbia Law School in 1932.

At the time of his entry upon active miLitary duty, LIEUTENANT READ was an attorney with the Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore, Maryland.

He and Mrs. Read, the former Evelyn E. Avery of Port Washington, N . Y., a Mount Holyoke alumna, are presently making their home at India tlantic Beach, Melbourne, Florida.

MARRIAGES 1932 DONALD A. McPHERSON was married on June 22, 1943, to Miss Jean Elizabeth McCandlish in the Woodside Methodist Church, Silver Spring, Maryland .

1935 LIEUTENANT CHARLES B. COBURN, USNR, married Miss Anne Whipple, of Boston, on February 2.

He is now stationed at Norfolk, Virginia.

1938 LIEUTENANT JOHN C . TIEDEMAN was married on Wednesday, March 8, to Dorothy Chapline Mitchell in the Canal Zone. John has been working for the Army Signal Corps as assistant in broadcasting.

1939 CARLTON C. NELSON was married on June 5, 1943, to Miss Irma C. Luxton, of Nutley, New jersey, a graduate of William and Mary College. They have been living in Hartford since that time.

DR. GEORGE W. B. STARKEY was married in March to Miss Lois van Antwerp MacMurray at the Church of the Redeemer, Baltimore, Md .

LIEUTENANT STANDISH R. WIGHTMAN, A.U.S., was married on February 5th to Miss Marcelle Barnes, daughter of Mrs. William M . joseph, at Marlboro, Mass.

1940 TECHNICAL SERGEANT THOMAS R. PYE, JR., was married on March 18th to Miss Dorothy Shoemaker, of Atlanta, Georgia. He met her last May. He has finished up a year's study of advanced electrical engineering at Georgia Tech, which he designates as a fine school, training a great many undergraduates, sailors, marines, soldiers, and so on .

He hopes to get into a branch of electronics after graduation.

1941 LIEUTENANT RICHARD H. BARNES was married on january 9th to Miss Anne B. Laizer, of Jewett City, Conn., at the Army Post Chapel at Selman Field, Louisiana. The best man was Lieutenant ] . R. Randall, '40. Dick graduated from the Navigation School at Selman Field last September and has been kept on as an instructor.

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PVT. JOHN H . LANCASTER, III, of the Army Air Force, was married on February 19th to Miss Carol Brewster Crawford, of Litchfield, Conn .

ENSIGN RUSSELL W. PIERCE was married on February lst to Miss Mary Janet Graff, of Dubuque, Iowa . The marriage took place in the Bachelor Officers' Quarters at the Naval Air Station in Astoria, Oregon.

Pierce is a graduate of the Naval Flight School in Pensacola, Florida, and is connected with the Pacific Fleet.

CAPTAIN GEORGE REESE, of the Army Air Force, was married on january 23rd to Miss Rosemary Ames, of San Francisco, California. The wedding took place only a few days after George's return from England, where in his Flying Fortress " Rosemary," named after his fiancee, he won the Silver Star for crash landing the plane after all the controls were wrecked.

1942 LIEUTENANT ROBERT P . NICHOLS was married in the Trinity College Chapel on February 8th to Miss Virginia Butler, of West Hartford. Henry Cetz, '42, was an usher. Bob has received his commission from the A.A.F. Statistical School after completing courses at the Harvard Business School.

CORPORAL JOHN H . PAYNE was married to Miss Ruth Barry of Hartford in Christ Church Cathedral on january 2, 1944.

1943 LIEUTENANT (jg) CARLOS RICHARDSON was married on November II, 1943, to Miss Wanda Panek of West Hartford. He expects soon to be transferred to Naval Air Transport Service from his present commission as Primary Flight Instructor and Senior Check Pilot in the Naval Air Primary Training Command.

JOHN W. WARD was married to Miss Jeanne Marie Newman on Tuesday, February 29th.

1944 PVT. ROGER C. CONANT was married on April 3 to Miss Doris Virginia Fee, of West Hartford, in the Trinity College Chapel. Roger has been at The Citadel, but has recently been transferred to Johns Hopkins University.

LIEUTENANT FRANKLIN R . HOAR was married on December lOth to Miss Doris Sawyer, in Boston, and is now stationed at Camp Carson, Colorado .

1930 LIEUTENANT LOUIS LA BELLA was stationed at the University of Michigan, serving first as Company Commander and then as Assistant Professor in the department of Military Science and Tactics until his application for the Civil Affairs Course was accepted . Then followed further training at Harvard .

He is at present in England and will take part in the AMC. LIEUTENANT FRANK R. SALISKE, USNR, was promoted to the rank of full Lieutenant on January 1st. He is with the Regimental Staff of a Construction Regiment in the Southwest Pacific.

1931 EDWARD E. BURKE was recently elected Exalted Ruler of the Troy, New York, Lodge 141, B.P.O.E., the youngest man to hold that office in some time.

He has been an officer for the past three years. In his present office he will represent the Troy lodge at the annual Grand Lodge War Conference at Chicago, Illinois, in ] uly.

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BIRTHS 1931 LIEUTENANT JACK TREV ITHICK, now teaching at the Citadel, South Carolina, became the father on February 19th of a daughter, Mary jane.

1937 jOHN A. BELLIS became the father on May 8, 1943, of a daughter, jane Louise.

MAJOR JOSEPH A. L. GRECO became the father on the first day of this year, of a son, Barry joseph. joe recently relinquished command of the P-38 Fighter Squadron in California to attend Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. At present he is attending an AAF Staff course in Washington, D. C. LIEUTENANT (jg) CARL W. LINDELL became the father on March 27th of a son, Carl William, ] r.

Carl, Jr., was born in Coupeville, Washington .

PAUL C. WETHERILL became the father of a son, Paul, ] r., on October 31, 1943.

1938 To CAPTAIN and MRS. RICHARD G. LINDE a son, Richard, Jr., was born on january 12th, at Lakeland, Florida .

1939 To PAUL S. HARRIS and Helen S. Harris was born a boy, Steven Paul, on December 3, 1943. Steven has an older brother, William joel, now four years old .

1940 CAPTAIN PALMER j. McCLOSKEY is the father of a young son, David . He and his wife are stationed at Washington.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM T. SANDALLS became the father of a son, William T., Jr., born at the Newport, Rhode Island, hospital. Captain Sandalls received his present commission on June 20, 1942.

LIEUTENANT ROBERT J . REBMAN became the father of a daughter, Karen Lee, born january 30th, at St. Francis Hospital, in Hartford. Bob, who has been serving in the Southwest Pacific war zone, was promoted from the rank of 2nd Lieutenant to that of 1st Lieutenant on December 20, 1943.

1942 To ENSIGN ANDREW G. WEEKS, USNR, and Mrs. Weeks, the former Mary Anne Waite, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., a son, Andrew Gray Weeks, jr., was born on january 23rd at Wyman House in Cambridge, Mass. Andy Weeks is a survivor of the U.S.S. Maddox, which was sunk last july at the start of the Sicilian campaign . He is at present on duty with the Atlantic Fleet.

1943 ARTHUR P. POOR is the father of two children• Arthur P ., Jr., born in April, 1942, and Caroline K . born in July, 1943.

1931 LIEUTENANT (jg) HARVEY DANN, USNR, has been assigned to the Armed Guard School, Shelton, Virginia, for a two months training period. He writes, " Prospect for the Class of 1960 - Tyler Dann, born March 2, 1942."

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1932 LIEUTENANT THOMAS W. CONVEY, A.C., is now in England with a fighter wing. He has been there for the past year.

1933 LIEUTENANT JAMES MARKS is in the Bureau of Personnel, Washington, D. C. CHAPLAIN j. jACK SHARKEY, USNR, writes, " We have not yet started an alumni club on the high seas but, having run into DREW BR INCKERHOFF, '43, and heard others are in this area aboard ships, the idea is germinating. Life as chaplain on a cruiser is never dull; the experience is invaluable. They turn out for services 250 strong each Sunday . . . " LIEUTENANT (jg) CHARLES M . SHEAFE writes that he is about to round out two years in the Navy, most of which has been spent in the Canal Zone.

LIEUTENANT DON SNOWDEN is at small boats school in Miami, Florida. HARVEY DANN, '31 , writes that he saw him recently at Fort Schuyler.

THOMAS S. WADLOW was recently promoted to the rank of Full Lieutenant in the Navy.

PFC. EMIL j. ZIZZAMIA, USAAF, was given an honorable discharge at the Walter Reed General Hospital on February 26, 1944. He will start his new position as production manager at the Anemostat Corporation, West Hartford, on March 20, 1944.

1934 LIEUTENANT JAMES E. BALDWIN was promoted to his present rank in the United States Naval Reserve on january 1st. He is in the Communications Division of the Navy Department in Washington,

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LIEUTENANT FRED T. BASHOUR is an instructor in meteorology at the Army Air Field, Bombardier School, San Angelo, Texas.

EDGAR H. CRAIG writes that he saw BOB SCHMOLZE, '34, for a few minutes' chat in Chicago about four months ago. Bob had just received his 2nd Lieutenant's commission and was on his way to Camp Hahn in California for additional study.

Ed Craig also bumped into BILL HARING, '34, in February in Grand Central Station in New York.

Bill was in Naval Cadet uniform and had been in training for about a week.

MAJOR REX j. HOWARD is stationed in the office, Chief of Ordnance, Detroit, concerned with tanks and combat vehicles. He is specializing in filling requirements for war theatres.

WILLIAM W. JACKSON is in Italy in the Intelligence Division of the United States Army. He enlisted in 1941 and has been overseas since the latter part of 1942. This information comes from ERNIE HALLSTROM, '29, who also tells us that CAPTAIN jOHN H . GORDON, '28, is in the Medical Corps in England; and that MAJOR KENNETH GORDON, '29, also a doctor, has just been promoted to his present rank in the Army Air Forces stationed in Georgia.

JOHN E . KELLY is an FBI agent in Newark, New jersey.

LIEUTENANT (jg) GUSTAV H . UHLIG is working with the District Security Office of 90 Church Street, New York City. Also at the Church Street address are LIEUTENANT HORACE j. DOOLITTLE, '31, LIEUTENANT GEORGE R. SALISKE, '28, and LIEUTENANT HOWARDS. ORTGIES, '23.

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1935 CAPTAIN R. PEARCE ALEXANDER has been stationed in England since the fall of 1943. His brother, LIEUTENANT HOWARD S. ALEXANDER, '40, has been in England since the summer of 1943 .

SERGEANT JOHN F. MARTENS, JR ., was promoted to his present rank of Staff Sergeant early in the year by the Army Air Forces Redistribution Station at Santa Monica, California.

The REV. HOWARD S. TRASK has become Superintendending Presbyter of the Ya nkton and Santee Indian Missions in the district of South Dakota.

WILLIAM H. WALKER is Sergeant Major in the battalion with which he is connected.

MEMORIAL PRAYER BOOK On March 24, Captain William G. Wendell, USMCR, now on leave from teaching at Trinity College, gave to Trinity a copy of the " Book of Common Prayer" in memory of Dr. Ogilby. It is a small folio printed in black and red by D . B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, 1930, and is one of 500 copies of the edition. Captain Wendell's wish was to make this contribution to the life of the Chapel in memory of Dr. Ogilby. Captain Wendell in making the gift wrote that "the Prayer Book can be used in the Chapel services as a daily reminder of a presence whose whole heart, mind and soul were devoted to Trinity."

1936 CAPTAIN SALVATORE S. PIACENTE has recently received the rating of flight surgeon from the headquarters of the Army Air Force in Washington, D. C . He is located in Tallahassee, Florida.

LIEUTENANT PHILIP j . SPELMAN is in the Medical Corps of the United States Naval Reserve.

He participated in the Sicilian invasion.

1937 LIEUTENANT jOHN A. BELLIS is in the Army Air Force stationed at an A.A .F . Station Hospital in Coral Gables, Florida. CAPTAIN NICK MASTRONARDE, '28, is also stationed in Coral Gables .

RAYMOND H. DEXTER, JR., the father of a girl and a boy (four and two respectively ) writes that he is with the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in their payroll department and is waiting his call to service Like many other younger fathers.

ALLEN R . DOTY is now stationed in England. He has been assigned as assistant chaplain .

LIEUTENANT WILSON HAIGHT, after considerable looking around for a place to Live in Detroit, has managed to find one. His wife and son have joined him there. He writes, "I have gotten a great 'boot' out of the successes of the various Trinity teams, and took pleasure in gloating upon occasion when some of the fellows here found their lads on the short end."

BOB KELLY is now at Miami with the Army, as a psychological tester of trainees. His wife, a former resident of West Hartford, followed him down in january.

EDWARD J . LEHAN writes that he met the two DONOHUE cousins, JAMES F . and JAMES j ., in New York not long ago. james F . is now a Lieutenant (jg) and james j. is with the army postal service.

The REV. RICHARD WAMSLEY is still rector of Holy Trinity Church, Pawling, New York, and Christ Church, Patterson, New York. To his duties

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he has added that of acting in the capacity of unofficial chaplain at the Army Air Forces Convalescent Center at Pawling.

1938 KARL B. BURR, JR., is farming in London, Ohio, which he has been doing since he left College.

His address is "Crooked Run Farm ."

LIEUTENANT jOHN R . DeMONTE is the director of the Instructors School at the Navigation School, San Marcos Army Air Field, Texas.

CAPTAIN ROBERT M . FOOT writes from the Mediterranean theatre, "Life is a bit dull at present.

Yes, we do have our green grass, oranges, almonds, sunshine and red wine to console us. " Bob's experiences in the Mediterranean have not all been a bit dull, however, He has seen a good deal of action.

SECOND LIEUTENANT CHARLES T. HARRIS attended Harvard Business School after graduation from Trinity. In 1940 he obtained a position at the Bullard Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In February, 1943, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was graduated last january from basic and advanced training and is now a flight instructor at a field in Alabama.

ROBERT S. LAYTON entered the Navy in September, 1943, and is at present pursuing a course in radio and electronics, the first part of which is at Houston, Texas.

CAPTAIN GREGORY McKEE has been in the Army a little over three years, having spent most of his time, as he puts it, " wandering around with the infantry from South Carolina to Hawaii and back."

He went to O.C.S. (infantry) and received a captaincy shortly before his relatively recent transfer to the Army Air Corps for pilot training. He had pre-flight a t Maxwell and basic at Greenwood, Miss., where his first instructor was HARLEY DAVIDSON, '38.

LIEUTENANT (jg) ROBERT D . O'MALLEY managed to get about a year and a half of surgical internship before he went into the Navy last july, at which time he was stationed at Bainbridge Training Station for a number of months. After transferring to the Marine Corps in North Carolina, he remained there until january of this year, after which he was moved to Hawaii. We learn from the grapevine that he is growing a wisp on his upper lip and that when he gets the chance, he is indulging in surf riding.

CHAPLAIN ART SHERMAN, USNR, has been stationed with the Seabees Battalion in the British Isles since last fall. He says that he has not run into any Trinity men so far but that last summer while he was in training in Maryland he found LIEUTENANT BOB O'MALLEY, '38, there and that later, in Virginia, he ran into CHAPLAIN GEORGE WIDDIFIELD, '38. He writes that he met for the first time on these occasions the charming Mrs. O'Malley and the equally charming Mrs. Widdifield.

LIEUTENANT (jg) LEWIS M. WALKER, II, is now taking further training at Miami, after commanding a training ship for over a year.

1939 MICHAEL BASSFORD received his Corporal's stripes early in the year at Camp Gordon, Georgia, where he is with the engineers as company clerk. He has had nine months Army training at M .I.T. LIEUTENANT MILTON BUDIN is Postal Officer in the Army, "and as such I see to it that the morale of the division is kept high by making sure that mail is delivered daily."

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1939 LIEUTENANT CHESTER W. COLLIER, JR., sent a Medal of Honor to his parents in West Hartford as a belated Christmas present. The medal was awarded in June, 1943, for bravery beyond the requirements of duty. During operations in North Africa, a French soldier riding a motorcycle became involved in a crash.

Gasoline spilled on his clothing and caught fire, whereupon the soldier, panic stricken, ran into a field away from his fellows. Lt. Collier and others pursued without regard for personal safety, extinguished the flames, and saved the man's Life.

LIEUTENANT DANIEL CRUSON is on active duty in the Army Dental Corps.

CAPTAIN JOHN K. DUNNE has been taking a three-months advanced course at Fort Benning, Georgia.

STAFF SERGEANT jOHN G. FRANCOMBE, of the United States Marine Corps Reserve, is now stationed at the Marine Recruiting and Induction Station in Detroit, Michigan. He enlisted in the USMCR on November 27, 1942.

LIEUTENANT FREDERICK E. HAIGHT, I I, and his brother PRIVATE SHERMAN P . HAIGHT, '46, had a reunion on the West Coast not long ago.

Sherman Haight was about to leave for overseas.

LIEUTENANT WILSON HAIGHT, '37, is in the Army Air Force in Detroit.

PAUL S. HARRIS is now an Ensign in the United States Naval Reserve Amphibious Branch .

LIEUTENANT (jg) DAVID KEATING, USNR, is in Jacksonville, Florida. He writes that he ran into JOE CROMWELL, '39, a few months ago.

MILESTONES For the first time the "Alumni Notes" section is running two special departments: Marriages and Births. We want to be able to keep all alumni up-to-date on these milestones in the lives of Trinity men, and we hope that you will keep us posted on all such information.

CLARENCE B. MORGAN, JR ., writes that for some time he has been engaged in ferry work for the Air Transport Command as a navigator. Needless to say, he has seen a good bit of the world, having been stationed at Reno, Nevada; Washington, D . C. ; Nashville, Tennessee; Wilmington, Delaware; and Homestead, Florida.

The REV. JOHN B. REINHEIMER was recently advanced to the priesthood at St. Paul's Church, Akron, Ohio, where he is now serving as curate. His ordination was conducted by his father, the Bishop of Rochester.

LIEUTENANT WARREN WEEKS has seen service in a good many parts of the world, including Iceland, Bermuda, Trinidad, Bahia and Natal . His present address is 27 Vernon Place, Melbourne, Florida.

1940 LIEUTENANT (jg) BOB CRABBE is still operating with the fleet out of San Francisco.

WAYNE L. JOHNSON is a student at the SeaburyWestern Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM J. McCARTHY was promoted to his present rank from that of 1st Lieutena nt, the War Department announced on February 24th.

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DR . RONALD A. MERTENS has recently opened an office in general practice and surgery in Boston in the former offices of the late Dr. C. P . Sylvester, once chairman of the State Medical Board.

WARRANT OFFICER TED METHENY is now in school in Australia, having been transferred from the various South Pacific islands of paradises where he had formerly served.

The late BISHOP T . P. THURSTON has been honored by the endowment of a scholarship for Oklahoma boys at Shattuck School, Minn., by Mrs. Thurston . As an undergraduate at Trinity, Bishop Thurston was captain of the Trinity football team and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

LIEUTENANT JOHN R. RANDALL, located now at Selman Field, Louisiana, is Physical Training Officer for the Base Headquarters Squadron at the Field . He recently coached an enlisted men's baseball team which fought its way to the finals in a seventeen team intramural league. He says that he has run across many Trinity men at Selman Field and that he was best man for DICK BARNES, '41. He helped to organize the Selman Suds and Singing Society, mentioned in a note on DICK BARNES in the last issue of the Alumni News. John has had LIEUTENANT TERRY MORGAN, '39, as a cadet, and has seen DICK CUMMINS, ' 41, many times. The last but by no means the least important news of john Randall is that he has become engaged to Miss Mary E . Philp of Yonkers, N . Y. He hopes to get married in july.

AVIATION CADET JOHN L. RITIER, after classification as a Navigator, has been assigned to pre-flight training in Alabama.

MAJOR DONALD j . SMITH, of the Army Air Corps, having returned in July, 1943, from a year with the Eighth Air Force in England, writes that he is now fighting " the Battle of the Pentagon" in Washington . He is connected with the Weather Division . "There's a saying around the Pentagon that sooner or later everyone one ever knew will be seen walking its endless corridors. MAC McCLOSKEY, '40, JOHN FOX, '40, and Dr. Lothrop have been seen or heard from in this area to date. Enjoyed the March issue of the News, especially joe Clark's article about how he is working the boys at the pool these days."

RICHARD B. WALES is at present employed by Pan American Airways, Latin American Division, Miami, Florida, and was advanced to the rank of Captain on the 22nd of March, after having flown for P AA for nearly two years. While flying as co-pilot in 1942 on the Atlantic Division, he flew across the Atlantic sixteen times on the Boeing Clippers on both the commercial and Air Transport Command routes.

He is familiar with airports in Ireland, Portugal, West Africa, Brazil and the West Indies.

1941 CORPORAL EDWIN A. CHARLES is serving in Italy with a Signal Radio Intelligence Company.

LIEUTENANT JOSEPH R . CORMIER was promoted to the rank of lst Lieutenant not long ago at the Officers' Candidate School at Camp Davis, North Carolina, where he was an instructor. At present Lieutenant Cormier is serving at Camp Stewart, Georgia.

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WALTER FLANDERS, Jr. , has been doing an excellent job for Bell Aircraft Corpora tion in Buffalo in the past year. At present he is supervisor of the Raw Material Di vision .

SERGEANT LEE D . GOODMAN is in Texas doing public relations work. He has been in Texas since August, 1943. Part of his work consists of lecturing to the men on current events.

GEORGE F. JOHNSON, JR. , was discharged from the Army in August, 1943, and is now in the expediting department at the Norton Company in Worcester. He is also working for the Retail Credit Company as insurance inspecto r.

WALTER J. PEDICORD, who received a degree in industrial administration from the Harvard Business School, is assistant job evaluation supervisor at Chance-Vought. He is a pplying for a commission as a specialist in the United States Marine Air Corps.

CAPTAIN GEORGE REESE on a recent tour of movie studios in Hollywood, met Cecil B. deMille who, after a talk with him, requested and obtained permission from the Army for Reese to act as technical advisor for the prologue to "At the Sign of the Cross. " The movie is completed, but a t the suggestion of the Army a prologue was requested to tie in with present war conditions. In the prologue a flying fortress is shown in operation . Reese came through in fine shape.

JOSEPH N . RUSSO, United States Army, and the University of Vermont College of Medicine, is engaged to Miss Rosemary Thayer, of Burlington, Vermont.

Announcement of the engagement was made on February 28th. Miss Thayer attended Radcliffe College and was graduated from the University of Vermont in January of this year. She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. Joe is now a junior in the Medical College.

MAESTRO WARRANT OFFICER RALPHS. GROVER writes that his work with the band at Laredo, Texas, continues as briskly as ever. He has thirty-one men, many of them fine musicians who have played with such organizations as the Indianapolis Symphony, the Cleveland Symphony, Henry Busse's band and Bob Crosby's band . In addition to being band leader, he is Commanding Officer of the band, which he says is a great deal of fun.

1942 LIEUTENANT ALBERT H. BOWMAN has been with the Medical Corps throughout the Southwest during much of the past two yea rs. Our latest information shows him to be at Camp Breckinridge, Ky. FRANK J. BRAZEL is a Corporal in a Field Artillery Unit. He has seen a good dea l of the country, having been in Tennessee, California, Arizona and Kansas.

LIEUTENANT LEO J. CZARNOTA received his commission and wings as an Army pilot on November 3, 1943, at Foster Field, Texas. He is engaged to Miss Louise P. Lepak of H artford . They plan to be married this summer at Foster Field Chapel.

ENSIGN FRED S. DICKSON has finished two months training at the Army and Navy Engine School of Pratt & Whitney a t the Hartford airport.

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STAFF SERGEANT WALTER C . JEROME writes, " We are now allowed to say that our first eighteen months overseas were passed on the Isle of Bora Bora, in the High Societies. Could have hit T a hiti with a rock, but couldn't go there."

CORPORAL JOHN R . JONES returned from overseas duty earlier in the year a nd was transferred from the Mountain Infantry to the Air Corps as an av iation cadet and is now in training at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Mississippi .

LIEUTENANT ROGER F. MORHARDT, USMCR, captain of the 1942 swimming team at Trinity College, along with a number of fellow U. S. Marines, defeated a New Zealand team in a recent swimming meet. The international match ended with a team point score of 67-44 in favor of the Americans. In the competition he took first place in the 100-ya rd breast stroke and was a member of the trio which place:! second in the !50-yard medley relay.

ALUMNI NOTES CARDS The most interesting "Alumni Notes" tell where people have been, what they have been doing, whether they have changed to new homes or new jobs, what other Trinity alumni they have come across, and so forth. Of course, in these days such information is often confidential, but there is a lot that may be told, and we urge you to tell it.

LIEUTENANT BOB PILLSBURY writes that he hears from time to time from JOHN CARPENTER, '41, and from CULLY ROBERTS, '41, and LEE GOODMAN, '41.

SERGEANT ROBERT ROSENTHAL is with the United States Army in India .

ENSIGN ROBERT 0. SIMPSON, USNR, writes that he saw Walt McCloud some time back and talked Trinity with him .

OTTO A. STAEHR received his Second Lieutenant's commission in January at Fort Benning, Georgia, where he has been retained, since his promotion, in the capacity of instructor.

AVIATION CADET CHARLES E . THENEBE writes, " There is little to report from this section of the country, aside from a furthering of my geological delvings into the Carlsbad C averns.

STAFF SERGEANT JON WILSON is now in the Freshman Class at New York Medical College having had "a yea r and a half of comparati ve rest in the Signal Corps. " PAUL PIZZO, '42, is a junior there.

While Jon was stationed a t Washington, D. C ., the head civilian clerk in his office married LIEUTENANT DAN HANSON, '39 who left on the day of his wedding, for overseas duty. Others whom Wilson met in Washington were STAFF SERGEANT HOWARD PAXSON, '43, on his way overseas, COAST GUARD LIEUTENANT A. K. LANE, '41, and CORPORAL FRANK ROMAINE, '42, who is entering Hahnemann Medical College in October.

1943 A. JOSEPH CASTAGNO is a second-year student at the Long Island College of Medicine. His brother, ROWE CASTAGNO, '37, is medical officer with an engineering outfit in North Africa .

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RUSSELL E . COLLINS, JR., is an aviation cadet in Arcadia, Florida, and is now taking his primary training for pilot.

AVIATION CADET MAURICE GU ILLET sends "greetings from the far state of Texas. TOM GRIMES, '44, and I have been fortunate enough to have gone through eleven months of training without having been separated ." They are both attending bombardier school in Texas, hoping to graduate in july. "Certainly miss Trinity and all that it means to us."

LOUIS HASBROUCK has been transferred from a camp in Texas to Camp Robinson at Little Rock, Arkansas.

MAURICE j. KENNEDY writes from Camp Hale, Colorado, that he has run into TED LOCKWOOD, '44, once or twice at the camp. Maurice says, "I have been bouncing around Texas and Colorado from A.S.T.P. to tank destroyers to ski troops."

PFC. DAVID B. PECK writes that he bumped into JOHN PEABODY, '44, in San Francisco. john is an Ensign in the Naval Air Corps. He adds that CLEM DOWD, '45, after over a year in the infantry has been transferred to the Air Corps ; BOB HALL, '43, after six months of Russian, is in the Signal Corps.

Dave himself is at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming.

(Supply and Service Detachment, Bldg. 229) REUBEN POMERANTZ writes from West Point that he is still "boning" recognition which is now only a few weeks away. He says, "We are really going through the books like mad, and I would really be lost if it were not for my work at Trinity." He goes on to say that ENSIGN jOSEPH P. MORRISSEY, '43, a supply officer, has just finished an extended cruise and is now headed for a battle theatre.

PFC. HARRY j. TAMONEY is now going through the second year at Long Island College of Medicine.

He is in the A.S.T.P. there.

STAFF SERGEANT CHARLES F. WITHINGTON is engaged in interesting meteorological work at Mitchel Field in New York. He says that he has run into LIEUTENANT JOHN L. SWIFT, '42.

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1944 CAPTAIN ROBERT BECK was recently awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for flying supplies to China over the Himalayan "hump," probably the world's most dangerous air route. The award was made at an ATC base in Eastern India. The citation read in part that the award was made for "extraordinary achievement by participating in more than fifty flights in heavily loaded transport airplanes through the combat zones in upper Assam, Burma and Southwest China, where enemy interceptions were probable and expected." Captain Beck entered the Air Forces soon after Pearl Harbor and received his wings at Kelly Field. He has been overseas since last March.

NEWS When you send in an alumni note, every effort is made to print it as soon as possible. Occasionally, however, a note misses our dea:lline, in which case it must be held over for the next issue of the Alumni News.

CORPORAL jAMES A. BIGGERSTAFF is engaged to Miss Katharine Vose of Hartford. jim has been undergoing training at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama.

PFC. jOHN W. DAY, JR., has been in recuperation for some time from pneumonia with complications.

FRANK ROMAINE, '42, was on duty at his side at the Walter Reed Hospital. john will return to Camp Lee in Virginia when he has recovered his full health.

DICK DOTY spends seven very full days every week working as a tool designer for the Buffalo Arms Corporation and as an announcer for WEBR, the Buffalo Courier Express Station.

ANTHONY W. NEWTON has returned to England after training in Canada. JOHN MACKINTOSH,

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Necrology Name Class Rev. Clarence E. Ball 1882 Rev. Carl E. Grammer (Hon. D.O. ) 1895 Rev. William A. Sparks 1897 Prof. Harold L. Cleasby 1899 Henry D. Brigham 1903 Rev. Gerald A. Cunningham 1907 Ralph H. Merrill 1910 Capt. Daniel B. McCook 1931 Charles L. Taylor (Hon. M.A.) 2nd Lt. Lesle W. McWilliams

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Date March 8, 1944 March 17, 1944 March 16, 1944 February 6, 1944 February 1, 1944 February 2, 1944 February 23, 1944 Died while on duty with infantr in the Pacific area, Apri 944 ' March 31, 1944 Killed in action in Italy during the winter, 1944 Killed in plane crash April 4, 1944

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ANDERSON, '44, and PVT. WILLIAM HART, '46, are at V.P.l. also.

PVT. COURTENAY K. PAGE, JR., after taking basic training at Camp Wheeler was ordered to Fort Ord, California, and late last year was shipped to the Southwest Pacific. After several weeks in the infantry there, he was transferred to the Signal Corps and was shipped to a South Pacific island where he is now taking advanced communication training.

PFC. JACQUES RICHARDSON was engaged earlier in the year in studying Japanese at Yale University in the A.S.T.P. PFC. WILLIAM THOMSEN, JR., has been studying mechanical engineering at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in the A.S.T.U. for the past seven months. He was missed by the recent " cut" in the Army Specialists Training Programs, and barring further orders, will finish his course at L.S.U.

'44, has written saying that his parents have seen Tony in London recently. John was promoted recently to Lance Corporal in the Army Ordnance in England.

WILLIAM B. STARKEY is engaged to Miss Kathleen Joyce Dolan of Turners Falls, Mass. Miss Dolan is a teacher at Fernwood School, West Hartford.

Bill is now at Columbia University in the Midshipman School.

PETER TORREY is now with the V-12 Unit at Trinity. He has seen considerable action in the Pacific area since he left the civilian ranks of the College.

CAPTAIN CHARLES A. TUCKER of the Army Medical Corps is stationed at a general hospital in Swannanoa, North Carolina. He writes that he has run into no Trinity men but that he is keeping his eyes open for them.

PAUL D. WHITE was graduated on Saturday, February 5th, from the Army Air Force's Navigation School in San Marcos, Texas. He was given the rank of Lieutenant in the Air Corps.

1946 WEBSTER G: BARNETT, stationed high in the Rockies at Camp Hale, Colorado, writes that he has had more than a year's training in mountain warfare and that, despite the rigorous life, he still has a zest for it. " No other branch of the service could be more fascinating. We are a proud organization."

REX E . GREENE, after taking basic training at Camp Fannin, studied mechanical engineering at Drexel Institute of Technology.

BOB JENKINS has been sworn into the Navy and is now at Sampson, N . Y. PVT. HENRI RICHARDSON is now in the Army Air Force stationed at Tyndall Field, Florida.

1945 LINCOLN C. COLLINS is now somewhere in Ireland as a bugler with a medical battalion .

WILLIAM GOLKOWSKI is working in the 2nd Service Command Army Laboratory in New York awaiting entrance to the Albany Medical College in October.

PFC. JOSEPH MOLINARI is completing his course in radio engineering with the A.S.T .P. at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. PFC. EVERETT

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Commencement Commencement exercises will probably not be held this spring, because it seems unlikely that there will be more than two or three persons eligible for graduation.

We have received inquiries about the alumni reunions this coming spring. We are not encouraging reunions, because we honestly feel that you would find them something of a letdown. The College rooms are occupied by V-12 men. The College dining hall has been

given over to the Navy. The daily schedule of the Navy men on campus would place serious difficulties in the way of planning a good reunion week-end.

All this is not to say, of course, that we would not welcome you if you should appear on campus. It is simply an attempt to give you some idea of what the situation is, and what it will probably be for some time to come.

Alun1ni Fund This issue of the Alumni News carries no financial statement. Compiling the statistics, drawing up graphs, and so on would substantially delay the publication of the bulletin, so we have decided to go to press without the usual center spread devoted to the Alumni Fund.

We continue to urge alumni to contribute to the Alumni Fund. This year's goal has not yet been reached. Every contribution to the Alumni Fund is a very real help to the College. Some alumni may feel that, with the Navy in residence here, the College is

financially on easy street. This is not so.

The Navy pays for the maintenance only of such facilities as it directly uses, and for some of these facilities it pays but a fraction of the total maintenance cost. Thus the College finds it necessary to watch its pennies closely.

Response to our appeals for alumni support has been most encouraging. I sincerely hope that those who have meant to send in money, but who have just not got around to it, will get their checks into the mail as soon as possible.

STERLING PRESS H4RTFORD, CONNECTICUT