The University of Dayton Alumnus, February 1942

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Merle P. Smith Called to Colors-Was Alumni Association Organizer (Story on page 3)

FEBRUARY • 1942

Dear Alun1nus: As we go to pres with this issue comes news of the University's latest contribution to the na tion's war effort.

Just as we were among the first with a student Selective Servi ce bureau of informa tion ; a mong the first with an accelera ted program of study; so we a re among the first with a centralized Office of Defense Activities.

Announ ced to faculty, students a nd a lumni during the week of M a rch 8, the program get under way immedia tely. The Office of D efense Activities has been placed under the directorship of the Alumni Secreta ry a nd will be conducted from the alumni offi ce.

The office, with it informa tion service, will be open to students, faculty a nd alumni on Monday, Wednesday a nd Friday of each week between the hours of 9 a .m. and 5:30 p.m.

With the establishment of this office comes a coordination of the University's entire war effort. Informa tion may be obtained rela tive to the Civilian Pilot Training program, the University's d e fe n se co urses, th e R.O.T.C., air raid protection, procurement of D efense Bonds a nd Stamps, Selective Service informa tion , the government's Engineering Science a nd Defen e Management Training courses, Civil Service employment, R ed Cross First Aid, etc., etc. Complete details will be forthcoming soon.

Alumni desiring information on any of the above subjects or who have any question regarding the University's place in the war effort are urged to contact the Defense Activities Office.

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Random notes: Our J a nuary cover found a coincidental counterpart in the January cover of the "Alumni Review" of the University of North Carolina. Both covers carried a "highlights and shadows" picture of the front of the universities' libraries.

Analogies of the na tional emergency completed the coincidence ... Babe Zimmerman a nd Hugo ]. Sacksteder received the plaudits of the crowd at the Alumni Basketball Carnival at the Coliseum recently. They were introduced as members of the national champion St. Mary's C adets ... A. I. K eenan, 85, died recently. He was the last of the eight original honorary members of the first student body of old S.M.I. ... Father August Fri che, one of the first alumni editors, now of Clayton, Mo., was a Dayton visitor recently. Healthy and happy, he asked to be remembered to a ll alumni.

ESTABLISHED 1929

Vol. VIII

February, 1942

No.2

R. C. (Jim ) BROWN '34 ....... .. . . . ... .. . . .... ..... ........... . Editor JOHN C . KUSSMA '43 ...... . ...... . . . ........ .. . . .. . . Assistant Editor

M erle P. Smith on Active Duty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hilltop Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Sporting Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

With the Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Letters from the Alumni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

"Arm America Week" ... . . . . . . . . . .. . ...... ... .... .. ........... . ...

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"Entered as second class matter April 15, 1940, at the Post Office, at D ayton.

Ohio, under the Act of March 3, 1879."

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Checks, drafts and money orders should be made payable to "The Alumni Association of the University of Dayton."

For wills and other bequests, the legal title of the corporation is, "The University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio."

TH路E ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON - OFFICERSPresident .. . ........ . . . . ... ... HoN. WM. H. WoLFF '31, Dayton, Ohio Vice- President . . ... . ... .. . . CHARLES PFARRER '27, Dayton, Ohio Treasurer . . ........... WM. J. REYNOLDS '29, Philadelphia, Pa. (Terms expire ]une, 1942) Secretary . ... . . . ... .. .. . R. C. Brown '34, Dayton, Ohio ( Appointive office) - DIRECTORSTerms expire Homecoming, 1942- JosEPH GoETZ '31 , Cincinnati ELMER WILL '37, D ayton Terms expire Homecoming, 1943- DR. LEON DEGER '10, Dayton DR. WALTER REILING '30, Dayton T erms expire Homecoming, 1944-PAUL MooRMAN '30, D ayton HuGH E. WALL, JR. ' 34, D ayton ALUMNI MEMBERS - BOARD OF ATHLETIC CONTROLTerms expire January, 1943-RoBERT C. PAYNE '34, Cincinn ati LEo SPATZ '28, D ayton Terms expire J anua ry, 1944-Lours R. MAHRT '26, D ayton MERLE P. SMITH ' 25, Dayton MARTIN C. KuNTZ '12, Dayton 1945Terms expire January, J. ELLIS MAYL '08, Dayton

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Merle P. Smith Is On Active Duty M erle P. Smith, the man who found ed the modern University of D ayton Alumni Association; the man known to more University of D ayton gradua tes than a ny other living alumnus; the fir t editor of the "Alumnus" ; i now in the a rmed service of Uncle Sam. ' Captain M erle P. Smith left for Fort Benning, Ga., during the past week, taking with him the best wishes of the university administra tion a nd alumni.

Honor milita ry gradu a te of the class of 1925, M erl e stayed on at thP school, working with R ev. B. P. O 'R eilly, president at th a t time, in the es tabli shment of the Alumni Associa tion as it is today. H e was la ter publicity director, alumni secreta ry a nd professor in the college of a rts a nd sciences.

Smith was one of the organizers of the D ayton Boosters, Inc. , and wa president of that orga nization for two years. At present he is a member of the Athletic Board .

For the past fi ve years he was assista nt sales ma nager of the JoyceCridla nd compa ny, D ayton, being associa ted with Hu ston Brown ' 20.

Vice-Consul At Rangoon Evacuated Martin]. Hillenbra nd '37, United Sta tes vice-consul a t R angoon, Burma, together with his taff, has joined with the Burma government in the evacua tion of R angoon a nd, according to press associa tion findings, a re moving North.

Hillenbra nd 's amazing diploma tic career, he is just 27, i a direct pa rallel of the schol astic achievements th a t ma rked his undergradu a te day . A na tive of Chicago, M artin entered the University in 1934 and completed work for his degree in slightly more than three years. H e immedia tely entered Columbia university and obtained his Ph .D. in two years, cutting

by John C. Ku sman

"ARM AMERICA WEEK" - " Arm America" was the theme for the week of F ebrua ry 10 to 17 for the purpose of elling defense bonds a nd ta mps on the campus. During the seven day period the total a les a mounted to $ 1225 the la rgest single purchase being a $200 defense saving bond by the Junior Cia s with proceeds from their annual Prom ... Eight science students have been accepted for admission to medical chool s a t the end of the present school year, Dr. Francis ]. Molz, S.M., associa te dean a nd head of the division of science, has a nnounced . . . Corporal J ame V . Roe, who ha been a member of the Univer ity military staff since D ecember, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant . . . Brother Aloys Doyle, S.M ., faculty ma nager of a thletics, and two students, Robert Uebbing, Cleveland, a nd J ames Fenton, Clevela nd , have been na med air raid wardens to operate on the campu s.

SCHOLARSHIP TESTS-Over 50 high school seniors from eleven counties recently competed a t the University for tuition schola rships for the next school year . .. J a mes Will, freshman engineering student, has been a featured oloist in recent concerts of the D ayton Philha rmonic orchestra ... It h as been announced tha t due to the accelera tion program in effect for th e second semester gradu a tion will be M ay 10 instead of June 7 as originally planned ...

Cadet Corp. Vincent Yano, a H awaiian tudent, was leader of the quad which won the championship in the a nnua l quad competition of the R. 0. T. C . .. .

U niver ity of D ayton students a nd faculty recently received from the R ev. Dr. John A. Elbert, president, a letter designed to cla rify conditions affecting the sta tus of tudents under the war progra m a nd to urge serious a pplication to their studie as a means of a iding defen e prior to their indu ction into the army.

DEBATING TEAMS-Three deba ting teams, composed of two students each, will represent the University in tours throughout the country. The team s, chosen from intra-squad competition , are composed of Cha rles Whalen and Douglas Baker; R obert Schweller a nd H enry R echtein ; Hugh Hoffman a nd Anthony Rodrigues ... Lt. Thomas Stacey, a ttached to the Un iversity milita ry sta ff since O ctober 1940, h as been tra nsfern路d to fifth corps a rea headqu arters a t Columbus. H e was repl aced by Lt. Melvin Da uer who has been ~ra n s fe rre d from Howe Military Academy ... Senior engineering students received a practical example of the long-range pla nning being done by the national government in the form of a questionn aire, which they received from the na tional resources planning board. The students were req uired to list their special skill s and studies that can be utilized in the na tional defense effort .. . Fa ther Fra ncis ]. Friedel, S.M., dean of a rts a nd sciences, is a member of the pla nning committee for Dayton's "Fun While L earning" movement, with cl asses based primarily on social and recreational advantages . . . The University of D ayton ch a pter of the Per hing Rifle Society was host to 50 delegates from si.x universities for the annual regimental assembly ... Coopera tion in the national defense effort is emphasized in four new courses offered for the second semester. Instruction is being offered in Milita ry German, first aid, nursing and nutrition ... Robert Dodt and Richa rd Frazier have been elected president a nd secreta ry, respectively, of the QuadBeta, a newly formed engineering society . .. Dr. Edmund A. W alsh, vicepresident of Georgetown university a nd noted educator, was a recent speaker on the campu . Hi topic was "Democracy a nd World R evolution."

a nother year off the normal schedule while doing so.

With hi academic background of Interna tional L aw, Hillenbrand entered the diplomatic service as viceconsu l at Zurich, Switzerla nd. The

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R a ngoon a ppointment foll owed.

L ast word received a t the Univerity was during the Chri tmas season.

It consisted of a n a nnouncement of Martin's wedding which took pl ace in the fall.

BASKETBALL SUMMARY U.D. OPP. Rio Grande . . . . . . .

Wilmington . . . . . .

Wittenberg . . . . . . . .

Wichita Ceda rville . . . . . . . . .

Marshall . . . . .

Ohio U . ..........

Xavier . . .. ': .. . . . ..

Miami . . . . . . . .

Cincinnati .... . . . . .

Youn gstown . ......

Ohio U . .. . . ... . . ..

Miami .. . . .....

Ci ncinnati . . . . . . .

Indiana Tech. . . . . . .

Wittenberg . . . . . . . .

Marshall . . . . . . . . .

Xavier ...........

69 45 37 42 74 37 35 46 32 47 35 31 60 42 59 55 31 42

Total points ..... 819

31 34 27 19 35

40 36 32 33 39 44 23 42 37 22

50 55 58 657

Average points . . . 45.5 36.5 Games won . . . . . 12 6

DAYTON-MIAMI

THE "BIG THREE" OF THE FLYER CAGE FORTUNES. Coach Jim Carter, left, "points to the record" compiled b y seniors Bob Kavannugh and Charles (Hook) McCloskey, forward and center, respectively, of the great 1941-42 team.

DAYTON-YOUNGSTOWN

The Flyers' third defeat of the year came a t the hands of Miami by the na rrow ma rgin of 33 to 32. D ayton led the R edskins throughout most of the game a nd were leading 32 to 31 in the last few seconds when Palaia, Mia mi guard, tossed one in from the sidelines to provide the m a rgin of vicwry.

The game sta rted out slowly and a t halftime the Flyers held a 15 to 12 ma rgin and throughout the second half the teams battled on almost an even basis till Miami forged ahead in the last seconds.

Youngstown with their sharpshooting forward, Leo Mogus, tossing in 23 points, h anded the Flyers their fourth defeat of the year by a 44 to 35 margin.

The Flyers got off to a good start, leading 14 to 8 seven minutes before halftime, but a t this stage the height of the Penguins began to show itself and Youngstown soon went into a lead which the Flyers only threatened once when the score stood at 25-24 midway in the second period.

DAYTON-CINCINNATI

DAYTON-OHIO U.

The Flyers bounced back into the win column for their seventh victory of the season by defea ting University of Cincinnati 47 to 39 in a fa t and rough contest.

At h alftime the score was 18-all but the Flyers came back strong in the econd half and their lead was never threatened .

Bob K avanaugh and J erry W estendorf, the Flyers' top scorers, paced the a ttack again with 25 points between them, " K avvy" getting 13.

The Flyers evened their score with the Bobcats of Ohio U. with a 31 to 23 victory in their second meeting.

Ohio U . had defeated the Flyers earlier in the season .

The game was low throughout as was indicated by the score on both sides. The Bobcats got off to an early lead but D ayton came back to go in front 13 to 12 a t halftime.

In the second half the Bobcats tied the score a t 23-a ll but were held

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With a year's record of 12 wins an d only six defeats, the current basketba ll squad equalled the won and lost record ( 11-5) of the 192 7-28 team .

C arter's boys in blue won more games this year than any Flyer team in nearly three decades and tha t takes us back to the days of the national cha mpion St. M ary's Cadets.

scoreless the rest of the way while the Flyers were chalking up eight ma rkers.

DAYTON-MIAMI F acing Miami for the second time this season the Flyers avenged their earlier defeat by a brilliant 60 to 42 win over the R edskins.

After the first ten minutes the score was 17 to 7 a nd as the half ended the Flyers led 34 to 16. In the second half the Flyers continued their flashy playing and a t no time was their lead threatened.

M cCloskey had 14 points for the Flyers.

DAYTON-CINCINNATI The Flyers defeated highly touted Cincinna ti for the second time this year 42 to 37. The game was the feature event of a three-hour alumni sponsored basketball carnival.

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St. Pa trick's day, M arch 17, will be celebra ted in grand style by the U . D .

M echa nical Engineeri ng society, a nd a ll alumni of the depa rtment of mecha nical engineering a re invited. This year the students have p lanned the bigge t a nd best party in the four yea r history of the event on the U. D. campu s.

Bro. Adam H offm a n, S.M., head of the mecha nical depa rtment, a nd Bro. Andrew Weber, S.M ., associa te professor, as well a other faculty members of the depa rtment, will be on ha nd to greet old grads. R ev. J ohn Elbert, S.M., pre ident, Bro. M a tthias H aa , S.M., dean of the college of engineering, and other administra tive heads will also be present a t well as the alumni ecreta ry.

St. Pa trick is the pa tron saint of all mechanical engineers, and it is only fitting tha t U. D. mechanical engineers observe this date. Students inaugura ted the cu stom of celebra ting St. Pa trick's day a t U . D. in 1939, and the event ha assumed increasing importa nce with each passing year.

This year the students themselves decided tha t the alumni of the department should join them, a nd thus they a re counting on a good "crowd" of gradua tes a t their pa rty. fh e event will be held in the offcampus students' clubroom in Chaminade hall sta rting a t eight in the evening. The party, being a student fun ction, will be fin anced by a ma ll fee collected from the alumni and students.

The Bearcats held a 23 to 19 lead a t halftime but in the second period the F lyers, paced by W estendorf and K ava naugh displayed a pa rticula rl y aggressive brand of ba ketball and fin a lly grabbed the lead.

D AYTON-INDIANA TECH In their Ia t home game of the season the Flyers defeated Indiana T ech 59 to 22. D ayton hopelessly outclas ed th e fi ghting Engineers from Tech for their eleventh win as against four setbacks.

At halftime D ayton led 31 to 8 and the second string performed in most of the second h alf. High scorer for the evening was Bobby Swartzel, touted sophomore, who tossed in 19 points.

D AYTON-WITTENBERG The Flyer edged Wittenberg 55 to 50 to continue their ma rch toward the most uccessful season in recent years. It was the second win over the Luthera ns this season .

The game was a thriller throughout, the score being tied five times in the first half which ended 30- 30. The second period found the team deadlocked three times and not until the score stood a t 44-a ll did the Flyers surge ahead for good.

Bob K avanaugh tossed in 18 points for D ayton .

D AYTON-MARSH ALL The Flyers were defeated by the M a r hall College five by a 55 to 31 m argin . This was the second defeat of the season by the H erd.

D ayton took a three-point lead a t the start of the game, but the H erd came back with eight points in a row to take the lead which it never relinquished . M a r hall led a t halftime 29 to 15. L a te in the gam e D ayton rallied for 11 straight points, holding the H erd scoreless, but the F lyers were too fa r behind to threaten.

DAYTON-XAVIER The University of D ayton's best basketball team in three decades was ha nded its sixth los of the eason by a n avenging X avier univer ity team , 58 to 42. The game concluded the D ayton season a t 12 victories and six defeats.

The game wa a rough affair, 19 foul being called on D ayton and 22 on X avier. The Musketeers led a t halftime 26 to 10. In the second period both teams scored 32 points but the comma nding lead of the Musketeers in the first period spelled defeat for the F lyers.

Th e gam e closed th e b aske tball career of three D ayton players, Char-

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WITH THE CHAPTERS Chicago Ca rl F . Geppert '2 2 wa elected president ; J o eph H. H olscher '21 , vice-president, a nd C arroll Scholle '36, secreta ry-treasurer of the Chicago cha pter a t the meeting held a t Sieben's Bier Stube on F ebrua ry 18.

A note from retiring president J ohn ]. L adner '30, ends as follows: " I am turning the plaqu e, which the cha pter won last year, over to Ca rl Geppert to hold until it is ta ken away from us in the next contest, but I think we can retain it."

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The Alumnus ta kes thi opportunity to pay public tribute to the fine leadership of J ohnny L adner tha t made the Chi cago cha pter one of the very best in the entire alumni associa tion .

Alaskan Chapter?

The following is from Fra nces Smith's column in the D ayton J ournal : "- there are so many former University of D ayton student in Alaska, they formed an Alumni Associa tion .

Several of our boys who a re there in service are Lt. Robert L ensch, Lt. Elmer W ill , Lt. Bernard Burdzinski and Lt. D.]. Hobbs. These boys have been close friends for a number of years and have a lot of thing in common besides the fact th a t they a re tationed a t the same place. They grew up together, went to school together, were R eserve Officers toe;ether, were ca lled into active service a t the same time, a nd spent their previous months before going to Alaska a t Fort Benjamin H a rrison, Indiana, together . " One of the officers, Lt. Da niel J. Hobbs, was ma rried last April and took his wife to Sitka with him. R ecently all the wives a nd children were evacua ted and Mrs. H obbs came back to D ayton."

lie M cCloskey, Bob K avanaugh and Bob H eidkamp. In his last game K avanaugh grabbed the individu al scoring honors with 15 points.

"ARM AMERICA WEEK" ON THE CAMPUS promoted by the Cadet Officers club resulted in a sale of defense bonds and stamps amounting to $1225.

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VIRGINIAN DIES To the editor: Kindly discontinue sending the Alumnus as my hu sband, Charles F. Hagan '87, passed away November 5, 1941. In this time of conservation I do not feel that even this small bit of paper should be wasted.

My husband was 75 a t his death, so I imagine he was in D ayton University around 60 years ago, as he was quite young when he entered. I remember his saying tha t at one time the river was at flood stage when he was there and he had the feeling he would never get back to his home in the mounta ins of Scott county, Virginia.

V ery sincerely, Mrs. Charles F. H agan 213 Sol a r Street Bristol , V a.

(Ed. Note: Mr. H agan was in the Commercial division of St. M ary' Institute in 1887. H e was listed as a resident of Clinch, V a . In the M ay 1917 issue of the Exponent m agazine, in the alumni section, a letter from Mr. H agan to President Woodrow Wil son was publi hed . The letter was reprinted from the Bristol (Va.) Journal and Tribune, dated April 14, 1917, and editori alized as foll ows: " Below i a copy of a letter addressed to his excellency, President Wilson,

by Charles H agan, on of the la te Patrick H agan , and one of the heirs to the H agan millions".)

In the above photo, AI Bagot '43, president of the junior class, purchases a $200 bond for the class from Patty Stoner '42, Dayton. Gwen Hollenkamp '44, Dayton, looks on a does Robert Butler '42, Dayton, president of the Cadet Officers club. The cost of the bond represented the junior class profit from the Junior Prom.

Father Elbert issued a procl a mation during the week in which he remarked tha t the University had a lready purchased $3000 worth of bonds and was, in addition, lending its every facility to the D efense effort.

He mentioned tha t "Arm America Week" was being set aside "to make every student fully alive to the issues at stake and fully aware of the best means of attaining the objectives sought."

LIKES ALUMNI NOTES D ear Jim: On receiving the latest copy of the Alumnus I was more tha n grateful for its news-particularly because of Alumni Notes. During these hectic days it is our only mea ns of keeping in touch with fellow alumni. It's such a small sacrifice for such a great service and deserves the support of all loyal alumni.

L ast month I resigned my position with the State Highway division accountant's office to accept a position

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in the accounting department at the Federal R eforma tory here in Chillicothe.

That's all for now. H ello to H arry, Jim Carter a nd all.

Sincerely, .John R eeves '40 337 E. Fourth St. Chillicothe, Ohio

AT RARITAN ARSENAL Dear Jim: I wonder if it would be possible to have the Alumnus sent to me at my new address?

HE REMEMBERS PEARL HARBOR! Lowyd W. R. Ballantyne, Jr., freshman pre-medical student, was prior to Pearl Harbor and the subsequent closing of Hawaiian schools, a student at the University of Hawaii.

In the lower photo, young Ballantyne shows a fragment of a Jap bomb which he picked up after the Pearl Harbor raid.

D ecember 7 was Lowyd's eighteenth birthday and he was celebra ting it with friends a t Hickam Field.

At the time of the a ttack he was still in bed . H e describes the whole thing as something out of a newsreel.

The roaring drone of the low flying pla nes; the recurrent explosions as the bombs found their marks; the heavy pa ll of smoke ; all a re now vivid in the memory of young Ballantyne.

His fa ther, Lt. Col. L. W. Ball antyne, is a ttached to the medical corps of the Air Service Comma nd with headquarters in D ayton. Both Colonel and Mrs. Balla ntyne left H awa ii in ovember. Lowyd came to D ayton J anuary 20.

I have been on active duty with the Ordn ance department since J anuary 2 and have been here a week today.

Tha t's about all the news for the present . If my 1942 dues a re payable, pl ease let me know.

Sincerely, Lt. Thomas P. Rya n ' 39 R a ritan Arsenal M etu chen, N . J.

STORY POSTPONED D ear Mr. Brown : At the present time I am not feeling quite well enough to ~o about the task of writing a story but hould I get a little better would a ppreciate your giving me a " rain check" for a la ter da te.

Tha nking you for your interest a nd with all ~ood wishes to the school a nd yourself.

Most sincerely, Joe Cook '09 33-33 70th Street .Jackson H eights, N.Y. WITH WAR ORDNANCE Dear .Jim : Would you a rrange to have my copy of the Alumnus sent to me a t my new address?

At present I am employed by the war ordn ance department at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in the capac-

1904- .James E. (Ned ) G rimes, Chicago, is now located in D etroit, Michigan, where he will do government work a t the Packa rd plant.

Alex H. Schoen; Chicago, treasurer of the Columbia H a rd wood Lumber company, was a campus visi tor Februa ry 7.

1906- Rt. R ev. M gr. Martin M . V a rley, former pastor of Sacred H eart church, D ayton, was recently tra nsferred to St. R aphae l church, Springfi eld .

ity of junior engineer. You can easily imagine how pleased I was, upon being sent here, to learn tha t several other members of the cl ass of '4 1 were situa ted not fa r away. M el Nellis is a t Edgewood Arsena l, about ten miles from here; Clem Young is a t Camp Holabird in Baltimore; O scar Kroger is in Phil adelphia a nd Charles M cFa rla nd is in Palmerton , Pa ., just a good drive from here.

Needless to say I've seen most of these boys already in my two weeks here. It's good to meet the "old boys" again, even after being out of school only a few month .

Give my regards to the faculty.

V ery truly yours, M a rk F. Litteken '41 124 Park Street Aberdeen, Md.

SENDS PICTURES D ear Brothers a nd Friends : Finding the enclosed pictures has put me in the mood for writing to you. Note names on the back. These were ta ken back in '14, ' 15 or' 16. The costumes were for a play, " Richelieu," a nd the now Bishop Thill was the Cardinal Richelieu. Looks like he may be heading for the ca rdinal's robes in earnest.

Sometimes you priests and brothers may wonder if your ha rd work

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1909-Rev. William P. O 'Connor, Lt. Col., has been named V a rmy corp chapl ain a t Cam p Beauregard, La . .Joe Cook , Flushing, . Y., in a recent published letter to his friends, announced his retirement from show bu iness. H e is 5 1. H erbert E . Whalen, D ayton, has been named general agent of the D ayton agency of the Northwestern Mutual Insurance compa ny.

1915- Rev. Clarence .J. Schmitt, pastor of St. Rita's church, D ayton , was a uthor of the lyric for the new pa triotic ong, "F or America Alway" .

1920 {HS ) -Eugene M ay! was elected president of the D ayton Ba r associa tiOn recently. (HS ) Rev. George Donovan, transferred from a Nashvill e pa rish, is now res idin ~ at 135 St. Paul avenue, M emphis, T enn .

1923- Dr . .John T. Panos. D ayton, visited the campu s recently.

1924- Ca rl Cra ne ha been nromoted from M a jor to Lt. Colonel and (S ee CLASS NOTES page 8)

was of a ny avail. Dead silence usually a nswers your wistful question . Enclosed is a sample of what one of your boys has been doin,g for two whol e years before Pearl H arbor. The Cincinna ti Post has published on va riou holidays throughout the two years about twenty 路of these a rticles.

Purely a hobby, thoroughly enjoyed, and the seed was pla nted a nd germina ted by the "school on the hill" .

With much affection, Paul J. Staley '16 66601 Iris avenue Cincinna ti, Ohio

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has been stationed at Luke Field, Phoenix, Ariz.

1925- Mr. and Mrs. Adrian H. S. T su sent Christmas greetings from their residen ce a t 154 Route Pere Robert, Shangha i, China . The ca rd, dated Nov. 21 , 1941 , a rrived F eb. 23, 1942. R . E . Alexa nder, D ayton, is in cha rg:e of information service for the D ayton Defense council.

1927 - William H. C armody, Springfield , was author of another "Coal By-Products" story in lndustri ~l and Engineering Chemistry magazme.

192 8 - W alter C. Kraft, M a rion, Ohio, has been appointed chief accounta nt of the M arion Steam Shovel company.

1 930- Nelson I. Decker, D ayton, has been promoted from Ca pta in to M a jor in the chemical wa rfare service. C a ptain a nd Mrs. Francis S. Gabel, Columbus, announce the birth of D avid Arthur on Februa ry 11. Edwa rd G. Breen , now in a rmy service, h as been re-elected a director of the Ohio Na tional Life Insurance compa ny. Ca pt. Willia m P. K eane, D ayton, was a campus visitor recently.

1931- Fra ncis J. O'Connor, returned to D ayton from L ouisville, K y., was a recent campus visitor.

Judge Wm. H. Wolff, D ayton, was the recipient of a n American flag recently, presented by the women's auxilia ry of Post 5. American Legion , as part of "Americaniza tion W eek" .

Lt. J ohn H . Tierney, D ayton, has been transferred to the army a ir corps advanced fl ying school a t Lubbock, T exas.

1932- Mr. a nd Mrs. Th o m a~ R .

Geyer, D ayton, a re announ cing the birth of Sylvia Anne on Februa ry 16.

C apt. R alph Canter, D ayton, has been assigned to the command of the 393 technical sch ool squadron of the air corps technical school a t K essler Field, M ass. Robert L a ng, D ayton, became a fa ther recently. J ohn Edward Schoen. Chicago, h as received his commission as lieutena nt and is in active service. Alison Kline, D ayton . is head of the decontamin a tion group of the D ayton D efense council. Mr. a nd Mrs. Charles M ahlmann , W ashington, D . C., announced the birth of a daughter on J anuary 21.

1933- Thomas D evine, Columbus, has been a ppointed central division sports editor of the United Press with headqu arters in Columbus.

1 9 34- Mr. a nd Mrs. Robert C. Payne, Cincinna ti, a nnounce the birth of M a ry Carol on December 28. Victor R eiling, D ayton, is doing research work a t the M assachusetts Institute of T echnology, Boston. Lt. Louis J. T schudi, Mitchell Field, L . I., N. Y ., was subject of a n extensive write-up in a recent issue of " P.M.", the article centering around Lou's recreational program for aviators.

1 9 35- W arren Slifer, Germa ntown a ttorney, was a campus visitor on F ebruary 10. Todd Mumma, D ayton, has been elected to the board of directors of the J. A. C. Dr. Cha rles Gerson is sta tioned with the medical corps a t Station Hospital, Ft. L eonard Wood, Mo. 1 936- Ca rroll Scholle, Chicago, has been called into the army. L awrence Frank Boeckerman, D ayton, was m arried to Irene W alter on J anua ry 31 a t Corpus Christi church, D ayton . J acob M osrow, D ayton, recently passed the Ohio Ba r examin ation.

1 9 37- D avid W . K ersting, D ayton, has completed the first two months of his prelimin ary flight training a t Squantum. M ass. Dr. and Mrs. Howard E. M cKnight, D ayton, are a nnouncing the birth of Cynthia M a rie on February 1.

1 938 - Lt. G arla nd L otz is with the 77th Division a t Ft. J ackson , S. C. Ga rl and , tra nsferred from M acon, Ga. , was a campus visitor recently.

D avid P. M cCra te has been tempora ril y assigned as a civilia n with the a rmy ordnance dept. a t D etroit, Mich .

D ave was a camous visitor on M a rch 3. Lt. R . M . Schneble. Sandu sky, Ohio, has been elected vice-president of the Sandusky Engineers club. H e is in ch arge of pl ant protection a t the Plum Brook Ordnance works. Mr. a nd Mrs. Robert E. Borchers, D ayton , announce the birth of twin da ur.;hters on J a nuary 24.

1939---Lt. Roland W . M yers, Ca mp Claiborne, L a ., is engaged to ma rry Doris M a rie H aines, D ayton .

Robert .T. Birmingham is in ph armacy school a t Ohio Sta te university. Lt. Edward C. H empelman, D ayton, h as gradua ted from the marine corps R eerve Officers Train ing school. J ohn g路

S. Zarka, D ayton, recently passed the Ohio Bar examina tion. Thomas R eiling has returned to Dayton after having been in Springfi eld, M ass., for the past year.

1 9 40- Mrs. E . R. Arn, D ayton, has written a monologue dra ma . " The Years in Passing" . Cha rles Wilke, Pullman , W ash. , has accepted a teaching fellowship a t the U niversity of Wisconsin. Lt. Wise Glossinger is a ground instructor a t the army flying school. Columbus, Mo. Jean Staoenhorst, St. Louis. was married to M arie Ca therne Beahan of St. Louis on J a nua ry 3 1 in W ashington , D . C .

J ean is a lieutena nt on active duty with the a rmy. Lt. Joseph T. Eilers Jr., h as been tra nsferred to Philadelphia , Pa. Lt. Tony Furst, D ayton. is sta tioned a t the infantrv school, Ft. Benning, Ga. Robert E. Ca rrigan was ma rried recently in Muncie, Ind .

1 9 41 - Lt. Vincent Poeppelmeier is sta tioned a t the H olton Air Base, H oulton , M e. H e was a campus visitor on M a rch 4 . M a rk F . Litteken is sta tioned a t the Aberdeen Proving Ground , Md . Charles J Zwiesler, D ayton, enl isted in the a rmy as a private soldier recently. J ohn F . Glemet is a ttending the offi cers candidate school a t Fortress M onroe. V a . Paul A. Humpert a nd Tames Hiney a re sta tioned with the QMC a t Ft. Francis E . W a rren , Wyoming. Lt. J ohn J. Humm, Jr., F ort Dix, N. J., wa m a rried to Miss D orothy Scheim of New York Citv recently. Lt. W a rren A. K appeler. D ayton . is engaged to ma rry M a ry H elen W ehner. Lt. Clem J. Young, Jr., was married to J oan Bucher, D ayton. recently. The couple will reside in Baltimore. Md . William A. Carriga n. Tiffin. Ohio. has enlisted in the N aval R eserves. Lt. Paul Eugene U nger and M a ry M argaret M oorman were ma rried Tanua ry 3 1 a t Corpus Christi church , D ayton.

J ack R . Baker is chief physical instructor a t the U. S. Naval Air Base, O akland , C alif. R alph K aiser, Cleveland, purchasing agent for the Crane company, was a campus visitor recently. J ack Kirchmer is assistant supervisor in the works labora tory, DuPont Chemical compa ny, Charleston, W. V a . Lt. H erbert J. R edd ing, Chicago, was ma rried to M a ry J ane Crowley on J anuary 29. H erb is stationed a t F ort Belvoir, V a.