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1944
THE ECHO
PAGE FIFTEEN
Employees In Service Pay Us A Visit
Chris Costanza, member of
f.i^ored division, visited on
, juary and told us he was being
hk to Ft. Meade, Md., for
50 ®,'^3*^ced training. He had just
^ox his basic training at Ft.
yj * Ky. Before entering the ser-
J in August of 1943, Pvt. Cos-
inun employed in the Finish-
Ijjvp ^P^^tment. We hope he will
aiiH ^*^®^her 10 day furlough soon
*^OQie back to see us.
^^Eben s. Morrow, Machinist Mate
of’tK Construction Battalion
2nd visited Ecusta, Feb.
'’ut tells us he likes the CBs
W home better. This 10-day
w Ebb’s first; We surely
cjll ^orry he couldn’t be here to
lttijj^pj|?ther of our square dances.
W k upon leaving Ecusta
lmy ^ 3, 1943, he reported for
pfg ■ had been in the navy
his coming to work
the Meter Department.
swai?®® W. HalJ, Chief Boat-
in also of the CBs, came
February 3 while he was
Oftie
On
ry 3
’•>01^ 30-day leave. He has
from 12 months of
in Before entering the navy
\»a5 of 1942, Boatswain Hall
as a power
Can). |®or. He is now stationed at
W L Shoemaker, Calif. Be-
Der
assigned to actual duty,
Camp
' tn t
training at
S Davisville, R. I.
spec^l’ ''®owoe McCall, former In-
Hoiv . department employee, is
cor ^^®t^^ctor of cadets in the
State t^^.S^ound crew at the Ohio
fg diversity, Colujnbus, Ohio.
his training at Smyrna
o ■'^ir Base, Smyrna, Tenn.,
Lockburn Army Air Base,
Ohio. Cpl. McCall was
a 10-day furlough and
the plant on February 4th.
A. Hauk, Aviation Ord-
Sn 2-c, has returned to San
Se j ®^to Rico, after a 22-day
‘ieij the States. He is a quali
a Mr gunner and has been at
Plai?f in Cuba. He visited
^ February 7. Of course, he
of his time at Ecusta
Was ^^^®hing Department, where
®^Ployed before he enter-
service in January of 1942.
former Power
5j^®terman, who has been in
r September of 1942,
been transferred from
New Mexico, to Harvard,
^Uh Air Base to a bombing
%5i^®^e. Cpl. Lyday has also
AiwrJ^^ed at Miami Beach and
^ ^illo Air Field, Texas
Roberts, GM 3-c, who
C>.
went to Norfolk, Va.,
{> ^ A/r training, visited the
("in tjj ®^eh 22nd. He was home
® ®ea on a 17-day leave and
Qj experiences in three the-
^ American, European
t^^iddle Eastern Area anc
® Machine Room until
h. of 1941 when he entered
Visited Us Recently
RICHARD LANCE, metor ma
chinist mate, 2-c, former Ecusta
machinist, visited in February
and told us the,n he was expect
ing overseas orders. His wife,
Jessie Lance, former employee
of Champagne Hand Booklet, vis
ited with him.
On Overseas Duty
'V
Lt. Beil Rickman paid us another
visit on February 18th. He has just
successfully completed his training
as a first pilot and from now on
is qualified to command a plane or
bomber and its crew. He has been
moved from Hendricks Field at
Sebring, Florida, and is now lo
cated at Plant Park, Tampa. He
hopes it won’t be long before he
will get into real combat duty. Ben
was an Ecusta electrician who left
for service in August, 1942. He
reported a recent change of ad
dress for his sister, Sgt. Mary
Rickman, formerly of Champagne
Hand Booklet, now of the WAC.
She has been transferred from
Camp Holabird, near Baltimore, to
Arlington, Virginia.
PFC. RASTUS SMITH, former
Ecusta inspector, who left Ecus
ta in September of 1942, has
been overseas nearly a year. He
received his training at Ft. Bel-
voir, Va., Ft. Crook, Neb., and
Camp Clairbourn, La. He is in
an Engineering division.
William Howell Medford, Sea
man 2-c and former Ecusta Fire
man, has been in service since
December. He paid us a visit on
February 18th and reported he has
completed his boot training and
likes the navy fine. He is stationed
at Bainbridge, Md., but not for
long, as he is slated for a rating
of Fireman 1-c in an “outgoing
unit.”
Stationed In Tenn.
Wounded In Action
DALE ORR, S 2-c, former
member of the Landscape crew
at Ecusta who left November,
1943, is now stationed in Mem
phis, Tenn. He took boot train
ing at Jacksonville, Fla.
S-Sgt. Edward Conley paid us
another visit. He is in an Army
Air Force Service Group stationed
at Leesburg, Fla., which he thinks
is a pretty nice winter location.
He has been in service over two
years, having le f t Champagne
Printing in December, 1941. Ed
ward is one of those men who
“keep ’em flying” by servicing and
inspecting the planes. He reports
there is plenty of work and con
siderable responsibility connected
with his job but he likes it fine,
and hopes he will soon be servic
ing planes for actual combat.
^ Area. He is station-
Armed Guard Center at
^’^ookiyn, N. Y.
aKrv
''b\ tT^ut nine months at sea
Dv'^etftji^^r^pean theatre, William
lii^te(j ® Green, GM 3-c, was
k lO-day leave and visited
29 the plant on
V’ he Before entering the
V ®^Ployed in the Re-
. as an assistant control
' ^ returned to Boston and
Jaitf® he was being sent to
Pvt. James Dunne, who left De
cember 2nd. to join the Marines,
visited Champagne on Feb. 11th.
during his first leave. After his
nine weeks of boot training at Par
ris Island, S. C., he was going into
field artillery school at Quantico,
Virginia.
PFC. SHERMAN DUCKER, of
the Marine corps, was wounded
in action in the Marshall Islands
in February and was awarded
the Purple Heart. He was em
ployed at Ecusta before entering
service.
A former Refining Room em
ployee, Pfc. William C. McClung
of the U. S. Army Air Corps, visit
ed on March 10 and at that time
he was expecting overseas orders.
After leaving here July 28, 1942,
he finished his basic training at
St. Petersburg Fla., and has been
stationed at Bakers Field, Calif
and Fort Sumner, N. M. Pfc. Mc
Clung is the brother of Mrs. Jack
Wilber, who works in Hand Book
let Department.
Jack Holden, Aviation Mechanic
3-c, visited Champagne’s Hand
Booklet Department on February
7th. Before entering the service,
he was a mechanical service man
there. He has been in the navy
since September of 1942 and has
been stationed at the naval air
station since that date.
Edna Bell, S 1-c, another WAVE
who is on our military list, visited
March 10th. Seaman Bell is also
stationed at Wave Quarters in
Washington, D. C. Before joining
the navy last July, she was an in
serter in Hand Booklet; now she
works in a naval photo laboratory
where she was ordered after fin
ishing her boot training at Hunter
College, N. Y. She says:-“Any girl
would like it. It’s a great life but
most of all you are doing some
thing to help get this thing over
with,”
Mary Rice Robinson, Pharma
cist’s Mate 2-c, came in for a visit
March 8th during a 10-day fur
lough. She was a chemist here at
Ecusta before entering the Navy
in December of 1942. After taking
her boot training at Cedar Falls,
Iowa, and her specialized pharma
cist training at Bainbridge, Md.,
she was transferred to the naval
barracks, in Washington, D. C. She
said she surely was glad to be
back for a visit.
On March 10th, Sgt. Walter L.
Warren visited the plant where he
was employed as a Machine Tender
prior to his induction in the army
January 20, 1942. After basic train
ing at Camp Lee, Va., Sgt. Warren
took specialized training at the Air
Mechanics School in Albuquerque,
N. M. He was home on furlough
from Roswell, N. M., where he is
now stationed; his wife is also in
Roswell. He says for us to **keep
’em smoking” that they will “keep
’em flying.”
Warrant Officer John A. Hamlin
was in this section on official busi
ness and visited the plant on March
4th. He was in the army for three
years prior to his work at Ecusta
as a Printing Press Operator in
Champagne and is now stationed
at the Headquarters Replacement
and Induction Center in Charlotte,
where he has been for one year.
He was stationed in Atlanta for
two years. W. 0. Hamlin was called
to active duty February, 1940.
Pfc. Harold C. Misenheimer, for
mer Gumming Operator in Cham
pagne, visited recently, and at tiie
time of his visit, March 6th, his
address was a naval hospital in
Norfolk, Va. Pfc. Misenheimer
was home on a 10-day leave; dur
ing January he had a 30-day sur
vivor’s leave after he had seen
action in the Southwest Pacific.
Jessie Gillespie, S 1-c, is now
assigned to a destroyer and went
to his ship immediately after his
visit to Champagne during a delay
en route from Fort Lauderdale,
where he had attended school for
four months. Before entering the
navy last August, Seaman Gilles
pie was employed as a Printing
Press operator here. His sister,
Frances Patterson, works in Hand
Booklet.
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