A Christmas card has been received from Pvt. Clyde Leonard in New Giunea. The card reads, “Hi Folks!  My warmest greetings for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from New Guinea. The sketch on the card shows a very plump soldier with the sweat rolling down off his forehead and the thermometer breaging (sic) out at the top, with the sea and a palm tree in the distance. Usually these kind of scenes show a few lady head hunters standing around in the gentle breezes, but apparently the women and children had all left the country.

 

Mrs. Dick Wilson (Ruth Cooke), has had some V-mail letters from Carl Shearer of Rainier and from Howard Linenau. Both are in Australia. It had been a long time since anyone had heard from Howard and all are glad to hear that the boys are both OK.

 

Ivan Hurley is back in the good old U.S.A. after sojourning around no one knows where with the Navy. He seems glad to be back home, says his sister, Mrs. Grihan Wood.

 

Charles N. Grubert, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Brugger, had graduated from the Adjutant General’s School at Fort Washington, Maryland on October 23^rd, and received his 2^nd Lieutenants commission. He was assigned as an instructor at the school and is now a section chief in charge of the courses on Division Headquarters.

 

Tech. Sergeant Wilbrr (sic) Brugger has completed two years as an instructor at Keesler Field Biloxi, Miss., and is now in the Maintenance Department, repairing airplane instruments. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Brugger, of Yelm.

 

Second Lieutenant Milo Schneider has completed (sic) his course (sic) at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey and has gone to Schenectady, New York, where he is attending the school at the General Electric Company. He is in the Signal Corps and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Schneider, of Yelm.