20 MEN REACH PBH 'CONTACT'

Starting off the new Contact plans with a bang, 20 postcards including the names, classes, and addresses of Harvard students in the armed forces have suddenly piled up in Phillips Brooks House, according to Richard A. Waite, P.B.H. Graduate Secretary.

Men who responded so quickly to the new system for keeping in touch with College men training in various Army camps all over the country are not those stationed at Devens or at nearby training centers, Waite reported, but men in military posts all over the country. They are situated in nine states including Colorado and California.

Only One Officer

Of the 20 names sent in, First Lieutenant Ralph Hornblower, Jr. '41 was the only commissioned officer, although there were several air corps trainees and five men connected with military intelligence. Other than these there were seven Army privates, two (common) seamen, and one private in the Marines.

Thus far the class most formidably represented by the postcard flood is '44, though closely followed by the Class of '43. Other scanty card-senders were from the Classes of '42, '41, and '45, with one from the Class of '46.

In order to encourage the lively response to the Contact system and to get College men to participate in the plan before they actually enter the armed forces, Waite asks that students write to old buddies, who have sent in cards, and also to those who haven't, asking that they cooperate immediately.