Volume 8 , Issue 3

'44 Aircadets At Northwestern - Alva...

"Volume 8, issue 2 came through to me with no difficulty of reception. It was just as well done as all your previous issues -- I'm happy to report to you.

The dormitory article (Oklahoma Hall) at Northwestern was interesting to me. It looked very similar in construction to the dorm that we lived in back in 1944, when I was in Alva with the 92nd training detachment of the Army Air Corp.

We lived on campus from February, 1944 to July of the same year. However, according to your paragraph the 'women's dorm' rarely used was built sometime after we Air Cadets left town. How time flys!!! We must have been assigned to an older dorm on some other part of the campus.

It hardly seems possible that a dorm was built and is now being destroyed all after we were there in 1944. WOW!! I'd better start taking vitamin pills.

I appreciate your keeping my Okie Website, page 2, McCarrick's Alva memories>, in each issue. I've had a few 'hits' on it. I guess the fact of the matter is that there aren't that many people still around to be remembering the year 1944. I was there at the age of 18 and loved every minute of it... even met a girlfriend, Mary Holten, whom I've heard is over in Denver these days. Just turned 80 in 2005, which probably explains why I don't get an avalanche of hits' to my Okie Webshots.

Keep up the good work. I really look forward to your weekly mailings." -- Tom McCarrick
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