Summer 2003 volume 99 issue 3 : letters
Navy Recruit
The letters from Nona Brown ’39 and my classmate Roz Emery Rogers ’43 in the spring issue of the Quarterly prompt me to report that I was one of the students recruited by the Navy for their secret cryptology course in ’42-’43! I enlisted after graduation and spent the war in Naval communications in Washington, DC.
The work my section was engaged in remained secret for many years after the end of the war: it depended upon Allied success in breaking Germany’s Enigma code. We translated intercepted messages from the German submarine fleet in the Atlantic. I left the Navy in 1947 as a Lieutenant Junior Grade.
Cornelia Newlin Borgerhoff ‘43Princeton, New Jersey