CLASS OF 1916

Lieutenant Lawrence Sanderson Ayer of Fitchburg, Mass., was killed in action in France on April 20. He was serving in the 103rd Field Artillery, and probably gave up his life at Seicheprey.

Larry Ayer came to Dartmouth from Fitchburg High School, at which school he was president and valedictorian of his class in his senior year. In College he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

During the summer after graduation he acted as supervisor of the Fitchburg playgrounds, and in October he entered the employ of the Graton and Knight Manufacturing Company, in the estimating department in the Worcester factory. He received his commission at the first Plattsburg camp, and was sent to France in the latter part of the summer of 1917. After a period of training at a French artillery school he was assigned to his regiment, which was a part of the New England Division, and was attached to this command when he met his death.

Louis Frank Pfingstag died very suddenly of pneumonia in Pittsburgh, Pa., on April 6, after a short illness. He was in the employ of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in that city.

Frank Pfingstag was born in New York city February IS, 1894, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pfingstag. He came to Dartmouth from Montclair High School. In College he was especially interested in the activities of the Outing Club, and was an officer of the Club during his senior year. He also gave much of his time to the Christian Association, in whose behalf he was a very sincere worker. He was a member of his freshman cross-country team, and later made his varsity cross-country letter. Following his graduation with the degree of Bachelor of Science, he began his work with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and after a short time in New York was transferred to the Pittsburgh office. He is survived by his parents and a sister, whose home is at 150 West 80th St., New York city.

Lieutenant Chester Albert Pudrith of Detroit was fatally injured in an aeroplane accident on March 12, and died on the third of April in a hospital at Lincoln, England. The accident occurred just prior to his intended departure for the American front in France, while he was flying from Waddington to Lincoln.

Lieutenant Pudrith entered the first officers' training camp at Fort Sheridan early in May last year, and was among the ten men picked as best qualified out of four hundred candidates to take an aviation course at Champaign, Ill. From Champaign he was transferred to Mineola, L. I., and in September was sent to Christ Church College, Oxford, to receive training with the Royal Flying Corps.

At Hanover, "Chick" was president of his class for the first three years, and in his senior year was class marshal and winner of the John Barrett Ail-Around Achievement Medal. He won his numerals in his freshman year in football, hockey, and track, and for three years was a member of the varsity football team, playing at tackle and end. He was also on the gym team for one year. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, the Sphinx senior society, and Palaeopitus.

The Dartmouth, in an editorial of May 9, spoke of him as follows: "The death of Chester Albert Pudrith means the loss of one of Dartmouth's ideal graduates. His name has been a tradition passed from class to class of leadership and ability. The loss of Pudrith is a sacrifice that can be given gladly only at such a time as the present. May his death mean his greater honor among classes which follow in later years, and may the standards which he set for a college man never be lost to Dartmouth."'