CLASS OF 1917

The first of what may become a permanent form of meeting for Seventeen men in and around Boston was held Saturday evening, March 29, at the Boston Tavern. Notices were sent to twenty-nine men, but the poor weather was largely to blame for only a 331-3 per cent attendance. However, Ed Earle, Vic Smith, Ted Lonnquest, Ike Sprague, Fred Goodwin, Larry Nourse, Johnny Byers, Joe Randall, Harold Walker, and Bill Sewall shook off the snow and spread out around the same table in a corner of the down-stairs restaurant of the Tavern to exchange news items concerning the class and College, and incidentally to absorb a little nourishment.

Of the men present, Ed Earle, Ted Lonnquest, and Vic Smith were in navy uniform. Ted is stationed at the Naval Air Station, Chatham, Mass., and Ed and Vic are at Boston awaiting discharge. Fred Goodwin is doing rate-setting work with the American Rubber Company, Cambridge. Ike Sprague announced a little auto trip to California for the summer, and was promptly offered the opportunity of retaining a staff of chauffeurs, mechanics, and even valets. Larry Nourse is doing graduate work in education at Harvard, a nd Joe Randall is taking a public accountant course at the H. C. Bentley School of Accounting, Boston. Johnny Byers has just been discharged from the Navy, where he has been serving as instructor in a radio school. Harold Walker has a position with the General Electric at Lynn, and Bill Sewall is in Maiden with the Converse Rubber Shoe Company. The gathering was wholly informal, and broke up as men had to leave to keep other engagements. But it was an enjoyable three-quarters of an hour, and was generally considered worth trying again.

Unofficial headquarters of the Boston gang of 1917 men seem to have been established at the Adams House. The contingent includes in addition to those mentioned above,. Bill Fitch in the wool business with Hills and Nichols, 200 Summer St.; Johnny Wheelock, job-hunting when last heard from and claiming to have been turned down by Boston's best publishing houses; Rowdy Clark; Heinie Wright, with the Regal Shoe Co.: Dewey Duhamel, still living in Lawrence, but until recently traveling -for a Boston sporting goods firm: Gerry Gerrish. with a Charles town lumber concern; Bill Spearin; Stan Kingsbury; Joe Hallett; Pa Holt; Art Maclntyre; and Doug. Fleming, two-striper in the Pay Corps and doubtful as to his discharge.

Gene Towler reports an active 1917 league around New York. Jack Saladine joined him in the. Western Electric Company offices early in March. Ed Burns is with the American International Corporation, 120 Broadway. Don Brooks is in The Circulation Department of the Scientific American. Bob Paine is living in Cranford, N. J., and working in New York. Slats Baxter. Bob Stickney, Mike Donahue, and Chuck Gilmore graduated from Columbia Medical School in February and are full-fledged M. D's, serving as internes at various New York hospitals. Guy Richardson, Angus Black, and Roy Halloran are in their third year of Medical also at Columbia. Gus Supot is at Columbia Law School.

Corporal Eddie McGowan is at Long Beach, L. 1., convalescing from a wounded left fore-arm, received September 26, when the 27th Division smeared the Hindenburg line in the Cambrai-St. Quentin sector. Lt. Harry Fowler, wounded in the leg while serving with the 77th Division, is now fully recovered, discharged, and in the employ of the American Smelting and Refining Com- pany. Len Reede is out of the service, and at home at Weehawken, N. J.

Secretary. William Sewall, 200 Clifton St., Maiden, Mass.