CLASS OF 1909

Charles Dillen Ryan's address is changed to 511 West Carpenter St., Springfield, Ill. He regrets that he was unable to be at the Tenth Reunion, but was overseas with the 3d Division, and did not get home until the last of August, and was not demobilized until the middle of October.

Mr. and Mrs. John V. Hughes announced the marriage of their daughter Anna Laura, to Mr. Russell Arthur Pettengill, on Saturday, December 27, 1919.

J. S. Huselton's address has been changed to 528 North Main St., Butler, Pa. He returned from Siberia November 11.

Curtiss L. Sheldon has been appointed city treasurer at New Britain, Conn. Also he has been made assistant cashier and trust officer of the New Britain National Bank (total resources over $5,000,000).

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford A. Blake announce the birth of Marjorie Blake on January 12. 1920.

Professor Norris of Technology discussed his experiences in England and France during the war before the Simmons College Instructors' Club at its first meeting of the year. Dr. Norris was formerly a professor of chemistry at Simmons. The officers of the club are: Professor Curtis M. Hilliard, president; Miss Eula G. Ferguson, secretary; Miss Alice L. Hopkins, treasurer.

Dana Waldron is at it again. In brief, this is his story: "Well, for a change, I'm working. I'm the real tire salesman, I am. Last week I sold a centipede, a set of shoes, cords, all around, and now I'm trying to sell, to Denver and Rio Grande R. R.; am talking them into putting oversize pneumatics on their engines, so they can turn out into the fields whenever the roads get blocked with snow. Believe me, it's a great life, if you don't weaken. And, take it from me, you sure get pessimistic about human nature. 'Now, look here, here's a tire I bought of you last month, have run it just 372 miles, always had it full of air, never hit a stone, drive carefully, etc., etc.,' and your records show he bought the tire a year ago. you know he's a tourist driver, and last month a friend of his told you how he came from Denver in an hour and fifty minutes—and then, they get sore when you tell them they have no adjustment coming. Why is it all auto drivers are liars by profession? (By the way, remember this the next time you try to gouge an adjustment out of the tire dealer.) As I'm saying, I'm a tire salesman.—But, I've been a bunch of things. During the war I was 'Professor Waldron'—honest-to-God I was. (What's that you're saying-Don't make me laugh because I've got a split lip'.) Just the same, I was, and what's more important, I got paid for it. You see the college here had a contract with the government and opened a service school, mostly for radio men. Two hundred or more draftees would be sent here, and in a couple of months we would try and make radio operators out of them, and I was one of the poor dubs who had a job as a teacher. At first, it was only a matter of sending, and anyone could do that, but later, I graduated and became a teacher on the theoretical side. Can you think of it little Willie up in front of a gang of men, some of them graduates of schools of engineering, explaining all the fine points of alternating high frequency currents, and I've never known why the door bell rings when you push the button. I'm willing to bet that some of my explanations must have caused Bennie Franklin to roll over. And then, the war caved in, so I lost my job. So I got busy, and another fellow and I bought a gasoline station. I don't know whether you have them back East or not, but out here they are as frequent as huts. We did well for a while. I found out the secret of mixing H2O into gas, and felt like Dr. Munyon, but the darn old refinery went to work and showed me, what a piker I was, for they shipped us a 10,000 gallon car of water and we had it all in our tank before we found out the trouble. And then, believe me, we sure had a lovely time— had cars stuck all over town before we could get the water and gas out of our underground tank. But I had to quit. Seven days a week are too much, and as we had a good offer, we sold."

Harold C. Bales has been appointed superintendent of schools at Milford, Mount Vernon, Amherst, and Brookline, N. H. His permanent address is Wilton, N. H.

Secretary, Emile H. Erhard, The Stafford Co., Readville, Mass.