CLASS OF 1909
Fred Carroll's address is now 210 Lincoln St., Boston. He is still with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company as attorney.
Harold Foss, American consul in Calcutta, writes that in December he visited Darjeeling up in the Himalaya mountains, one day's journey from Calcutta. From a latitude of 7000 feet he "witnessed a gorgeous view of the loftiest peaks of the Himalayas, including Mount Everest". Harold seeks variety in his expeditions. He recently went through Burma, sailing up the Irrawaddy River from Rangoon to Mandalay, and sends tempting word pictures of fat-cheeked belles with bobbed hair wearing "small" skirts and smoking "whacking great cheroots . He says he didn't see any flying fishes play, and that all the Tommies stationed in Mandalay were anxious to get back to "Blighty".
Leon C. Marshall, engineer with the Central Aguirre Sugar Company, Central Aguirre, Porto Rico, writes that the tropics "ain't what they're cracked up to be. The days are so nearly alike you have to think twice to know whether it is the middle of July or just after |Christmas". The average Naught Niner won't know whether to follow Harold Foss to Burma jar Leon Marshall to Porto Rico, for Leon says: "It is all very well to imagine dusky beauties dancing in the moonlight 'neath the swaying palms, and I'll say the palms and the moon are O. K.; but the dusky beauties are likely to have & long black cheroot in one corner of their face, and the most popular of the native dances consists of a slow promenade to the nearest irrigation ditch, returning with a five-gallon oil can of water balanced on the head, to the palatial residence. This is usually a grass hut set on posts, under which you can always find one black razorback hog, two goats, one fighting cock, and at least three dirty brown youngsters, with exactly as much wardrobe as the rest of the 'livestock.' "
Charles Pearson is teaching accounting, law, and salesmanship in the College of Pharmacy. He is still living in Arlington, where he taught last year. His address is 31 Sherburne St.
Bob Burns has been swinging around the circle again as sales manager of Walter M. Lowney and Company. This trip has included a tour of the West.
Russell A. Pettengill will probably be in Boston for the greater part of another year at least, except for short monthly trips to Chicago.
Emile Erhard and his family were in a bad automobile accident early in March. A heavy motor truck going about thirty-five miles an hour struck the Ford sedan which Emile was driving, and completely demolished the car. In the sedan were Emile and Mrs. Emile, the two children, and the housekeeper. An accumulation of ice filling up the angles around the curbstone probably saved a fatal accident, as the sedan, hit broadside by the truck, was pushed on the ice up over the curb and into the front of a drug store, but was not overturned. Mrs. Erhard was sitting next to a window, and all of the glass in the window was thrown out. Miraculously enough she was not cut. She, however, as well as Emile, was badly bruised and shaken up. The little boy is still limping as a result of the accident, and the housekeeper is in the hospital. Emile is now back on the job.
Dick Lord has been laid up for about a month with blood poisoning. He is now back at work again with his arm in a sling, and with expectations of slow but sure recovery.
Mrs. Edith Marson Colley, wife of Reginald H. Colley, died March 20 at Madison General Hospital, Madison, Wis., of pneumonia following the grip. She leaves two children, Jessie M., aged four years, eight months, and Beatrice Lillian one year, nine months.
Secretary, Joseph W. Worthen, 404 Shawmut Batik Building, Boston
