CLASS OF 1905
Karl H. Oliver, first deputy state treasurer of Massachusetts, was elected treasurer and receiver general of the commonwealth by the legislature to serve for a period of nine days, due to the fact that the former treasurer, William S. Youngman, was inaugurated lieutenant governor prior to the beginning of the term for which John W. Haigis of Greenfield was elected at the state election of last November.
Joe Gilman is a director of the Boston Madison Square Garden Corporation, the company which manages the new Boston Garden in the North Station.
Henry Kittredge Norton is the author of the leading article in the Outlook of January 9, 1929, entitled, "Is Europe Really Poor?"
Congressman Fletcher Hale is a member of the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, and on January 12 at the monthly luncheon of the Foreign Relations Council of Syracuse, N. Y., spoke in favor of the naval policy represented in the Cruiser Bill then before Congress. The other side of the question was presented by Mr. Frederick J. Libby, the executive secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War, who maintained that the whole thought underlying the Cruiser Bill is a possibility of a war with England, and that such a war means the end of civilization. Fletcher maintained that the American people do not see any real pressing necessity of exact mathematical parity with Great Britain, but only a reasonable degree of security to be obtained without extravagance and with reasonable economy, and a program removed as far as possible from competition in naval armaments, and these wishes he believes are met in the Cruiser Bill. The Post-Standard of Syracuse on the following day contained an excellent picture of the speakers. George Agry sat beside Fletcher at the head table, and reports an extremely interesting meeting.
George Agry, by the way, has been successful in obtaining the order from the new Duke University for the installation of pneumatic tubes in its new hospital and library, and while en route to Durham, N. C., he reports a telephone conversation with Winfield Barney, the head of the Modern Language Department of North Carolina College for Women.
At the banquet of the Alumni Association of Boston on January 26, the following men were present: Lafayette Chamberlin, William E. Chamberlain, Frederick Chase, Wayland Dorothy, Herford N. Elliott, Joe Gilman, George Hersam, Halsey Loder, J. Winslow Peirce, and George Proctor.
Henry S. Brintnall has recently divulged his business address, which is in the Citizens National Bank, sth and Spring Sts., Los Angeles, Cal.
The home address of William R. McFeeters is 60 Bank St., St. Albans, Vt., and of Leslie W. Oreutt, 102 Phillips St., Fall River, Mass.
Secretary, 511 Sears Building, Boston
