CLASS OF 1916
Bill Brown has recently been elected principal of the Senior High School at Glens Palls, N. Y. For the past eleven years he has been running the high school at Amherst, Mass.
which Jim says is one of the best in the state. Jim Coffin writes that he and his family are getting ready for our Fifteenth, the "funny fifteenth," he calls it. Jim has been gathering some news for this sheet. Ralph Parker has bought himself a house in Nashua, and rumor has it that he has recently been bottling some wine. Bob Brown, after twelve years in Canada and Ohio, has returned to his native state as assistant general manager of the Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper Company. Jim Shanahan has been down South this winter getting in trim for the summer's Balmacaan golf outings. Ralph George captains the Concord volley ball team
Rog Evans sends in an additional name that should have been on the list of those attending the Boston dinner a few months ago. Don Ferguson was also among those present. He is connected with one of the Boston banks.
If any of you birds in the class happen to have radios, tune in on WEAF any Wednesday night at 10:30 and listen to Bones Joy leading his Coco Cola Topnotchers.
Ken Stowell is associate editor of the Architectural Forum. By mistake I recently reported him as being connected with some other outfit.
Pete Cleaves is directing some of the class Alumni Fund work from Swarthmore, Pa. He says that he best-manned for Dave Shumway last month up in Buffalo.
Herb Lord is over in Antwerp with Ed Riley in General Motors Continental, S. A.
A clipping from Rog Evans tells us about Val Goldthwaite. "Something new in musical instruments—the playing of beams of light upon a photo-electric cell to produce pleasant sounds by optical means—has been developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it was announced yesterday.
"Prof. Arthur C. Hardy and Sherwood F. Brown of the department of physics, developing an idea conceived by duVal R. Goldthwaite of New York, constructed the novel instrument which may mean the composition of melodies incapable of execution on standard instruments."
Last week-end I flew up to Hanover for the annual secretaries' meeting taking Adam Sutcliffe '15 along with.me. Already they are working hard up there getting the town and the new buildings ready for June, 1931.
Secretary, 65 Mathewson Rd., Barrington, R. I.
