CLASS OF 1910
Art Lord, in his travels for Ginn and Company around Massachusetts, sees most of the class in this vicinity who are teaching. He dropped into the office this morning, and among other things told me that Frank Morrissey has been transferred and made master of a new intermediate district, the Solomon Lewenberg district of Dorchester. Isn't that some combination, Morrissey and Lewenberg?
Occasionally a belated return reaches me too late for inclusion in the class report. Tom Steward notes that he is director of publicity and teacher of journalism in the University of Minnesota, and is living at 2614 West 49th St., Minneapolis, Minn.
Russ Meredith found his letter for the class report in his pocket just about the time the report was being mailed out. Russ has three youngsters, two boys fourteen and thirteen, and a girl of eight. Russ has been very active in civic affairs in Troy, N. Y. He has been a member of the County Board of Supervisors, two terms, Troy Chamber of Commerce, an officer in the Rotary Club, director in the Y. M. C. A. He ran for mayor last fall on the Republican ticket, but was too independent to suit the majority, so Troy remained Democratic. As Russ quotes, "much experience and a good time was had by all."
Wilkie sends a nice long letter, regretting that he was unable to come back to reunion. He has been so faithful that we surely missed him. Wilkie has recently located in San Jose, Cal., with a consulting engineer, supervising on municipal work. This is exactly the kind of connection Wilkie has been working for some time, but he couldn't very well come back to reunion in view of the fact that he has just started. San Jose is about 50 miles from his home in Berkeley, so he probably will spend most of his week-ends at his permanent home, though his business address is now 1117 Bank of Italy Bldg., San Jose, Cal.
Maurice Blake sends the following, which explains his inability to attend the reunion: "Thank you for your letter of the 11th. I am sending my reply to Hanover, where I wish I might be, but at present there simply isn't enough gas.
"Although I haven't it yet fully reduced to the practical basis, I am hoping to start here a school, which I may be able to carry on in the winter without giving up my camp in the Alps for American boys who are traveling or residing abroad. This has been the plan that I have been working at for a long time and actively so since 1921, by starting the camp first.
"I am proposing to open my school at the end of September this autumn and to begin in a small way, but with a definite and I think sound program in view. Possibly there are some among our own class who are not already committed to a particular preparatory school for their sons who would like to consider sending them to 'Merrybrook,' where our aim will be to inculcate a desire for all sound learning, high thinking, and the code of the gentleman and good citizen.
"My very best to all the old boys at the reunion."
Secretary, 40 Florence Ave., Norwood, Mass.
