At the present writing, two months and a half before Commencement, returns from the class indicate a large attendance at our Twenty-fifth. Let everybody exert all his energies toward getting here, for this is the most important reunion we shall hold until our Fiftieth.
Emery Donovan, who for the past ten years has been secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of San Antonio, Texas, has resigned his position there, and has removed to California, where he will engage in the operation of a large walnut grove, in partnership with his brother. His new address is Route 1, Box 122D, Arlington, Cal.
Here are some more items of news about the second generation. Roy Owen's daughter Louise has already received her A.B. degree from Wellesley; Lois Tourtellotte will receive the same degree from the University of British Columbia this June; Hazel Page is a junior at Ohio State University; Marion Dakin will be graduated from Monticello Junior College in June and will enter Wellesley next September as a junior; Ruth Swasey is at Northfield Seminary; Margaret Ladd will receive her degree from the Sargent School of Physical Education of Boston University in June; and Margaret Parrish will also be graduated in June from Smith College.
Ben Mathes is now general sales manager for the Crystal Oil Burner Company, with offices at 1440 Broadway, New York city, and a home in Upper Montclair, N. J.
Bucky Kraft and Maynor Brock are driving on together from Kansas City for the reunion.
Watson Smith is vice-president of H. D. Hynds, Inc., engineers and builders.
Shorty Davis writes me from White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., whither he has just arrived from California by motor via Florida.
Travelers to Bermuda this spring have included Halsey Edgerton, Tubby Gray and Mrs. Gray, Henry McFarland and Mrs. McFarland.
Bob Adriance has just bought a new home at 30 Washington Park, Maplewood, N. J.
Lucy Howard is vice-president and general manager of the lowa Valve Company at Des Moines.
Charlie Crane is engaged in advertising and free lance writing in Brattleboro, Vt. Thrice a week for the last six years he has filled an entertaining column called "The Pendrifter" in the Brattleboro Reformer.
Bob Wardwell, having recovered from a year's illness, is now a salesman for the Charles E. Hires Company, manufacturers of Hires' Root Beer Extract.
Arthur Holmes was in attendance at the 81st meeting of the American Chemical Society in Indianapolis from March 30 to April 3. He is chairman of the Division of Medical Chemistry of the Society, and at this meeting presented a paper on "The Calcium-Phosphorus Ratio of Tibiae of Growing Chicks." Arthur's published papers on medical chemistry now number seventy-five.
Alan Parrish is in the general contracting business in Paris, Ill.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.