Class of 1914
All is not depression with our good men of 1914. Here is Eddie Elkins, for example, who motored 8,770 miles this summer in eighteen days, which our daughter who is practicing long division informs us is at the rate of 487.2222 miles per day, which, east or west, seems like a lot. Then again Win Loveland has been doing Europe all summer and visited Dartmouth Castle in England, which we never have seen but have a postcard of same.
Speaking of professors and postcards reminds us first that Jack Hanna, who profs law at Columbia, has published two books: "The Law of Co-operative Marketing Association" and "Creditors' Rights." This combination should help John Piane; at least he can find out what his rights are, if any.
As for the postcard, we remember during the war when Bert Wood and Bill Barnes and ourselves were doing a leave together at Nice, there was an adjacent mountain which looked swell from the cafe where we sunned ourselves of a morning. Bill had a yearn to climb it, but we put it off each day and finally bought Bill a postcard showing the view from the summit and then went back to the cafe. All of which is to introduce Bert as an actor. Bert troupes with a Detroit company doing radio sketches over WWJ, his latest being the Laugh of Death. And maybe he don't picture well between two marvelous brunettes—which is just where we would expect to find him.
WHITE - TUCK
Mrs. Franklin Buchanan Screven of Savannah, Ga., has announced to relatives and friends in this city the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Screven White, to Captain Alexander J. M. Tuck of Tuxedo Park. The marriage will take place June 21 at the summer home of Mrs. White's aunt, Mrs. H. Snowden Marshall, in Mill River, Ridgefield, Conn.
Mrs. White is a great-granddaughter of Admiral Franklin Buchanan, who was commander of the Merrimac during the Civil War, and a descendant of Thomas McKean, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Her mother is the former Miss Elizabeth Stiles of Savannah. Mrs. White's marriage to Fitzhugh White of Savannah ended in divorce.
Captain Tuck served from 1914 until the end of the World War as a volunteer in the British Army, and later was a general staff officer on Lord Byng's staff. He was wounded twice and received the British Military Cross. He is a member of the Racquet and Tennis, Knickerbocker, Tuxedo, Turf and Field, and Rockaway Hunt Clubs and of the Military Order of Foreign Wars. He belongs also to the Prince's Racquet and Tennis Club and White's in London.
THE CHILDREN'S CORNER
The boys are getting real proud of their offspring and we are glad, too, that our classmates are still adding to the population. "Lize" Wheelock reports the arrival of second son Richard, weighing 9 lbs. 4 oz. "Dud" Colby reports his at 4½ and 2½ which we assume to mean years. This ambiguity is careless of a statistician. "Jess" Stillman claims he has two growing girls, which information while satisfying is again statistically vague. Jack Hanna, likewise, reports "two infants—both bornin Hanover." This might or might not make them twins, and as they are headed for Vassar they should be girls. "Doc" Kingsford reports his son has been through a trying illness. Hope he is now entirely recovered, "Doc." He also tells us that he visited John Warren at Wrentham who has two children, but as both were in bed and he didn't see them we can report no Warren vital statistics. George Boggs' children are all "fine"—number and sex not mentioned. "Red" Davidson is the prize reporter. . . . "The girl is 10 andthe boy 6." "Nasib" Deverian's note may indicate that sex determination has passed the theory stage: "Two boys in high schooland a third coming along." Henry Lowell's boy is about to enter Dartmouth. This dating is a good place to close the Children's Corner for this month.
There is now maintained at the desk of the Hanover Inn a Class Visitor's Book. When you go back don't fail to register. Leave a note of news about yourself, classmates, and family. It will be forwarded to the Secretary.
"Red" Davidson reports all well in Philadelphia. He saw Jess Stillman, Mart Remsen, Dick Barlow, Papson, and Van Riper at the Penn game—all O.K. "Red" says the score represented just about the real difference between the two teams. Thanks, "Red."
Harry Haywood is practising medicine in New Brunswick, N. J. He writes: "I amdoing surgery, and business is of sufficientvolume to require an assistant. Ralph Jenkins is a high school professor in the NewBrunswick public school system. We seeeach other frequently. Jack McCullough isin the Cellophane division of the DuPontCompany and located at Buffalo. I am stillin the unmarried group. Would like to seeany of the boys if they pass through."
Much obliged, Harry, and congratulations on the successful practice.
George Frost makes steel scaffolding and lives at 839 East Blackford Ave., Evansville, Ind. George claims he is keeping away from New York because on his last trip several good Fourteeners demonstrated his imperfections as a poker-player. Physically he admits being "balder andskinnier."
Anyone planning a trip to Havana should make note of this address: W. L. Davidson, the Havana Post, Industria, Havana, Cuba. Dave offers to show " . . .
some of the interesting things that are ontap that would not be shown them on theregular tours, so wish you would stick inthe next class bulletin the fact that I wouldbe mighty glad to see any of them and tryto show them around if they will look meup."
Very good, Davey ole boy, ole boy. We shall do just that when, if, and as; thus making the sauce more piquant.
BLESSED EVENTS DEPARTMENT
One child each, recently, to the Hal Browns and Flo and Mrs. Sullivan. Best of luck to you!
More B. Es. next month. Guess who? "Bob" Noble is principal of the high school at South Royalton, Vt.
LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD ON BROADWAY!
The mental age of the class averaged itself in the morning mail. First we opened a package which proved to be "Culbertson for Morons," a gift from our wife, prompted, we suspect, by a slight failure of the meeting of minds in the matter of the proper number of honor tricks necessary to raise a forced bid.
This we put aside, convinced that we were still right and the book must be wrong, to open a letter from Thorndike Saville, together with newspaper clippings. He has had a mighty interesting career and has just been appointed as full professor and head of the department of hydraulic and sanitary engineering at New York University.
After receiving his degree from the Thayer School he did advanced work at Tech and Harvard. During the war he was at Langley Field, Va., on water supply work. The following years have found him in Europe on river work and sewage disposal, in Venezuela to investigate water supply systems for the Rockefeller Foundation; three years with the Panama Canal engineers on erosion and other work. Most recently, in addition to being associate professor of sanitary engineering at the University of North Carolina, he has served the state as chief engineer of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development.
The class certainly extends its congratulations on your new appointment, and is happy to know of your expanding career during these past years.
Secretary, 16 Grove St., West Medford, Mass.
