Class of 1919

We have just this minute finished writing a Nineteen News, and the calendar shows only too clearly that it is time to send off some timely items to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. The which leaves us in somewhat of a hole. We had a grand amount of hoarded news, but we used it all and have now only a few letters which Spider sent on too late to get in.

First there is one from Sherm Green, who is still with the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He encloses his check for the Fund as he always does and says, "Mail just came infrom Washington and it did not containany letter giving me my walking papers, soI presume that my job is good for anotherweek. Since the receipt, nine months ago,of notice of the general Sy3% salary cut toapply to all hired help of Uncle Sam, myown Bureau has imposed two more substantial cuts owing to slashes of our particular appropriation. My latest advicefrom Washington is that salary payment forthe month of June is problematical. TheAmericans down here are forced to dependon only meagre news items concerningPresident Roosevelt's measures to cope withthe panic. The situation certainly lookstough but not hopeless."

Jim Pelletier writes from Albany, where he is in the fruit and produce brokerage business. He reports all kinds of tough going, but sends along the old contribution just the same. He reports seeing the great Ives at a Dartmouth gathering in Albany a short time ago. Jim also mentions our Fifteenth Reunion, which is sneaking up on us and which has got to be watched.

A third letter comes from R. P. Pollard, Socony Vacuum Corporation, Rangoon, Burma, which gives us quite a breadth of view as far as the economic situation goes and the reaction to the Fund. He sends his usual contribution in spite of the fact that business is extremely slack and many of the good old firms are folding up. He expects to be home in the spring of 1934, which is certainly timing things very nicely. No doubt we'll see him at the Fifteenth a year from June. All of these fellows, in spite of the fact that they are in different parts of the world, are suffering from the same general situation. Yet they have all come through with their usual contributions and the sincere hope that the boys will do their best to keep up the high standing of the class and to help the College through the rough going.

Spider has worked hard for a great many years now to put our class among the best each year. This year is going to be hard. The College recognizes prior claims, and is urging that no one give who cannot afford to do so. We have always taken the attitude that we did not want money from fellows who were sick, out of a job, or running into a lot of hard luck. We don't want it now from those boys. But we do feel that everyone who has a job can send along a few bucks and, what's more, we feel pretty sure they will. Let's all give Spider a lift.

Secretary, 87 State St. Framingham Center, Mass