Class of 1898
Bill Witte spent a few days in Boston recently, and tried to get in touch with his '98 classmates.
Miss Harriette Wilder Patey was married December first to Hilton Welborn Long of Boston in the Central Congregational church of Newton. Following their wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Long will be at home at 2 Prescott St., Cambridge, Mass. Miss Patey was graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in 1937 and the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in 1930. Mr. Long attended the Salisbury School in Salisbury, Conn., and M.I.T.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Fairbanks 2d at Lowell, November 21. This means that Bob Marden is a grandfather, as the mother of the child is his daughter Dorothy. Bob and his wife have gone to Miami Beach to spend the winter, probably remaining until late March.
On November 26, Joe Carney resigned his position of collector of internal revenue for Massachusetts to accept the office of Boston manager of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. This office covers all of New England for the RFC. The RFC was established for the purpose of making loans to various lines of business upon adequate security, so that the businesses might continue in operation. It is very essential that prompt reply be made to the applications for loans if the purpose of the act is to be fulfilled. With the banking training and experience which Joe has had, no doubt if any company applies to him for a loan and lays its cards down on the table there will be no delay in receiving a "yes" or "no" answer to the application. Joe knows that the time to give medicine is when the patient is sick, and that it will have no effect if given after the patient has died. The action of President Roosevelt in promoting Joe to the new position is commended, and there is no doubt that our classmate will achieve as fine a record as Boston manager of the RFC as he did as collector of internal revenue and administrator of the ERA. Any member of the class de- sirous of negotiating a loan will find Joe in the Federal Reserve Bank Building, 22 Pearl St., Boston.
Governor Ely has appointed Joseph W. Bartlett a trustee of Massachusetts State College at Amherst. Newspaper notices of the appointment remind us of the appointee's record. He is at present chairman of the Emergency Finance Board of the state, and was formerly civil works administrator and chairman of the board which administered the CWA in the state. He has been city solicitor of Newton since 1922, and was a member of the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission from 1919 to 1922. He is president of W. L. Douglas Shoe Co., director of the Newton Trust Co. and chairman of its auditing committee, director of Shaw Furniture Co., A. H. Davenport Co., and Irving & Casson. During the World War he was major judge advocate, 17th Division, A.E.F. He is a former commander of the Military Order of the World War.
Harry Goodall did not get home from the hospital as soon as was expected when the notes for last month were written. He was delayed about a month, and it will be about the New Year when he resumes his practice. By that time he will have had a most complete recovery and be himself again.
Secretary, 57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass.
