LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Home Again

Dear Sir:

It occurred to me that the following incident might be of interest to the alumni of the College.

Yesterday morning in the Surgical Out Patient Department of the Children's Hospital I was examining a child. The child's mother who was obviously a person of very limited means and education was seated near by. I noted that she was wearing a Kappa Kappa Kappa badge. This seemed rather incongruous and I asked her where she had obtained it. She said a friend had found it and given it to her little girl but the mother occasionally wore it. I told her what the badge was and asked if I might look at it. Inscribed on the back was Edward Richardson, Dartmouth 1907. I told the woman I thought the owner would appreciate its return and that I might be able to find him. She was quite willing to surrender the pin for this purpose and gave it to me. I looked up Mr. Richardson in the Alumni Directory and found a Wellesley address. This was not listed in the telephone directory and there were several Edward Richardsons, all but one having a middle initial. I called the home of the one for whom there was no middle initial listed and talked with Mrs. Richardson who said her husband had been in the class of 1907 at Dartmouth.

Yesterday evening on my way home I stopped in Brookline and returned the badge to Mr. Richardson. He told me he had lost the badge twenty-five years ago. There was a further coincident. Within a week Mr. Richardson had attended a fraternity dinner and in the evening of my call he expected to entertain several members of his delegation at dinner.

This seemed an unusually fitting occasion for the return of his lost fraternity insignia.

66 Commonwealth Avenue,

Boston, Massachusetts.

Praise for Mr. Clayton

Dear Sir

I was very glad indeed to see, in a recent number of the MAGAZINE, an excellent picture of Mr. Clayton, the janitor of the Administration Building.

He has had charge of the building since it was first erected, and has been a most faithful caretaker all these years. The splendid condition in which the building now is, after so many years of constant use, is due in no small degree to the attention that has been given it "y Mr. Clayton.

The donors of the building have always felt, and do now feel, a great obligation to Mr. Clayton, and have a very great appreciation of his faithful service there.

Bouquet for "Old Timer"

Dear Sir:

Please convey to the author of "Noted Townies: Past and Present" in your February, 1935, issue an appreciation of his story of John Poor.

It was my good fortune to take his course in astronomy which was an education in itself. May the good work keep on.