Class of 1903
During the past month I received a letter from Ned Kenerson enclosing an invitation to the marriage of Mary Phillips Woolverton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Hand Woolverton of Birmingham, Ala., to Dr. Henry Tompkins Kirby- Smith on Saturday, the twenty-first of September, 1935, at the First Presbyterian church of Birmingham. Though this is a late date to record the marriage and to extend the congratulations and best wishes of the class to the happy couple, we do so with the feeling that wedding bells have rung joyously throughout the family circle of the Woolvertons and we are happy with them.
Mr. and Mrs. Preston Wilbar Howard announce the marriage of their daughter, Rhoda Marion, to Lieutenant Francis Henry MacDuffi on Saturday, March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and thirtysix, in New York. Mrs. Mac Duff is a graduate of Boston University while Mr. Mac- Duff is a lieutenant in the aviation service of the army, stationed at Mitchell Field, N. Y. For years our reunions have been graced by the attendance of Rhoda, and we have come to appreciate that she is one of us. We hope that in June, 1938, the hum of the motors will announce the arrival in Hanover of Rhoda and Lieut. Mac- Duff.
A feature article on Bette Davis, the glamorous screen star, appeared in the Boston Herald of April 5, and with it the likeness of our classmate, Horace L. Kidger, principal of the Newton Junior High School. Bette was the guest of honor at a luncheon at the Brae Burn Country Club and paid tribute to her former teacher of English. It was a fine compliment, Horace.
Immediately after the flood in New Hampshire the governor of the state appointed a committee of citizens to survey the damage wrought and to plan for recovery. Victor M. Cutter was among those selected. At Concord William L. Stevens was named as one of the local committee for the same purpose.
The Alumni Office reports a change of residence for Phil Brown in Newton Highlands, Mass. to 36 Saxon Rd. Also Henry G. Porter's new residence address as of 58 Caryl Ave., Yonkers, N. Y.
Hollis W. Stewart has again been located as of 21 Pearl St., Glens Falls, N. Y.
At the Pusey and Jones Corp. shipyards in Wilmington, on March si, 1936, Miss Edith E. King, daughter of our own Harold G. King, U. S. Commissioner of Lighthouses, sponsored the launching of a lightship, the Nantucket. This new lightship will mark the spot where its similarly named predecessor was rammed by the steamship Olympia two years ago.
A card from Harold Hess on his way for a brief respite at Palm Beach reports contact with "Bolz" French and wife, also at Palm Beach. Harold suggests a class picnic for next March at the same place. Say, Harold, we're New Englanders and nearly broke, and besides Vic gives us a wonderful time at New London in June.
A letter from Herb Follett in San Francisco complains of business interfering with pleasure. Now, fellows, that's news, and we hope that the government will investigate such a situation and correct the evil results, for the pleasure mentioned above has to do purely with contacting Potholeskers. We'll have the President appoint Senator Fred Brown as chairman of the investigating committee, and he in turn will select Andrew Jack- son of the SEC to advise the committee with regard to the relative importance of said business and pleasure. A trip to the Pacific Coast for Andy would then be in order.
Herb reports that he hasn't seen Jim Cresswell in long moons, but the last he heard of him he was in Texas.
The election of juniors to senior societies on March 5 gave membership in Casque and Gauntlet to Gordon Bennett, Arthur J. Cohen Jr., and William E. Geraghty, whose illustrious fathers are of the vintage of 1903.
Secretary, 198 Humphrey St., Marblehead, Mass.
