1914*

On this crisp October morning as we are about to leave for a week-end in Hanover it is a pleasure to perform this monthly duty.

Arthur Maddalena writes interestingly that he is still with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in the capacity of Manager of the Westfield, Massachusetts, district. His son, Arthur Jr., will finish his pre-medical course at Notre Dame next year, where he has achieved the distinction of having been elected President of the Academy of Science, which is one of the highest scholastic honors at Notre Dame. He plans to enter Tufts Medical School next fall. Incidentally, Arthur Jr. was the first young man in western Massachusetts to enlist in the Naval Reserve and spent the summer aboard the Illinois on a cruise which went as far as Cuba. Mary Virginia is a freshman at Regis College, Weston, Massachusetts, and his youngest daughter, Kathleen, plans to follow her at Regis next year. Arthur lives at 17 Pearl Street, Westfield, and hopes the boys will drop in when they are going through.

Red Davidson, always prompt to report, regrets he sees few fourteeners in Philadelphia but is hoping for the best. His daughter, Dorothy, has entered Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, this fall. Red says his hay fever is better and sends his regards to all the boys.

Carroll Edson writes that he is just back from a tour of duty with the First Army maneuvers where he was a member of the staff of the Second Corps. He is waiting with interest to see whether the reserve officers will be called out and put him in active service for the year. His eldest son, Stuart, will be a junior at Syracuse University this year, where he is active in the R.O.T.C. and on the college swimming team. Carroll's daughter, Lucile, is training for school teaching work at Miss Wheelock's School in Boston.

We break out in a rash of marriages and engagements this month. Jesse Babcock announces the marriage of his daughter, Eleanor Louise on July 3, 1940, to Douglas Melvin Hunt at South River, New Jersey. Mr. Hunt is a graduate of Rutgers '39 and up to the time of her marriage Louise had been a student at Mount Holyoke.

Vogie Stiles also sends an announcement of the marriage of his daughter, Shirley, to Peter L. Paull (Yale 1935) of Bourne, Massachusetts. Vogie's new son-in-law is a chemical engineer and is in the oil business in Alton, Illinois. He writes he had a pleasant visit recently with Jack Fields, who brought him up to date on Reunion and other class news.

Jess Pomeroy writes of the engagement of his daughter, Elizabeth, to Robert L. Craft of DePauw University, Indianapolis, Indiana. His son, John, is entered at the Clark School in Hanover and hopes to enter college next year.

Another engagement is that of the daughter of Gus Fuller, Betty Ann, who will marry a Yale graduate, whose name Gus deponeth not. His son, Dick, is playing halfback at New Trier High School and is Captain of next year's baseball team. Gus is quite modest about Dick but Rufe Sisson writes he is hot stuff and that he will make a great name for himself at Hanover. Gus sends his very best to all the boys and hopes he will be meeting some of them this fall.

Fred Campbell takes time off from his insurance statistics to tell us about his family. Anne is a junior at Bryn Mawr and Fred Jr. is a freshman at Hanover this fall, while Sally is still going along blithely in Junior High. Fred and your scribe have places of business perhaps two hundred feet away and we often remark how seldom we bump into each other.

We have a fine chatty letter from Rufe Sisson in which he tells of his eldest son, Dale, who is a freshman at Hanover this fall and a roommate of Joe Batchelder's second son, Mark. Mark, he says, is 6 ft. a in., has a good voice and is a fine swimmer and is planning on a medical career, while Dale Sisson looks forward to Tuck School and hopes to make the Dartmouth Hockey Team. His youngest son, Jack, is at Vermont Academy. Rufe's daughter, Virginia, spent a year at Sweet Briar College along with the respective daughters of John Palmer and Sig Larmon. Last June she received her degree in Education from New York University, previous to which she spent considerable time abroad studying art, music and education. Rufe reports a visit from A 1 Richmond this summer, who was with the army on maneuvers in and about Potsdam. In closing he reiterates that fourteeners should become better acquainted with his location. Potsdam is located in the Adirondacks region and more of us should drive up that way and look him up at s6 Garden Street.

L. D. White was, as you know, a member of the Civil Service Commission for several years before returning to full professorship of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Just recently he has again been drafted to serve as a member of the Special Committee for Civil Service Improvement, the chairman of which is Mr. Justice Reed of the Supreme Court. Their job, we gather, among other things is to make recommendations concerning the future status of government lawyers. Further honors have come to him in the way of selection as Editor-in-Chief of a new national quarterly, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW the first issue of which appears this fall. The class is honored in the distinguished public service career of L. D. and extends to him their congratulations and particularly best wishes for the success of the new publication.

Rubber Floyd says that all is well with him down in Georgia. His eldest son enters Emory University this fall and he reports further that the rest of the family apparently will attend southern colleges. He sincerely regrets he sees so few classmates and hopes you will all remember his address when travelling south—Goodyear Clearwater Mill, Cartersville, Georgia.

Ernie Kimball has two daughters in Boston University this year, Dorothy a senior, and Barbara a freshman; also a nephew a freshman at Hanover.

Bill Washburn is very busy as usual as one of San Francisco's most distinguished surgeons. His family are all well and he sends his regards to all.

There is a solemn note, as well there might be, from George Boggs. He writes, "The war is very vital to us all in Canada. Living conditions are quite normal but I find it very hard to keep my thoughts far from'war activities. Already a good many of my friends have gone into the army." He reports a visit from Bill Taft and his wife, and hopes that more fourteeners will drift up toward Wolfville, Nova Scotia. George regrets he may not see any football games down this way this fall.

Secretary, 16 Grove St., West Medford, Mass. T reasurer, The Stanley Works Amer. Tube & Stamping Plant Bridgeport, Conn.