1930*

Thirtyteers take their hats of! to no one, not even in the production of twins. The sixth set arrived August 24th last, thereby doubling the offspring of Hughie and Alycia Johnson, twin boys, Hugh Albert Jr., and Stuart Robert, 6 Ibs. 7 ozs., and 7 lbs. 2 ozs., respectively. In case you have forgotten all the other Thirty twins, they are the Blanchards, Rockefellers, Schellers, Tobeys and Alderdices, in that order of arrival.

Hughie says that he missed reunion because at that time he was in the process of opening the Buffalo office of George D. B. Bonbright & Co., of which he is now the manager, and moving his family from Binghampton, which made him a pretty stuffy so-and-so over the weekend of June 15th. J. Gilman Cheney and Norm McGrath helped Hughie celebrate and greet the turn of the year, and Stuffy Mclnnes has lunch with them from time to time.

We have some fancy new stationery with which to start off the new year and will be using it on you from now on. Treasurer Embree also has a supply for writing nice little thank you notes when you send him your class dues and also to prod those few who have not as yet paid them.

Jack Coppock is now in the credit department of the Universal Credit Corp. at Providence, having previously been in the Boston and Brockton offices of the same company, and is living at 225 Elm Street, North Attleboro. And Hank Wood has been transferred from the Woonsocket W. T. Grant store to the Westfield, Mass. establishment.

Jack Hodges writes that he is still leading the single life down in that grand little town of Lynchburg, Virginia, where he is district manager of the Richmond zone for the Chevrolet Motor Division. He spends a good many week-ends in Washington and extends a warm welcome to anybody who drops by either place.

Carl Haffenreffer, who has received wellearned recognition for his ultimate triumph of the Stop Chandler Christmas Card Crusade, recently announced that the Herreshoff Ship Yard, builders of several America's Cup defenders, was gathering material and advertising for men in anticipation of contracts for naval vessels. This will keep Haffy doubly busy, directing sales for that well-known brewery and managing the ship yard.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Anne Bartley, daughter of Mrs. Frank J. Bartley, of New York, to Mr. Charles J. McDonough. Miss Bartley is a graduate of Holy Child Academy and Hunter College. No date has been set for the wedding. Charlie was graduated from the law school of St. John's University and is now engaged in private law practise.

We have a few more blessed events to proclaim this month, the first a belated an- nouncement in a letter from Hammy South, who says, "I am getting to be a 'short timer' though where I am to go is a mystery as yet to me. One extremely important fact is the birth of my fine fat son. He almost was a firecracker baby but instead he got bored and arrived full speed on July 3, 1940, at the Quincy Hospital. He, poor lad, is Hamilton Disston South 111 and his weight was seven pounds two ounces." This explains very satisfactorily why it was not our Hammy who flew over the baseball field at reunion, but his duties as a captain in the U. S. Marine Reserve Aviation Unit at Squantum are undoubtedly a better reason for missing the big tenth.

Sandy and Lina McCulloch are the proud parents of John Andrew, who arrived at the Lowell General hospital December 7. The McCullochs are now living in Maiden, where Sandy bought a house last July. He was recently made office manager of the Boston plant of the Morgan Linen Service, Inc.

The stork was as busy as Santa Claus around greater Boston, for Caroline Cromwell was brought to the Alex McFarlands on the morning of December 26. That makes it Alex J., Alex 8., Caroline 8., and Caroline C., but to insure order in his home and obedience to his orders, Alex says the little girl will be known informally as Carol.

Additional statistics department: gleaned from a lengthy report on the selective process of admission. The Class of 1930 entered college with 648 members, of which 383 received their degrees with the class at Commencement; 48 received theirs subsequently, making a total of 431, which does not jibe with our total number of graduates, 443, but this is accounted for by including former members of '29 who received their degrees and are listed with our class.

Speaker of the month: Shaw Cole, who gave a talk at the Thayer School on hydraulic and sanitary engineering. Shaw, by the way, was recently invited to teach those subjects at the engineering school at Tulane University.

Just about a year ago Jack Cooper was located in El Peru, Venezuela, where he was the shift boss at New Goldfields of Venezuela, Ltd. Last spring he returned to Colorado mining fields to become treasurer, a director and superintendent of property of the Freeland Mining Company, of which his father is president. Jack attended Stanford University for a year after graduation, where he took a business administration course. From 1931 to 1934 he was a junior engineer for the Public Service Company of Colorado and since that time has been engaged in mining activities, first as the superintendent of the Gold Hub Mines Company at Silverton, Colorado, and then did contract mining for the Shenandoah-Dives Mining Company, until his shift to Venezuela.

Following his wedding last month, Charlie Rauch has come back to the New York office of Wood, Struther & Co., after a four-year spell as branch manager of their Hartford office. Ev Low was one of Charlie's ushers at the wedding.

Dan McKenna left the Children's Hospital in Denver and is now at the Graduate School of Medicine at Penn, but he neglected to state whether he is teaching or studying at that institution G-man Dick Hood is back at his post in Los Angeles after a term at the San Diego office of the F. B. I Woolen manufacturer Sam Stayman is living at the Hotel Vanderbilt in New York Norm Watson is with the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., at Kearney, N. J., as a shipfitter, a position he formerly held with the Bath Iron Works in Maine.

The New York boys will have their second class dinner of the current year on February 4th, at the Dartmouth College Club. Chairman Al McGrath has promised an entertaining program of the type those present at the first dinner expressed a desire for, and another good turnout is thus assured.

Secretary, Simons & French Co., Inc. 99 Hudson St., New York, N. Y.