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The sympathy of our entire class goes out to Al Livingston in the death of his wife, Marion, on June 13, 1942, in the Municipal Stadium at San Francisco. What may be briefly described as a most unusual accident, during the exhibition of the various manoeuvers of the armed forces of our country for the information of citizens of San Francisco and vicinity, Marion was struck by a stray fragment of a shell—well, it's just one of those things which no one could imagine could happen, but it brought tragedy to Al and his 12-year-old son Colin, and we all extend our sincere sympathy to both.
Russ Chase, always of Springfield, Mass., and a power politically and from a business standpoint in his native baliwick, writes that he spent a swell ten days with another real classmate, Judge Red Stevens in Ak- ron, 0., and his charming wife, and he is enthusiastic over the manner in which our Red is held in his home town. Hello, Red, we still remember those sophomore days in New Hamp when you spent a lot of your time in Russ Chase's and George Dyke's room as Stick Parnell and I graced the corner room on the first floor. Were those the days!
We also learn from Russ that Ray King, always the successful barrister in Spring-field, is now set up in a new law partnership with former-Governor Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts, and is doing fine, thank you.
Russ spends his spare time in a Civilian Defense project spotting planes, while Mrs. and her daughters are deep in Red Cross work—and does that sound familiar, with Fannie as chairman of Registration and Information in the Lawrence Chapter.
The Aleppo News, Eben Clough and about half a dozen others are the informants to me that Herb Potter is a Major of Cavalry at Camp Devens, Mass. (I forgot my age it's Fort Devens now), and really is quite a guy up there in the camp (fort) which sends all the New England boys on their way after being drafted.
Bob Guest, he of the financial world in Boston for lo these many eons, has, Bill Huntress tells me, gone back to the soil, and is now the proud owner of a general store in Walpole, N. H., and is chasing the boys off the cracker barrel when the customers come in. Is he a smart boy!
One of the August issues of Time magazine held forth on two of our classmatesJim Forrestal, under secretary of the Navy which is somewhat in the limelight in these here times, and Beards Ruml, author of the so-called Ruml Plan for the painless paying of taxes. Well, the Navy is 0.K., but if there is a painless way for the paying of taxes, I think Jim himself will yield to Beardsley. I personally don't know all the details of his plan, but he sure has had a lot of publicity since that issue of Time, and maybe he's got what we have missed. To pay taxes painlessly is a platform on which anyone could be elected, and we're with him 100%.
Just a quip from a story by Bill Cunningham in a recent issue of the Boston Herald indicates that our Dud Woolworth of Buffalo is back in the Army as what, we don't know, but it ought to be good. Drop us a line, Dud, and tell us where and what.
Shrimp Williams got quite a few letters from the boys in the process of collecting a record Alumni Fund for this past year, and by the way, that was a swell job all around, and 1915 was right up there to help establish a new record.
A letter to Shrimp from John Loomis indicates that the latter is still warning three meals a day as legal adviser to the Union Pacific Railroad, which seems to be going along all right with the boom in war movement of supplies, and John mentions that Malcolm Mac Donald's daughter was a visitor in his home recently.
And thus the news for this period we're told to keep our space down to help conserve, but don't let that keep you from writing your news, for we'll get it in by using smaller type if the copy runs over the limit.
Changes of address as reported by the College: Caleb F. Rogers, 279 Hartford Avenue, Wethersfield, Conn.; Voyle D. Rector, 1202 Jones St., Omaha, Neb.; Joel G. Harris, 355 Riverside Drive, Apt. 6E, New York City; Julian W. Hall, 826 West 8th St., Los Angeles, Calif.; Irving R. Gale, 26A Linnaean St., Cambridge, Mass.; Harold E. Budd, 161 E. Essex Ave., Landsdowne, Pa.; A. Stanley Llewellyn, 530 Sherwood Circle, Spartanburg, S. C.
Secretary, Box 697, Lawrence, Mass. Treasurer, 450 Lafayette St., Salem, Mass.
