1902*

"Tommy" Thompson, having been born in the "Wooly West" at Fort Grant, Arizona in 1879 and having lived through the wild Indian days of Charlie Boyle in the '99-1900 era at Hanover, New Hampshire, settled down for years in Boston, but has now taken up a pastoral existence at Shirley, Mass. When he wrote me last summer he had just returned from picking corn and peppers in his garden. He has a comfortable dental practice in the nearby village and does a little modern farming.

Ernest Watson is pleasantly seated at Hanover. He has taught English in the Levant and written a book about it but his heart and soul is still in the drama as it was when he and "Beezle" Parker used to tread the boards in our college days. He has published an interesting volume, FromSheridan to Robertson and co-edited Scribner's Contemporary Drama. "Watty" is most happily married. His wife sings in the White Church Choir and occasionally acts in the student plays and his son, Ernest Bradlee Jr., was in Cleveland and Memphis as a theatrical designer and stage technician when came Pearl Harbor. Now he is with the 87th Regt. of Ski troops at Tacoma, Washington.

This brings me back to the 1902 war record which I started in August. At the time I forgot that back in our college days we had "General" Howard P. Stone when General Pillsbury was only a "cap." We also have, despite our years, another classmate on active duty, Colonel Philip Fox instructing at Harvard and Tech in the Signal Corps.

Our sons it is who are mostly carrying the torch and doing it nobly. Herman Farwell has a boy who entered the infantry in Nov., 1940, got promoted to a sergeant and is now an aviation cadet. Warren Wells has two boys in the Army and "Barney" Luce has a junior who enlisted in the famous 7th Regt. N. Y. and later went to the 207th Inf. at Camp Stewart, Georgia. Barney has retired and lives in Norfolk, Connecticut.

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