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The Boston Herald of January 9, 1942, had the pictures of ten Massachusetts young men commissioned as second lieutenants on January 2 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana, in the Army Air Corps. Among them was Fletcher A. Hatch Jr., of West Newton, son of our own "Sliver," who left his studies at the University of Maine to enlist in this branch of the Service. Mrs. Hatch went to Louisiana for the graduation exercises.
Mary Hills, daughter of "C. C.," is rooming in New York with Arthur McLary's daughter, Louise, where they are both employed.
Jake Atwood's son, Robert, graduates at Dartmouth this May. Robert is reported to have added poundage as a result of the Hanover climate.
Mary Dillon is in Florida for the winter.
W. E. Chamberlain of Lexington, Mass., is busy with the local draft board and other community activities.
Walter Emery writes that he has been unusually busy since the fateful December 7.
We are all delighted to hear that Stanley Besse, with whom Walter and Sliver had lunch in New York just before Christmas, is much improved in health.
Welcome information has been received that Stillman Batchelder, rancher and orchardist of Venada, California, who was in- the Fort Miley Hospital in San Francisco for a time during the summer, is now much better. His daughter, Eloise, is in her last year at the Bouve School in Boston. Percy Noel's address is at 117 Rittenhouse, N. N. W., Washington, D. C.
At the annual meeting of the Bar Association of the City of Boston on October ii, 1941, Lafayette R. Chaiiiberlin was elected as one of seven members of the Council of the Association to serve for three years.
Lafayette R. Chamberlin, Joshua Winslow Pierce and Walter M. May became grandfathers during the closing quarter of 1941. Peter Pierce Pillsbury, son of Mr. and Mrs. Penn Parker Pillsbury (Priscilla Pierce) was born on October 10. Eliot Butler Willauer Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Eliot Butler Willauer (Katherine Chamberlin) came on November 3, 1941. Jane May Monell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Monell (Judith May) arrived on December 23, 1941, the date of Mrs. May's birthday. Here are two enrollees for Dartmouth and one for Skidmore.
At the annual meeting of the Merrimack County Dartmouth Alumni Association, held in Concord on December 30, 1941, Albert I. Dickerson '30, Executive Assistant to President Hopkins, came down from Hanover and gave a very interesting talk on the carefully planned policies of the college resulting from the entrance of the United States in the War. Walter M. May was elected President of the Association and Herbert Rainie '06, who led the singing, Vice President for 1942. Lawrence I. Duncan '27, was reelected secretary. Harry Preston, Andy MacMillan and your Secretary represented 'OK.
J. V, CCli J W r). Edmund E. Day, President of Cornell University, is to address the American Association of School Administrators at its annual meeting in San Francisco on February 21-26, 1942. President Day is a member of the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association. A member of the Commission told your Secretary last summer that President Day took a very active part in the work of the Commission and that his contributions to the work of that body have been of great value.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gilbert had the pleasure of entertaining last fall Ed's roommate in 8 Thornton, Philip Thomas '03, Mrs. Thomas and their alert daughter, Rebecca. Philip is a landscape contractor in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His reports of the flood of petroleum and its products in Tulsa caused Ed to do considerable pondering at a time when the threatened gasoline shortage was facing the Eastern Seaboard.
Secretary, 4 Holt St., Concord, N. H.
