1909*

Your Executive Committee, composed of Carroll, Holmes, Burns, Farley, Worthen and myself, met recently to discuss the program to be adopted in '09 for the Alumni Fund Campaign. Hal Prescott, at the request of the Committee, has again consented to undertake the job of raising the funds in spite of his health situation, and we all feel that we must give him every bit of cooperation we can. Tuitions will be down—expenses up and the College is going to need our help more than ever. Hal Prescott will be contacting you soon and I know it will be a great help to him if you will send in your contributions early and generously. Let us not wait but do it now and save him as much as we can, for it is a mean job to write several letters to various members in order to get a response that could have been sent on the first appeal.

Bernard Scully has two most interesting letters which he received from Bernard Jr. which were published in the Stoneham paper. Bernie is located in the medical division outside the United States. He reports that he is in grand open country with mountains all around and a native village nearby. The routine and regularity of life in the Army appeals very strongly to him. Bernie was a B. C. student and his letters contain a very decided religious tinge. He says that they are very fortunate in the Catholic chaplain they have at the post. I am sorry it is not possible to quote an appreciable amount of his letters, but Bernard Sr. certainly has reason to be proud of a boy who can write in the manner he does and who apparently has such high principles.

William Brewster '18, writes me' from Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. that Wilbur I. Bull Jr., son of Wilbur '09, is a senior at Kimball Union and will enter Dartmouth this year. He is one of their best skiers and has done well in all of the meets. Brewster expects he will do very well at track this spring inasmuch as he won the cross country intramural race last fall.

Chester and Martha Brett recently had a telephone call from their son on the Coast where he had just landed from a tour of duty. They received the call at 5 o'clock and at 7 o'clock were on the train to the Coast to have a visit with him.

Chappelear, your Treasurer, is finding it very difficult to get any money out of you for Class dues and subscriptions to the MAGAZINE. He told me that he has paid for 161 subscriptions during the last 3 years without any reimbursements. This represents 30% of the subscriptions for that 3-year period. We should and must do better than this if we are going to participate in the group plan in the years to come. He recently sent out a letter to 60 members of the Class who had not paid and received just 7 checks. If you have not sent in anything the last three years, please do so at once.

Hal Prescott worked hard to get attendance at the annual Alumni Dinner in New York, February 19, and he succeeded in getting out (Dr.) Ed Meleney, Arthur Bates and Anson McLoud in addition to himself. They had a real pleasant evening but regretted that they did not have more present. Incidentally, Time Magazine this week had an interesting article stating that Ed Meleney was one of three specialists on tropical diseases who had been called to help in preparing our boys in the Army for the tough road ahead of them in trying to combat some of these diseases.

Mike Readey, whose address is 31 Mt. Prospect Avenue, Verona, N. J. suffered a bad heart attack recently—it put him in bed Christmas afternoon and kept him there for some time. He is out of bed now and getting along in nice shape. The doctor told him he was smoking too much and not drinking enough. I immediately wrote to him and asked for the doctor's name as I thought he was a good man to know. The cordial letter back from Mike said he would not only give me the doctor's name but also his nurse's telephone number which he thought might even be better than the doctor's name. With that outlook on life I guess we might say that Mike is doing well for himself. His son Maurice Jr. has applied for admission to the Freshman Class this September.

In case you don't know, the Class reunion dates this year are going to be May 15, 16 and 17. Hal Prescott and I were up last year and had a fine time—it would not be a bad idea for some of you to come along this year.

Fund Contributors for 1941

Contributors: 124 (70% of graduates). Total gifts: $2,344.97. HAROLD M. PRESCOTT, Class Agent.

1909

Adams, George R. Austin, Frank S. Bachelder, Everett E. Bates, Albert W. Bedell, Arthur S. Beebe, John C. Bell, Thomas Bird, Francis H. Brett, Chester S. Brock, Fred S. Brown, Walter E. Bruce, Robert M. Buchanan, Harry E. Bull, Wilbur I. Burbank, Harold H. Burns, George T. Burns, Robert A. Burpee, Benjamin P. Burroughs, Harry E. Buxton, Arthur L. Carroll, Frederick A. Catharin, Norman R. Caverly, Harley T.1 Chappelear, Edgar S. Chase, Philip M. Childs, John W. Clark, Harold S. Colley, Reginald H. Cummings, Clarence E. Cummings, Ralza M.2 Dillingham, Herman L. Dole, C. Elbert Driscoll, James G.3 Dudley, Benjamin H. Dunbar, Clarence E. Dwenger, George H. Eaton, Walter I. Erhard, Emile H. Fardy, Thomas A. Farley, Leon B. Floyd, Harry R. Follansbee, Merrill M. Ford, Edward C. French, Bertrand C. Gates, Stanley Goodhart, Joseph A. Goodrich, Ernest H. Graves, H. Wilbur Greenebaum, James F. Griffin, Trescott Hadden, Arthur A. Hawley, Jess B. Hazelton, Sidney C. Hill, Albert L. Hinckley, George H. Holmes, Robert J. Holzer, William F. Hooker, Sanford B. Howard, Eliot R. Howland, Nathaniel J. Huselton, James S. Jewett, Maurice G. Kilburn, Ira N. Killam, Carl Lane, Walter J. Leighton, Stanley W. Locke, Richard B.

Loughlin, William A. McCurdy, Allan M. McLane, Arthur F. McLoud, Anson Marshall, Leon C. Martin, Edwin D. Mason, J. Karl Meleney, Henry E. Moffatt, Elbert M. Mower, Robinson H. Murchie, Harold H. Newton, Jonah J. O'Brien, Frank J. Oliphant, George W. Olmstead, Frank T. O'Mara, Arthur J. Osborne, Harold A. Parkinson, Taintor Patch, William T. Peck, Warren L. Perley, Rollin H. Perry, Chester N. Pettengill, Russell A. Pratt, Harold H. Prescott, Harold M. Readey, Maurice Reagan, Frank J. Root, Kenneth E. Rose, Philip M. Ross, Wallace M. Saville, Clark Sheldon, Curtiss L. Sidley, Walter A. Simpson, C. Randolph Smith, Mark A. Snow, Clifton A. Solomon, Frank Spaulding, Howard K. Sporborg, Arthur J. Stanley, Arthur B. Stone, Robert M. Storer, Perley N. Swenson, J. Arthur Thorn, Craig Trickey, Charles L. Tucker, Lynde W. Tuttle, James N. Walker, Herbert M. Watson, Daniel E. Weinz, A. Gordon West, Vernon F. Whitcomb, Henry B. White, Arthur C. Wight, Ralph M. Williams, Frank B. Wing, Richard L. Worthen, Joseph W. lAlemorial gift fromhis mother, Airs. MabelT. Caverly.2Memorial gift fromhis classmate, Mr. HarryR. Floyd.BMemorial gift fromhis daughter, Mrs. MaryDriscoll O'Brien.

Secretary, William Filene's Sons Co., Boston, Mass.