1915*

What with no reunion for us this year, the mounting responsibilities and activities of the war, the close of the year for MAGAZINE notes finds us almost at a standstill for class notes this month.

Just to show the intensiveness of war work, for instance, Chan Foster received class dues from Opie Horton, with just a hurried pencil note saying that he is headover-heels in a defense project which rates 12 hours a day 6 days a week

Don't know exactly how many hours a day Chief Engineer String Downing puts in at GE, but I'll bet it's all of that, not to mention the time his brain is working thinking up new schemes to slap the Jap with General Electric products.

Charlie Griffith spends all his spare hours and more in his New Jersey State Guard where he is Lieutenant of a company actively engaged in defending that important industrial area. Your Secretary finds little time hanging heavily on his hands as Chief Protection Officer of Area No. 4 in Massachusetts—and so it goes.

One bit of good news comes forth in a clipping from Kel Rose from a N. Y. paper, date-lined Toronto, and tells, apparently uncensored, that Russ Durgin has arrived in Tokyo to make arrangements for aid to U. S. and British prisoners of war in Japan. The announcement came by way of the Canadian Y.M.C.A.—and it's the first news since we heard and published in this column the fact that Russ was safe with his wife. Well, if Russ is in Tokyo, presumably on some kind of diplomatic arrangement, we can all be sure that our boys will be taken care of to the best of his ability—they could be in no better hands.

Our eminent physician and all-around swell guy Dr. Dwight O'Hara (Harp to you and me) has been named Acting Dean of Tufts College Medical School, having been promoted from vice-dean of the same institution and his promotion is richly deserved. Harp has been Professor of Preventive Medicine there for a long time, and will also retain that position along with his other work—and is an authority on public health, a subject mighty important in these war days. Our best to Harp, and we know that he'll go much further than this!

Casey Jones, who writes music for recreation as he walks about in his daily work has had a first rate war-patriotic song published—and they say it's going places. It's called "Wake Up America"—the title is more timely than perhaps we know—it is being published by a big New York music house, and is described by many music experts as superior to other patriotic songs now heard throughout the nation. Tune in on your favorite station soon and hear it.

As I write these notes, I am handed a little box that Eben Clough left here in my office yesterday when I was out,—an Easter remembrance from Eben to Fannie and me—sorry I missed him. A note from Eben a short time ago tells of an impromptu gathering of himself dropping in on Chan Foster; calling up String Downing who lives but a short distance awayand a good time was had by all.

Bostonians still eat Monday noons—but the crowd has thinned out some—but the regulars hang on and enjoy this once-aweek get-together.

Changes in address for this month as reported by the College Office of Alumni Records-

Major Norville L. Milmore, 34 Bellevue Rd., Swampscott; Arthur C. Nichols, 273 Converse St., Longmeadow, Mass.; Herbert V. Widman, 232 Avondale Rd., Ridgewood, N. J.; Voyle D. Rector, 332 Pine St., San Francisco; Herbert D. Lanterman, c/o Carbide Plant, Texas City, Texas.

Send us your military on civilian defense status and data; we'll be glad to publish it.

Secretary, Box 697, Lawrence, Mass. Class Agent, Berkshire Road, Framingham, Mass.