1920*

The Chemical Bank and Trust Company, New York City, appointed Chet Johnson a vice president. He was formerly the manager of the foreign department. ... .John Moore, Principal Priorities Specialist, Consumer Durable Goods, WPB, lectured at Tuck School recently on "Priority and Conversion Problems in Durable Consumers Goods Industries." (This certainly is an age of initial caps.)

NAVAL NOTES: Phil Deane is now Lieutenant Deane, USN Mel Merritt has reported for duty as a commissioned officer in Naval Air Corps. The State of Massachusetts thus loses one of its top golfers. Mel was president of the Massachusetts Golf Association, two terms, and one of the very low-handicap golfers in the State. He was the N. E. champ in 1938.

Another new Washingtonite has been heard from. A nice long letter from Irv Blaine in the Food Machinery Section of WPB. Reports seeing Bob Morse, one of those proverbial $1 a year men. Bob spends three days a week in Washington and the rest in New York. Irv has also run into Sal Andretta and Pat Holbrook in the Washington wanderings.

Does anyone want a 1920 Aegis? Any reasonable offer will secure one from R. F. Bunting '22, 87 Prospect Street, East Hartford, Conn.

Note these new addresses: Dr. Charlie Stevens, Cultural Relations Assistant, American Embassy, Mexico, D. F.; Don Mac Donald, 64 Edgemont Rd., Scarsdale, N. Y.; Bud Weymouth, teacher, Williamstown High School, Williamstown, Mass.; Beardsley Foster, R.F.D., Darien, Conn. ... .Also Tom Davidson has bought himself a farm near York, Maine (the native habitat).

To conclude Tommy Thomson's letter which I started last month: In speaking of the present war Tommy says "My boy is too young to go and never will go because of the crippling he got from a Staph, infection and the following Osteomylitis and somehow I feel cheated there. One of the twins is marrying a Naval Officer this summer, if he survives the Atlantic the next three months, and the other plans to get into nursing as soon as possible. The former is at Maryland University and the latter at Oregon U. Both doing well. Little Carol, almost five, goes to kindergarten. Tommy Jr., is a sophomore in high school and plans a doctor's life with part of it at Dartmouth.

"My job is still the best one in the country, track coaching I mean, and the material is getting better. Last year, with only two classes to work with, we beat Carolina, Duke, Georgetown and, but for a couple of tough breaks over which we had no control, would have beaten a strong Army team. The team will be a little better this year and we have the best Plebe outfit ever. That makes it look nice for next year, if they all stay in school. Academics very hard here, you may have heard.

"Several of the coaches here have worked out the athletics for Lt. Comdr. Tom Hamilton's induction schools for the Naval Air Corps. I got in my licks and I'll say the boys are going to be plenty tough when they finish their three months at those schools. They will be able to chase the Germans and Japs right down to the ground and run them ragged there, if they run out of bullets.

"We have to train the instructors, who are going to put the program over, here. The first batch of goo comes here in less than two weeks and our classes start at 7:30 in the morning. We have to get them out of the way before our regular duties with the midshipmen begin. Some fun. Then we have two sessions with the midshipmen and our coaching on top of that. Quite a day. I get home at 6:30.

"I am wondering how I will ever get time to go to Washington to see some of the gang there. I have seen Charlie Goodnow and Sal from time to time, but everyone up there is too busy to get down this way, I guess. Maybe they will show up this summer.

"Well, Frank, it's time for bed. Wife just came in from some duplicate with the story of how her partner threw it away. You know how it is. These women never seem to get a good partner even when they play with their husbands, especially then."

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