1925
Riding into Ashland, N. H., one August day, Pete Kelsey hailed me from across the street. Pete was vacationing at Squam Lake and was in fine shape. He was saving gas by driving around in his sister's luxurious International four-cylinder pick-up.
It's a small world. Our print shop foreman going to Conway by train sat beside a nice looking chap working on a 16mm Kodak. Foreman helped him fix it. Come to find out it was George Stevens, very busy with his plastics business, en route for the week-end to visit his daughter at a summer camp. George sent word that he ran into Terry McGaughan at a ball game in New York. Only 36,000 people there. Terry was just back from the tropics on leave.
Benny Werntz, executive secretary of the National Screw Machine Products Assn., phenagled himself a trip to the West Coast in September, and is back in Cleveland the first of October. Business and pleasure combined.
Maj. Charley Flint is at Camp McCain in Miss. He has just completed the Command and General Staff School at Leavenworth, and is now Medical Inspector at Camp McCain. He would like to hear from Clint Taylor, Eddie Pease, and Bob Rahmanop.
The wives of the Marblehead delegation, Mesdames Sleigh and White, are canning and freezing everything edible against next winter. Their hard work was going over big with Bill and Whitey until they saw their dear wives eyeing a large torn cat with a speculative stare. Now they are beginning to wonder.
Charlie Moore, Boston Globe executive, was sitting one beautiful summer evening behind his Wayland home, waiting for a rat to attempt to enter his hen house. When the rat appeared Charley drew his equalizer, a twenty-two-target pistol. There was a mishap and Charles drilled his leg between the knee and groin. Luckily the slug cut through only unrationed meat and did not hit nerve, artery, or bone. Charles drew a bead on the rat and cooled it off. Then he went to the hospital for very successful First Aid treatment and was back on the job in a few days.
Bill Carter got fed up with being sales manager of bananas for United Fruit, with nothing to sell, and is now in the chemical lab at M.I.T.
Bill Pugh got away from his rushing real estate business long enough to vacation for a week at Rye Beach.
Cliff Hill is specializing on retail stores and the laundry business at his WPB post in Washington. His son, Peter, who is quite a tennis player, has been ill, but is now fully recovered.
Chet Eaton vacationed at Harwichport down on Cape Cod for a week or so.
Ben Werntz writes a most able letter, pointing out that at the time of graduation, our class voted to contribute to the College the sum of $1000 per individual by the time our 25th rolled around. In view of the fact that quite a few of the gang are climbing into the higher income tax brackets this year, it is well to consider the matter of making Alumni Fund gifts, or laying it on the line for the 25th Year Gift to the college. A little paper and pencil work shows the advisability for so doing right now, in certain tax situations.
They aim much happened here sence the last riting. They elected yore Secartary as Deakin uv the Church, making me about the only motorcycle riding Deakin in New England, I should judge. A breefcase-lugging perfessional New Dealer inspected our Rashulining Board and ast us how we perfected our gasoline coupons. The hed Clerk sed, "We set a bar trip in frunt uv the safe, nights, and Mr. Merrow lives overhead and hez got the floor awl marked to shewt through, if ennybody misses the bar trap and tries to crack the safe." The New Dealer claimed it want a secure arrangement, making us move the coupons tew the bank. We offered to give him §25 if he would try to bust in. He was a bum sport and wouldn't take us up. Too bad.
JOHN H. DAVIS JR. '25, president of Alloy Steel Products Cos., Inc., of Linden, N. J., recently awarded the Army-Navy Production Award for "great accomplishment in the production of war equipment."
Secretary, Center Ossipee, N. H. Treasurer, P. O. Box 428 Bristol, R. I.
