1916
When these few words are cold print, an all-important event will be a warm memory, viz., the annual 1916 dinner, etc., at Boston's University Club on the eve of the Cornell game. Frank Bobst expresses sanguine expectations for a sort of 1916 durbar and Frank usually knows.... but, more of this tout a I'heure (French, for those who care for French).
Alex Jardine pontificates from his scornful seat at the receipt of customs (Matt, ix 9) that the number of us who have paid class dues has been increased since our last installment by the help of the following twenty valiants:
P. H. Blaney, W. H. Brown, C. Campbell, M. F. Colton, E. A. Craver, E. B. Frey, G. B. Fuller. S. W. Harvey, G. B. Howell, E. L. Lindman, A. G. Marsden, H. W. Nickerson, H. B. Parker, R. B. Perkins, F. G. Pettengill, W. H. Renfrew, K. K. Stowell, P. A. Warren, P. Whipple, J. F. Welch.
To be sure, this pushes the total well over the hundred-mark, but for 1916 what sort of performance do you call this anyway, now that we are "safe at last in the wide, wide world?" No, the results have not reached that point of development referred to by my younger friends as "definitely snorting."
MEMORABILIA MISCELLANEA
Bill Brown writes that his daughter Ruth Ann received her diploma from her father, principal of the Glens Falls High School, and she is now a freshman at Simmons.
Ed Craver has three sons in servicePerry, lieutenant in Army aviation; Nelson, Marine Radio School at Texas A. and M.; John, Navy gunnery school. If this is not unique in the annals of the class, it deserves to be.
Jack English has been at home for a short leave, allotted to him despite the press of his work, simply because he was confined to the hospital with spinal meningitis for four weeks. Jack writes that he had a narrow escape and that he realizes how fortunate he is. We feel that we have been fortunate too, Jack, and may God bless you.
Ed Lindman reports that he was employed during the past summer for some weeks at the Stanley Works in New Britain as "chief inspector of copper-cladded gocaliber tracer bullet cups"—whatever these are. It is to be noted that the Ordnance Division made no rejections for off-standard production while Ed was on the job, which is the result one would expect.
Russ Perkins indicates that he plans to move shortly to Naval Operating Base, Legal Department, Terminal Island, San Pedro, Calif. Russ' son is now in the Army, assigned to the ASTP engineering course at the University of Alabama. Russ, as you know, is now a lieutenant; he gives encouraging accounts of the quantity of work which Shorty Hitchcock is performing as Naval Embarkation officer at San Diego.
The public prints have it that our Max Spelke is retained as counsel in the famous Alfred de Marigny case in Nassau, Bahamas. Max has served recently as judge of the state juvenile court for the FairfieldLitchfield District, and as special assistant attorney in the United States Department of Justice.
Captain Phil Stackpole is an instructor at the University of Wisconsin (Barnard Hall, Madison) and wants to know "what kind of a war is this? I spent four months at Washington and Lee University, one month at the School of Fort Custer, Washington, and am now starting two months at the University of Wisconsin."
Bob Steinert is with the training-within-industry division of the War Manpower Commission and is housed in an office adjacent to that of Gil Tapley, now in the Job Relations Section of the same agency. Bob's assignment is "getting inexperienced workers into real production," and reports of his success are commendatory, as are those on Gil.
Hap Ward's missive defies my efforts to condense it:
"Just got back from the usual summer in the western New York hills and the canyons of Broad and Wall Street, the latter environs being mildly profitable but hotter than the belly fur on the Devil's cat. The Gulf shore "shore is purty" these days and us crackers have settled down to enjoy another balmy (we hope) winter away from the wintry blasts beloved of skiers and hockey players. When this present lamentable situation is finally settled, I hope that reunions will fall back into the old routine, and that we can manage to reach Hanover without the disruptive attentions of the thieves that prevented our getting to the last one. I'm puckered up already, in anticipation of a few swallows of the old-time Hanoverian apple-juice. May it prove as palatable as memory tells me it was years ago."
Word from Earl Williams indicates that he is busy as usual with his work in the Johns-Manville research laboratories. His oldest daughter, Dorothy, was recently graduated from the conservatory of music, while his younger daughter, Helen, is a sophomore at Hollins College, Va.
Changes of address for the present are as follows: Lt. Col. John L. Ames, Headquarters Eastern Defence Command, Governors Island, N. Y. 4; Daniel S. Dinsmoor, Monsanto Chemical Cos., Everett, Mass.; Arthur G. Eastman, 55 West nth St., New York.
Secretary, 2542 Stratford RcL, Cleveland Hgts., Ohio Acting Secretary, 3 Downing RcL, Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 34 White Oak Road Wellesley Hills, Mass.
