1914
Among the five Naval officers recently awarded the Silver Star by President Roosevelt was Lt. (j.g.) Arthur D. son of our classmate. Arthur was graduated from Notre Dame, cum laude, in 1940 and as a Naval Reservist he was soon called toduty and studied at Annapolis.
The award cites "during hazardous engagements with enemy dive-bombers, torpedo planes and submarines, the ship wascredited with holding convoy damage to a minimum by driving off numerous and almost continuous attacks with effective barrage. He (Lt. Maddalena) maintained constant vigilance and conducted himself with extraordinary courage in the face of great danger."
Art—all 1914 sends him best wishes and "happy voyages home."
The Boys move around: Bill Stratton is. with the OPA, with offices at 10 Postoffice Sq., Boston. Lt. Col. Paul H. Hazelton is located at 7045 Northmoor Ave., University City, Mo. George P. Little hasmoved to 2018—242 nd St., Lomita, Cal. Mail for Capt. Alexander J. M. Tuck, should be sent to 420 Lexington Ave., New York City. Likewise the forwarding address for Capt. Horace L. Borden is c/o Mrs. John Cullen, 457 Linden St., Fall River, Mass.
"Lee" Spore is now with the Army of the United States. He has been at Long; Beach, Cal., but his most recent address is 803 W. Washington St., Sandusky, Ohio. Maj. Howard Potter gives his occupation as Engineer (R)USPHS, Regional Sanitary Engineer, ist Region. Mail will reach him at 17 Court St., Boston. Jo Beer now lives at 1669 Alton Road, Miami Beach, Ela. "Hugh" McKinnon writes that he is now attached to Grace Cathedral, 1055 Taylor, San Francisco. Another new officer—Maj. Carleton L. Kingsford—carefully avoids mentioning his branch and station. Mail will reach him at 297 Walpole St., Canton, Mass. Ray Foss lists himself as construction superintendent, the address being Box 6056, Cleveland, Ohio. Harold Dunbar reports his vocation as Designer of Women's Shoes for the Allied Shoe Co., Elgin, Illinois. Capt. Roscoe DeWitt leaves a forwarding address of Melrose Hotel, Dallas, Texas.
Thank you, Dick Barlow, for your fine letter. First, Dick wanted to report the expanding fame of Dr. J. W. Stillman who spoke recently at the State Museum in Trenton on the subject "From Nature Through the Test Tube to Textiles and Plastics." Dick relates, and it was amply confirmed by the newspaper review, that "Jess" is a "nationally known lecturer and authority on synthetic fibers and plastics," and is head of the Analytical Division of the Experimental Stations Maintained by Du Pont.
Congratulations, Jess, on the Ph.D. and all the rest you have been hiding. Tell us sometime—please.
Dick writes that his son graduated at Hanover in the accelerated program this December and expects to report to the Navy Air Corp at an early date. Meanwhile, Suzanne Barlow was married November 4, 1942, at Lewes, Del., to Floyd N. Ward of Cape Charles, Va., and now enrolled in the Coast Guard.
Late December and the enrollment of two of our number among the Alumni Eternal, Philip Cranston Harvey and Edward Albert Lavin. Scant news of their passing is at hand but Phil's daughter, Virginia, penned a note to say that her father had been ill for two years and had died in New York City. Services and burial were in Raymond, Ohio. It is hoped that material for an adequate obituary will be available next month. Meanwhile the secretary has transmitted to Mrs. Harvey and Virginia an expression of sympathy on behalf of the class.
We do not recall having seen Phil since college days so that little can be reported of his intervening years. Ted Lavin, however, lived in Boston and was always among those present at class gatherings. Ted's college years were difficult financially and thus his friends gladly watched the rapid advancement attained in the advertising field. He became a specialist in billboard and poster advertising and achieved real success not alone in contracts executed but in the host of friends he made. Deprived of many luxuries early in life he found added pleasure in travel. Many are the tales he related concerning his tropical adventures.
Some three years back, wasting disease caused his retirement. He used to drop in occasionally when he felt well enough to be about. He was a frequent visitor with the Jack Conners' with whom he spent some weeks late this fall. Feeling somewhat better he took a war plant assignment in Hartford, Conn., where the end came during Christmas week.
Ted's sense of humor was a by-word with all who knew him. But he had a serious side, too, one facet of which was the appreciation for his college opportunity and for the friends he had made. It is not pleasant to record the passing of any classmate. It is most unpleasant to have to write thus of Ted.
A quick glance at a newspaper recently, which we forgot to clip, recalled the notice of the destruction by fire of the James C. Taft Block in Greenville, N. H. If this were your property Bill, we are sorry to learn of it.
What think you all of the slim waistline of Capt. Horace Borden? This is the Army, gentlemen, and what it will do for you if you can just persuade the medicos. "Bordy" is stationed at Big Spring, Texas. His son, Roy, is in primary flight training just a hop away—some 130 miles, which in Texas is just around the corner. By the way, Horace, how about a news letter on Army life in general, this war versus the last, and, particularly, for lads of our years?
Jim Gregg's ideas are apt to be sound and this one is definitely on the beam. Jim suggests someone in Boston should "be boss of the District and look after 1914 affairs." He does not just mull around but stands right up in meeting and says that Dr. Wallace H. "Ducky" Drake of Weymouth, Mass., is the right bird for the job. We agree, too, so Ducky you are it. Jim and John Burleigh and Pen Aborn and the others will be glad to help you, so there you are, Boss for 1914 in the Boston District. We shall expect news and such. We know that things are safe in your hands.
Jim having put this deal over, side slips into a mere mention that Ray Wilkinson was married recently; that his daughter (Jim's, of course) is at Skidmore; his son, 10 (name illegible), has the measles, which adds greatly to James Jr.'s enjoyment of the quarantine. All of which brought Jim's epistle to the bottom of the page, which is exactly where we find this effusion. Cheerio!
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Capt. Horace Borden '14 AAF and CadetRoy Borden AAF, who are located within130 miles of each other in Texas.
Secretary, 231 Belmont Ave., Springfield, Mass
