FOR the following alumni whose high ranks in the armed forces have been recently reported to the Alumni Records Office:
Lt. Col. Kendall Banning '02, Col. Burr P. Irwin '09, Lt. Col. George R. Jones '14, Comdr. Bartlett C. Shackford '17, Col. John E. O'Gara '1B, Lt. Comdr. Samuel Sheldon '19, Col. Warren S. Ege '21, Major Dewey F. Gruenhagen '21, Major Orton H. Hicks '21, Major John W. Hubbell '21, Lt. Comdr. H. George McMillan '21, Lt. Comdr. David P. Curtiss '23, Lt. Comdr. John A. Coyle '24, Lt. Comdr. Samuel E. Ellis '24, Major William P. Farnsworth '26, Lt. Col. Edward A. Raisbeck '26, Major John W. Draper '27, Major Robert L. Maclellan '28, Major H. Calvin Fisher '32.
FOR EARL BLAIK, honorary member of the class of 1919, commissioned Lt. Col. in the Army.
FOR HENRY j. A. COLLINS '18, appointed Nassau County, N. Y., Judge by Governor Dewey.
FOR RUPERT c. THOMPSON JR. '28, elected president of the Providence National Bank.
FOR LT. GEORGE E. BOTTJER '36, flier, awarded the Navy Cross "for heroism and valor while fighting the Japanese."
FOR JOHN s. MONAGAN '33, new Mayor of Waterbury, Conn.
FOR JUDGE DAVIS B. KENISTON '02, appointed Chief Justice of the Boston Municipal Court by Governor Saltonstall.
FOR LT. JOHN E. WHELDEN '38, first man taken from Army enlisted ranks and trained for both combat duty and to report news, now in Morocco.