1905

The palm goes this month to Sliver and Mrs. Hatch, whose son, Fletcher Jr., became, in October, a first lieutenant at Selman Field in Monroe, Louisiana. He was married on February 27 to Miss Frances Gross of St. Louis, Missouri, who has a brother, a Dartmouth man, now serving in the Army Air Force. The best wishes of the class are extended to Fletcher Jr. and Mrs. Hatch.

Miss Dolita, the youngest daughter of Sliver and Mrs. Hatch, joined the WAVES in January and is now at Cedar Falls, lowa, in training for Aviation Machinist's Mate.

Sliver writes that he attended the Boston Alumni Dinner. The only other '05 men present were Judge Jim Donnelly and George Proctor.

Through the courtesy of R. J. Gates of Franklin, New Hampshire, brother of our late classmate, Don Gates, information has been received about Don's family.

Mrs. Gates is living in New York City with her son, Don. He attended Middlebury College.

Clark Gates, another son, a graduate of Norwich University and a Naval pilot since early in the war, was on the carrier "Wasp" when it sank. Clark escaped injury and is now on the Pacific Coast.

Mrs. Thelma Gates Travers, one of the two daughters, a graduate of Middlebury College, resides with her husband at the State Teachers College in Trenton, New Jersey. The Travers have a son and a daughter. The second daughter, Elizabeth Gates, is also married and lives in northern New Jersey.

The daughter, Dorothy Frances, of Walter and Mrs. Nourse of Los Angeles, was married last September to Lieutenant William Baker Voss. Mrs. Voss attended Los Angeles High School and the University of California in Los Angeles. Mr. Voss, a graduate of Willamette University in Oregon, did graduate work at California Institute of Technology. He attended the Officers' Training School at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland and is now at Kirtland Field Air Base at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our best wishes go to the Lieutenant and Mrs. Voss.

Walter writes on February 13, 1943, that he has just come in from planting tomatoes, beans and corn. He is not only a successful principal of a large Los Angeles junior high school but also a real dirt farmer. Walter reports that he is in excellent health and good for thirty years more. We regret that he is not coming East this summer. We shall miss his annual call.

I had the pleasure of listening to an excellent address, SOME ASPECTS OF PLANNING FOR POST-WAR PEACE, delivered by President Ernest M. Hopkins on February 17, 1943, before Governor Robert O. Blood, the Executive Council and the Joint Convention of the New Hampshire State Senate and House of Representatives. I was especially impressed by the generalization: "It takes a tragic amount of effort on the part of the wise to correct the mistakes of the merely good."

Secretary, 14 Holt Street, Concord, N. H. Class Agent, 1 Federal St., Boston, Mass.