John Redington, on leave of absence from the Brett Lithographing Cos., has become business director of the forest study project of the American Forestry Association. His work, involving much traveling, is to direct the fund-raising program and, by conference with the wood-using industries, to ascertain their needs of raw material of wood which will be pertinent to war effort.
A few items concerning the progeny of 1900, mostly having to do with war effort. Mary Morse is an Army nurse, on foreign service. Charles Hadley is assistant in physics at Dartmouth and was married last May. His sister, Mary Louise, was also married at about the same time to Lieut. Malcolm Wilmot Cloister, of the U. S. Army Air Force. Mary Long transferred from the Royal Canadian Air Force to the WAAC, as soon as the latter was organized, and now holds the rank of captain and battalion commander in that organization, with 1400 auxiliaries and officers under her charge.
William T. Blair is at the Coast Guard Academy, a candidate for a commission. John Emerson, a second lieutenant in the Army and a transportation officer, is assigned to one of the state universities, where he is also doing some teaching. John S. Redington (John's son) is in an officer candidate school, training for the photographic section of the Army Air Corps. Paul Jr., and Edward (Paul Redington's sons) are both in service, the former in the Air Corps and the latter a lieutenant (sg) in the Navy. Bayard Sawyer is an ensign in the Navy and his brother, David, an aviation cadet. Henry Hastings is taking an Army preflight course. Gilbert Balkam Jr. is in a volunteer officers' army training school, undergoing his basic training, while Robert Balkam is in the air ground force and is now overseas. Stuart Richardson is training in the radio branch of the Army Air Service.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H. Class Agent, 212 Mill Street, Newtonville, Mass.