1909

At the New York Alumni Meeting at the Dartmouth Club on March 18, '09 had as remarkably good a turnout as Boston did at their reunion. The following were present: Al Bates, Fat Dillingham, Jack Dowdell, Ben Dudley, George Dwenger, Anson McLoud, Ed Meleney, Frank O'Brien, Rus Pettengill, Hal Prescott, Mike Readey. This group was about half of all the class who live in the Metropolitan Area. Hal Prescott stated that in spite of some signs of aging, the group in general seemed to be able to take their "likker" and smokes in pretty good fashion.

Ben Dudley's father just recently died at the age of 87.

We have not had any report from Barney Dreyfus for some time, but in a recent letter written from Palm Beach, Florida, he states that his wife has been laid up with pneumonia and he has had a couple of severe attacks of flu and has been in the sunny South for the last month or so trying to recover. I hope Barney will get in touch with us more often.

Walter Brown came to see me a few days ago and reports that he is now with the U. S. Navy Progress Section, 44 Wall Street. Walter is trying to get some speed into ship building. He still continues to keep his residence at 60 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.

Hal Prescott's son, Dana, was promoted to captain in the U. S. A. Signal Corps in February and is now located at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, where he has been instructing at the Officer Candidate School. His other son, Baxter, is still working for the Telephone Company in Washington, where he has a real war activity job all of his own in trying to give service to the endless thousands who seem to feel it necessary to telephone Washington in spite of all the company's advertising to the contrary. Bud Hinckley writes in that his son, Harris, who was a sophomore at Dartmouth. is now in the Army.

Albert Hill has written me a very interesting letter as to his activities. His permanent address is now 158 Brace Road, West Hartford, where the old ancestral acres are located. In the fall of 1940, with threatening skies, etc., he thought a retreat to farming and woodland looked inviting, so he erected the house himself which, while modern in style and equipment, fulfills a long cherished dream to build a house of his own. Apparently, he has been having a swell time being a farmer the same way I am myself. If some of you have not tried it, you will find it good for the waistline.

Norman Catharin and his assistants are doing a swell job in securing money for the Alumni Fund. We are holding our own in position as far as the number of people responding is concerned and the payments are 16% ahead of last year. If you have not already sent in your allotment, please do it at once.

Roy Tirrell, we were sorry to learn, died suddenly from a mastoid operation at the Providence Hospital on February 25. Details will be found in the obituary notices. "Buster" Brown, we were happy to learn, has been promoted to major in the Army Airs Corps Frank Bartlett is now connected with the military personnel section of the Air Service Command, Fairfield, Ohio, as a U. S. Army Civilian employee.

.... Lt. Colonel Clarence Dunbar's new address is 64 Station Hospital, A.P.O. 700, New York City.

"Mary" Rogers dropped in to see me and seems to be getting younger every day. I guess some of the rest of us had better go into the country and learn how to get the most out of life.

Your scribe has to announce that he is a grandfather. His namesake is Harry Frederick Floyd.

Secretary, Wm. Filene's Sons Cos. 426 Washington St., Boston Class Agent, 42 Jackson Road, West Medford, Mass.