1911

It is with regret and sadness that the news of Bert Wheeler's death is passed on to you. We shall miss Bert but shall remember pleasantly the time when most of us were wearing sweat shirts and corduroys and Bert came out in fancy vests and McMorrow shoes, much to brother Al's disgust.

While on the subject of Wheelers, it is fitting to report that A1 is doing his bit for the common cause in which we are all interested by working 12 hours every night, except Sunday, in the Waltham Watch Company, where he has the important though tedious function of inspecting implements of war which the company is making. Any guy who has worked for over a year without more than one day off, which was for illness, deserves the respect of all of us. On top of this, he is running a larger farm .than usual and still is raising goats. Young Carolyn, now 31/2 years old, is going to help her mother can, while Virginia, 14, will be one of the land corps workers this summer. Young Al, 18 years old, six feet two inches' tall and weighing 160 pounds, if you can believe it, is working in a defense job and is registered in the draft.

Reports come circulating in that, as President of the Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange, Charles Bowker is called upon to preside at frequent dinners and meetings. The verdict is that he is a wow in handling a dinner for three or four hundred people.

The Fred Eatons have moved from their apartment in Scarsdale back to their own home at 25 Circle Road.

Recent newspaper headlines stated: "Plans to provide free legal aid to all soldiers, worked out between the Army and the American Bar Association, of which George Maurice Morris is president, were announced last night by the War Department."

The Les Hawkridges have returned from their orange grove in Florida to their Brookline home just in time to have a visit with Ed before he pulls out into the deep blue as assistant gunnery officer on a brand new super destroyer. Son Allen is a private first class at Lowry Field in Denver. Al has had the pleasure of meeting Rick and Marian Castle, and in Al's words, "They are tops."

Lt. French, whose attractive portrait rides at the head of this column, was at last accounts back in this country stationed at Fort Dix, N. J.

Charlie Stebbins has transferred his affections from the Sterling Engineering and Manufacturing Company of Hyde Park to the Jefferson Union Company of Lexington, Mass. His new home address is 383 Harvard Street, Apt. 311, Cambridge, Mass.

Here come some extracts "From the desk o£—James M. Irwin": "In the long interim since hearing from you, Ingersoll has been down again with pneumonia (as you have already noted), up again, and now about due for a third attack. I saw him a month ago on the Avenue. He is very interested in his job as U. S. Labor Conciliator

At the annual Father-Son Dartmouth Banquet in January grouped next to each other were Ingersoll, Irwin, and Card, the first two just as we sat in chapel. Harold was a good leavening influence (joke unintentional) Last month I dropped in for a malted and found myself sitting between Carl Hope and Bob Keeler. It proved rather difficult to slip out from between the argument that was inevitable between Hope and Keeler Walter Greenwood has also been on my list of recent bumpers-into. He is dispensing real estate and rentals downtown on my route from office to lunch. He has given up his home in Aurora and moved back into town." Speaking of his own family, Dutch says his daughter, a candidate for college in the fall, "continues to keep Dartmouth in first place on her list, insisting that with full equality now for women it is only a question of time before she can take over the old room in 38 Mass., where Johnny Norris and I were wont to put out our cider jug and yell 'Board' in answer to every campus echo The rest of us (Ma and Pa) are well, look, act, and feel our age, rant irrationally with the rest about rationing, and look for an Allied victory before 1945."

Mrs. Bill Henderson has announced the marriage of her daughter, Celia Thaxter, to Lt. Benjamin F. Robertson Jr., of the U. S. Army, on February 13, in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts.

Les Waldron has moved to another location in Washington, namely, 3509 10th Street, N. E.

Two notable visitors from the Class in Washington recently were Satan Sanderson and Gabe Farrell, the former being on his way back to Florida, and Gabe being here in connection with legislation for the blind.

CAPT. GEORGE M. FRENCH 'II Taken at Casablanca, French Morocco,

Secretary, Harvard Hall, Apt. 705 1650 Harvard St., N.W., Washington, D. C. Class Agent,This Week, 420 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y.