1902

Percy Dorr is still successfully carrying on his Investment Security business in Springfield, Mass., and is indeed a real citizen of that city. In fact, he seems to be everything from treasurer of the South Congregational Church to police commissioner. He is also one of the greatest trustees of our class, being trustee of Springfield College, of a Savings Bank, of a home for Aged Women, of a Boy's Club, etc. Percy has a grandson 2½ years old, and if I had not had one borne 2½ months ago, I would not have known how puffed up he must feel—but I sure do now. Shake hands, brother "grand pere."

Speaking of grandpas, "Kid" Banning writes claiming he is the first great-grandpa of '02. Can anyone dispute it?

And along with Dorr in our '02 minds will always go "Duckie" Drake, for those two in our college days were as Damon and Pythias. If Percy Dorr is our great trustee, Frank Drake is our great director—Oil Companies, Rolling Mills, Finance Companies, Pullman Co., Chase National Bank .... an imposing list. We are very, very proud that one of our class should be president of Gulf Oil Corporation, and at our reunion he has given us a little inkling of his problems in these war times. God be with him! Frank has three daughters and a son and, note this Percy, four grand-children already. His son, for some reason, went to Cornell, and when Frank wrote me, he was completing a training course at Boeing School of Aeronautics. I see now, he went to the School of Engineering at Cornell.

Secretary, 7 Ship Channel Road, South Portland, Me. Class Agent, Prudential Insurance Company Newark, N. J.