1904
BILL ROBY, for some time the resident engineer at Fort Peck, Montana, supervising construction for the War Department of a 50,000 H P. water-power plant for copper mine use, has finished that assignment and moved to Omaha, Nebraska, as consulting engineer for the War Department on investigation of another water-power job.
His son, William J. '38, is an ensign at Washing- ton Lake Navy Yard, Seattle; son John T., PFC, Ski Troops, Camp Hale, Colorado, awaiting orders for transfer to O.C.S. Aberdeen, Maryland, Ordnance Dept.; and his son-in-law, James Caldwell Jr., is a captain at Fort Knox, Louisville, Ky. Bill's current address is Blackstone Hotel, 36th and Farnham Sts., Omaha, Neb.
EDWARD M. CUMMINGS '32 volunteered for service and began training in late April as a It. (jg) in Naval aviation at Quonset, R. I. Mrs. Cummings, with their two small sons, John and Peter, will continue to live at Derry, N. H. Eddie's mother is still teaching in Concord, N. H.
It's a real pleasure to add to this column news from ROSCOE BRINKER, rechristened CrackedCorn-Smith, by Charlie ('01) Boyle and Jack ('02) O'Connor, during the football season of 1900, when he was a husky red-cheeked candidate for tackle, coming to the class from Maine. He left us in 1903, headed West, and those two great ends, Boyle and O'Connor proved to be long range prognosticators, for Smithy is now proprietor of the Oroville Grain Co., at Oroville, Washington. His son, Roscoe Jr., specializing in chemistry, is candidate for a Ph.D. at Clark University, Worcester, at the end of this college year. He has been working the past year in connection with the war effort, principally on rubber experimentation. Roscoe's two daughters are at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, where the older one will graduate next February.
THE AMES FAMILY
Here's news from LESTER AMES who was with us freshman year only; I remember him well as we were waiters at the Rood House charged with feeding twenty freshman classmates. My bunch seemed determined to eat their way through college—but that's another story which I'll finish with the observation that the food they lugged away for $3.00 per week couldn't be bought for $30.00 today and nothing said about point values.
Lester is a farmer at Bridgton Valley, Maine, and president of the Bridgton and Harrison Ry. Co. His two sons attended the University of Maine; John, now living in Braintree, Mass.; and Kenneth "Tim" Ames, who has been for several years test pilot with an Aircraft Company on the East Coast of Africa, is now doing similar work with the same company in California. He came from Africa last February and was outfitted for his journey into 50 below zero Maine to visit his father and mother by brother John in Massachusetts. We are indebted to Maynard for this welcome news of the Ames family.
MATT BULLOCK'S son, Matthew Jr., Bowdoin '40, Phi Beta Kappa, and summa cum laude, would have graduated from Harvard Law last January had it not been for his induction into the Army in August, 1942. He is now stationed at Fort Devens, a member of the 366 th Infantry. Julia,_ his sister, graduated from Fiske University, Nashville, Tenn., in '41, cum laude; Simmons College of Library Science '42; and is at present Circulating Librarian at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. Matt is still serving as Assistant to the Comm. of Correction, which position he has held since his term as a member of the Massachusetts Board of Parole expired in March 37, and carrying on his law practice as usual. He sends greetings to members of the class wherever they may be.
PERCIVAL COBB, in addition to his religious work, is also doing war work with the Army; their fourth child, William Steers Cobb, is a Naval Pharmacists Mate at Newport, R. 1., in a dental clinic; the next son, Julius Darius, has been accepted by the Air Corps and sworn in for pilot training; Christopher, the next son, has registered and is awaiting examination. Percy enters two more grandchildren, Joyce Lydia Cobb, Jan. 13. '42 and Henry Cobb Schwerdtferger, Nov. 10 '42, for the constantly widening contest.
"Last summer and during the Christmas recess I was busily engaged with some consulting work at the Forest Products Laboratory on some problems connected with the war effort." Thus writes MORTON WITHEY. On Feb. 17th he was elected President of the American Concrete Institute at the Institute's 39th Annual Convention, Chicago. As head of this Institute, with a membership approximating 2000 and an annual budget of more than $30,000.00 devoted "to provide a comradeship in finding the best way to do concrete work of all kinds and in spreading that knowledge"; Mose Withey accepts a responsibility quite as great as the distinction accruing to him by his election, and the Concrete Institute will gain prestige under his leadership. His eldest son, Norman, is still with the Portland Cement Association in Chicago, and the younger one, classified in 4-F due to leakage of the heart, is also in Chicago in the Traffic and Rates Department of the Penn. R.R. "The girls are all married and each has one or two children"—rather indefinite for an engineering professor, but the sum total of grandchildren is seven. He says if the war situation permits our 40th reunion in '44, Mrs. Withey and he will try to attend.
The greater part of the excellent class information that has made our column interesting for the past three months has been the result of BECK'S direct appeal for war information. Now this source is drying up, though many have not yet reported. If you are one of those, please send your report to Beck, for he is doing a worthwhile job for the class and the College alumni records. Early in the year, BECK was reappointed, for a four year term, Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War for Massachusetts, the principle function being recommendation to the Army and Navy of men he considers qualified for a commissioned rank. As chairman of Pittsfield's Public Safety group, he has an organization of some four thousand assigned personnel.
KING WOODBRIDGE was elected president of Jay Street Connecting Railroad, on April 20th. The Jay Street unit is an Interstate Commerce Commission Carrier along the Brooklyn waterfront, serving industry and trade in Kings County, N. Y.
Banker WHITTEMORE reports a second grandchild—a girl born April 11 to Capt. and Mrs. J. H. Schultz (Nancy Whittemore attended our last reunion with her parents). Capt. Schultz, now stationed at Camp Edwards, Falmouth, Mass.
FRED ROOT'S current address is 502-810 South Spring Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal.
The AUSTINS, as these notes are written, expect to attend Commencement at Smith College on May 20th where their daughter, Deborah, is a member of the graduating class.
Secretary, Canaan Street Lodge, Canaan St., N. H. Class Agent, 201 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass.
