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This column has previously carried news of Ted Redington and his fine family. Three sons went to Dartmouth. Dana, the eldest, graduated in 1934, Ted Jr., in 1941, and Dick, the youngest boy, entered with the Class of 1944. This family suffered a heavy loss when they were notified that Dick, a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, had lost his life in a plane crash over Iceland on August so. Dana is teaching the sciences at Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester, Vt. Ted Jr. is a Pfc. in the Combat Engineers at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Sally, the eldest daughter, a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of California, is now Mrs. Norman B. Dewees and lives in Cleveland. Jean, a twin daughter, went to the University of California and is now the wife of Sgt. David K. Brooks, a paratrooper who participated in the invasion of Southern France. Nancy, the other twin, is a graduate of Whittier College and is a Pfc. WAC stationed somewhere in Egypt. Ted's grandchildren are numerous. His son Dana has two boys; Sally has twins, a boy and a girl three years old, and has just given birth to another boy; Jean has a two-year-old daughter. Ted '07 has been at Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, Calif., for the last two years doing what he can to help along the war effort.

Tim Richards reports that his son Earl Thomas Jr., and his wife have made Tim and Mrs. Richards happy grandparents with the birth of their first child on August 21. Earl is a lieutenant (jg) and is a production engineer at the Naval Air Station at Norfolk,Va.

Louis Gerry, sportsman and public-spiritedcitizen of Providence, R. I., has recently received a unique honor in the form of a citation for outstanding community service. Thefollowing is a quotation from the citation:—

We do not compliment Mr. Gerry merely because he holds an office or has a title. Good citizen and good sportsman that he is, he does not see them as empty, pretty honors but as trusts to be fulfilled. As a major figure in Community Fund and United War Fund operations, as a salvage worker, as president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, as a man who did well a salaried job for the State (and refused his salary), he has been qualified and conscientious in voluntary public service.

But his superlative achievement, has come in reorganizing our Red Cross chapter to meet today's incredible demands, so that it is conditioned to perform prodigious feats in routine or emergency. He has so built his chapter that the best personnel is attracted, morale is high, performance is consistently splendid, and universal support is a matter of course. Since the chapter is so admirably organized for getting the job done, we can deliver to its top man our heartfelt and heartspoken praise, knowing that it will be apportioned in the best executive tradition according to plan and according to deserts.

Secretary, 140 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. Treasurer, Box 360, Newport, Me.