1909

The following members of the class were present at the dinner held at the Lenox Hotel the night before the Notre Dame game:

Bob Holmes, Clark Saville, Cad Cummings, Bert French, Harry Floyd, Dick Lord, Herb Hawes, Freddie Carroll, Mike Farley, Ralph Wight, Gordon Weinz, Art Swenson, Sandy Hooker, Allen Newton, Bob Burns, Micky McLane, Harry Burroughs, Mary Rogers, Jim Hitchcock, Frank Bartlett, Ben Scully, Norm Catharin, Chet Brett, and Phil Chase,

It was the best set-up that we have had for years. We had a room all by ourselves in which we had the dinner and an adjoining room with a regular bar with a bartender on the job throughout the evening. We supplied the bottles, the bartender did the pouring, and the class did a fine job drinking it up.

We gathered at six o'clock at the bar and at six-thirty Bob Burns put on a half hour of marvelous movies. These movies went back twenty years and consisted of pictures taken by Bob Holmes, Freddie Carroll and Bob Burns. There were a lot of the movies of fifteen years ago at Lake Morley when we had such a good time together. The last two reunions were done in color and were remarkably well done. In addition to the class pictures, he had a movie and talky of the Cornell and Dartmouth five-touch-down game, and outstanding moments of other football games of note. The movies were so good that a committee of Carroll, Bob Burns and Floyd were appointed to make arrangements to have a dinner sometime during the Fall or Winter where these could be shown to the class, with their wives attending. There were some fine shots of the wives and it was felt that they would all want to see them.

Sandy Hooker, Jim Hitchcock and Art Swenson, as was to be expected, spent a good deal of the evening giving us a hum. They all regretted, however, that Dan Watson wasn't present to help out. Allen Newton did his best at taking his place. It was Mike Farley's birthday and we had our singers sing happy birthday to him. He was so engrossed in conversation that it made no impression and they had to sing it over again, and then he was surprised that we even knew it was his birthday.

After an excellent dinner of broiled live lobsters, the group adjourned to the University Club to join in with the angry mob. Everyone voted that we should do the same thing next year as we had a good class meeting, and were still able to get in contact with the rest of the classes without having the dinner spoiled by all the din.

One of the chief points of conversation among the various groups at the dinner was what their sons were doing in the war. The following are some of the points checked up, but your scribe could not be present at all of the groups so the activities of some of the sons are missing. Micky McLane just received word before the dinner that his son Tommy was in a cast from his neck to his knees, recovering from an injury of some type to his hip.Tommy is in the Marines and landed on Guadalcanal with the first assignment and has been fighting in the Admiralty Islands ever since. He received this wound in the severe fighting at Palau. Micky's other son, Arthur Jr., has just completed his fiftieth mission with B-25, and is back in this country now to give instruction.

Sonny Hooker is in a hospital in England, recovering from his experiences in France, where he lost several fingers on his right hand and has a broken hip. Bob Hooker is in the Medical Corps and on his way to France where he is expecting to be up at the front lines administering to the wounded.

Roy Abbott's son who has been a flying instructor in this country for the last two years is now leaving for the front as a pilot on a Liberator.

Phil Chase is wondering where his son Laurence got his brains. He just finished his math course at Dartmouth with a rating of 120. It took Phil four years to go through Math I, and he never did pass, and his son comes through with 100 points more than Phil had in four years.

Cad and Ruth Cummings were recently down in Florida to see Edwin before he left these shores for the front. He is the pilot of a B-17 and flew his plane across the Atlantic for operations on the other side.

Joe Worthen's son Tommy is flying a transport in northern France. Freddie Carroll's son Bob has just been put in command of a submarine. Bob Holmes' son Steve is fighting with the Marines on Palau, and his son Dave is at a bomber base in southern Italy.

Secretary, Wm. Filene's Sons Co. 426 Washington St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer, 16 Wall St., New York, N. Y.