1909

Gordon Weinz is busy these days, inasmuch as he has been given charge of the entire Carter's Ink factory in addition to the duties which he has had over so many years.

Phil Chase was unable to be present at the class dinner because he was tied up at the Colt's Firearms Co. from 7 A.M. to 6 P.M. He works with the production office, making sure that the records on parts production keep up to schedule. His son Harry, who is a freshman at Dartmouth, has already passed the Army exams and is leaving to enlist.

I ran into Gladys Pratt a few days ago in the store. She said their son Dick enlisted the day he was seventeen and is now somewhere out in the Pacific on a destroyer. Harold is working especially hard and could not come to the class dinner because of a sale meeting which was scheduled for that night.

Fred Batchelder, whom we have lost sight of for some time, is now expediter for the Bureau of Ships and is located at Room 1600, 44 Wall St., New York City.

Why not drop a note to two of your classmates who are now overseas? You all know how the reports come in—that they are all anxious to have news from home. They are Lt. Col. P. John MacNaughton and Lt. Col. Clarence Dunbar. If you will write to me, I will send their addresses, censorship forbids publication.

Curt Sheldon's letter, in which he asked to be awarded a cup for having the youngest child in the class, has produced the following interesting correspondence.

Dear Secretary or Mr. Floyd, depending on just how careful I should be in addressing the secretary of my Dad's class: In your December column of class notes in the MAGAZINE, you have a letter from Mr. Sheldon, who seeks the honor of having the youngest child in his class. I feel sorry for Mr. Sheldon because it is my understanding that all class babies of Dartmouth must be sons and not daughters. It is then a matter of who has the youngest son in '09. I think my Dad is the winner, because he has a son born in 1935, September. This would make my old man a double winner, since I am presumed to be the class baby on the oldest side.

Incidentally, my son Craig III is half a year older than his Uncle Stuart, and may be able to haze him some day in college, which will be something. Stuart is actually my half brother as I lost my mother in '27, but that should not affect the standing any.

I really have no right to use this Fund stationery as I'm no longer Fund Agent, after ten years of that job. I like to use it up on any Dartmouth correspondence. Dad is in Albany now, doing nicely in general insurance work. Craig Thorn Jr.

In answer to your recent letter, I can see where I am removed from this conjugal contest, as my last child was a girl. I do not think that I could be able to convince any one but myself that I should reenter this mighty contest, if such should be, with the rest of the class doing their utmost. For their own good health I think it would be foolhardy for them to try to make a nine-month gain for "Dear Old Maternity." Ira (Kilburn).

I have read your letter from Craig Thorn Jr., and while there may be a rule that the official class baby is to be the first son born to a member of the class, the honor of being the father of the youngest child is a different kind of competition. You can't let Craig Jr. set the rules, for he is not a disinterested person. Maybe it will have to go to a vote of the class. However, I still maintain that daughters count and I still claim the honor. If my entry, as printed in the last ALUMNI MAGAZINE, is not recent enough, then I give you a new entry. You may release the news that I have a third daughter, Lucinda, born November 22, 1943. I guess that will give me the cup for awhile, at least, and if there is a dollar bill in the cup when I receive it, I will put two dollars in the cup when I pass it along. Curt Sheldon.

I am not giving you my answer to Curt's last letter, except to say that I told him that so far as I was concerned the cup is his, and I am going out to buy it and have it properly inscribed. If anyone wants the cup after Curt receives it, just drop him a line.

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