1894
June 17, 1944, is the 169 th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. It is expected that the class of '94 will hold its 50th Year Reunion on this date at the College. Further particu lars later.
The class has been "questionnaired" with regard to the individual careers o£ its members. First to respond was B. Smalley. Questionnaire went out February 4. The Smalley return was on February 7, Sunday intervening.
Eddie Grover says he is coming to the 50th even if he has to hitchhike. There certainly would be no trouble about that, provided Eddie carried with him this Decoration of Honor which was accorded him at Rollins College not long ago. Said President Holt at that time: "Edwin Osgood Grover, professor, teacher, speaker, bibliophile, librarian, nature lover, leader in manifold forward causes, for your services in a thousand and one ways to Rollins College, Winter Park and beyond, for your vision to see ideals shining through the clouds, for your never failing courage and enthusiasm to hold fast to them, and for your success in bringing these ideals into reality, with malice to none and charity for all, Rollins College bestows upon you its Decoration of Honor and admits you to all its rights and privileges."
Aubrey Lewis deserves to be quoted not so much for what he says about a certain aspirant for the presidency of the United States as for the coinage of a new word. Said Aubrey in writing for the Matt Jones Round-Up last fall: "Say to the class of '94 that I shall be with them in spirit and ask them, when my turn comes, to drink a toast to Wendell Wilkie, the man who put his linger on the things which are wrong in Washington, in the first article in the last Reader'sDigest. This is not tainted with politics but is asked as a pat on the back for a man with horse sense and the appergacity to say it out loud."
Billy Wallis takes advantage of his being in Washington to attend Dartmouth affairs there. For example, Billy has this to say about one event last fall: "We had a great meeting here Dartmouth Night, the best ever. As you would guess, Army and Navy men present in goodly number." Here is perhaps the chance to say that at the Boston dinner the class was represented by Colby, Lyon and Marden.
Says Jimmie Towsend: "I am glad to be able to report I am as well as I have been during the past few years and business has been good with me this year despite the War, OPA, ODT, WPB and other Alphabetical Bureaus, so I have a lot to be thankful for."
Speaking of letters, Lt. Vincent N. Merrill '33, Engineer Corps, Army of the United States, is writing interestingly to his parents from "somewhere in England."
William Marston Ames announces the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth Howland to Allan Lord McCue, Staff Sergeant USAAF Thursday, December 9, 1943, Savannah, Georgia. So the '94 family increases and we get more and more into the war.
HENRY P. BLAIR '89 president of Equitable Life Insurance Co. (center) buys a million dollars worth of War Bonds and a ticket to the "Golden Chair" section of the Ice-Capades from Under Secretary Daniel W. Bell (left) and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury John L. Sullivan'21 (right).
Secretary, 83 Oak Avenue, Belmont, Mass. Treasurer, Somersworth, N. H.
