1914
On February 3 "The Old Guard" of the Boston Alumni filled the ballroom of the Copley Plaza. Pennell Aborn, John Burleigh, "Ducky" Drake, Bill Fletcher, Harold Brown, "Abe" Newmark, "Hod" Potter, Bill Taft, and "Pat" Pattee were present, with "Herb" Austin and Rodger Rice sending regrets and best wishes. It was an unusually small class gathering, but the enthusiasm of these "Nine Old Men" made up for those absent. The turnout of alumni was surprisingly large.
Rodger Rice has been appointed to fill a vacancy on the Saugus, Mass., School Committee. Congratulations, Saugus! Saw Win Snow and the Mrs. the other night in a well known Chinese restaurant near Coolidge Corner. From general appearances, especially the amount of food and empty dishes, should judge that Win was rather low on ration points. He surely was doing his bit towards cementing international good will. Watch out, boy, you can't eat a week's supply in one sitting. Nasib Deverian writes from Rochester by way of Jack Connors that he has three boys in the service.
Bill Holway, one year at Dartmouth, and later M.I.T. 'l5, is a consulting engineer for the Western Power Division of the Federal Works Agency on the Pensacola Dam and the surrounding project. Bill has also completed the design of the High Point Hydro-Electric project on the Yadkin River in North Carolina.
Art Dearing has terminated his duties in the South Pacific and reported January 11 as C.O. of the United States Naval Hospital at Oakland, Calif. Looks like a reunion with Bill Washburn and Paul Brown is in the offing. .... Harold Brown tells us that Doc Kingsford is back in school again, learning all the things he has been doing since becoming a major .... and a letter from Hank Llewellyn in Florida proudly reports that his boy has completed ten trips over Germany.
A very fine tribute was paid to "your Mr. Little" by Dr. Wing-Tsit Chan at the Boston Alumni Meeting. Dr. Chan, who is Professor of Chinese Culture at Hanover, spoke in glowing terms of the work Les has done and is doing for China as well as that of several Chinese graduates of the college.
Now that we have read the report of the Alumni Fund, in the January issue, we can appreciate what a perfectly marvelous job Mart Remsen, as usual, has done. The 1944 campaign is under way and, with apologies to Mart, I am going to quote from a letter recently received from a '14er: "I don't know why we neglect these things, except that it is human nature to let things slide from day to day. I don't know what we would have done thirty-odd years ago if the college had let its relations to us drift along as some of us now do in regard to our obligations to it."
If the twenty-one per cent who didn't contribute will only give this thought! ! !
The Nugget is no more! To those of you who have not been back to Hanover, that means little, but to us more fortunate ones who live close and get to Mecca often, it will be a real loss. Do the rest of you remember the days of the silent pictures, when the audience was really the show and we baldheaded fellows sat way back, in the interest of self-preservation?
Paul Howe, through Jack Connors, writes as follows: "You probably know that for the past year and one-half I have been with General Electric, in the Wall Street plant at Syracuse. I was one of twenty Syracusans hired in June '42 to train for eight to ten weeks in Schenectady, prior to the opening of the Syracuse radio plants—now three assembly plants and an equal number of warehouses. So I was in on the birth of the plants here, and have seen them grow to creditable production in the last year and three months. My sales ability is stored for the duration, but my association with production, when I thought that incidental to sales, has been very valuable to me. Lyman, my son, left Syracuse University at mid-years in his sophomore year, to enlist in the Navy, two years ago this month. He used his 'ham' radio knowledge to get a rating of Radio Technician a/c. He has since had two promotions and is now Chief Radio Technician, a chief petty officer in the Naval Air Force. His base, for the past nine months, has been in Rio de Janeiro, (his base in Rio is not a military secret). Julia, my daughter, has been married two years, and is living in Ballston Spa, N. Y. Both commute daily to G. E. in Schenectady, so we're quite a G. E., as well as war working, family.
"Mrs. Howe hasn't much to do except run the farm, care for ten goats, thirty-five chickens, seven ducks, and the rabbits, which I haven't counted lately. In the house, there are merely two cats and a dog for her to feed. We don't regret our move to the farm three years ago; for fresh milk, butter, eggs and meat are no problem; we just raise them, or rather Dot does. I am just the guy who sleeps here nights and cleans out the barn on Sundays, when the Plant does not require my services. I also kill chickens, ducks, and rabbits, as required for the table, for Dot still passes up the slaughter job. In the summer, I hunt for vegetables among the weeds, but don't tell that shameful thing to professional Remson."
BRIG. GENERAL HOWARD E. FULLER '15
Secretary, 231 Belmont Ave., Springfield, Mass. Acting Secretary, 88 Sea St., North Weymouth, Mass. Treasurer, The Stanley Works Amer. Tube & Stamping Plant Bridgeport 7, Conn.
