1915

Last call—Alumni Fund up! Check to Kell Rose, Class Agent, c/o Chase National Bank, 420 Lexington Ave., New York.

On the front, pages this morning is the announcement of the nomination of Jim Forrestal to be Secretary of the Navy—an honor to the Class and a deserved recognition to a man who has done a swell job and richly merited the promotion.

A card from Hal Budd tells of purchasing a new home in Landsdowne, Pa., at 108 North Highland Avenue. Hal is in Philadelphia with the Shaw Walker Company, and as vice president of the Philadelphia Alumni Association, he has moved up to president as the latter has gone into the Navy. Thus a good 'iser rules the destinies of the Alumni in the Quaker City.

John Healy reports from New York: "The first half of the Alumni Dinner took place as scheduled on Thursday, April 14. The cafeteria style of Alumni Dinner which New York has had the last two years results in the dinner being more 'Alumni' than 'Class.' With 300 in attendance and with the restricted quarters of the Club, it is rather difficult to get the Class together as a group. Among those present were A 1 English (from Waterbury), Kel Rose, Don Law, Carl Gish, Red Folan, Bill Huntress, Phil Murdock, Charlie Shongood, Charlie Griffith, Russ Durgin (from New Haven), Pete Cannon, Charlie Comisky, John Mullin, Bob Fredericks and myself. It was a very enjoyable gathering with President Hopkins' talk being the high point of the evening."

John also tells of having lunch with Dick Merrill who was in New York for a few days, and was joined by Kel and Jim Killeen. Likewise, John and Red Folan had lunch with Johnnie Johnson recently, but Johnnie still likes his quiet life on Cape Cod instead of New York City.

Eben Clough ran across Ed Dewing and Bush Campbell the other night while browsing around Boston, and reports that both were looking good and wanted to be remembered to the Class.

Guess this is the off-season, or something, as there seems to be little to report from around.

In a previous month I asked for the names of iser sons (or daughters) in the Service as a start toward compiling the record—a few have sent in the names of their children in the Armed Forces, but this month none came in. Why not drop a card now and let me know if you have anyone in the Army or Navy or what, and we'll make a record of it. It seems a bit too soon to send out a regularly printed questionnaire, with all the changes that are taking place, but this will of course finally be done. However, we'd like to print the names in the column as they come in—so send yours along.

New addresses this month are: Voyle Rector, 1705 E. Lewis Street, Wichita, Kansas; Capt. H. Thompson Rich, A.P.O. 629, c/o Postmaster, New York City; Horace G. Hol- ton, 364 W. Chestnut St., Brockton, Mass.; Edward C. Spalding, 1433 Josephine St., Denver, Colo., and it is stated that he is wardmaster in an Army Hospital near Denver in the same position he had in a base hospital at Nantes, France, in the First World War; and Hal Budd's new address as given above.

Secretary, Box 697, Lawrence, Mass. Treasurer, 31 State St., Boston, Mass.