1901

News Notes. Waldo Davis has been seriously ill in the Memoriam Hospital in Worcester but the last news from his sister was to the effect that he was showing a steady improvement Nelson White is still carrying on the textile business at Wincendon Springs which has been operated by his family for several generations. Johnnie Ward reports that Nelson has changed very little since college days and appears to be bearing up well, despite the trying experiences of today's business conditions Paul Eckstorm states that in spite of the fact that for the past year he has been working 10 to 16 hours a day and often on Sundays, he remains in excellent health and he feels he is good for another 100 years Charlie Boyle has returned to his native city and is now residing at 749 Pleasant Street, Worcester, Massachusetts Deacon Hildreth telephoned that he was in a serious automobile accident recently, and besides a severe concussion, suffered three broken ribs, a broken nose and a broken arm, but is coming along all right. Very lucky to be alive, he says Johnnie and Alma Ward and Steve Stevens negotiated the strenuous Commando course, over and around Velvet Rocks while in Hanover for the joint meeting of Class Agents and Secretaries and finished well up in front, even against competition from youngsters of later classes Charles W. Stevens, Beth and Steve's youngest, has announced his engagement to Miss Miriam B. Arant of Elleree, South Carolina, the wedding to take place in Washington, D. C., August 12, 1944.

1901 Sons in the Service. Harry Cook has three sons in the Service: Lt. Stuart Cook, Harvard '32, is an Executive Officer on a P. C. boat operating in the Southwest Pacific, his second son, Lt. Whitney Cook, Harvard '36, was in the Navy and in China prior to the war. He arrived at Bataan the day it was bombed and took part in the land fighting where he was Captured and has been a prisoner of the Japs with no word from him since. Harry's youngest son, Gardner, Dartmouth '37 is a Captain of Field Artillery in command of a Battery of 105's Mort Crowell Jr., has been in the Army since March 1943, and is now wearing his corporal stripes, stationed at Camp Breckenridge, Kentucky, with the Infantry. Mort's younger son, "Bill" has been in the Army for 3 years and is now a Captain and Troop Commander of Mechanized Cavalry Dan Rollins, Dartmouth '33 has been commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve.

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