1903

Captain Herbert L. Kelley, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy, has been retired because of age, relieved of his command at the Bremerton Naval Hospital and assigned to the USN V-12, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. Always fond of the West Coast Kel is happy to be able to continue to do what he can for the war effort. At the close of the war he hopes to settle down somewhere in the Northwest where one has the lakes, rivers and forests with accompanying fishing and hunting, and, in fact, all nature right at his back door. After thirty-seven years in the Navy, Kel feels the urge which his New England ancestry hands down to him. May his years be many and happy.

Dr. Ernest P. Groves of the University of North Carolina has been relieved of the undergraduate course in marriage, which he has taught for seventeen years, in order to devote all his time to developing a program on the graduate level for preparing teachers of marriage and the family and domestic counselors, according to the authorization by President Frank P. Graham of the university. This change made with the approval of Dr. Howard Odum of the department of sociology is the result of Dr. Groves' conviction that "the pioneering period in marriage courses is over and that the instruction is on its way toward becoming an academic convention."

Billy Grant came east for the June meeting of the trustees of the College and easily carried away the palm for being the youngest appearing member of the 1903 tribe.

I had the pleasure of seeing Sue Hanlon recently and found her looking better than for a long while and happy in the contacts with Marion Ellerry's two children, a girl and a boy, who are perfectly capable of keeping their grandmother busy. If "Meat" were here he'd tell you a whole lot about those youngsters.

Secretary, 198 Humphrey St., Marblehead, Mass. Treasurer, 85 John St., New York, N. Y.