1907

The class of 1907 was well represented at the annual meeting of Alumni organizations held in Hanover on June 9 and 10. Judge McLane and Bill Minsch attended meetings of the Board of Trustees. Phil Chase and Dick Lane met with the Alumni Council, and Bill Cummings with the Class Treasurers. Your secretary had the honor of presiding over a joint meeting of class agents, secretaries and treasurers, and a separate meeting of class secretaries. During the period of the Alumni meetings, John Tarbell and McKay Howard were also in Hanover, not to mention the three

"Townies," Dick Southgate, Rip Heneage and Harry Wellman.

Robert P. Stokes '43 was commissioned as ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve on May 31, 1944. He has recently been transferred from Fort Pierce, Florida, to the Amphibian Training Base at Solomon, Md., and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sidney Johnston of Madison, N. J., have just announced the engagement of their daughter Caroline to Ensign Stokes.

Bill Minsch became a town commissioner of Montclair, New Jersey, in 1942. On May 9, 1944, Bill was reelected to that office for four years more.

Reuben P. Prichard Jr., son of Prof. "Rube" Prichard 'O7, of the New York State College of Forestry, was sworn into the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., as a midshipman on June 14. Young "Rube" was graduated from Onondaga Valley Academy in January, 1943, and attended the College of Applied Science at Syracuse University until his appointment to the Academy. An enthusiastic friend reports, "Young Prichard is one of the finest boys in Syracuse and deserves every honor that may come to him."

George Grebenstein of West Upton, Mass., recently associated with the Worcester office of the Smaller War Plants Corp. as contract specialist, has been appointed acting district manager of the corporation, effective May 1. Chester Woodbury practices law in Haver-hill, Mass. He has three sons in service; the oldest, Isaiah, in the F.8.1, in Chicago, and the younger boys, Franklin and Chester, in the Army. Chester has been stationed for two years in the Carribean Area. A son-in-law is also serving on a destroyer in the Pacific Area.

Miss Janet Higginbotham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Higginbotham of Vose Ave., South Orange, has recently become the bride of Ensign Seth Howard Washburn, son of Bishop and Mrs. Washburn of Berkeley Avenue, Orange. Bishop Washburn is head of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark. The ceremony took place in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, South Orange, with Bishop Washburn officiating, assisted by Rev. Artley B. Parson of St. George's Episcopal Church, New York.

Secretary, 140 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. Treasurer, Box 360, Newport, Me.