The end of the European war brought cheering news from John Condit, son of the late Dayton Condit. A member of the armored cavalry reconnaissance unit of the 86th division of the 3d Army, he had been listed as missing since March 25, 1945. He was found uninjured in one of the German prison camps and has since returned to this country.
Harry Marshall has remained in Florida during the summer. He has served as lecturer in the Geography of Southeast Asia in the University of Miami, for six weeks was supply at the Plymouth Congregational Church at Coral Gables and has announced the appearance this fall of a new book Flashes Along theBurma Road, published by the Island Press of New York.
Julian Phillips, having taken his vacation in Florida in March and April, was not able to attend the Reunion. For the last three years he has been employed at the Office of Dependency Benefits in New Jersey, disbursing in that time 163 million family allowance pay checks on behalf of 15 million dependents of army men and women.
Henry Teague has welcomed home his protege. Lt. Col. Arthur Teague, recipient of many English, French and American decorations, who spearheaded Gen. Patton's dash into Germany.
Herbert Trull is now to be addressed at 54 Salem St., Andover, Mass. His grandson, the son of Carter H. Hoyt, Dartmouth 'so, was graduated in June from Kimball Union Academy and is now a freshman in the college.
So far as is known, Fred Smith is our first great-grandfather, through the birth of Margaret Layton Kohloss, on June 6, 1945.
George Long '30, son of our John, is now director of the Eye-Ways Group, a unit with main offices at Detroit, designed to make visual education available to organizations which have the best interests of the workers at heart.
Joe Manion writes of the engagement of his daughter, Joan Patricia, to Lt. Arthur J. Weldon of Lowell, Mass. Lt. Weldon, a flying officer, was shot down on March 26, 1943, while flying with a squadron attached to Gen. Montgomery's Eighth British Army in the drive from Al Alemain to El Guettar. Taken prisoner uninjured, he escaped twice, only to be recaptured, and, in all, remained in prison camps for twenty-six months. It is expected that the wedding will take place in the late fall.
After attending the Reunion (although the relation was not cause and effect), John Warden found it necessary to submit to a surgical operation at the Veteran's Hospital in the Bronx, New York. He recovered well and is now about his usual activities in Hanover.
Fred Jennings is listed as Division Chairman for Everett in the Greater Boston Drive of the Salvation Army, for maintenance and war service, under the leadership of Allan Forbes.
THE CLASS OF 1900 attends its 45th Reunion, at the Fallansbee Inn, North Sutton, New Hampshire
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 212 Mill St., Newtonville, Mass.