1916

Elsewhere in this issue appears the obituary of John McEndy, who died suddenly on August 6 at his home in Halesite, Long Island. The class joins in sorrow with the surviving members of the family of this loyal member. We regret deeply also the death of John Wilder Parkhurst, 20-year-old son of Dick Parkhurst who died at a British Hospital in Calcutta on July 3 from illness incurred in Burma where he served in the American Field Service attached to the British 14th Army. John left the country in 1943, soon after graduation from Vermont Academy, served with distinction in the Burma campaign, and was cited for heroism at the taking of Mandalay. Sergeant Robert Burlen, oldest son of Bob Burlen, has been reported missing in action for some lime; an article in Collier's for August 18 gives an account of the loss of the plane in which young Bob served as radio operator.

John Ames is now in Germany on a new assignment. He was recently decorated by Prince Felix of Luxembourg with the Grand Ducal Order of the Couronne de Chene and with the Croix de Guerre of Luxembourg. Jim Colton writes from the Pacific where he is on duty with the Navy on an island which sounds like Okinawa, in Jim's descriptions, but is not specified. The mud, the natives, and the general situation cause Jim to remark that he hopes to be present at our Thirtieth Reunion, but hardly expects to be able to attend.

Ed Craver has two sons serving in the Pacific. Nelson Craver is a sergeant in the Marines and at present assigned to a small island off Okinawa. John Craver is in the Navy and reported to be cruising near the island on which his brother Nelson is stationed. Ed's oldest son Perry is a first lieutenant in the Army, has completed fifty missions as a flier in Italy, and was recently married at Champaign, Ill., to Betty Hill.

Visitors to Hanover from 1916 have been numerous of late, but not numerous enough. Sam Cutler and his wife, Ted Walker and his wife, Jib Dingwall and his son, Charlie Brundage and his son, Tony Garcia and his family, and Erwin Gilford with his family, have all been to see us here for brief visits. Herb Lord came just the other day for a short stay, and Jess Fenno with his son Lincoln is here at the moment for a day or so. It's a good idea: the Inn likes it, the College likes it, the boys like it, and I like it.

Alec Jardine reports that he collected dues from five more members of 1916 this year than last year. This still leaves a few stubborn or absent-minded individuals, however, who have not yet displayed this minimum degree of interest. They should be urged to reconsider.

Jesse Fenno has recently been appointed assistant international coordinator for the Civil Aeronautics Board. Clinton Greenwood is manager of his own machine shop in Farmington, Maine, busy with war orders, and happy with his family of three daughters and a son. Clinton's daughter Eileen is the first woman graduate in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine and is now serving as member of the National Advisory Committee in the. Aeronautics Testing Laboratory at Langley Field, Hampton, Va.

Bill Hale is employed in the New York Office of Starr and Company, the firm which he represented in China. He has a daughter at Colby Junior College and two sons who are in school in Scarsdale, where Bill lives. Gran Fuller has returned to his business in Boston after three years of government service. Shorty Hitchcock is heading "stateside" after a long tour of duty in the Pacific; he expects to be on inactive duty soon. Ed Riley's son. Ensign Edward Smith Riley, was married recently at South Bend, Ind., to Alice Campbell McCown

Changes of address: Col. John L. Ames Jr., G-i Section, Hq. USFET, APO 757, c/o P.M., N. Y. C.; Charles E. Brundage, Wildacres, R. F. D. 1, Dover, N. J.; Paul F. Goward, 5 Crescent St., Shrewsbury, Mass.; Henry L. Isenbergh, 887 Warren St., Albany, N. Y.; Leslie W. Leavitt, c/o R. H. Leavitt, 20 Gil. more St., Concord, N. H.; Maj. Gen. Willard S. Paul, G-i Division, Hq. USFET (Main) APO 757, c/o P.M. N. Y. C.; F. Sterling Wilson, 2721 Blaine Drive, Chevy Chase, Maryland.

LUXEMBOURG HONORS JOHN AMES 'l6. Colonel Ames, right, officer of Group Headquarters, 12th Army Group, is made an officer in the Grand Ducal Order of the Couronne de Chene by Prince Felix of Luxembourg who also awarded the Colonel the duchy's Croix de Guerre at a ceremony held in Wiesbaden.

Secretary, 4000 Cathedral Ave., N.W. Washington 16, D. C.

Acting Secretary, 3 Downing Rd., Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 34 White Oak Road Wellesley Hills, Mass.