1907

Several years have elapsed since this column has included a report on Lou Gerry and his family. The following from a recent letter from Lou will be of particular interest to his friends and classmates:

Time flies and I am now sixty-one. A few years ago I retired from the investment banking business, and shortly thereafter my partner, Joseph J. Bodell, retired also, so that Bodell & Co. is no longer active in the security business.

I cannot see that less activity in business has given me any more leisure time, as War Fund, Red Cross and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have required considerable work as well as time. I have always worked for Community Chest, and in later years the War Fund. I have been chairman of the Providence Chapter of American Red Cross for nearly three years, and President of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for about the same length of time.

My daughter Phyllis graduated from Radcliffe in 1939, and a few weeks after graduation married John Gilmore Williams of New York City. He is a graduate of Princeton, Corpus Christi, and Harvard Law School. He has been an ACI officer for about three years, and for nearly a year with the 87th Fighting Squadron, which is about finishing its tour of duty on the "Ticonderoga.." Here's hoping he gets out soon, for after this tour of duty it seems about time to return to the practice of law. Their three children, John, Louis and Eve, are respectively almost five, three and one.

My son, Louis Cardell, graduated from Brown last year and is now working for a firm of certified public accountants here in Providence.

My family still spends much of the summer at our farm in Dublin, New Hampshire, which we have owned since 1925; and it still grows for us and on us.

Describing the unpredictable Liscomb, as hedescribes himself, the following letter from"the Professor" to Cully Pierce will be recognized to be typical:

I was so intent on attending yesterday's class luncheon that I just about collapsed at the last moment, when I had over a hundred more soldier convalescent patients switched over to my (mature but not senile) guidance. I am coming up for the next one. That is my thirtieth wedding anniversary week.

"Why don't you give the Class Secretary a list of those who attend each month? Or do you? You may also report to him that the unpredictable Liscomb (retired seaman first class (T) U. S. Coast Guard Reserve) is now enjoying the thrill of his colorful life as head of the department of mathematics in the largest educational institution in New England, namely, the Camp Edwards Convalescent Hospital. How much algebra have you forgotten in forty years ?

Class luncheons for Boston '07 men continue under Cully Pierce's leadership to be very pleasant occasions and moderately well attended. The meetings are held on the last Wednesday of each month at the Downtown Club on the top floor of the Parker House. The luncheon table can always be expanded and 'O7 visitors from out of town will receive a hearty welcome. At the meeting on October 24 the following were present: Grebenstein, Plummer, Stevens, Smart, Woodworth, Kitching, Cochrane, Cushman and Niles.

DARTMOUTH NIGHT IS OFF TO A GOOD START in Hanover under the genial guidance of the presiding officer of the evening, Judge John R„ McLane '07. The judge also spoke for the Board of Trustees in his official capacity as Senior member.

SECRETARY, 140 Federal St.. Boston 10, Mass.

Treasurer, Box 415, Guilford, Me.