1902

I hereby wish to express my appreciation to those classmates who so kindly remembered me with Christmas cards, such as Leslie Farr, George Dow, and Baker Keniston and also to those who have taken time out to write me a real letter. It strangely seems that those who are really the busiest are the ones who remember that their secretary must have some "Manna in the Wilderness."

I have had two fine letters from Hermon Farwell and he is indeed busy as professor of physics at Columbia, teaching V-12 units with classes starting at 8 A.M. That is no cinch when one is 65 years old. His son, Hermon Jr., has been in the service since 1940 and his older son, Fred, is a geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey. He rightly considers his wife his greatest asset and says: "She makes her own bread and never has to urge anyone to try it." Also she has flowers in the garden nine of the twelve months, which makes my wife, up here in the cold north, green with envy. Hermon never got out of New England until after he graduated but has a peripatetic family with five grandchildren born in five different states.

Frank French writes me that he is working, trying to get supplies to make shoes. He likes the work but hates the war. So say we all of us. Frank has no wife nor children. He states he is thin, growing old reluctantly, but still can eat a few beans—A "lean horse for a long race," Frank.

It is with deepest regret that we have just heard of the death of Kendall Banning, on December 27, at the Howard Veterans Hospital in Baltimore. His life had been a most active one as editor and writer. In the past, he edited Cosmopolitan, Popular Radio,Hearst Magazine and System and in late years has written voluminously and charmingly on the Army and Navy. He served on the Army General Staff in the First World War and though at first turned down in this war finally succeeded in getting into the Ordnance Department in 1943,' and was a lieutenant colonel. He was always one of our loyal classmates who achieved success.

Secretary, 704 Congress St., Portland, Me.