1907

A note from Bill Ahern includes the following interesting information. Bill lives in Concord, N. H., is connected with the State Forestry and Recreation Department, and is President of the State Employees Association. Bill writes, "My chief claim to fame is four children and five grandchildren. My oldest son Richard is in the office of the Internal Revenue Commissioner at Portsmouth, N. H." A fine family, and Bill has every right to be proud of it!

The death of Jay Sumner Willis at Brockton, Mass., on November 25, 1944, has recently been reported by his son, Jay Sumner Willis Jr. Willis was born in Brockton, entered College from that city, and spent two years as an 'O7 undergraduate. Apparently he spent his entire life in Brockton, though little information is currently available about him. The sympathy of the class has been sent to his family.

Chester Tenney Woodbury died at his home in Salem Center, N. H., on January 6, 1945, his sixtieth birthday. Chester was a native of Salem Center and maintained his home there throughout his life. Following his graduation from Dartmouth he attended Boston University Law School and received his degree in law in 1911. He was a municipal court judge in Salem and a leading citizen. He had law offices in Salem, N. H., and Haverhill, Mass. Throughout his life he was active and effective in serving the communities in which he lived and practiced his profession. He leaves his wife, four sons, one daughter and one grandson. Two sons are in military serviceFranklin with the 7th Army in Germany, and Chester in Panama. A classmate writes, "Chester was a man of rugged honesty and sympathetic understanding, interested in everything connected with the betterment of the community in which he made his home. His family has lost a fine father and husband and the town one of its outstanding citizens."

Just to keep the Cummings family record straight, here is the last word: "All five of our kids have married, about two years ago. One grandchild showed up about a year ago and another is due in February. My two boys are in the service. Bill is a lieutenant in the Army, in Alaska for eighteen months, is now in New York and headed for China and Burma. King is a lieutenant in the Navy (Flying Corps). He has been instructing for two years in Kansas, is now on Radar work and in charge of a squadron of night fliers and thinks he's headed for the South Pacific in February or March. We have two sons-in-law also in service. One is a captain in the Signal Corps and the other a sergeant been in England a year, now in France.

Chet Sandy and his wife "are trying to make the best of not having any children at home." "As reported before," he goes on, "my two girls are married and both of them are wishing for the war to end so that their men may come home again and pick up the lines of home life and business. One son-in-law is in the Navy and stationed in India. The other is a lieutenant in the Marines and is somewhere in the Pacific. My only son Donald, class of '34, has recently been elevated to the rank of lieutenant commander. He is on a mission in France."

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