1913

Wright Hugus addressed the Charleston, W. Va., Exchange Club late in January at its Daniel Boone hotel luncheon meeting. Judge talked on "Legislative Experiences." He has been in' the West Virginia legislature since 1921, according to the Charleston, W. Va., Mail.

The Rev. Dr. Robbins Wolcott Barstow has been appointed director of the new Comraission on World Council Service. The commission is connected with the Department of Reconstruction and Inter-Church Aid in Geneva and the Church Committee on Overseas Relief and Reconstruction. It is under the American Committee for the World Council of Churches with offices at 297 Fourth Ave., New York. He and Mrs. Barstow will make their home in Stamford, Conn., having purchased a home on Old North Stamford Rd. The proposed work is "the biggest thing yet in United Protestantism. On its success or failure may rest the entire future of the World Council." Bob's appointment has been very favorably received and commented on in the press and editorially. The work, involving as it does, coordination of the relief and reconstruction programs of the various Protestant denominations, will have to do with rebuilding and rehabilitating the churches of the devastated countries of Europe, and will eventually include enemy countries. It involves not only raising shattered church buildings but also helpfulness in reconstituting their congregations, their seminaries, youth movements and social work. The World Council now includes .83 denominations, including 24 of the major ones in the United States, in 26 countries.

Jack Macdonald, vice president and general manager of Walsh-Kaiser Co. in Providence, R. I., was one of the Moles at the Moles award dinner on February 7 in New York; he was winner of the award in 1941. The member award this year was to Wm. V. McMenimen for outstanding achievement in heavy construction. He is chairman of the eight companies making up the Pacific Naval Air Base Contractors who built the great naval bases in the Pacific area.

Dave and Mrs. Logan received on February 5 a telegram from the War Department saying that their only child Corporal James M. Logan was missing in action in Belgium as of January 7. This was followed by a letter stating that the boy had been killed in action on that date. Jim was born in 1924 in Norwalk. He entered Norwich University in 1941 and was in the enlisted reserve, called in January 1943, and landed in France in December, 1944. The sympathy of all goes to his family. Dave broke down from overwork in 1944 and after a siege in the hospital has been at Castle Point, N. Y., and will soon be at home again.

At the Boston Alumni Dinner we were well represented by Bill Davis, Harold McAllister, Jack Nelson, Dean Munsey, Bill Mason, recently returned to Massachusetts, Shumway, Cushman, Knight, Jiggs Donohue, Stokes, Parker Trowbridge and Wilkins. Bjsh Talbot dropped in at the table just before the speaking started.

Parker Trowbridge has a grandson whom he is afraid is going to Williams, following daddy's footsteps, Lt. Horton Parker Whittaker of the USNR.

Babe and Helen Smith were at The Homestead in Hot Springs, Va., in January. Joan Smith has been in the South Pacific for almost a year as a staff assistant for the American Red Cross. She was on New Guinea for awhile and is now in a Rest Area in Brisbane, Australia. Then Fanny Jane, Mrs. Thomas W. Bowers Jr., and her daughter Jane, aged 4, are with Babe and Helen in New York while her husband is serving in the Division of the Marine Corps.

Myron A. Myers, "Art," still in physical education, is now at Hillsdale, N. Y., and is living at 3115 Glenwood Rd., Brooklyn.

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