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New Year's greetings from your secretary, and his appreciation of your co-operation and splendid showing of class solidarity.
On New Year's Day Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Currier observed their Golden Wedding Anniversary at their home in Elkin, North Carolina. They were the recipients of congratulations and flowers from the seventeen living classmates of that loyal member of our class popularly known by the paradoxical nickname of "Slugger."
George Bard spent Thanksgiving Day with relatives in Cambridge, Mass. After the traditional dinner of that holiday he came into Boston and called upon your secretary, bringing cheer and good fellowship, while chatting before an open birch-log fire at the close of the day. George was in fine spirits and looking well.
Several members of Hardy Ferguson's family group served with the armed forces in various parts of the world during the recent war. His son, John Gill Ferguson, unmarried, has been in the Regular Army of the United States since November 1928, including nearly seven years in Hawaii. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, at the time of the Japanese attack. He is now at Camp Upton, Long Island, and expects to be sent overseas soon in the Quartermaster De- partment. He has the rank of technical ser- geant.
His married daughter Helen (Mrs. Orin Francis Perry Jr.) had two sons in the war: Orin Francis Perry 3rd and Hardy Ferguson Perry; and the husband of her daughter Janet, Marlin Clack Martin Jr., a graduate of Lafayette College, also served overseas. The war record of each of these three young men is worthy of comment. Orin Francis Perry 3rd, married, was commissioned as Ensign USNR in 1940, ordered to battleship Pennsylvania, and was at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, when his ship—in dry dock at the time—was damaged in the Japanese attack. Later his ship was in the Aleutian campaign. In 1943 he was transferred to the battleship California, on which he served during the Guam, Saipan, Leyte and Lingayan Gulf (Luzon) battles, and finally at Okinawa. At Lingayan Gulf his ship was hit by a "suicide bomber," suffering more than 250 casualties. He is now Assistant Chief Gunnery Officer of the California, his present (wartime) rank being lieutenant commander USNR,
Hardy Ferguson Perry, unmarried, is in the Merchant Marine Service, rank, ensign USNR —Second Officer's license US Maritime Service. He was at Casablanca during President Roosevelt's conference there with Prime Minister Churchill. Between D-Day and October 1944, he was engaged in shuttling supplies from England to France. Since then he has served as second officer on a ship transporting army trucks and munitions from New York tor a port in India.
Marlin Clark Martin Jr. is a marine officer and served as captain one winter in Iceland. Soon after his marriage to Janet (Hardy Ferguson's granddaughter) in June 1942, he left for the Guadalcanal attack, and in January 1943, was invalided home and hospitalized at San Francisco, where his wife joined him. After convalescence he was given shore duty at San Diego for a short time, following which he sailed, as a member of the Admiral's Staff, for the Pacific war zone and was in the attack on Guam and Saipan. Again he was invalided home and since recovering has been on shore duty at San Diego, where he and his wife are now living. His present rank is major USMC.
In 1934 Dr. Theodore R. Miner '23, youngest son of our classmate, joined the Naval Medical Unit from Bellevue Hospital, New York, and was commissioned a lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the United States Naval Reserve. In the spring of 1941 he requested active duty and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander and ordered to the United States Naval Hospital at Portsmouth, N. H., where he reported on June 15, 1941. He became Chief of Surgery there in October 1941, a position he held for 38 months, being concurrently executive officer. On February 1, 1943, he was promoted to the rank of commander, and in May 1944, he requested foreign duty. The following September he was sent to New Guinea and became chief of surgery and executive officer in a Naval Advanced Base Unit at Bougainville in the Northern Solomons. In February 1945, he was ordered back to the United States, where, since his return, he has been stationed at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital at Oakland, Calif., and at the 13th Naval District Medical Headquarters, serving as surgeon, gynecologist and obstetrician. "Babe" Miner, so known by his classmates, was president of the Dartmouth Club of New York before entering the service. He is now out of the Navy, and has been having a well-earned rest with his wife Florence and his two children, Virginia, 11, and T. Richardson Jr., 9, at their farm in Townshend, Vt.
Walter S. Sullivan Jr. (Sully's only son), Yale '40, on leave of absence from the NewYork Times Company, served in the Pacific area during the war as a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Frost are at their winter home, 4701 Twenty-ninth Ave., South, in St. Petersburg, Fla., where they plan to remain until late spring.
Fund Contributors for 1945
17 Gifts (Participation Index 100). Total gifts: $1115.00 (384% of objective). HARDY S. FERGUSON, Class Agent.
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Anonymous Bard, George P. Bartlett, Ralph S. Blair, Henry P. Blakely, David N.1 Chase, Arthur Davis, Edwin B. Dearborn, Ned Ellis, Benjamin F. Ferguson, Hardy S. Frost, Harry M. Hazen, Frank J. Moulton, Clarence E. Noyes, Nathaniel K.2 Redfield, Burt H.3 Sullivan, Walter S. Warden, Oliver S. MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM: 1 Mrs. Blakely.2 a classmate.3 Mrs. Redfield.
JAMES W. NEWTON '86, a veteran agent who again led the Fund in participation with a 1945 index of 200.
ALBERT E. HADLOCK '87, always in the top ranges, both in participation and objective, who nevertheless in 1945 showed the highest combined improvement over 1944.
Secretary and Treasurer, 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.
