1938

I was in Hanover last week and it looked very much as it did during the first week of September just nine years ago when what was to be an undefeated football team was gathering for early practice and we "grand old seniors" were drifting back to town. I don't remember that there were diapers flapping in the wind behind the Fayerweathers in 1937, but there may have been, and otherwise it's all about the same—even to the premature touches of brilliant red in the maples around the hillsides where an early frost laid its hand.

Harry Connor gets a red star on the chart for coming through with the letter of the month (the only letter of the month, in fact), and he gets another gold one for the news in the letter:

The occasion of this report is to publicly resign from the Batchelor's Coterie which I am afraid I was somewhat responsible for—along with Emerson and Tesreau Miss Barbara Boyle, now of Larchmont, N. Y., and recently resigned from the Red Cross after two years in the E. T. 0., is the young lady who has agreed to show me a better way of life, starting on September 21 ... . the daughter of Charles J. Boyle '01, an all-American guard for the ole Green .... she put in two years at Wellesley before taking off to become a career woman in the advertising game, and there was a slight tinge of Crimson during that period of her life which I am sure she has outgrown Bob Foley has been given a fellowship in medicine at the Lahey Clinic in Boston Fran Reilley is now a junior member of a "Worcester law firm.

Three cheers for the old Gyrene and the lass with the ex-tinge of Crimson. Now if someone will give Tesreau the word. Thanks to Luce's Press Clipping Bureau and the Alumni Records Office, I can report on the successful activities of a few more Thirty-Eighters: Eddie Perrin's engagement to Janet Pond (West Hartford, Southern Seminary and Erskine) was announced in July, as was that of Babe Griffin to Elizabeth Shoumatoff (Locust Valley, L. 1., Shipley and the SPARS). Adrian Weiss and Dorothy Joan Weisberg, of New York City, Washington University, Flora Stone Mather College and the Marine Corps Women's Reserve, were married in July; Dick Rooker and Beatrice Irene Haas (Pelham Manor and Penn Hall) in June; Walter Schaefer and Carolyn Johnson, a recent graduate of Wheaton, in April. Other recent engagements are: Dick Gilbert and Marie Laurence Rogers of Florence, S. C., and Rollins College—the announcement says that they were to be married on April 24, which makes this practically a scoop; Bob Forgan to Dorothy Briggs of Dover, N. H.; Bob Stearns to Betty Naramore of Bridgeport, Conn.; Mike Sullivan to Dorothy Sutherland of Jackson College and Simmons; Charley Maguire to Maria Cecilia da Silva e Carvalho in Rio de Janeiro.

Ed Kirby was appointed space buyer of the Toledo office of Ewell and Thurber last spring. Before the war he was with Ruthrauff and Tyan in New York. Dick Tisdale reports the birth of a daughter, Demaris Elizabeth, on March 14. Henry Beck was married in Dallas to Patricia Davis on June 22. Cy MacKinnon was a witness, but he failed to report if there were others. The last time I saw Henry he had Pearl Harbor under control and my usually reliable source of information in Texas advises that he is getting that province whipped into shape. Cy recently left Sherwin-Williams in Chicago and is now affiliated with the commercial printing industry there.

Bob Archibald and Jake Carey have both announced the arrival of a first heir, Susan Archibald and Brooks Carey. I heard indirectly that Atch was about to move back to Southern California from Berkeley. Jake has gone back to the salt mines from the Navynot in Siberia, but in Hutchinson, Kansas. I ran into Johnny Cutler in Chicago last April; he was finishing up at Northwestern Law a parked Navy station wagon on the street in the Marine Corps interrupted. Merrill Davis was still in Chicago then, but I have since heard that he has moved to Dayton, Ohio. (Can anyone beat the three children that both he and MacKinnon have? It must be something in the Chicago air.).

Things got too hot in the States, I suppose, for Jack Donovan, so he got Genexal Motors to send him to Alexandria, Egypt, and it looks as if things might be pretty hot in that part of the world, too. Someone yelled at me from a parked Navy station wagon on the street in Concord not long ago. It was Bud Lynch. At that time he was about to go back to the hospital in St. Albans, still having trouble with a leg wound. I'm sure he'd be glad to see anyone who might be in those parts and to hear from anyone who has time to drop him a note.

Bill Watson is practicing law with his father, and George Kingsbury has gone into business with his father, both in Keene, N. H. They report that Spec Holmes is still out west, and besides digging things out of the earth, he has properly named and labeled every miner west of St. Louis. Hank Molloy, rumor hath it, is back in New York practicing law. Charley Moses is living in Concord and working all over New England for Coca Cola. Clark Fletcher has been living in Mexico City for some time, where he peddles Studebakers; reports in Minneapolis papers to the contrary notwithstanding, he is in no way connected with the nefarious activities of the Pasquel Brothers. Hank McDuff is out of the Army and will be in New York this fall. I haven't heard any word of Stan Brown or Hoby Rockwell lately—not even through the gang-buster grapevine—but at last report they were both FBling in parts unknown to me. Dave Bradley was at the Bikini atomic bomb tests, as an observing doctor for the Army. Herb Christiansen is back with Gulf Oil and is living in Arlington, Mass.

I have learned that Art Shoemaker died early in 1942 near Lashio, Burma, and was presumably killed by the Japanese; Ed Rutherford died, after being in poor health for about a year, on June 4, in Brooklyn; Dick Anderson was killed in an automobile accident near Hookerville, Vt., on August 19. They with all be missed. Obituary notices will be published in the MAGAZINE in the near future.

I hope to hear from some of you soon. And can anyone answer this question: Where is Fred Hollingworth?

TAKING THE SUN ON ROLLINS STEPS, four members of 1938 form a small reunion picture this summer. Left to right, Art Soule, John Emerson, Whitey Mays, and Joe Schaeffer.

Secretary, 4 School St., Concord, N. H. Treasurer, Connecticut Mutual Life Ins. Co., Hartford, Conn.