1925

Ken Hill—bless him—not only sent us the story on Frank Wallis in an adjoining column but also sent in the following notes:

"Lt. Colonel Dick Gratz is now out of the service and back in Boston. When he left for the Army he was Boston Superintendent for Postal Telegraph. Since that time Postal has merged with Western Union and Dick is now City Commercial Superintendent for the merged companies.

"Pete Blodgett is back full time at the First National Bank here after many months in the hospital correcting a very bad back condition.

"Cl'if Hill has officially retired from his bigtime government post and I understand he will join one of the big chemical companies in New York after a vacation. I will let you know the details later.

"I had a card from Roger Stephenson saying that he was established in Florida for the winter. I could use some of that myself after a bad. cold, the rush of holidays, and a lot of work.

"I also had a card from Barny Barnfather's wife saying that he is serving in Antwerp, Belgium, with the United Seamen's Service of the War Shipping Administration."

From Bad Nauheim, Germany we got the following letter from Lt. Col. Coop Rhodes in answer to a request we sent him for a "twenty-year" resume:

After graduating in June 1925, I returned to my native city of Washington, D. C., and entered Law School at George Washington University. Was admitted to the Bar in October 1928, and engaged in the general practice of law from then until the later part of 1940, when I got into uniform.

Although my military career really started in 1926, when I first joined the National Guard, my tour of active duty for this' emergency began about the first of December, 1940, when I started a course of study at the Command and General Staff School. After that, I joined my division, which had been ordered into active service, and was at Fort George G. Meade, Md. My overseas service dates from 5 October 1942, when the Queen Elizabeth took me and few thousand other members of the 29th Infantry Division out of New York harbor, bound for England. After living in southern England for about twenty months, I landed in France on 6 June 1944. Had some interesting experiences through the campaigns in Normandy, Brittany, Holland and Germany. Was transferred from the 29th Division to Headquarters, Fifteenth Army, about the first of last April.

By the time you receive this, I shall be on my way home, for one week from today I shall leave this little town of Bad Nauheim, Germany, bound for Le Havre and a boat for the U. S. A. At home I have a wife, to whom I have been married since 1934, and a six-year-old daughter. Not having seen them for more than three years, I'm more than a little anxious to get home by Christmas.

From the Providence, R. I., Journal, weget the following flash about Eddie Edwards'.

Capt. Foster H. Edwards, son of the Rev. and Mrs. J. Arthur Edwards of Thomson Methodist Church, Pawtucket, is home on leave after three years in the Quartermaster Corps of the United States Army. With his wife, Madeleine A. (Stevens) Edwards, formerly of Boston, and two children, Susan, 12, and Stephen, 9, the Captain is visiting his parents for a few days. The War Department has notified him that he is to be made a major soon and will be discharged January 15.

He has been stationed recently at Camp Beale, Calif., and on returning to civilian life will resume an executive position with the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in Springfield, Mass. Educated in the Middle West, he was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1925.

Eddie's new address is 1435 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow, Mass.

Sid Milner of 631 Lincoln Ave., Williamsport, Pa., has arrived in the Philippines to serve the armed forces as an American Red Cross assistant field director. He previously served the Red Cross in the European Theatre of Operations. Mrs. Milner will remain in Williamsport Les King of Melrose, Mass., visited Hanover and stayed at the Inn during the Christmas holidays.

Your correspondent has taken on a oneman crusade to teach other people's youngsters how to handle guns since his 15-year-old candidate for the class of 1952 was accidentally shot by a .22 rifle at 150 yards' range by another boy. Bill must have been wearing a horseshoe as the bullet missed his spine by a fraction of an inch. A rather serious operation was performed but it now looks as if he'll be out playing shortstop this spring.

How about taking ten minutes out to write me at 420 Lex. Ave., N. Y. C. and tell me what you're up to?

Secretary, Room 1100 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. Treasurer, 49 Federal St., Boston, Mass.