1909

During the summer months my notes have been accumulating and, I am sorry to say, the obituary notices have also been accumulating too fast. I have sent the In Memoriam notices through and you may have seen these but I am afraid it is necessary now to watch these columns a little too closely if we are going to keep up with the classmates who are passing on so quickly.

Clifton Blake, who had been working for the James A. Moynes Company of Detroit as Secretary and Treasurer, died on February 26,1917. James C- Davis, who was assistant superintendent in charge of Transportation for the Transit System of Seattle, Washington, died August 17. Fred Batchellor, who had been connected with the U. S. Rubber Company, died at the Beekman-Downtown Hospital in New York on August 24.

To turn to something a little mcire cheerful —I have a clipping announcing the marriage of Joyce Wendell Locke, daughter of Mr. andMrs. Richard B. Locke, to William Jarrett Bumgarner, on July 17, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Joyce attended Middlebury College, and Mr. Bumgarner studied in Charlottle, N. C., and Glendale, California, and received his degree from Duke University in 1936. They will live in Los Angeles.

Speaking of Los Angeles, we have an announcement of the marriage of Merrill Follansbee Jr., who is in the Ministry, to Muriel Ruth Stoner on July 16, in Los Angeles.

I didn't mention that Allen Newton, HerbHawes and I had a reunion for ourselves in June, at the time of the reunion of the class of '07. Frankly, we had a good time for ourselves, but it was nothing like the past reunions. There just didn't seem to be any life in the place but we did have a delightful visit with Bunk Irwin and his very attractive wife over in Norwich. They have an old house they are putting back into shape and doing a small amount of farming for themselves. They are really doing a swell job and are having the time of their lives. They will be delighted to see anybody in the class who returns for a visit, and, I think I can assure you, you will enjoy yourself.

The whole class, I imagine, knows by now that Norm Catharin felt he couldn't carry on the job of Class Agent any longer though, here in Boston, we urged him very strongly to keep on. However, he felt he really couldn't give the time to it so we asked Jim Greenbaurn to take over for five years. He jumped into the job and is keeping things humming. Between Jack Childs and Jim I am sure we are going to keep on coming across each year. I don't think most of the class realizes how much work is involved in this job and how many times an Agent has to get in touch with the members before they do "come across"! The class certainly owes a tremendous vote of thanks to Norm for the time he has put into this job.

I was glad to hear this past summer from John MacNaughton, whom we lost sight of during the last part of the war. He went out to Prescott, Arizona, where he went into the engineering business for himself.

Sandy Hooker broke into the news again, as he has several times, in testifying that a certain man was not the alleged father of a child because their blood types were not the same. Sandy is getting to be quite a specialist!

A nice note from Tubby Bird shows he is hale and hearty. He thought the book on Freddie Carroll was very good.

Maurice Readey kindly sent me a review of a book published on Russell Cowles by Donald Bear. This contains quite a series of reproductions of Russ's paintings and speaks very highly of them. Among other things mentioned is the following comment on his work: "His work shows a remarkably dynamic understanding of both traditional occidental and oriental painting as well as of the abstract principles which activate and underlie the modern movement as such."

Recent visitors to the Hanover Inn were Chap and Margaret Chappelear and their daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Oliphant.

Secretary, Win. Filene's Sons Co. Washington St., Boston, Mass

Treasurer, 16 Wall St., New York 15, N. Y.