1938

I have been sitting behind this typewriter for fifteen minutes trying to think of something to write about in the absence of any communications this month from my worthy classmates, with the exception of one solitary letter. That comes from Charley Maguire and is a letter of acceptance of the chairmanship of the 1938 Wives Reunion Committee. The appointment, as previously reported, had been offered to Ewart Gladstone Walls, but his time-consuming duties as corresponding secretary of the Los Angeles chapter of the W. C. T. U. have prevented his acceptance of the honor. Maguire, who easily qualifies as the class's leading globe-trotter (he was in Rio when I last heard of him) says in his letter, which bears the post-mark "Pindamonhangaba, Estado de Sao Paulo, Brasil:

"Since I last wrote you I have been to Java and back, on rather a quick trip .... for the (Dutch) oil company with which I am now associated I am pleased to report, however, that I expect to return to the States this winter, for good, and I am happy to accept the chairmanship of the Wives Reunion Committee Among the other things which I have in mind to have our wives, amuse themselves with are a potato race on the campus and a canoe-tilting contest at the class picnic."

Recent visitors to Hanover have included Bob Cataldo, Jack Scarborough, Fran Reillyand wife, Shadow Stone, the Henry Becks of Dallas (Texas, that is), Danny Marshall, BillSchubert and wife, and Sid Hogerton. Beck actually came through Concord while he was in these parts, but the cryptic message he left with my girl Friday was not particularly enlightening. I assume that he merely stopped here to have his passport checked.

Even Father Stork has been uncooperative this month in providing me with the wherewithal to fill this column, and his only contribution is Susan Anne McKeon, who arrived on Jim McKeon's doorstep on July 9. I think Jim's doorstep is in the vicinity of the Yale Bowl, but I'm not sure.

Parker Brownell, who is one of the Boston and Maine's legal eagles in Boston, has recently established a new base of operations in Marblehead. And speaking of the Boston and Maine, those of you who haven't had the opportunity to make use of its facilities recently will probably not be surprised to learn that they have replaced their old square wheels. They are now using triangular onesat least on the Boston-Concord run. Bob Carroll, the old sea-dog, is out of San Francisco on the U.S.S. Razorback, according to Vachyslav Grashinsky, who stopped off to see me yesterday between planes, on his way back to Moscow. George Kingsbury ran the biggest haying operation in southwestern New Hampshire this past summer and fall. Pinkerton reports that Fred Hollingworth is in Elgin, Illinois, but he didn't say what doing. Tomand Peggy McGrath recently moved to Evanston. Don Stroud is practicing law in Madison. And speaking of Madison, if any of you are thinking of going to summer school, I'd recommend the University of Wisconsin. BenWalkley, another, old sea-dog, is currently in, about, and around the Navy Yard at Norfolk. Hal Berman is at Stanford, and I would guess that he might be teaching there. He had two fine articles on Russian law in the YaleLaw Journal last spring.

My train of thought was just interrupted by a tapping at the window, and, thinking it might be another raven, about which I could write something, I tore across the room, threw open the window, and there was old man Stork again. He said he just wanted to say that Art King's son Stephen Rounsefell arrived at the King abode in Springfield, Vermont, on June 25. Where has Winchell been?

Alec Behr is back in the Granite State, up at Wonalancet. Clark Fletcher is still down in Mexico City, with Studebaker. Dr. DuncanB. Marsh is in Santa Barbara, and Dick Morse, lucky fellow, is living in Honolulu. The Alumni Records Office reports that WernerSchmidt's present address is Schuetzenstrasse 51, Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany.

Bob Reeve, who has very generously offered to act as chairman of the '38 War Memorial Committee, has chosen Stearns MacNutt and Charley Keyes to work with him on the committee. The committee would like to have your ideas as to the best manner in which we can make our memorial gift to the college. Bob's address is c/o Lethbridge-Owens & Phillips, 111 John Street, New York 7; Mac's is c/o Gore Temple Company, 176 Federal Street, Boston; Charley's is c/o Hazen Paper Company, 170 Broadway, New York. The committee plans to have a proposal ready to present to the class, for its consideration and vote, at the class business meeting at reunion.

I hate to tear myself away from this machine, but I've got to take off for Hanover and the Penn game. Dave Hosmer, who scouted Syracuse for Slippery Rock last Saturday, reports that we may win. I wish you were all going to be there with me.

Secretary, 4 School St., Concord, N. H.

Treasurer, Suite 1160, 208 S. La Salle St., Chicago 4, 111.