1911

Marjorie Swain wrote: "Will you please express to the class the children's and my deep appreciation of the especially beautiful flowers, so lovely a tribute to Dave from the classmates and college he so especially loved."

News from Les Waldron via Treasurer Eaton refers to the fact that he is leading a busy life traveling all over the country in his new job as sales manager for the Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co.

Much of the past month's news is not exciting and concerns classmates traveling here and there.

The Gay Farrells were Hanover visitors, as was also Frank Dodge for a fleeting moment who was returning from seeing his son, John, who was recovering from an emergency appendix operation at Deerfield.

We heard from Hub Pierce whose son is thinking of entering Dartmouth next fall; and Ned Judd, principal of the D. F. Burns Public School in Hartford, Conn., is interested in finding out if a friend of his can enter college. Incidentally, Ned is also chairman of the Hartford Social Adjustment Commission, a member of the Board of Directors of the Hartford Dispensary, and the Mitchell House.

The Hawkridges returned from their winter vacation at Boca Grande, Fla.

The Agrys have been on a trip to California which might be labelled both business and pleasure.

The Dodges returned to Whitefield recently, having spent six weeks in California on what Frank calls a "busman's holiday."

The Ed Chamberlains returned from Florida in time to welcome their third grandchild on March 21, this boy's name being Bruce Hutcherson. While in Florida Ed is reported to have caught a 7 foot 8 inch sail-fish which I thought was a big sail-fish until a returning Tuck School boy said he got one 7 feet 11 inches.

Because the secretary and his wife took a week's vacation in Washington and Williamsburg they missed seeing Dick and Mary Chase who had been in Hanover. At Williamsburg it was found the Ken Clarks had preceded us.

Ethel Poole, Ed's charming wife, thinks nothing of driving to Hanover from Albany for the day to see her boy, Ed, who is a freshman here.

In Washington George Morris was in his usual beaming good health and John McDonald was delighted to be home again after wrestling with a serious stomach ulcer in the hospital.

At two concerts during April the Chicago Symphony Orchestra played "The Scissors Grinder" by Alice Brown Stout. Reuners will remember her playing this composition among others at our last reunion.

A few more changes in addresses for the directory follow. James H. Batchelor's residence: 245 Union, St. Louis 8, Missouri Art Bush's residence: 24 Otis St., Watertown, Mass Tubby Snow's business address: 959 Little Building, Boston, Mass.

Ken Knapp for some years now has been City Engineer in Rochester, New York. This was a well deserved promotion for Ken which never has been recognized in this column before.

The following letter from Bob Barstow gives a picture of the vital and interesting job that "Church World Service, Inc.," is doing and the part that Bob, as Director of Service has in it:—

On April 2/3 I flew back from Stockholm to New York via Iceland, completing a little jaunt of 9,000 miles in six weeks, visiting 7 different European countries and touching 5 others in transit. The primary objectives were a major conference on relief and reconstruction with representatives of 17 European national interchurch reconstruction committees, and another conference on the plight of the refugees, displaced persons, and expellees. The former was at Chexbres, in Switzerland, near Montreux, and the latter at Copenhagen. In Copenha- gen, I was included in a small official delegation received by King Christian X.

I also had consultations regarding relief activities in London, Paris, Rome, Genoa, Turin, Milan, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, and Berlin. Our program is operating on behalf of the united Protestant Churches of the United States, in all the needy areas of Europe, and of Asia as well. We are handling about a million dollars a month in cash and contributed commodities, although this does not begin to meet the needs everywhere. In addition to distributing emergency supplies of clothing, food, bedding, etc., to special groups, or in particular situations, as a ministry of fellowship and compassion from and through the churches, we are also helping in the re-establishment of church life and activities. We are re-equipping church institutions such as orphanages, deaconess homes, hospitals, etc. We are helping to replenish supplies of religious literature. Some of the people tell us they need Christian reading matter as much as they need bread! We are assisting the local church bodies to restart their youth programs, their leadership training institutes, and we are supplying a large number of temporary wooden churches and cotnmunity centers, and assisting in the beginnings of major repairs and rebuilding on a long range program.

Europe still gives one a feeling of discouragement almost to despair—particularly Germany and Austria. The western nations—-Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France, and also Czechoslovakia, are making good progress in their recovery. But conditions in Finland, Italy, Greece, Poland and Hungary are still pretty desperate, and worst of all are Germany and Austria, with Roumania facing an immediate food emergency. The major adjustments will have to be made at top levels of politics and economics, but meanwhile, the churches are playing an important part in bolstering morale and relaying the moral foundations upon which alone any lasting peace or prosperity can rest.

Secretary, ... 1 Webster Terrace, Hanover, N. H, Treasurer, Howland Dry Goods Co., Bridgeport 2, Conn.