1909

I take it that Hal Hall has considerably improved as I have an address for him now at 8 Ralph Avenue, White Plains, New York.

I. haven't received any additional information on the death of Roy Dodge. I have also received word of the death of Fred S. HansonJr. Fred died at his home in State College, Pa., on Wednesday, November 19. Christian Science and Masonic services were held at State College, and burial was at Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett. Mass. Surviving are a son, Fred S. Hanson 111. of Menasha, Wisconsin; a daughter, Mrs. Hilda Hale of Columbia, Mo.; and four grandchildren, John, Barbara, and Thomas Hanson and Stephen Hale.

Hap Hinman tells me he recently saw LindDean and that Lind is now the oldest professor in point of service at Denison and has a great deal of influence on the undergraduates through his course on Classical Problems.

Joe Worthen has just been elected director of the Winchester National Bank and received considerable publicity. Joe has been active in town affairs for many years. He was Chairman of the Board of Selectmen in 1929 and has been Moderator since 1943. He was a member of the committee which recommended the Limited Town Meeting in 1928 and chairman of the committee which studied its revision in 1940. Among his other Winchester interests, he is a trustee of the Winchester Savings Bank and of the Scholarship Foundation. He admits his fame as a lawyer is surpassed by his notoriety as author, in 1929, of a Selectmen's Report entitled Winchester's Sturdy Birds, which received wide editorial comment and facsimile reproductions which were printed in leading newspapers throughout the country. He asserts, apparently without repentance, that it is the only Town Report which ever became a "collector's item."

It just so happens that I came across his comments, which 1 had cut out and saved, yesterday, and I am quoting them as follows which is good for a laugh:

"All this, and more, is related in the annual report of the selectmen, a pamphlet which has recently become Winchester's 'best-seller.' Its author, we are told, is Joseph Worthen, a young Dartmouth man who is a promising lawyer in Boston and Chairman of the Board of Selectmen in Winchester. Mr. Worthen's aim is to write the report in such an informal and entertaining manner that his fellow-citizens will stay up nights to read about the condition of their town. We are leaving the story of the troubles of the clock in the Town Hall to him. The report reads: In the tower of the Town Hall, in contrast to that of the First Congregational Church, the movements of the town clock have caused no concern. We wish we could say as much for the pigeons. During the year it became too apparent that these birds had been using the open spaces in this tower for all domestic purposes since 1887. The Board believed that the functions for which the building was primarily intended were public functions. No one with all his senses could believe otherwise. And expert investigations proved that the steadily increasing stress to which the floor timbers were being subjected required drastic action. At a cost of $72.15 the Selectmen have now caused the space to be excavated, and all openings closed with wire netting. The Board has therefore successfully eliminated the previous danger of the contents of the tower caving down through the roof and causing an unsavory interruption to some deliberative assembly."

Jim Greenbaum tells us he is going to attend the meeting of the Class Agents in Hanover and is coming to Boston on his way back in order to get together with the Executive Committee of the class. We are, therefore, arranging a luncheon for him on January 19. One of the things he is trying to put over is to get the widows of '09 together to see what can be done in the direction of subscriptions to the Alumni Fund, and thus helping the standing of '09,

This will be my last secretarial report for by the time this reaches you I will have been retired and will be living the life of a "gentleman farmer." I will have no facilities for keeping in touch with the fellows so I am going to ask the Executive Committee at the meeting to appoint a successor. I will greatly miss this monthly contact with you all but my health has not been too good in the last year or so and the doctors think I had better take it easy. I will, however, be present at all the functions I possibly can attend.

Fund, Contributors for 1947 137 Gifts (Participation Index 75). Total gifts: $3,326.50 (49% of objective). NORMAN R. CATHARIN, Class Agent.

1909

Adams, George R. Andrews, Harold L. Ashworth, William Austin, Frank S. Bartlett, Frank M. Bates, Albert W. Bedell, Arthur S.1 Bird, Francis H. Brett, Chester S. Brock, Fred S. Brown, Ogden Brown, Walter E. Bruce, Robert M. Buchanan, Harry E. Bull, Wilbur I. Burbank, Harold H. Burns, Robert A. Burpee, Benjamin P. Buxton, Arthur L. Catharin, Norman R. Chappelear, Edgar S. Chase, Laurence C. Chase, Philip M.2 Childs, John R. Clark, Harold S. Clement, Ralph B. Cole, Philip Colley, Reginald H. Cory, Frank L. Cummings, Clarence E. Dean, Lindley R. Dillingham, Herman L. Dole, C. Elbert Dudley, Benjamin H. Dunbar, Clarence E. Dwenger, George H. Eaton, Walter I. Erhard, Emile H. Fardy, Thomas A. Farley, Leon B. Fleisher, Horace T. Floyd, Harry R. Follansbee, Merrill M. Foreman, Harold E. Ford, Edward C. French, Bertrand C. Gardner, Laurence V. Goodh.eart, Joseph A. Goodrich, Ernest H. Graff, Joseph R. Graves, H. Wilbur Greenebaum, James F. Hadden, Arthur A. Hammond, Karl R. Hansbury, John E. Hanson, Fred S Jr. Hazelton, Sidney C. Hill, Albert L. Hilliard, Curtis M. Hinckley, George H. Hitchcock, James Holmes, Robert J. Holzer, William F. Hooker, Sanford B. Howard, Eliot R. Howland, Nathaniel J. Jewett, Maurice G. Johnson, Frederick C. Killam, Carl Lane, Walter J. Leighton, Stanley W. Locke, Richard B. Lord, Richard J. Loughlin, William A. McLane, Arthur F. McLoud, Anson MacNaughton, P. John Marshall, Leon C. Martin, Edwin D. Meleney, Henry E. MofFatt, Elbert M. Morawski,Frederick H.3 Mower, Robinson H. Murchie, Harold H. Newton, Allen E. Newton, Jonah J. O'Brien, Frank J. O'Mara, Arthur J. Oliphant, George W. Olmstead, Frank T. Otis, Dean P. Parker, Thomas O. Parkinson, Taintor4 Patch, William T. Patterson, William H. Perley, Rollin H. Perry, Chester N. Pool, Sterling H. Pratt, Harold H. Readey, Maurice Reagan, Frank J. Reed, Fred L. Root, Kenneth E. Rose, Philip M. Ross, Wallace M. Saville, Clark Schwartz, Harvie E. Scully, Bernard M. Sheldon, Curtiss L. Sidley, Walter A. Simpson, C. Randolph Snow, Clifton A. Solomon, Frank Spaulding, Howard K. Sporborg, Arthur J. Stanley, Arthur B. Stark, Eugene M. Stone, Robert Ml Storer, Perley N. Swenson, J. Arthur Thomas, Walter E. Thorn, Craig Trickey, Charles L. Tucker, Lynde W. Tuttle, James N. Walker, Herman L. Ward, Harry A. Weinz, A. Gordon Wellsted, Thomas C. West, Vernon F. Whitcomb, Henry B. White, Arthur C. Whitmore, Harold C. Whitney, Ernest C. Wight, Ralph M. Williams, Frank B. Wing, Richard L. Worthen, Joseph W. Wright, Louis F. MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM: 1 Wilbur I. Bull '09.2Gift received prior todeath.8 Clark Tobin—Class of1910.4 Father, William D.Parkinson '78.

CLASS AGENT NORMAN R. CATHARIN '09

Secretary, Win. Filene's Sons Cos. 426 Washington St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer, 16 Wall St., New York 15, N. Y. Class Agent, „ 667 W. Randolph St., Chicago,Ill.