1915
Stan and Lucy Llewellyn express their appreciation for the sincere interest and kind offers from so many classmates when they received word during Reunion of the serious illness of Mrs. Llewellyn's brother. By catching a train out of White River early Sunday morning, they reached Richmond, Va., in time to make his last few days more comfortable.
Bee Rural discussed coming shifts in Fiscal and Tax Policy at the annual meeting of the New Haven Junior Chamber of Commerce in Tune.
The class extends its condolences to CharlieGriffith on the death of his mother on August 20.
Jack Healy has been on the sick list for most of the summer but reports he is back on virtually full business schedule again.
Seen inspecting the United Nations' new Secretariat Building, Kell Rose, George Dyke and Ray De Voe '16.
Several Fifteeners took pictures of a group of new class officers on the lawn in front of the Outing Club on Sunday, June 18, but so far only Harold Pinkham has mailed in a print. Unfortunately Harold superimposed Carl Gish's phiz on the same negative with results flattering to neither subject. We should like such a picture for the record. Can anyone help?
Dave Davison attended a Rotary convention in Detroit as representative for New Hampshire and Vermont.
Herb Potter is Assistant Clerk of the Texas Eighth District Court in El Paso, which is a good thing to know if one ever runs afoul of the law down there deep in the heart of. Does the influence extend to Juarez, Herb?
Jack Ferguson reports having a good visit with Doc and Priscilla Noyes en route home from Reunion. The Noyes' are busily modernizing a very old house in Duxbury, doing much of the work themselves.
The Kent Smiths sailed on the Carinthia August 25 for a European tour. They expect to be gone until the end of October.
Paul Rothery has been elected Regional Vice-president of the Class to serve the unexpired term of the late Russell Chase.
1913,1914 and 1915 combine for luncheon every Wednesday at 12:00 noon at Patten's Restaurant (second floor) on Court Street, Boston. Paste this item in your hat. Visiting firemen are especially welcome.
Kike and Pearl Richardson weekended with the Eben (Nature Boy) Cloughs at their summer igloo in Ipswich where they were feted on clams and lobsters until salt water ran out of their ears.
Albert E. Johnson has been elected President of [he Ashland, 0., Rotary Club.
Johnnie Johnson, the squire of South Orleans, is strategically located to see vacationing classmates who are partial to Cape Cod (and who isn't?). Ray King, Gib Campbell,Dick Wyman and Howie Wing are reported to have checked in.
Our jaunty Jerseyites enjoyed a jolly jamboree on September 9 at the Laffertys'. Those present were the Brauns, Griffiths, Murdocks,Roses and Carolyn Perry.
David Dexter Davis recently presented a paper at a convention at the Hotel Statler, New York on cancer of the stomach, a subject on which he has specialized and made great progress.
How many realize that Chan Foster has served an entire decade as Class Treasurer? During that time he has collected virtually $10,000, out of which he disbursed, in addition to all ordinary expense items, the cost of the 25-year Class Book and the 1949 Class Directory and a contribution of $500 to the 1915 Memorial Fund. He turned over to RussRice a balance of more than $600. The figures speak for themselves. Not so obvious are the many, many hours of conscientious work be- hind the accomplishment. It was a swell job, Chan, and 1915 is grateful to you.
Phil Pelletier's daughter Mary was graduated from Colby Junior College this year.
Very good news has been received from Russ Durgin concerning his recovery from a very unusual malady but let Russ express it in his own words:
"I was stricken with a malady, the cause of which the medical profession seems to know but little if anything Myelomatosis a disease of the bone marrow. The doctors in Tokyo were very pessimistic about it all and didn't hold out much hope for my lasting very long. However, Dr. Snapper, one of the outstanding experts in this line here in New York says it is really miraculous what has happened to me. At any rate, after nearly three months completely on my back, Delphine got me from Tokyo to New York on a stretcher never expected to travel from Tokyo to New York in pajamas without police interference. But I made it. Then after a few weeks in Mt. Sinai Hospital here, believe it or not, I was able to get dressed and walked out of the hospital 'on my own steam.' I realize, however, that it is going to be a long hard pull before I will be able to again really 'get going.' One effect of this is that all the bones become demineralized and the process of recalcification after the abnormal cells in the marrow are all eliminated is a process of from three months to a year. So from present outlook, you don't need to start writing my obituary.
"We will be in and around New York for sometime because the doctor wants to keep close tabs on me frequent blood tests, etc.
"Our return under such circumstances came as a terrible blow for I had been looking forward to the next five or six years as the most fruitful of all our years in Japan. The past 32 years there were but preparatory to the possibilities (not only in the Y.M.C.A. and Christian work, but in helping on the great and bold experiment in which Japan and the United States are engaged) of these next years ahead.
"I do want to say to you and every member of the class how much I appreciate that cable which came just before we left Jokyo. I was feeling pretty low about that time."
Few of us can have any conception of the importance of Russ and his work. He was the outstanding living symbol of Japanese Youth Organizations. Among offices he has held since V-J day are: Senior Representative of the International Committee Y.M.C.A. in Japan; Honorary Secretary, Japan National Y.M.C.A.; Honorary Secretary, National Christian Council; Liaison Representative with S.C.A.P. (U.S. occupation) for Foreign Missions Conference of North America; Vice-president, Tokyo Rotary Club; Chairman, Board of Trustees Tokyo Union Church; Vice president, America-Japan Society; President, Tokyo Tennis Club and Chairman of Board of American School in Japan.
Hearty congratulations to Jack Ferguson who has recently been appointed Vice-president in charge of exploration of Deep Rock Oil Corporation. Jack will continue to make his headquarters in Tulsa, Okla.
According to report, Ned Shea has been on a strict diet since early spring and has slenderized his sylph-like figure to the tune of 18 pounds. Nice going we calls it.
"New York Close-Up," the syndicated column by Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, devoted its May 23 issue to Walter Wanger. The highlights of his successful career in the movies are too familiar to his classmates to need repeating here. The following philosophy from the former impressario of fourth floor, North Mass. is worth noting however: "But you better not describe me as an independent I'm dependent on the banks, the directors, the actors, the agents, the exhibitors, the critics, the public so, don't call me independent!"
From Chuck Ingram and Johnnie Loomis come reams of newspaper clippings about how the 16 year old Jim, son of our own Justin"Cowflap" McCarthy, won the National Junior Golf Championship on July 28 at San Francisco's difficult Lake Merced course with a snappy 303, eight strokes better than his nearest competitor. Older brother Justin Jr. '51 is also reported to hit a mean ball.
CUPID'S CORNER
Marriages: Shirley Louise Smith to Bruce Boyd Crawford '49, son of the Sid Crawfords, on August 5, 1950, in Worcester, Mass.
Winifred Johnson, daughter of the Albert E. Johnsons, to Allan B. Kortz on July 1, 1950, in Ashland, O.
Lucy Ann Nichols, daughter of the Arthur C. Nichols, to Dr. Joseph M. Stein in New York on September 2, 1950.
Engagements: Janice McGuire of Middletown, New York to Paul R. Rothery Jr., who is a senior at M.I.T. and the son of the Paul Rotherys.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
Aiaynard B. Andrus, Box 3815, Orlando, Fla.; Isaac W. Carpenter Jr., 2402 Douglas Street, Omaha, Neb.; Russell Durgin, c/o Y.M.C.A., 291 Broadway, New York, N. Y.; Stuart M. Hill, 855 Twelfth Street, Boulder, Colo.; Beardsley Ruml, 36th Floor, 630 Fifth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y.
RECENT REGISTRATIONS ATHANOVER INN
Mr. & Mrs. Sidney C. Crawford, Mr. & Mrs. Chandler Foster, Mr. & Mrs. M. L. Frederick, Mr. & Mrs. C. E. Griffith, Mr. 8c Mrs. George H. Martin, Mr. & Mrs. John Mason, Mr. & Mrs. Edwin M. Noyes, Mr. & Mrs. William R. Reynolds, & daughter, Mr. & Mrs. Beardsley Ruml, Mr. & Mrs. Carl L. Swenson & son, F. G. Waggett & family and Mr. & Mrs. Herbert V. Widman.
Secretary, 24 Midland Ave., White Plains, N. Y. Treasurer, 60 Stevens Rd., Needham 92, Mass. Memorial Fund Chairman, 128 Essex Ave., Glen Ridge, N. J.
