1909

Short space this month, because the ALUMNI MAG is giving extra coverage to Alumni Fund recapitulations. A more amplified reporting job will be done (probably before this issue reaches you avid readers) in the next Diddings whose circulation is limited to the class and a few outside the class. Some guys even pay to get it.

This issue, most likely, will carry Obits on two of our departed classmates, Bob Burns and Frank Cory, who died during Octoberboth from heart attacks. Some background information which might not appear in the MAGAZINE will be run in the Diddings.

The 45th anniversary of '09's night before the Harvard-Dartmouth game was held at the Boston University Club Friday, October 27, with these members of the class in attendance: Al Newton, Ralph Wight, GordonWeinz, Curly Blake, Herb Hawes, NormCatharin, Ced Wellsted, Bob Stone, BenScully, Milt Hager, Plum Leighton, AnsonMcLoud, Hal Pratt, Chet Brett, Inge Fearing, Joe Worthen, Mike Farley, Clark Saville,Bob Holmes, Sandy Hooker, Art Swenson,Harold Clark, Jim Hitchcock, Bert French, and Cad Cummings.

The singers, reports Bertie, were all in good form, and all enjoyed their efforts. The gang was joined by Mort Hull 'OB, Harry McDevitt 'O7, and Jack Ingersoll 'll, who helped out with the high class humming. CedWellsted, who traveled to Boston from Cleveland, stopped with the Inge Fearings while in the Hub. He said that Anson McLoud, who came on from Scarsdale, N. Y., played a hot piano. Milt Hager, who's retired from his engineer's job in the Canal Zone, has taken up residence in East Pepperell, Mass. Where were some of the others who usually show at such affairs, e.g. Dick Lord, HarryBurroughs, Art Shoppelry, Wallie Ross? Give an account of yourselves, men.

Those perennial Hanover visitors, Mr. andMrs. Ben Dudley and Dr. and Mrs. Bill Holzer, put in at the Hanover Inn in October. Prof. Andy Scarlett, no doubt, wheeled 'em around as usual, unless he wasn't able to get about under his own power. All those guys are getting pretty feeble. Other 'ogers reported in at the Inn were Mr. and Mrs.George Oliphant of New York, N. Y., and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wingoi South Dartmouth, Mass.

Dot Chase, Phil's widow, was also a Hanover visitor this fall. She sent me a couple picture post cards, one showing the old Ledyard bridge over the Connecticut, and the other showing the new bridge. She said the Bunk Irwins were out of town, as she was informed by one of their party line neighbors when she phoned. She ran into CurtSheldon and the Mrs. and their daughter who's the youngest 'O9 offspring.

Bertie French, reporting in his official capacity as class treasurer, says that response to his first appeal for class dues was much better than last year, 80 of the lads coming through without a struggle. The gang must be softening up. He mentioned to some, and this will broadcast to all, that "it would be in order for them to use some of their 1950 excess profits to increase their charitable contributions for tax deduction purposes, and that the class of 1909's 1951 Alumni Fund quota would make a worthy recipient." Very well put, Bertie.

I took that little jaunt east to New Jersey in the golden month of October. Although I headquartered with my son John in Mt. Tabor, I spent a day and a night with my sister Mildred who's the widow of Gene Prentice 'OB, and went over and had Sunday dinner with Irish Clarke Tobin '10, who resides in South Orange. It was a swell visit with Tobe, and I'll say that he puts out a mighty tasty feed bag at his house. More details about this in the Diddings. You can tell from the snap shot (if Editor Charlie Widmayer decides to run it in his MAGAZINE), that the three generations of Johns are right on the ball.

What issue is this? Oh, yes—December. And what does December suggest? You're right—Christmas. So to all you guys, your better halves and your families, a right merry Yuletide, plus a snappy New Year. Let's see how many of you birds can stay alive in '51.

1909 Fund Contributors

143 Gifts (Participation Index 85). Total gifts: $4,273.24 (62% of objective).

Adams, George R. Andrews, Harold L. Asn\vorth, William Austin, Frank S. Bankart, Henry R.1 Bates, Albert W. Bird, Francis H. Brannum, James 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. Burroughs, Harry E. Buxton, Arthur L. Catharin, Norman R. Chappelear, Edgar S. Chase, Laurence C. Chase, Philip M.2 Childs, John R. Childs, John W.3 Clark, Harold S. Clement, Ralph B. Cole, Philip S. Colley, Reginald H. Cory, Frank L. Cowles, Russell Cummings, Clarence E. Dean, Lindley R. Dillingham, Herman L. Dole, C. Elbert Dowdell, John H. Driscoll, James G.4 Dudley, Benjamin H. Dunbar, Clarence E. Dwenger, George H. Eaton, Walter I. Fardy, Thomas A. Farley, Leon B. Fleisher, Horace T. Floyd, Harry R.5 Follansbee, Merrill M. Ford, Edward C. Foreman, Harold E. French, Bertrand C. Gates, Stanley Goodhart, Joseph A. Goodrich, Ernest H. Graff, Joseph R. Graves, Harvey W. Greenebaum, James F. Greenwood, Oliver P. Hadden, Arthur A. Hansbury, John E. Hatch, Joseph R.8 Hill, Albert L. Hilliard, Curtis M. Hinckley, George H. Hitchcock, James Hodgkins, William H. Holmes, Robert J. Holzer, William F. Hooker, Sanford B. Howard, Eliot R. Howland, Nathaniel J. Irwin, Burr P. Jewett, Maurice G. Johnson, Frederick C. Killam, Carl Lane, Walter J. Leighton, Stanley W. Locke, Richard B.7 Lord, Richard J. Loughlin, William A.

MacNaughton, P. John Marshall, Leon C. Martin, Edwin D. McCurdy, Allan M.8 McLoud, Anson Meleney, Henry E. MofFatt, Elbert M. Morawski, Frederick H.9 Morse, Leon J. Murchie, Harold H. Newton, Allen E. Newton, Jonah J. O'Brien, Frank J. Olmstead, Frank T. O'Mara, Arthur J. Parker, Thomas O. Parkinson, Taintor10 Patterson, William H. Peck, Warren L. Perley, Rollin H. Perry, Chester N. Pool, Sterling H. Pratt, Harold H. Readey, Maurice Reagan, Frank J. Reed, Dwight T. Richardson, Leroy M. Rogers, Earle J. Rose, Philip M. Ross, Wallace M. Root, Kenneth E. Saville, Clark Scully, Bernard M. Sheldon, Curtiss L. Sidley, Walter A. Snow, Clifton A. Solomon, Frank Spaulding, Howard K. Sporborg, Arthur J. Stanley, Arthur B. Stark, Eugene M. Stone, Robert M. Storer, Perley N. Swenson, J. Arthur Thompson, Sidney H. Tirrell, Herbert L.11 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 Mrs. Bankart.2 Mrs. Chase.3 Mrs. Childs.4 Anonymous.5 Income from Harry R.Floyd Fund.I Mrs. Hatch.7 Mrs. Locke.8 Airs. McCurdy.9 John R. Childs '09.10 Brother, Royal Parkin son 'O5.II Frank B. Williams 'O9.

CLASS AGENT JAMES F. GREENEBAUM 'O9

THREE GENERATIONS OF JOHNS: Jack Childs 'O9, class notes editor, more formally known as John Roland Childs, shown with his son, John Neal Childs, and his grandson, John Stephens Childs.

Class Notes Editor, Pioneer Trail, Aurora, Ohio

Secretary and Treasurer, Sandwich, Mass.

/ J / Class Agent.