1942
I think you two or three people who regularly read these fulminations may have noticed lately a slightly tired, querulous note edging into my turgid prose. You know, the old business .... "there isn't much to write about this month, but summoning my best gall, I'll try to spin it out for two or three pages."
Well, the nadir has been reached. Everyone who wants to go to Nadir Junction will have to change here. This car doesn't run any further.
This month I have a total correspondence that even I can count up .... one. And, to make things even drearier, somehow or other I can't manage to find the clippings which the MAGAZINE office so kindly sends me. (Hmm! I'll have to remember to move those galoshes out of the filing cabinet.)
The kind soul who remembers your tired secretary (that man with the pleated bags under his eyes) this month is the good Boston barrister, Edward F. McLaughlin Jr., may his name be writ in gold yet! He says, in part:
"I took the bar exam in December, 1948, and was admitted in April, '49. Up until recently I was a supply officer for the VA and practiced law on the side. On February 20, 1950, I received a wonderful break. I was appointed and sworn in as an assistant U. S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. My office is on the 11th floor, (room 1115) Federal Building, Boston. I'm han- dling both civil and criminal cases and enjoying it tremendously.
"March 6 I was in Springfield, Mass., on a case and had lunch with Bruce Stephens at his new home in Wilbraham. He and Liz are fine, have a husky 16-pound, six-month old boy, and the house is very nice, with about an acre of land. Bruce is the number two man in the cost accounting department of Package Machinery Corporation, East Longmeadow, Mass. He had a letter from Bill andElise Miller in Red Bank, N. J. They are building a home in some small town just west of the Oranges.
"Went to the annual alumni banquet, March 1, at the Copley-Plaza and saw several '42's . . . . Bob Taylor (stocks and bonds); Ad Winship (still selling ice cream); Al Thompson (dentist); BillDietrich (doctor-EENT); Em Rice (manufacturing); Sid Bull (Gulf Oil); Al Priddy (?); ArtHenderson (Automatic Coin Changer Corp.). Dick Lee was supposed to be there but never arrived.
"George Clark did his usual splendid job and was elected again to serve as treasurer. I see quite a bit of him these days since we're working together on the Greater Boston Red Cross fund campaign—l as chairman of the institutions and organizations division and George as vice chairman."
That, men, is about it. The only other slightly vague bit of information I can personally pass on is one gleaned from DaveHeald by way of Dex Richards. Something to the effect that Jim Ingersoll visited Boniface Richards at his ski lodge this winter. Think he said Frank Bartlett did, also, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if there wasn't a mention of Jake Davis.
Matter of fact, nothing would surprise me, these days.
THE PRESIDENT PRO-TEM AND SECRETARY of the Northwest Central Pot-hole Watchers Society of New Hampshire inspects a splendid find on the Lyme Road, in Hanover. Founded in May 1949 by James L. Farley, 1942 class secretary (shown above in field-trip costume) the society in one year has sustained its membership of one. The aims of the society are simple—merely to record for posterity the largest and deepest pot-holes that develop in the north country's frangible roads. To the member finding the largest pot-hole in any one month, the King Pin is awarded. For additional awards of the same medal, the Bent Spring Cluster is given. So far, since the Society's membership is restricted, its president pro-tem has won one King Pin with ten Bent Spring Clusters. And it looks like he's about to add Cluster No. 11, too.
MAN OF THE YEAR 2000? Dennis Smith won this Time-ly announcement from his parents, Barbara and Dick Smith '42, of Frankfort, Germany, where he was born on February 12. Dennis is the Smiths second son.
Secretary, The Claremont Eagle, Claremont, N. H. Treasurer, 357 S. Orange Grove Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. Class Agent, 53 Orient Ave., Melrose 76, Mass.
