1902

Recently Alfred ("Shakespeare") Kennedy had a 70th birthday and the Saco-Lowell Co., where he has been foreman of the gear department since 1931, honored him with a very complimentary article in their paper, The News. Al learned the tool and die trade with the General Electric at Lynn, and attended courses in industrial foremanship at Lowell Institute (M. I. T. evening school). Later he took courses in machine designing at Columbia University and did tool and die work for the Ford Motor Co. and the E. W. Bliss Co., where he made the first gyroscope used in the first naval torpedo. He was in the Army Ordnance Department in World War I. With Saco-Lowell Co., he says he has seen his department grow from a small job to 15,000 gears a week production. Al has now retired in part but continues as consultant and advisory gear engineer. He lives in Biddeford, Me., has three children and three grandchildren and sends his best "wishes to the Class of 1908.

I had a nice letter from Harry MacKinnon who has lived in La Jolla, Calif, for the past five years and, strange to relate, is contemplating a trip to Florida. Harry was for many years in the leather-goods business in Springfield, Ohio, and was at one time President of the National Association of Small Leather Goods. He says he got a degree in law and passed the Ohio Bar exam but never practiced. He is proud of his son (Dartmouth—1934) and an M.D. He was a Lieut. Colonel in the war and is now a psychiatrist in Dayton, Ohio. Harry got a jump on most of us and retired 15 years ago, in 1935.

This is the last month of the drive for the Alumni Fund and don't forget Roy Hatch. Roy writes me that he realizes we can't give much money but he wants participation, so at least send him a few dollars and make him happy for the college's sake.

I know that everyone in our class will extend their great sympathy to Arba lrvin, who, last winter, lost his son, Jim. As I remember, Jim was in the class of 1925 at Dartmouth but had to leave because of illness. He had been employed by the U. S. Rubber Co. in Caracas, where he was taken ill and returned to this country for treatment about one year before his death in January.

"Secretary, 7 Ship Channel Rd., South Portland, Me. Treasurer, 426 Tremont Building, Boston 8, Mass. Class Agent, 496 Summit Ave., Maplewood, N. J.