1914

A letter from John Field now living at 140 West Main Street, Oak Harbor, 0., sounds cheerful and happy. They have found a delightful place, "Near enough to Toledo so that I can be at home nights, for the first time in nearly two years, and we are again enjoying life. As you know, I reentered the buying profession the first of this year with LibbeyOwens-Ford Glass Company in Toledo, and was home only week-ends until three weeks ago when we moved here." John goes on to say that they are only about 50 miles from String and Dorothy Howe, which is the closest that they have been to a '14er for years. Jack seems to have enjoyed his family most of the summer, with visits from the children and grand-children at intervals. As previously reported, Jack Jr. is with G.E. at Decatur, 111.: son Bob has received his C.P.A. Certificate and is now a senior accountant with Price Waterhouse; daughter Nancy and her family are living here in Weymouth.

I have at hand a letter from Jack Dellinger to Charlie Batchelder, with very little in it that I dare to print, nearly two pages of reminiscing about girls that they knew in college, and I have no intention of incriminating either of them in the eyes of the wives. Jack had just been looking over the picture of the last Sno-bird party and could only recognize one person, John Picme, who "looked better than any of the rest in that picture."

A recent release from Macmillan Cos. states that Leonard D. White, author of The Jeffersonians (sub-title, "A Study In Administrative History, 1801-1829," which carries on the pioneering work begun by Dr. White with TheFederalists published in 1949), which was published last week, did much of the research for these studies in Baker Library.

Since 1920 Dr. White has been teaching at the University of Chicago, where he is now professor of public administration. He has been vice-president of the National Civil Service League, president of the American Political Science Association and the American Society for Public Administration and editor-inchief of Public Administration.

This release recalls that L.D. recently spent a couple of summers in Hanover studying at Baker, which, I believe, we mentioned at that time, but have heard little from him since. He has been a recognized authority in his field for many years.

John Peppard is still marooned on the island o£ Vinal Haven, Me., where frequent reports lead us to believe that he is doing nothing particularly disgraceful and where he apparently spends his time watching others dig clams, begging lobsters and meeting the boat twice a day. Evenings are spent in constructing insults for various other members of the class. Dick Barlow visited him immediately after Sno-bird reunion. The letter, written in April, complains of the wild winter with plenty of snow and freezing weather, and then proceeds to consign this writer to a future residence in a place notorious for its lack of cold. Mildred had just come out of the Rockland Hospital after a five weeks' stay and was in Plymouth with their oldest daughter Alice. Come on, John, break loose from that island and come over to Sno-bird this winter. You would be a distinct addition and we'll guarantee you a good time.

A short note from Eddie Elkins in July enthused over the visit of his daughter and family who were on their first furlough from their duties as missionaries in Africa. Eddie and his wife were seeing the two grand-children for the first time, as they were born over there. With his son Bob having a son this summer, the Elkins' have four notches as grand-parents.

Some of the recent address changes are as follows:

Raymond H. Foss, 75 Pitts St., Boston, Mass.; Theodore Main, WyckofF Park, Holyoke, Mass.; Chester A. Wescott, Box 32, Salisbury Cove, Me.; Lewis M. Dillingham, 32 Silver St., Rochester, N. H.; Paul H. Brown, American Trust Bldg., Santa Rosa, Calif.; Lester K. Little, 270 Park Ave., Suite 5-B, N. Y. C. 17; Elwood A. Ballou, 78 Mawney St., Providence 7, R. I.; Souther Mead, 237 Montgomery Ave., Haverford, Pa.; James M.Wulpi, Airport Avoca, Pa. District Sales Mgr., Trans-World Airlines.

Fletch Colby deserves a Wah Hoo Wah for his recent appointment as Associate Clinical Professor of Genito-urinary Surgery at the Harvard Medical School. Following his graduation in 1918 and with several years overseas, Dr. Colby has served successively as assistant in genito-urinary surgery, instructor in genito-urinary surgery, associate, and, since 1948, as assistant clinical professor, and is recognized by the profession as one of the leading men in that field in this section

Last June was a busy month in Abington, Mass., for the Wheatley family. Barbara H. was married on June 9 to Donald Winchester Whitehead, in Knox Presbyterian chapel, Cincinnati. Dr. Edward Stimpson officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead are now making their home at Worthington, O. The bride is a graduate of Gould Academy, Bethel, Me., and Hood College. Mr. Whitehead attended the University of Cincinnati and was graduated from Case Institute of Technology. About this same time, Jim Wheatley's engagement was announced, and I believe that he was married shortly after his sister, but we have no accurate information.

Frederick A. Davidson Jr., of Eastchester, has been appointed Chief of Construction of Eggars & Higgins, New York City Architects. Fred, of course, is the son of our Fred. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1940 and spent six years in the Navy, serving as maintenance officer with the rank of Lieutenant Commander, aboard the carrier Bunker Hill in the Pacific.

From Charlie Batchelder comes a letter from George Boggs dated April 10. George expected to be in Boston part of June when his younger daughter Margaret was to graduate from Wheelock College. His older daughter is married and lives in Wellesley.

There was also a clipping from the Wolfeboro paper announcing the engagement of Margaret Evelyn, to Thomas O. Cadham of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. In addition to attending Wheelock, Miss Boggs is a gradu- ate of Horton Academy of Arcadia University, Wolfville. Mr. Cadham was graduated from the Royal Military College, Kingston, in 1941, serving with the Lord Strathcona Horse Regi- ment, with the rank of Major, throughout the war. After receiving his degree from the University of Manitoba he is continuing his studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

George says he is still growing apples, peaches and pears, together with feed for some dairy cows. "The older I get, the more intriguing is the time spent in the summer at the shore, where we do all the sailing we can squeeze in. So far we are neither old enough or affluent enough to spend our winters in Florida."

Ancl now to put this in the mail and then follow it to Norwich for a couple of days with Don and Lil.

Hope to see you all on November 17 in Hanover at the Cornell game. Expect to be in either 303 or 305. Come up and find us.

Secretary, 88 Sea Street, North Weymouth 91, Mass.

Treasurer, 165 Marlboro St., Wollaston, Mass.