1922

General chairman Sands has chosen GrayBates to be the assistant chairman of our reunion committee. Ray and Doris Atwood with Len and Margaret Morrissey are in charge of activities for the Saturday afternoon and are planning to provide a schedule of events sufficiently wide and varied to give every one a chance to show off his or her prowess. That you may know the wheels are really beginning to turn, I am at liberty to announce that the official "uniform" has been decided upon. Without telling more about it, I will say that it lacks in neither simplicity nor dignity and that it need not be discarded with the ending of reunion. From a telephone conversation with Walt just completed, I learned that the first general mailing piece will reach you soon. Other appointments to his staff are in the making and will be announced from time to time. Every effort will be made to coordinate plans so that opportunity will be afforded for some joint participation with the classes of 1920 and 1921.

Martha, daughter of Roy and Dot Ball, was married to Harold J. Geiken on December 28 at Flint, Mich.

Last fall Dick Wood was promoted to the position of Chief of the Army Section, War Records Branch of the National Archives. It is a real pleasure to announce this recognition of Dick's ability in his chosen field.

Carter and Allie Hoyt recently announced Barbara's engagement to Arthur R. Baker Jr. of Chappaqua, N. Y. Barbara is a graduate of Colby Junior College and Arthur, after preparation at Holderness School, was graduated from Amherst in the class of 1950. Carter and Allie had a delightful Open House on the afternoon of December 30.

Olie Olsen served on the jury of awards which chose the recipient of the 1950 Distinguished Service Award from the American Trade Association executives.

Bob Burgess was appointed last fall as manager of the rayon department of The Chicopee Mills, Inc. For several years prior to that Bob had operated with his own company as a converter of rayon fabrics.

The New York Telephone Company has transferred Bert Cole from Staten Island, where he had served as district traffic superintendent, to Brooklyn. With a record of service to that company dating back to graduation at Dartmouth, Bert has served successively as engineering assistant, traffic engineer, traffic superintendent and district traffic superintendent. Upon the occasion of his transfer, Bert was complimented by a farewell dinner arranged by the Traffic Employes Association.

A December issue of the New York HeraldTribune carried the announcement of the appointment of John S. Johnson as assistant to the president of United States Rubber Co. Previously Johnny served on the general manager's staff in the tire division of that company. Of this promotion I say good for Johnny!

Chick Busher, we are proud to note, has been prominent in the news lately. Last October he was elected a trustee of the Bronx Savings Bank. Just before that he was made chairman of the Bronx Advisory Committee of the New York Chapter, American Red Cross. With the objective to increase volunteer workers to meet civil defense requirements and to step up blood donations to the pace necessary to meet the needs of the armed forces, the Advisory Committee assumes added importance at this time, in view of which, the Chapter chairman thinks it particularly fortunate to have Chick at the helm and so do I. Besides these two new assignments, Chick is vice-president of the Bronx Board of Trade and director of the Bronx Eye and Ear Infirmary. Maybe mention ought to be made also of his bread and butter job which is vice-president of the Eugene J. Buscher Real Estate Company.

Last fall Jim Hamilton addressed 500 Kalamazoo civic leaders, commercial executives and friends of the Bronson hospital at a dinner in that city sponsored in the interest of the hospital expansion plan. Jim had been closely associated with the plan and had been asked to review and discuss the expansion program with particular reference to its relationship to the guarding of community health.

Ted and Edith Davidson spent two weeks in late summer at their cottage on Lake George. On the way there they stopped briefly with Roy and Dot Ball and granddaughter and at the cottage had Bill andMargaret Morrell with son Hugh as guests for a couple of days. The Morrells were on the homeward trek from northern Vermont. On to reunion!

Secretary and Memorial Fund Chairman 38 Newbury St., Boston 16, Mass.

Treasurer, 111 Laurel Road, Chestnut Hill 67, Mass.