1930
Your Secretary could never be accused of being a Walter Winchell,—at least on the score of reporting additions to the growing 1930 family. The "news" we report in this respect is certainly outdated by the calendar, but these blessed events nevertheless represent welcome news to your Secretary and other members of the Class. So, if the vital statistics of your family are not up to date in the 1930 records, please let me know immediately. In a most casual sort of way Blair Wood reported in response to Charlie Raymond's plea for news of the arrival of a new member in Woody's family,—a boy, John Blair Wood, who was born on June 23, 1951. The arrival of John makes a quartet of boys in Woody's family with Michael now aged 14, Blair Jr., aged 11, and George, aged 6.... On August 15 there was a new addition to the Bill Smith family with the arrival of Deborah Ann. Reports have it that Deborah looks like her father but Bill alleges that such kind remarks are made to all fathers merely to make them feel good.
Dr. Merit P. White, "Whitey" to us, who is head of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, was presented on December 15 with a Certificate of Achievement from Lt. General Elwood R. Quesada, Commander of Joint Task Force 3, for Whitey's services in connection with atomic tests in May at Eniwetok. This is one further "degree" of distinction to be added to the many which Whitey now possesses. ...
Merrill Bush, who is director of the Department of Adult Education and Social Relations of the American Unitarian Association, continues on his transcontinental task of speaking at dinners throughout the country and newspaper reports from Syracuse in November told of the excellent talk that he gave before the Unitarian Church in that city. Merrill also possesses a Doctor's degree (from Cornell) and in addition to being the author of several magazine articles on education and post-war planning has to his record service on the staff of Temple University and a tenure as Executive Director of the United Nations Council in Philadelphia.
On November 14 announcement wa.s made from Washington of the appointment of Dr.Bill Fenton as First Executive Secretary of the Division of Anthropology and Psychology of the National Research Council, with notice that Bill would assume his new duties on January 1, 195 a. Heretofore, for the past 12 years, Bill has acted as ethnologist on the staff of the Smithsonian Institution. Bill has a Doctor's degree from Yale and is recognized as one of the leading scholars of the Iroquois and the social and political organization of the American Indians. Prior to 1939 he served with the U. S. Indian Service and taught sociology and anthropology at St. Lawrence University. At various times Bill has taught anthropology at Northwestern University, Catholic University of America, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Michigan. In addition to other professional affiliations, he is a member and past President of the Anthropological Society of Washington and a former editor of the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.
Eddie Jeremiah received more than the usual favorable comments from Boston sports writers during last December. Jerry was Chairman of the 1951 Eastern N.C.A.A. Hockey Selection Committee and was also a member of the U.S.A. Olympic Hockey Selection Committee. Boston sports writers spoke most highly of the efficient and entirely impartial manner in which Jerry was carrying out these important assignments. With his nationally recognized position in the hockey field, your Secretary could not help but feel the degree of injustice meted out to Jerry by reason of the fact that his Dartmouth hockey team never seems to be able to commence its practices, depending upon natural ice as they do, as early as the college hockey teams of Metropolitan Boston Dr. Ed Weinstein reports that he has been appointed consultant in Neuropsychiatry to the Army Medical School, but we assume that this means that Ed will continue with his usual practice in New York... .
"Tiny" Tasker appears with a new address or Edwards Air Force Base, Muroc, Calif., but with no other word of explanation.
Your Secretary hopes that one of your New Year's resolutions was to keep said Secretary currently informed of any of the news of yourself or your 1930 brethren.
Secretary, Herrick, Smith, Donald, Farley & Ketchum 1 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. Treasurer, 56 Jennys Lane, Barrington, R. I. Memorial Fund Chairman 42 Wall St., New York 5, N. Y.
