1947

This spring finds your secretary moving from Martinsville, Va., to Martinsburg, W. Va. Don't confuse the address when writing in the future. Construction jobs have a way of finding their way to completion, thus the reason for our move.

Visitors at the Hanover Inn during the last weekend in January were O. B. Butler and Dick Leary. O. B. is a Lieutenant in the Navy, address FPO, San Francisco. As far as we know Dick is still living in Hingham, Mass., working with Electrical Agencies, Inc. as a salesman. Dick has two sons, Stephen and Robert. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Murray of Upper Darby, Pa., were visitors at the Inn during the middle of January. The last noted occupation for Roy was in 1949 when he was development lab head for Raymond Rosen Engineering Products, Inc., manufacturers of telemeter equipment.

I'm pleased to report the funds for the class of 1947, a few dollars more than $180, have been deposited by Treasurer Ed Scully in a joint savings account in the Pittsfield Co-operative Bank, Pittsfield, Mass. In the future, the Treasurer will plan to make a yearly report to the class of income and expenses during the past year.

Newly married Lt. j.g. Lance Reed is now a survey officer with the Bureau of Ordnance. John Bill was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy in chemistry by the University of Rochester at a special exercise recently. Lt. CharlesTourtellotte is the father of a new baby, but sex and date of birth we do not know.

John Trethaway and Joy Stubbs, recently reported in this column as engaged were planning a March 15 wedding in Wellesley, Mass. John is currently manager of F. W. Woolworth, Wayne, Pa., and the couple will live in Chestnut Hill, Pa.

Ken Brown's father writes that his son Ken and daughter-in-law Nancy are the proud parents of a son, one Christopher McAdams, born November 19, 1951. Ken is currently serving in the Navy.

Iggie Lohse, although busy with plans for building a house, is giving consideration to the publishing of a class roster. Lt. j.g. ArnieBoomer, formerly an oil burner engineer with Patterson & Patterson, is now stationed aboard the USS Raby, FPO, NYC. Don Knapp, back from Japan, is currently working as a farm laborer at Robert Young's farm, Starksboro, Vt. Bob Teaze continues in the Foreign Service.

Secretary, General Delivery, Martinsburg, W. Va. Treasurer, State Theater, 426 North St., Pittsfield, Mass. Class Agent, Apt. 6C, 271 S. Harrison St., East Orange, N. J.