1916

No matter what there is or is not to write about our Class, there is always a change of address for Alexander Jardine to be recorded. No sooner do I get him safely located at 2521 Centinela Ave., Santa Monica, Calif., then he begins to get homesick for New England and I change him back to Sagamore Beach. At this writing he should be in the transition stage, somewhere west of Florida and east of California.

I regret to record the death of another '16er, Robert O. Lewis, of Steubenville, Ohio. I have very little information on this classmate so will not attempt a formal obituary until I do. The news of his death comes from his sister and is dated early in February but there is no specific date.

Jack English sent me the list of those attending the Boston alumni dinner: Rod Sonle,Larry Hay ward, Joe Newmark, Ken Tucker,Cliff Bean, Gil Tapley, Iz Eigner, Dick Ellis,Frank Bobst, Gran Fuller, Sam Cutler, JackEnglish, Jock Fletcher, Tog Upham and Rus-sell Sanders (with a son who graduated in 1951), a friend of Gran's. The only singing, says Jack, came from Upham, Sam Cutler and Ken Tucker.

Bill Mott has had a set-back in his health and has to quit work for awhile. By the time you get this column, the spring should have arrived in New England (it's already here in Washington today) and Bill should benefit from the weather and his lay-off. Everybody will be hoping for news of quick improvement for this genial classmate and my old shipmate of the USS Topeka.

Eigner has a second son at Dartmouth, the older boy having graduated and being enrolled in Harvard Law. The older boy, you remember, compiled some stratopheric average at Hanover, and should be in the U. S. Supreme Court in no time at all now.

Bill McKenzie bawls me out for a "grievous error" in my story about John Monahan. I reported that Monahan chased Bill off the campus and over a fence for yelling "Monahan, bring up another hod of bricks," while John was going after a long fly to right field. Bill says this is Jake Menzel's story, so I make this correction with apologies to all concerned.

The mail just brought word from Sid Hayward that the annual meeting of class officers this year will be the 8th and 9th of May. I am counting on going up after missing the last two years and hope I shall see a fair number of the class there.

A few notes from here and there: Did you know that Du Behnke started his married life in Tulsa, Okla., spent 22 years in Fort Worth, Texas, and is now back in Tulsa with his wife Louise and very happy about it? He spent three years with the Navy on shore duty in Virginia. One daughter, Christianne, is Mrs. Marvin McKee, of Fort Worth, and the other, Mary, is a freshman at Oklahoma U. Du hasn't been back for a long time, but hopes to make the next reunion.

Roger Evans is enjoying his home in Scarsdale, N. Y., between flights all over the world on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundation. Roger's married daughter, Ann (Mrs. Wm. R. Coe) lives in Philadelphia, and Roger Jr. is in Denver.

Ken Henderson has already (at this writing) made a good start on the Alumni Fund, and is threatening his own record. Ken's record since he got out of college, in addition to being a successful businessman, is one of continual civic service to his home community.

I learned late that Ken Tucker, who has been singing bass with the quartet of Old North Church in Boston, sang in the service when the Archbishop of Canterbury was the preacher. The service was nationally televised. and there was a close-up of Ken during his solo. Sorry I didn't see and hear it, but TV is something I haven't warmed up to vet, except when I was in the hospital at Bremerton. Wash.

Ros Magill no longer teaches tax law at Columbia, having given that up after ten years, and is now concentrating on his law practice. His daughter Kitty is married to Prof. Wm. P. Holden of Yale, and his son Hugh is in the Air Force. His home, except for "sometime during the winter, is in Westport. Conn.

Horace Fishback leads a busy and satisfying life as president of the Security National Bank of Brookings, S. D., a town of 7500, county seat and farming center. He has a very interesting family. Margaret (Mrs.) Fishback, is a Vassal graduate, and her brother is president of Swarthmore College. Horace Jr. is about to graduate from his parachute training, and is a graduate of Carleton College. The next son, Nason, is 21 and a senior at Stanford. He won his "S' as a high jumper. Mary, next in line, is a soph at Obeilin College. Bob is a high school junior, where he has made quite a record in football, baseball and basketball. Van Dusen, youngest, is six and has just started school.

Col. Lawrence Mitchell has just retired from the United States Army. He has been in the Pentagon about a year that I know of but I have't gotten together with him yet. I am hoping to have him out to Dartmouth House for a cocktail party next week and it will be a pleasure to renew an acquaintance broken off three decades ago and more.

Secretary, 8608 Broad Brook Drive, Bethesda 14, Md.

Class Agent, Alexander J. Jardine Box 151, Sagamore, Mass.