1914

The American Cotton Manufacturers Institute, Inc., elected a new president at Miami Beach on March 29. Do you remember MattHallett? He was not very conspicuous on campus except for being a star pitcher, a Deke, member of Palaeopitus, C & G, and a leader in class affairs. Of course he pitched a no-hit no-run victory over West Point.

It was baseball that brought him into tne textile industry, summer baseball. During College he worked for the BB & R Knight Cos., playing baseball for them in the summer, and also worked for the Bates Manufacturing Cos., in Augusta, Me. He joined the Diaper Corporation in 1915, going on the road then as an overseer of carding, with the Graniteville Manufacturing Co.

In 1917, Matt joined the Kendall Cos., of which he is now vice-president and general manager of the Kendall Mills Division at Charlotte, N. C., and president of Pelzer Mills. He became the second person to hold, simultaneously, the chief executive post of the North Carolina Textile Manufacturers' Association and the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association.

Now known as "HK," Matt's hobby, when not all tied up in cotton, is, "learning and having fun" in his wood-working shop.

The New York Times of April 11 reports that Miss Joan Elizabeth Dreher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Munroe Franklin Dreher of Bonnet Hill Farm, Darien, Conn., was married to Ensign Robert Woodhull Hopkins, Naval Air Arm, son of Mr. and Mrs. RobertC. Hopkins of Darien. The groom graduated from Dartmouth in 1951 and is stationed at Corpus Christi, Tex.

Jack Harris continues to appear in the local papers here and there as a guest speaker. One of the latest appearances was before the meeting of the Worcester Chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants in February.

Bino Knight appeared in the news at Milton, Mass., as speaker at the Lenten service at the East Church, Wednesday, March 18. Brno, you will remember, is Director of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.

A short note from Rosie Hinman with some of the above news included, expressed regrets and disappointment at being unable to attend this year's Sno-bird party, but that date found him and his wife in Florida. He expresses his best wishes to everyone.

Lay Little wrote, the other day, that he was leaving again for Formosa. We do not know how many trips this has been but he surely has been'keeping the airways busy the last two or three years.

This completes the news. Jack's News Letter really put a crimp in it this month. So we will say goodbye until next fall.

Secretary, 88 Sea St., N. Weymouth 91, Mass.

Class Agent, ELLSWORTH B. BUCK 152 Stuyvesant PI., Staten Island I, N. Y.