1914

A recent issue of the Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin reports that Fletcher H.Colby has been elected vice president of the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons at its 64th annual meeting. We have from time to time reported on Fletcher's doings and whereabouts and again want to call attention to the fact that he ranks high in his field, not only in Boston but in the country as a whole.

This class has never issued, at least not for years, an official class report in booklet form. Perhaps it never will but many of the classes are doing so and most of them are bringing forth excellent jobs. These booklets have an added value, beyond that of class interest, in that they are often valuable to various genealogical societies who are only too glad to get them for their historical value. May I suggest that the class consider the possibility of such a project at its meeting in June?

Enders M. Voorhees, chairman of the Finance Committee of United States Steel Corporation, is a member of the advisory committee on Fiscal Organization and Procedure which has been appointed by Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, to attempt to develop an "effective, simplified and standardized" accounting and reporting system for the national military establishment.

Carol Edson seems to hit these pages more frequently than anyone else. The latest is that he has been named as head of the local Red Cross 1954 Fund Drive at Syracuse, N.Y.

With the pleasures and festivities of the fantastic fortieth now but a few weeks away, it is well to spend a moment or two of meditation on the losses that we have met during the years. If my figures are correct there have been 118 deaths in the class since we first climbed the hill in 1910. We have lost twenty since our reunion in 1950 and that should give us pause. Would this not be the proper time to seriously consider the College in terms of the bequest program that is being so ably administered by Mart Remsen? If you are not familiar with the program and have not read the literature sent to you from time to time, Mart would be not only willing but anxious to go over the matter with you and explain the program in full. It is really an amazing project. Did you know that a bequest left to the College can provide for the annual income to be paid to your beneficiary, that is wife and children, throughout their life? This at a rate and with a degree of safety which is worth investigating.

The following are the men who have passed on since our last booklet was issued for the 35th reunion:

George F. Convery, May 15, 1950; Vaughn H. Kalenderian, October 5, 1950; James M. Healey, January 10, 1951; Casper Blackburn, January 25, 1951; Carlton S. Wicker, May 17, 1951; Spencer A. Howell, July 1, 1951; William W. Barnes, July 5, 1951; Ernest C. Swain, July 5, 1951; Wilbur S. Davidson, July 10, 1951; Horace L. Borden, July 23, 1951; Robert V. Beane, September 13, 1951; Edwin P. Reeber, October 25, 1951; William H. Barnes, April 9, 1952; Robert L. Hastings, March 21, 1952; Paul D. Webster, November 5, 1952; James S. Ramage, November 8, 1952; Harold A. Castle, May 3, 1953; Robert N. Hogsett, August 8, 1953; Carl Buck, November 21, 1953; and Paul W. Loudon, December 1, 1953.

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

Treasurer, 165 Marlboro St., Wollaston, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,