1912

Here is a summary of the possibilities of the proposed reuning Saguenay trip in June. Before you read this column you will have received with an issue of The Billboara detailed information on the trip and a postal to be returned to me, indicating your plans to attend. If you have not already sent me this postal information, please do so immediately so that reservations can be made for the date preferred by the greater number. Sailings are four or five times a week, commencing June 11, leaving Montreal at 6:45 in the evening and returning to Montreal the morning of the fourth day at 7 o'clock. Rates per person, including meals and berth, are $65, $70.50, and $81.50, depending on the type of stateroom desired. Short stopovers are made at Quebec, Murray Bay, Tadousac, Baggotville, with sights of the St. Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers. If desired by the majority who will attend, an additional day can be spent in Quebec at an added cost of $10 to $15, covering room without meals at the Chateau Frontenac, sightseeing, transfers, baggage handling, etc. It is suggested that if this be done, the stopover be made on the return trip. This sounds like a marvelous informal reunion and I hope that a goodly number of classmates and their wives will be able to attend.

More news from Bishop Brown regarding his new location in Durban, Natal, South Africa:

"For the record we are here for a much longer stay than was indicated in the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. When retirement became a necessity for health reasons we looked about for a new and interesting place with living costs that would fit a reduced income. Climate also was a factor and after some study we decided Durban met our requirements. So far we have not regretted the choice. The American colony numbers about 300, made up largely of representatives of such organizations as Standard Oil, International Harvester, etc. The families meet formally for national festivities like Thanksgiving dinner at one of the hotels, and mingle in smaller groups according to particular interests. The college season has just started inasmuch as fall is fast approaching, and Mrs. Brown and I have enrolled for a course in Afrikaans while we continue our French. Afrikaans is the official language and in some parts of the Union nothing else is spoken. When we have a speaking knowledge of it we are going to study Zulu, which is the most musical of all languages. Zululand adjoins the province of Natal and all the work here is done by natives from that tribe. Our houseboy speaks very little English so we have had to pick up a kind of kitchen Zulu. If we live long enough we may be able to communicate with those around us. This is an age of basic languages and to be able to communicate one's ideas makes fife interesting.

I have not had any response to the request made last month that any of our classmates who have copies of old Class Reports send them to the Library of the Society of the New England Historical Genealogical Society, 9 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. This certainly is a worthy cause, not only of benefit to that Society's library, but providing a place for permanent deposit of our Class Reports.

All of us who attended our 40th Reunion remember Pike Child's attractive and vivacious daughter Lynda. The news reported by Lyme Armes in the February issue of The Billboard, of the death of her husband on December 15 at Tyndale Air Base, Panama City, Fla., when mechanical failure of his F-86 Sabre Jet Plane forced him to bail out at an altitude so low that his parachute could not function in time to save him, - brought deepest sympathy from all of us, all the more poignant, when it was realized that this happened only two days before Lynda, her husband and their infant son were due to leave for the holidays with Pike and Lynda Childs in Manchester, N. H. For some of us who had similiar experiences during the war, this news was particularly touching. Henry K. Jr., who would have graduated with the Class of '44, left at the end of his sophomore year and joined up with Whitey Fuller's navy air recruits, receiving his commission in the fall of 1943, and assigned to the Navy Transport Command, to fly planes "hot off the production line" to the Pacific Coast. His base was Floyd Bennett Field just outside of New York and we were fortunate in that.he was able to have a day or two at home sometimes between flights. One Saturday afternoon he turned up unexpectedly, as always, for a 48-hour leave and within a few hours gathered some of his friends for a weekend. As I remember, fourteen boys and girls finally slept in the house that night, the last of them, including Kim, leaving Sunday night. At midnight, Tuesday, the doorbell awakened me with a Western Union boy delivering a telegram that commenced, "I regret to advise you...." His plane had developed mechanical trouble over the Tennessee Mountains, and like Pike's son-in-law, Lt. James Fritz, Kim finally jumped at such a low altitude that his parachute was not effective. Pike knows why I particularly convey my deepest sympathy.

Babe (Prof. E. B.) Hartshorn, Mr, 1912 in Hanover, is one of six professors on a panel that has been expounding and interpreting "The Quintessence of the Teaching Process" in connection with the new and widely praised on-the-job training program for teaching interns, working with the faculty in Hanover. This is a basic step toward making teaching careers more attractive to top-rank candidates, which is already credited with "great promise' toward getting maximum results from new teachers. Dartmouth is one of the colleges at which first groups of new appointees, as teaching interns, are working under senior faculty guidance. The project is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. In Hanover the new interns have been doing particularly effective work with students on academic probation.

Visitors at Hanover Inn: Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Stearns, from Middletown, Conn.

Change of Address: Elliott A. White, R.F.D. 1, Norwich, Vt.

Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y.

Class Agent, 184 Commercial St., Maiden 48, Mass.