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The son and namesake of our late classmate Walter S. Sullivan, who writes under the name of Walter Sullivan, has long been associated with The New York Times as one of its foreign correspondents. Several years ago he was stationed in Berlin, Germany. At the present time he is in the South Polar region, according to his Boston Herald-New York Times story from Little America in the Antarctica, which recently appeared on the front page of the Boston Herald. The story, which comes from this adventure-loving correspondent aboard the powerful icebreaker U.S.S. Atka at the base of former polar explorations, is long and interesting. It gives a very clear picture of the exploratory work in the Antarctica now being done by the use of small Bell helicopters. The story also reveals the discovery recently made by the icebreaker U.S.S. Atka that portions of the site of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's 1947 Antarctic Expedition, Little America, No. 4, which previously had been established by him in 1929, have been carried out to sea by the shifting ice fields.

At the annual meeting of the New England Historic Genealogical Society of Boston, held February 2, your secretary was elected its treasurer for a third consecutive term. Under the by-laws of the Society, the treasurer is a member, ex officio, of the Committee on Finance and the Council.

News came recently that the widow of our late classmate George F. Sparhawk died at her home in Beaver, Pa., July 2, 1953, one day before her 89th birthday. Mrs. Sparhawk, the former Jessie Burt of Randolph, Vt., was survived by two sons, John Burt and George F. Jr. John Burt Sparhawk, the older son, served in World War XI as an airborne engineer in the Pacific, with the rank of sergeant. He was stationed on Okinawa at the time the Japanese envoys made their halfway halt at Iwo Jima, where they shifted to the Army Transport Command plane - a C-54 Skymaster - assigned to carry them to Manila. He saw the Japanese planes circling for a landing there, and also saw the take-off of the C-54 bound for Manila, which flew sufficiently close to the plane-packed airfields of Okinawa to enable him to take a long-range picture of it. This son of George F. Sparhawk is a painter by trade and works in Tarentum, Pa. He lives in Brackenridge, an adjoining town. He is married and has two children - a son and a daughter, both of whom live in Detroit, Mich. His son John Burt Jr. is a research engineer in the employ of General Motors. His daughter Helen Ann is a secretary in the employ of General Electric. Neither are marired.

Our classmate's younger son, George F. Sparhawk Jr., who was a student at Dartmouth freshman year, in the Class of 1926, enlisted for service in World War II and was stationed in Alaska. One evening in camp there, while listening with other men to shortwave broadcasting from Tokyo, the report came in over the radio that the camp in which they were sitting had been bombed four times during that day, reducing it to a mass of ruins. Somewhat later he was released from active service on account of age, 40 years, and transferred to the enlisted reserve. He now is working in a tube mill in Monaca, Pa., and lives in Beaver, the home town of his parents.

THE GOOD COMPANIONS: Enjoying thesunshine together are (I to r): Tommy Thompson'95, the late Billy Wallis '94, and RolandStevens '95.

Secretary, Treasurer and Bequest 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.