1901

Kid Barnard keeps in touch with us quite often. He has had considerable hospital experience the past year or so but is now much improved. Kid, Jack Dowd, and I were all in the same high school class in Nashua and after graduating came to Hanover together as freshmen. Bill Cheever is still residing in Providence but has a new address, 48 Radcliffe Avenue.

Once again it was my pleasure to enjoy the Class Officers meetings in Hanover May 2 and 3, and my thanks are due the class for this privilege. At these meetings we do make contacts with old friends of other classes and the intimate relations with the College and its officers are all very stimulating.

The Lawrence (Mass.) Evening Tribune recently ran a full-page spread, with an excellent picture, on Johnnie Ward, president of the Essex Savings Bank. This was part of the paper's series on community builders, "presenting Greater Lawrencians whose courage, effort and vision are contributing to the progress and welfare of their 130,000 neighbors in our community." Johnnie contributed a statement entitled "With Leadership Goes Responsibility," which said in part:

A bank's standing in its community, the prestige that it enjoys, the number of its customers, the size of its deposits, the volume of its business - all of these are in direct proportion to the bank's responsibility and service to its community.

This is true of all banks, but it has been particularly applicable to the Essex Savings Bank during the Ill years of its existence.

It has long been a tradition at the Essex that this bank, because of its position of leadership, owes this community a portion of the time and energy of its officers and its staff....

The project that particularly concerns us in 1958 is the campaign to promote Downtown Lawrence. I have enlisted in this cause and I have pledged myself to give my best efforts to the program because it is of utmost importance to the whole community.

C. K. Woodbridge '04, chairman of the boardof Dictaphone Corporation, shows his company's newest transistorized dictating machineto a model dressed in the fashion of 1908.

Secretary and Treasurer 42 Bridge St., Deep River, Conn.

Class Agent, Essex Savings Bank 290-294 Essex St., Lawrence, Mass.