1925

The response to the questionnaire on a reunion this year was so favorable it has been decided definitely to convene at Lake Morey Inn during the commencement weekend of June 8, 9, and 10. So mark your calendar now, pending receipt of details, to avoid any possible conflict with other activities.

Carl Bridenbaugh, a leading American historian and recently-elected president of the American Historical Association, has been appointed to the faculty of Brown University. While his appointment is effective July 1, 1962, he will not actually become resident on the campus until next year. He will spend the second half of this year in Europe on a previously-planned sabbatical leave. Carl was a member of the Brown history faculty from 1938 to 1942 when he entered the Naval service. After graduation, he studied two years at the University of Pennsylvania and received the M.A. degree in 1930 and the Ph.D. in 1936, both from Harvard. Prior to going to Brown he taught six years at M.I.T. In 1945 he went to Williamsburg, Va., to organize and become the first director of the Institute of Early American History and Culture. From 1950 until the present he has been Margaret Bryne Professor of American History at the University of California. He served as a specialist in India in 1956 for the U. S. Department of State, was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences in 1956-57 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 1958. Carl has written several historical books, some of which have won him prizes. Best known among these are "Cities in the Wilderness" (1938) and "Cities in Revolt" (1955).

Scott Lowry, of Waukesha, Wis., is retiring from the bench after 28 years of public service. In his 18 years as judge and before that ten years as district attorney, he has taken part in thousands of criminal cases, including some involving sheriffs and other public officials. He has seen Waukesha County change from what was once regarded as a "wide-open" resort area to a county of well-run suburban and near suburban communities. Slot machine cases, once numerous, have become a rarity. In Scott's early days as district attorney, a grand jury investigation uncovered some 1,800 slot machines in the county. He personally led numerous raids on unlicensed night spots, confiscating slot machines and liquor.

He was elected district attorney in 1932 as a reform candidate pledged to stamp out gambling and other vice. A few years later he found it necessary to bring charges against the sheriff, municipal judge, and former district attorney. The sheriff was found guilty of misconduct in office for tipping off a raid. The judge was convicted of obstructing justice. The former prosecutor was cleared of one charge and a second charge was dropped when he agreed to give up his law license. Twenty years later Scott encountered another sheriff in trouble. He was ultimately found guilty of misconduct in office and sent to jail for sixty days.

In recent years Scott has become known to many Milwaukeeans as the number of traffic violators soared. He acquired a reputation for running a "taut" court, fair but strict. Ingenious excuses offered by some defendants almost never got them off. Speeders who claimed speedometers were faulty got no "break" from Judge Lowry. The judge has on occasion gently chided defendants and others for appearing in court in unbusinesslike attire. He also has been strict about continuing a case for more than a short period unless there was an unusual reason. Obviously Scott will have a bookful of memories to review during the years of his retirement.

Bill Edgerly, son of the late Stu Edgerly, recently was elected a director of the State Street Bank and Trust Company of Boston. He is treasurer of the Cabot Corporation. One address change: Tom Barrett, 3255 Warrensville Road, Shaker Heights, Cleveland 22, Ohio.

What's happened to the Boston crowd? Only six showed up at the annual February dinner of the Alumni Association at the Harvard Club (compared with '23's 20!). Those who braved the cold weather that night were: Johnnie Garrod, who for the purpose of this column disclosed he had bought a summer place in No. Harpswell, Me., where he'll have greater opportunity for fishing and hunting; Don Hunt, who reported (1) a twelfth grandchild and (2) after 31 years in Wellesley he is moving to Weston; Jake Penny, who is planning for the annual Greater Boston dinner on Friday, May 11 (make a note of the date in your engagement calendar!); Bunny Levison, whose conversation shuttled between the ambition of his son to enter the class of 1967 and his efforts in developing interest in a new mutual investment fund; Freddie Smith, who has sold his livestock and is now engaged in the business of refrigerating tracks and trailers at Charlestown, Mass., as F. W. Smith Co., Inc.; and of course yours truly, who, while he was happy to join the group to hear John Dickey and football captain. Bill King, debate on the issue of athletic material at Hanover, could not help thinking that but for the occasion he would have been in New Hampshire to enjoy skiing on a new, substantial cover of fluffy powder snow.

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