1916
The summer took a heavy toll of 1916. Besides Dutch Doenecke and Rupe Perkins we lost Ken Tucker on September 17 and, though as yet we have only the merest confirmation, Joe Cheney passed away on July 31. In Memoriam notices for these men will appear in that section of this or a later issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. In early Au- gust, Ray DeVoe lost his wife, Madeleine; sold their Boca Raton home and temporarily is based at the University Club in New York. In early September, Marie Henderson passed on. To May Tucker, Beulah Cheney, Ray DeVoe and Ken Henderson and to their families, the abiding sympathy of the Class is extended.
The Balmacaan Newsletter reaches you so much more quickly after its closing date for copy, let us use that medium for reporting vital news that may change.
Elliott and Evelyn Brill announce the marriage of their younger daughter Elinor to Hartley Connell of Torrington, at their home in Torrington in August. The young couple are settling in Aurora, Ill., where Elinor will continue her nursing career at St. Joseph's Hospital, while Hartley completes his course at Aurora College in preparation for high school teaching. Felicitations to them all.
Milford and Josephine Streeter summered in New England, first selling and moving from their former home at Redding, Conn.; then tapered off with a week of conferences at Starr Island off Portsmouth, and three more on Three Mile Island in Lake Winnipesaukee. This word came from West Virginia as they proceeded to Fort Lauderdale for the winter.
Rupe Perkins' last months brought out many warming evidences of our Thayer School group's close-knit loyalty to him and to each other: Dave Shumway, for example, recalled their fishing trips around Hanover, and his later serving as Rupe's best man; while Ernie Frey recalled how Rupe, AllenLewis and he roomed together at the Thayer School and also worked together on the Queechee Gorge project in 1916-17 and then how he and Rupe in July 1918 by rare chance met in France and had four days together just before the drive on Belleau Wood started.
A Sacramento card from Esky reported him and his son Donald visiting relatives and friends including the Dinsmoors, around California. Hobey and Edna Marble fortunately escaped serious injury when, while waiting for a red light to change, their Valiant was crumpled up against a heavier car by an unobservant Continental. Hobey does not recommend such a sandwich. From Alumni College at Hanover, the Paul Wadleighs returned home to California via Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, - and Victoria. What a beautiful drive that must have been!
Let Frank Pettengill speak for himself: "Marguerite and I have just returned (mid-September) from a trip to Japan and Hong Kong. I was one of a group of delegates representing the New York County Medical Society in a three-day medical convention in Tokyo.
"The papers which interested me most were on air pollution and cancer. The pollution problem is just becoming pertinent because of the rapid industrialization of their cities. Cancer is increasing rapidly and particularly gastric cancer. Their diagnostic methods are very modern and their equipment superb. I saw gastric cameras which could photograph any part of the stomach and with a simple manoeuver snip off a piece of tissue for biopsy.
"We were entertained royally by the medical societies and the Governor of Tokyo. We also had a chance to visit the Japanese doctors in their homes. We found the Japanese cordial, friendly and solicitous for our having a pleasant holiday. We are anticipating their visit to New York two years hence.
"Needless to say, Hong Kong was a shopper's paradise, as the American dollar is worth six of theirs. One has to shut his eyes to the surrounding poverty which exists in the refugee colony. These refugees are still pouring in at an unassimilable rate."
To all of you who will spend part or all of this coming winter in Florida; don't forget to tell your secretary before Christmas just what your address there will be; and for what period. To all writing in, a list of all will be given. Then you can arrange your own gatherings.
Secretary, Box E, Swarthmore, Pa. 19081
Treasurer, Singletary Ave., Sutton, Mass. 01527
Bequest Chairman,
