1931

From the Office of Alumni Records I received the news of the death of Wes Taylor. The death notice package did not include the date and place of death, without which I can't write a decent obituary. I wrote Wes' widow a note of condolence, and asked her to kindly send me that information.

I well remember Wes and his brother, our classmate Lew, as graduates of Berlin, N.H., high school. In the fall of 1925—75 years ago!!! our Rumford, Maine, high school football team traveled up-river to Berlin to get licked by the Berliners, who graciously treated us to a swim in their high school pool, a magnificence we uncouth fellows from Rumford had never before beheld.

I forgot to mention Bob Baumrucker's part in the battle of Surigao Strait in WWII, he having been fire control gunnery officer in battleship West Virginia with orders to aim and fire her main battery at the advancing Japanese battleship Fuso. From a distance equivalent to that measured in a straight line between Dartmouth Hall and the Woodstock Inn, five salvos from WestVirginia's eight guns straddled Fuso in three minutes and one second, sending Fuso to the bottom. Some shooting!

Ralph Maynard, 800 Hausman Road, #232, Allentown, PA 18104

80, Baumrueker fired five salvos from a distance equivalent to that between Dartmouth Hall and tlie Woodstock Inn to send the Japanese battleship Fuso to tlie bottom. RALPH MAYNARD '3 I