1912

Boss Geller was elected vice president of the Class Agents Association at its meeting in New York on April 3. James B. Reynolds '90 was re-elected president. This year for the first time regional meetings of class agents, together with class secretaries and treasurers, were held in Chicago, New York and Boston in place of customary Spring meetings at Hanover. Ralph Pettingell and Lyme Armes represented the class at the Boston meeting, reporting that they had a fine time renewing old acquaintances and making new ones Without mak- ing any allusion to a prophet in his own land, the election of Boss is a recognition by class agents as a group of the outstanding job that he has performed in that capacity, confirming the judgment of those of us especially who have held the job in the past. We can each best congratulate Boss by turning in a larger subscriptionor adding a kicker to subscriptions already made—before June 30!

Any class mate who has to go to Washington and desires to—or must—visit the War Department's Pentagon Building at Arlington is fortunate in having available the services of a guide to prevent him from becoming lost. Here is the line-up, with full official titles, of '12ers located in that colossus: Colonel Connie Snow is Legal Director on the Staff of the Chief Signal Officer and head of the Office of Legal Director. Under him is Lt. Col. Dick Plumer, Contracts Counsel in the Office of the Legal Director, Office of the Chief Signal Officer, and is detailed directly to the Materiel Division, in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, for contract work. Billy Baxter is Chief Accountant for the Accountant Counsel in the Office of the Legal Director, Office of the Chief Signal Officer. Bob Belknap is principal industrial specialist in the Office of the Legal Director, Office of the Chief Signal Officer.

In addition, we have Lt. Col. Jake Orr, a Special Inspector in the Field Service Division of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, who is stationed at Philadelphia, where he can be reached care of the Commanding General, Signal Corps Eastern Signal Service.

Incidentally, Connie tired of being a tenant subject to the whims of the Washington housing situation, so he recently purchased a house pleasantly situated within three miles of the Pentagon Building and walks to work every morning. His address is 3111 First Road North, Arlington, Virginia. Telephone him if you need to bunk for the night.

Dick Plumer is back on the job again, having been in the Walter Reed Hospital following an operation for appendicitis. And we have the answer to the recent change of Dick's address to Plymouth, N. H. It is merely for convenience during the war in case he is transferred suddenly. Plymouth is the home of a nephew of Dick's who will handle his personal affairs and consign to the waste basket all mail which should not be forwarded. So don't write Dick at that address. That covers our Signal Corps contingency.

FROM THE MAILS

Doc Lombard is Director of the Division of Adult Hygiene, Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., of which A1 Smith is executive vice president, is a manufacturer of band instruments in normal times. It now makes gyro-horizons for Naval aircraft and recently received the commendation of the Navy Department for the performance of its product in South Pacific air actions.

Frank Weil not only is the Rector of Christ Church in Hyde Park, Mass., but is the popular chaplain of several Masonic bodies in that town.

Doc Viets is looking fine and is much relieved now that Spring has arrived. He has had a tough winter. As soon as he had his driveway shoveled out after each snowfall, the town snow-plow would come by and fill it in again. And snow wasn't hay in Dedham last winter.

Butch Waterbury reports from Guayama, Porto Rico, that he has some good foodstuffs in his kitchen garden "from which Kid Fowler '10 was fed a few days back." Since he is not rationed, everyone is welcome but "bring your own soap as there isn't any here."

Syd Clark has returned to his home at Sagamore Beach, Mass., from New Haven, Conn., where he had been doing editorial work on a committee under the Co-Ordinator of South American Affairs.

Lt. Phil Drake USN has been out of the country for the past six months, and his Alumni Fund mail cannot be forwarded to him.

Stan Lovell is with the Office of Strategic Services in Washington.

Connie Snow's oldest daughter, Constance, is finishing her work at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., this spring and will go into training under Skidmore auspices in a hospital in New York, beginning

some time in the summer. She is training to become a nurse. These notes are written from Miami Beach, Florida, where your acting secretary has been in the sun for a month trying to bake out an attack of inflammatory rheumatism inflicted by a strep bug that bit him last February. Yeh, we've heard all about old age finally catching up with us.

Secretary, 6637 13th St., N.W., Washington, D. C Class Agent, Box 199, Owego, N. Y.