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The February (1945) Library Bulletin of the Baker Library reports that Rev. and Mrs. Percy C. Ladd of Burlington, Vt., have given a gift of money to arrange for a Tower Room alcove to be dedicated in memory of their son, George A. Ladd '41, and to increase the number of volumes of recent poetry.
On December 8, 1944, the whole Traffic Department of the General Staff, American Telephone and Telegraph Cos., in New York, assembled to give a retirement goodbye to Walter Emery. The assistant vice president in charge of the Traffic Department expressed formal good wishes as follows:
As you know we are here today for a very special purpose to honor and say an official goodbye to Walter Emery who is retiring from active service after nearly forty years in the business all of it in the Traffic Department and nearly twentyfive years of it in the Operation and Engineering Department.
If you don't know it already, you might readily guess that Emery was born and raised a New Engender. His formal education was in New Hampshire the "little red school house" known as the District School then to Pinkerton Academy and Dartmouth College from which he graduated in 1905. . , .
His start in the telephone business, however, was in Pennsylvania, at Pittsburgh, which in those days was rapidly becoming an engagement center for many Traffic men whose names some of you will remember. Soon recognized as a lad of promise he was requisitioned by the New England Company where commencing in 1907, he did important work as District Traffic Manager, in organizing and developing traffic methods, service measurement plans, service objectives and techniques for that company. Then in 1920 he came to the Operation and Engineering Department.
His contributions have been many and are well known. We shall remember them long, but equally I shall cherish the remembrance of his fine character, his friendiness, his deep sincerity and stability of purpose, his faith in the department and in the Bell System.
I have known Emery longer than most of you though not as long as some. I have worked with him "under a wide variety of conditions and have sought his advice on many occasions and on many matters. He has never failed to advise me welland I shall miss him.
His acquaintanceship throughout the Bell System is wide. There are literally hundreds of men and women—some already retired who would wish to pay him tribute at this time. (I have here a large number of messages which I know he will enjoy reading at his leisure.)
As you leave us, Walter, it is hard to express our collective thoughts. I have expressed mine with the true belief that they are representative of this Traffic Group. As a memento of this occasion and of our complete regard, I have been asked to present you with this book containing the good wishes and signatures of all who were available to sign it. Here's wishing you and yours good health and happiness. May we continue to see and hear from you frequently.
Walter and Mrs. Emery plan to move about April 1 from 337 West End Road, South Orange, N. J., to live permanently at Cutchoque, L. 1., where they have had a summer home for several years.
The best wishes of the class are extended to Walter for a well deserved rest and enjoyment of his leisure.
Word has been received from Mr. George F. Theriault of the Office of Administration of the College, that, in view of the recent ruling of the Office of Defense Transportation that no conventions of any size be held, there is unanimous agreement of the officers of the Class Secretaries Association, the Class Treasurers Association and the Class Agents Association that there will be no class reunions at the College in June 1945. The pleasures of reunions are waived in the greater interest of our war effort.
Bob Harding sends word that the next annual dinner of the five classes ('01-'05) will be held Friday, May 11, at Schrafft's Restaurant in Boston. The men who have attended these annual dinners are .unanimous in their report of excellent reunions and a welcome substitute for the reunion in Hanover. The fact that Bob again shares in the preparation of these happy occasions is assurance of another successful evening. President Rufus Day of Cornell is planning to attend. It is hoped to have another College president of national prominence present. Reserve the date, May 11, 1945-
Ed Richardson is reported as enjoying the thrills of skiing on the slopes about the Dover (N. H.) Country Club.
Fred and Mrs. Chase are enjoying their annual visit to their winter home in Florida.
After sending some "asparagus" remarks on your scribe's penmanship, C. C. Hills, that discriminating reader, reports that he is enjoying J. W. Krutch's Life of Samuel Johnson and has Steinbeck's Cannery Row on his list for early reading. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr's recent volume on The Children of Light andthe Children of Darkness presents a fundamental consideration of contemporary problems by one of America's leading contemporary theologians.
Word has just been received from Paris of the marriage there on October £4, 1944, of Miss Ann Newdick of Boston to Lt. Douglas Kennedy USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Kennedy Jr., of Worcester.
The bride, daughter of the late Mr. Edwin Newdick, was "graduated from Leland Powers School and Boston University. She is serving in Paris with the American Red Cross. Lt. Kennedy was graduated from Loomis Academy and Brown University. He is on active duty overseas. The best wishes of the class are extended to Lt. and Mrs. Kennedy.
The sympathy o£ the class is extended to Mr. and Mrs. Irving Bedell, parents, and to Mrs. Robert I. Bedell, his wife, in the great loss of Robert I. Bedell.
Robert, an alumnus of the College, completed his training as a pilot at Corpus Christi, Texas, in September 194 a. His plane was shot down on combat over the Bay of Biscay in August 1943. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for gallantry in that action. His squadron was based in French Morocco. It was on a flight from that base that his plane crashed last October. He is survived by a wife and son, Robert I. Bedell Jr. who are living in Charleston, W. Va. Mrs. Irving Bedell writes that the family hopes to have Robert I. Bedell Jr. enter Dartmouth in the class of 1966.
Secretary and Treasurer, 14 Holt St., Concord, N. H.
