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the business. The Maine coast is the cruiser's paradise, you know, and we get a tremendous lot of pleasure out of poling about into the many quaint and beautiful coves and harbors which are so frequently found east of Portland."
Oscar Merrill, chairman of the American Committee, leads his party to the Second Plenary World Power Conference held in Berlin June 16 to 25. Secretary of Commerce Thomas W. Lamont is Honorary President of the American Committee, while the Honorary Chairman of the conference at Berlin will be President von Hindenberg. George Rhodes is with the party and will present a paper on "Transmission and Storage of Gaseous Fuels." Let's see. George took Course VI. He has broadened his field. Perhaps there will be a story about all this later. 
Henry Sibrecht had not been heard from for years. Recently he wrote : "Due to what I considered a misfortune at the time, I dropped engineering entirely when I left Technology and went into my father's business, specializing on the forcing of certain cut flowers for the New York wholesale market. I am still at this and enjoying it. Although mail reaches me via Astoria, Chappaqua,N.Y., is where I live and where our main place is located."
Sid Strickland advises that: "Grafton Perkins and Bill Green have gone in for farming. This matter was taken up with Grove, who has had a reputation of long standing as a grower of sour apples. He says there is no chance of financial return to support either of them in old age, from such an investment. They have both, I understand, erected beautiful convertible bungalows. Hub Kenway is in the thick of fight trying to prevent the Auto-Strop from depriving King Gillett of his shirt."
Dick Senger has recently returned from Peru where he spent some time at the Shorey Smelter of the Northern Peru Mining and Smelting Company. We shall hope to present his story in a future number.-- Louis Killion is Vice-President of E.F. Hauserman Company, Cleveland, the company which he represented in Boston for several years.--Frank Drake is now supervisor of gas operations for J. G. White Management Corporation with the office at 90 Pine Street, New York City.--Walter Clarke is works manager of the Pittsburgh Screw and Bolt Corporation, Colona Works, Monaca, Penna. -- Mildred Wheeler Tompson is chairman of the school committee of Seekonk, Mass.
Jimmie Banash is President of the Technology Club of Chicago and Frank Payne is one of the directors. Think of Banash labelled '06 on the ballot for officers of the Alumni Association! -- Bob Cutting writes from New York: "I am thoroughly sold on the Pacific Coast as a place to live, but unfortunately the misguided engineer who has chosen river and harbor work as his specialty has to go where the work is. I expect to be here for some time to come." -- Percy Goodale still holds to print in golf competition around Boston, but it is hard to say whether it is father, or Junior, who deserves the publicity. -- Sam Shapira may be addressed in care of Stuart, James and Cooke, Palace Hotel, Kharkoff, U. S. S. R., which means Russia. -- Joe Daniels is a member of the committee on mining geology of the American Institute of Mining and metallurgical Engineers. 
Once more we regretfully report the passing of another classmate. Leonard Theaker Bushnell died of pneumonia in Seattle, Wash., on April 7. He was born in New Bedford on April 8, 1880, and prepared for Yale at Friends Academy. He attended the Institute from 1902 to 1905, when he received his degree. He was editor-in-chief of The Tech, press agent for the Tech Show, and a Class Day marshal and served on the Senior Portfolio and Class Day committees. During 1905-06 he was assistant to the registrar of the Institute, and the next year he was a department of the New York Central Railroad. Since 1907 Bushnell had lived in Seattle. Until quite recently he had connected with the Rockwood Sprinkler Company, serving as Secretary and Treasurer and later as manager of the company of which he was also a director. At the time of his death he was engaged in the real estate business. He had been President of the Automatic Sprinkler Association of the Pacific and of the Rotary Club of Seattle and chairman of the Members' Council of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of the American Society of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Bushnell was married in 1909 to Inez Lucy Brown of Seattle, who survives him with two daughters and two sons. The Board of Trustees of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce passed a fitting resolution of his death. -- Roswell Davis, Secretary, Wes Station, Middletown, Conn. Sidney T. Strickland, Assistant Secretary, 20 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass.
1907
Thanks to fine cooperation which many of the Class gave in connection with the requests for information sent out in May, we have quite a supply of notes for this issue. To you men who have helped make this possible, my appreciation. To you men who have not yet returned the forms, my appreciation is in reserve ready to become active.
Franklin O. Adams, architect at 509 Twiggs Street, Tampa, Fla., writes: "You have doubtless heard of the rising flood of Florida land prices in 1924, 1925, and 1926, and how the paper dam broke. The deluge had nothing on that catastrophe. Some men drowned at once, some swam until exhausted, and others found bottom high enough to keep the nose out or a little better. Every time the flood started to recede another nice rain would come along, such as a hurricane or so, the fruit fly, or a string of bank failures. While my mustache has been wet several times, I'm still breathing. The remarkable thing is that faith in Florida as the 'land of promise' is still with us."
Ernest Altgelt is ranching at Iron Springs about twenty miles from San Antonio, Tex. His address is Route 8, Box 127, san Antonio. One of his sons died in 1928, and a daughter was born in 1929, so that he now has two children, a boy and a girl, living. -- Henry Alvord, who is in charge of the Department of Civil Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, has done some interesting outside engineering work. -- Carroll Dean reports that he is engaged in general business in connection with the administration of the A. D. Dean Estate, of which he is co-executor. He has done no engineering work since 1924, but is now anxious to get back into electrical and mechanical engineering. In September 1929, he enrolled a son at Phillips Exeter Academy, and a daughter at Wellesly. -- John Frank became President of his company, the Ilg Electric Ventilating Company in November 1928. He is vice chairman of a Chicago committee for the employment of handicapped persons -- a civic service. 
Through the courtesy of Professor Locke, we publish the following letter from Lawrence C. Hampton: "Your last letter was received at Sydney, Australia, which was my headquarters until December first last, when I left for South Africa, arriving here the day after Christmas. As you were aware, I was made director of the Atlantic Union Oil Company in September 1927, which position I still occupy. My duties kept me busy in Australia and New Zealand. Yet in June I found time to visit California for thirty days and was back in New Zealand, July 15, after a lovely visit at Honolulu. Arriving in Australia the middle of August, I remained only until October when I returned New Zealand. While there I received word my company desired me to go to South Africa for a short stay of four months. Half of this time has passed, and on May 6 I sail up the east coast of South Africa from Lourenco Marques, in Portuguese East Africa. I expect to land in Europe at Genoa in June, never having been on the continent except to see the sights for a month before sailing for the States and home. 
"Since I have been in South Africa I have visited every city of importance from Cape town east to Durban and northward through Johannesburg to Salisbury and Victoria Falls in Rhodesia. While in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, I went out to Cecil Rhodes' tomb in the Matopos. Victoria Falls was at its best during the time of my visit and, as I have my Eastman Cine kodak, I obtained many feet of film. I have read with interest your account of the trip to Japan, as it has appeared in The Technology Review Class News. This reminds me I have not advised Bryant Nichols and Harold Wonson, my class Secretaries, of my wanderings, and you may pass on this letter or such portions as you may think they might be interested in.
"I am very much in hopes that when I reached my beloved California next August, my company will let me remain there indefinitely. I have enjoyed my trips immensely and have a much better knowledge of world conditions that I could ever have obtained in any other way, but I