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JULY, 1930 XIX 1923 Continued That's all the news for this issue, but the Reunion certainly should furnish plenty for the fall. Incidentally, with this issue of The Review your scribe is resigning as Class Secretary. We do not know at present who the new Secretary will be. We do know, however, that he will need your support. We cannot close without expressing our appreciation for the cooperation received from the Class during the past seven years. It has been a pleasure to serve as Secretary, and the associations connected with the job will certainly not be forgotten, even to the monthly calls for news from the Review office. However, we believe it is time for a change, and consequently wish Godspeed to our successor, -- ROBERT E. HENDRIE, Secretary, 91 Walnut Street, Braintree, Mass. HORATIO L. BOND, Assistant Secretary, 37 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. 1924 Due to the drive for funds which we conducted in the early part of the year, we were able to make quite an appreciable contribution this year in support of the Advisory Council on Athletics. Complying with Dr. Rowe's request, we here extend his "very sincere expression of appreciation of the Advisory Council." The support of athletics by '24 has always been one of the desires of your officers. In the past we have not been able to support them very regularly but before many years more go by we hope to be able, with the support of the Class, to be one of the Council's supporters through regular contributions. We are sure that we are expressing the wishes of the Class in this respect. In sending in his check for this drive Jack Parsons dropped us a line from Spain to wit: "Remember me to '24 in general and Course XV in particular. I am still in Spain, doing traffic engineering and various odd jobs for the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. I have just returned to Madrid after spending three weeks in Rome and five weeks in Bucharest. In the latter place they have fine caviar, quite cheap. It is a great life." David Evans has recently changed from Jas. H. Oliphant and Company to the Lehman Corporation of 1 William Street, New York City, where he is a member of the research department, specializing in public utilities. His home address is 180 Ashland Avenue, Bloomfield, N.J. -- W. Kupferburger has been appointed mineral technologist to the South African Board of Trade. -- Bill Correale was a recent contributor to the monthly of the New York Young Republican, a paper of the club by that name. -- Miss Jessie Sellus of Ardmore, Penna., and Kenneth N. Walton of Atlantic City were married on April 26 at Wynnewood, Penna. -- William Kirkpatrick, known largely to the Class as Bus, was killed in an unfortunate airplane crash in northern Connecticut early in January of this year. Bus was very active and very well known while at Technology, and the Class has certainly suffered a very material loss. A recent letter from R. R. LeClercq written on November 25 from an address, White Fathers, Kabale, Uganda, East Africa, says: "Needless to say, in this part of the world, Christmas and New Year mean very little when one is located two degrees south of the Equator. I am engaged mainly in general reconnaissance work of the new tin fields on the Uganda borders. The work is pleasant if somewhat strenuous. I have traveled all the way from the region of the big volcanoes, Karisimbi and Nwamvura, down to the northern shores of Lake Tanganyika; I have seen a great deal of interesting geology, found some tin deposits, and enjoyed, on a paying basis, the most perfect kind of scenery that one can find anywhere. The climate is ideal from the health point of view, but sometimes at this time of the year I do find clouds and fogs a trifle bothersome. I forgot to say that seldom do I go below the 2,700 foot level; more generally I keep up 6,000 feet, and last week I camped just above 8,000 feet. The shores of Lake Kivu are quite spectacular; I have no doubt that in America it would be made a park. However, out here you have no roads, or at least very few, and to see the best one must travel with a pack of dumb natives and on foot. I expect to have finished my work out here by May 1931, and to get back to the States in June," -- Harold G. Donovan, General Secretary, 139 Girard Avenue, Hartford, Conn. Course I The moving force behind this unusual appearance after so long an absence is a letter which Tapley recently received from Russ Ambach. Russ has climbed abroad the band wagon of eminent engineers who are helping the Reds make Russia a sweeter place in which to live. He writes from Kharkov, U.S.S.R., as follows: "The folks have sent four packages from the States and none have arrived. When cigars and tobacco are hardly smokable and alarm clocks cost $9.00, you can hardly blame the scoundrels for appropriating whatever they can reach. Well, three months of the three years are gone, but I certainly miss a good cigar or pipeful of Edgeworth. "We arrived January 28 after three days in Paris and four in Berlin. Our contract called for furnished apartments, and although we are living in one, it is not yet completed. However, we have a single burner gas stove and a gas water heater. We have also electric lights and a toilet. There are a hundred apartments in the building occupied by Americans, Germans, and Russians. I wouldn't dare estimate how many Russian families live in one apartment. Probably no less than one in each room, making four for one stove. That's the way to live! Since the Soviets took the government over they have improved the conditions of the working man to that extent. They have also improved the food dealing system. If one is a worker (we are), they have food books allowing them to get black bread, eggs, and grease. We get two kgs. of white bread (about the color of brown bread) for two of us for two days and 1,600 grs. of white flour (fawn color). If my wife is lucky she gets pork or lamb or meat that has a fiber stress capable of destruction under the blow of an axe. The spinach, however is the best that I have ever eaten. I understand that the vegetables from this district and Crimea are excellent, too. That remains to be seen, as well as the price. It has cost us $13.50 a week so far for food. Lights 12 1/2 cents per kw.h.; gas, I think, is 3 cents per cubic meter. Right now I am working on the largest coal cleaning plant in the world. It will take coal from twenty-three mines and clean it for coking." Russ is in the employ of Allen and Garcia, a Chicago firm. He was married to Miss Ethel Madeline Repass of Winnetka, Ill., on December 20, and he and Mrs. Ambach left for Russia shortly after. Our European correspondents seem to be doing an excellent piece of work, for your Secretary recently had a letter from Sam Shulits, who wrote from Brno, Czechoslovakia, where he has been working since last October with Professor Schoklitsch. As you probably recall, Sam was the recipient of one of the Freeman traveling scholarships for hydraulic research in European laboratories. He writes that he has been making a special study of the prevention of erosion below dams and weirs. He expects to be back in the States this coming fall. -- Curley Fletcher passed through Washington not long ago. He had completed his work at the Calderwood Hydro Projects in the Tennessee mountains and was en route to Pittsburgh, where he expects to be in the home office of the hydraulic division of the Aluminum Company of America for a while. From time to time the Alumni office has forwarded to your Secretary notices of address changes of members of the Course. Judging from these, there are many interesting stories to be told if the members would take the time to write. The new Register of Former Students shows that many of us have drifted into varied fields. By combining the two above mentioned sources of information the following random bits have been unearthed; Max Ilfred is now located in Boston, where he is in charge of the district office for the Blaw-Know Company. -- Lieutenant Walter H. Kennett is attached to the Eighth Field Artillery at Schofield Barracks, T. H. -- Ed Sheiry has been in Washington since last summer. He is connected with the contracting firm of Charles H. Tompkins, Inc. -- Ollie Jones seems to have forsaken the water power game, for he is now in Columbus, Ohio, where he is in charge of the district office of the Bellows Claud Neon Company. -- We regret to have to report that Joe Lockwood was shot and killed near Gorgas, Ala., last July. Your Secretary hopes that much information will percolate to him during the coming summer so that he can make a good start in these columns next fall. -- JOHN D. FITCH, Secretary, 1132 Munsey Building, Washington, D.C.
