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Years with the N.Y. Ordnance District. He retired in 1945 and returned to his home town of Lawrence, Mass. Leon was not married and lived with his mother.... That’s it for this time. Any of you who are hopping off on exciting trips, please take a tip from the Lehrers. This letters are the sort of thing that makes a poor class secretary shout for joy. We’d love to shout with you.—Henry B. Kane, Secretary, Room 1-272, M.I.T., Cambridge 39, Mass. 
‘25
News this month has been very sketchy. If you expect to see 1925 in these pages each month, some of you who have been unheard from for many years should drop the secretary a line! ... Ralph Gow continues to make news and it is difficult to keep up with him. Just recently, the Boston Herald noted that he had been elected to the Board of Directors of Miniature Precision Bearings, Inc. 
The Waterbury, Conn., papers have noted that Donald G. Vaughan, Assistant Vice-president of the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, was the guest speaker recently at a dinner meeting of the Naugatuck Valley Chapter, American Institute of Industrial Engineers. As previously noted in this column, Do has been in the field of safety engineering almost from the time he left M.I.T. and is most definitely recognized as one of the authorities in this area.... Herb Taylor has gotten in touch with me through his son David who happened to be at M.I.T. a few days ago on a recruiting expedition. David graduated from Williams College and later from Northwestern Business School. He reported that Herb spends most of his time at his headquarters in Florida but business does take him to Chicago about once a month.—F.L. Foster, Secretary, Room 5-105, M.I.T., Cambridge.
‘26
Here we are once again, not at Pigeon Cove but aboard the 8:00 A.M. jet for a 45-minute flight from Boston to Philadelphia. .... Recently a change of address came through for Maury Ash so I sent him a note: “What gives?” here is his reply: “Dear George, My how observant you are to notice my change of address. Last April we grew sick and tired of the long winters around Chicago and took a trip to Florida with the intention of finding a location in which to settle. Punta Gorda Isles, since becoming a part of the City of Punta Gorda, was the answer to our dreams so we purchased a lot and ordered a home built. It was completed in the first of August last year and we were on the spot to move in. Just in time, incidentally to welcome Hurricane Donna who visited us on September 10 and caused extensive damage. That, however, is long since repaired and we are enjoying our retirement immensely. Our home is located on a canal and I have a boat docked in our backyard. We are only a few hundred yards from open water, which is Charlotte Harbor, and 25 miles from the Gulf of Mexico at Boca Grande. Fishing in Charlotte Harbor and the many little streams and two large rivers that feed it is excellent as it also is from our dock. We occasionally fish in the Gulf for grouper, blues and mackerel. In the harbor all catch sea trout, snook, red fish and snapper. Our son Michael graduated from M.I.T. in 1959 and has since received his master’s degree in mathematics at Princeton where he is now working on a doctor’s degree. Helen us a sophomore at the University of Illinois. Susan and Jeannette are here with us. Sue is a sophomore in high school and Jenny, age six, is in first grade, Incidentally, Jenny was born in Japan while I was in the Army. I challenge any of our classmates to produce a youngster (not grandchild) under six years of age! (Class Secretary’s Note: Send entries to me.) I am sorry that I missed you in June of ‘59 when I dropped in at Pigeon Cove. Why don't you repay the visit and see us at Punta Gorda Isles? Bring a swim suit since we have a pool in our enclosed patio. You won’t need a fishing rod; we have plenty of them.” Maury’s address is Maurice L. Ash, Jr., P.O. Box 222, Punta Gorda, Fla. 
We are now airborne and the thrill of a jet take-off never diminishes. Once in the air the sensation of luxury and air rushing by the hull make me feel that I am off on a holiday because most jet flights we have taken are vacation flights. In May we head back to Bermuda and this time in a jet. After one of the most rugged New England winters in 15 or 20 years we are looking forward to basking in the sun. Now let’s get on with the news.... Bud Wilbur is quoted in the Indianapolis Star in a way that brings us quickly up to date on his activities: The “A B C’s” of science, rather than details, theories and history, is being emphasized today in modern engineering schools, the Indianapolis alumni group of M.I.T. was told. Dr. John B. Wilbur, 1926 M.I.T. Graduate, head of the school’s civil engineering department 14 years and now a consulting professor of engineering, reported to a centennial dinner of the local M.I.T. Club, “Science and technology is advancing at such a rapid rate that the kind of education essential a generation ago is outmoded as we prepare students for problems of the future which today are beyond prediction or comprehension. M.I.T. Now puts less emphasis on the art of engineering and details of its practice and increases stress on science and mathematics.” We haven’t seen Bud since he entered his new role but understand that he and Lillian have given up their Cambridge apartment and now make their residence at their country place in Hancock, N.H., with sorties to Cambridge during the week. Sounds like a good deal but I haven’t found out how to work it. 
That guy, Draper, is in the clippings again but since he has been monopolizing our honor rolls for the past five years we need not give you any background; just identify the new honor. Dr. Charles Stark Draper of M.I.T. has been named winner of the 1960 Annual Achievement Award of the Newton, Mass., Chamber of Commerce. It was presented by Homer R. Old field, Jr., ‘38, group vice-president, electronic components and devices, Raytheon Manufacturing Company, January 25 at a dinner meeting in the Totem Pole Ballroom, Newton. Remember, Stark! At our 35th Reunion you are chairman of the committee to Demonstrate the Definition of a Dyne-Centimeter. We hope you are getting some practice.... This will probably be my last opportunity to mention the reunion in the notes since the June issue probably will not be out until after reunion. There isn’t much for me to add to the notices that Jack Larkin tells me are being mailed as I write these notes. We had a dinner meeting of the reunion committee a couple of weeks ago, called by Chairman Bob Dawes. In addition to Bob and your secretary, Jack Larkin, Bill Meehan and Don Cunningham attended. Pink Salmon was out of town and since he wasn’t there we assigned him to job of registration. This will all be explained in the notices. As I have previously mentioned, I spent a weekend at the Hotel Belmont two years ago and it is the ideal spot for a ‘26 reunion. It had just been entirely rebuilt when I was there and I understand that the owners have been dumping money in ever since. It has the largest and most delightful cocktail lounge of any place on Cape Cod, a private beach with cabanas, bath houses, a bar, etc. In addition the hotel has a new manager who was manager of the Weston Golf Club where Jack Larkin belongs, so Jack has taken on the assignment of making sure that we get a little bit extra and that everything goes smoothly. Therefore, if you don’t like your room, the service, the strength of your drinks, the temperature of the ocean or anything at all, just speak to Jack and he will fix it up.— The landing gear has just been lowered, and I must sign off. So as we land—Cheerio until I see you at reunion next month!—George Warren Smith, Secretary, c/o E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., 140 Federal St., Boston Mass. 
‘27
A recent newspaper clipping from the Medford, Mass., Mercury advises that Frank Marcucella, Vice-president and General Manager of the John A. Volpe Construction Company, Malden, and a member of the board of directors of the Malden Evening News and the Medford Daily Mercury, has been named president of both newspaper corporations. Frank has had more than a quarter of a century of experience in the construction industry, having served as construction engineer of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and as construction superintendent of numerous major projects before first joining the Volpe company as job superintendent in 1942. He is a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Massachusetts Building Congress,

MAY, 1961
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