CLASS OF 1908
Eighty-five contributors and a total of $5155 for the Memorial Field was the April report for '08 made by L. G. Treadway, the Williamstown go-getter.
Preliminary plans are being hatched for an '08 gathering in Boston at the time of the Harvard game next fall.
Frank Anderson writes that he is fixing up the human wrecks as a member of the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn.
Charlie Severance is production manager of the Federal Motor Truck Company in Detroit, and has just built a new house.
Dr. F. G. Blake is a professor in the Medical School at Yale, which doesn't mitigate his Dartmouth enthusiasm a bit.
Joe Blakely of Montpelier says mumps is the meanest trouble what is, and he has just had 'em, both sides.
Dick Danforth of San Francisco has written a book on "Oil Flow and Pipe Lines," and has sold enough of them to enable him to buy a yacht in which he sails the Pacific. He says it (the yacht and the Pacific) are big enough.
Ned Darling, who has been a semi-invalid for some time, recently was able to resume his work with the American Telephone Company, and is living at East Orange, N. J.
Sidney. Lee Ruggles, ex-Thayer-School-perfesser and now the waterworks man in Barre, Vt., says he would like the job if he didn't have to crawl over so many horrid old wine kegs when he oils up the meters. The barrels shut off the light and make a 6 look like a 9.
Chip Farrington has gone into the chicken business in Norfolk, Conn. Real chickens with feathers and everthin'.
String Hale is in the office of the state forester at Concord, and says all '08ers passing through are required to stop and register.
Francis Hodgson, class baby, son of Fred Hodgson, recently acted as special traffic officer in Montclair, N. J. He was rated a "special" and his job was to pilot younger kids across the street during a rush hour.
"The Science of Common Things" by Dick Lunt '08 (D. C. Heath Co.) is having a fine sale. It is a common-sense study of health, presented in non-scientific language.
Gene Prentice, New York banker, has built a new house for his family in Upper Montclair, but he thinks 'he can save up enough by 1923 to take in the 15th reunion.
"Hank" O'Shea was chairman of the $75,000 drive for the Laconia hospital.
Eberly got married last fall, and has since been in Buenos Aires, working for John D. Rockefeller in the S. O. Co.
John Thompson bought himself a house in New York city last fall, and has been remodeling it. He is now prepared to chat, write, or lecture on labor unions, their methods, and what not to do when engaging in building operations on Manhattan Island.
Bub Shaw, who has been doctoring 'em out in Terry, Montana, since he got through making world records in the hurdle events fourteen, years ago, has forsaken the "Terryble" West, and is located in Boston, since April. His mail address is 151 Rock St., Fall River, Mass.
George Squier, sales manager for Art Lewis' hustling Sou' Boston factory, allows his progeny now consists of "one sixth dozen, assorted."
The Saturday Evening Post still issues on Thursdays, though "Mike" Stearns left 'em last year, when he found being president of the class of 1908 and chief advertising hound for Curtis was too much. Now he is a wholesale hat maker—wimmen's hats, too. He's temp, pres. and gen. man. of the new New York Dartmouth Club. Probably meets you at the door, with a row of brass buttons down his 54-inch chest, and takes your bag.
Art Soule no longer does most of the importing and exporting from Spain. He's gone with Liggett, lives in Waban instead of Orange, and says it may mean "Wrecks-all." His three boys now have a young sister.
Secretary, Laurence M. Symmes, 115 Broadway, New York
