Class of 1903
We have heard a wild tale out of Danvers about Meat Hanlon going into politics. It seems that at the late election in Danvers for a member of the school committee to serve three years, one Clifford Omera Perry was given some 1200 votes, and one Robinson, better known as "Robbie" up to last fall, a resident of Providence through each fall, received 800. There may have been other candidates, we know of at least two. 1906 will be interested in their classmate as a vote getter, and Perry says Meat got them.
Victor Cutter talked to the Boston branch of the alumni of the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance at their annual fall meeting held at the New University Club. He gave an interesting outline of the organization of the United Fruit Company for the marketing of bananas, and spoke a good word for their national campaign of advertising and the returns that it had brought them. The class and Vic's many friends around Boston take great pride in the remarkable financial showing the company has made under his administration.
Harry W. Fitts, 79 Pembroke St., Newton, Mass., has been elected one of the aldermen at large of that city. He has been very much in the foreground in Newton affairs, as he is a member of the joint committee on schoolhouses, which involves the question of the location of new school buildings and the development of the junior high schools for the city. In view of the many different centers and villages of Newton the question of location of the junior high schools has been a vexing problem, to which Mr. Fitts has devoted a great deal of thought and time as well as to other city affairs.
"Avery—Fant bridal. A wedding of interest in many sections of the country and especially in Boston, was that yesterday afternoon in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Evans, Jr., the former vice-president of the District National Bank, when Miss Evelyn Fant, sister of Mrs. Evans, and Mr. Maurice Hussey Avery of Nashua, N. H., were married. Because of the recent death of the bridegroom's parents the affair was very quietly celebrated with a family party and out of town guests present. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. William Levering DeVries, canon of the Washington cathedral, and attending the bride were children of the family, two small nephews, Joshua Evans, 3d, and Philip Wharton Evans, who carried ribbons forming an aisle through which the bridegroom passed, and Marinana Mears Evans and Joan Avery, nieces respectively of the bride and bridegroom, who were flower girls. Mr. Philip Avery of Boston was best man for his brother. After the ceremony Mr. Avery and his bride left for a Mediterranean cruise on the S. S. Rotterdam of the Holland-American line, to be absent until the early autumn."
Stockwell has a new address at 520 High St., West Medford, Mass.
Safford and Kenerson rounded up at the meeting of the alumni of the Dartmouth Association of the Southwest held in Dallas at the time of the N. E. A. gathering. Queech has just retired as president of the Association. On the way North the Kenersons called on the Woolvertons at Birmingham, Ala., and had a taste of their hospitality. They also extracted a promise that the whole Woolverton family would come North for a good long vacation in June, 1928, for the one and only Twenty-fifth. Birmingham has had a most exceptional development, and Woolverton, who has been an attorney-at-law there for twenty years, is very much of an old-timer with a host of friends and a large clientele.
A letter from Avery says that he and Mrs. Avery were surprised to meet up with Howard Davis ('06) and his wife in Cairo.
Classmates will be interested in learning that William W. Grant, Sr., father of our classmate Billy Grant, was the first physician who ever performed an operation for appendicitis. As this happened in 1885, it is included as an item of interest rather than as "news."
Editor, ,516 Commonwealth Ave., Newton Center, Mass.
