Class of 1907
It was reported in the January 5 issue of the Newton Progress, in the Waban items, that Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fassett entertained friends at their home on Holly Road on New Year's Eve.
It is also reported of the swearing in again of George Grebenstein, as alderman-at-large, Ward 2, in the Newton city government.
Charles Willson is the head of the school committee at Farmington, N. H. Last summer he supervised the financing for an addition to the Farmington High School.
Harry Heneage was one of the speakers at the annual dinner in Manchester, on January 9. In spite of the understanding that he was not to be called upon to make addresses, he seems to be successfully taking the platform. He previously spoke before the alumni in New York, and also in Boston, during the football season.
The Boston Transcript of January 24 pictured Bremer Pond with a group of the officers of the Landscape Architects Association, of which Bremer is secretary.
The Herald of January 25 contained a cartoon of Albert Stevens, handing the gavel to his successor as president of the Gilchrist Association. "Stevens" has been very successful in the department store business, and in the association work of the store employees.
Guy E. Dudley's new address is Route 2, Box 226, St. Petersburg, Fla.
George E. Liscomb's new address is 155 Summer St., Somerville, Mass.
Bill Ahern's father died on January 11, at Concord, N. H. He was one of the most prominent Democrats in the state. For many years he was their floor leader in the House of Representatives. He was also, for a long time the secretary for the State Board of Charities.
Rip Heneage, who has been active in furthering the idea that Eastern colleges have one man to name officials for football games in the East, attended a meeting of that group in New York, on January IS.
Walter and Mrs. Kennedy are rejoicing over the arrival of their first grandchild, a daughter, Lallie Lee Lowis, born in London, on the last day of 1927. Probably this is the class "granddaughter."
The Boston News Bureau front page items of February 1 stated that Jim Reilly had been elected a director of the Lowell Electric Light Corporation. Also, that Jim Brown, attorney of the Boston and Maine Railroad, had presented the amended bill to the Massachusetts legislative railroad committee, in connection with the railroad's project for a coliseum over the new station, restuarant, etc.
Bill Smart has been elected a director of the J. R. Whipple Corporation, which manages the Touraine Hotel and the Parker House in Boston.
Notice of the death of Frank McDavitt, which occurred so suddenly on January 7, will be found in another column.
"King" McCoy after a prolonged illness returned to work about the middle of February. King has changed his job with the New England Telephone Company. He is now manager of the commercial department, in the same district in which he has been plant manager.
Mrs. Gene Brooks was at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston for an operation late in January.
The Dick Lanes and the Charles Woodworths spent a week to ten days in February, at Peckett's on Sugar Hill.
There was a small attendance of the class at the Dartmouth dinner, in Boston. Those present were: Cochrane, Haley, Smart, Wyman, Niles, Hobbs Knight, Woodworth.
Phil Chase has been made engineer in charge of the transmission and distribution division of the Philadelphia Electric Company. Phil entered this company in 1921 as assistant engineer of the transmission and distribution division. Previous to that he was chief electrical engineer for the American Railways Company. Before that time he served as assistant to the superintendent of distribution and as an assistant engineer with the Public Service Electric Company of New Jersey.
Secretary, 131 State St., Boston 7
