CLASS OF 1906
Charlie Milham has forsaken the sunshiny West for the cloudy East, and is now with the Niagara Hudson Power Corporation, as assistant to the president in charge of public relations. His office address is 120 Broadway, New York city, but his work takes him frequently to Albany, Buffalo, Watertown, and other upstate cities. His home address is 81 St. James Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. In a recent letter to your Secretary, he says: "Lest those of the class who have come upon my glowing eulogies about California, the Pacific Coast in general and Southern California in particular, raise their eyebrows too high in wondering what it is all about, I dare say I should hasten to remark that I still think Southern California is one of the world's most delightful regions, but the East does not suffer by comparison when one stops to consider that homes and people are the same throughout this great country of ours, and, when all is said and done, homes and people are what make life worth while. There is another thought, too, this being that, even though Horace Greeley's remark, 'Go West, young man, go West,' still applies in many instances, the East is nevertheless the section of the country where opportunity looms large and especially for persons who have arrived at that staid age that ought to be characteristic of a class soon to observe its Twenty-fifth Reunion. So I am back in the East and hope to see many members of the 1906 group from time to time."
We quote from the Rutland (Vt.) Herald of July 13: "Steve Cushing of the office of legislative draftsmen has prepared a digest or consensus of the Vermont laws on taxation for the use of the governor's commission, a very neat and useful piece of work. Steve, by virtue of this draftsman job, has probably the best working knowledge in the state of what you might call Vermont's fluid law, for, at every session of the Legislature, there are certain kinds of law most amended and tinkered with. The draftsmen are supposed to look up all the law bearing on a certain bill, before it can be printed and introduced, and so they get a card index knowledge of all law, very useful for their purpose."
Bill Page's oldest son, William Ray, Jr., is a member of this year's freshman class at Dartmouth.
Cap Pierce's oldest son, Harold, who is entering this fall upon his sophomore year at Antioch College, spent the summer in Europe. Cap, with the rest of the family, took a vacation motor trip to Nova Scotia.
On July 81, Francis Lane Childs was married in Milwaukee, Wis., to Miss Leila Brown Kelsey of that city. Harold Rugg served as best man on that happy occasion. The Childses are now at home in Ledyard Apartments on East Wheelock St., in Hanover.
Harold Rugg spent the month of August and the first week of September in an extended trip to the Canadian Rockies with an Appalachian Mountain Club camping party. The party made its camps in Jasper Park, Alberta, and Mt. Robson Park, British Columbia, and spent its time in exploring and climbing the neighboring glaciers and snow-covered peaks. On his way home, Harold passed some hours with three of our classmates who reside off the beaten highway of most of us. To him I am indebted for the three following items of news:
Tourtellotte, who is assistant manager of the Canadian National Steamship Lines at Vancouver, is planning to come East for the Twenty-fifth in 1931. He is living in a most attractive Dutch colonial house which he built last year, and devotes his spare hours from business to amateur gardening, in which avocation he has acquired an enviable reputation as an expert in dahlia culture. His daughter Lois is now a junior in the University of British Columbia.
Harry Higman in Seattle is also a gardener outside business hours. His particular hobby has been the making of an herbarium of alpine plants, and he is known on the Coast as quite an authority on alpine flora. His son Chester, who is now an undergraduate in the University of Washington, plans to come East for a post-graduate course at the Tuck School.
Another 1906 man whom Harold met in Seattle is Bug Gardiner. He is still engaged in big engineering projects for the firm of Winston Brothers, contractors. He is in whole charge of the construction of a dam on the Skagit River, which will cost when completed more than three and a half million dollars and will create a reservoir seven miles long and over a mile wide, impounding 90,000 acre feet of water to be used for regulating the flow on which two huge power plants will depend. He has six hundred men working in three shifts under him. His business address is Diablo Camp, Rockport, Wash., where he expects to be for at least another year. In the meantime his family is living at 5246 Eighteenth Ave., Seattle His daughter Susan, whom many of the class will remember from our last reunion, was married in September.
'O6 readers of that invaluable magazine, Time, may have noted in the issue for September 16 the entertaining three-quarters page advertisement of the Sanymetal Products Company of Cleveland. Its central feature was an excellent cut of Bob Carpenter's smiling face, bearing the'caption, "More privacy than a goldfish," and the accompanying text set forth a lively account of some of Bob's doings from his childhood days to the present.
Charlie Crane has been making a grand success of a column in the Brattleboro (Vt.) Daily Reformer, called the "Pendrifter." A series of articles which he ran in this column on Calvin Coolidge has recently been reprinted in booklet form.
Word has been received of the death in San Francisco on August 25 of Ray Percy McGrath. Further details are as yet lacking.
Your class news will appear regularly in the Alumni Magazine. Haveyou renewed your subscription?
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
