CLASS OF 1907
In September, Waldo Pickett was married to Miss Gertrude Ella Maertins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph F. C. Maertins of Jamaica Plain and Hingham, Mass. The ceremony was performed in the Leslie Lindsey Memorial Chapel of Emmanuel church in Boston. The bride is aagraduate of Jackson College at Tufts, class of 1921, and was head of the Latin department at the Portsmouth High School during the past year. Waldo is connected with the Granite State Fire Insurance Company at Portsmouth, N. H., and lives with his bride at 95 Pleasant St.
The Boston Transcript of August 10 contained a long interview with Ben Washburn in connection with his appointment as rector of Emmanuel church in Boston. There was included a tribute from Bishop Slattery, and also one from President Hopkins. During the summer, Ben conducted the services at the Memorial Chapel at Bretton Woods. He spent the summer at Randolph, where he is building a new summer home. He takes up his new duties in Boston the first of November.
Late in August, one of the most successful horse shows ever held in Dublin was conducted under the auspices of the Riding and Walking Club. Mrs. Lou Gerry was awarded the fourth prize in the class for hunters 15.3 and over. Her daughter Phyllis, riding "Sister Anne," won the event for pony jumpers not exceeding 14.2 hands.
Alvin G. Whitney resigned his position from the School of Forestry and Reservation at Ann Arbor to accept the position of assistant treasurer and secretary of the New York State Museum in Albany. A quotation from the Michigan Daily of Ann Arbor says, "Whitney went to the University of Michigan to organize the work in forest zoology, and during the past two years, the teaching and research in forest animal ecology and wild life and reservation has been extensively developed. Wild life studies have been undertaken by the school staff, including game and fur animal surveys and a study of privately owned'state game refuges. An investigation of the beaver in the upper peninsula of Michigan has also been made. Before going to the University of Michigan, Whitney was connected with the New York State College of Forestry as professor of forest zoology and assistant treasurer of the first forest wildlife experiment station established in this country."
Bob Cochrane has recently moved his office to the new Longwood Medical Building, at 319 Longwood Ave., Boston. The Cochranes spent the summer at Marblehead, where their son John, aged ten, was conspicuous in the yacht races with his boat "Humbug" in the "BRUTAL BEASTS" class.
All members of the class will sympathize with Tom Field on account of the untimely and sudden death of his brother Jack. Tom came to Nashua from Jacksonville to attend the funeral.
Henry Blake is again head coach of the Exeter football team.
Mrs. Walter Kennedy returned late in the summer from Europe, where she secured rarely lovely French and English antiques for her excellent collection, which is displayed and sold at "The Spinning Wheel Antique Shop" at 35 Fayette St., Boston.
Bill Minsch was recently made a director of the Gorman Company, silverware manufacturers.
Bill Cummings, with his wife and three children, sailed from Quebec the first of October for France, where Mrs. Cummings will remain with the children for the winter. The two older boys were in school in France last year, and they remained in Switzerland the past summer. Bill will return about November 15. He reports his mill at Skowhegan, Maine, has been running to full capacity. Bill is also president of the theatrical stock company which for several seasons has been successfully performing at Lakewood. Incidentally Bill has become a member of the Lambs Club in New York.
There is a report from Maine that Ted Greenleaf, who was very active in the state Senate last winter, has been considerably out of health.
During the summer, both Rip Heneage and Harry Wellman spent some time fishing deep in the Maine woods. Likewise Dick and Lucy Lane, in early September.
Judge McLane had an uncomfortable summer, due to a loose cartilage, requiring his wearing splints some of the time.
Cully Pierce, who sold his lumber yard in Charlestown in the spring, has gone into the real estate business in Newton.
On the fourth of July there were dedication exercises of the Albion Ross Nickerson Memorial Library at Peckett's on Sugar Hill. Mr. Thomas Vietor introduced the speakers. Mr. Walter Lundegren extended the welcome, and the address was made by John Piper. Mr. Lundegren said in part:—
"Nestling 'twixt hill and sky in which he delighted, with a setting of scenic grandeur and simplicity, away from all cares and confusion, the spot is designed for a cherished retreat where all may find rest, recreation, or an opportunity for meditation. Here the latch-string is out. Old friends to whom he was unselfishly devoted, the community about, which he called his own, and the numberless throngs who may come and go through the years, while enjoying the hospitality of Peckett's, shall sense the message of love and good-fellowship exemplified by Nick on his journey through your midst. He was a lodestar—an unquestionable attraction —and though no longer does he actually exist for us, because of his passing, the place has received and does gratefully acknowledge this gracious addition to its many charms." John Piper spoke, in part:
"I deem it an honor that the circumstance that I happened to be a classmate of Nick's in college entitles me as its representative to take part in these exercises. I come, however, with a very real appreciation of my own inadequacy; for we are gathered here to do honor to one of nature's noblemen. It is a wonderful thing for a man to have so lived that almost immediately after death there is a spontaneous movement among his business associates and his hosts of friends to erect a lasting memorial to perpetuate his memory, and give rest and comfort to others in the heart of that same neighborhood where he had labored so well. There are times when words are inadequate, and nothing that we can say here can add to what he did here in life or to the honor so fittingly paid him here in death. It is proper, however, on this occasion and in order to show how peculiarly appropriate is this memorial and its setting, to dwell briefly on the manner of man he was and to attempt to explain the hold he had on the hearts of everybody. Essentially a man's man, he nevertheless had the rare faculty of inspiring real affection. And so he continued in after years, as he followed his chosen calling here in these beautiful mountains that he has taught so many to know and love. His contemporaries loved him and their children worshipped him. How appropriate, therefore, this memorial, nestling among these same mountains and largely constructed from material found here bathed in the same warm sun that shone on him in summer and protected by the same snow that he helped so many to enjoy tn the winter. How fitting that it should be a beautiful library, sturdy and inviting and built to last through the ages, where all who cross its threshold can find rest and entertainment. Nick, your spirit still lives in this memorial. In this place and in this atmosphere those who come in after years to the scene of your activities can find here in the seclusion of this library some measure of the comfort and cheerfulness which you radiated in life, and learn in addition what we already know that the world is a better place to live in for your having been here. Almost like a prayer we repeat the words so fittingly inscribed on this tablet.
"The still North remembers him, The hill winds breathe his name, And the granite of New Hampshire Keeps a record of Ms fame."
After the Harvard game, the class held a largely attended dinner dance at the Weston Golf Club.
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