Crawford Baker has left Boston to become the district sales manager of Bauer and Black, with headquarters at Minneapolis. He will surely be missed by the '13 gang here in Boston.
Tom Nichols has moved his happy home to 76 Broad St., Lynn. Speaking of Tom, I hope you appreciate the good job of printing he did on the class book.
Morris Cone has recently been elected vicepresident of the White River Junction Rotary Club. He is also a director of the First National Bank of White River Junction. We are advised that at the recent pageant of the woolen industry at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York city his woolen company had three patterns of their cloth selected for models.
Bob McCoy is now practicing law with an office in the Farmers Bank Building, Ashland, Ohio.
Regarding the gift of the class to the College of the furnishings and the added cost of construction in developing the Reference Room in Baker Library, we can report a large and unanimous vote. President Hopkins and the treasurer of the College have been advised officially of the gift, even though votes are still coming in. The room, which is one of the finest in the building, is to be known as the Class of 1913 Reference Room.
George Stiles has changed his address in Washington to the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.
E. Lawrence Brown has a young son, E. L., Junior. Everybody doing well. This news item appeared in May.
At the class dinner of the New York bunch on May 14 were Ashton, Dessau, Wells, Nutt, Talbot, Alden, Remsen, and Wright. Marc Wright happened to be in New York, so could attend. An old-timer new to show up at the dinners was Ethelbert Talbot. For fourteen years he has been in the Marine Corps. He retired with the rank of major, and is now in the insurance business at 165 Broadway, New York.
Nor Catterall is taking a cottage at Canaan, N. H., for June, July, and August, and hopes that any 1913ers passing through that vicinity will stop and look him up. He expects to spend a lot of time in Hanover.
Yick Nutt with a 91 won the 1913 golf tournament at his own links, the Tysen Manor Country Club. Others playing were Alden, Towler, and Remsen, while Catterall acted as statistician, accountant, field judge, and general arbiter. After the match the '13ers were royally entertained by Mrs. Nutt and Yick at their home. Their family of three helped to entertain.
On May 9 Ralph Samuel invited the crowd to be his guests at the Fairview Country Club, and George Luhman ran away with the honors with an 89.
The New Yorkers have issued a challenge to the Boston crowd, the first match to be on Yick Nutt's Tysen Manor links, and the return match in or near Boston. Boston is to go by boat to New York on some Friday, and all will be entertained by the New Yorkers.
Jack Alden, headmaster of Columbia Grammar School, returned in April after an inspection of the European schools for the Headmasters Association of the Metropoli tan District of New York. Jack reports a wonderful time.
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