CLASS OF 1908

Fred Munkelt writes that he had to miss the Harvard and Yale games this fall and so feels out of touch with the class; which is a funny way for a Brooklyn man to feel. Fred has had his picture taken for the class gallery, and says the main trouble with these new photographs is that they look like him. Perhaps that is what is holding back those members of the class who have not yet had themselves "shot" for the 'OB picture book.

Arthur D. Weston on October 15 succeeded Dr. Henry Goodnough as chief engineer and director of the division of sanitary engineering of the Massachusetts department of public health. Weston has been in this work in Boston ever since he left Dartmouth, in our sophomore year, except for a time when he was in service in the World War. Larry Treadway had a visit with Weston this fall, and reports him little changed since he and Larry chummed together in freshman year.

Bob Marsden reports a fairly good-sized gathering of the class in Hanover the day of the Columbia game. He saw Gardner Marion, Ralph Hazen, Jack Clark, Art Soule, Wink Fiske, and Art Lewis. John Glaze was supposed to be there, but got mixed up with an early blizzard that buried western New York under two-foot drifts. John got to Hanover Tuesday, and after spending Thursday and Friday in Worcester went to Boston for the Harvard game. He doesn't think very highly of the weather he encountered on this trip.

Classmates are all interested in the good reports from Mary Marsden. In September she had an operation at the Hanover hospital, and for several weeks was in none-too-good condition. About October 1 she was allowed to return to the house on Webster Terrace, and since then has been gaining steadily. The doctors, Bob, and all the class, are hopeful that the ill health which has bothered her for several years is now definitely behind her.

Mort Hull is another name for the "Outdoor Star Company" with main offices in Holyoke and sales office in New York. No, Mort hasn't given up presidenting the Sears Wholesale Grocery Company, but he has a side line: outdoor stars. We used to think Mort himself was something of an indoor star. The latest astronomical enterprise consists of making and selling electric stars, which are used as holiday ornaments on the top of ornamental trees about your premises. Mort says the novelty is "going" well. We tried to get him to see Harry Rogers, our classmate who is president of the N. H. Lumbermen's Association and owns several million pines and hemlocks, each of which would look pretty with a star at Christmas. And then Classmate Rosy Hinman, who as vice-president of the International Paper and Power Company in charge of forests and woodlands might put an illuminated star atop all the spruce trees in northern New England and eastern Canada, including Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. Mort sticks to the small fry, who might buy a dozen or so.

Sid Ruggles, town manager of Bellows Falls, Vt., attended the conference of City Managers' Association in Portland October 24 and 25, and so missed the Harvard football game.

Dr. E. Winslow Fiske was a New England visitor in October, at Hanover first, and then with the O'Sheas at Laconia. In Boston he visited Tat Badger, and also insisted on giving some of his time to Chet Butts and Dutch Whitman, though the 'OB group couldn't see why those 'Hers should be favored. "Wink" says he'd like to leave Pittsburgh without its leading orthopedic surgeon and return to New Hampshire or Massachusetts.

Bill Knight has been officiating at Western Conference football games every Saturday this fall. And young Bill has entered the kindergarten in Rockford, so we'd guess the sporting blood will be continued among the Knights of Rockford, Ill.

No class dinner was arranged in connection with the Harvard game this fall. This was disappointing to many. Art Lewis planned a party, but at the last minute could not get the location he wanted. In past years there has been much uncertainty about how many to prepare for, and this year the party just didn't materialize.

Assistant Secretary, . Milford, N. H.