CLASS of 1908
Larry Treadway is fast getting to be one of the big magnates in the hotel business, with his "Real New England Inn" chain. This fall Larry mailed his booklets to the entire class, and writes that the address was right on every one except Charlie Severance's. Charlie's copy was returned from the Detroit address which is on the class book.
Malcolm Stearns has seen more 'OB men than anybody else the past year, but he doesn't give much information about them. Guess Mike should write the MAGAZINE news this year. For the past year Mike has been traveling for Drug, Inc., and is now hooked up with one of their subsidiaries, the Three-in-One Oil Co. In Pittsburgh in September he visited Wink Fiske, and says the Smoky City Doctor is very happy and his new wife is a peach. Twice this summer while visiting in New York we tried to call Mike's home in Orange, but each time there was "no answer." Maybe his wife doesn't answer the phone when he's away.
Five of the second generation are freshmen at Hanover. The freshman dads are W. A. Griffin, W. H. Harriman, John Hinman, Harry Rogers, and C. P. Skillin. Young Harriman took his parents to the Norwich game, and there may have been others, but we didn't see 'em.
Harry Mitchell of Cleveland was in Hanover during the summer. His daughter, Emily Jane, spent the season at Ogontz Camp for Girls in the White Mountains, which was excuse enough to bring Harry to New Hampshire. Bob and Mary Marsden visited the Mitchells in Cleveland in June, when the Marsdens took an extended motor trip in Canada and the West.
On their return from their motor cruise Dean and Mrs. Marsden found Manchester, Vt., to their liking and were there until the opening of the Thayer School.
September 30 at Pittsburgh Dr. E. Winslow Fiske was married to Miss Dorothy Morley Fitz-Ralph Turville, daughter of Mrs. Catherine M. Turville of McPherson Boulevard. Mrs. Fiske is a graduate of the Shearer School and of schools in London and Birmingham, England. Wink is a member of the chief staff of West Penn Hospital.
Dick Grant reports his address is now Randolph, Vt., instead of Boston. Don Frothingham now gets his mail at 20 Exchange Place, New York, and he is a broker with Rutter and Company. His home is at Butler's Island, Darien, Conn.
The syndicated newspaper feature "Old Familiar Faces" of athletes of past years showed, on September 21, A. B. Shaw, intercollegiate hurdle champion in 1908. We could see nothing familiar about the face the artist drew and labeled as Bub's. And the story said he is now in business in Chicago, though we believe he is still a physician in Longview, Wash. But we'll admit without quibble that in 1908 he was the top-notch hurdler.
The middle of September Dr. J. A. Detlefsen delivered an address on "Oral and Dental Public Health Problems" at the meeting of the American Public Health Association in Montreal. Probably he saw Bert Thwing, but we haven't heard about that.
Many classmates were interested in the sketch in the American Magazine in June of Mort Hull and his pirate band in Connecticut. Mort has organized the small boys in the vicinity of his summer home, and they have a boat and a crew and Mort is Chief Pirate, and altogether it is a very interesting story.
Art Lewis and his family and their horses have been pictured and written up quite regularly in the Boston newspapers this summer. The horses were shown in most of the shows in New England, and accumulated a lot of prizes and ribbons. In October Art was Head Mogul or something at a Rotary Convention at Poland Springs. The Lewis family spent the summer at their not-somodest little cottage at Dennis on Cape Cod.
Bill Knight of Rockford, Ill., is being urged to run for attorney general of that state, on his record as state's attorney in Winnebago county. Bill has been very successful in politics since 1917, when he was elected city attorney, and if the newspapers of his home state are accurate he is very likely to be the main prosecutor of the state, which we'd say is some job.
"Harry" Harriman gets about some in New England. He is interested in textile machinery, and his home in Providence would like to see more 'OB men.
If Bill Knight is elected attorney general of Illinois he'll get paid for working for the state, which is one difference between his job and the one Art O'Shea and Art Rotch have in New Hampshire. The latter state permits companies in the small loan business to charge interest at the rate of 3 percent a month, and the last legislature couldn't decide whether or not it is a fair rate, so it authorized a special commission of five members to find out and fix a rate. If any classmates are borrowing sums less than $300 on the old baby carriage and the parlor furniture they may know what a fair interest rate is. O'Shea and Rotch are trying to find out, and will appreciate information.
R. P. Currier has been operating a small hotel in Amherst, N. H., this year. Treadway runs one at Amherst, Mass. They may "dress their daughters up in blue," but they don't teach 'em to shout about Amherst "as their daddies used to do."
If you don't send us news about the classmates, how are we going to make this column interesting?
Editor, Milford, N. H.
