CLASS OF 1907
The College office for many years has been carrying Louis Edwin Fisher, who did not graduate, as "deceased," but has recently learned that he is alive and his address is Hopedale, Mass., where he works for the Draper Corporation.
Norman and Madeline Cushman sailed for France on the Aquitania on April 14. They planned to spend several days in Paris and to tour the Chateau country. The balance of the time will be spent in England. They will return about June 1 on the Carmania.
In March, Harry Pelren spent two weeks in Bermuda.
Mrs. Albert E. Stevens was one of the Committee directing a "play as you please" card game at the Commonwealth Country Club on March 25.
In the Boston Skating Club championship held the middle of March, the boys' competition for the Sprague cup was won by John Cochrane, with Robert Cochrane second.
At Tabor Academy arrangements are made each spring for five groups of boys who have stood high in school efficiency during the year, to serve as cadets on various steamers. In March one group sailed on the Siboney of the Ward Line, for Havana, Cuba, Progreso, Mexico, and Vera Cruz. They spent four days in Mexico City, and arranged an informal game of basketball with one of the schools there. W. Huston Lillard supervised this group. Included in it was Louville F. Niles of Wellesley Farms, Mass.
Jim Reilly and his brother Walter returned about April 1 from a five weeks' Mediterranean trip. They visited Cannes, where they spent ten days thoroughly touring the French Riviera. From Genoa they sailed to Sicily, stopping at Naples to see the ruins of Pompeii and to take in the Amalfi Drive, and incidentally picking up Earle Fowler, who, with his wife, daughter, sister, and father, was bound for Egypt and the Holy Land.
Phil Chase, who has been with the Philadelphia Electric Company for ten years, has developed several inventions, some of which are in wide use, and he has taken out patents on a number of them. He reports occasionally seeing Bill Witham, who is in real estate development work around Philadelphia.
Anent the changed conditions referred to in this column in a recent issue, "Much interested to read the class news, especially the recent Lickersham Report on Liquor Drinking, Card Playing, Raising Hell, and other forms of Brawl and Tumult in Hanover as deplored by King Angus LIX. We opine that he never got that line from the telephone business, though he may have learned about hell from the hello girls. His close friends say that his start in the American T'hell and T'hell came from hanging onto telephone poles in front of Denny Sargent's. He used to get well started."
Gene Brooks allowed that he arrived at the golf age last summer, and admits that he "got to be good, winning 30 cents in some kind of a match from McCoy. That is good."
Jerome Macdonald is a senior accountant in the Department of Corporations for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 1927 he was granted a certificate with the Massachusetts C. P. A. He has three boys, the oldest Jerome, Jr., almost eleven years old. He hopes to send them to Dartmouth in due time.
From North Grosvenordale, Conn., we learn that Dan Colby is superintendent of schools for the town of Thompson, Conn. For sixteen years he was principal of Wilton Academy, at Wilton, Maine. He has a summer home in Franklin, N. H., with twenty acres of land, with a swimming pool, small golf course, and good fishing. His son Victor graduates from Worcester Technology in June. His daughter Marcia, graduate of Crane School of Music, is supervisor of music in Oxford, Mass. Phyllis is of the class of 1932 of the Tourtellotte Memorial High School. Dan promises to attend his first class reunion in 1932.
Harry Whitaker, who has practiced medicine in Brooklyn since 1918, is on the staffs of three hospitals. For three years, he has been president of the Shore Road Drive Civic Association.
George Howard, in the March 16, 1931, issue of Time, in a write-up of the United Corporation, under the title of "Dance of Power," was referred to as follows:
"The pattern of United's destiny dance was of course laid down by the Morgan-Bonbright interests. That in less than two years after their decision to enter the utility field they have done so well, have acquired so much stock, is to be considered a tremendous tribute to power. Men do not surrender tens of thousands and millions of shares in sound operating companies for shares in a minorityinterest holding company unless they have great faith in the holding company. Each of United's 14,500,000 shares is a testimony to that faith.
"Although the Morgan-Bonbright interests patterned United's dance, the dancemaster is George Henry Howard, 47, graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Dartmouth (1907), Harvard Law School. Soon after United was formed he was asked to take the presidency and accepted. A long legal career in connection with utilities fitted him for the position. Much of this was gained in Electric Bond and Share, itself an expert master in the ballet of utilities. Mr. Howard's Bond and Share connection has brought co-operation between that company, United, and Superpower. His first position was with Simpson, Thacher, and Bartlett, attorneys, when Dwight Whitney Morrow was a partner. This probably led to his connection with the Morgan group. In addition to his position with United, he is chairman of Niagara Hudson's executive committee, a director of U. G. I. and Chase National Bank. Hence he has little time for his favorite recreation, trout fishing."
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