CLASS OF 1908
A fair amount of class gossip has trickled in lately, though most of the classmates seem to have swiped the paper and envelope furnished them to record their recent activities. The class bulletin should be mailed about the time the MAGAZINE is printed, so it doesn'T seem necessary to duplicate much of the news this month. However, a few items will keep our class alive in the MAGAZINE.
Harold Rugg is the author of "Culture and Education in America," published in April by Harcourt Brace. It is the sixth book he has had published recently. Harold and his wife plan to go to China and Japan in August and spend six months in research work. In 1929 he lectured on education in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Roy Keith has been appointed on recommendation of the Massachusetts commissioner of corrections to industrial work in the various industries of the Department of Corrections. Roy is now engaged on industrial work at the Charlestown jail. If any classmates are there, look up Roy and get a good job.
Jesse Harding says his boy Fred made the Melrose high school football team his first year in the school. His daughter is active in drum corps work, and Mrs. Harding is much interested in Girl Scout activities. Jess himself plays golluf when he can get time off from the office of Simpson and Campbell at 111 Milk St., Boston, where he is in charge of the casualty business throughout New England.
From Los Angeles Dick|Merrill writes that he "is devoting more time to bridge and less to tennis, though he hasn't yet surrendered to golf." We haven't quite figured it out yet. If John Glaze can get Dick into a golf game he'll show him something strenuous, judged by the reunion golf John has shown.
John Tatterson's daughter Betty, aged 19, attends the Wheelock School in Boston. They wouldn't let her go to the "Wheelock school" in Hanover.
Mrs. Stacey Irish is much improved in health after a long hospital experience. Stacey, a teacher in Evanston, says Bill English recently visited his school to speak in the interests of Rockford College, and was accompanied by three attractive young women from the college. Probably there's, safety in numbers.
The El Centro, California, Rotary Club has but one Dartmouth man, Chick Currier 'OB, who was in charge of the entertainment at a meeting not long ago. According to the newspaper account of the party Chick gave 'em an evening of phonograph music, mostly songs by the Dartmouth glee club and talks about Dartmouth, thereby getting revenge on the numerous Trojans, Golden Bears, Wolverines, Badgers, etc., who had rather consistently put it over on the lone Indian by force of numbers.
Mail sent to Herbert Thomas at Milford, Del., is undelivered.
Porter Lowe has a new business address: Care of MacDonald Bros., Federal St., Boston.
Laurence Adler, who hasn't reported very regularly in recent years, has a good excuse. He has been in the Orient as a special writer and representing the Forum magazine. This was by invitation of the Japanese government, and he visited Japan, China, Manchuria, Korea, and Indo-China, and returned through Siberia and Russia. The January issue of Forum carried a series of sketches by Larry Adler. His address is now 11 East 53d St., New York, and he is teaching music theory and appreciation at the Women's College of Rutgers University.
A. D. MacMillan has been doing organization work this winter for the Chamber of Commerce in Greensboro, N. C. He lives in Montclair, N. J., and reports seeing Griffin frequently.
George Wilson is now living at 99 Arlington St., Newton, where he built a new home last summer. He is in the grocery business with a store at 304 Center St., Newton.
Don Comstock kicks in with an entertaining story of a hossback trip in northern Nevada and Yellowstone Park. More about it in the class bulletin, when and if printed.
Art Eberly is no longer basking in the tropic sun of Havana, fanned by palm trees and refreshed by—well, Caribbean breezes maybe. He's back with the Carter Oil Company in Tulsa, Okla., where he was 15 years ago, and he writes: "Oh boy, these United States sure look good, in spite of all the calamity howling to the contrary." He adds that a classmate named Malcolm Stearns, who will perhaps be remembered by a few of the class (he once roomed in Reed), visited Tulsa in March and quaffed a toast, after which he cleaned up the Westerners in a bridge game. Does anybody recall this Stearns?
Howard E. McAllaster died November 3, 1926. News of his death had not come to the class officers until this spring, when a letter sent to him was returned with the information that he died at a sanitarium in Rockford, Ill. He was passing through Rockford when he suffered a nervous breakdown and went to the hospital. He was born in Winnetka, Ill., and lived there all his life outside his school days at Williston Academy and Dartmouth. He was in the printing business and was unmarried. He is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery a few miles south of Winnetka.
Assistant Secretary,Milford, N. H.
