Class of 1908
Family dinner parties before the Harvard game, parties after the game, and game-stag parties have been tried with varying degrees of success. This year the Boston group led by Art Lewis arranged a pre-game luncheon at the Hotel Commander in Cambridge. A nice buffet lunch for a dollar with beef to eat and bull to toss. About 30 were at the Commander for an hour before the game. If some had left before our arrival, or disappeared under the tables and so didn't get counted, they'll not be in the list of those we saw. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lincoln, also Ed's brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Lunt, Roy Keith, Joe Donahue, Carl Ross and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Gleason, Ted Barnes and daughter, John Cushing, Paul Vaitses, Mr. and Mrs. Peter McCarty, Gardner Marion, Larry Griswold and son, Art Rotch, Mr. and Mrs. Art Lewis, Virginia, Caroline, and Jack Lewis.
Carl Ross came down to the Harvard game from Calais, Me., accompanied by one good-looking daughter. It was the first time he has been at any class gathering in many years. He says he won't be so Calais any more.
Roy Keith is head of the industrial department in the Massachusetts penal institutions. He has an interesting story of the industrial developments and difficulties in the state prisons. One of the jobs everybody sees is the registration plates for all Bay State motor vehicles. But there are many more prison industries less conspicuous but equally important.
Malcolm Stearns has recently returned to New York from another of his all-over-the-country trips for the Three-in-One Oil Company. He has been in almost every state on this last excursion, and says he has seen many of the classmates. He ought to write the ALUMNI MAGAZINE news.
Dr. Ben Sanborn of Manchester was on a week-end camping trip (that's what he called it anyway) with a group of Dartmouth men at a summer camp in Connecticut in October. They timed it for the week-end of the Yale game.
Fred Ordway, former automobile man and later associated with Bill Worcester in the woodworking business, joined an advertising agency this year, and this fall has made another change. He is now selling engraving to the printing trade for the Manchester Union, and is also a salesman of printing for the Clarke Press in Manchester.
Parson Bill English, vice-president of Rockford, 111., College with headquarters in Chicago, has resigned, and on December 1 begins a pastorate in the First Congregational church in Norwood, Mass. The church has a membership of more than 900, and a large Sunday school. Parson Bill gave up parish work several years ago to join the staff of Rockford College and assist in a campaign to raise a large endowment fund for enlarging the institution. With this work completed he is again going into pastoral duties.
In New York October 8 the Scribe tried to persuade Larry Symmes to join him at the Yale game next day. Larry said he personally was the Bowl Hoodoo, and he was sending his son to the game, but would not go himself. Anyway, he had to go to Philadelphia. If there was another 'OB man on the Yale Game Special from New York he was hiding under the coal in the tender. We went through the train from locomotive to tail-light in a vain search for a classmate. Probably they were all using their Rolls Royces that day. Quite a delegation from Boston went home disappointed from New Haven.
Fred Cooper and Bill Knight joined forces at a two-man reunion November 13 in Freeport, 111. Fred went out from Chicago and Bill, from Rockford, joined him. After December 5, Bill will be just another lawyer in Illinois. He did not run for any office this year, and retires as state's attorney of Winnebago county. Two years ago Dartmouth gave Bill an honorary degree in recognition of his record as a prosecuting officer. November 12, Bill Knight was umpire of the Illinois-Indiana game at Urbana. The referee was Milton Ghee, another old Dartmouth quarterback.
Plans for the class 25th reunion will soon be starting to warm up. There is divergence of opinion about the best program, but everybody seems to. agree that the expenses must be kept down to subcellar levels. Any classmate with ideas will be helpful if he will share them. Family reunion? Or stag? "General" Knox writes that he is surely coming to the 25th, all the way from Brazil, and that's a long swim.
Editor, Milford, N. H.
