Class of 1908
Efforts of the special committee to increase the number of 1908 subscribers to the magazine haven't been so hot, judging from a note received from John Alexander Clark of New Canaan, Conn., one of the valiants engaged in the seeming, at the moment, insurmountable task. Scribbles "Smoothie": "How about running aparagraph each month as to the number of1908 subscribers, exhorting for larger numbers? The only response I've had to my 35letters was word from Furman that he is,and for 12 years has been,— a subscriber."
Old Doc Sanborn, Benjamin E. to the patients, is now located at 1037 Elm St., Manchester, N. H. Ben is the bird who has difficulty threading wooden bridges with Buicks.
Frederick H. Munkelt, whose middle name is Hermann, has changed his address from the Petroleum Iron Works, 25 West 43d St., swell place for a petroleum iron works, to 1388 Mansfield Place, Brooklyn.
The Rev. William F., "Parson Bill" English's father died October 11. Dr. English was a graduate of Dartmouth, class of 'B2, and notes concerning him will be found under that heading in the Necrology.
Chester Warren Melville is authority for the statement that his "business" address is now Room 406, 10 State St., Boston.
"How are the news items coming alongfor your December issue?" writes John H. "Rosy" Hinman from what is presumed to be an easy chair in the offices of the International Paper Cos., of which he is a vice-president, at 22 East 42d St. (hotcha), New York. "Rotten!" about sums up any answer which could be made to such a query.
Stanley Pearl Nute from 1964 Penobscot Building, Detroit, offers this one via postcard: "All I can offer would be the reunion, and you were there and can tell itbetter." See October issue of MAGAZINE, Stanley, for complete report by Mr. Arthur Boylston Rotch, ye squire of Milford, N. H. Charles Greenleaf Bennett, No. 17146, way out at the end, Parkside Ave., Detroit, gives us this one: "Status of the Bennettfamily slowly but steadily improving. Statistics remain the same. Only the changesbrought about by the flying years. Hair stillvery abundant though gray."
Arthur Sherwood "Psi U" Hopkins, 251 South Main St., Albany, N. Y., ventures to this extent: "Same job. Same family! Hopeto see you at Cornell game." "Hoppy" is assistant superintendent of lands and forests of New York state, which means he has risen to the point where he buys lands and tries to preserve the trees for Tammany Land. He's, no doubt, the only igoBer who ever had a mountain named after him. Mount Hopkins is one of the larger Adirondacks, sort of a Bill Clough of the range. "Hoppy" left Hanover his sophomore year and went to the University of Michigan, where he learned the forestry lore he has put to practical use.
And now comes Malcolm "Mike" Stearns, our major domo through all the years, thick and thin: "Have been in Boston, 581Boylston St., Telephone Kenmore 4272[try and dial that one, you outlanders]since June Ist, establishing New Englandoffice for Financial Independence Founders, Inc. Have seen some of the Bostoncrowd, but no organized get-together here.Have boy, Kendall, in freshman class atHanover. Guess he is busy enough, as hehasn't written me since going up."
Albert Richard Chandler, one of the few honest-to-goodness Ph. D.'s in the class, '573 Perry St., Columbus, 0., summarizes his situation as follows: "Spent summer,as usual, at Southfield, Mass. Spoke at meeting of American Philosophical Associationin Chicago on "The Need of Sophistication in Ethics."
Crosby Arthur Hoar of the U. S. Forest Service, Milwaukee, Wis., sends a postcard of optimism which reads thusly: "There is no unemployment in this branchof the Forest Service. The writer and manyothers are working ten to twelve hours aday, six times a week, and sometimes seven.Reason: Eighty conservation camps of 200men each, $3,000,000 to spend under theNRA, four million acres of land to buyfor national forests, and other chores."
And Arthur Boylston Rotch, one of the few in the class who needs no street address, just Milford, N. H„ will get him, the man who has been carrying on for 1908 in the MAGAZINE for a quarter of a century, writes: "Probable Prohibition repealhasn't hurt Tat Badger's business. Wemean the department that builds distillingequipment. It has been running full timeever since Bishop Cannon said there wasn'ta chance for repeal." Bill Rotch (Art's son) is rooming at 206 North Massachusetts.
Richard Stevens Danforth, Alco Products, Inc., Rialto Building, San Francisco, says John Harvey "Dolly" Gray, 1908 track aspirant, has moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco. "No other news I can thinkof," concludes Dick.
Arthur Douglas MacMillan, member of 1908 who managed to go through Tuck School and snare the degree M. C. S., is a campaign manager for Leo L. Redding & Cos., 247 Park Ave., New York. He spent the summer as manager of the Irondequoit Club, Piseco in the Adirondacks, with a forty-mile wilderness for a backyard. His home address is 127 East 55th St., New York.
Harold Ordway Rugg, billed by the New York Herald Tribune as "professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University," was quoted to the extent of about a column in that newspaper's issue of October 13 last, when Dr. Rugg addressed the Herald Tribune's conference on modern youth and what to do with these younger fry. Dr. Rugg sounded a "gloomy note," the H. T. said, but he gave them the low-down. "Two or three million of the ablest young minds of theUnited States are now out of use," Rugg began, and then went on from there. Among the speakers was ex-Governor General Theodore Roosevelt of the Philippines and his loving auntie, cousin, or whatever it is, Mrs. F. D. R., of the White House.
Lauris Goldsmith Treadway, who manages dozens of real New England inns, gives us this message for publication just before the Yuletide season: "I have struggled hard to dig up news [and when Larrystruggles hard he struggles hard] withoutmuch success. Walter Furman [there hegoes again\ stopped in for the night withme recently, but, unfortunately, I couldnot get any dope out of him. As a matter ofnews I presume the fact that my son Richard F. Treadway, Dartmouth '36, is rooming with Dick Merrill's son, John C. Merrill, Dartmouth '3J, in Room 406 NorthMass., might be interesting to any of ourclassmates who visit Hanover. This is thefirst case I know of sons of classmates rooming together."
Howard Hoyt Hilton sends along engraved cards to let the classmates know his Great Lakes Mortgage Corporation, mortgage loan correspondent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., has opened offices at 184 West Lake St., Chicago, Brer Hilton is vice-president of the G. L. M. C. whether it offers an opportunity to obtain a mortgage on the Great Lakes or furnishes facilities for the complete extinction of any old mortgages the brethren happen to have lying around, deponent saith not.
Raymond Robb Marsden, who may be addressed at Manchester Depot, Vt., R. F. D., sends a letter from the Phoenix Hotel, Concord, N. H., under date of October 22, in this strain: "In Montpelier theother day I learned that Sydney Lee Ruggles has been appointed superintendent ofa Citizens' Conservation Corps Camp located near Bellows Falls, Vt." Bob, who recently gave up his job as dean of the Thayer School, now has a business address which reads, "No. 147 State House, Concord, N. H.
William D. Knight writes from the old home town, Rockford, Ill., from whence he journeyed in 1930 to receive an honorary A.M. at Dartmouth Commencement, as follows: "The men in the class and otheralumni in and around Chicago and theMiddle West are looking forward to theChicago-Dartmouth game on November18 at Chicago. Under present plans therewill be a banquet Friday night and a supper dance after the game. The Drake Hotelwill be the headquarters. Plans for a 1908get-together are in the making.
"Dolly Hilton, Carol, and their threecharming daughters and one son live inGlen Ellyn. The old man rides the 7:45Northwestern train from Chicago everymorning. The bridge players on that traincall him 'Doc,' and it is understood he hasgiven a good many of them lessons inhandling the pasteboards learned by himin his days in Shurtleff House, Hanover.
"Fritz Cooper, who has been in the realestate business and has been buildinghouses along the North Shore for a goodmany years, has moved his office fromGlencoe to Evanston. [Note: According to the office records at Hanover, Fritz, Frederick Allen to them, gets his Dartmouth collection notices at 824 Lake Ave., Wilmette, Ill.]
"Park Stickney, 'Park Washburn,' isback in Chicago. Chicago stood a chanceof losing him when he flirted with a newconnection in Philadelphia. Park was thesuccessful president of the Chicago AlumniAssociation last year.
"Hank, 'Arthur Dennis of Laconia,N. H.,' O'Shea and his daughter Peg wentto Chicago in August, where Hank presided over the annual meeting of the National Clothiers and Furnishers Association, of which he was president. Hankspent most of the summer commuting between Laconia, Washington, New York,and Chicago working on the NRA code formembers of his association.
"A small post-reunion was held in Rockford in August. Hank and Pauline O'Sheaspent a few days with Bill and Lela Knight;Dolly Hilton and Carol Hilton joined theparty. Ev and Violet Marsh were scheduledto attend, but an insurance conventiondelayed them. George, son of Ev and Violet,who entered Dartmouth with the class of'36, did not return to Hanover this fall.He is now working in Rockford.
"Leon Arthur Woodward has changedhis address to 2030 Bankers Building,Chicago. He is associated with the FidelityInvestment Association of Wheeling, W.Va.
"L. B. Hopkins, president of WabashCollege, the only college president 1908has produced in 25 years, received an honorary degree from Rose Polytechnic lastJune. Hoppy's commencement at Wabashcame the same time as the 25th at Hanover. Wabash celebrated its 100 th anniversary the fall of '32, and President Hop-kins of Dartmouth was one of the speakers.
"Bill Knight was elected a member of theboard of governors of the Illinois StateBar Association last June. Bill, formerstate's attorney, is putting in full time athis private law practice in Rockford, butis continuing his avocation as a footballofficial in the Western Conference. OnOctober 21 he was one of the officials ofthe Michigan-Ohio State game at Ann Arbor, which played to over 93,000 customers."
Clinton Edwin Bills is not missing, he's just hiding. Mail addressed to him at Box 1023, Buffalo, N. Y., will not be returned because of inadequate address.
Secretary, 421 East Main St. Batavia, N. Y.
