Class of 1908
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. The party is the one in Hanover in June. So many classmates have indicated their intention of being at the 25th Reunion that it's going to be plumb sinful if anybody who might be there is missing for lack of a little urging.
To begin with, it isn't going to cost anything except the expense of getting there and a very moderate charge for a bed and food while in Hanover. We understand special low round-trip fares are available on railroads for those living at a distance. If you are driving and have a spare seat, pick up a classmate. You may snare one along the concrete, because several have written they'll be on hand if they have to hitch-hike.
Paul Batchelder (wasn't he valedictorian?) writes from Texas that he has never gotten back to a reunion since 1911, but is hoping to be at the 25th.
Dr. Francis Blake sent back his card and attached a large sheet of paper closely written with all the orders and societies of which he is a member. About 20 of 'em, mostly medical and scientific.
One man looked at the seven or eight lines for "Names of children" and snootily inquired if anybody needed all that space. Yes. But it included some grandchildren. So we weren't so dumb in leaving lots of room there.
A. G. Alden is among those who say "Sure" to the inquiry about coming back for the 25th. So does Gordon Blanchard. George Butterfield got a surprise phone call from this editor in April. Probably he wasn't so pleased when he learned why. We wanted him to advance some cash so a car full of Dartmouth boys could get out of his village of Fitchburg. Their car lacked brakes or something, so the police grabbed them. George went to bat like he used to, and by his help Dartmouth didn't lose a group of likely looking undergraduates who needed a friend just then.
Pop Chesley writes from Utica that he is making money fast. Making it for H. O. Rugg and Ginn, selling Rugg's books on Social Science.
Count Donahue made the front pagelast month. He is on the Boston City Finance Commission, and had the original idea that some real economies were needed in city affairs so the taxpayers wouldn't be wiped out so rapidly. He called it to Mayor Curley's attention. We think he had his way, and he certainly got some kind words along with his pictures in the papers.
Parson Bill English hasn't yet attended a reunion. Now he is pastoring in Norwood, Mass., and he'll be in Hanover in June. Wink Fiske has been to most of the reunions and says he is coming this year. He adds, "Haven't a gray hair in my head." His exemplary life, we suppose. Though Pastor Bill might think that puts some explaining up to him.
Haven't counted 'em up yet, but it looks to us as though most of the classmates were Masons. Some of them have gone far in Masonry.
String Hale is a busy feller, in the N. H. Forestry department. As we slither along to press it appears that those forestry fellers are going to have about one-quarter million new hired hands at a dollar a day. That's quite a gang to boss.
Ralph Hazen says he can't get there for the reunion. Ralph lives in Whitefield, only a couple of mashie shots and a putt from Hanover. Can't somebody do something about it?
Honker Joyce writes, seriously we think, that he is a member of "The Society inDedham for the Apprehension of HorseThieves, Founded in 1810." We were thinking of stealing a horse, but we'll avoid Dedham, and we want to warn classmates who might be tempted to repeat certain Lebanon pranks involving ownership of horseflesh. Harold writes a regular newspaper column for his home town paper, and that's a bad habit; take it from one who knows.
Lynde is another who says he is coming to the 25th, and it's his first trip back for a reunion.
McElwain steps up to the plate and makes a single with the suggestion that the reunion costume be a tin cup and a pair of smoked glasses. Haven't tin cups been standard reunion regalia in the past?
Harry Harriman, from Providence—well, try to keep him away!
Bub Shaw says he is coming, all the way from Longview, Wash. He intimates that he wants to see that Mike Stearns tells the truth about the fishing Bub showed him in Washington.
Fred Stripp, in Watsonville, Calif., bulletins that Fred Junior was president of the student body in 1932 at University of California and is permanent president of the U. of C. class of 1932. His daughter Betty was president of the '31 class of Watsonville High School.
Bob Thompson hasn't missed any reunion yet, and allows he isn't aiming to break the record this year.
Paul Vaitses is much interested in Boy Scout work in Melrose. He'll do his good deed by seeing that the Massachusetts scouts are on hand next June.
Art Lewis returned in April from a trip to Indiana. At Crawfordsville he visited L. B. Hopkins, "Hoppy" to us and "President Hopkins" to students at Wabash College. Art says he had a fine visit and that Hoppy can't get back in June to Hanover, due to his having to deliver a Bacchanalian sermon or something.
Fred Hanson is a member of several scientific societies. He writes that he has been in railroad work continuously since leaving Hanover, except in 1917-1919, when he was in military service. He was with the Missouri Pacific and Bangor & Aroostook railroads until 1910, and since then with the N. Y., N. H., and H. Since 1929 he has been doing some real estate work. His home is in Wollaston, and his office is Room 577, South Station, Boston.
Bill Rotch has been notified that his application for admission has been approved, and he is fairly confident of being a freshman next September.
Editor, Milford, N. H.
House for Sale or Rent in Hanover Prof. Arthur Fairbanks' house, at 41 College Street, is for sale or rent after July 1, 1933. Pres. Nathan Lord's old home, later the Administration Bldg. recentlymoved to present location and completelymodernized. Has oil burner. One-car garage. Present occupant will show house, or apply to Frederick Chase, 49 Federal St., Boston, Mass.
