Class of 1908
Your correspondent saw the Greenies play the Bluies in the Yale Bowlee and it appeared the outcome might have been a whole lot worse. The boys representing Frank Merriwell's university played swell football. They ploughed through the Hanover & Norwich line like a newsboy through a slab of ice cream in July, and when the Silver Pants through swell end runs and passes advanced the ball to practically the point where the breeze from the snapper back set the Yales' goal post waving, how Elihu did hold 'em. Their line was like a row of Bemas. But the Occums are no hokums, and ye scribe will be on hand to report the clash at Ithaca first hand.
There was considerable human interest to the trip to the Bowl. Among those hailed and hearted at the Dartmouth Club and New Haven were these: Brack Hazen, T. Brown, Lonnie Russ, Zing McGrail, Jack Dowdall, Fat Pratt, Jack Clark, Larry Symmes, Gene Prentice, Mike Farley, Sid Hayward, Mike Stearns, Rosie Hinman. Dick Lane—oh, yes—D. Basil O'Connor.
Bill Knight writes from his law offices in the Forest City National Bank Building, Rockford, Ill.: lam even more sold thanyou are on the proposition that the magazine is our vehicle to keep the class interest aroused."
Tat Badger's father died on October 3 at his home in Winchester. Mr. Badger was president of E. B. Badger & Co. of Boston, manufacturers of fire extinguishers and other copper and brass equipment. He was president and trustee of the Home for Aged Couples and trustee of the Winchester Savings Bank.
From various sources, some believed to be unreliable, the following list of '08 progeny attending institutions other than Dartmouth, jails excluded, has-been compiled: Porter Webber Lowe, son, Brenton, junior at M.I.T.; Allan M. Perkins, Van Ostrand, in third year at Annapolis, Woodbridge, freshman at Harvard; Laurence M. Symmes, Laurence M. Jr., Wesleyan; Harold C. Clark, Harold J. and Richard F., University of New Hampshire; Arthur Wyman, Edith, freshman at Connecticut, Virginia, junior, Connecticut; Lauris G. Treadway, Antoinette, freshman at Ward Belmont; Art Soule, Molly, at Packer Institute, Brooklyn.
A recent straw vote demonstrated the august Class of 1908 is against the New Deal 26 to 1.
Dick Merrill's son John is the first 1908 son to win a football varsity "D." If there are others, please send a correction. It's getting so every correction is about as good an item as the original mistake.
Among the 469 pictures in the 68th annual exhibition of the American Water Color Society, New York, is one entitled "Maine Fisherman" by an obscure artist from New Canaan, Conn., named John A. Clark.
Arthur S. (Psi U) Hopkins, assistant director of the land and forest division of the New York State Conservation Department, Albany, is a leading figure in land projects being financed under the AAA. Land, to be leased for long terms, will be of the sub-marginal type. Some batches Hoppy is handling are as large as 30,000 acres. Arthur S. recently outlined the project to the Associated Press, and the A.P., in turn, sent notices regarding our old classmate's views all over the U. S. A.
Recent Hanover visitors included Art Soule and Jack Clark. Art's son, Arthur T. Jr., made the freshman B football team, and Jack's son, Alexander, also a member of 1938, is likewise doing well.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence M. Symmes of Scarsdale and New York returned from a West Indies cruise to find their house thoroughly burglarized.
Gordon Blanchard, who is New York representative for the big organization of paper manufacturers of which the illus- trious Emmett Hay Naylor is secretary in Springfield, Mass., is now located where Rosie Hinman can keep an eye on him. Gordon is in the Chanin building, while Rosie continues to reign upon the 30th and 31st floors of the Daily News building.
Old Charlie DeAngelis, the Utica flash who visited Hanover once in 25 years but did the job up brown, bucked the New Deal in Oneida county, New York, his goal being the county judgeship. Final score, Judge Ezra Hanagan (Democrat) 35,237; Uncle De (Republican) 33,408.
One of the New Hampshire correspondents who likes to see 1908 get items in the magazine, sends this one: Art Anderson has a farm near Concord and commutes weekends between there and his duties with Hayden-Stone, Boston, where he has been for over twenty years. We had this item about a year ago, but if you 1908 boys want 'em you got to send 'em in.
Harold Rugg, Columbia savant, is the selection of the Massachusetts Department of Education as the dispenser of a course of lectures on social psychology. Percy Gleason, who dropped in for the first lecture in Boston, says: "Rugg is very learnedand very interesting and was enthusiastically received. He said the President's committee of engineers, with whom he servedin an advisory capacity, has reported thatthe country had sufficient resources to produce well-being for everybody in the country three times as great as that of 1929without any addition to> the present plant,but that a designed and controlled production for the group is necessary. I believehe felt our children would be a lot betterable to handle things than we are. He saidhe thought the Roosevelt administrationwas the best bet in sight. After the lectureI introduced myself and felt honored totake him down to the station to catch his train."
Bill Knight's budget of news from the Chicago, zone includes the following: "ParkStickney spent part of the day in Rockfordone day recently. He came out in his capacity as manager of the Chicago office ofWarren Webster & Cos., who are willingto show any office building or institutionhow it can save money on its steam heat.
"Bub Shaw's son, Bub Jr., came throughChicago on his way to Hanover. Dolly Hilton and Ev Marsh met him and enter-tained him for 24 or 56 hours before hestarted on.
"Rockford College inducted a newpresident, and at the request of Sid Hayward, I donned cap and gown and repre-sented Dartmouth. Jim O'Neill 'oy, whohas been on the faculty of the University ofMichigan for a good many years, represented the University of Michigan at thedoings. He will be remembered as one ofthe boy orators and debaters of 1907.
"I am officiating a full schedule of football games in the Western Conference thisfall. Recently, Milt Ghee 1915 and Iworked together in the lowa-Northwesterngame. It does not appear yet in the histories, but this season I started my 25thyear of officiating."
Allan Perkins, who lives in Watertonn, N. Y., now, is "feeling a bit jittery," he writes, following a six weeks' illness with pneumonia. He adds at no time was he seriously ill.
Recent changes in the addresses of classmates include the following: Richard R. Peebles to 1400 Bath Ave., Ashland, Ky., where the Peebles Mehan Co. is located. John W. Corcoran to 30 Chestnut Hill Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Gordon Blanchard to 13 Cohawney Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. Arthur L. Lewis to North St., Medfield, Mass. Leon A. Woodward to East Swanzey, N. H. Raymond R. Marsden to 18 North Main St., Concord, N. H. Frederick H. Munkelt to 1388 East 24th St., Brooklyn. Alden T. Speare to 40 Merrimack St., Haverhill, Mass. Walter F. Furman to 117 East 10th St., New York.
Don Frothingham reports all is well including recovery of his health following a collision afoot with a Chevrolet last May. "Both parties damaged but properly repaired," writes Don, "insurance for neither."
Alden Speare tells about a recent business change in this wise: "Talk aboutnerve! Right in the midst of the worst depression in the world's history we go andbuy the largest store in Haverhill, Mass.,one of New England's (happy) shoe centers.We may be right and we may be wrong,but we're betting that the country is on theway up. For those who don't know, let metell you that Henry Stone is regarded bythe citizenry of this town as one of its mostupright residents. He holds two prominentpositions and is regarded very highly byeveryone."
Editor, Batavia, N. Y.
