Class of 1908
A subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is a good gift to the parents of a Dartmouth student. The idea has been tried and works well.
Osborne and Rotch, both 1937, the former a relative and the latter a son of 1908, tried out for the Daily Dartmouth, but missed. Osborne made his numerals in soccer, and it is understood Dick Merrill's representative in the freshman class has a class football sweater as a reward for his struggles on the gridiron last autumn.
Queechie Safford and his daughter Rebecca were Hanover visitors for the winter carnival. Rosie Hinman also attended. "Here is something for the live ones toshoot at," writes Rosie, "Queechie hastaken up skiing for a winter sport."
Freddie Vietor, who worked himself to a topnotch position in the investment field, has been having hard luck. Writes Freddie: "Unfortunately, I have no news of any ofthe classmates, except news of myself.Really, it's too much to expect others to beinterested in one's troubles, but, because ofmy long silence, I'll risk the chance of boring sou too much by telling you that, overa year and a half ago, I had to lay up theold machine in the garage for repairs. Perhaps some of the Boston classmates knowof Dr. Joel E. Goldthwaite's workshop inBrookline? That's where I spent a summerstraightening out kinks in the spinal column, and, in a word, trying to re-fashionthe old body. My enforced lay-up is nearlyat an end now, and I am grateful in theknowledge that I will soon have a chanceof trying to find my way back into the investment securities business. Maybe I willneed a Moses to lead me." Pete wrote from No. 26 Soldiers Place, Buffalo.
Oftentimes a classmate is nearby, but how is one to know unless he reads of his doings through this magazine? Your correspondent, last summer, was asking Dr. Philip Wilson, partner of Dr. Goldthwaite, many anxious questions at the same time Pete Vietor was in the Brookline hospital, Dr. Wilson having operated upon the son of Griswold '08 at that time. But neither of the '08ers knew the other was so close by.
Dick Merrill of 433 South Spring St., Los Angeles, covers the Pacific Coast situation thusly: "Bub Shaw is back here again, thistime with his charming wife and two fineboys. He will be here for another threemonths or so, by which time he hopes to bephysically fit to hit the ball again.
"Jim Norton and Kid Richardson and Ihold impromptu reunions with Bub everylittle wchile. Both Jim and Kid are workinghard, but none of us seem to do anythingthat is productive of much news. Jim Norton, on one of his recent trips to SanFrancisco, saw Dolly Gray and checked upon Web Evans. We are expecting ChickCurrier to come up from the Valley inApril when Dean Laycock pays us a visit.None of us have seen Spoke Kennedy for along time, but I think he is still in California.
"There really are a good many 'OB menin California, and if we could round all ofthem up at one time I think we could getenough for a big time. We all enjoy theclass news and appreciate the hard workyou fellows are doing to assemble it."
Quite a few of the classmates write in to say they like to read the 1908 notes. Here's how Honkem Joyce recently worded his testimonial: "Before they take me off thefree list of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE let metell you how much I have enjoyed yourclass notes. You don't feel like blowing thedust off them nor do you yawn while reading them. To my mind, it's the best twodollar straight play I've seen."
Honkem recently snapped up a bargain offer which involved the sending of the magazine for half a year for half the price. Si Perkins and Art Soule also climbed aboard the proposition.
Art Lewis of the Boston sector gets to New York occasionally in connection with the code association of the "Lift Truck, Portable Elevator, Skip Platform and Floor Truck Industries." Art is president of this code association and a member of the code authority. He reports business as being "fair."
Old George Squier (Giddap Napoleon) has a daughter who will graduate this June from Colby College, New London, N. H., "from which place," George writes, "sheseems to have learned her Dartmouth well." His son Bill is scheduled to enter Dartmouth in two years. George's postmark is Newton Center, Mass., and his response at a Kiwanis meeting would be "children's underwear."
Arthur Sherwood Hopkins, head man of the lands and forests department of the state of New York, will have 24 more CCC camps added to his other assignments on April 1. He is authority for the statement that Craven gave a grand speech in Albany to a capacity crowd.
The venerable Lauris Goldsmith Treadway, head of the L. G. Treadway Service Corporation, 247 Park Ave., New York, and 18 "Real New England Inns," writing from Williamstown, Mass., contributes as follows: "Although I can't tell you anything very definite about Arthur D. Weston,who spent one year as a member of ourclass, I do know that he is one of the stateengineers of Massachusetts and has a splendid position and is looking forward tosending his son to Dartmouth. I have triedto make him feel that he is still a classmate,but he is reluctant about identifying himself with the class after all these years.
"You may be interested to know that, although Dick Merrill is in California, therehas never been a month to pass since June,1908, that Dick and I have not exchangedletters. His daughter Elizabeth graduatedfrom Pomona College last June, and is employed by Jim Norton, the treasurer ofthe Metropolitan Trust Co., in Los Angeles."
Bob Marsden, the engineer, sets forth the following: "1. On February 24, ArthurO'Shea was re-elected one of the vice-presidents of Daniel Webster Council, the NewHampshire Boy Scouts organization. 2. Didyou know that H. K. Rogers has been amember of the New Hampshire ForestryCommission for the past five or six years?3. I believe Judge A. B. Rotch was one ofthe officers at the Wilton, N. H., carnival.He is worried over girls in knickers andsilk socks in the snow."
Freddie Munkelt had two interesting talks with Park Stickney in New York recently. Park has been spending some time in Camden, N. J., investigating a new line of equipment (brewery?) which he may represent in Chicago one of these days. "WhenI saw him," reports Freddie, "he was doingfloor duty at the heating and ventilatingshow."
Mort Hull recommends thusly: "For amid-winter tonic I warmly recommend aweek-end frolic in winter sports at 'Pecketts-On-Sugar Hill' in the White Mountains. I promoted a congenial party of eightcouples (under the pseudonym of 'HullTours') which included Cliff Lyon '10 andwife, and never did a finer time go down inhistory. My 'OB ski form was a little crudein the eyes of the Swiss instructor, but Ishowed him points in the art of falling.February 2 to 6 were the dates, and we allenthusiastically agreed to make it annually."
R. W. Sherburne, Pen a cook, N. H., correspondent to this column, is the new chairman of the Tyngsborough troop of Boy Scouts.
Joe Blakely, the Montpelier merchant who was washed out by the New England floods a few years ago, narrowly escaped losing his stock and stand through antics of that Old Devil Fire. A building next door to the Blakely emporium was burned to practically nothing. A 45-degree-below temperature gave that old Vermont extra handicap to the proceedings. Joe was recently appointed a member of the Montpelier school board.
Mrs. Jesse Harding of Melrose Highlands, Mass., is well and happy as are also Helen, Frederick, Faith, and Jesse '08. Helen is a junior in Boston University, Frederick is a freshman at Springfield College, and Faith is in grammar school. Jesse, authority for the preceding, continues in the insurance business at No. 111 Milk St., Boston.
"Haven't seen a classmate for ages, butenjoy getting the news in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE," postcards Tat Tatterson all the way from Portland, Me.
Albert Richard Chandler takes time out of the world of psychology long enough to record the fact that a daughter of Earl Wellington Wiley 'OB is in one of the Chandler classes at Ohio State, Columbus, 0., the same city in which Earl resides.
Robbie Robinson reports from Des Moines that "our greatest event of the yearwas the visit of 'Hoppy' to the state teachers' convention, which gave us the opportunity to gather in the Dartmouth clanfrom the surrounding cities. Cap Hedges'11 and Charley Howard '06 were the onlyones of my own college generation to attend. Have missed my annual visit fromMike Stearns and Hobe. Am looking forward to having someone of you drop inon your way West. We are on the transcontinental route by land or air, so don'tforget how much I would like to see youall."
Alden True Speare gives another side of the picture in reporting recent doings of unrest in his city, Nashua, N. H., to wit: "Nashua witnessed its first 'Labor' paradetoday (February 25). Perhaps 300 men weremarching, bearing banners such as 'Wecan't live on a week,' 'Live and let live,''After CWA what?' etc. Is this parade symptomatic of the reaction that will follow thecessation of the CWA? These fellows havebeen getting a little money for the past fewweeks, and when it stops what is going tohappen? Industry is not yet ready to absorbthem. At least only in part. Enough willremain unemployed to create trouble, particularly if they listen to Sunday afternoonbroadcasts. Everyone should stick by theship. These are critical days.'
Warren F. Hale, forester of New Hampshire, better known to the classmates as "String," offers this: "Bob Marsden and Iinspected a site for a dam; after Bob approves the dam site, the CCC will probablybuild the dam on the site. Art O'Shea, ArtRotch, Bob Marsden, and I could startprojects on NRA, CWA, CCC, or anythingelse."
John W. Thompson, the barrister and artist, pauses on the 49th floor of the Lincoln Building, New York, to let the classmates in on this: "Low visibility this morning. Same as to economic and, politicalsituation. But art flourishes. Am painting aself-portrait which will be exhibited forthe usual critical and caustic comment."
Ev Thomas Marsh, the reliable newscomber along the Lake Michigan waterfront, supplies the following report on the Chicago gathering in honor of Dean Laycock: "The annual dinner of the Dartmouth alumni in Chicago was held February 9 as a farewell to Dean Lay cock. Itwas a great success. We also held a specialluncheon on February 21 for Earl Blaik.The new coach certainly made a great hitwith the hundred alumni who were there.Bill Knight and I were apparently the only'08ers at the two affairs. At the luncheon,Blaik sat with former coaches McCornackand Hawley and with the well-known gridiron official Bill Knight. McCornack toldof having coached Amos Foster and another Dartmouth man who, in turn, hadcoached Blaik at Miami. So Blaik is rightin the football family."
Bill Knight of Rockford gives the following sidelights on the Chicago luncheon of February 21: "Over 125 men attended theweekly luncheon on February 21 which wasattended by Earl Blaik, the new footballcoach. Blaik was introduced by RedLoudon of Minneapolis, a member of theAlumni Council since. Joe Gilman diedlast fall. Blaik made a splendid impression.A number of men dropped in to see thenew coach, including Reggie Bankart 'op,who was on his way from Boston to SanFrancisco on a business trip. Blaik wasplanning to attend luncheons in Toledo,Cleveland, and Detroit. It turned out I hadmet Blaik, four or five years ago, when hecame West with the Army to play Illinoisat Champaign, a game in which I officiated.The older men at the luncheon were interested in learning that Blaik's first footballcoach was Jim Donnelly '05."
C. E. Royce, the '08 doctor who lives in Jacksonville, Fla., couldn't dig up any news, but he puts in a good word for the magazine, as follows: "No news is goodnews. But I do want to express my appreciation of the fine magazine we are gettingnow. Each copy is a new delight."
Secretary, 421 East Main St., Batavia, N. Y.
