Class of 1908
Kendall Stearns '37, son of Mike '08, is president of Green Key for the current Hanover season.
Allan Perkins' son, Van Ostrand, circumnavigated the globe a few months since as a guest of the taxpayers of the U. S. A. Van is a midshipman at the Naval Academy, Annapolis. The younger Perkins 'OB son, Woodbridge, was a counselor at the summer camp of the Madison Square Boys Club, Tamworth, N. Y.
A five weeks' stay on Cape Cod this summer resulted in a three-hour visit to Boston with calls at the home of Brother Paul Revere and near the statue of Classmate General Warren in Charlestown. Paul and the general are no deader than many another '08er in the Boston sector, seems, if. Your correspondent, however, had a good visit with Art Lewis at his Dennis estate, and a fleeting glimpse was obtained of Winthrop Griffin as he sunned himself on Nauset Beach. Brer Griffin has a summer place at Orleans.
According to statistics furnished by the college, 35 per cent of 1908 subscribe for the MAGAZINE while 51 per cent contribute to the Alumni Fund. Efforts are to be made to boost the 1908 subscription total. A dozen more subscriptions would help. '04, '05, '06, '07, '09, '10, '11, '12 rate better in subs than does 1908.
Janett Croy Stone, wife of Classmate Henry L. Stone of Haverhill, Mass., died on May 11, following two attacks of the grip. She and Henry were married on June 2, 1909. Besides her husband she leaves four sons: Hudson Croy Stone, Henry Lewis Jr., Porter Howard Stone, and Donald Pearson Stone; two grandchildren, and a sister, the wife of Leon A. Sprague '07 of New Britain, Conn. Janett was a daughter of the late former Mayor Croy of Haverhill. Henry's misfortune will be keenly felt by many in the class who recall his family happiness.
Paul Vaitses visited Hanover in May. He was accompanied by his son Allan, 1935 Tabor graduate who planned to enter Dartmouth this month.
Batavia, N. Y., is now represented by four Dartmouth undergraduates—two in 1937 and two in 1939. Beecher Chapin '39 is a winner of the Randolph McNutt scholarship open to Western New York boys and good for 600 smackers a year for four years. Paul Cash '39 appears to be that rare combination of scholar and athlete which will be heard from later. Here's hoping.
Larry Adler engaged in an extended concert tour of South America during the autumn and winter (spring and summer to most '08ers except General Knox).
Rosy Hinman, Art Rotch, and your correspondent were hosts at a breakfast for sons and relatives of 1908 at the Hanover Inn on May 19, 1935. Those who attended included these: Crawford Hinman '37; Jack Detlefsen '37; Bill Rotch '37; Hobart W. Griffin '35: Dick Hinman '44; Fred Thorpe '38; Miles Prentice '38; Ham Mitchell '38; Ben Hinman '35; Art Soule '38; Dick Tread way '36; Ken Stearns '37; Gordon Blanchard Jr. '38; John Osborne '37; William Dipson '37.
Ye Olde Winke Fiske writes from the office of that distinguished M.D., in the Westinghouse Building, Pittsburgh, as follows: "As I am fully aware that my namewill most certainly not appear in 'Who'sWho in 1908,' I am impelled to assuage mychagrin by calling attention to the factthat I was once xuritten up in an obsolete'Who's Who in Medicine' through theagency of an ill-advised subscription tothe same. I still have the book to prove it.More recent claims are rather on the nega-tive side, but I can say that the local skies(figuratively) are brighter since last summer (1934), after a year's disability fromarthritis, which finally let up for no goodreason. This has permitted me to resumesomething resembling an active practice,but I have to. be extremely careful and mywork is still considerably curtailed, withincome in proportion. My daughters haveboth finished their sophomore years incollege, Frances at Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa., and Ann at PennsylvaniaCollege for Women here. It is needless tosay that I deeply regret the loss to posterity (as yet) of a junior Wink to meanderthe footsteps of his sire (he'd get hell if hedid). Which reminds me to report I wasrecently elected president of the Dartmouth Association of Western Pennsylvania on a platform of free drinks at thenext dinner—and I guarantee to fulfil thispromise to my constituents with the customary political integrity."
Freddie Victor, the Buffalo financier, was disclosed during the summer as the purchaser of a Stock Exchange seat in New York, at a reported price of $104,000. Freddie thereby acquired the membership of James C. Auchincloss, former chairman of the Exchange's public relations committee. Freddie is the president of the well- known investment house of Victor, Common, & Co.
Percy Gleason, during the heated term just passed, issued very doggy looking announcements reading as follows: "Percy E.Gleason, certified public accountant, announces the opening of a New York Cityoffice at No. 521 Fifth Ave. in associationwith Harry Lewis Stone, C.P.A. 7 WaterSt., Boston."
Jack Clark and the missus, Hazel McLane Clark of New Canaan, Conn., spent several weeks at Kennebunkport, Me., this summer, where Jack was a regular attendant at the Eliot O'Hara Watercolor School.
The John Thompsons of N. Y. C., have been indulging in operations, a faithful narrator of '08 news states. Mrs. Thompson was operated upon for mastoid and John for gallstones. Both were reported as recovered several weeks ago.
Don Frothingham is understood to be a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve.
Mort Hull, the big beer and grocery entrepreneur of Holyoke, Mass., and his wife, Marguerite, journeyed to Mexico City in June to attend the international Rotary Convention of the mystic knights of the sea of business of which Mort is a leading mariner. They went by boat, and it is assumed Mort was a delegate and, to a reasonable extent, subsidized by the home- town lodge.
Alexander Clark, Dartmouth '38, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. C., went to Bermuda and was part of the William Beebe deepsea curio fishing party which operated the summer of 1935.
Dr. Rugg of '08, as everyone doubtless knows by this time, was awarded an honorary Pd.D. at the 1935 Hanover commencement. Bill Knight, the demoniacal referee and public prosecutor of Rockford, Ill., and Dr. Hal are the only '08 recipients of honorary degrees from Dartmouth that memory recalls.
Rosy Hinman was recently transferred to Montreal, and sympathies are hereby extended to Mrs. Hinman through whose diligence the Hinman effects are enabled to keep up with Rosy. R. attended the '35 leunion, and noted as among those present the following: Bill Knight, Jack Everett, Art O'Shea, one of the Rutherfords, Griffin, Hobart, Rogers, Harriman, Thorpe, H. O. Rugg, the doctor. Rosy continues as a lice-president of the International Paper- Co., never fear. According to a North Stratford reporter, Rosy and the family, minus Howie and Eddie, spent the summer at Sebago Lake, Me. H. and E. toured Germany and France, going across in a paper boat, needless to say almost. Rosy is now superintendent of the Canadian Paper Mills with office in Montreal.
Warren F. (String) Hale, associate New Hampshire state forester, was chosen president of the Concord, N. H., Rotary Club, the installation being in July at the Eagle Hotel.
"Election of William D Knight, Rockford attorney and former Winnebagocounty state's attorney, as third vice-president marked the closing session yesterdayof the Illinois State Bar association atDecatur," said the Rockford, 111., Star of May 27, 1935. It followed that up by digging out of the files a pretty good picture of Bill and rambling on as follows:
"By virtue of his election to the thirdvice-presidency, Attorney Knight comesinto line for the presidency, the policy ofthe Illinois Bar association being to advance the officers one step each year, thepresident holding office for only a year.The Rockford attorney has served on thestate board of governors for the past threeyears." Better luck each time, hey, Bill.
Editor, Batavia, N. Y.
