Class of 1908
Being supplied with a guest editor, "Smoothie" Clark, this month, the contributions to the regular 1908 note space will be limited. The magazine management feels it can give only so much space to old dodders like ourselves. You know, a dozen potentialities grow in the modern 400 class where few, if any, are expected with a bunch of old blues of nearly a third of a century ago.
What Craig Thorn '09 really did, how only the soothsayers know and they won't tell, is this: He became a grandfather and a father within the space of a few weeks. We get this direct from our under-cover representative at the scene, somewhere near Hudson, N. Y. His son and equally proud pappy is also a Dartmouth alumnus.
The household of your correspondent was favored with a piece of Yale goal post. The piece, about as large as one which would fit comfortably in an average 'OB molar cavity, is appropriately bottled and labeled. It was received via a Dartmouth '38er, who dropped it off at Northampton. The goal post pieces were said to retail in Hanover at $1, just a sliver.
Disagreeable weather is given for the failure of '08ers to get together before the Yale game in New Haven and thus an old tradition was alibied. But there were no excuses offered for omission of the usual session before the Harvard game in Boston. Guess the arches of the boys in the capital city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts just can't stand the stress and strain any more.
All the regional correspondents to the '08 monthly parcel of news are active but, according to the old wheeze, they went out for news but couldn't find a single "new."
Larry Treadway pops in and out of Hanover frequently, he being fortunate in having the Divine Village right in his path as he goes from one of his hostelries to another. In Hanover he saw Paul Vaitses, who has a boy in the class of 1939.
Rosie Hinman went to Newfoundland recently in connection with his new work as head man for the International Paper Cos., in Canada. His company continues to send drafts for newsprint carloads, but we haven't heard anything, oughteightically speaking, since summer time.
Bob Marsden is director of the Division of Projects and the Division of Labor Management, Works Progress Administration, for New Hampshire. His home address is No. 82 S. Spring St., Concord, and his business headquarters are in Manchester. Bob's a new dealer, appears if.
Art Eberly and family recently moved rom Scarsdale, N. Y., to Wichita, Kan., where he is listed as an "oil operator." His headquarters are in the Ellis Singleton building.
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Edgerton '06 gave a Dartmouth dinner at their home, Wallach's Point, Stamford, Conn., a few weeks ago, and the guests included Mr. and Mrs. Allan M. Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. Laurence M. Symmes, and Mr. and Mrs. John Alexander Clark. Our confidential adviser present at the gathering found out several things. One is that Alexander Clark, sprightly Dartmouth sophomore from New Canaan, Conn., is now an Alpha Delt. So's his old man. Laurence Symmes Jr., sophomore at Wesleyan, received freshman honors last year and is a member of Chi Psi fraternity. His paw is a Theta Delt, but the Theta Delts have no chapter ("charge" they call it) at Wesleyan. Jean Symmes is a senior at Scarsdale High School, while Kathryn is on the dean's list at Vassar, where she is undergoing her junior year. The dean's list at Vassar is something different from what Chuck Emerson's list used to be at Hanover. At Vassar you have to be over 90 in your average to get on. In Hanover, it may be recalled, you had to get off Chuck's list or get out.
Allan Perkins, at the Yale-Navy game in New Haven, was in a spot usually occupied by a president. His son Van, who graduates from Annapolis in June, sat on the Navy side, and his son Woody, sophomore at Yale, naturally sat on the blue seats. Woody was recently taken into the DKE fold at New Haven.
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Stearns, Mr. and Mrs. Laurence M. Symmes, and Mr. and Mrs. John A. Clark occupied adjoining seats at the Yale-Dartmouth game. Mike's boy, Kendall, was along also. So were Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Blanchard.
Gordon Blanchard Jr., Dartmouth '38 is a new member of Theta Delta Chi in Hanover, the mystic circle with which daddy was affiliated years and years ago.
Don Frothingham is understood to be writing a history of the NRA. A number of people are reported engaged in similar activities. The big news will come when the government issues a list of who's going to read 'em.
Old Bill Silleck, the Pittsburgh pigskin flash, now gets his mail from Box 330, Grand Central Annex, New York City.
Howard W. Cowee, of the firm of Cowee & Macintosh, counselors at law, Worcester, Mass., is a confirmed Cape Cod booster. Last summer his daughter went to the Yellowstone and in 1934, to Europe. Howard and his wife toured the East, observing Maryland and such sections. He attended the Bates game. Howard was the first member of 1908 your correspondent ever encountered. The meeting took place on the train between the Junction and Norwich. Upon alighting, the 1908 recruits were accosted by Dud's tallyhoo and their cowboy-like attendants. Howard was not impressed by Norwich station as a location for an alma mater. In fact he said it was the blankety blankest hole of a college he ever saw and his new-found companion agreed. But the skies soon cleared.
Classmates who remember Art Burnie of the class of 1906 may be interested to know he is now vice-president and treasurer of the Beaver Valley Water Co., Beaver Falls, Pa.
Special correspondence from our Milford, N. H„ representative, Major Art Rotch, follows: "String Hale's main claim to famethis year is in being the progenitor of aDartmouth freshman, but he also brokeinto the newspapers by taking his wife ona vacation trip to Bermuda and beingphotographed, like all prominent citizens,lolling under a palm tree. After gettingback from coral strands String went north,to Canada. In Montreal he found BertThwing in a cheerful mood. Our Canadiancontractor claimed to have some niceorders, after a lean year or two.
"Honker Joyce travels the highways andbyways selling supplies to undertakers- pardon,morticians. We supposed a mortician's raw material wasn't sold by traveling men, but Harold says they need lots ofthings and business is good.
"Art Soule went South this summer on aweek's business trip to Atlanta, Ga. Threeweeks later he was just getting back. Says ittakes three weeks to do a week's business inthe South, and that his drives improved,though his putting went haywire.
"Ralph P. Currier is on the school boardin Amherst, N. H.
"Clint Dow of Manchester, N. H., whoused to peddle metal caskets for OughtEighter Harry Mitchell, and later bossed aCCC camp, is now safety man for the WPAin New Hampshire. That doesn't mean heplays in the backfield. As we understand it,he goes around from project to project andlooks after the safety of the men employed.Clint left the work-relief fellers to theirrisks and hazards long enough to take hisattractive daughter to the Harvard game.She is?employed in the Amoskeag Bank inManchester.
"Stan Tappan and the Mrs. were up fromProvidence for the Harvard game, lookingfor an 'OB lunch, dinner, or reunion. Theydidn't find one. Several of the boys thoughtthere should have been a class gathering.
"Larry Treadway with his bodyguard ofDartmouth sons lined up in the front row(balcony) in Boston's Shubert theatre thenight of the Harvard game and droppedpeanuts on Rotch and son down below."
John Thompson has recovered from his operation mentioned in a recent issue and is still dividing his time between his law office and his painting studio, both in New York. Mrs. Thompson is an important member of the lecture staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Harry Harriman's son Ben, Dartmouth '35, is at Penn State College taking a P.G. course in organic chemistry.
Freshman Sons of 1907 C. W. Churchill, R. Cushman, G. C. King, W. A. Martin 111, R. P. Storrs, and W. C. Wildey.
Freshman Sons of 1908 W. Cushing, J. H. Gray Jr., W. F. Hale, S. S. Rutherford Jr., J. F. Treadway, and A. H. Vaitses.
Freshman Sons of 1909 B. E. Abbott, F. S. Bachelder, E. F. Cummings, and K. A. Mac Donald,
Freshman Sons of 1909 W. C. Naylor, B. Prescott, D. Ward, and R. B. Whitcomb,
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