Class of 1908
As a preliminary to next June's reunion quite a delegation of the class attended Commencement at Hanover last June. Of course the fact that several of the class had sons graduating in '37 was an influence in bringing more than a dozen 'oBers back in '37. The result was an informal reunion that was delightful. Merrill, Detlefsen, Stearns, Rotch, and Hinman watched second-generation graduations. Others of the class who were on hand were S. S. Rutherford, Badger, O'Shea, Treadway, Soule, Knight, Bennett, and Marsden. Mrs. Dunham, widow of our classmate, was there to see her son get his degree. Mrs. Jack Clark was there, her nephew graduated. With wives, daughters, and younger sons there was an 'OB group of about 25, and no better group can be assembled anywhere.
Dick Merrill was back from Los Angeles, his first trip East since the Fifth Reunion in 1913. It's remarkable what that California climate does to 'em. Dick looks hardly any older than his rugged son. Young Merrill, incidentally, is a mighty fine boy as well as an outstanding end on the football team. Unfortunately the Merrills had to leave directly after Commencement, and Dick couldn't accept any of the dozens of invitations to visit classmates in the East. He drove from California, and right back. He announced his safe arrival in Los Angeles on June 26, and says:
"When I arrived home I found your marked copy of the paper, with the comments about our glorious reunion. John and I both got a great kick out of it, and thank you.
"I guess I don't need to tell you how much I enjoyed my visit in Hanover. You, to whom reunions are annual events, cannot realize what a privilege it was to me. I lead a very hum drum and well-ordered life,, and I relaxed and enjoyed myself as I have not done for years. It was a great joy to get all you fellows and your wives and children placed and photographed on my memory. You have a remarkably fine family and must be very proud of them.
"We had a quite comfortable trip home. Came rather slowly, taking eight days from Williamstown as against six days for the trip East. Visited Niagara Falls, Grand Canyon, etc., and rode on good roads all the way except 200 miles in Oklahoma and Texas and New Mexico, where they were sending us over detours. The whole country looks fine—wonderful prospects for crops.
"I shall for a long time live on the memory of our reunion, and I am very thankful for the part that you had in making it so successful."
A later letter from Dick tells of their pleasure in entertaining Ann Hopkins, daughter of President and Mrs. Hoppy, at their California home.
James O'Shea of Laconia, younger son of Classmate Art O'Shea, was in the finals of the New Hampshire state tennis tournament at Concord in August, in doubles. He has been working this summer in his father's foundry, and is attending school in New Jersey for a year before entering Dartmouth. John O'Shea, Dartmouth '4O, spent the summer working in the O'Shea store in Laconia.
Alexander S. Shoninger, Richardson Haller and football center in 1904, is now living at 424 Whitney Ave., New Haven, Conn. His business is Massachusetts Distributors, at 85 Devonshire St., Boston.
Henry L. Stone was married September 4 at Rye, N. H., to Miss Blanche Brenda Pulsifer. Their home is at 544 Washington St., Haverhill, Mass. Henry is in the lumber business.
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Stearns have announced the engagement of their daughter, Annis Burnham Stearns, to Frederick Spofford Gilbert of Englewood, N. J. Mike's lovely daughter has been connected with the Yardley company in New York since graduating at Chatham Hall school in Virginia, and was one of the 'OB party in Hanover last June. Mr. Gilbert, Williams '34, is in the employ of Time, Inc.
Art Wyman has plenty of water. This to alleviate the concern of the classmates who were informed in a previous issue of the MAGAZINE that the Lynn and Boston printer was putting in an artesian well at his new summer estate in Milford, N. H., at $5 per foot. Art says they hit water just before they hit the bottom of his pocketbook.
Mrs. Howard Cowee has been laid up all summer with a broken leg. She was injured in a fall. Howard reported in September that his wife has returned from the hospital and appears to be making a satisfactory recovery.
F. J. (Cap) McAuliffe is at the Veterans' Hospital at North Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, N. Y. He was formerly at the Veterans Hospital in Rutland, Mass. Classmates who have seen him say he is well cared for and fairly comfortable.
Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson closed their New York house this summer and took a cruise to the North Cape and Norway.
Alexander Clark, son of Jack, who married and left Dartmouth, is to return to Hanover. With his wife he will live in Hanover and resume his studies where he dropped them a year and a half ago.
Larry Symmes' daughter Kathryn, Vassar '37, has taken a position as head of the music department at the Thomas School in Rowayton, Conn. His son, Laurence Jr., is returning to Dartmouth, where last year he was a Rufus Choate scholar with an average rank of 3.6. Old-timers, to whom "3.6" sounds like prohibition beer, are informed that now at Dartmouth the rank of 4 is perfect, and 3.6 is about equivalent to 99.44 in our time.
The 'OB sons at Dartmouth scored high last year. John Detlefsen, Kendall Stearns, Turner Soule, and William D. Blake all won high scholastic honors.
Tat Badger, as president of the Massachusetts Golf Association, has had a busy summer. Probably he has attended to other business too, but his name is constantly in the sporting pages of the Boston papers, in connection with golf.
Bill Rotch '37 spent the summer making pictures and writing stories about the lobster and swordfish fleets in Canadian waters. October 1 he takes over a job as publicity director and secretary for the Eastern Slope Association. His job will consist principally of promoting winter sports and general development in the Eastern Slope region of the White Mountains, with headquarters at North Conway. Mrs. "Deac" Dunham and her daughter came all the way from Yakima, Wash., to attend Commencement last June.
Suggestions are now in order for the 30th reunion in 1938.
Flowers from the class were at the funeral of Johnny Glaze, in Buffalo September 7, and were a pitifully inadequate expression of his classmates' grief, and sympathy for his family.
John Baldwin Glaze died quite suddenly September 3 in a hospital in Buffalo, N. Y., following a surgical operation. Funeral services were held September 7 at Forest Lawn Chapel in Buffalo. He leaves his wife and three children, also a brother, Ralph, Dartmouth 'O6.
For many years John was connected with the Norton Company, in their Buffalo and Niagara Falls laboratories.
A more extended account of John's life appears in the Necrology section.
(From Milford, N. H.)
