Class of 1908
Bill Knight came East by airplane for the Athletic Council meeting in October. He says it was a flying trip, literally. While waiting in Newark Airport for a plane he encountered Rosie Hinman, and they held and impromptu class reunion with.music by American Airlines motors. Rosie, according to Bill, spends three days a week in New York, and commutes between there and his home in Montreal by airplane.
The class correspondent was in conference with Mike Stearns and Larry Symmes when he attended the Princeton football game November 6. Somehow football games are not good places to confer on plans for reunions in June. But some progress was made, and before this appears in the MAGAZINE there will be a bulletin to classmates, by mail. Bonnie Oaks, in Fairlee, is suggested as tlie place for a class dinner or picnic. I think I remember being there once before. Others in the class may remember better. Mort Hull is the only classmate who has yet come through with helpful suggestions for a reunion program, but we expect there will be a lot of them before Christmas.
Bill Knight umpired the Minnesota-lowa game, and says he is picking up considerable spare change by officiating at MidWest games every week, besides seeing some good football.
Ted Barnes reports that there is money in the class treasury; real cash in addition to the "special fund," which isn't yet large enough to provide a new gymnasium or science building. We asked Ted if there would be enough to finance a special class train from Chicago, or provide elaborate entertainment next June, and he thinks there isn't. He says there is $87 in the bank, and suggests that it's pretty good to have that much, seeing as no class dues have been collected for many years.
Dr. Harold O. Rugg, Dartmouth '08, was one of the principal speakers a-t meetings in Chicago, October sB, 29, and 30, arranged by the Progressive Education Association. Malcolm Stearns became a daddy-in-law in November when his pretty daughter, Annis 8., was married to Frederick S. Gilbert of Englewood, N. J.
Larry Griswold is reported to be improving slowly after a serious illness, though he is still far from recovered. It will be several months before he can return to work. He is at his home at Batavia. His courage is fine, and he has all plans made to be at the reunion in June. Larry's daughter, Harriet, graduates at Smith in '38 and is editor-in-chief of the senior year-book. His son, David, is attending a school in Lenox, Mass., and will enter Dartmouth in '39.
From Milford, N. H.
