1911 *
The very sad news of the death of Philip Nead, Ray Nead's only child, has just been received. The information is somewhat meagre and to the effect that he was killed in an automobile accident on October 1 near Warren, Mass. Philip graduated from Bowdoin last June and had accepted a position as teacher in the Warren High School. Ray and Mrs. Nead were returning from a vacation and stopped in Warren to see their son, after reaching home about midnight, they received word of his death.
Bill Henderson reported that he had just run into Ray Morgan, son of Walter Morgan, who had given up his position temporarily in order to enter New Hampshire University to complete the requirements for a Bachelor's Degree. Ray reported that his father had recently undergone an emergency appendicitis operation, and that although there had been some complications, he was now doing well.
Still on the subject of operations, Fred Eaton has just undergone a second kidney operation, and, according to his son, is making good progress. Fred has been looking forward to this, of course, ever since his operation last year, and he expects now to be a new man.
An S.O.S. for Ky Byrnes has produced the answer that he is a commissioner of the New York World's Fair and may be located at the Commission headquarters at the World-Fair Grounds, New York.
Dutch Waterbury has now become Waterbury and Company, 106 Mayro Building, Utica, N. Y., which is an investment company. Dutch plans to deal in both listed and unlisted securities. He will maintain his residence in Oriskany, N. Y., which is near enough to Ithaca so that he will be looking for any other 1911ers who decide to take in the Cornell game.
Mac Rollins and Cap Caproni with wives were stranded in Hanover during the hurricane, having come for the purpose of delivering their sons and chattels into the entering class. Since at the same time the Secretary was stranded in Washington, there was little opportunity of exchanging personal greetings.
Incidentally, the Secretary is ready to report that the George Morrises are now comfortably settled in their new home, "The Lindens," which absolutely is a most charming home. It was a great pleasure, made possible by George's and Miriam's kindness and courtesy, to have a 1911 dinner with the four Washington 1911 alumni, namely, Ted Stafford, Pug Sanborn, John McDonald, and George himself. All are in excellent health and have all of the appearances of enjoying themselves, with or without all of the worldly comforts. None is working for the W.P.A., so the conclusion is that the Washington delegation compares well with that of any other city.
It is gratifying to know that Mrs. Harry Bicknell has found a position as hostess in one of the large residential hotels of Chicago, where she is both happy in her work and proving satisfactory to the management.
It is probably true that the Cedar Rapids Gazette in casting about for news hits on some member of the Hedges family just the way the Class Secretary, in trying to fill the column, goes through the lists and repeats and enlarges upon incidentals which to many may be quite trite. With this false introduction it may be related that large headlines recently carried the title, "Brothers turn Business Venture into Pleasure Project for Family," then followed a picture of an attractive looking bungalow and a story about Sam Hedges. The story begins with an investment belonging to their father, Horace, which they hope to improve. The boys began work in June and out of the pasture of weeds they made a lawn, then plowed and cultivated a garden, painted the drab little cottage, surrounded it with window boxes and flowers and set up cots and other furnishings, and had an attractive summer home. Then followed this paragraph: "one night Sam and Fed had dates. Late that night they returned to the cottage for a cool night's sleep. They found someone had pulled a Goldilocks and the Three Bears act on them, for their bunks were occupied. A sign on the door read 'You got here too late. YOU sleep at home. WE sleep here.' It was signed 'Mother and Dad.'"
An inquiry addressed, to Jim Conroy as to what he does in his spare time brought the information that his only business connection is the association with Jack Welch in the Northern Steel Company in Medford, Mass., where Jack has a most interesting steel plant. It is a unique business and one which only some quiet, thoughtful kind like Jack would ever think of. The business, in general, is that of buying steel rails and processing them into angles, flats, squares, and other forms of reinforcing bars, which they then sell to various construction firms for use in concrete work. Jack has built up a swell business for himself. Jim added that he had spent the summer at Harwichport, Mass., where he found a couple of palsJack Cochrane and Jim Baldwin of the class of about 'OB.
King Moses has been back on Nantucket Island daring the summer and, in fact, still retains Nantucket as his permanent address, even though he flits around the country considerably, seeking material for his writings.
Les Gibson, earlier reported as advertising manager of the Bailey Company, manufacturers of automobile glass channels and other rolled metal products, in Amesbury, Mass., is still in the same berth and the same job, in good health, and enjoying poor business.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
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