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A full page of the Boston Sunday Globe of December 11 had to do with dunking a million feet of lumber into Adams Pond, an artificial body of water owned by Ben Adams, whose home is on the edge of the Pond. This pond has been designated as one of the depositaries for timber felled by the recent hurricane in New England. Ben himself lost a great deal of pine in the big wind, and he is giving the use of his pond to the government for a dollar a year. It is intended to serve as a catch basin for all the hurricane timber within a radius of ten miles. Adams Pond is in Derry, N. H., removed from paved highways, and lined with tall pines. Water still flows over the ancient mill dam, and pine logs are piled high on the ice.
"Bake" (R. E.) Baker writes from 68 Hillsdale Road, Medford, Mass. He is bank agent of the Boston Federal Savings and Loan Association, located at 53 State St., Boston, and has charge of repairs, renting, and selling. Bake's wife, Bertha Louise, had a serious operation the first of December at the New England Sanitorium, but at last information was making progress towards recovery. Their daughter, Barbara Louise, is training to be a nurse at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Medford, Mass. She started last September, and is doing very good work. Ralph makes fishing his hobby.
An attractive Christmas card from Marguerite guerite and Fletcher Clark bears a photograph of the four young Clarks. Syd Clark's daughter Margery Jacqueline is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. Syd's address is c/o Guaranty Trust Co., 4 Place de la Concorde, Paris.
King Cole writes from 725 Kanawha Turnpike, S. Charleston, W. Va. King has eight living children. The oldest is Arthur Edward (Bud), who graduated from high school in '35. The next, Marjorie Beatrix (Betty), married January 30, 1937. The rest, Harry Walter (Hum), Robert Moore (Bob), Edna Francis (Pats), William George (Bill), born Dec. 15, 1927, Donald Raymond (Don), born January 14, 1929, Richard Charles (Dick), born May 13, 1930, are all at home and in school. Another son, Philip Addison, was born January 16, 1934, and died December 17 of that same year. Beatrix, King's good wife, has been bedridden since November. King is working for the Carbide Sc Carbon Chemical Corp. as an engineer. He writes, "We discovered we have many things to be thankful for. Bee's sickness has taught the whole gang a better conception of family life than anything else could—we have all had a richer, fuller, happier family life than many people even suspect." If there is any member of 1912 who has the material for such a fine family life as this, your Secretary would like to know.
"Def" Deferrari, now "Doctor" Deferrari, is professor of Greek and Latin at the Catholic University of America and head of that department. He is secretary general of the University and director of the summer session. He lives at 1303 Quincy St., N. E., Washington, D. C. Def and Evelyn have a son, Austin John, who is in high school, and a daughter, Mary, born February 22, 1930. This December, the Doctor was traveling in New England. He is also preparing for publication a concordance of the works of Ovid, which is to appear within a month or so.
Alvie Garcia writes that the high light of the year was his pilgrimage to Ithaca, and a delightful day spent with the Gellers and their sons, and supper with Stan Weld and his wife. Last summer he was on the road a good deal of the time as salesman for Garcia y Vega, "The Bonded Havana Cigar". His daughter Emilia is in her last year in Dongan Hall, a private school on Staten Island. Her college is not yet determined, although she is entered in Holyoke. "Sonnie" (Edmund Stirn) is 13, and in the 7th grade. He is a first class Boy Scout, and should make shortstop on the baseball team.
Most of the Class probably saw the fine letter from Sam Hobbs, dated December 21 and circulated by Pett Pettingell. Sam was at the California-Dartmouth football game, and wrote a fine account of it and the 1912 reunion, which included Tex Morris and wife from La Jolla, Bill Butler and wife from San Jose, Olie Ahlswede and son from Los Angeles, Roy Frothingham of San Francisco, and Sam, his wife, son, and daughter. Doc O'Connor was there for the banquet Friday night.
Your Secretary has a fine letter from Malcolm Jones, written from The President Apartments, aoao Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Malcolm writes that for a number of years he has been contacting highway contractors relative to selling them heavy equipment for road work. About six months ago, he got out a gold washing machine, and finds that contractors have become very much interested in exploiting gold placer properties, which necessitates the use of such a machine. Malcolm is now very much gold minded, and believes that he has opened up a prosperous new adventure. He is patenting a new gold washing machine, and when it is ready for manufacture, will have a new permanent business address. His son, Malcolm Jr. is at Pillsbury Academy, a military school, from which Malcolm hopes he may go to Dartmouth in about three years. Bill Shapleigh is the only 1912 man Malcolm seems to have seen in years, and Malcolm would like to be looked up.
Your Secretary learns with regret of the death of Bill Kent's father, who had had a long career of accomplishment. Bill writes from 11 Kent Court, Passaic, N. J.
Barrow Lyons is in Washington on the Monopoly Study of the S.E.C. Investment Banking Section, as associate financial economist. His address is 1072 Jefferson St., N. W.
Sam Stevens has a new address at 28 Pleasant St., Salem, Mass. Zim Zimmermann has a new address at 3-E Read St., Baltimore, Md. Incidentally, Zim has apparently married. Unfortunately your Secretary does not have the details, but felicitations are in order to Ernest and Anne Zimmermann.
"THE YEAR OF THE BIG WIND" "Apple trees have been pushed about in unmannerly fashion, Great elms have been laid low. Whole acres of pine have been cut down As if Paul Bunyan were mowing with a scythe, But now again the sun shines, Again the winds have become orderly, There are many trees left standing, The great oak still shelters us, And we, like scared gray squirrels, Peer out from our hole curiously To call to our friends, 'Merry Christmas, And may God's peace reign in your hearts.'
THE RYAN STEVENS FAMILY.
Durham, New Hampshire
December 25, 1938."
Click Morrill reports that early in November he fell heir to some of the grief that afflicts the aged, and had to have the plumbing inspectors at the Massachusetts General go to work on him. They put him on the shelf for a while equipped with a diet, but the treatment is working, and he is now doing nicely. Fortunately, Click had just completed negotiations for a new job. He is acting as referee for the Independent Oil Distributors (fuel oil) in Boston, with office at 1 Court St., phone Capitol 7188
Syd Clark's latest book, "Hawaii with Sydney A. Clark," published by PrenticeHall, is scheduled for publication on January 30.
PICTORIAL NEWS FROM MEMBERS OF 1912 Basil O'Connor, guest on the Presidential cruise last summer and the Hobbs family (right) showing Sam Hobbs '12, Marian, MaryLouise, and Sam Jr.
Secretary, Rochester, N. H.
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