1898*
Secretary, 57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass.
Last week the Secretary was in Amherst, Mass., and had a very pleasant call on George Farley. George described his three weeks' trip to New Orleans by way of the Mississippi River and return as though he had the keenest pair of eyes in the United States. I never heard a description so realistic from anyone before.
Everett Hoyt has returned from a six weeks' trip to Florida with Mrs. Hoyt and friends, and they report a very happy time.
Joe Bartlett is once more back at work in his office and busy in his great variety of interests after a six weeks' stay in the hospital.
Thanks to modern medicine, Denis Crowley had a marvelous recovery from a rare type of pneumonia. Stricken on Thursday, March 16, he was immediately given the new drug, sulfanilamide. The following Tuesday he was sitting up, the following Friday up and dressed, and eighteen days after being stricken was back in his office a completely cured man; some record.
Joe Carney has again branched out in business. On April 7, the papers reported that he had acquired control of the Harrington & Richardson Arms Manufacturing Company, Worcester, and had been elected president and director.
On April 4 the Secretary called on Ich Crane in Brattleboro, Vt., and found that young man busy as a bee with all his business at his finger tips. I also met his son-in-law, who is in business .with him. Ich and Mrs. Ich reported a delightful trip in the South and, like other '98ers, will be glad when things warm up a bit. Their freshman son at Dartmouth attained a standing of 3.6 for the first semester and, as 4 is as high as he could attain, it is very apparent that Edward Crane must be among the top-notchers with this rating.
The Secretary's Dartmouth sophomore son Robert and his Mount Holyoke freshman daughter Barbara have been spending the spring holidays at home, and so I am living my college life over again.
Dick Marcy and wife are due back in New England in another fortnight.
One of the leading political lights of New York City was the speaker at the Twentieth Century Club, Boston, last week, and mentioned Ernest Paris Seelman of our class as being most helpful in the life of that great city.
The Secretary called on Clarence Siblev at North Brookfield last week and found him cheerful and happy and in close touch with his insurance business. Mrs. Sibley was present as usual, dispensing good cheer and rare courage.
The class will be glad to know that our good friend Middleton had a very happy time in his sister's home. He was the idol of her four children and numerous grandchildren. To them he was "Uncle Howard." A letter was sent to his sister by her fourteen-year-old grandson in which the boy stated, "I think he was the swellest fellow I ever knew." Another seven-year-old grandson wrote from Chicago, saying, "I am so sorry Uncle Howard will not be with us any more. We shall miss him so much at the Lake this summer."
"Middy" had three nephews in Dartmouth, Hugh M. McKay '21, Donald M. McKay (non-graduate) '28, and Franklin H. Middleton '29.
The Pfaudler Company, of which Middleton was treasurer, sent me a very fine tribute about our classmate. It states in one section, "Those who knew him will always remember Mr. Middleton as a man whose integrity, fairness, and modesty made him just the kind of a treasurer every company should have. During thirty-three years with Pfaudler, no man could have given more of himself to the many tasks that were his. His patience and appetite for difficult tasks seemed inexhaustible."
The next important event for the class to have in mind is Buck Chandler's cordial invitation to have our annual spring roundup at his attractive home at Plymouth, Mass., beside the sparkling ocean and the beautiful white sand. Come all! Bring the children and the grandchildren!
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