1902*

Robert F. Estabrook, vice president and general manager of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, was elected to the executive committee of the company in August at the monthly meeting of the directors. He succeeds the late Matt B. Jones, former president of the company, as a member of the committee.

Estabrook has had a long and distinguished career in the telephone business, starting at Pittsburgh thirty-eight years ago. Later he was traffic superintendent at Minneapolis and for twelve years was connected with the traffic department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in New York, where his work made him one of the best known telephone men in the United States. He became general traffic manager in New England in 1923, and since 1928 has been vice president and general manager.

Miriam Eaton Hosford, wife of Clarence K. Hosford, died at North Thetford, Vermont, on July 1 last. She is survived by her husband and a daughter, Elizabeth Kent Hosford.

Through a clerical error in the new General Catalogue, an asterisk was placed beside Dow's name, indicating that he had passed along with the great majority. Happily it was nothing more than a clerical error. George is still well and busily en. gaged with his real estate business in Can. bridge.

Ben Ailing, who since graduation has had a busy and eventful life as lawyer legislator in the Connecticut House of Representatives and as judge of the city and police courts of New Britain, has been in poor health for a number of years. He was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage as a result of a fall in 1929, which was followed by a nervous breakdown from which he has not yet fully recovered.

Joe Wright is practising law in Boston, and living in Reading. He has two sons, two daughters and three grandchildren.

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