1904*
Since my last class news we have had a reunion at Hanover, and since then have had the pleasure of seeing Ike and Mrs. Charron, Karl and Mrs. Brackett, Hayward and Mrs. Rolfe, Mrs. Willis, Donald Gilman Kimball in person, Bill and Mrs. Kneeland, Bill and Mrs. Roby, Mrs. Moulton with Priscilla and Webster, and Mrs. Delbert Jackson with Dick, Jane and Delbert Jr. here in our mountain valley. I have also seen Gene Sewall, Carl Woods,
Gil Moulton and Tinker Gale. Letters from Beck, Robbie, Cobb, Sex, Al Terrien, Pen Mower, Sid Rollins, Edge....
news of Bob Mosely via Bill Kneeland, news of Squid via Sex, news of Ame Foster via Sid. A pretty goodly number reporting to the Secretary during his vacation from active duty. It's my right to be prejudiced in their favor, but in my opinion they carry their age as lightly as any group of thirty-six-years-old alumni any college has produced. Al Terrien's son John and Delbert Jackson Jr. are in this year's freshman class.
At our reunion at commencement were three Rollinses, Robinson, Brayton, Woods, Maynard, Lampee, Robie, two Uniacs, three Websters (Chick's son Perry graduated), four Austins and Beck Johnson. Dinner June 18th found the Uniacs, Robinson, Austin, Rollins, Robie, Lampee, Brayton, Johnson, Woods together, and Sunday noon before breaking up Lampee, Robinson, Uniacs, Robie, Maynard Bray ton, Johnson and myself were again together at Thayer Hall.
Saturday's midnight roll call was a happy occasion, and in the darkness identification of Johnson, Robinson, Robie, Lampee, Bray ton, Rollins, Woods, Ned ('03) Kennison and Austin was positive.
Didn't you all get a little chesty and boast to your some other college neighbor or business associate when you got the final score in the Alumni Fund campaign? They may beat us in other games occasionally but in support of the college we beat the Alumni world. Hats off to Ralph Sexton!
We are all grateful for the contributions to the Alumni Fund from Mrs. Cummings, Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Willis and Ben Marshall in memory of Eddie, Dan, Ned and Zeus.
Charles Irving Squid-to-you Lampee was elected a director of the Boston chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants early in the summer. At about the same time the Lampees announced the engagement of their youngest daughter to Mr. Charles Butler of Winchester, Mass.
Before these notes reach you Squid will have a 1904 party at Marshfield and hold a roll call at the tomb of Daniel Webster.
This summer Bill Saben has retired from his long time service as manager of the Phelps Dodge Corporation mining interests in Arizona. A mutual acquaintance told me of his many accomplishments and the high esteem in which he was held by the entire mining community of which he was the "Big Boss" for many successful years.
Bring your directories up to date by changing addresses as follows: Don Kimball, us Newbury St., Boston; Bill Soben, 4353 Trias St., San Diego, Calif.; Li Holton, 53 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago; Major Sharpe, 947 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, Calif.; Oscar Aldrich, 81 Hood St., Fall River, Mass.
Percival Cobb was boosted to a third degree grandfather on July 9th with the advent of Laura Lillie Schwerdtfeger at the home of her parents in Oakdale, Conn. The other grandchildren are Alice Marie Cobb, born April 6th, 1938, and Alfred Cobb Jr., born May 17th, 1940, both children of his son Alfred, who lives in Hicksville, L. I. Alfred, Senior, is a husky two hundred-pound six-foot farmer and independent contractor of whom Percy says, "he has been a great help to us and when things were going rather hard has often seemed more like a father than a son." Their oldest daughter Carolyn is employed in 4-H Club work and expects to be a nurse. William Steers, the second son, will this year complete a course in milk testing and laboratory research work at the state Agricultural College at Farmingdale, L. I.
Still gloating over his grandchildren, father Cobb boasts "that makes three for me now, and I send out a challenge to all grandfathers of the class potent or impotent." Your courage is good Percy, but you can't win. We have a grandfather who has never had a child; modern methods discourage the hard work of pioneers in any field.
He concludes his good letter with "It is indeed a strange period in many ways. Let us hope that this country stays strong and wise. With best wishes to you and your family and all the "boys" of the class.
One Sunday in August, the nth to be exact, I heard a distinctly familiar chuckle at the office desk, and looking up saw a four by nine smile supported by a pair of twinkling eyes under the brim of a felt hat which, on being removed, uncovered one Donald Gilman Kimball who, by his own testimony, had been coming for the past twenty years. Here he was at last, bag, baggage and golf weapons, for a tenday vacation period. Hayward and Mrs. Rolfe were with us at the same time and we enjoyed the unusual privilege of reuning with Kimmy. He's coming to the Harvard game round-up, and to Hanover next June. Remember Kimmy, its a promise.
Beck Johnson is working day and night for the Military Training Camp Association in the interest of a compulsory training act, and is heading the Pittsfield area in raising a substantial fund for the Willkie Campaign. He was pictured in the Boston Herald of August 27th at the head of Republican Field Secretaries from eight Massachusetts divisions.
Secretary, Waterville Inn, Waterville Valley, N. H. Treasurer, Morristown, N. J.
