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Mr. and Mrs. Larry Symmes drove to California in September where, on Sept. 15 at Mill Valley, their daughter, Jean, was married to John Reeve Barnard of Berkeley. Lawrence M. Symmes Jr. was one of the ushers. Mr. and Mrs. Barnard will live at Berkeley. From California Larry returned by train to New York immediately as he felt he was needed there to keep 'OB classmates and the bond market under control. His wife remained for a longer visit with her sister in Mill Valley. Besides being a new father-in-law Larry is also an ingenue granddaddy. His other daughter, Mrs. Kathryn Symmes Buck, recently gave birth to a son.
Art Lewis reports a good response to his letters asking pledges for the 1941 Alumni Fund. He sent them in August, 1940, which probably wins him the title as the first class agent to get to work on next year's solicitation. All he asked was that classmates try to increase their contributions next year, and a lot of them have written that they will try to.
Charlie Severance reports seeing Stan Nute in Detroit, en route to or from the Nute summer place in New Hampshire. Charlie also ran across Fritz Rutherford who was on his way north to collect his family and take them back to Pennsylvania. Charlie, of course, is still with Brockway Motor company in Cortland, N. Y.
The Clash of Political Ideals is the title of the new book published by D. AppletonCentury and authored by Albert R. Chandler. It is described as a Source Book on Democracy, Communism and the Totalitarian State. Chandler reports that his son, graduated from Andover, is now a freshman at Ohio State, and his daughter Margaret is attending Oakwood School in Poughkeepsie.
Sid Ruggles 'OB and Thayer School 'O9, is now located in Danbury, Conn., as construction engineer and superintendent of buildings and grounds at the new Federal Correctional Institution there. This establishment covers 250 acres and when occupied will house 1500. We assume that the 1500 will include some of our very best people and any 'oBers who find themselves there can hope for special consideration from Sid.
Larry Griswold, his health improving, spent the winter in Florida, flew home to Batavia with son David in la hours. It took Mrs. Griswold four days by car to catch up with them. Larry's plane stopped m Wellington, and there was Tat Badger, just in by air for some kind of a conference with the State Department. In Batavia Larry had a call from String Hale, whose son is working there (String continues as a state forester in N. H.). The Griswolds were at their cottage on Cape Cod part of the summer, and had visits from Mike Farley and Dick Lord 'ogers. Harriet Griswold was married August 31 to William Irving Randall, Yale '3B.
Joseph Joyce Donahue moved his Boston law offices in September from the Tremont Building to Room 1104 at 40 Court Street.
Charles Walker and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stone represented the class September 11 at the funeral in Haverhill, Mass., of Alden T. Speare. Parson Bill English of our class assisted Rev. Benjamin F. Marshall in conducting the services at the Congregational church. "Lindy" Speare died quite suddenly September 9 at the New England Baptist hospital in Boston, following an operation. An account of his death appears elsewhere. Mrs. Speare is continuing to live in Haverhill, and their son has returned to Hanover for his senior year at Dartmouth.
Newspaper stories of floods, earthquakes, extreme temperatures and bandits in the Imperial Valley have frequently caused the reporter to wonder if 'oB's Chick Currier had survived, and how to get him to give an account of himself. Chick, if you have forgotten, is the leading hardware man in southern California. His Imperial Hardware company has branches in Brawley, Calexico, Holtville, Imperial, Calipatria, Long Beach, Compton, San Pedro, Indio, and in Yuma and Somerton, Arizona, all directed by Chick from his main offices in El Centro. We get this information from the letterhead on which Chick, moved perhaps by an earthquake, writes us that his son, Warren Currier 111, is entered in the Dartmouth class of 1947. Young Chick, an only son, was born just 17 years after his father graduated at Hanover, and the Old Man wants to bet that the Curriers are the parents of the last 'OB son to enter Dartmouth. Says he'll make any reasonable wager and pay (if he loses) the Alumni Fund. It rather surprises us. Somehow, without really adding it up, we'd supposed the 'OB men would be sending sons to Dartmouth up to and including the class of 1968. So we'll be disappointed if Chick isn't forced to pay his bet. But the College won't get a new contributor; Chick has kicked in his contribution to the Fund every year, and says he was much pleased to get the "Dartmouth Regulars" appreciative letter which was mailed to all who have never failed the Fund.
Hartwell "Harry" Harriman seems to have spent the summer pleasantly if not profitably. He writes that he left Providence to spend a week in camp at Enfield, near Hanover. There he found a lot of rocks where the state road passes near Lake Mascoma, and he went to work on them with white paint, outlined them with Indian heads, and on the testimony of residents of Enfield and Lebanon he did a fine job. Next, he had a visit from Ted Barnes, the first classmate he had seen in several years.
But it is from the Chattanooga Times that we get the real low-down on Harry's activities. The city of Harriman, Tennessee, had a semi-centennial and old timers' celebration in July, a regular fourday bender, and the guest of honor was the grandson of Gen. Walter Harriman, for whom the city was named. Our Harry lived in Harriman, Tenn., from 1889 to 1898. Going back as the guest of the city he was wined and dined and given the keys, delivered an address, and generally had himself a grand time. The illustrated story in the Times shows the distinguished guest from Providence (yes, our own Harry) placing the jeweled crown on the pretty head of Miss Margie Bowman, the loveliest girl in Roane County, who was chosen queen of the semi-centennial celebration.
Secretary, 115 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Treasurer, Taftville, Conn. From A. E. ROTCH Milford, N. H.
