1929*

A request for a New Hampshire bulletin brought this fine response from Art Nighswander of the Laconia law firm of Cheney, Nighswander & Lord:

"Starting up near the Canadian border in Berlin, Arthur Bergeron, former Mayor of the city (voluntarily retired), is busily engaged in the practice of law. He is recognized as leader in the Farmer Labor Party. I ran across him in court in Ossipee recently. While I am on the subject of lawyers, it seems that my law partner, Thomas P. Cheney, Attorney General of New Hampshire, has an assistant in Concord named Frank Kenison. Frank practised law in Conway and was County Solicitor of Carroll County before his appointment. Incidentally, Frank was recently married. Interestingly enough, Frank succeeded another classmate Dud Orr as assistant attorney general. Dud is married and has one child (ed. note: see Jan. MAGAZINE). He resigned from the attorney general's office to take a position on the State Tax Commission, and carries on private practice. He is civic minded and has a place on many committees in Concord. In Manchester, Paul Nourie, who was with our class for a year, is making a mark as a trial lawyer. He was formerly employed as trial counsel for an insurance company in Boston. In Laconia, Fred Tilton has an office across the street from me. He is in a law partnership with his father, has been active in the Young Republican movement, and more recently on the State Republican Committee. Skip Lord is another lawyer in Concord who has his own practice, is doing well, and is associated with a fine office. The state is just lousy with '28 men who are lawyers, but haven't room to mention them. A week or so ago Walt Sherwood and wife dropped in to see us. He has had a varied experience from traveling salesman to school teacher. His last position has been in a private school in Jackson Heights, Pennsylvania. He brought news of politicians Poeter and Hetfield from New Jersey. Incidentally, Walt married Tom White's sister, Tom being my roommate our senior year. Strangely enough, I married Walt's roommate's sister, his roommate being Heinie Richardson. It all sounds rather complicated, doesn't it? Tom is married and is still civil engineering in Porto or Puerto Rico, and was here in Laconia for a short while last summer. Heinie is headmaster of the junior high school in Sterling, Massachusetts, and is married. We see him two or three times a year and hear all about Morton Jaquith, now Judge, (ed. note: see Jan. MAGAZINE) and some news of Stu Palmer, who is teaching in Stamford, Connecticut, home of Red Hein. Larry Shirley is married and has quite a family growing up, operates a lumber yard in Manchester, and lives at Shirley Hill. Hank Sharpe is teaching in Nashua, is married, and with his wife operates a book shop. Ken Batchelder is in the New Hampshire Savings Bank at Concord. I heard something a while ago about Bud Mcintosh being engaged in the boat building business in Dover, but cannot verify this. There is no need of mentioning the father of the class baby, Dr. James Cavanagh, of Hanover. Bob Carr is also in Hanover, being assistant professor, I believe, in the Political Science Department. John Parker has, of course, left Hanover for Bath, Maine where he is superintendent of schools. Joe d'Esopo, with his travel agency, and Charles Dudley (ed. note: see below) are still in Hanover. Charlie stopped at the office some time back, but I missed him. His books on skiing are well worth reading. I have seen Ed Fowler, of Suncook, once or twice, but cannot give any information except that he is in business. Last March my wife and I went to Washington for a few days and called on Bob Monahan in Alexandria, Virginia He used to be here in Laconia, but now handles publicity for the U. S. Forest Service at the Capital. There is another Monahan, now, who came late this fall. Bob and I tried to ferret out some '29ers, but were unsuccessful. We went to the weekly Dartmouth luncheon, but saw no one from our class. Duke Barto was sick and Hal Leich had been transferred out west by the Forest Service a day or two before.

There are several others in Nashua, but I only know of Johnny Bryant who has been written up in these colums before. Paul Woodbridge, Dick Doe, John Milligan, Bill Kennedy, Ken Moran (ed. note: see below) and others have been reported in New Hampshire, but I have no present information about them. We have two children, Mildred, 4, and Andrew, 1. Our law practice is quite general, with a considerable amount of trial work involved. In case there are those who think there is nothing to do up here in the country after dark, let me say that if you were chairman of the school board, a director of a bank, director of the Chamber of Commerce, president of the Golden Rule Farm for Boys, interested in local politics, civic affairs, skiing, badminton, and golf you would not have to worry about time hanging heavy on your hands. Each year at this time, I often feel like retiring from it all to devote the next two months to schussing down precipitous mountain sides, but we are fortunate in having a lighted ski run within two hundred yards of our back door, and we do manage to sneak off for a few minutes in the evening once in a while."

Charlie Dudley, author and manufacturer's agent for winter sports apparel and equipment, just returned from a three and a half weeks' trip to the middle West:

"On the day of my arrival in Chicago, the picture of Richard Burke and attractive bride, married sometime in September in Warren ton, Va., and now living in Wayne, Ill., graced the society pages of the Chicago Tribune. Talked to Dick over the phone, who had just returned to Chicago from the east. Made a radio appearance with Pat Flaherty over WBBM, who was more interested in football than he was in skiing, and having seen the Cornell-Dartmouth Classic, Notre DameSouthern California fracas (you know, I was accidently passing through South Bend about 1 o'clock that Saturday), and the Chicago Bears smear the Cardinals, I felt like Bill Cunningham and Eddie Dooley combined when I was asked to pick a couple of outstanding football players and the Rose Bowl contestants (which was no art in this year). I planned a little business in Minneapolis so I could take in the National Ski Convention. It was a wonderful meeting and a great reunion. Bob Monahan was there from Washington representing the Forestry Service, which had apparently conducted things to the satisfaction of the skiing public, although a certain other government agency went in for quite a tossing from some of the boys from the great Northwest. Bob stayed with Dick Sanders who was coming over to the convention, but the family had come down with colds (I believe). Tried to reach him Sunday morning at what I considered a respectable hour, and found that he was still the early morning riser—having been up at sixes and sevens and out for a drive with the family. Gramp Monahan was looking sleek as a well trained athlete, and showed that a white collar job in Washington hasn't interfered with his good health and disposition. I inquired of some of the Portland and Seattle delegates about Hal Hirsch and Jim Hodson (ed. note: see below) who are well known and well regarded in their chosen fields."

Ken Moran is off on a jaunt with his wife—driving out to the West coast from Jamestown, N. D. He wrote in for latest addresses of Eddie Plumb and Nat Barrows (Walt Disney Studios, Hollywood, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, respectively) whom he hopes to visit.

Missed seeing Bill Henretta when he called by at the office just before Christmas. He was here in Boston attending an opening or convention dedicated to toys and the Christmas spirit.

Maurie Mandlebaum of the department of philosophy at Swarthmore, may not be the typical absent-minded professor but he has just gotten around to announce to this column the birth on last June 6th of his second child John David (no relation to the haberdasher, he says). A more recent Mandlebaum event is the publication in the winter number of The AmericanScholar of Maurie's article "Can There Be a Philosophy of History."

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