1908*

December 29 Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Cowee of 27 Somerset Street, Worcester, announced the engagement of their daughter Barbara to Franklin Neal Wood, son of Mrs. Jessie F. Wood of Needham, Mass. Howard writes that the wedding will take place in the fall. Miss Cowee is a senior in Mount Holyoke college, and Mr. Wood, a graduate of Bates, is employed by the Atlantic Refining Company in Boston.

Dr. and Mrs. Eben Winslow Fiske announced the marriage of their daughter Ann to John Frazer Petty on January 26 in Pittsburgh, Penna.

December 16 Miss Kathryn Fay Symmes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence M. Symmes of Scarsdale, New York, was married to Guernsey Sackett Buck of White Plains, N. Y. The wedding took place in the Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge, Pa. The bride is a graduate of Vassar in 1937 and Mr. Buck graduated at Yale the same year. He is in the investment banking business in New York. Mr. and Mrs. Buck will live in Scarsdale.

Now having reported all the Cupid news that has filtered through this month we'll tell classmates that Howard Cowee took his wife on a nice trip last December, to California. They spent most of the time in Pasadena where they found Classmates Dick Merrill and Jimmie Norton well and going strong. Dick's younger boy hopes to enter Dartmouth next fall and keep up the good record made by his daddy and older brother John. Howard adds that his law practice in Worcester is varied and interesting, keeps him busy, and that (or something) makes him a cordial hater of the New Deal.

Here are some new addresses: Tom Varney now at 80 South Street in Littleton, N. H. Porter Lowe at 270 Bay State Road, Boston. Larry Griswold at 400 N. E. sth Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (winter only, Larry still lives in Batavia, N. Y.). Ralph Crowley in the steamship business in Boston and living at 26 Hurlbut Street, Cambridge.

Mail to William W. Dann at 18 France Street, Norwalk, Conn., is now returned and nobody seems to know where Bill is. For ten years no news of him has come to the class, and if anybody knows where he is, or anything about him, please send it in. Many classmates who knew Bill in freshman year, when he was quite a factor in Richardson Hall life, would be glad to get word of him.

Of no importance, but just to keep the record straight, Art Eberle's official title while he was in Venezuela and Cuba was General Manager of the Standard Oil Company. In the story of his life and death in last month's MAGAZINE this connection with Standard Oil was omitted.

Bob Marsden writes that Frank Cook is now located in Spokane, Washington, and is assistant superintendent of the Idaho Division of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He says that last summer two of Frank's daughters spent some time with an aunt in Burlington, Vt., and visited Hanover. The older daughter, Margaret, graduated last June at University of Washington, and the younger, Frances E., is now a senior there. Margaret is employed as a technician in the Washington State Laboratory.

From his information about Cook, Bob went on to tell about Lincoln, and we thought we had a good news item about our Classmate of that illustrious name. The story, though, was not about '08's Abe, but about Abe Lincoln of '6 j -'65. Which reminded us that Bob Marsden and his wife are living in Manchester, Vermont, the home of Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the Great Emancipator, and Lincoln stories there are as natural and numerous as Ford stories in Detroit. What this tells you is that Bob and Helen Marsden are very happily located in a pretty little new home on the side of a mountain in Manchester, Vermont, where the golf is good in summer and the skiing is fine in winter.

Dr. Harold O. Rugg appears to have come out on top in the discussions about his school text books that were attacked as "un-American" by some educators. Harold's books on social sciences, used in the Englewood, N. J., schools among many others, were criticized by B. C. Forbes, the publisher, who is a member of the Englewood school board. The attacks appeared to come from the Hearst newspapers and some super-patriotic organizations, and were promptly met by the author of the books in the vigorous style his classmates would expect. Just who wins an argument of this sort is sometimes hard to tell, but a good yardstick would seem to be the sale of the books. Dr. Rugg's publishers have informed him that instead of reducing the demand for his books the attack on them has brought increased sales.

Walter Furman writes that he moved from New York City to Scottdale, Penna., last June. He says that as he was brought up in a small town (Wilton, N. H.) he ought to be at home in one, but actually he finds it a big change to shift from a big town to a small one. He is with the Duraloy Company in Scottdale, and adds that his son David, who graduated at Harvard last June, is now with him and trying to learn the steel business.

Secretary, 115 Broadway, New York, N. Y. From A. B. ROTCH Milford, N. H.

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