1908*
Harold (Homerun) Hobart, whose address has been Proctorville, Vermont, care Vermont Marble Company, for many years, is now located in Nashua, N. H., his old home town. He lives at 127 Amherst Street. And that is just across the street from the new athletic park Nashua has built with the help of the WPA, where there's a baseball game every afternoon from May to October.
Another change of address: Phil (Long Tommy) Thompson now gets his personal mail at 25 Prospect Drive, Yonkers, N. Y.
Direct news from classmates is scanty this month. Their reluctance to report by mail has been established for many years, so your correspondent had a notion he might pack his spare shirt and set out on a news-hunt some time in February, at least through New England. Cash in on some of those invitations to lunch, burn some pipe tobacco, and bag enough gossip to construct an entertaining column. A succession of blizzards, ice storms and bad roads delayed the excursion until the collar fell off the spare shirt. So all we know is what we see in the papers.
One of the papers, the Boston Traveler, ran a pretty strong editorial in February in defense of our classmate Dr. Harold O. Rugg, whose history text books have been under fire this year. It seems that groups and individuals whose minds are dominated by their patriotism want the younger generations taught history on the basis of "My country, may she ever be right; but right or wrong, My country." Dr. Rugg, always the pure scientist, has recognized .certain cold historical facts which raise the suspicion that his country is generally right, but at times has gotten a bit over the middle line in the highway onto the wrong side. Whether these incidents should forever be kept a secret from younger students is a question. The Traveler editor sides with Dr. Rugg.
First 'OB contribution to the 1940 Alumni Fund comes from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Yes, "General" Knox sent a generous check to Art Lewis early in the year. And with it a letter.
The General says things are rather quiet in Brazil although he expected a little excitement the following Saturday, when a steamer load of tourists arrived from the States ready to take on the Rio Carnavalwhich Carnaval (that is the way he spells it) is much different today than twenty-five years ago in that it consists mostly of dances at clubs and hotels instead of the small groups that formerly paraded on the streets and made Carnaval for their own amusement and the delight of the on-looker.
In sending his generous contribution, the General says he hopes the College will continue to get along as it always has, even to its own surprise, after letting loose on an unsuspecting world the Class of 'OB.
Fund Contributors for 1939 Contributors: 93 (57% of graduates). Total gifts: $1,557 (56% of objective). ARTHUR L. LEWIS, Class Agent.
1908
Anderson, Arthur T. Badger, Erastus B. Barnes, Arthur B. Bartlett, Edward P. Blake, Francis G. Blakely, Joseph W. Blanchard, Gordon Blood, Arthur K. Chandler, Albert R. Chesley, Roland E. Clark, John A. Comstock, Donald L. Corcoran, John W. Cowee, Howard W.
Crosby, Sumner Currier, Warren Danforth, Richard S. Detlefsen, John A. Donahue, Joseph J. Dunn, Theodore I. English, Harold L. English, William F., Jr. Everett, John S. Farrington, Edward C. Fine, George B. Fiske, Eben W. Gleason, Percy E. Griffin, Thomas J.
Griffin, Winthrop A. Griswold, Laurence W. Hale, Warren F. Hammond, J. Albert Harding, Jesse Hilton, Howard H. Hinman, John H. Hoar, Crosby A. Hobart, Harold S. Hodgson, Fred H. Hopkins, Arthur S. Hull, Morton Johnson, J. Herbert Knight, William D. Lewis, Arthur L. Lewis, Mason A. Lincoln, Ernest A. Lowe, Porter W. Mann, Scott W. Marsden, Raymond R. Marsh, Everett T. Marsh, Raymond E. Marshall, Lee W. Melville, Chester W. Merrill, Richard B. Munkelt, Frederick H. Nichols, Andrew L. Norton, John A. Nute, Stanley P. O'Shea, Arthur D. Parker, Raymond B. Parkinson, Dana Prentice, Eugene M.1 Robinson, Francis A.
Rogers, Harry K. Rotch, Arthur B. Royce, Clayton E. Rugg, Robert B. Rutherford, Seymour S. Ruxton, Douglas D. Safford, Charles N. Schilling, Frederick E. Severance, Charles C. Sherburne, Raymond W. Shoninger, Alexander S." Sides, Arthur C. Snow, Harold H. Soule, Arthur T. Spear, Alden T. Squier, George E. Stearns, Malcolm Stickney, Park W. Stone, Henry L. Stripp, Fred S. Symmes, Laurence M. Thompson, John W. Thompson, Philip L. Thompson, Robert F. Treadway, Lauris G. Vaitses, Paul S. Vietor, Frederick Walker, Charles H. Wiley, Earl W. Wilson, George F. Wyman, Arthur M. 1 Memorial giftfrom Mrs•Prentice.
Secretary, 115 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
From A. B. ROTCH Milford, N. H.
