1908*
ILL the March issue of THE VERMONTER our classmate Fred Copeland has published Farewell Steamer Chateaugay! If any of the class are uninformed about the historic vessel, the steamer Chateaugay plied the waters of Lake Champlain for many years, and last month its steel hull was cut into 21 sections which were loaded on flatcars and hauled to Lake Winnipesaukee where the craft is being re-assembled and by July will be ready to replace the famous old Mount Washington as the excursion steamer on New Hampshire's largest lake. So it appears to be time for some '08er in the Granite State to wax lyric and write Welcome Steamer Chateaugay!
We are informed on good authority that a considerable number of the class has received letters this spring expressing the appreciation of the college for their membership in the Dartmouth Regulars. A Dartmouth Regular, in case you don't know, is an alumnus who hasn't skipped a year in making his contribution to the Alumni Fund, and has nothing to do with the military nor with a bran diet. Several of the 'OB Regulars have contributed every time for 25 consecutive years.
Sympathy o£ the class is extended to Mrs. Charlie Walker of Portsmouth. Her father, Judge John Scammon, died suddenly March 8.
The class of 'OB is to be congratulated 011 having more big strong silent men than any other. Some other group may contest the big and strong, but for silence we're tops. How nearly 200 men can keep so completely and consistently silent is amazing.
In frantic search for a bit of gossip to liven up the column in the May MAGAZINE your reporter attended the annual dinner of the Nashua Alumni Association April 5. Found friends from all the contiguous classes, but not another '08er in the room, though we looked under the tables and behind the chairs. Hoping for better luck at the Boston dinner April 12, but that's just too late for the deadline on news for May.
The silent men having failed us, we can pass along an item on a couple of the girls. The last of March the Dartmouth Women's Club of Boston had a party and dance at the Hotel Vendome to fatten up the treasury of their scholarship fund. General chairman of the affair was Alice (Mrs. Pete) McCarty, and Mable (Mrs. Percy) Gleason was on the committee.
Larry Treadway has added the Harkness Inn in Springfield, Vt., to the chain of hotels he manages, and his son will be the resident manager. This we learned from the newspapers. And Phil Avery '09, was the architect who remodelled the palatial home of the late James Harkness, former governor of Vermont, into a unique and charming hostelry in the pretty village where Classmate Queech Safford keeps silent as any '08er.
Secretary, 115 Broadway, New York, N. Y. From A. B. ROTCH Milford, N. H. Class Agent, 125 Walnut St., Watertown, Mass
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