1913*
Vacation time is here as I write. It will be all over when and if this is read and we all will have passed the time when "D'ja hava good summer?" is the familiar greeting.
Joseph P. Donahue of Donahue and Donahue, attorneys and counsellors at law, has been to Hanover to make arrangements for his second son to enter college. Next issue will or should have the list of all sons of 1913 in Hanover.
Albert Kinoy is Field Secretary for the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City and keeps young working for and with the boys.
"Governor's wife gets orchids for flying trip to Florida" was a headline in TheBurlington Free Press and Times and the large newspaper picture showed William S. "Bill" Appleyard pinning orchids on Mrs. Wills, wife of the governor, at the airport as she and the Governor were about to leave for Florida to visit the members of the Vermont National Guard and other Vermont soldiers encamped at Camp Blanding, Florida.
Steve K. "Gus" Perry has a new address of 128 No. Union St., Burlington, Vt., for he is with the Vermont Employment Service and is as happy as the proverbial clam. His second son, Nathaniel, is starting in with Sears, Roebuck in Burlington. Charles, you will remember, has been teaching in Saranac Lake, N. Y. Peter, the third son, represented his school (in White River Junction last spring) in the inter- scholastic debate at Burlington when eight schools contested. Pete was the only high school freshman debating.
Fred Hovey writes from Whitman, Mass. that his daughter is married and her daughter is one year old. His son, nineteen, "is taking up airplanes from the mechanical end."
At last a word from Evans Turchell. He is a member of the firm of Williams and Twitchell, Inc., investment securities, at 700 M & T Building, Buffalo, New York.
Leeds Gulick has been with the 145th Company CCC at Coolidge State Forest, Camp 5.52-Vt., Plymouth, Vt., but resigned last June to get back into camp work again at Camp Aloha, Fairlee, Vt. Many at our reunions will remember that camp.
Len Martin was made manager of the Real Estate Loan Dept. of the Webster Groves Trust Company last June so he now has added more duties to those of the management of the Real Estate Sales department. He writes that Ralph Bauman visited with him as he passed through St. Louis in June. Len and family were in Hanover last commencement to see his son Landon graduate.
Carl Shumway is Lieutenant Commander C.E.S. at the U. S. Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J. and writes: "Just finished lunch and a few hours at the controls. Got a great kick out of taking a swing in from the sea and taking a couple of circles around our home in Lynn field Center, Mass. Frances (my wife) ran out in the yard with surprise when she saw the airship—and the kids, mine included, chased us around the school yard as we circled it. Guess it was the first dirigible ever to fly over our country village."
The Ned Crawfords last spring moved into their new six room New England Colonial house he built at 311 So. Leitch Ave., La Grange, Illinois and are much pleased with it.
Mr. and Mrs. George Henry Stiles announce the marriage of their daughter Caroline Brown to Mr. David Johnson Livengood on Saturday evening the twenty-eighth of June in Washington, D. C. Caroline and Dave are now at home, 3006 Monument Ave., Richmond, Virginia. The wedding went off well in the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church. Both the bride and groom attended Duke University and graduated last June.
Robert L. Johnson is construction engineer with the Highway Construction Co., Cleveland, Ohio, and lives in Madison at 235 River St.
William L. Baldwin has turned his experience in forestry to aid the government and is at C.C.C. 555 Camp, at East Jaffrey, N. H.
Ed M. Stiles is temporarily with the Al- berta Nitrogen Co., Ltd., 1230 Tenth Ave. W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada on defense or war work. His son is with the R.C.A.F. training to be a pilot.
Rollo Hutchinson, while stationed at the U. S. Naval Hospital in Newport, R. I., is living at 18½ Greenough Place in New- port. He is on active duty after a long painful convalescence from an operation on his throat. When on the U. S. S. Colorado around Hawaii last year a hoarseness proved an operation necessary so he flew to Philadelphia where the operation was performed by Dr. Cluf "the best in the business." He hopes now for several years at Newport.
All will be sorry to learn that Frederic Libby, who has been ill for so long, is now confined to his bed, without radio, callers or reading and he suffers untold agonies much of the time.
Henry Merrill was elected president of the Boston Real Estate Exchange at its annual meeting on July 16th. For over fifty years the Boston Real Estate Exchange has been the predominating influence in Boston and its surrounding communities to- wards advancing the improved business of real estate brokerage to a high level, in solving many of the problems of real estate ownership and management, as well as taking a prominent and active interest in all public questions including taxation and expenditure of public funds. Tubby, we know, will continue this work in his forceful way which gets results. He is also a grandfather. He called up the office on July 10th and told us that Hank and Mary Lois down in Lima, Peru had a son, Douglas.
News of the death of Charles S. McDaniel who died on August 16th in Pittsburg, Pa. after a long illness following an operation last December reached us in Laconia. See necrology this month.
Having spent several days continuing the cleaning up after hurricane we decided on a tour of the class in this neigh- borhood. First stop was at Chuck Stone's post office in Andover, N. H. to see him, then on to cash a check at Jack Holmes' bank in Franklin and to Laconia to see the Jewetts. T. D. and Marian were bemoaning the fact that Betty and their grandd aughter had gone to California where son-in-law Jack is a wing designer. Steve Jewett goes to Harvard business school this fall. We went up to the new Belknap Mountain Recreation Centre and could look down (almost) on Wolfboro Neck where "Mose" and Ele Linscott were at their Camp Ossippee. Hanover tomorrow.
Rockwood Edwards in June completed 25 years' service with the Aetna Life Insurance Company where he is now general agent in Chicago, Ill. The event was celebrated at a dinner in his honor at which his staff were hosts. We quote from the In-surance Exchange Magazine of June, 1941:
"Mr. Edwards has a distinguished record of accomplishment as an agency executive. He shuns publicity for himself and tries so little to impress his importance upon agency and visitors that some little time was required after he took over the agency here when S. T. Whatley was advanced to vice president, before he became well known in the business in Chicago.
"There is no pretense about Rock Edwards, no suspicion that he thinks he is any better or abler than his men. He is natural and casual in his contacts. There are no dramatics or showmanship. He is businesslike but pleas- ant, and is always in there pitching for the best interests of his staff members.
"Rock Edwards has had a very broad experience which takes in both agency and home office service. He started with Aetna Life in 1916 in the home office group department. War service intervened, Mr. Edwards earning a first lieutenancy in an officers' training camp. He later was elevated to captain and was a personnel adjutant in charge o£ war risk insurance.
"Returning to Aetna Life after the war, he reentered the group department, then in 1923 was advanced to assistant secretary of the department and the next year to secretary. Under his direction the Aetna's policy of employing college graduates and giving them preliminary training in the home office before sending them to field positions was inaugurated.
"He became general agent at Detroit in 1925 in the Edwards & Baker agency, then in 1929 was transferred as general agent to New York City, taking charge of one of the large uptown Manhattan offices. It was there that he hung up a record for real accomplishment in agency management. The volume of business done was very greatly increased.
"Mr. Edwards was Mr. Whatley's personal choice from the entire available personnel throughout the country to succeed him as Chicago general agent in 1933."
GEORGE HENRY STILES AND CAROLINE ON JUNE 28TH, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Secretary, Box 2057, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
