1908*
Several new addresses are reported: Howard Williams at 11001 Madison Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Bill Silleck at 15 Treadwell Ave., Lynbrook, N. Y. Whitman K. Coffin at 438 Marlboro St., Boston. Gordon Blanchard at 17 Highland Way, Scarsdale. N. Y. Paul Batchelder at 910 West 22nd St., Austin, Texas. Howard Hilton at 111 West Washington St., Chicago. Howard Williams is now vice president of the Glidden Company in Cleveland.
Francis Robinson of Des Moines visited in the East last month. He was in Hanover at the Norwich game, and the following week he was a guest of Art Wyman at the latter's summer home on Ponemah Hill in Milford.
He's no sooner down than he's up. We mean Rosy Hinman. Just the same now that he's vice president of the International Paper Company as it was when he fullbacked the 'OB class football team. Late in September we got word that Rosy was in the hospital in Boston and we went up to the Norwich game all oozing sorrow and sympathy for the Big Pulp and Paper exec And there he was, all full of pep and looking chipper as ever. He admitted he HAD been in the hospital, but now with Mrs. Hinman was up at Hanover Inn for a 10-day “vacation. Our sympathy changed to envy. A 10-day vacation with Jennie Hinman would be great anywhere, and no- where better than at Hanover Inn (adv. for Ford and Peggy).
Classmates at the opening grid game included Queech Safford from Springfield, Robinson from Des Moines, Hobart from Nashua, and Bill Knight from Rockford, 111. The latter attending a meeting of the Athletic Council and dinner for Council members and Dartmouth coaches.
At the funeral of Dr. Ben Sanborn, October 6, in Manchester the class was represented by Warren Hale, Rotch, Harry Rogers, Stan Tappan and Ralph Sherburne. Hale arranged to have flowers sent, from the class, and by telephone notified all classmates in the region of the place and hour of the services.
Have hopes of occasional contact with Harry Harriman, now that our daughter is married and living in Providence. A phone call to Harry's home early one morning got Mrs. Harriman, who said Harry had gone to work at the factory (we hated to call so early, fearing we'd wake him up!) Their youngest daughter is a freshman at Smith this year. If our daughter throws a soggy biscuit from her apartment window it will land in the dooryard of Dr. McCabe. Yeh, Chester '05. We promised him the medical business from across the street, when, if and as.
Mike Stearns' son Kendall is completing his internship at St. Luke's hospital in New York. Son Sandy has taken a naval course of study this summer and has just started work as instructor in navigation on training ship Prairie State. Daughter Nancy with her children enjoyed the summer vacation with Mike and Annis at their seaside cottage at Point o' Woods.
Jimmy Norton is now in a responsible position on the Pacific coast with Vega Aircraft, makers of Lockheed planes.
Don Comstock is reported to be doing rather well with his de luxe real estate development, Vermillion Lagoons at Vermillion, Ohio, where "every lot's a waterfront." Classmates hope he makes a million in Vermillion.
Bill Knight writes from Rockford that at the Norwich game he saw Mr. and Mrs. Joe. Donahue, Mott. Hull and String Hale, in addition to classmates mentioned elsewhere. The Robinsons have a son in the freshman class, and there is also a second generation Donahue in Dartmouth.
A letter from Bert Thwing in Montreal says:
"My family is, of course, pretty well grown up. The oldest girl married last month, and is living in North Carolina. The other girl is in New Hampshire, taking special nurse's training, and my son, who has just finished his first year at McGill, is in the Army.
"Would like mighty well to see some of you, but presume the next reunion will be the first opportunity, as the boys do not come up here now, since prohibition has been repealed."
The usual shortage pf class news as the MAGAZINE deadline caught us resulted in a phone call to Larry Symmes' office in search of gossip. We got only one item; that Larry was on a vacation, had gone south, and was expected back in New York in about ten days. For this item we paid the telephone company $1.10. We'll consider offering a dollar to the Alumni Fund for every good news item sent us by letter or postcard, barring only Art Lewis and Bill Knight who usually help us out anyway and whose interest in the Fund would quickly bankrupt us.
From Milford, N. H. Treasurer, Taftville, Conn.
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