1908*
A few new addresses have filtered through: Alex Shoninger now at 85 Devonshire St., Boston, with Mass. Distributors, Inc. His old pal George Easton now at 16 Castle Ridge Road, Manhasset, L. I. Sidney Ruggles, construction engineer, with the Federal Correctional Institute in Danbury, Conn., is getting mail in care of Stacy Johnson, R.F.D. 3. in Danbury. "Elsie" Greenwood, now salesman for rock wool insulation, lives at 35 Ellsworth St., Portland, Maine, and has office at 317 Commercial St., Portland. Charlie DeAngelis at 1431 Genesee St. in Utica, N. Y.
Frank Cook is reported to roll around the mid-west in a private car, having been promoted to general superintendent of the Northern Pacific railroad for which he has worked many years.
Tat Badger was seen by classmates in Washington this fall, but not for long. He's never in one place more than a few minutes before he boards a plane for some other place far away. Latest reports are that he is building a giant TNT plant near Sandusky, Ohio.
From Rockford, Bill Knight bulletins that Jack ("Greetings") Norton was a recent guest speaker at a Cooperative Club luncheon in St. Paul. Jack coached some top-flight football teams at Mechanic Arts school in St. Paul, and his interest in and knowledge of the game are such that he scouts opponents of University of Minnesota regularly for head coach Bernie Bierman. We'd like it if Bob Blanpied would report more fully on Jack, and vice versa, as neither of these Minnesotians ever tell us much about themselves.
Art Wyman and family were at their summer estate in Milford, N. H., over Armistice Day week end, bedding down the place for the winter. He entertained Frank Robinson there in October; says he won't be back until it is time to shovel away the last snowdrift next March.
On Boston's Federal street a row of large show windows is regularly used for display of such interesting things as modern army weapons, plastics, flags, anything the crowd might like to see. At one time this fall the show was shells and many noses were flattened against the plate glass. Classmates were interested in the sign, saying it is the famous collection of Chet Melville. He, you know, has become one of the best known conchologists of the country, has walked practically the entire Atlantic coastline from Boston to Florida and many tropical beaches, and has assembled what is probably the world's finest collection of marine shells. We saw him at the Harvard game, and he never mentioned shells.
Mr. and Mrs. Art Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Keith, and the class reporter met unexpectedly in the New Haven railroad station lunch room just before the Yale game. As you'd expect, Art paid the check, also the taxi to the Bowl; he's that kind of a guy.
Many 'oBers were at the Harvard Stadium that sad October afternoon. Among those we hailed were Stan Tappans, Mike Stearns, Chet Melvilles, 'Lish Winslow, George Squiers, Gardner Marions, Bob Marsdens, Pete McCarthys, Percy Gleasons, Charlie Walker.
What do you think of when you see a nice well filled pair of Nylon hose? Well, you needn't answer that one, but what you should think of is Classmate Edward Payson Bartlett, Dartmouth 'OB, Harvard '13, M.A., Ph. D. and currently one of the top research chemists for the DuPont company in Wilmington, Del. On authority of Bob Marsden, also of Wilmington, with whom we had dinner after the Harvard game, Bartlett was responsible more than anybody else for the development of the remarkable fibre of which those lovely leg-wrappings are made. Bob says he sees Bartlett frequently, though few others of the class are in touch with him, and he is a pretty important feller around the DuPont laboratories. Bob, now engineer with the Atlas Powder company, took time off from making high explosives to bring his wife to New Hampshire for a week's visit in October.
From Milford, N. H. Treasurer, Taftville, Conn.
