1913*
Real News: Miss Gladys Mae Godfrey was married to Edmund Arthur Freeman of Washington, D. C. at noon, January 1, 1941 at the Chestnut Street Congregational Church, Worcester, Mass. Mrs. Freeman is the daughter of Mrs. William Rufus Godfrey of Litchfield, Maine and is a graduate of Nasson College. She was a teacher in the Ward School of Shrewsbury, Mass. The Freemans will live in Washington at 2013 New Hampshire Avenue.
Before I go on with the column I would like to thank all who sent Chritmas Greetings. I have not had an opportunity to acknowledge all in a more personal manner yet.
George Watts and two colleagues narrowly escaped a bad auto accident in November returning from the North Carolina College Conference where they had represented Davidson College. George had practically stopped his car when a skidding car hit his, so cuts and bruises only were sustained, "but my car is a mess."
Sid and Lillian Akerstrom have left Littleton, N. H. for a few months' visit in Washington. Until April 1st they will be at 224 F Street, N. W. in the Capital.
Chuck Riley and Barbara have moved back into New England—Dorchester Road, Darien, Conn. Chuck is an insurance broker with Johnson & Higgins, 63 Wall Street, New York City George Davidson, as usual, has left Connecticut for the winter and can be found at Palm Beach, Florida; Box 2042, Station A is the address.
Leeds Gulick is teaching again. He is Educational Advisor with CCC Co. 145 at the Plymouth, Vermont camp.
The New York Herald Tribune on December nth ran an athletic page story on Dave Morey's football regime at Wilbraham. The Academy's two-year record under Coach Morey shows eleven victories and one defeat. Dave has an all year round job at Wilbraham as Director of Athletics and coach of the three major sports, football, basketball and baseball. The 13th of this month the Hartford (Conn.) Times wrote up the celebration of the football season:
"A football season mutually triumphantfor both team and coach is being celebratedat Wilbraham Academy. Coach Dave Morey, his assistants and the entire footballsquad were entertained this week at a dinner at the Hartford Golf Club with localalumni acting as hosts. Wilbraham has longbeen a popular school for boys from thisvicinity and has a strong alumni grouphere.
"Wilbraham won five out of six gamesthis year with the Cushing Academy gamethe only loss. Victories were scored overMoses Brown, Mount Hermon, Williston,Monson and Suffield. The Wilbraham boysscored 127 points against a scoreless opposition."
Last year some friends of Paul Harmon in Portland, Maine discussed and started a Paul Harmon Memorial Fund which has been this Fall accepted by the Athletic Council. The Council has voted to set it up as a permanent fund and apply the income to the purchase of an annual trophy for the Interfraternity Relay Races. This event, as you all will remember, used to be one of the high spots of the indoor track season and the races are being brought back again. Many in the class who have learned of the fund have subscribed to it in varying amounts. If any others are interested a check can be forwarded to Larry Day in the Chapman Building in Portland or to the secretary.
Grandpa Jewett sent in, early in December, a picture of a very beautiful little girl, "Sherry" Wright. Betty and friend husband John were with the Jewetts in Laconia for an FDR Thanksgiving as they live in Troy and had to take their turkey a week early. T. D. writes "Sherry is smart like ME." He took his vacation trip this year to Bermuda and Caracas, Venezuela.
Fifteen years of collecting were represented in an elaborate Christmas creche displayed during the holidays at the home of Carl and Grace Forsaith, 242 Westminster Avenue, Syracuse, N. Y. Scenes from the Nativity are presented in three tableaux, each of which occupies a good-size table top.
Tableau I shows the flight into Egypt, with Mary and Joseph stopping at a desert oasis; Tableau II shows the angels announcing the birth of Christ to the shepherds, and Tableau III shows the Holy Family at the manger, with the three kings kneeling in adoration and villagers crowded into the inn yard in the background.
All three settings were composed by Carl who has made a point of building bigger and bigger creches annually since he started his first in 1925.
For human figures, he uses the brightly painted plaster statuettes imported from Europe for church displays. His animals and scenic effects are part of a collection of more than 300 miniature figures and brica-brac pieces picked up in all parts of the world. Among them are a burro from Estes Park, Colo.; a clay oil pot from Italy; a cloisonne vase from France; sandstone rocks from Bryce Park, Utah, and shale cliffs from Onondaga County.
The inn is constructed of sandpaper and resembles adobe huts observed by Carl in Taos. The ground is of tiny quartz pebbles.
On Christmas eve I read a long letter from Chet Dudley, chiefly on football, and after remarks on the past Dartmouth season, Coach Blaik and his staff, Chet wrote "I hope it will be our good fortune to have those men with us throughout their entire coaching career." Then the morning after Christmas we woke to read in the BostonHerald Arthur Sampson's finely written article giving the bad news. We all hate to see the coaches leave but none can blame them, and we sympathize with Carl Wood, Bill McCarter and the rest of the Athletic Council in the job they now have in filling Blaik's shoes and those of his staff.
Secretary, Box 2057, Boston, Mass.
