1910*
DAUGHTERS AND SONS. . . .Virginia Brady, Wellesley '40, is spending this year at Katherine Gibbs School Marshall Comstock's son, Charles, attends Worcester Academy William Dussault, son of our own later Bill, was first man accepted from Franklin, N. H., in the Selective Service.
.... Howard Bushway is following his dad's footsteps with the Bushway-Whiting Ice Cream Co. at Boston Cheever Comey's nephew, Steve Belnap of Ottawa Hills, Ohio, is heading for Dartmouth next fall, much to Cheever's delight Young Bill Tucker is working for his Master's degree at M. I. T. and is a grand fellow, according to our Katherine Charlie Kent who is prepping for Dartmouth at Vermont Academy, is an all-round athlete, now playing on the hockey team Howard Fogg, D'38, is developing a lot of talent with water colors, having done some excellent work of trains and engines which have been his hobbies from childhood he offered two of his paintings to Bretano's in New York just prior to Christmas, and both sold quickly.
WHEN THE HAROLD ROBINSONS drove east from California last fall, they spent a delightful week-end with Robbie's old roommate, Leo Sherman, who has been in the Chemistry Department at Grinnell College, Grinnell, lowa, for 23 years We have no desire to encroach on '09's items, but we cannot let Jim Driscoll's death pass without a word. Jim was one of those fellows who developed tremendously with the passing years.... successful business man, public-spirited, generous, a friend of boys. .. .in fact, he was everything good wrapped up in one the world could have used Jim Driscoll for many more years.
FIRST IN UNITED STATES to establish practice of giving full pay to textile workers who have been drafted, is the credit given to our own "Albany" Hatch. .. ."Albany" runs the large Fuld & Hatch mills at Cohoes, N. Y., and at present has an order for some 240,000 undershirts and 340,000 underdrawers for the Government which is nothing new for his outfit as they have done Army work for many years.... an Albany newspaper article gives space and credit for his generous plan which he admitted in an interview with some reluctance, " 'Yes,' said Mr. Hatch, 'I told our boys, on the side, that when they are called to service, we plan to take care of their families so that there will be nothing to worry about in that respect. We will continue to pay their full wages each week to wives, mothers or others dependent upon them throughout the year that they are absent. I would much rather the whole matter be given no publicity. I'm no front page patriot.' "
PINEO JACKSON, our peregrinating speechifying insurance tycoon, who got pictured all over Bill Knight's home-town daily out in Rockford, sent us the following clipping taken from a Montpelier Argus of December a, 1915 when Rollie was taking another step forward in an educational career that led him to top places "Rollo G. Reynolds of Morrisville is to arrive here the day after tomorrow to take over his duties as executive clerk in the department of education."
JIM AND VELMA INGALLS are nicely settled and enjoying life in their Vermont home at Northfield where Jim is on the Norwich faculty Al Salmon lives at 203 Lowell Ave., Newtonville, has an office at 50 Congress St., in Boston Henry Beal resides at 66 Cedar St., Worcester We visited with Sheldon Smith recently "Smitty", a successful Troy attorney gave up tennis long ago, and says that he now keeps himself in trim by shovelling a little snow in the winter, playing a little golf in the summer, and working 14 hours per day in the meantime.
"THE NEW COACH AND WINSTON CHURCHILL delight us folks out here. What a guy!", pens The One and Only Tom Heneage on a note that accompanied his Class dues to Fletch Burton.... we like millions of others know that he is right on the Englishman and believe he won't have to change his opinion of Dartmouth's newest football coach.
JOE DAVIDSON'S death brought an earthly end to his life-long friendship with your Secretary. .. .through school and college together, we knew our friend as few others knew him....we knew the depth of his soul, his constant eagerness for learning, his indomitable resiliency to bound back from illness where many a man would have closed his eyes and bid a farewell to this troubled world.
Joe has been in failing health for many years, even prior to his retirement from teaching. .. .but that unconquerable spirit kept him teaching, kept him trying to get well, kept him ever learning even to the extent of going to Columbia summer school as late as two years ago when hope of recovery was at zero point.
He wrote us beautiful letters but they shortened in length, never in expression, as he lost the sight of one eye with diminishing vision in the other.
True to his nature, Joe was an intensely loyal Dartmouth man.... and while others in more fortunate circumstances may have given more materially, none ever gave greater love.
It is good for us all to have known a man like Joe Davidson, particularly good for our generation which is now in its fifth decade of living. His depth of soul, his strength of character, his unflinching courage to carry on should symbolize all that makes life worthwhile when the future looks dark, when the road seems filled with turns.
AT THE BOSTON DINNER were Art Allen, Hal Sprague, Irv Jewett, Ben Williams, Jim Everett, Ray Gorton, Inky Taylor, Johnny Hobbs, Joe Graves, Charlie Fay, Else Jenness '09 swiped most of '10's table but the gang just moved on and broke bread with '11.
THROUGH CIRCUITOUS CHANNELS there has come to our hands a bit of information about one Abiel Wood of Worcester. .. . the unimpeachable source pens very legibly, "A. Wayland Wood has always been very active in local politics, having spent several years as Chairman of the Republican City Committee. ..he is a grand guy, loyal Dartmouth man, and a real credit all around. As you know he is proprietor of the Wood Lumber Co. He has two fine youngsters, a daughter now a sophomore at Russell Sage, and a son scheduled to hit Hanover next fall."
Secretary, Canaan Street Canaan, N. H.
