1908

Larry Tread way was elected president of the Berkshire Conference in March, and his son John was elected director from Williamstown, so the Treadway family should be pretty influential in affairs of western Massachusetts. The Berkshire Conference is the big organization of Berkshire County whose efforts for industrial advancement and general improvement of that region has attracted wide attention.

J. A. Hammond, who has been pastoring in Enfield for some years, left there in March to accept a call to be minister of the First Parish Congregational church in Groveville, Maine. After graduating at Dartmouth in 1908, Hammond studied at Bangor Theological seminary. He was a chaplain in World War I, and in 1921 received his bachelor of divinity degree at Union Theological seminary. Before going to Enfield he held pastorates in Westbrook, Maine, Closter, N. J., Richford and Berkshire, N. Y. He began work in his new parish March 16. Besides the Groveville church, he will have charge of the Congregational church in Buxton, Maine.

Larry Symmes recently became a trustee and treasurer of the Hackley School in Tarrytown, N. Y. Stan Tappan, Hackley '04 and Dartmouth 'OB, is one of the distinguished alumni of the School. Classmate-Banker Symmes says he hasn't deserted Wall Street for educational fields, but had the job wished on him when the Hackley School was taken over by the American Unitarian Society, of which Larry has long been an officer.

Gardner Marion plans to be at the 35th reunion in '43, but for a few hours last January he was quite certain he was in a sailor's grave up to his eyebrows. He is '08's Number One yachtsman and seafarer, and usually his lengthy cruises cost him plenty, whether to the South Seas by luxury liner, or less extensive travels in his own craft. So when he had a chance to go to Florida aboard a brand new yacht at little or no expense he wasn't long making up his mind to let Classmate Roger Hill run the lumber business in his absence. It was a fine cruise aboard the fancy new craft on its way to Miami for delivery to its owner. But off the Carolina coast there was a storm, a rip-snorter. The new yacht opened a seam, two seams, in fact most of its planking shook loose and down it went, some 20 miles off shore. Some tanker picked up the crew after they had been tossed around several hours on a liferaft. If it hadn't—well, Gardner doubts if he could swim 20 miles even in calm water.

Art Lewis is a grandfather for the second time. First grandchild, his daughter's daughter is in Honolulu and Art went out there in February for a nice visit. His son-in-law is a naval officer. The new grandson was fathered by Art's son Jack, who is employed by the Chrysler Corporation in Detroit and expects soon to be in military service.

Gordon Blanchard returned to Scarsdale in March after spending part of the winter in California. He gave up his job with Waterfalls Paper company, where he was in charge of their New York office, and is reported to be taking on a new job in the paper business in Fitchburg, Mass.

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