Class Notes

1905*

October 1942 WALTER M. MAY
Class Notes
1905*
October 1942 WALTER M. MAY

President Edmund Ezra Day of Cornell received the Degree, Doctor of Laws, at the 110th annual commencement exercises of New York University in June. The degree was conferred by Doctor Harry Woodburn Chase, Chancellor of the University, who is a member of the Class of 1904 at Dartmouth. Congratulations, Edmund, on the merited honor and on the privilege of receiving it from Chancellor Chase.

At a ceremony in St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, Miss Mary F. Godfrey, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Edward C. Godfrey of 33 Fisher Street, became the bride of John C. Richardson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Richardson of 37 Fisher Street. The ceremony was performed by Rt. Rev. John T. Dallas, Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, assisted by Rev. Clinton L. Morrill, rector of St. Thomas Church, before the altar decorated with white snapdragons and gladioli. The bride was given in marriage by her father.

The bridegroom was graduated from Tabor Academy and Dartmouth College in 1941. He recently received the degree of Master of Arts from Columbia University. Mrs. Richardson was graduated from Abbott Academy and Wheaton College.

Early in August Miss Elizabeth Davis Chamberlin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Roy Chamberlin of Winchester, Mass., became the bride of Lieutenant Brainard Tucker Macomber, U.S.N.R. of Marblehead, at the Unitarian Church in Winchester. Mrs. Chamberlin is a graduate of the King-Smith Studio School in Washington, D. C. Lt. Macomber, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sumner Macomber of Providence, attended Moses Brown and Hotchkiss Schools and was a member of the Class of 1938 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is now on active duty. The congratulations of the Class are extended to these two young couples.

Dr. Andy and Mrs. MacMillan and Miss Elizabeth spent the month of August in their summer home on Lake Sunapee in Newbury, New Hampshire. Andy reports that they had the pleasure of entertaining the "Sage of Norwich" C. C. Hills and the beloved physician, Bill Clough of Sunapee. C. C. reported full compliance with Secretary Wickard's Food for Victory Program. If you need any vegetables—particularly Hubbard squash—write to C. C. at Norwich, Vermont.

Doctors Bill and his son, Dr. William Jr., have recently opened very attractive and well-equipped offices m New London, New Hampshire.

Miss Elizabeth MacMillan enters West Hill School in Boston this fall.

Harry Boynton Preston spent the summer at his ancestral home in Henniker, New Hampshire. Harry was busy with literary work and lecturing.

Your Secretary had the pleasure of taking lunch with Walter Nourse of Los Angeles at the Hotel New Yorker the first of August. Walter was teaching at New York University School of Education for the summer session.

He had lunched with Stanley Besse earlier in the week and reported that Stanley was much improved in health and back at work.

Ernest M. White's present business address is 119 Exchange Street, Portland, Maine. His home address is R. F. D. 4, Portland, Maine. No report on his crops has been received.

Emil A. Silha is now at 2214 Marshall Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Cliff Pierce is Army Air Corps Inspector with Winslow Brothers and Smith Company, Norwood, Mass. His home address is 293 Pond Street, Westwood, Mass.

Walter Huston Lillard retains his residence in Marion, Mass. and is Director, School of Munitions Technology, National Fireworks, Inc., West Hanover, Mass.

Winslow Brothers and Smith, and the National Fireworks Company are fortunate in having men like Cliff and Walter on their staffs.

"Flight over Arras" by Saint Exupery

(Reynal and Hitchcock, New York) and "The New Belief in the Common Man" by Carl C. Freiderich (Little, Brown and Company) are stimulating reading.

On October 10 we send another lot of Class Notes to Hanover for the November number of the MAGAZINE. May they contain generous contributions from '05 men in the middle and far west. We wish especially information about their part and that of their families in the war activities.

Secretary and Treasurer, 4 Holt St., Concord, N. H.