1908*
Art Wyman's grandson-a-month club is going good. On December 5, 1941, daughter Edith Wyman Tupper presented him with a grandson, and on January 31, 1942, daughter Virginia Wyman Hazen did likewise. Art says he hasn't figured out where the February one is coming from, but he is looking around.
The postcard plea for news of the class brought some quick response, and further results should be available for the April number. From several sources came accounts of the avocational accomplishments of John A. (Rembrant) Clark of New Canaan, Conn., and New York, N. Y. Less than 10 years ago Jack gave up golf, took up painting. Calls himself a Sunday painter, meaning he just does it for fun in spare time. His paintings have been exhibited by the American Watercolor Society in New York, at the Silvermine Guild, and the University Club in New York, and currently he has a one-man exhibit at the Cushing Bookshop. Jack says one need not have special ability or talent to enjoy painting and produce creditable pictures. However, lest some classmate thinks he can get a brush, some paint, and turn off saleable pictures just like that, we should say that Jack began his "Sunday" painting in 1933 by studying with Carroll Holliday, and spent the next summer at the art school of George Pearce Ennis in Eastport, Maine. In 1934 and 1935 he attended Eliot O'Hara's watercolor school near Kennebunk, Maine. In 1937 he studied in Gloucester with Ralph Pearson; in 1938 again with O'Hara; in 1939 with Yovan Rodenkovich at Gloucester; in 1940 with Harwood Steiger at Edgartown, Mass., and the past summer with Barse Miller and Paul Sample; all in addition to various night classes in New York including a term under Jean Chariot. Jack may be a modest "Sunday painter" but he's no novice.
Laurence M. Symmes Jr., has resigned as instructor in a California prep school and taken a defense job in San Francisco. Because of faulty vision he was rejected by the Army and the Navy.
Mike Stearns is hopeful of organizing 1908 in New York and winning the class attendance cup at the first alumni dinner they've had in the Big Town in years.
At the Boston alumni dinner Joe Donahue, Art Lewis and George Squier sat together and had the nerve to make faces at Classmate Art Soule who was seated at the head table. Tute Worthen, retiring as president of the Boston Alumni Association, announced the election of Soule as the new president. Those Tri Kaps always did work together.
John Thompson writes that he had a phone call from Lewis, but failed to get a better contact. Tommy sends us an account of Jack Clark's success in watercolor art, and also mails us a perfectly good keyhole, front door size, which he hopes will aid in getting the dirt on the clamish classmates.
Bob Marsden has been quite ill since mid-November, in Wilmington, Del. In January he had a quite serious operation. Latest reports were that he is better, but
Parson Bill English informs us that his daughter, Elizabeth, a Junior in the College of Music of Boston University, competed in the finals for representing Boston University on Fred Allen's program in New York. The young lady is a fine concert pianist having won high honors in her chosen field. Bill is rounding out ten years as minister in the First Congregational Church in Norwood, Mass.
A few new addresses: Jack Everett, accountant, has office at 9 Green Street in Augusta, Maine, and lives at 39 Summer Street, Hallowell, Maine. Larry Griswold, reported last month in Tucson, Arizona, gives his current address as 3045 E. Drachman Street, Tucson. Roger Hill is now at 1913 6-Mile Road, Apt. 86, Highland Park, Mich. Alva Rutherford's home is now at 822 Webb St., Detroit.
Because, or in spite of, his grandfathering business, Art Wyman went plumb lyric when he got our double postcard. We have no quarrel with the meter, and the sentiment expressed is one in which we enthusiastically concur. Sez the poet:
Rise, Oughty Eight, the bugle sounds! Art Rotch's summons loud resounds. Line up. Report, that Ought Eight files record your sorrow, joy or smiles. The address changed for Army life? Do you announce a second wife? Since all of us would like to know, complete the postal here below. Let news be cheerful, bright or solemn—we ask it for the Ought Eight column.
From Milford, N. H.
