1908*

This month we go to bat with more news than usual, thanks to postcard replies; and yet urged to use less space, thanks to war restrictions. Just one thing after another, eh?

Tried to coax Mort Hull to join at Holyoke on excursion to Dartmouth dinner in N. Y. February 19. No dice; Mort being big shot in Mass. Salvage Division (he calls it a Super-Junkman) and scheduled to make important radio talk that night.

Sixteen '08's at N. Y. dinner won cup for class having largest per cent with paid-for tickets. With O'Shea and Rotch, ringers from N. H., we had 65%. Others at class table: Stearns, Hinman, Baine, Blanchard, J. Clark, Dunn, Griffin, Knox, Munkelt, Perkins, Symmes, J. Thompson. (Knox not the General from Brazil, but Dr. Knox, Med. 'OB. He has practised 20 years in N. Y. city, now in general practice in New Hampton, N. J.)

After dinner all adjourned to the palatial suite of Rosy Hinman. Suite and concurrent hospitality what you'd expect from Int. Paper's vice pres. Mike read a flock of letters from absent classmates: Peebles, Chesley, Furman, Soule, Treadway, Blake, Adler, others.

Peebles, married again, is now doing accounting work for city of Ashland, Ky.; has son graduating at Dartmouth. Pop Chesley busy with his series of classical concerts in Utica, an old hobby of his. Adler composing and teaching music, part time in Boston. Tom Griffin teaching in N. Y. city, living in New Rochelle. Frothingham, back in Navy, living at 1808 (yeh, 08) Eye St., Washington. Chick Currier now running chain of 15 hardware stores in California's Imperial Valley, reports call from Bub Shaw who has a new wife; and Don Comstock reports calling on Chick while on western trip with Mrs. Don in December, also call on Dick Merrill but missed other California classmates.

Bill Knight appointed to important committee of five lawyers to codify Illinois state laws, recommend revisions, chop away cords of dead wood. Bill also reports seeing Dana Parkinson in Chicago where Dana represented American Farm Bureau Federation at some important convention. Paul Batchelder postcards "Still teaching mathematics at University of Texas." Larry Griswold, wintering in Tucson, says he'll return east in May. Larry Treadway offers to sell his Florida hotel cheap. From Rio "General" Knox writes a long letter, thinks conference of chancellors in So. America was worthwhile, having trouble with priorities for his railroad work, enjoys U. S. radio programs especially WRUL.

Raymond Robb Marsden died March 11 at the hospital in Wilmington, Del., where he had been ill for about a month. Reports are that Bob was cheerful and optimistic to the end, and greatly enjoyed letters from several classmates sent him after the New York alumni dinner. The class sent flowers for the funeral in Manchester, Vt., as a small token of love for Bob and sympathy for his widow.

Jess Harding writes of new Dartmouth club in Melrose; has seen Harold English, Stone, Keith, Tappan, and missed Web Evans of California who called. Gordon Blanchard now with Riegel Paper Co. at 342 Madison Ave., N. Y. Ray Sherburne busy with Lowell law practice, is very active in Masonic work. F. Robinson now on his fourth job as architect and planner of ordnance plants and military encampments. Earl Wiley is teaching at Ohio State. Dick Merrill running a bank in Los Angeles. String Hale reports seeing Rogers frequently, Flanders occasionally, all in N. H. forestry work. Andy Nichols teaching law in Chicago.

Much news about 2nd and 3rd generations, we'll have to compress it.

O'Shea; son John in Army, son Jim studying medicine, daughter Peg married. Evans; son Bradford recently commissioned in U. S. Air Corps, son Webster working in San Francisco shipbuilding plant. Symmes; both daughters married, son quit teaching to enlist and when turned down because of eyes took job in defense work in California. Stone-, son in Coast Artillery. A. Nichols; son Frank in Army, son Charles in U. of Chicago, son Herbert entering college next fall. Hale; son taking exam for U. S. Air Force. Merrill; says he's a grandfather once, with further prospects, himself on Los Angeles draft board. Bennett; son Charles a junior at Dartmouth ranked high in C.P.T. course and expects to be in Air Corps soon. Ev.Marsh; says his grandson Ev is going to Dartmouth. Squier; son Bill (Dart. '40) at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, daughter Barbara married last fall and now living in Cavendish, Vt. Tom McAllister; son Charles graduating this spring at U. of Rochester, daughter Shirley a junior there, daughter Constance in high school. Robinson; son a Dartmouth freshman, oldest daughter in U. of lowa, younger girl graduating at St. Katherine's School. Fine; reports a granddaughter Barbara Gail Fine, also marriage of his daughter Margery to Charles R. Plum. Blanchard; son Gordon is ensign in Naval Reserve aboard cruiser, daughter Carol training at Boston City hospital for Red Cross nurse. Munkelt; daughter Elizabeth with master's degree from Columbia now in Y.W.C.A. secretarial work in Cleveland. Harding; son Frederic in Ski Patrol at Roberts Field, Calif., daughter Helen married a year ago, daughter Faith secretary in Boston office of Ludlow Mfg. Cos. Everett; son joining Army, daughter a freshman at Smith. Treadway; son Richard '36 married and running hotel in Springfield, Vt., son John '39 married and running hotel in Williamstown, daughter Antoinette (Mt. Holyoke '38) married and living in Lakeville, Conn., son David (M.S. '39) married and running hotel in Florida, daughter Jane, aged 15, last of the flock living with the "old folks" in Williamstown. Wiley; one son in Army at Fort Devens, one in Alaska with Civil Aeronautics, one daughter married and living in Baltimore, youngest daughter graduating at Ohio State in June. Stearns; son Kendall '37 going into Navy as medical officer, son Sandy an instructor in Naval training, daughter Nancy married and two children.

And if our space wasn't all used up we'd have to quit anyway. After trying to read the handwriting on those postcards, blurred by postmarks, we're nearly blind.

Fund Contributors for 1941

Contributors: 106 (67% of graduates). Total gifts: $2,776. ARTHUR L. LEWIS, Class Agent.

1908

Anderson, Arthur T. Badger, Erastus B. Barnes, Arthur B. Bartlett, Edward P. Bennett, Charles G. Blake, Francis G. Blakely, Joseph W. Blanchard, Gordon Blanpied, David R. Blodgett, Guy C.

Blood, Arthur K. Butterfield, George Chandler, Albert R. Chesley, Roland E. Clark, John A. Comstock, Donald L. Cooper, Frederick A. Corcoran, John W. Cowee, Howard W. Crosby, Sumner

Currier, Warren Danforth, Richard S. Detlefsen, John A. Donahue, Joseph J. Dunn, Theodore I. English, Harold L. English, William F., Jr. Evans, Webster B. Everett, John S. Farrington, Edward C. Fine, George B. Fiske, Eben W. Frothingham, Donald Y. Furman, Walter F. Gleason, Percy E. Greeley, Eliphalet A. Griffin, Thomas J. Griffin, Winthrop A. Griswold, Laurence W. Hale, Warren F. Hammond, J. Albert Harding, Jesse Hilton, Howard H. Hinman, John H. Hoar, Crosby A. Hobart, Harold S. Hodgson, Fred H. Hopkins, Arthur S. Hull, Morton Jordan, Thomas E. Knight, William D. Knox, Benjamin C. Lewis, Arthur L. Lewis, Mason A. Lincoln, Ernest A. Lowe, Porter W. Mann, Scott W. Marion, Gardner S. Marsden, R. Robb Marsh, Everett T. Marshall, Lee W. Melville, Chester W. Merrill, Richard B. Miller, William A. Munkelt, Frederick H.

Norton, James J. Nute, Stanley P. O'Shea, Arthur D. Parkinson, Dana Perkins, Allan M. Prentice, Eugene M.1 r.Rich, Walter C. Robinson, Francis A. Rogers, Harry K. Rotch, Arthur B. Royce, Clayton E. Rugg, Robert B. '.Rutherford, Seymour S. Ruxton, Douglas D. Safford, Charles N. Sanborn, Benjamin E. Schilling, Frederick E. Severance, Charles C. . Sherburne, Raymond W. Shoninger, Alexander S. Sides, Arthur C. Smallman, Edwin W. Snow, Harold H. Soule, Arthur T. Squier, George E. Stearns, Malcolm Stickney, Park W. Stone, Henry L. Symmes, Laurence M. Thompson, John W. Thompson, Philip L. Thompson, Robert F. Thorpe, Burton D. Treadway, Lauris G. Vaitses, Paul S. Vietor, Frederick Walker, Charles H. White, Edgar F. Wiley, Earl W. Wilson, George F. Wooldridge, Reginald Wyman, Arthur M. IMemorial gift fromMrs. Prentice.

From Milford, N. H.