1908*

Graceful acknowledgment of the flowers sent by '08 for the funeral of Bob Marsden was received by Secretary Larry Symmes. Following the services in Manchester, Vt., on March 15, Mrs. Marsden returned to Wilmington, Del. Edward Griffith '93, of Manchester, Vt., writes that before his death Bob had 11 blood transfusions and 35 Dartmouth men in or near Wilmington volunteered to give blood as needed. He says Mrs. Marsden was exceedingly grateful for this help from Dartmouth friends, and said it helped her understand the remark sometimes made by Bob to the effect that "Dartmouth is more than a College, it is a kind of religion."

Herbert Thomas (remember the big feller?) hasn't been heard from much of late. He lives in Turlock, Cal. But they're hearing from the Thomas family out in the Pacific. His son J. E. Thomas is a first lieutenant and pilot of a pursuit plane, last heard from at Hawaii where he went through the Pearl Harbor attack. He is 24 years old. His brother, H. A. Thomas, 27, is in the U. S. parachute troops.

Ralph W. Hazen has reported himself as back in Whitefield, N. H.

Howard Cowee has joined the granddad squad, with help of his daughter Barbara (Mrs. Franklin N. Wood of 16 Mayo Road, Wellesley). It's a grandson, born February 23, 1942.

Art Lewis says his big Watertown plant is almost 100 per cent on war orders, and he never dreamed of turning out so many lift trucks, platforms and other materialhandling equipment. Says they cut the price to bare cost of manufacture, and might as well do it that way as hand it over in taxes.

Walter Furman, of Duraloy Company in Scottsdale, Penna., writes that his company is "up to its ears" in war work, and it makes him feel "slightly less futile" that he can put in 14 hours a day (without overtime) in producing essential metals. He says his son was married in March, and the young man is in metallurgical department of Carnegie-Illinois steel plant at Homestead, and making fine progress. Pathetic note in Walt's letter is that he recently made a short visit to Wilton, N. H., town whence he entered College in 1904, and found he knew none of the inhabitants except a few very old men. He says it is depressing but interesting "if one takes the objective view." We're not quite clear about that "objective view" but Walt says he isn't coming back to N. H. again until 1943 when he plans to attend the Victory Reunion in Hanover. "Aw, come on," sez we, "and go fishing."

Art Wyman—we laid off him last month when we had a lot of class news—writes that he's saving the tires on his shiny new Buick by buying an old Ford for use on his New Hampshire estate this summer. From personal knowledge we can assert that his grapevines and raspberry bushes have been pruned and trimmed by the village expert, and last note from Art says he is coming up from Boston for the long Patriots' Day week-end and plans to get the corn, peas and tomatoes planted, by heck.

From A. B. ROTCH Milford, N. H. Class Agent, 125 Walnut Street, Watertown, Mass.