1925*
Lin White has bought the Williston estate on Marblehead Neck, Mass., and has been busy fixing it up. Named SecretaryTreasurer of the Bryant and Stratton Commercial School of Boston, he finds that time flits by on greased wings. As a result of the pressure of work, Lin has developed the happy facility of napping anywhere at any time. A recent visitor found him snoozing snugly betwixt the bean rows in his garden, where his wife had ordered him to to do some hoeing. Me too!
The big news about Lin is that he has kissed his big fifty-two foot Oceana good-by for the duration. He's loaned her to the Navy. If you're boat-minded, she's an auxiliary staysail ketch.
Bill Sleigh has signed up with the Coast Guard Reserve and will go messing around off shore in the fog nights, looking for Uboats. It is said that the Reserves are given a Regular for coach and are reimbursed for their gasoline, plus forty cents per meal. It's supposed to be a two- or three-night-per-week proposition. Lovely chance to lose lots of sleep and get drowned.
Both Bob Sharpe and Hal Stevens are Navy minded, having just received their commissions. The '25 delegation around Boston is certainly nautically minded.
On 4th of July morning Susan (Joe) Leavitt called up Mary (Ken) Hill, aged 5 and 3 respectively, to wish each other mutual birthday congratulations.
Eddie Hewitt lunched recently with Jack Livermore in Schenectady. Jack, it will be remembered, purchases brass, copper, castings, etc. for G. E. and life for him is neither dull nor placid these days.
Ford Barret is another '25'er with a youngster with a 4th of July birthday. The youngest of his three offspring, Daniel by name, celebrated his first anniversary on the 4th.
Bob McKennan is just back from a trip to Helena, Montana to visit his mother.
While in the West, Bob met Nat Torbett who is Field Co-Ordinator with the gigantic Grand Coulee project.
Will McLaughlin is in Colville, Washington and is in the Soil Erosion work. He has a fine small son.
Harold Kuehn, who left at the end of Freshman year, is still in Helena, Montana, managing a lime company. He Jias just built himself a good New England style house. He has a boy and a girl, the girl being quite a young lady now.
Lane Goss is using a gasoline A card and is having a devil of a time trying to get from Worcester, Mass. to his summer home at Madbury, N. H. over week-ends.
Bunny Manning, the Dover, N. H. doctor is expecting to get snapped into the Army. He will leave a large practice and also a large hole in the medical profession in his area.
And that's all they is, they aint no more news this month, Bill Griffin having done a wonderful job of milking the Class dry of news for The '25er.
They aint much new here at this writing. 4th of July was awful quiet. They want a single barn burned in taown and nobuddy got runned over, blowed up or shot —suthing quite unusuwil for these parts where the peepul still stick to the simpul and strong pleasures uv life.
Most uv the regular summer complaints is back but they aint no tourist business to speak of. They is so few cars on the road that an auto will shy just like a hoss, lots uv times when it meets another. In fact I had tew blindfold my Mercury and lead it past a big Mack truck last week, on account it had forgot what wun uv them things look like.
I and Corey Ford of the Class uv has in informal Secataries meeting over on the shores of Loon Lake in Freedom just before he shoved ofE on a writing job the other day. It was just as purty as a genuine 11.98 chromo in a gilt frame. They is a yung mownting behind the lake and the sky and the clouds and the light green uv the pastures and hardwoods and dark green uv the pines was awl pictured out real nice in the lake. At sunset a hermit thrust tuned up in the woods behind us. It was wun of them nice moments a feller gets in his life now and then. We wisht sum of you fellers could uv ben with us.
George (Eddie) Gardner has done a surprising amount of work when one sits down to look over his file and write a compressed biography.
After he shoved off from the Hanover plain, on that June day back in 1925, he went down to Harvard and picked up a degree in Educational Psychology in 1926. He followed this with his Ph.D. from Harvard in Psychology in 1930. He took his M.D. from Harvard Medical in 1937.
His staff appointments include McLean, as Psychologist from 1928 to 1936: at the Massachusetts General from 1937 through 1939: Senior Psychiatrist at McLean in »939-
In 1939 he became interested in the Judge Baker Children's Psychiatric Clinic. At the present time he is Co-Director of that institution, which is located at 39 Beacon Street, in Boston.
From 1936 to date he has served as Psychiatrist of the Juvenile Court of Boston.
To make sure that his days would be full he has had four teaching appointments and is a member of six honorary, scientific and honary groups. At the present time he is President of the Massachusetts Society of Clinical Psychologists.
Going over his bibliography of published articles, the count goes up to twenty-one.
If life begins at forty, then it might be safe to say that Eddie lias a promising career ahead. Offhand judgment says that he has already done more with his life than most people do with their entire span. It will be most interesting to see what he does between his fortieth and eightieth years.
DR. EDDIE GARDNER '25
Secretary, Center Ossipee, N. H.
