1908

We got the story from both Count Donahue and Art Wyman, and their accounts agree perfectly. It seems that Art's son was in an Army camp in Denver, and so was Donahue Jr. And Denver is the Colorado place where Mason Lewis lives. We're not sure how Mason knew his classmates' progeny was quartered in his neighborhood; some big lawyers seem to know everything. Anyway, late one night the telephones in Boston began ringing, and the 'OB men were amazed and delighted to be called by Lewis, who took time to say that a couple of young Easterners were trying to convince him New England was superior to Colorado, and he was working on them, chinning for Colorado. Then he put the boys on the line and the story they gave their dads was that this old bird, named M. A. Lewis, had looked them up and taken them from camp to his home, and was giving them the swell time you'd expect; a taste of what classmates have had when they have been guests of Denver Lewis.

Sympathy of classmates to Pop Chesley, whose mother died August 8, at the age of 98. Maybe Pop was no more devoted to his mother than most men, but it always seemed he was. He spent nine weeks with her in Maine before her death.

Art Lewis took his family to Hanover in September. Some dates with the Eye Clinic, and a chance to look over the town, and the football squad.

From Hap Hinman 'lO we received a perfectly swell snapshot of a gent whom we identified as Husky Rich, standing on the platform of the Norwich railroad station circa 1908, waiting for the 11:19 to the June. This rugged individual with pegtop pants and a Derby hat was wearing a three-inch collar, and that raised doubts. We know Husky had.pants, we think he had a hat, but we can't recall that he had a collar of his own, though he handles everybody else's in his Rich, Glaze, & Lewis laundry monopoly. Further research by Hinman led him to believe the subject of the portrait was Nut Root '09, a conclusion with which we could not agree. Latest report from Canaan Hinman is that the picture was taken in Montana and the Manin-the-Iron-Hat is Fritz Root '04.

Art Wyman reports his corn and potato crop met all expectations, but the grape harvest really warn't what it otter be, by heck. Art spent three days a week in his Boston office, three at his New Hampshire farm, and just can't remember what he did with the seventh day, if any.

Bill Knight says he expects to continue as a football official in the Western Conference this fall. His son Bill Jr. was at Camp Hood in Texas, along with Capt. Archie Gile '17. Bill's daughter is a senior at Rockford high school, and Bill is the best letter-writer in the class; without him we'd have no class news at all.

Jim Norton spent some time this summer in Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore where they removed a ruptured intervertebral disc that for years had caused him much pain. Jim then returned to California, and expected to come back East in September for a short time.

Fred Munkelt writes that he saw Blakely in Montpelier this summer where Fred spent his vacation. As secretary of the Thayer Society of Engineers and chairman of admissions committee Fred keeps in touch with Dartmouth affairs.

From Milford, N. H. Treasurer, Taftville, Conn.