1887

Several months ago Professor Cleaves, our "Dean," borrowed from Stillman Bacheller '09 an interesting booklet entitled "Dartmouth Forty Years Ago."

It was to be distributed to all '87 men. Now it is stuck somewhere, and one may imagine the embarrassment of the borrower. Whoever has it will be thanked if he will send it to the Secretary, as soon as possible.

Dr. Sanborn has been very kind in sending an interesting report of what his com pany is doing for the war effort. To quote from his letter:

"I have received permission to say in limited and guarded terms that Sanborn Company is employed full time on products for the Government—no new apparatus for civilians. We make metabolism testers, electrocardiagraphs, and heart sound recording devices. Our work now brings close cooperation with M.I.T. and Harvard.

"We are running 24 hours a day, for five days in a week. Many of our employees work 60 hours a week and receive 50% more pay than they should.

... .1 estimate the war will end in 1943 On lathes, milling machines and drill presses we now use women and young girls. They are surprisingly quick to learn Besides our own roster of 200 employes, we have recently taken on 15 high school seniors, who work for us full time in their own school with their machine shop equipment and under instruction."

Doctor Sanborn keeps nearly a dozen men travelling throughout the United States and Canada. His booklet, "Sanborn Technical Bulletin," is proof of his worthiness for the honorary degree of "Doctor of Science."

We clip this interesting bit from the "Mountain Musings" of The LittletonCourier:

FRED A. HOWLAND, former Lisbon young man who has just retired as chairman of the board of directors of the National Life Insurance Company at Montpelier, Vt., has the first money he ever earned, in the form of a 10-cent piece he was awarded as a boy for performing some service for for the old Globe newspaper office at Lisbon.

It is a good guess that this commendable thrift has been multiplied many thousands, in the ensuing years. We used to call him "Fuddie," but his accrued dignity has made this silly soubriquet most inappropriate. His son-in-law, Artist Paul Sample, in the issue of Life for January, is represented by a large number of paintings of patrol and carrier planes.

We have an ebullient epistle from dear old "Jigger," Dr. W. T. Merrill. He was 8a years old January 26, but he still possesses his rollicking spirit of youth. To quote:

"Our immediate family, son and his family, are separated all the way from here to Iceland

Really I expect to live to see another general election in 1944 and at that time The New Deal will be so flattened that not a vestige will be left in Washington." We will have to set 01' 'Postle Morse on "Jigger."

We have received information that "Sonny" Gage has become the Champion Bowler of St. Petersburg, Fla.

Secretary, 1230 Reynolds Ave., Clearwater, Fla Bath, N. H.