1908
Dr. Francis G. "Bant" Blake is co-author of some scholarly papers on lung ailments, printed in January in the Yale Journal ofBiology and Medicine, and since reprinted for more general circulation.
Dr. Burton D. Thorpe's son Fred, Dartmouth '39, who enlisted in March, 1941, graduated in April at Officer Training School at Mississippi State College, and is now a second lieutenant. In April he was stationed in New Orleans. His engagement to Miss Martha Campbell, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. Donald Campbell of Tullahoma, Tenn., was announced recently.
Larry Symmes has written classmates in Boston and Chicago and Los Angeles, urging that regional roundups of classmates be planned soon. His proposal is for class dinners as a poor substitute for the 35th reunion of the class.
In New York March 18, following the alumni dinner at the Dartmouth club, a dozen '08ers assembled in a room chartered by Mike Stearns, for an evening's bullfest. Besides Mike, those in sight on the chairs and beds were Larry Symmes, Jack Clark, Art Rotch, Gordon Blanchard, Phil Thompson, John Thompson, George Baine, Ira Dunn, Fred Munkelt, Fred Schilling. There were some sons of 'O8, and a suspicion that under the bed there may have been one or two others of the class.
Sid Ruggles, who has been doing army engineering work in Newfoundland, has returned to the U. S. A. and at last reports expected to go next to Alaska, for engineering on the Alcan highway. Hope he likes cold climates.
When Harry Harriman's daughter became the mother of a son last month in Newfoundland, Harry, in Providence, automatically joined the Granddad's Club.
Both of George Baine's sons are now in military service.
Fred Copeland, author and former banker, writes that he has emerged from his retirement and is back in active bank work at the National Bank and Trust Company in Burlington, Vt. He is taking the place of a man now in the armed forces, and Fred says he is enjoying his work and life in Burlington.
A nice letter from Bert Thwing says the war keeps him from seeing many Dartmouth friends in Montreal, where he is president of the Raymond Concrete Pile Cos. Larry Griswold has spent the winter in Tucson, his second winter in Arizona, and expected to get home to Batavia, N. Y., soon. He says Bob Davis '03 and Charles Milham '06 are in the Dartmouth group in Tucson.
Art Wyman expects to raise food-forvictory at his Milford, N. H., farm this summer. Grapes-for-grapejuice has been one of his major crops, but now it'll be pertaties, corn and cabbage.
Down in Jacksonville, Dr. Clayton Royce has engaged extensively in raising oranges and grapefruit.
Ed. Smallman is now with Bureau of Yards and Docks in Washington.
On April 8, a new pocket-size class directory was mailed to all classmates, with names and addresses of the class and a geographical directory. A missing address is that of Royal "Nick" Carter, last recorded as a planter in'Misamis Province, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. Other addresses in question are those of Charles M. Hall, Ralph W. Hazen, John D. Savage and Thomas Z. Varney. Fifty-seven classmates are now listed as deceased.
No attempt has been made since 1938, until now, to collect money for the class treasury. Ted Barnes, Keeper of Spondulucks, says the bottom of the bucket is in plain sight—less than $50 on hand. For ordinary class expenses, and for MAGAZINE subscriptions to classmates who do not pay for their own subscriptions, the treasury needs immediate support in this reunionless year. Solicitation for the Alumni Fund is wholly distinct from the class treasurer's appeal.
From A. B. ROTCH Milford, N. H. Class Agent, 125 Walnut St., Watertown, Mass.
