1908
Thomas Z. Varney died May 23 in Clinton, Oklahoma, after a long illness.
Tom was born May 3, 1885, in New York City, the son of Moses and Louisa Saville Varney, and went to Dartmouth from Littleton, N. H., where, after the death of his parents, he lived with relatives and graduated from the Littleton High School in 1904. He remained with his class at Hanover for two years and then left college to go to work for the International Paper Company.
After many years with the paper company he became associated with the United Cigar Stores. He was a member of the Masonic lodge in Littleton^
In 1907 Tom married Julia C. Higgins of Littleton. She died in 1918, leaving a son, Thomas Z. Jr. In Oklahoma Tom married again, his second wife, Margaret McGuinn Varney, survives him, also a second son, Robert J. Varney, now in the aviation service.
In recent years Tom has been far away and out of touch with Dartmouth classmates, but he is well remembered for the years he spent with '08 in Hanover.
Don Frothingham's son, Donald Jr., was killed in June in an airplane accident in Maine. He was attached to the North Atlantic Wing of the Army Air Transport Command. Another son, Ensign John C. Frothingham, is serving with the Merchant Marine. Don Jr., graduated at Dartmouth in 1942. He was manager of the Winter Sports team, secretary of the Intercollegiate Ski Union, and active in intercollegiate dinghy racing.
Art O'Shea is chairman of the New Hampshire War Savings Staff, retail division. Also he has just been reelected a director of the N. H. Children's Aid and Protective Society. We learn this from reading the daily newspapers—Art would never tell us.
Francis G. (Bant) Blake delivered the address to the graduating class of the Yale University School of Medicine, an institution at which he is currently the dean. It was the 130th graduation, and the address must have been good, because it was printed in full in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine.
Art Hopkins writes that he and Craig Thorne '09 are the two Old Men who regularly attend the weekly luncheon of the Dartmouth Club in Albany, N. Y., though Hap Hinman 'lO drops in occasionally. Art adds that he is trying to get into the Army, but meets some opposition from young squirts who think 56 is too mature for such goings-on.
Sid Ruggles is doing engineering work for Uncle Sam in Alaska. His address is Area Engineer, Haines, Alaska, and if the big highway is ope|i ahead of time it will be partly Sid's efforts that opened it. He growls that he hasn't seen an ALUMNI MAGAZINE since he left Newfoundland. Oh yes, he helped build the airports there before going to Alaska.
John H. Hinman has recently been elected president of the International Paper Company. He was vice president in charge of forests for some time.
Harold O. Rugg gave an address on education, May 30, at the Conference on Scientific Spirit and Democratic Faith, in New York. Somebody sent us a program.
Jim Norton and wife, all the way from California, entertained some of the New York classmates at some kind of a party in June, at the St. Regis. Mr. and Mrs. Art Lewis picked the Plaza when they invited the boys in. And they're the boys who used to eat at Scotty's!
' Bill Knight's son, Bill Jr., made the front page of the Rockford (111.) newspapers July 5. He had just been assigned to a tank destroyer outfit. Young Bill has been admitted to Dartmouth, but the war came along.
Sympathy of all classmates goes to Hart- well Harriman. "Harry's" wife died June 8 after an operation four weeks previously, in Providence.
Lt. John D. O'Shea (Art's son) was married June 28 in Brookline, Mass., to Miss June Patricia Laramy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Laramy of Brookline and Boston. John, now at the Boston Army Base, graduated at Dartmouth in 1940 and was employed by the Boston Consolidated Gas Company.
One of Honker Joyce's indecipherable letters seems to say he picked up a hitch- hiker in New Hampshire, found he was a swell kid, and then learned he was the son of '08's Dick Merrill. Honker then describes either a great streak of luck at Suffolk Downs when he bet on nothing but winners, or else those three pages are a complaint about the OPA. The letter- head (that's printed) assures us he is still selling morticians' supplies, in West Newton.
Bill Knight's "Thirty-Fifth Reunion" letter was great. All classmates received the mimeographed copy. If others are interested: Bill wrote and mailed a description of the 35th Reunion.... the one that didn't take place .... and drew liberally on his fund of information, his memories, and his imagination, to tell the boys what might have been and who he has seen and all about 'em.
JOHN H. HINMAN '08, newly elected president of the International Paper Co., who since December, 1938, has been president of the Canadian International Paper Co.
From Milford, N. H.
