1907

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News has just been received that our Classmate Harry J. Pelren has become a two-faced (double talk) Grandpa. His daughter-in-law has just given birth to twin daughters. Harry modestly admits that son Bob is a better man than he is, Gunga Din. As evidence of his humbleness in this respect Harry's Classmates and other Alumni in Concord and vicinity have all agreed that Grandpa Pelren will be glad to furnish cigars (two) to any Classmate who will write indicating his willingness to accept the same.—Bob is in the Navy somewhere in the Pacific.

The Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, Observer of January 20 extends a warm welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Willard H. Cummings in these wellchosen words. "Welcome additions to the citizenry of Guilford are Mr. and Mrs. Willard H. Cummings, who have bought the beautiful Micajah Hudson home and who will live here, contributing definitely to the industrial, business and social life of the town.

"Mr. Cummings, who has been connected with the Guilford and Sangerville woolen mi illS,... is now sole owner of the mills, now known as the Guilford Woolen Mills, Inc., and will devote the major portion of his time to that business." .... (The Cummings family can always be counted on for a story.)

Our talented classmate, Phil Chase, Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Electric Company, makes automotive history. The December, 1943, issue of Storage Battery Power reproduces a picture of Phil with the 1940 Chevrolet coupe which because of the shortage of gasoline he has converted to an electric by the addition of an electric motor and a battery of 88 A6 used cells. "Believe it or not," says Mr. Chase, "the silent electric gets there in only a little more time than the gasoline car, eliminates work with an accelerator pedal, allows time to view the scenery, and leaves the driver rested and relaxed."—What a manl

Morris Smith, stationed at an evacuation hospital somewhere in England writes that they have five Dartmouth alumni in his hospital unit, more than that of any other college.

The New York Dartmouth Club News reports Sam Bartlett's election to the Executive Committee of the Thayer Society. Sam, according to a recent report from Phil Chase, is working in a war plant on the night shift, in addition to carrying on his regular work during the daytime. Whether his ability to "take it" is accounted for by his bringing up as a "tough townie" or his training as a gritty Thayer School engineer, I leave it to you.

Charles Willson of Farmington, N. H., has recently received the Purple Heart decoration for his son, Charles, who went down with the Lexington in the Coral Sea naval battle.

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