1908
The class notes are being read by some people. As we reported before, when Art Rotch made his old roommate succeed him he wrote "God bless yer and help yer," and as we observed at that time, we need the help oF every member of the class as well as of Deity. One wife has helped us out. With this encouragement, we may open a "Wive's Department," and then perhaps a "Son's and Daughter's Department" and even a "Grandchildren's Department." Contributions are solicited from each generation.
An Associated Press dispatch in the Palo Alto paper of February 16, reported that Squadron Commander Major Bradford Evans (son of Web and Priscilla) was in one of the waves of flying fortresses which bombed the Mount Cassino Monastery.
Some time ago Park Stickney, sales representative in the Middle West for Webster's steam heating plants, boilers, etc. who dresses and looks more like a Brooks Bros, salesman than anything else, furnished the information that Andy Nichols is still at Austin High School, his oldest boy Frank, is a First Class Private in the Quartermaster Corps at Hobbs, N. M-, his second son Herbert, is in meteorological work at the University of Virginia, and his third son Charles, is an instructor in meteorology at the University of Chicago; that Harold Cogswell is working seven days a week at the electromotive plant, LaGrant, Illinois, where Diesel engines are made, and is teaching eng ineering several nights a week at Chicago Tech. Mrs. Cogswell is engaged in adult education work for the army, teaching illiterates who have been drafted but who cannot be inducted until they fulfill certain requirements in connection with the three R's; that Stacey Irish is still at Evanston Township High School, he has three daughters, the oldest married to an ensign who had just completed his course at Harvard and is now expecting sea duty, the second a senior in high school, and the third a freshman in high school; that Howard Hilton's 17-year old son hopes to enter Dartmouth in connection with the V-12 program, two of Howard's three daughters are married, one to a flight surgeon in the navy now on duty in the Pacific, and the other to a naval officer stationed at Great Lakes; that the Everett Marshes report the arrival several months ago of Brooks Porter Middleton, son of Virginia Marsh Middleton, and entered in Dartmouth in the class of 19—.
John M. Clark, 1932, Jack's and Hazel's older son, who was in Washington for some time in Nelson Rockefeller's office, enlisted in the Army in September. He took his basic training in A.A.A. at Ft. Bliss, Texas. A redheaded son, his third child, was born in October. Hazel has been spending the winter at Delray Beach, Florida, 17 miles south of Palm Beach.
Eben Winslow Fiske, 8.5., M.A., M.D., Major Fiske of the Royal Army Medical Corps in World War I, Orthopedic Surgeon, Pittsburgh, the best man at his weight in several lines of curricular and extra-curricular activities from 1904 to 1908, "Wink" to you and me, was in Chicago a few days ago to attend the American Academy of Something, which it developed he has been attending annually for some time without disclosing this fact. On this trip he called up Hilton, the Big Mortgage Man, and Dolly took him to lunch and convinced him that he could talk inexpensively to his roommate of junior year in Shurtleff House. After waiting 35 years for such a telephone call, we were too excited to take accurate notes on it, but Wink answered a letter we wrote him to report that increasing age and arthritis had slowed him up some and had prevented his return to the Army, but had not prevented his service to the Army Induction Board for the last three years, that Dorothy is Vice-Chairman of the Red Cross Motor Corps for the Pittsburgh area, that one of his daughters is married to Captain Parker of the Medical Corps and is living with him at Fort Story, Virginia, that she presented Eben and Dorothy with a granddaughter last August, that his other daughter Ann is at Camp Barclay, Texas with her husband who is an instructor in the Medical Administration Corps. Wink further advises that he moved into the country two years ago and wonders why he did not do it much sooner, that he now calls himself a farmer and a horticulturist and that his life in the open spaces has reconciled hfm to the loss of his annual vacations on Cape Cod.
Art Rotch refused to run for a 34th term as editor of the class news in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, but at the annual meeting of the New Hampshire Press Association, a short time ago, he was elected president.
Art O'Shea has been prominently pictured in the daily press o£ New Hampshire as head of the retail division of the last War Bond campaign.
Jack Everett reports that his son John, a graduate of the University of Maine, enrolled in 194 a in the Naval Reserve as an apprentice seaman and was commissioned as an ensign at Northwestern University, Chicago on July 1, 1943. He is now in New York City but expects to return to sea duty soon. His daughter Eloise has just begun her senior year at Smith and expects to be graduated in August. She attended summer school at Northwestern University, Evanston, last year. She attended Burnham School in Northampton for two years prior to entering Smith.
Acting Secretary,60s Forest City National Bank Bldg. Rockford, Ill. Treasurer, Taftville, Conn.
