1908

Baine, Blanchard, Dunn, W. A. Griffin, Miller, Munkelt, Schilling, Stearns, Symmes, John Thompson, and Phil Thompson attended the Dartmouth dinner in New York in April at the Dartmouth Club. President Hopkins spoke. Hinman had accepted but was kept at home by a bad cold. Mike Stearns emulated Art Lewis' good job in Boston by rounding up men for the dinner. Regrets were received from Chesley, Fine, Frothingham, McKone, O'Shea, Perkins, Rotch, Rugg, and Treadway. After the dinner, the group adjourned to Mike's room. Mike, listed as Malcolm on his marriage license, which he used on April 18, 1914, just 30 years ago, further reported that his older boy, Dr. Kendall, in the service, is somewhere in the Pacific, with a medical unit; that his second son, Sandy, is overseas, probably in London; that it appears his son-in-law, with three children, will be going into the Service soon. Mike, who talked as good a game at first base as Hal Chase or Lou Gehrig ever did, and who played a whale of a game in that position on the best class team ever to go out of Hanover, and who started the Princeton game sophomore year at left end, weighing in at 170 (Annis, please note), further advised that at the dinner, Fritz Schilling, long a carefree bachelor, was proudly showing pictures of his new daughter and that Fritz optimistically reported that this is the first one of six children he expects to have; that Fritz' work takes him to Washington a great deal; that Gordon Blanchard's boy recently went overseas; that Harold Rugg could not attend because he had classes at the University from 5:00 until 9:00 P.M.; that the good job which Rosey Hinman is doing as president of the International Paper Co. was discussed; that Larry Treadway was just back from Florida; that someone had recently seen Major Chip Farrington at Norfolk, Conn.; that he appeared to be in the bloom of good health and prosperity.

Larry Symmes—Laurence Metcalf on his Winchester H. S. diploma—wrote to report that he had noted in the March number of the Atlantic Monthly an article by Dr. Justina Hill, a bacteriologist connected with the Johns Hopkins Medical School. Dr. Hill wrote an article entitled, "How Bad Is the Flu?", and in it, Larry discovered that she began one paragraph, "Dr. F. G. Blake recently reported the strange case of the Connecticut farmer, some of whose family and ten of whose twelve cats came down with an atypical pneumonia in which there was a strong suggestion that both the felines and the human beings were having the same viral pneumonia. In these newly recognized groups of pneumonias due to viruses instead of bacteria are some of the most curious and interesting infections now known." Larry observed that he supposed the farmer and his family had "cat fever," but he was particularly interested, as he read the reference to our old classmate, Dr. Bant, that Dr. Hill apparently did not think it necessary to identify Dr. Blake with the Yale Medical School or with anything else, that she apparently assumed that Dr. Bant is so well known that he is just Dr. F. G. Blake. We obtained a further kick from Larry's report on this. Larry, who has been secretary and/or treasurer of everything we know of he has been connected with for the last 40 years, and whom we pictured as confining his reading to the Wall Street Journal, Moody, Barron's, with perhaps Kiplinger for light reading, it now develops is doing serious reading in another field along the lines discussed by his report on Dr. Bant. We are curious to know whether the new format of the Atlantic Monthly, the new special rate of 7 months for $2.00, or Larry's Vassar daughters brought him to the Atlantic.

Art Rotch reports that Art Lewis has just returned from a western trip; that his own son Bill, '37, is now an ensign in the Navy; that Art Wyman hopes and plans to raise a big Victory garden this year at his summer home in Milford. He also sends along a clipping from the Manchester Union of recent date telling of the championship duplicate bridge tournament to be held at Concord in the near future. Listed among the contestants appeared the names of Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Tappan, of Manchester. From a distance it would appear that Tap still can't leave the cards alone and that he is apparently endeavoring to cash in on those lessons which he paid for during junior year in Shurtleff House. Also listed among the contestants we find the names of Jim Richardson, Mrs. Sid Hazelton, Fletcher Low, and others from Hanover.

Word comes in that George Detlef Detlefsen was born on April 8, 1944, to Mr. and Mrs. John Detlef Detlefsen 1937, making our own Jack a grandfather.

Acting Secretary, 602 Forest City National Bank Bldg.Rockford, Ill.Treasurer, Taftville, Conn.