1908
"Well folks," as Paul Revere Felt, then about five feet four of Hillsboro Bridge, N. H., said in the "Prologue" to the audience at the annual Vaudeville Show in G.A.R. Hall, as he looked up at Shorty Neal, six feet three, "Here we are again." Another month and another deadline for sending the class notes to Hanover to appear in the next issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. When Art Rotch and Larry Symmes talked us into taking this assignment they said it would be easy. When we looked over our list of prospective correspondents and found that we had a list that would compare with those of Life, Time and the New York Times, we agreed with them, for we found that we had Capt. Frothingham of the Navy and Colonel Frank Cook in the European Theatre of operations; Harold Morey in Nova Scotia; Twing in Montreal; Sydney Ruggles in the Aleutians; Jack Everett, Harry Lyon and others in Maine; Sumner Crosby in Falmouth, Mass.; the West Coast covered by Dolly Gray, Dick Danforth, the Southern California delegation and others; Warren Currier in El Centro, Calif.; Paul Batchelder in Texas; Clayton Royce in Florida; General Knox in Brazil; Dick Peebles in the Bourbon Belt in Kentucky, and Jack Norton and Bob Blanpied in Minnesota, as well as numerous correspondents in more central locations. A column conductor wrote the other day that the First Lady had never missed a deadline for her daily "My Day" during all the long years she has been writing this. He thought this a remarkable record. Life magazine, backed up by pictures to prove it, recently stated that the waist measure of the said First Lady had increased rather appreciably from Inauguration Day to Inauguration Day, during these years of daily meeting the deadlines, so the job of meeting one once a month should be easy. Ours being a column of news, we need help each month from our far-flung and nearby correspondents. The news we are really waiting for is that in regard to Royal Carter, whose last known address was Misamis, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. When we get the story about Royal, it should be a good one.
We have no resident correspondent in Hanover, but String Hale recently went there one evening to attend a fire wardens' meeting, attended by Sid Hazelton, Ross McKenney of the D.O.C. and others. String reports that before the meeting they hunted around for a place to eat and found the Coffee Shop at the Inn the only open establishment. He walked out onto the campus and looked around; Baker Library and College Hall were lighted but scarcely a man was in sight. The Navy and Marines were studying in their dormitories and the two hundred College regulars were nowhere to be seen. The official announcement of that day stated that the amount of snow on the campus was twenty inches.
John and Jennie Hinman hear regularly from their son, Howard, who has been a German prisoner since October 1943. His camp is Krems, about thirty miles from Vienna. Their son Edward is in the Philippines and at last report was on Luzon; Crawford is a flight surgeon and is located at Boise, Idaho, and Dick has received his wings and is taking a B-24 pilot's course at Courtland, Ala., which he expects to finish about April 1. As far as we have been able to learn, the Hinman's are the only family in the class having four stars on their service flag.
Mort Hull is still distributing groceries and Ballantine's Ale in Western Mass.; has directed the Holyoke War and Community Chest for three consecutive years; gets in line at the Red Cross Blood Bank twice a year; tries to get to Florida each March and spends part of the summer at Groton Long Point, Conn.; has a nephew, Terry Bagg, a lieutenant on a sub-chaser in the Pacific; another nephew, Henry Bagg '39, a lieutenant on a P.C., now in Sicily; is president of the Holyoke Dartmouth Club and still an active member of the eighteen-year-old P.B.R. Bowling League, known locally as the "Pot Belly Reducers"; recently reelected president of the Southern New England Wholesale Grocers Assn., for the tenth consecutive year, and active and interested in Rotary. He recently became interested in fishing and joined the Lake Mansfield Trout Club where he meets Phil Thompson, Doc Kingsford, Jim Campion and Professor Burton, and thinks now that he can tell a "Silver Doctor" from a "Cow Dung." Marguerite is active in Red Cross, Y.W.C.A. and Church Guild. We were disappointed that our reporter furnished no information in regard to Mort's cannon. It probably has been taken over by the Hoyloke O.C.D. with Mort in charge of the battery, unless Mr. Stimson has taken it to the Springfield Armory for reconditioning and use on more active fronts. When Mort rode up the hill from the Norwich Station in Hamp Howe's bus when he first came to Hanover freshman year from Hyde Park High School, Chicago, he had the group singing before they were half way up the hill. A good many years from now when Mort reports to St. Peter we'll wager that shortly after he registers, he will be helping lead the Celestial Chorus, unless by that time St. Peter has cleared with James Petrillo and is using his recordings in place of the orthodox choir.
Stacey Irish recently became a grandfather when a son was born to his oldest daughter and her husband, Lt. (jg) J. Kenneth Baird, who is now stationed at Pearl Harbor. Stacey's second daughter Ruth is a freshman at Hillsdale College, Mich.; his youngest daughter Edith is attending Evanston High School.
Arthur Lewis' son, Jack, a mechanical engineer and a reserve officer with the Engineers, was some time ago assigned to the Ordnance. He recently received the Ordnance Merit Award, a recognition for unusually high achievement in the work he was assigned to do.
Ev Marsh recently lost his younger brother, Bob, who passed away suddenly following a heart attack. Ev recently became a grandfather for the third time. He gives his son George part of the credit for the latter distinction.
Early in January, Arthur O'Shea was elected president of the Laconia National Bank to succeed General William F. Knight, who had reached the age of 97 and thought he was entitled to a vacation from his bank duties.
Dr. Clayton Royce, who has been practicing medicine in Jacksonville, Fla., for a long time, has retired because of ill health and is now living in Lutz, Fla., Route 1, Box 293-B.
Sydney Ruggles is back with the Alaskan Department of the Army as an engineer somewhere in the Aleutians "on the road to Tokyo." His daughter, with whom he makes his home in Danbury when in this country, was married about two years ago to Donald C. Wilson. Sydney's son Roy was married a little over a year ago and has a son, thus putting Sydney in the grandfather class for the first time.
AURORA CITY COUNCIL IN SESSION. A pre-election dispute has somewhat upset Aurora, Ohio, Coun- cilman John Roland Childs 'O9 in this cartoon taken from a newssheet the "Home Town Bugle" which he edits and publishes for the local men in service.
Secretary, 115 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y. Class Notes Editor, 602 Forest City National Bank Bldg. Rockford, 111. Treasurer, Taftville, Conn.
