1908
General B. C. Knox, up from Rio for three months after an absence of four years, was escorted to the 1908 tables by his classmates at the Boston Alumni Dinner on February 28. Colonel Artie Soule sat at the head table and the following men in the class were in attendance, in addition to Artie and the General: Tat Badger, Jack Corcoran, Joe Donahue, Bill English, Jack Everett, Percy Gleason, Jesse Harding, Gene Jordan, Art Lewis, Porter Lowe, Peter McCarty, Harry Rodgers, Stan Tappan, Bob Thompson and Charlie Walker. Jack Corcoran gave a small luncheon for the General at the Algonquin Club the following • day.
Harold Cogswell, Fritz Cooper, Howard Hilton, Stacey Irish and Andy Nichols are •residents of the Chicago area, but with Hilton in Florida and with the other men among the missing, the responsibility fell' to Ev Marsh, Park Stickney and us to represent the class at the Chicago Alumni Dinner held at the University Club on March 22. The three delegates met at Ev Marsh's office about 5:30 and after holding a very successful reunion, finally made the dinner, which was a well attended afEair, addressed by Pudge Neidlinger and Coach Tuss just back from the Marines. A 1 Dickerson was also present. Ev reported an illness which kept him out of circulation for some time, but he was in excellent form the night of the dinner.
Tat Badger, Erastus Beethoven Badger 11, on his marriage license, has been elected a vice president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association.
R. P. Currier's son Philip, who was reported missing in action last September, has been heard from from a prison camp in Germany. Capt. Don Frothingham USNR is senior U. S. Naval member of the SHAEF Mission to the Netherlands, and in the middle of March was located "somewhere in Belgium," sharing quarters with a British Admiral, with hopes of heading north in the near future. The rugged winter with the shortage of coal and electricity in Belgium has .been a contrast to the glitter of London duty as a Naval Don's son, Johnny, the seagoing member of the family, is a lieutenant commander in the Maritime Service, on duty in the Pacific again after a run of Atlantic duty last summer. Captain Don had the pleasure of seeing him for a few days last year just before Don started overseas. One night while in London, Don found himself across the table from Mike Smith '07, now Lt. Colonel Smith of the Medical Corps, on a few days' leave from the Belgian front.
Walter Furman, who came to college from Wilton, N. H., and who roomed freshman year in the rarified atmosphere of Professor Home's home, who now lives in Scottdale, Pa., and who helps the Duraloy Cos. manu- facture steel, became a grandfather late in March when Jonathan Nichols Furman, his first grandchild, arrived. Walter is very proud of the news and gives a great deal of the credit to his son, David, who is a metallurgist with the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Cos., at Homestead, Pa.
Stanley Johnson, secretary of the class of '87, and brother editor of class notes for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, sends us a clipping from the Clearwater (Fla.) News, which reports that "Harry" Harriman, now enjoying the luxury of retirement, is enjoying his first season in Clearwater.
The first week of April, Richard J. Cullen, chairman of the board, and John H. Hinman, president, reported to the stockholders of the International Paper Cos. that the company's 1944 consolidated net income rose to a three-year peak, but announced that the company would continue its policy of omitting dividends on the common stock because of postwar uncertainty. They further reported production in 1944 of 2,469,997 tons of paper, container board, and pulp, against 2,363,511 tons produced in 1943. That sounds like a lot of paper to us and makes us think that perhaps we should still consider seriously the plan of arranging to have our column appear in the Miljord Cabinet to boost Joe Blakeley's Lotion regularly. We were afraid that with increased circulation which the Cabinet would have following the regular appearance of our column that the Cabinets paper quota might not be able to take care of the increase in circulation. With Rosie turning out paper that effectively, we feel sure that the matter of. the in creased quota for the Cabinet can be successfully worked out.
Art Lewis has become the president of the Sharon Sanatorium of Sharon, Mass., a charitable organization, a member of the Greater Boston United War Fund, which helps meet the expenses of treatment of children with rheumatic fever.
With the melting of the fifteen or more feet of snow and the clearing of the roads between Milford and Nashua and the outside world, word comes from Art Rotch, editor of the Cabinet, that his son Bill is on duty in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. His daughter Helen's husband is on a destroyer which at last reports was on duty near the Philippines. Arthur consumed his oil quota and some twenty cords of fire wood during the winter, endeavoring to keep warm, and completely ran out of cigarettes for long intervals on several occasions. Art didn't get out of Milford from Christmas until the first week of April when he discarded his winter boots, put on a new suit, new coat and necktie, which Serena bought for him, and made a trip to Boston where he called on Bob Rugg and learned that Bob's son was in Germany at last reports. He reports no cigarettes were tendered him by bank president Bob. Art survived the Boston trip so well that he was planning a trip to New York the following week.
Henry and Blanche Stone spent Easter in Hanover, attended the new College church and said a prayer for the rest of us.
Mary Knight made a trip to Boston during her spring vacation from Smith with her roommate and they were the guests of the Art Lewis' for Sunday dinner and a very enjoyable day. Pvt. Bill Knight Jr., who was on duty in England with a combat engineer outfit, has been sent to Infantry Officer's Candidate School somewhere in France, where the seventeen weeks' course is being given in twelve weeks.
TRANSFERRED TO HOLLAND from London, Capt. Don Y. Frothingham 'OB USNR is the senior U. S. naval member of the Shaef Mission to Holland.
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