1930

Your Secretary certainly recommends Hanover as an ideal vacation spot. Our much delayed vacation finally materialized and, unwittingly, was timed to accord, in part, with the Columbia game. Imagine our surprise in rounding the Inn corner and being almost bowled over by Ned Grant, who was certainly far afield from Littleton, Colorado. It seems that Ned and Mary Belle had been in Atlantic City attending a Dairy Convention but had so arranged things as to spend a few days in New York with some of the boys there and then on to Hanover for the Columbia game. We also saw Phil Peck at the game, and understand that Bill Bragner, who returned in October from Yokohama, was also in Hanover for the game but we missed seeing him. Our Hanover stay was made all the more enjoyable by the gracious hospitality of the local 1930 delegation which now includes Al Dickerson, Charlie Widmayer, George Lord, Eddie Jeremiah,Snub Poehler, Hank Odbert and Ollie Lilley (although we missed seeing Ollie during our stay). Snub Poehler, Superintendent of the Hanover school system, will attest to the fact that it is far simpler to vacation in Hanover than to locate a permanent place of abode. Eddie Jeremiah, although coaching the Freshman football team this past fall, was anxiously looking forward to cooler weather and the opportunity to give his hockey team a work-out on ice. Although Eddie was rather guarded in his comments, we venture to say that he will produce another outstanding club.

The 1930 family continues to grow. Robert Rudolph Rix Jr. arrived at the Bob Rix home on April 17 so that Bob's family now consists of two boys and one girl. Charlie Humiston justifiably missed reunion in order to greet Kenneth Kirby Humiston on July 21, who joined Lucy and Bruce in the Humiston family. John (Doc) Miller had special reason for celebration of his wedding anniversary on October 11 with the arrival of his second son, William Parker.

Ellie Gilbert is now back in New York after his third season with the Dallas Starlight Operetta Company with which he played roles and was Assistant Stage Manager. Although Ellie is now studying, we will not be surprised to see him in a Broadway show in the near future. Fred Scribner was recently named a Director, Treasurer and General Counsel of Bates Manufacturing Company, which represents a merger of five large cotton mills, and which has headquarters at Lewiston, Maine. This news has come to us secondhand but we assume it does not mean that Fred is giving up his law practice in Portland.

Frank Ryder has stayed with the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander and is now somewhat more permanently located in a single house at Woods Hole but says that it looks as if he might be out of the Navy on May 1, 1947.

Burt Sherwood has forsaken New Jersey and has moved to Montpelier, Vermont, where he is with National Life Insurance Company as Director of Employee Benefit Plans. We welcomed the first news from Bill Lawson in over two and one-half years. Bill continues to be in El Paso, Texas, and is operating a hardware and appliance store Lawson Hardware Company. Bill says that there must be "some of you guys" who are passing through El Paso and issued a blanket invitation for dinner with him in Juarez, Mexico, where apparently thick beef steaks have been plentiful. CottonHolmes resigned from Harris Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago on October 31 and has moved to the warmer regions of St. Petersburg, Florida where with a friend he has established the corporation of Eckert & Holmes, Incorporated, which conducts a business described as "property supervision." Apparently Cotton would like to locate a piece of residential property for his own personal supervision, as it appears that St. Petersburg has the usual housing problem.

Fran Horn has been living in a Quonset Hut in New Haven pending the completion of a house which was "scheduled" for August 1. Fran is completing a survey of the school system of Lincoln, Nebraska, but indicated that he would soon be a fulltime graduate student with no other responsibilities than the Presidency of the Coral Dartmouth Club to which he was recently elected.

The first official and direct news has finally arrived from Bill Keller. While home on Navy leave from the Canal Zone in August 1945, Bill was married to Betty Stowell of Methuen. In October Betty joined Bill in Balboa and they were there until April of this year when Bill was released from the Navy. Bill is back at the practice of law in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and on August 3 a daughter, Burma Stowell Keller, arrived. Bill has apparently solved the problems of parenthood as he says that he hopes to see some of us around Conway sometime this winter and will welcome the sight of some snow which he has missed since the winter of 1941.

And speaking of snow, we are reminded that at about the time you are reading these notes the Holiday Season will have arrived. Our most sincere wishes to each and every member of the 1930 family for a most Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Secretary, Herrick, Smith, Donald, Farley & Ketchum 1 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass.

Treasurer, 24 Jennys Lane, Barrington, R. I.