1904
A September 24 letter from Dominie Tubbscontained this unpleasant news:
"Yesterday I called in Maine General Hospital, Portland, on a former classmate, Lester Ames of Bridgton, Maine. Lester had an accident with a tractor which overturned and crushed his leg, which had to be amputated close to his body.
"You probably do not recall him, as he was at Dartmouth only, I think, until Christmas of freshman year. But he spoke to me of the pleasure he had in hearing at times from you.
"Lester had been a farmer most of his lite. He has, I believe, three sons all grown, and two at least are married and live away from Bridgton. I have just written to Mrs. Ames. Lester has a brother, Lucien, with the N. E. Tel. and Tel. Co. Bath office, who told me about the accident. He shows a wonderful courage and cheerfulness in his adversity.
"Recovering, myself, from a hospital experience of about six weeks, which necessitated my absence from Church duties for four and a half months. I am now back at work and feeling fine. I vacationed in Norfolk, Arlington, Va., Washington, D. C., New York City, and western Massachusetts."
The Class appreciates your visit to Lester Ames and is delighted that you are now back in your church work where you have been so successful. Strangely enough, the writer and Ames were together working at the Rood Club our first College day in September 1900. Lester's opportunity to enter Dartmouth came through the fact that Mrs. Barnes, a kindly Bridgton woman, had taken the Rood House in 1900 and thus provided the chance for Lester to secure his room and board; Jimmy Higgins '01, Eddie Cregg '02, Walter Tobey '03, and Austin Freshman, each with a table of ten classmates, were the dining room waiters. Higgins and Cregg were two members of the "old Irish Village," and though pint-sized, they trained this "damned freshman" thoroughly, but in a way that contributed understanding friendship so long as they both lived.
About the first of October, Governor Bradford approved a study of Massachusetts Forestry Administration designed to obtain maximum efficiency in handling the State's forest resources. The study will be directed by AlfredB. Hastings a graduate of the Yale School of Forestry, one-time Asst. State Forester of New Hampshire and Virginia, later, and for many years, in an executive capacity with the Federal Forest Service. Welcome home Al—we shall hope to see you frequently while in New England. Send us your Massachusetts address.
September visitors in Hanover were Hayward and Mrs. Rolfe and Henry and Mrs. Safford.
Al Terrien's son, George, was graduated from Harvard last June. Entering with the class of '45, he left College in '42 to enter Naval Aviation, winning his wings at Corpus Christi—served as a carrier fighter pilot in the Pacific. George was the second fighter pilot to land in Japan with the first occupation forces, his carrier The Cowpen being the first to enter Tokyo Bay. Leaving the service with the rank of Lieut (j-g.), he returned to Harvard in 1946. He lived in Winthrop House, was a member of Hasty Pudding, Institute of 1770, and Fox Club.
Announcement was made on June 13, this year, of the formation of the Cortland Engineering Company, civil engineers and surveyors, with offices at 1 Brook Street, Croton-on-Hudson, by John J. Dunn of Mount Vernon and George A. Lewis of Ossining, as partners. George studied at Thayer School and worked on the Panama Canal Construction, before joining Olmsted Bros., landscape architects of Brookline, Mass., with whom he was associated for thirty years as their New York representative. During World War 11, he was with the engineering department of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point.
Murray Parker died suddenly of coronary thrombosis at his home in Columbus, Ohio, June 9. He had visited Boston about two weeks earlier and at about the same time breakfasted with Robbie in New York. There's an interesting parallel here—both Murray and Robbie were born in Littleton, N. H., in 1883. Murray, in January, and Rob, in April. Classmates in College, they chose book publishing houses for their first employment, achieving top positions of responsibility in their respective companies. It is good to have been one of the class group, which a few years ago enjoyed renewing more intimately our acquaintance with Murray while he lived in Boston.
John Fellows died in the New Britain Hospital, Tuesday, Oct. 7, after an illness of some length. He, too, had remained with the same firm since college days—The Stanley Works at New Britain—where as inventor, plant engineer and consulting engineer he had been of great service to his firm.
DARTMOUTH TRUSTEE AT EASE: Victor M. Cutter '03 of Boston with Mrs. Cutter at their summer home at New London, N. H., where they played host to a large contingent of Hanover blueberry-pickers in August.
Secretary, Canaan Street Lodge, Canaan, N. H.
Treasurer, Morristown, N. J.
