1908
The 1909 Class Notes Editor scooped us twice in the October issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, when he reported a lecture given last May at Denison University by AlbertChandler and also announced a radio program which Albert will give from early January to early March, 1948, over station WOSU, Columbus, Ohio. Albert's talks will deal with the philosophy of retirement and later yearsof life. They will be given Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 3:00 p.m. If anyone hasany ideas on this subject, write to Albert and he may be able to air them on the radio. Charlotte Elaine Chandler, the Chandler's first grandchild and the child of Albert's son, was born October 18.
The Class Notes Editor and Lela went to Hanover for the meeting of the officers and regional chairmen of the Hopkins Center project held October 23-24. In order to be sure to be there on time, the Knights arrived more than a week in advance and saw the Brown game, so we had lots of time to lift our eyes unto the hills of New Hampshire and Vermont. Our Mary came up from Smith, so the whole family was in town for the game.
The game, which the reports showed, was. won in the last twelve seconds, literally, had a Frank Merriwell ending. Howard Cowee, a little more generous o£ jowl and of beam, Senator Queech Safford of Queechee and Springfield and Tall Tommie and his wife were in town for the game. The Thompsons stopped in Springfield to visit the Senator and his family on their way back to New York.
Pop Chesley, the Bachelor Bard of Utica, another regional chairman, was in town for the Hopkins Center meeting. Pop's family still consists of a motor car and a handsome dog. Pop has won a great niche for himself as a good citizen of Utica. One of his activities is to personally arrange for, and conduct, a concert course each year which has an annual budget of $25,000. Pop picks up the check for the rent of the auditorium and the charge of the artist each time and hopes that enough customers have come in to pay his commitment. Pop plans to attend the reunion next June. Herb Mitchell who attended the reunion of 1907 last June was in town the week before we were, but we missed seeing him. Herb and his wife make an annual trip to Hanover in the fall. With another son in college now, he has an added reason for doing so. Hoppie looks fine. Dave Storrs looks the way he did when we used to push into the Book Store, during the administration of Roosevelt I, to see what Bob Dunbar was saying. Larry Bankhart '1 and Bunk Irwin '09, both of whom have retired, are living on farms in Norwich. We enjoyed visits with both of them.
Chick Currier is planning an 'OB party atEl Centro, California, in November.
The second issue of the "40 and oBer," stillissued with undue modesty by Park Stickney,made its appearance several days ago. Park isdoing a splendid job on this and should begiven lots of encouragement.
Art Rotch, the Sage of Milford, whose energy indicates that he has graduated from hisdiet of two-minute eggs and well-cooked oatmeal, scouted the Harvard and Yale gamesfor the Class Notes Editor. He reports as follows:
"Everybody is coming to the reunion in June. I know everybody is. Because they haven't been going to football games so _ they must be saving their shekels for the reunion. At the Harvard game I saw a few, very few. Art Soule and Juliet were down at the end of the row and so was Howard Cowee. Parson and Mrs. Bill English were at my left, with the Pete McCarthys and PercyGleasons, and on the other side H. S. Emery and the Porter Lowes. Harry Lyon and Jack Corcoran took turns poking their knees in my back, and good old Gen'l Knox from Brazil was offering his telescope spectacles to the nearsighted gents. They all said they'd be in Hanover in June, except the Gen'l, who just hoped to. They were all,the classmates I saw that day. No doubt there were a few others.
"Harry Lyon said he drove down from Paris, Maine, with Mrs. Lyon, and much of the way they were in the smoke and cinders from the forest fires. Harry seems always to be where the excitement is.
"I wrote in advance to some of the Boston classmates, suggesting they might organize a lunch or dinner in connection with the Harvard game. None of 'em rose to the bait. Maybe they've been stuck with the checks too often.
"At New Haven last Saturday, I nuzzled around and didn't see, hear or smell a single '08er. I'm pretty sure some were there, among the 63,000, but I couldn't find 'em, and I looked everywhere except under the fence and the parked cars.
"Both games I found eminently satisfactory. At New Haven, the Yales won the first half and the Dartmouths won the second half, and all we needed was a game with five quarters instead of only four periods."
George Fine retired in June 1947, from teaching after 36 years in one position as superintendent of schools in a township. George feels very definitely that there have been many advances in school administration during the years he has been teaching, and he believes that school children are getting a better education than they ever received before. He also feels that the present day children are really measuring up to the higher standards and that they themselves have helped to set their goals as a part of their training in democratic living. George and his wife spent the summer with their daughter in Seattle. The Fines are living in Merchantville, N. J.
After officiating in the Western Conference for 35 years, the Class Notes Editor, who was credited with being the oldest official in the Conference in point of service, has retired from his Saturday avocation. He is enjoying the use of a lifetime pass given him by the Conference. In 1911, when he started officiating, none of the present-day stadia had been built. In those early years Mr. Stagg of Chicago, Fielding Yost of Michigan, Bob Zuppke of Illinois and John Richards of Wisconsin were coaching. All of the present-day conference coaches played in games when they were in college in which the Class Notes Editor officiated. A lot of footballs have gone over the cross-bars since those first games before World War I.
COMING EVENTS 40TH REUNION HANOVER JUNE 18-20, 1948
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