1913
Line Wilson has returned as General Agent of the French Line to his old office, 310 Sansome St., San Francisco, Cal. The announcement is made by the French Line from its New York office. Squire will have jurisdiction over Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington along with the Province of British Columbia in Canada. His family will stay in San Marino until Jane finishes high school in June. Before the war Squire had the Northern California territory, so you can see how his added responsibilities have increased.
Jay Runkle is the new chairman of the board of the National Retail Dry Goods Association with its 6000 members. Lew Hahn becomes the first paid president. Previous to this the posts of voluntary president and chairman of the board had been combined into one position. Jay's statement at the Association's convention in New York City was widely quoted in the New York papers of January 17, 1947.
A Christmas card from Mott Gately has just arrived from Brazil. He is now in Rio de Janeiro, Avemda Rio Branco 18. The view from their apartment pictured in the photo pasted on the card is magnificent.
Jan. 15th dawned around Boston with the most slippery walking ever experienced. All walks and streets were glare ice with a freezing rain falling. Tubby Merrill was one of the few to reach Boston without mishap due to advanced preparations. He carried a bag of sand i one hand and a ski pole in the other. Says Tubby "It was wonderful until I had to lug the pole home at night with almost dry pavements."
The sympathy of the class is extended to Ralph "Pheny" Badger. Mrs. Agnes Badger passed away last September within a week after her return from their summer home at Piermont, N. H., 25 miles north of Hanover. Those at the reunion last July will recall that she was rot too well and had to return to Piermont on Friday.
Word comes indirectly from Caiifornia that Ray Bennett is in fine health and planning on a trip East. Son Hugh Bennett is in college at Hanover now.
Bob Conant as Registrar of the College had the problems of handling 315 new men slated to register on February 17 and 18.
HANOVER PARAGRAPH: no Commencement exercises for the 259 students who graduate in February so they are invited to return in June Moose Mt. Lodge, formerly Moose Mt. Club which closed in 1941, is now open to all travelers and students. A jeep can always make the grade from the parking lot if the going is too tough for your car Johnny Bothwell's orchestra is the named Band to furnish music for Carnival Dance; tickets are priced at $3.00 per couple Play of Prof. John W. Finch of the English Dept., Wanhope, has Broadway billing, being the first of a series of five plays to be produced by Experimental Theatre, Inc. of New York President Dickey and 50 Hanover residents shoveled out Main St. following the snowstorm after Christmas; with shovels and 13 trucks it took four hours to prepare for parking Ski lessons for children under the auspices of the Sayre Memorial Fund started in January. Martin J. Remsen '14 is treasurer of the Fund The wedding of Robert H. Meservey '43, former Dartmouth ski captain, and Pati G. Hill at the White Church was covered by Life—issue with the pictures not yet known.
Secretary, Box 2057, Boston 6, Mass. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
