1908
For the third successive month, it is necessary to report the passing of a member of the class. Oliver W. Cushman of Newport, R. 1., City Public Works Department Engineer, passed away suddenly on February a 6 at the Newport Hospital. He was stricken with a heart attack. The deep sympathy of the class goes to his widow and stepson.
Tat Badger, Jack Corcoran, Jack Everett, from down Maine; Porter Lowe from Fitchburg; Gardner Marion, Artie Soule, Stan Tappan, Charlie Walker and Art Wyman attended the annual Dartmouth Dinner in Boston on the evening of February 26. The conduct of this group must have been very exemplary as no reports of any unseemly conduct have come through.
Joe Blakely of Blakely's Pharmacy, established in Montpelier in 1870, (Adv.) reports that up to the middle of February the winter had been mild, but he cannot remember when he has seen so much snow. Joe's son is at Fort Benning, Ga., learning to be a paratrooper and Joe misses his help in shoveling the walks and the driveway. Joe is one of the wheelhorses in the Unitarian Church in Montpelier, one of the four Unitarian Churches in Vermont. He is one of the trustees of the Permanent Funds of his Church which has about $40,000 in its account.
Pete Cams of Omaha drove to Canada last summer with his wife to visit her family. From there they drove to Seattle where he saw Sam Barnes 'O7 and then went to Longview, Wash., to visit their son Bill and his family. Bill is associated with the Weyerhauser Lumber Cos. The Cams hope to take the same trip again this summer, and in 1948 they plan to drive east to attend the class Reunion.
Hazel McLane Clark has been spending several weeks in Florida, but plans to return about the middle of March.
One of our reporters interviewed Art Rotch in Milford on February 23. He made the following statement:
At the moment I'm much annoyed. Friday we had a blizzud. Saturday morning, before he got to my place, the bird with the snowplow tractor I hire to dig me out, collided with a truck and damaged his vehicle. So he didn't get here. So I lamed myself up with the old snow-shovel. Then this afternoon the tractor feller arrived with his repaired plow and did a swell job. Half hour later a truck-plow came up, tried to turn around (it's about 40 feet long), and put most of the snow back into the path the tractor had plowed where I had shoveled. Gosh, us Yankees have troubles. I'm gonna move to Palestine or India or China where everything's serene.
Colonel Artie Soule has been traveling to California rather frequently on business trips, but has not as yet had a chance to visit any of his classmates. He hopes to go out again in April or May. His wife may accompany him if he can get her on the expense account. Artie's younger daughter Frances has a daughter, born early in February. She and her husband, a former Marine officer, are living in Cranford, N. J. His daughter Molly, who is married to a Captain of the Medical Corps still in the Service at Ft. Sheridan, 111., has a husky two-year old son. The Captain hopes to get out of the service this Spring and plans to practice in Denver. Artie Jr. '3B, is living at Needham, Mass., with his wife and daughter. Ted, the Soule's younger son, who saw lots of action in the Tank Corps, is living at home and attending M.I.T.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Watson Haislip of Detroit, Mich., announce the marriage of their daughter, Mrs. Gerald M. Sullivan Jr., (Pattie Canelia Haislip) to Mr. William BrooksSquier, son of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Squier of Newton Center which took place on Feb. 22 in the Chapel at the Church of the Transfiguration (Episcopal), New York City, with only members of the immediate families attending. Mrs. L. Stearns Gay Jr., sister of the bridegroom, was matron of honor and Mr. Gay was best man at the ceremony, which was followed by a wedding breakfast at Hampshire House.
Mrs. Squier, who was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1940, was formerly married to the late Lt. Gerald M. Sullivan Jr., USNR. Mr. Squier was graduated in 1940 from Dartmouth, where he was a member of Psi Upsilon and the Dragon Senior Society. He served in the Navy Air Corps for four and a half years, 21 months of the time in the Southwest Pacific. After a wedding trip to Bermuda, Mr. and Mrs. Squier will make their home in Newton Center.
Ev Marsh reports that Treadway passed through Chicago early in February and telephoned to him between trains. Tread was on his way to California for a five or six weeks vacation and hoped to see his classmates on the coast during that time. Tread's three sons are again associated with him in operating twelve hotels in New England and one in Florida. Their return apparently permits Tread to take longer vacations.
Art Wyman, who still claims to be a printer in Boston, is still the proud owner of a farm lying somewhere between Milford and Ponemah, N. H. When interviewed by our reporter late in February, we learned that he is looking forward to a chance to visit his broad acres very soon and to check up on the efEects of winter. If he does not find that the Ponemah Hill Road is open to travel, we suspect that Art will be endeavoring to get his taxes reduced.
The Class Notes Editor visited his daughter Mary at Smith and his son Bill at Hanover the last week of February running into an oldfashioned New England snow storm. He then went to New York where a high-light of a short visit was dinner at the Dartmouth Club with George Baine, Gordon Blanchard, Mike Stearns, Larry Symmes and John Thompson. A report was made that Rosie Hinman was spending a month in Arizona and that FredMunkelt was attending a meeting in Brooklyn where following his success as agent for the Thayer School Fund, he was planning to raise or contribute the first $100.000. for a Y.M.C.A. in Brooklyn. Tall Tommie, Schilling and other classmate? were not definitely accounted for. George Baine, with as much hair as usual, perhaps a little broader of beam than a few years ago, obtained a pass from his wife allowing him to return to Red Bank on the late train. His son is in dental school after several years in the Service. Gordon Blanchard, looking as young as he did in June 1908, when he made the Class Prophecy, piloted Larry back to Scarsdale on the 9:00 o'clock train. Larry, who early lost a lot of hair, has kept the sparse trim figure which he had when he went to Wall Street as a boy banker in 1908, since which time he has been with the same firm. Maybe he is the firm now for all we know. Mike Stearns has the same pith and vinegar that he had freshman year when he was playing first base on the class baseball team and fielding high, low and wide throws from Hobie, George Lowe and Hank O'Shea. JohnThompson, busy patent counsel, still lives up in the respectable.Fifties. John is as sparse in figure as he was when he was the assistant manager of the Carter Club and its No. 1 waiter. The evening was a most enjoyable one for the Class Notes Editor who seldom finds himself with as many classmates under such happy circumstances.
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