1908
Mrs. E. Hilton Lewis of "East Gate Farm," Little Compton, R. I. and El Paso, Tex., and Arthur L. Lewis of Medfield, Mass. announce the engagement of their daughter, Sarah Augusta Lewis, to John T. Mathewson of Syracuse, N. Y. Miss Lewis was graduated from Milton Academy in 1947 and attended the Vesper George School of Art. A debutante of the 1947-1948 season, she is a member of the Vincent Club. Mr. Mathewson was graduated from the New Hampton School and in 1943, from Colgate University, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. The wedding will take place this winter.
Larry Symmes, who put his diploma under his arm the last week of June, 1908 after Chuck handed it to him, and went to New York to become a boy banker with P. W. Brooks & Co. (adv.), has been with the same concern since that time. Larry and his wife took another trip to Europe this summer. They sailed from New York on August 28 on the Mauretania. They landed in Ireland on September 3 and went to Cork where they hired what they call a "big car,"—a Ford V-8. They drove over the mountains into the Killarney Lake country to Limerick and back to Cork. They then took the train to Dublin which they found interesting, but crowded chiefly with Englishmen who had come over to enjoy Ireland's excellent unrationed food. They then flew to London from which they took a ten day motor trip tour of Scotland, including Edinburgh, the Trossacks and Loch Lomond, and the English lake country. On this tour, they visited Oxford, Cambridge and Stratford-on-Avon. On their return, they spent a week in London and then flew to Zurich, Switzerland. At Zurich they met friends from California who are living in Switzerland for a year. With them they took a nine day motor tour of Switzerland, motoring 700 miles. They visited Lucerne, then at Zermatt saw the Matterhorn on a fine, clear day, then went to Montreux, Vevey, Lausanne on Lake Geneva, thence to Interlaken, the Jungfrau and then back to Zurich. They then flew from Zurich to Brussels and spent four days in Belgium, visiting Ghent, Antwerp and Waterloo. They flew from Brussels to London and then spent a few days in Richmond, Surrey, where Larry's and Dorothy's son married his English bride a year ago. They sailed from Southampton on September 19 on the Mauretania.
Captain Donald Frothingham, U. S. Navy, called on Larry Symmes the last week of October. Larry says that he never had so much "high brass" in his office beforehand reports that Don looks well and that he is covered with numerous ribbons indicating his campaigns and his honors, and that the gold braid on his sleeve reaches almost to his elbow. He says Don is on his way to Tel Aviv, heading a Navy contingent, and he expects to travel by sea and air. Apparently it's another part of the U. S. Government's activity in the Mediterranean, where we seem to be taking Great Britain's place. Don is still in the Naval Reserve. He expressed great regret at not being able to attend the Reunion.
Arthur Rotch scouted the Harvard-Dartmouth game for us. The Rotches spent the week-end with the Arthur Lewis family in Medfield and saw the George Squiers andMori Hulls. At the game, Art reports seeing General Knox. In August the Rotches went to Montreal and then took a trip by Canada S. S. Lines down the river and up the Sagenay. He reports a visit in Montreal with BertThwing. Art promised to scout the Yale game for us the following week, but as yet we have had no report.
A letter has been received from Royal Carter, who has been in the Philippines for many years. He writes:
"Tangub, Occ. Misamis, Philippine Islands, September 9, 1948
"Forgive my English for it is no longer Bostonese but a conglomeration of simple bamboo English, Visayan and Kurachilla, as the Visayans call Spanish.
"I am a farmer, i.e., the tenants do the farming and I take my share of the crops. "My wife's name is Tomasa Salas. She is my third wife. My second wife and I had nine children. Six are living. She was murdered in March, 1947. My children are Robert, Edith, Herbert Hoover (I am still a Republican), Elizabeth, Roger and Donald, a baby a year and ten months old. All but the two youngest are still going to school. One boy died during the Jap occupation. A Jap patrol had gone by up into the hills of a morning and we were hiding in the woods waiting for the patrol to pass back by. We drank water from a spring in the forest and I believe he got some sort of fever, anyhow he died in four days. During the occupation there was absolutely no medicine. Even if you could locate a doctor he had no medicine and a doctor without medicine is no better than anyone else at curing sickness.
"I am living at present at Tangub, but I have land up the coast at Clarin and down the coast at Salog in Zamboanga Province. My house was burned down during the war by the guerillas and we have been living in a makeshift house since. I'll have to build a new house before long but am still undecided where to build. Here we raise mostly corn and coconuts (copra), some tobacco. I get enough from the tenants as my share for our own use and that is about all. Of course, also plenty of bananas, both eating and cooking varieties, mangos, oranges, lemons, avocados, papayas, etc. In Clarin copra (coconuts) and rice and in Salog rice, and I am beginning to plant abaca (Manila Hemp.) In sharing the crops we follow the old Spanish custom. Rice and corn if I furnish the carabao (water buffalo) for plowing I get one-half, the tenant one-half. If the tenant has his own carabao he gets two-thirds and I get one-third. With copra I get two-thirds and the tenant gets one-third for making it.
"During the Jap occupation, the damn guerillas stole all my shoes and the children's shoes, so I got a bad case of hook worm. According to the doctor I had lost 60% of my red blood corpuscles. I have been and still am taking a five grain iron sulphate tablet and a multi-vitamin tablet daily and am now in reasonably good health as well as one could expect after 40 years in the tropics.
Regards and best wishes to all
ROYAL P. CARTER"
Howard Hilton has retired from business, disposed of his interest in the firm, his home in Glen EUyn and his place at Lake Geneva, Wis., and has moved to Clearwater, Fla. These activities prevented him from attending the Reunion, the first one he has missed. Howard's new address is 557 Bayview Drive, Belleair Estates, Clearwater, Fla.
We are indebted to Guy Blodgett of Woburn for information that Leonard G. Nichols died in Reading, Mass. on April 6, 1936. An article about him appears in the obituary section.
We have just learned that George A. Easton, a member of the realty firm of T. Ross Clancy, passed away at his home at Manhasset, L. I., N. Y. on May 5, 1948. He was 60 years of age. An article-about him appears in the obituary section.
George Baine entered Temple University Hospital on June 20 and had a very serious operation on July 1. He was in the hospital for 25 days and did not return to work for a long time after that. George lost thirty-five pounds in the experience, but he is slowly getting back on his feet. His operation made it impossible for him to attend the Reunion as he had planned up to the last minute.
Carl Ross was in engineering work in Portland, Ore. for eleven years, but gave it up in 1919 to return to Calais, Me. to take over the Ross Bros, jewelry business. He has been at Calais since that time.
New Addresses: Raymond L. Cams, 2942 Dover, Longview, Wash.; Howard H. Hilton, 557 Bayview Drive, Belleair Estates, Clearwater, Fla.; Sydney L. Ruggles, U. S. Engineer Office, A.P.O. 677, c/o P.M., N.Y.C.; John D. Savage, 8 Shepley St., c/o Mrs. Robert Ricker, Portland, Me.
Class Notes Editor, 602 Forest City National Bank Bldg. Rockford, Ill. Secretary, 115 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y. Treasurer, Taftville, Conn. Memorial Fund Chairman,. 257 Loring Ave., Pelham 65, N. Y.
