1908
Ev and Viola Marsh, Herb Mitchell, ParkStickney, Lela and the Class Notes Editor attended the "Hanover Holiday" in Chicago on February 6. The Howard Hiltons were reported to be in Florida. Ev, Herb, Park and the Class Notes Editor attended the lectures given by the men from Hanover in the afternoon, and Viola and Lela joined the party for dinner. The lectures were excellent, most informative and interesting. Coach Tuss McLaughry and President Dickey spoke at the dinner. All present plan to attend the reunion in June. Herb, a little broader of beam than when he lived in Crosby, has a son in College, a member of the Class of 1950. His older son was a member of the Class of '38. Herb and his wife have been spending their vacations in October at Hanover for years; this good habit only being interrupted by the war. Herb scouted the 1907 reunion at Hanover last June for the Reunion Committee, he having been a member of 1907 for a while. He had such a good time that he promises to be on hand without fail in June.
Announcement was made on January 15, that Stone & Webster Inc., have acquired E. B. Badger & Sons Co., 100-year-old Boston engineering and construction concern, for the purpose of expanding the activities of its subsidiary, Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. The Badger Company has world-wide operations and for many years has held a prominent position in the process engineering field. Among its clients here and abroad are companies engaged in petroleum refining and in the manufacture of chemicals. Whitney Stone, president of Stone & Webster and Erastus B.Badger, president of the Boston firm, who made the transaction, said that for the time being at least the two concerns will continue to operate as individual entities. However, the technical knowledge and experience of both organizations will be pooled and directed toward providing broader and more comprehensive series.
Tat Badger and Duckie Drake '02 were on the Queen Mary coming back from England on the same trip that the Symmes family entourage returned.
John Hinman's first grandchild, John Amos Hinman, was born on December 17, at Dalhousie, New Brunswick, Canada. This young man is a son of Edward B. '35 and Helen Hinman.
George Bright is confined to his home in Portland, Oregon, following a heart attack on December 26.
Queech Safford has been elected president of the Lovejoy Tool Co. to succeed Prescott Lovejoy who passed away in December. PercyGleason invaded the hills of Vermont in January and saw Queech at that time.
Edgar White, Doc to us, whose address is 521 S. Morningside Avenue, Albuquerque, New Mexico, was until 1943 in charge of public relations activities and the publication of scientific results of Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin—a government research organization of 300 scientists, engaged in extending the uses and values of forest products to the public and wood-using industries. During the late war, a personnel of 700 devoted their research exclusively to Army, Navy and war industries. He has now retired because of total disability due to arthritis, and since August, 1943, has been confined to the house and to his bed most of the time. He is still an optimistic soul and is proud of his two sons, two daughters and four grandchildren. His older son Charles is associate secretary of the American Walnut Manufacturers' Association in Chicago; one married daughter lives in Milwaukee and the other in Baraboo, Wisconsin; his younger son is a freshman at the University of New Mexico.
Dorothy Dutton, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Dutton of Norwell, Mass., was married on January 24, at St. Aidan's Church, Brookline, to Douglas Aiden Donahue, the son of Mrs. Joseph J. Donahue and the late JosephJ. Donahue. A reception followed at the Algonquin Club, after which the bridal couple left for a wedding trip to Bermuda.
Jack Everett had lunch at the Hanover Inn the last week of January, on his way from Maine to Baaston.
String Hale looked in on Larry Symmes on January 22, while he was in New York pending departure for South America on the Chilean Steamship Line, on January 24. String expects to go down to the far end of Chile on his trip to study forest conditions there and he plans to spend a good deal of time there and along the way, returning to New York on the Grace Line around the first of April. String is pretty tired after fighting forest fires in New Hampshire during the fall.
As we go to press in our Listening Post and Conning Tower in Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, the first week o£ February with our copy for the March issue, the race between Art Wyman and Larry Treadway as to who gets the cup at the 40th reunion for having the most grandchildren has the prospects of being a photo-finish. As of now, each man boasts ten grandchildren, but Art boasts one pair of twins. The rules of the contest have not been definitely decided but the closing date will probably be midnight of Thursday, June 17, 1948, the night before the 40th reunion opens at Hanover. If both men come to the reunion with ten grandchildren each, the judges will have to decide what, if any, additional credit Art should have because of the set of twins. Larry boasts three sons and two daughters. Art boasts of three daughters and one son.
The ALUMNI MAGAZINE of December scooped us again when it reported that the Dartmouth Outing Club's Hinman Cabin on Reservoir Pond is undergoing a thorough face-lifting thanks to a $1,000 gift by JohnHinman.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Watson announce the marriage of their daughter, Dorothy Louise, to Howard Hoyt Hilton Jr. '49, son of HowardHilton, on Saturday, the 17th of January, at the Thorndike Hilton Chapel at the University of Chicago in Chicago.
Chet Nichols of Duxbury, Mass., has been in the telephone business since leaving Hanover, except for the time when he was in the service in World War I with the 317 th Signal Battalion in the AEF. He is now communications engineer with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company in Boston. His hobbies are photography, refinishing antique furniture and historical novels. He has been trustee and is now president of Cemetery Funds, Wilmington, Mass.; is a trustee of the Duxbury Nurse Association and has served as vestryman in the St. Johns Church at Duxbury.
New addresses: Luey E. C. Amidon, Post Junior College, 24 Central Ave., Waterbury, Conn.; Crosby A. Hoar, 4723 Conshohocken Ave., Philadelphia 31, Pa.; Luther M. Howe, 32 Avon St., Wakefield, Mass.; Stanley P. Nute, Route 4, Concord, N. H.; Alva B. Rutherford, no Braley, Saginaw, Mich.; Dr. ArthurB. Shaw, 2735 New York Drive, Altadena, Cal.; Albert J. Wheeldon, 5 Cedar Ave., Roselle, Wilmington 126, Delaware.
Class Notes Editor, 602 Forest City National Bank Bldg. Rockford, Ill. Secretary, 115 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y. Treasurer, Taftville, Conn. Class Agent, 125 Walnut St., Watertown, Mass.
