1913
The engagement of Miss Louise Luhman to Edward Seymour Greene of Bronxville, N. Y-, has been announced by her father George B.Luhman. Louise attended Skidmore College and is a member of the Junior League, the Bronxville League for Service and vice-chairman of staff assistance of the Bronxville branch of the Red Cross. Edward Greene graduated from Deerfield Academy and attended Pratt Institute. He served for five years in the Army Air Forces.
Warren Prosser Smith was admitted on January i, 1948, as a general partner of Shearson, Hammill and Cos., 14 Wall Street, New York, members of the N. Y. Stock Exchange and other exchanges. This firm was established in 1902 as a partnership to engage in a commission business in securities and commodities. One of the original partners was Edward Shearson, who had been comptroller of the United States Steel Corp. The firm has continued under the same name since its founding and has offices in Chicago and Montreal, as well. "Babe" was associated for many years with the firm of Dominick and Dominick of New York. We now know why he has been so busy this last year and offer congratulations. Babe is planning on June and Hanover.
Just after our notes had gone to the MAGAZINE last month, we learned of the sudden death of Alta Ball, the wife of Howard Ball. She passed away on Saturday, January 3, at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover. The funeral was held in Claremont the following Tuesday. Bill and Ruth English represented the class. The sympathy of the class goes to Howard and his family. We have lost a devoted, loyal wife who has been a prominent part of our class affairs.
Phil M. Gray has a New York address now, in care of the 77th Division Assoc. Inc., 28 East 39th Street, N. Y. 16.
Clifton Albert Clarke Jr. was married to Dorothy Ann Spaulding, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmont M. Spaulding. The reception was held at the Pentucket Club in Haverhill, Mass., on Friday, January 16. Yes, he's the son of Clif and Agatha Clarke, of course.
Are you as sick of snow as most of us in New England? Chuck Riley, being on the Cape, has from three to six inches occasionally followed by rain. Golf is the order of the day at the Oyster Harbor Club in Osterville. Read Frances Nutt's Three Fields to Cross to help pass the long winter evenings. "You'll like it," say all the New York gang, including the critics.
Edmund A. Freeman has been appointed assistant librarian of the Bureau of Railway Economics of the Association of American Railroads. "Buck" is the author of several railroad bibliographies and has been identified with the Bureau of Railway Economics Library as cataloguer since 1923. Prior to this he taught school for nine years,—rememmber? The library of the Bureau of Railway Economics of the Association of American Railroads is the largest transportation reference library in the world.
We all wish "Hoppy" great happiness in his return to public life as president of the National Life Insurance Company at Montpelier, Vt.
Gladstone B. Kellogg has a son, Gladstone Jr., in the University of Colorado and his daughter Cherry graduated from Stanford. He still lives in San Marino, Calif.
Ernest "Tommy" Thomas will finish his 20th year this June in the Middleboro, Mass., Memorial High School, of which he is assistant principal. He says Herb Osborne is the youngest looking man in the class. He'd better show up in Hanover in June to prove it.
AI Laird says Burlington misses Bill Appleyard tremendously, for he was one of its most progressive citizens. Al had his turn of being kept quiet in bed for eleven weeks, but has been careful and fine since.
Husky Wilbur is planning on the reunion in June. That's some of the best news to come in. Soon the reply cards will go to all in the class and will then wait results, the most wonderful results for attendance possible. The secretary hopes especially for word from BillBaldwin, Ralph Bauman, Rae Bronk, JimByrnes, Bob Crenner and Ralph Drury. Also, Art Easton, Hobe Ferris, Leon Gerry, FritzHaver, Bob Higgins, Volney Jenkins, and Albert Kinoy to mention only a few who have been silent in the answer department for some years.
Sickness limited the number of the class at the Boston Dinner on Feb. 4, but among those on the healthy list were Nelson, McAllister, Knight, Trowbridge, Munsey, Bill Davis, Chuck Riley, Carl Shumway, Marc Wright, Cary, Jordan and Stokes.
HANOVER PARAGRAPH: Louis Benezet, Professor of Education, who champions Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, as responsible for all the works heretofore accredited to one William Shakespeare, debated over Station WGY, Schenectady, N. Y., and is invited to return to Skidmore College to lecture and to be quizzed A rare Gilbert Stuart portrait of Daniel Webster painted in 1817, when Dan was 37, and only one year before he was to represent the College in the Dartmouth College case, is loaned to the College by Henry Parkinson of Boston Five Dartmouth hockey players had AAU Olympic hockey bids but only George Pulliam, Joe Riley, and Whitney Campbell accepted. Capt. Bill Riley and Bobby Merriam turned down the bids.
WHO'LL TRY HIS CONCOCTION? Harry M. "Doc" Cook '14 and his wife were recorded for posterity at the Sno-Bird party last year, after Doc had compiled a chemical mixture for purely "medicinal" purposes. With his experience as a science teacher, you needn't fear.
Secretary, Box 2057, Boston 6, Mass. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H. Class Agent, 625 East 18th St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
