1919
The summer months were productive of quite a few notes and cards from various classmates for which many thanks and more later on in the notes. First, the final results of the class efforts for the 1949 Alumni Fund were briefly as follows: we were second in our group (classes from 1917 through 1925) and 232 men contributed $10,385.47 to the College
.... a fine showing of which we can all be proud. Rock Hayes and his assistants worked hard and with a few more contributors next year we will be on top. Thanks are also due Jim Davis and his Smoke Signals which all the class enjoyed reading.
At the Secretaries and Class Agents Meeting in Hanover in May, 1919 was represented by Ken Gilchrist from New Haven, Ray Adams from Springfield, Vt., Rock Hayes, Bill McCarter and the secretary. Ray was recently elected president of the Vermont Congregational Conference held at Burlington in May.
Visitors in Hanover at Commencement included Bill (Doc) White, Jigger Merrill, AlanJones from Fort Atkinson, Wis., San Treat and Ken Huntington, all with sons graduating in the class of 1949. Others checking in included King Cole, the Jim Wilsons, Phil Ransom from Buffalo and Abe Heller.
The aforementioned Jigger Merrill certainly gets around. He spent two weeks in camp during the summer at Camp Edwards as C. O. of the 301 st Infantry .... guess the old soldiers never get enough. Recently appointed Life Insurance Adviser in Massachusetts, an honor granted only to agents of long experience and recognized standing, he collaborated with Max Norton in setting up an enlarged group life insurance plan for all employees of the College and a new retirement program for its non-academic employees.
A nice note from Rog Clark in Pittsburgh relates that his daughter graduated from Smith in June. Prexy Jack McCrillis' daughter was in the same class. Mr. and Mrs. ClarenceStanley Austin of Naugatuck, Conn., announce the engagement of their daughter, Anne Remington, to Mr. John Douglas Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Barrus Johnson of New York. Miss Austin attended St. Margaret's School in Waterbury and was graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in 1948. Mr. Johnson is an alumnus of Trinity School, New York and Trinity College, Hartford.
Among the summer guests at the Inn were Avedis Miridjanian from New York with wife and daughter, Spider Martin, Jim Rose and wife from Fort Wayne, Ind., and the SanTreats from New York. Sandy Treat Jr. and Miss Marion Ruth Knudson were married on June 25 at the Marble Collegiate Church in New York and the reception following the ceremony was held at the Dartmouth Club. On the same day Joyce Huntington, daughter of Ken and Marge, was married to Mr. Calvin Knights of Norwich, Vt., in New Rochelle, N. Y. at the North Avenue Presbyterian Church. Among the guests at the reception at the Huntington home were Harry and LilColwell and the secretary with Mildred.
Ray Hinds writes most interestingly of a trip with Harriette through the great West. Quoting in part:
"We were happy to attend the long war-delayed graduation of our eldest son from Montana State College June 6. From Bozeman, we followed a devious course through Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California to San Francisco where we renewed contact with Karl B. Baldwin after 32 years. Baldy is happy and prosperous in his job with the Pacific Tel and Tel. In looks and mannerisms, I could see very little change in the long space of time. I'm sure that with a little pressure, we could get him to the 35th. Goldy, or I should say Prof. A. V. Goldiere, wrote that he would see me on the way to Quebec for a summer at Laval University In reply to my note requesting that he render my missionary cousin marooned in China any help she might request, I received a very interesting letter from Charlie Biddle. He writes that he left Singapore June 4 and after spending four weeks in Bali and Java, he flew to Tokyo making brief stops in Okinawa, Bangkok and Hongkong. His plans to come home in August have been changed and he now expects to return in June or July, 1950 to settle in New England. He had just attended a Dartmouth picnic in Tokyo with about 30 graduates with wives and girl friends present.
"I Have seen Al Googins and had lunch with JimHitchcock and both are showing much interest in their New Hampshire camps." Thanks, Ray for all the news.
Charlie Mills writes from Cleveland acknowledging his birthday card. He reports continuing his teaching of English in the John Adams High School. Charlie's daughter Phyllis, now attending Miami University at Oxford, 0., is to be married soon, and Sherman, his fourteen-year-old son is making plans for college. Mrs. Mills (Cornell '25) keeps up to date in educational circles by doing substitute teaching in Cleveland Heights Schools.
Ralph Welsh's business-like photograph appeared in both the United States Investor and the American Banker late in June. Ralph is president of the Savings Banks Association of New Jersey and executive vice president of the Morris County Savings Bank of Morristown, N. J. He presided at the summer meeting of the Association at Princeton.
Hal Stacey, Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives, took part in a milking contest held on Boston common during June. The Vermont legislators' team won a close contest with the representatives of the Massachusetts legislature and the cowbell symbolic of the New England championship.
Norm Weaver reports from Osborne, 0., that he hasn't kept in touch with class parties and reunions and remembers only a few of the fellows who hung around North Mass. where he roomed with Rog Goodnow. He remembers Don Siebert, Jim Wilson, Spen Dodd,Rock Hayes, Tex Radford, Charlie Harney,Al Worthen and Don Graves among others. Norm works at the Army Air Force service base at Wright Field, Dayton, making experimental vibration and endurance checks on propellors.
A story on Pete Grey appeared in the BostonHerald June 18 which might be something for all of us to think about. Headed "Sensible, healthy living found in old sail loft on Cape Cod" it relates that Pete decided to resign as purchasing agent for a valve firm in Danvers four years ago after a series of nervous breakdowns caused by overwork during the war years and after doctors had warned him about his high blood pressure. Resigning his job in October 1945, he and his wife and two sons moved to Chatham. They eventually rented an old, historic sail loft, fixed it up themselves and now are the proud owners and operators of a shop selling fine sports clothes for men, women and children. A small shop in the rear displays antique furniture. Pete's health is fine these days and he is understandably proud of his unique establishment as well as his fine garden behind his home nearby.
Mr. Robert Arnold Jackson and Mrs. Mildred Eileen Farley announce their marriage on Saturday, the thirtieth of July in Pelham Manor, N. Y. Mai and Marie Drane stood up with the happy couple, who will live in Pelham Manor.
Nock (Robert N.) Wallis, ass't treasurer of the Dennison Mfg. Cos., Framingham, Mass. and president of the Boston Controllers Institute of America, spoke on "Cost Accounting Principles Applied to Public Accounting Practice" before the Mass. Assoc. of Public Accountants in Boston during May.
There is an authentic report that Alex Henderson of West Dennis, Mass., who plays golf at Oyster Harbors, has a handicap of nine .... can anyone in the class beat that?
The sincere sympathy of the class goes out to Bill Stedman on the loss of his wife, Eleanore Lamborn Stedman, who passed away on July 25 at their home in Scarsdale, N. Y.
Cotty Larmon is on a year's leave of absence professorship of business administration atThe College, to serve as chairman of the board of the Rumford Press in Concord, N. H. Cotty will have complete charge of the company's operations and the best wishes of the class go to him for every success in his new work.
See you this fall at Hanover or Cambridge, New Haven or Princeton.
Secretary, 1273 North Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H. Memorial Fund Chairman, 2 Park Ave., New York 16, N. Y.
