1908

J. Herbert Johnson, who was a member of the class for one year before transferring to the Univ. of Penn., passed away in Worcester on September 6. Further information about Herb will appear in the obituary section of the MAGAZINE. Herb was with the Norton Wheel Grinding Company in Worcester for many years. At the time of his death, he was chairman of the board of the George I. Alden Trust, a large charitable trust to which he devoted his entire time during the last few years of his life.

Howard Cowee spent his weekends during the summer at the Cape following his practice of a good many years and, as usual, did some sailing. A good salesman persuaded him to trade his old boat for a new one on the theory that it was a speedier one.

Larry Symmes and his wife took an 8000 mile trip this summer, driving from Manhattan to California and back, visiting most of the national parks and climbing most of the high mountains. The Symmes had dinner with the Dick Danforths one night when they were in San Francisco. Larry, looking at the country through the glassy eye of a New York banker, gained the impression that while the country is prosperous, particularly in the farming regoins (Republican precincts probably: The Editor), that there were not as many people on the highways as one would expect and there was no trouble in getting accommodations at night without reservations in advance.

Sid Ruggles enjoyed comfortable weather in the far North during the Summer, when all or most of these United States were under the spell of a record breaking heat wave. To add to this comfort and enjoyment, he took several long trips to a number of interesting spots in the North country.

Mike and Annis Stearns spent three weeks in August at White Point Beach, Nova Scotia.

Dick Danforth came to college from Gardiner, Kennebec County, Me., which is several miles from the ocean. Dick first invaded the West a good many years ago and after returning to New England for a short time, moved to California, where he has lived for a long time. 25 years ago, he was sailing in competition in the San Francisco area and over 20 years ago, his boat was the first one in the San Francisco-Santa Cruz 70-mile ocean race. Dick began manufacturing anchors, and his company now makes them, some a peewee size and up to seven tons or more, and they apparently are used all over the world, and the name, Danforth, is a big, big name in the anchor industry. Dick has continued to maintain his interest in sailing, and' this summer he won the Pacific Coast championship under cruising club racing in a series of five races that were hotly contested by boats from all over the Pacific Coast. In view of the fact that Dick's boat was 13 years old, of husky design, raised deck, heavily rigged and with a cabin like a houseboat, and the competition included the latest boats in light construction from Southern California, Dick and John Alden, the designer, are certainly to be congratulated. It is of interest that Alden designed the boat which Dick sailed when his was the first boat in the San Francisco-Santa Cruz race over 20 years ago. We have seen a reprint of an article entitled "History, Selection and Use of An- chors" by Dick, which appeared in the October and November, 1948 issues of Motorboat. This article lists the author as "R. S. Danforth, m. Sec. Naval Arch. & Mar. Eng." A Republican who has lived in nearly land-locked Illinois since Grover Cleveland's first term, does not know for sure what this means, or know much about anchors, even though he has lived on the banks of the mighty Rock River all of his life. The Class Notes Editor is greatly impressed, however, that this boy from Gardiner, .Me. has convinced a lot of folks that he knows how to make anchors and that he is making a good many each year. Dick lives in the shadow of the Univ. of Cal. in Berkeley, which, according to reports, now has eight or ten branches with nearly as many students as there are people in Manchester, N. H.

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