1908

Memorial Fund Chairman, JOHN HINMAN 257 Loring Ave., Pelham 65, N. Y.

At the head of the column appears a snapshot of Sid Ruggles taken at Crystal Manor, Fort Chimo, Quebec, where Sid is stationed. In this picture, Sid seems to have doffed his sheeplined jacket and woolens for his suit of store clothes probably purchased at O'Shea's, Laconia, N. H. (adv.)

Sid seems to have been enjoying the summer in Labrador and points North. Several weeks ago he reported that during the summer it had been up to 90° twice, but most of the time 65° to 85° in the afternoon with cool evenings and mornings, so that it was comfortable to sleep; however, he reports that in general the old wisecrack about Vermont weather applies closely there, with four seasons: June, July, August and Winter. June was much like a New England spring and many August days seemed like Autumn. However, Sid has been well and still continues to keep the record of not having a day off for illness for nearly eight years, more than half of which time he has been in the Northland. Sid manages to get around by air once in a while. He has traveled in almost every kind of army plane landing on skis in the winter and on the' water in a flying boat in the summer, as well as in the conventional way. He has not yet been up in a helicopter, but hopes to do so sometime as they have three there. Sid further reports that around there the natives are mostly Indian or "breeds" many of whom work on the base and live in a village called Happy Valley about five miles away. About 15 miles out on Goose Bay is a Hudson Bay fort and Grenfell Mission called North West River. Several weeks ago Sid's office staff took a trip over there in a motor boat and he took many pictures. He now takes colored pictures which he has made into slides, so he expects to have plenty of material for another talk on Labrador.

Gordon Blanchard obtained a short leave of absence from his duties as Head Usher in the Episcopal Church of Scarsdale late in September, and he and Esther took a two weeks' motor trip through the Green Mountains of Vermont and the White Mountains. On their way home, they stopped at Hanover. Gordon reports that the campus swarmed with green capped freshmen and they found the parking problem as acute as in New York City. Gordon with a modest offering of three grandsons and one granddaughter advises that he does not care to be entered in the winter book of the class in the Grandchildren Derby. Apparently, the dog sleds have not gotten through from Maine for some time so we cannot advisedly quote any odds on "Elsie" Greenwood. As the perennial year-around favorites, Treadway and Wyman will probably attract the most bets.

Other visitors at the Hanover Inn during October have been Ted Barnes and his wife and daughter, the John Hinmans and ParsonBill English.

We have seen a copy of Report to thePeople of the South for the Year 1948 and of a booklet named How Money Grows on Trees published by John Hinman's International Paper Company. They were beautifully printed on some of John's best paper and they furnish a tremendous amount of interesting information.

John W. Corcoran Jr. of Chestnut Hill, Mass., son of our Jack, is a member of the Class of 1953.

NEW ADDRESSES: Fred E. Hanson, 366 Beale St., Wollaston, Mass.; Fred E. McKone, 182 Silver St., Dover, N. FF.

A CIVILIAN ENGINEER, Sid Ruggles 'OB is stationed at present at Fort Chimo, Quebec, Canada,

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