1908

The returns are not all in, but everyone who mentions the subject seems to be in favor of an off-year informal reunion at Hanover, June 17-19, when regular reunions will be held. The time will be getting short when this appears in print. Those thinking the idea is a good one should pass the word along to Secretary Larry and indicate their ideas on it.

Joe Blakely of Blakely's Pharmacy, Montpelier, Vt., established 1870 (adv.), wishing to encourage the doctors up Montpelier way gave them a little work last year which included operations for Mrs. Blakely and for Joe's son. Joe says the only virtue growing out of it was that his medical and surgical bills helped him out on his income tax. Both patients survived the attentions of the doctors. Joe further reports that the mild winter which helped out the Vermonters on their fuel bills was very hard on the ski developments. He reports that there are two quarter-million developments within twenty miles of Montpelier and that a good many people enlarged their houses to take in roomers in the vicinity of the ski tows. Recreation, Joe reports, is getting to be big business in Vermont.

Don Comstock reports in from Cleveland that he was sorry to miss the reunion last June, but it couldn't be helped.

Life Greeley reports that St. Petersburg, Fla. has been a madhouse this winter, that the Yankees descended on the town in droves, most of them with plenty of money to spend.

Chet Melville spent part of the winter at Fort Myers, Fla.

Stan Tappan saw Harry Rogers and ArtRotch at the annual Dartmouth dinner in Manchester. Tap is one of those casting a vote for an off-year reunion at Hanover in June.

Harry Harriman, always modest, and still in Florida, now reports that he has not said much about the subject, but that he has six grandchildren. Harry also reports that twenty-three Dartmouth men attended a Dartmouth buffet supper in Clearwater, and that nearly seventy-five attended the Dartmouth dinner in St. Petersburg the first week of March.

Arthur Hopkins has been appointed Director of the Division of Lands and Forests of the State of New York.

Harold Joyce sought out and found Chummy Bills in Buffalo about holiday time. The evening apparently was spent as a meeting of the "Don't You Remember When Club." It was thirty-five years since they had been together. Chummy has been with the Crowell Publishing Company for twenty years.

We have seen reprints of two talks on the radio by Albert Chandler, one entitled "Cicero's Ideal Old Man" and "Aristotle on Mental Aging." It is difficult for us to see why a young man like Albert should be discussing these subjects which Cicero did not get around to talking about until he had had more birthdays than Albert has had. Albert always was a precocious young man, however, and for this reason, perhaps, is thinking about and discussing this subject ahead of time.

Gen. Knox, who agrees with the philosophy of the Class Notes Editor in regard to the subject which has been discussed by Cicero and Albert Chandler, is carrying out his ideas. General was duly retired and pensioned off as VicePresident of the Pullman Standard Export Corporation as of last September. During the last few years in Brazil, he was on the Board of Directors of the Gulf Oil Corporation, Brazilian Subsidiary. General has now been invited and he has agreed to return to Brazil for the Gulf. He sailed on March 29 and his headquarters will be Rio de Janeiro as usual. General reports that it seems a little odd after having been retired to be rehired, but in view of the fact that the new job is more or less a new line of work, it seems to intrigue his pioneer spirit. His new address will be: c/o Companhia Brasileira de Petroleo "GULF" Caixa Postal 3924, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Reg Woolridge has retired to beautiful Castleton, Vt. after forty years governmental service.

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