1908

Suggestions persist from Democratic as well as Republican precincts that an informal reunion with no mechanics or fanfare should be held in Hanover on Friday and Saturday, June 17 and 18. The Class Notes Editor agrees to attend. Will he be seeing you?

A copy of the 51st Annual Report of the International Paper Company has found its way to the Listening Post and Conning Tower of the Class Notes Editor in Rockford. In addition to being a beautiful job of printing with photographs and charts, it discloses that John Hinman, the President, and his associates have been working regularly as production was up in 1948 over 1947 on almost every kind of paper which John makes and sells, that sales were up a tidy fifty million dollars or so, and that profits also had increased. The company had over 33,000 employees last Vear. Altogether, the report indicates that John and his company did all right in 1948.

As of April 2, Syd Ruggles wrote in from Goose Bay, Labrador, to report that he was bringing the Class Books up to date that day, and was filing the last clippings. In the peace and calm of the Air Installations Office at Goose Bay, Syd found from the list of men in the class who were officers in World War 11, that the new class book had omitted the name of Frank Cook, who was a Lt. Col. in the AUS and who served overseas in railway work. He also has discovered that Eliphalet Greeley served in the Coast Guard as a civilian; that Ralph Crowley served in the Ordnance; that Leon Woodward was with the Army Engineers in airport construction; and that Arthur Hopkins was in Red Cross work in the North African theatre. Syd now thinks that there were probably more men in the class who may have been in the service in the late unpleasantness who were probably too modest to report their activities. He further reports that as of the date of his letter signs of Spring were coming to Goose Bay, that their thermometer had climbed to 50° that day, but that they still had about four feet of snow, and drifts which were from six to fifteen feet deep.

Jack Everett, reporting from the Hanover Inn on April 3, stated that he had seen JoeBlakely walk through the lobby a few minutes prior to the time when Jack took his pen in hand, and that Joe was accompanied by his son Judson '5O and a nephew who attends the University of Vermont. Jack had a chance for a short visit with Joe, the Sage of Montpelier. Our Bill Jr. '49 reported some time ago that Joe had thoughtfully looked him up on a prior trip to Hanover.

Harold Joyce had lunch the middle of April with Mort Hull, who had just returned from a thirty-day cruise to South America. Mort had spent a night with George Squier in Newton Center on his way back to the Connecticut River Valley.

Early in April Larry Symmes and FredSchilling went to the steamship Brazil about 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon to wish Gen.Knox Bon Voyage on his trip to South America. From reports, Larry and Fred reduced the General's supply of Scotch very appreciably. They report that the General appeared to be in excellent health, and that he was looking forward keenly to his new job.

Larry broke down one night early in April and took his wife to the theatre. They saw "Life With Mother" and discovered StringHale and his wife sitting near them. The Assistant State Forester of the State of New Hampshire and his wife were on their way South on a motor trip.

George Fine and his wife spent the winter in Orlando, Fla., which in George's book, is Florida's most beautiful city.

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