1906
By the time you read this many of you will have heard of the death of Bob Blood. Bob was one of our most loyal members and did a grand job as Class Agent up to the time he was forced to resign because of ill-health. Funeral services were held in Manchester on August 7. Flowers were sent from the Class by our treasurer and I understand that Childs,Fitts, Frazier and Milham attended.
Max Hartmann and Art Chapin deserve a lot of credit for the excellent result of their hard work in the 1950 Alumni Fund Drive. The final total for 1906 was $6009.42 which is almost $400.00 more than last year.
Max's big disappointment was the fact that he could not get a 100 percent participation. In checking over the list of those who did not contribute it is hard to understand what reason they could conscientiously give for not having made at least a token gift. Class spirit ought to be so deeply imbedded in each of us that we should welcome the opportunity to be counted among "those present."
Craw Bishop is in Japan as the representative of the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association, which includes about 30 missionary societies. He writes, "This is my second time in Japan. Conditions have improved very much since my first visit in 1946-1947 when I was serving at Gen. Mac Arthur's Headquarters. Now there is not so much poverty or distress. The communists are a small but noisy group and are causing considerable uneasiness. The party should be made illegal here and in the States. The best hope for Japan is the Gospel of Salvation."
Maynor Brock's letter of his experiences in Kansas City reads like one of those blood and thunder dime novels. One time he was held up at the point of a revolver in the hands of two young thugs. A teacher in his school classroom was hit over the head with iron knuckles and killed. But it now looks as though Maynor might die of natural causes as he has retired after 44 years as a high-school teacher and executive. Two daughters and one son are married but the youngest son is still at home. Five grandchildren.
Johnnie Burtch writes as follows:
"It is easy to feel that events in one's life are of no particular interest to other class members but when I recall how interested I am to read reports from others I know that it isn't so. I made a deal some two years ago with the Leahy Clinic and the Baptist Hospital. They took my thyroid and with it my singing voice and all I got was the bill. Am living with my two bachelor daughters, Solglad, assistant librarian at Weston, Mass., Public Library, and Betty, part-time artist and homekeeper for us all. I still play tournament tennis and pretty soon should be the dean of umpires at the National Doubles Tournament held at the Longwood Cricket Club each August. Haven't retired from business as yet and don't want to if I could."
Harold Fish writes that the Fish family purchased a home at 2019 Orrington Ave.. Evanston, 111. on October 1, 1949, so he expects to stay put for a while. His son David graduated from Dartmouth in 1940 and from M. I. T. in 1941. Two grandchildren.
Bill Wood reports as follows: "Am Construction Management Engineer for the Air National Guard with an office in what so many people call the Pentagon. Have three sons and one daughter, two granddaughters and one grandson."
Understand that Joe Nuelle spent the night of June 30 at the Hanover Inn and it took the entire police force to get him out of town the next morning as the town had changed so since 1902 he wanted to stay. Later on he went back again with Joe Smith.
You will be glad to know that ArthurHolmes is back home after his second operation at Dick's House. Mrs. Holmes reports that he is improving every day.
The annual class dinner will be held as usual the night before the Harvard game. Keep the date open, Friday, October 27.
Secretary, 37 East 39th St., New York 16, N. Y.
Treasurer and Memorial Fund Chairman 9 Pond St., Newburyport, Mass.
