1908

Chubby Howe, Had Mitchell, Andy Nichols and Queech Safford have passed away in the last few months. Chubby passed away on May 30 at Wakefield, Mass. He was born in North Adams, and for many years he was with the A. G. Walton shoe factory in Chelsea. He had served on the town Finance board and Expansion board, and as treasurer of the First Parish Congregational Church. In college Chubby was a member of the golf team and of Phi Kappa Psi.

Had Mitchell passed away on June 23 in Greenwich, Conn. He was born in Cleveland, was a member of the class for two years and returned to Cleveland to enter business with his father and brother in the Mitchell MetaProducts Cos. He was President of this company at the time of his death. Had was on the football squad while in college and a member of Phi Kappa Psi. Had attended the 40th reunion. He was the life of the party and apparently enjoyed himself more than anyone there.

Andy Nichols passed away on July 22 in the Billings Memorial Hospital of Chicago, of diabetes and complications after a long illness. Andy was born in Norwich, Vt., and attended Hanover High School and Exeter Academy. In 1913 he was appointed a teacher in the Austin High School of Chicago and taught there for 36 years. He retired in 1949 due to ill health. Funeral services were held in the Community Church of Congress Park, Ill. Park Stickney and Harold Cogswell attended.

Queech Safford passed away in Burlington, Vt., on July 23 following a heart attack on July 1. Percy Gleason attended the funeral. More complete accounts about all of these loyal members of the class will appear in the obituary column of the MAGAZINE.

Through the combined efforts of Chairman Art Lewis and his co-workers, and the generosity of men in the class, a good showing was made again this year on the Alumni Fund. Art is again entitled to the gratitude of the class and of the College.

Bant Blake has been elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society. The Society is the oldest learned organization in the U.S. and was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743. Membership is limited to 500 American Scholars and 75 foreigners. The Society through its endowment and publications promotes research in science and humanities. Bant, a noted authority on chemotherapy, is Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale. He and his wife left home in June for a two months' trip to Honolulu, Australia and New Zealand. He was invited to give a course of postgraduate lectures on various subjects in Australia.

In June we learned that Clint Bills was a patient in Broadacres Sanitarium, Utica, N. Y., with tuberculosis. Pop Chesley and CharlieDeAngelis had visited with him and found him in good spirits. It is reported that he is coming along very well and that his recovery seems to be only a matter of months. Pop retired from Ginn and Company several months ago after 40 years' service. He is still busy with his Great Artist Series and with other civic affairs in Utica. He served two years as president of the Dartmouth Club of the Mohawk Valley and then passed the gavel to Charlie, who is now President.

John Hinman was one of 51 eminent business leaders selected to receive the Boston Jubilee Award for "outstanding industrial statesmanship" this spring. During the presentation ceremonies in Boston, these men joined in issuing a statement reaffirming their faith in our free economy and pledging their efforts to strengthen it. This statement has become known as the Boston Declaration. John recently was a witness for the paper industry before the House Judiciary SubCommittee studying monopoly power. John denied prior testimony before the Committee that there was a common directorate in the industry for improper purposes.

Stacey Irish retired in June, after teaching 32 years at Evanston High School. He will continue his work as Secretary of the Evanston Civil Service Commission. Stacey received gifts of a wrist watch and a radio upon his retirement, and was the guest of honor at several parties given at that time.

Tat Badger was at Hanover the middle of June for the annual Theta Delt poker game. The Boston Sunday Herald of July 16 contained a picture of Tat and his debutante daughter Mary Jane dancing at the Oyster Harbors Club on Cape Cod.

The Dartmouth Club of Goose Bay, Labra- dor, with a membership of one, entertained former U. S. Navy Commander David C. Nutt '41, now Arctic Specialist of the Dartmouth Museum, and his crew of sailors and students of the Blue Dolphin during a recent visit to Goose Bay. Syd showed his colored slides of Labrador on the Blue Dolphin one evening.

Jack Everett broke through the snowdrifts down Maine late in the spring and attended Dartmouth Night at the Pops concert in Baaston. He joined forces there with ParsonBill English, Percy Gleason, Art Lewis, ArtSoule and Bobby Thompson.

Warren Currier and Imperial Hardware Cos. were written up in a series of articles in the El Centro paper recently. Warren is Secretary and Sales Manager of the company.

Fred Munkelt was at home for a while in July recovering from a hernia operation.

Harry Harriman, who practices what he preaches, held a one-man '08 reunion in Hanover in June. He finally joined forces with '07.

Jack Detlefsen is living in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Waynesboro, Va., after an interesting trip to Europe.

The Henry Stones spent their vacation at Ocean Point, Me.

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