1908
The Engineering News-Record, of several weeks ago contains a picture of Arthur D.Weston with the following article about him:
"After 44 years of fruitful work for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Arthur D. Weston has retired as Deputy Commissioner of the Mate Department of Public Health, where he was director of the division of sanitary engineering. He has directed more than 50 special investigations in matters of water supply, mosquito control, housing, water pollution control and other sanitary matters. A graduate of Dartmouth, he served as a captain with the 26th Engineers Water Supply Regiment in the First World War. Dur:ng the last war he was a colonel on the staff of the Adjutant General in the Massachusetts Organized Militia. He will live in Edgartown and write concerning the work of the department and the research of the Lawrence Experimental Station."
An editorial in the same issue contains the following about him: "The retirement of Arthur D. Weston as deputy commissioner for environmental sanitation of the Massachusetts Department of Health is a case in point. Mr. Weston, who is going on 'inactive duty' after 44 years of continuous public-health work, stands in the front line of the country's leading sanitation men. He has devoted his life to protecting public water supplies, to promoting pollution abatement and to encouragng basic research. A benefited public can properly say to Mr. Weston, 'Well done.' We join in those sentiments and wish him well in his next selfchosen labor of love: telling the story of the research done by the Lawrence Experimental Station. This is a fasinating record that's never been written; it will be awaited by public health men with mounting interest."
Tat Badger and Mary Jane Badger broke into print again in the Boston Sunday Herald of September 3 in a picture taken at the Oyster Harbors Club.
In August we learned that Larry Symmes and his wife were going abroad for several weeks. Having heard nothing further we do not know whether they are behind the iron curtain or top busy enjoying themselves to send a card to the Class Notes Editor.
Mildred Prentice was in California this summer and returned home in August. During her absence her son Miles and his wife had their third son, Frederich Sheldon Prentice II. named after Gene's father.
As we limp for press during the first week of October, Lela and the Class Notes Editor and Bill Jr. '49, who is back at Northwestern Law School in Chicago, hope that nothing happens to interfere with their plans to go to Detroit and Ann Arbor at the end of this week to attend the Dartmouth Pow Wow and the Michigan-Dartmouth game at Ann Arbor on October 7. Mary, Smith '48 and her husband Warren Craumer, who now live in Flin:. Mich., will join them for the game. It sounds like a good Dartmouth week-end. ParkStickney hopes to make it, and Herbie Mitchell indicates that he will be among those present also.
Walter Furman the last week in September was discharged from the hospital after an ulcer attack from which he had entirely recovered. His son David, who graduated in June from N.Y.U. Law School with highest honors, is now law clerk for Judge Jacobs o' the New Jersey Appellate Court. David plans on practicing in New Jersey. Walter passed the word on to Lela that he is taking lessons in preparation for further singing at the next reunion. Many at the last reunion will recall that with Walter leading and with Lela at the piano in the tent in front of Massachusetts the singing went on and on.
NEW ADDRESSES: Lawrence Adler, 3902 Spuyten Dyvil Parkway, N. Y. C. 63; ClintonE. Bills, Veterans Hospital, Batavia, N. Y.; John A. Detlefsen, 357 Chestnut Ave., Waynesboro, Va.; Alva B. Rutherford, Toltz-King Day, St. Paul, Minn., 212 E. Water, Watertown, Wis., Construction Supt.; William M.Sillech, 274 14th St., Apt. 3, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Arthur D. Weston, Box 536, Edgartown, Mass.
Class Notes Editor, 602 Forest City National Bank Bldg. Rockford, Ill. Secretary, 115 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y. Treasurer, Taftville, Conn. Memorial Fund Chairman, 257 Loring Ave., Pelham 65, N. Y.
