1911
Jim Malley has been active as a member of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission in which he has had a committee of prominent New Englanders working on a plan to broaden the New Hampshire tax base. This would certainly be welcome to New Hampshire residents and citizens if it could be sold to that notable aggregation of citizens known as the State Legislature.
Although Warren Agry has not yet given in to the retirement urge, he's getting ready as he is completely remodeling the whole house at Etna. You'll have an opportunity to sec this delightful spot next June.
Carroll C. Davis has been accorded the distinction of being awarded the 1950 Charles Goodyear Medal of the American Chemical Society. The medal was founded in commemoration of Charles Goodyear's discover of the vulcanization of rubber in 1839 and goes to Carroll in recognition of his contributions to the literature on rubber chemistry and his leadership as an industrial chemist. Carroll is chief chemist of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company, Cambridge Mass., and editor of Rubber Chemistry andTechnology, publication of the society's rubber division.
Stan Macomber, being intrigued by the piture of the Orrill Club staff which appeared in the May issue of the MAGAZINE, submitted some interesting anecdotes pertaining to the Orrill Eating Club which you will enjoy. He lists the men in the picture as Dutch IrwinChester Orrill, Bill Carlisle, Chick Jordan, Raymond Orrill and Les Waldron in the fron row. In second row, Jack Ingersoll, Stan Macomber, Hal Harmon '12, Duke Dunning. Warren Agry, Harry Bicknell and Joe Boynton '12.
Other items from his letter are as follows
"Ed Orrill fired most of us at one time or another for some infraction, but usually sent for us to come back the next day.
"Of course, we broke numerous dishes and, if Ed or his wife were not around at the time, we tossed the broken pieces into the snowbank in the back yard Ed used to rave about the depletion in the supply of dishes but. of course, we knew nothing about it. However, the pay-off came when the snow melted off in the spring and disclosed the back yard literally covered with broken dishes.
"Duke Dunning and I roomed at the Phi Psi House and we were supposed to report at 6:45 under penalty of being fired. I had the chore each morning of attempting to get Duke up in time to make the deadline. This was accomplished by much shaking of the Duke and stripping off the bed clothes during which I was called every name under the sun.
"One day a student boarder brought down a small horseshoe crab from the bug lab and deposited it in his plate of soup when it was served. He then summoned Ed Orrill and berated him for serving that kind of soup. As Ed was not sure whether the student boarder or the student waiter was the culprit, there was general hell to pay for a while.
"It was Dutch Barends' job to carve the meat. One night Dutch did something that displeased Ed Orrill, whereupon Ed shouted, 'Barends, you're fired!' Dutch slowly rolled up his sleeve a bit higher and said, 'Orrill, if I'm fired, I'm going to take one good crack at your jaw before I leave.' Ed managed a sickly smile and said, 'Oh! come on, Dutch, can't you take a little kidding?'
"Believe it or not, Dutch Irwin used to carry four cups of coffee together with the saucers, in one hand, while he carried several other dishes of food in the other, and I never saw him spill a drop. (This is probably where Dutch got his early training for his present job as manager of a coffee roaster firm in Detroit.)
"One of Ed's favorite expressions was, 'Don't nobody never take nothing off that table no time.'
"We all felt, however, that we owed Ed and Mrs. Orrill a deep debt of gratitude for the opportunity they gave us of helping us get through college."
Lew Sisson is vice president of the Paper & Twine Association and is trying to arrange the annual meeting of that group so that he can make the fortieth reunion at Hanover. Lew's daughter Mary Louise is married to Dr. Calvin Skinner who is a surgeon in Middletown. The youngest daughter, Margery, who is now Mrs. Richard Runyan, lives in Cincinnati where her husband is a lawyer. She has identical twin girls. Between them both they have given Lew five granddaughters.
Don Cheney, as president of the Park Lake Church Planning Council of Orlando, Fla.. conducted a building program to celebrate as the Silver Anniversary Building Program which contemplates a master plan for the most beautiful church including an educational building. His daughter Virginia graduated from Rollins College last June and in order to see New England got herself a job at the Farragut Hotel, Rye Beach, for the summer.
Secretary, 1 Webster Terrace, Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, Howland Dry Goods Cos., Bridgeport 2, Conn. Memorial Fund Chairman,This Week, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y.
