1913

"T. D." Jewett has been in Los Angeles with his daughter Betty and family. Andy Cornstock lives across the street and he saw RayBennett about the middle of September.

Buck Freeman and Gladys spent two weeks in August at their "Singing Waters" home in Vermont. They spent part of one day in Hanover, saw Florence French and a couple of 'i4ers, and left for Lunenburg, Mass., where they visited with Ben and Marian Andrew. Russell was there, about to leave for Ohio State University for his last year. Frances will also be returning to continue her work Ernest Thomas called the following day with his two daughters, so a real reunion was had. Marian, who went to Colby College, is teaching at Peterborough, N. H., and Jean, who went to Mass. State University, is employed in an office in Middleboro, Mass.

The June, 1950 issue of Modern Railroads is devoted to the Association of American Railroads and carries an article on the library in Washington with a picture of the assistant librarian, our Buck Freeman.

Line and Lucille Wilson were in Honolulu for three weeks in June. Jane had been there for over a year at the University of Hawaii. Now she's back with the family, having returned to San Mateo in August, and is now attending the Universitv of California in Berkeley. Line says Bill Towler was in Frisco in September and was trying to locate ChetVander Pye, who happened to be up at the new home he is building at Clear Lake. The rest of the year Chet commutes between San Francisco and Burlingame. Over Labor Dav Line was in Carmel and ran into GeraldMiller. He and his wife run the Sundial Court Apartments in Carmel.

The Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York will seek to raise $20,000,000 in the next four months for the maintenance of 116 hospital, health and social service agencies in the metropolitan area Ralph E. Samuel, federation president, announced. Ralph defended private philanthropy as an integral part of democracy, and criticized those who urge that government do all health and welfare work.

For the interest of all we reprint from the Minneapolis Morning Tribune of August 28, 1950, an editorial headed " 'Hap' Atwood."

"Everybody called him 'Hap,' and the nickname was a natural one because of his radiant personality. But behind his wit and good humor and graciousness were a character and an intellect of rock-like integrity, which had done much to shape the course of Minneapolis business and civic leadership in recent years.

"Everybody who knew Henry Atwood well thought of him not primarily as a banker or a business man but as a man whose first love had been teaching. He came to Minneapolis as a member of the faculty of the University of Minnesota, and when he went into business after World War I he took with him the open and inquiring mind, the love of people, the idealism which had beckoned him first to the classroom.

" 'Hap' Atwood always cast his influence, in business circles and civic matters, on the sid. of progress, of liberalism, of exploring new ways of doing things, of getting better ac quainted with the viewpoints of others. Prece dent never kept him from doing anything he thought was enlightened and right. It was never said more truly of any business man that he was a gentleman and a scholar.

"Not just because of the place he filled in the community, but because of the rarity of his special talents of mind and heart, his death leaves a vacancy in the community which can never quite be filled."

We have received more information since our preparation of the notice of Hap's sudden and untimely death. Hap had been suffering from osteo-arthritis in the right leg and had complained of pains and tightness in his chest and shortness of breath. He and Marian had been on an extended vacation and had visited Jasper National Park in Canada. He had been back at the office for a short while. Joe Barnet had had lunch with him on the second day back (August 15). On Saturday Hap saw part of the final round of the National Amateur Golf Tournament at the Minneapolis golf club and returned home to retire early. When called Sunday morning, he was not in his room, which was not at ail surprising as he frequently took early morning walks, especially when unable to sleep. He evidently had walked to his dock at the lake and had fallen into the water after a heart attack.

Many, many tributes have been received. The list of his interests and activities is fantastic and he always performed in a most satisfactory and successful way. He is actually a real loss to the institution he headed up as well as to the Class and the College.

Secretary, Box 2057, Boston 6, Mass. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H. Memorial Fund Chairman 340 Main St., Worcester 8, Mass.