1908
Carl W. Ross of Calais, Me., passed away at Chipman Memorial Hospital, St. Stephen, N. B. on February 8. He was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage on January 5.
Carl was born in St. Stephen December 19, 1883. He graduated from Calais Academy and entered Dartmouth in 1904 after working for two years. Following his graduation, he attended Thayer School for one year. In college he sang in the college choir and was a member of the Glee Club. He was married to Eva Fraser of St. Stephen in 1909. Following graduation, Carl worked for the Portland, Ore. Bureau of Water Works until 1919 when he returned to Calais to become a member of the firm of Ross Brothers, retail jewelers. At the time of his death, he was the owner and manager. Of a quiet and retiring nature, Carl was very well liked and he will be greatly missed by the men in the class.
Larry Adler has had a serious illness lasting seven months, which included a long stay at the Medical Center Hospital in New York. He had virus pneumonia followed by a fever which lasted for six months. Last reports indicated that he is getting back his strength.
Bant Blake, M.D. of the Yale Medical School, recently returned with his wife from a very interesting month's trip to Cairo, Luxor, Athens, Rome, Florence, Madrid and Lisbon. The visit in Cairo was on official business for the Research and Development Board of the Department of Defense.
Pete Cams of Gresham, Ore. put away his running shoes last summer to give his entire time to a Cams family reunion at Gresham. His daughter Mary came from Ft. Worth and son John and his wife Olga. Daughters Ruth and Gerry and their two daughters Katharine and Anne came from St. Paul. On February 11 a third son arrived at the home of Pete's son Bill at Longview. The young man weighed in at gi/% lbs. at the time of his arrival. Tuss McLaughry hopes that Pete will encourage this young man to become a blocking back rather than a half-miler.
Albert Chandler reports the arrival of a second grandchild, Mary Rebecca Chandler, on October 23, 1949.
"T. I." "Dunn's son and daughter are both living in Pasadena, Calif.- Ted Jr. is Pacific Coast Sales Manager for a bolt and nut company with headquarters at their plant in Los Angeles. Janet teashes physical education at the Polytechnic School in Pasadena.
The New York Times of Wednesday, February 15, 1950 carried at the head of a column a picture of David Furman, Walter's son. The article announced David's election as editor-in-chief of the New York University Law Review.
Harry Harriman, spending the winter in Florida, continues to plug for an informal annual reunion in June. Harry practiced what he preached last year and joined ArtRotch, Stan Tappan and the Class Notes Editor for the commencement weekend.
Stacey Irish's daughter Edith was married on December 10, 1949, to Harold Ames. They are living in Nashville, Tenn. His daughter Ruth was married on December 22, 1949, to Robert McHugh. They are living in Boulder, Colo. On April 22, 1949, Stacey celebrated the arrival of another daughter, their third child, to his oldest daughter Marian, who is Mrs. J. Kenneth Baird of Evanston.
A picture of Mort and Marguerite Hull recently appeared in the Holyoke Evening Home Destroyer, showing them aboard the Lurine-Matson Lines Liner as it was about to sail from Los Angeles to Hawaii. Readers will recall that the Class Notes, with the help of its roving reporter, Sid Ruggles, scooped the Holyoke paper on this some time ago.
Art Rotch, the Dean of the New Hampshire editors, again invaded New York the middle of February and again was unsuccessful in getting Symmes to meet him and buy him a drink. Art opines that probably the water scarcity in New York may have contributed to cause Manhattans in the better bars to go to 90 cents each, and that this may be a contributing cause to Larry's bashfulness. Art, with a memory of the days when we Republicans were running the country, recalls that Manhattans were served in those days two for a quarter at the Adams House.
Sidney Ruggles is back at Goose Bay following a six weeks' leave at home over the holidays. He has taken one trip by ski plane to an outpost on the coast of Labrador and expected to take another one to Baffin Island above the Arctic Circle.
Queech Safford, the law maker from Springfield, Vt., reports a second granddaughter now nearly six months old. Queech sees Percy Gleason from time to time when Perc comes to Springfield to audit his company's accounts.
Col. Artie Soule gave the little lady a break by taking her to Hanover for a weekend at the Hanover Inn late in January.
Word has leaked through to more and more Republican Illinois that George Squier was a patient in February at Hahnemann Hospital, Brighton. We have not learned what the doctors were doing for George, but we feel sure that George has already said "Git up Napoleon, it looks like rain," and has driven back to Newton Center.
Stan Tappan also plugs for an informal annual reunion at Hanover. Tap says he knows of no better way to spend a weekend in June.
Charlie Walker•, the big coal and fuel man from Portsmouth, N. H., is on the New Hampshire state committee endeavoring to keep some coal on hand in that state in spite of H.S.T., John Lewis and the U.M.W.
Professor Earl Wiley of Ohio State University has three grandchildren of whom he is very proud.
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