1908
The appointment of Edward Bartlett as Research Consultant for the Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station was announced by G. M. Worrilow, Experiment Station Director, in February. He will study the agricultural research program to the end that basic projects will be suggested in the field of fundamental research and that projects which have practical application may be further developed and introduced in Delaware's agriculture. Last summer, Edward had a visit with Paul Batchelder at the University of Texas. They had not seen each other for 30 years. Edward reports that Paul had only a few gray hairs among the red, and that we can expect Paul at the next reunion. On the same trip, Edward visited the Universities of Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A & M, Rice Institute and Tulane. Edward and his wife celebrated his retirement by taking an automobile trip to Florida. At Rollins College he discovered Dr. Norman E. Gilbert of the Physics Dept. of Dartmouth when we were in college. Dr. Gilbert is now head of the Science Dept. at Rollins. Edward's daughter, Drantha, is a Junior at the University of Delaware. She graduated from Stratford College, Danville, Va., last June.
Tat Badger has the sympathy of every man in the class on the passing of his brother, Walter '15, after a long illness.
Corcoran, Bill English, Gleason, Lewis,Marion and McCarty attended the Baaston Dinner. President John Dickey made a splendid address according to our reporter.
Jeanette M. Hazen, the wife of Ralph W.Hazen, passed away in Concord, N. H. on February 28. Services were held at the First Methodist Church, Concord, on Thursday, March 2. The sympathy of the men in the class goes out to Ralph in his great loss.
Art Lewis, Chairman of the 1950 Easter Seal Campaign of the Bay State Society for the Crippled and Handicapped, again broke into print with his picture in the BostonTraveler of March 3. The picture showed Art pointing out March 9, the opening date of the drive.
Charlie Walker, the big coal man from Portsmouth, became a grandfather recently when a son was born to his daughter Ruth (Mrs. John G. Hainsworth) in Endicott, N. Y.
The article by Jack Childs in the March ALUMNI MAGAZINE on Crosby Hall brought forth the following letter from Art Wyman:
"Other Crosbyites such as I am will be moved by Jack Childs' article, "Crosby Days," as printed in the March ALUMNI MAGAZINE. I am grateful to him for this reminder of the past. His review brings back memories supplemental to his brief outline, but concerning his story of the phrenological visitor there is one detail presumably unknown to Childs, but of some significance to my class- mates of '08.
"The price list for those phrenological readings is unimportant, though I can't imagine Bant Blake in those days tossing a dollar away so lightly for a preview of his future. My guess would be that he came under the cut-rate clause, or even as possessing a head with bumps of sufficient importance to permit a reading in the interest of science—-without charge! At any rate, he was one of the specimens, as witnesseth Art Blood, Robbie Robinson and myself. After the usual bump manipulation the professor announced, 'This man is going to be a doctor.' Bant, as we all know, never wastes any words or word, but I can remember he either nodded or said, 'Yes'—at least he confirmed the prediction. Now here we are 44 years later and the outcome is indeed known to all of us. Just for the record, and to justify my faith in the science of Phrenology, I think this experience should be noted in the College annals."
Ev and Vi Marsh had a March vacation at Hot Springs National Park, Ark.
Jack Everett spent the night at the Hanover Inn early in March. Hal Snow gave his wife a break and took her to the Hanover Inn for a weekend during the same month. The Snows missed Jack by a day.
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