1908
Raymond Walker died on June 14 at Martha's Vineyard after a long illness following a major chest operation in January. Ray was a member of the class for two years and then attended the College for Physicians and Surgeons. He is survived by his wife Barbara and two sons, Comdr. Thomas J. Walker, U.S.N., and Chief Air Pilot James C. Walker, and by a daughter Nancy, now Mrs. Paul F. Hand, and seven grandchildren. Our sympathy goes to the members of his family.
Elizabeth Marion, daughter of Mrs. Gardner Marion of Concord, was married in May in the First Parish Meeting House, Concord, Mass., to George Gordon Hedblom. Benjamin Pope Marion '46 gave his sister in marriage. The groom was a member of the class of '37 at Harvard, and graduated at Boston University Law School in 1951.
Secretary Larry and Art Lewis attended the Class Officers meeting at Hanover in May. The Secretary and his wife sailed for Europe late in August to be gone until October. Spain was scheduled to be his first stop. Whether Larry, as he approaches retirement age, is contemplating going into bull fighting we did not learn.
Tat Badger, President of E. B. Badger & Sons Co., has been elected Director of Badger Process Division of Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. Tat was at Hanover in June for the annual Theta Delt poker game. One of the brothers sitting next to Tat denied that the annual gathering was for the purpose of making a payment on the Theta Delt mortgage.
Charlie Hall, North Providence, lay reader in charge of St. Peter's Church, Manton, for several years, was ordained to the diaconate of the Episcopal Church in June. The ordination took place in the Cathedral of St. John with the Rt. Rev. Granville G. Bennett, D.D., Bishop of Rhode Island officiating. Charlie is continuing as deacon-in-charge at the Manton Parish. For 25 years Charlie has been lay reader in the parishes of St. James, North Providence; Grace Church, Providence; and St. Peter's in Manton.
Howard Cowee was elected a trustee for three years of the Wesley Methodist Church of Worcester at the annual meeting in June.
Gordon Blanchard has been appointed Executive Secretary of the Scarsdale Community Fund and Social Service Council, and assumed his duties on June 1. Gordon retired from the Riegel Paper Corporation in 1950, which company he served as Secretary-Treasurer, and Vice President. In announcing Gordon's appointment, the Board stated that "we are very fortunate to have a man of Mr. Blanchard's stature to carry on this important work." Gordon Jr. is a social worker at present connected with the Neuropsychiatry Clinic of the Medical College of Virginia Hospital in Richmond, Va.
Harold Rugg retired on July 1, after 31 years on the faculty of Columbia University's Teachers College. Just prior to Harold's retirement, a dinner was given in his honor in the New Lincoln School.
As of August 31 Art Wymati concedes that Treadway has a safer lead in the grandfather derby than Cleveland at the same date had in the American League. Art reports that his latest count is 11, and he concedes that Treadway has birth certificates to show 13. Before the comment is closed on this subject, the Class Notes Editor reports a late but enthusiastic entry in the G. D.—William Clark Craumer was born to his daughter Mary and her husband in Flint, Mich., on July 30. All of the older grandfathers in the class can appreciate fully the enthusiasm and pride which the young Class Notes Editor had when he received a collect telephone call about 2 A.M. from Flint announcing the arrival of a grandson. Lela has just returned from Flint where she spent three weeks helping the young man get started on the precarious race which he faces in a troubled world.
Hazel McLane Clark is the proud grandmother of John Alexander Clark who was born to Alec Clark '40 and Mimi in Cambridge, Mass., August 11. Hazel, who has been spending the summer in Kennebunkport, plans to be in New Canaan in September.
Robbie Robinson invaded Maine in August. He spent a day in Hanover and visited ArtWyman in Ponemah, N. H., which is up the rud a piece from Milford. Robbie saw Hobie at Nashua but learned that Art Rotch was off on a ten-day jaunt to Nova Scotia. MikeStearns also visited Art in Ponemah, in August. Perhaps Art will invite us all there for the next reunion.
A visit in Rockford with Nan Blampied, Bob's daughter, in July brought a letter from Bob, after Nan returned to St. Paul.
After pecking at and digging into ArtRotch, front and back and sideways, over a period of several months, the surgeons put Arthur on the operating table for the fifth time in five months. The last job, Arthur reports, did the trick, and that he is now ready to climb mountains, or practice with the soccer squad. His invasion of Nova Scotia demonstrates that he is not spending August in a rocking chair. Arthur, in his own inimitable style, wrote a story of his experiences which is a classic.
The Class Notes Editor went to Massachusetts on business in June and rode the roaring Baaston & Maine to Hanover for the second reunion week-end, attended the meeting of the Alumni Council and re-uned with 1911 and found kindred souls in several other classes. Tat Badger was the only class-mate encountered but there was the usual informal reunion of 1907. On the way home he attended the wedding of a niece in Detroit and visited the expectant Mary and her husband in Flint.
Under the able leadership of Art Lewis, aided by Currier, Squier, Stickney, Symmes and Treadway, the Class made a good showing in contributions to the Alumni Fund but fell a little short of the quota given to the class. Art and his co-workers are entitled to great credit for the good job which they did.
AS has already been reported by the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, Jack Detlefsen in May received from Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Army at a ceremony in the Pentagon Building, the highest award given by the Army to a civilian as an appreciation for Patriotic Services with the Technical Intelligence Committee, Joint Chiefs of Staff, World War 11. Jack was Executive Secretary for the Automotive Division on this Committee.
Jack Everett wrote us a card from Havana early in May where he stopped on a holiday trip to Guatemala.
New Addresses Clinton E. Bills, 16 Johnson Park, Buffalo, N. Y.; Francis G. Blake, 333 Cedar St., New Haven 11, Conn.; Ralph P. Currier, R.F.D. No. 1, Milford, N. H.; Alva B. Rutherford, 362 6th Ave. N., South St. Paul, Minn.; Arthur T. Soule, 87 Summer St., R.F.D., N. Scituate, Mass.; ElishaF. Wins low, R.F.D., Davisville Rd., Falmouth, Mass.; Reginald Wooldridge, Elm St., Castleton, Vt.
Class Notes Editor, 602 Central National Bank Bldg. Rockford, Ill. Secretary, 115 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y. Treasurer, Taftsville, Conn.
