1908

String Hale and his wife are scheduled to leave New Hampshire in October on an 18 months' trip around the world, going first to the West Coast, thence to Japan, Indonesia and India.

Harold Rugg, who has retired, was scheduled to leave these United States on August 29 for a period of work in Egypt and the Middle East which will last about nine months. He plans to return about June, 1952. Perhaps if the trouble in Iran has not been settled by that time, String and Harold can meet there and straighten it out.

Hillsborough County, N. H., the home of Milford and Ponemah, continues to be the active center of 1908 activity. We reported that Robbie Robinson had visited Ponemah and Nashua in August. String Hale was there late that month. Mike and Anna Stearns spent a weekend with the Rotches. Bob Blanpied also was a visitor in August. Bob has theoretically retired but he seems to be keeping a finger in his school's activity in St. Paul. Bob visited Joe B'lakely in Montpelier and saw Munkelt on the same trip.

Wink Fiske was a patient at the Massachusetts General Hospital in August, after which he and Dorothy went to Falmouth. It is difficult to picture Wink as anything but his sturdy peppy self, and it is to be hoped he will soon be back on the job in Pittsburgh, if he is not already there.

Art Rotch and Serena took a ten day trip to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton in August.

Treadway, who for several years has been shining in the reflected glory of his grandchildren, must have something on the BostonHerald. In August, that paper broke out with a three-column writeup with photographs of Treadway and his sons, the Treadway Hotel chain, and the Old Publick House in Sturbridge in particular. The writeup must have cost Treadway and the boys a lot of free food and liquor.

One of the enjoyable events of our invasion of Hanover for the second reunion weekend in June was a visit with George Baine Jr. '41, who was in Hanover for his reunion. He was looking fine and he gave us an interesting account of the whereabouts and activities of his family.

One does not know how he can count on the accuracy of news which comes out of Washington these days, but the other day it was announced officially that a point in Illinois is now the center of these United States. That point is quite a piece down the rud from Rockford but it is to be hoped that more news about men in the class, their wives, children and grandchildren will gravitate to Rockford from every direction during the coming year so that the Class Notes Editor can have something of interest to compile.

Mark Twain once said, "The report of my death is greatly exaggerated." So was the statement in the June issue that Bill Silleck had died. He is very much alive and resides at 1807—18 th Avenue, North, St. Petersburg, Fla.

New Addresses: Harold C. Clark, 219 Park Drive, Apt. 35, Boston, Mass. Harold Rugg, Woodstock, N. Y.

JOHN H. HINMAN 'OB, president of the Interna- tional Paper Cos., and his wife Jennie are partial to planes when they travel, which is often.

Class Notes Editor. 602 Central National Bank Bldg. Rockford, III.

Secretary 115 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y.

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