1902

To de-emphasize my many past remarks on retiring classmates, I might tell the story of Ben Stevens. After doing a grand job editing the 1902 Aegis, Ben left us senior year, much to our regret, and went to work for the A. T. & T. Co. Ben writes me that Craven Laycock dubbed him the laziest man in the undergraduate body. And yet Ben worked for A. T. and T. Co. until 1944 when he was retired and then immediately took on a job as draftsman with the International Silver Co. and has worked there diligently, mostly over a drawing board, 44 hours a week ever since. He feels that he has relieved his mind of the stigma placed upon him in Dartmouth.

Ben says his principal relaxation comes with a post-lunch game of cribbage at the club in Meriden, Conn., in which he has been rather successful in relieving two accountants, a local doctor, a local dentist and a lawyer of some of their surplus earnings at one cent a point plus 25 cents a skunk.

By the way, speaking of the 1902 Aegis, has any classmate an Aegis that he does not want? It would be a great help to your secretary as mine got lost. Also X am trying to get some pictures to show at our 50th. Any pictures of classmates, professors or events in Hanover from 1898 to 1902 would be most acceptable.

I noticed in the recent Alumni Directory that Bill Howard was listed as a restaurateur. Knowing that in the dim and distant past, Bill received a degree of LL.B., I wrote him to ask what he was restauranting. He replied it was the Lake Placid Club, no less. Bill says he retired in 1940, but during the war took on a job as liaison civilian contractor for the Army and Navy and spent one year in Antigua, B. W. 1., one year in Porto Rico and then a year on the Alcan Highway in the Yukon. Bill says he now has an attractive home at Keene Valley in the Adirondacks, smokes about five cigars a day, has a highball of Southern Comfort straight before dinner, does gardening and fishing in season, and is a prolific reader. Sounds good to me except I don't relish Southern Comfort and the world has so gone awry it hurts me to read about it.

Secretary, 7 Ship Channel Rd., South Portland, Me.

Treasurer, 426 Tremont Building, Boston 8, Mass.