1904

1901-02-03-04-05

This five-class group will celebrate its tenth annual gathering WEDNESDAY, MAY 2. The meeting on Wednesday assures the presence of President Dickey and anticipates the companionship of many 1901 men for whom this becomes the first get-together in their Golden Reunion period. It is reasonably expected that men from 1900 and 1906 may join us.

CIO. The Berkshire Evening Eagle, Pittsfield Mass., brings this interesting news. Men were invited to a six-weeks course on investing in stocks and bonds at the Womens Club Friday evenings in February and March. The course was taught by Harry Johnson, manager of the Pittsfield office of the New York Stock Exchange firm of Tifft Brothers. The news item adds:

"Mr. Johnson has been in the investment business since 1904, after graduating from Dartmouth College, where he majored in economies and history. He began his Wall Street career with the banking firm of E. D. Shepard & Company, municipal bond specialists, and later became associated with Harris Forbes & Company, specialists in railroad, industrial, public utility and municipal financing. Mr. Johnson represented Harris Forbes & Company in Springfield, Worcester and Pittsfield. He then managed the firm of Jackson & Curtis in Springfield until joining his present firm in 1933. During World War I, he served 14 months with the purchase and finance division of the Army Ordnance in Paris. Mr. Johnson was executive director of civilian defense for Pittsfield in the last war.

"Last winter, at the request of the Massachusetts Department of Education, University Extension Division, Mr. Johnson taught investment to an adult class of 92 in Pittsfield High School, and to a class of 75 in North Adams High School."

Pat and Ann Manning have recently reduced their family mileage by moving from their 15-room house to a new one of eight rooms recently completed. The new address is Quonset Manor, East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Now reduced to half their accustomed range, they are looking over the southern states and expecting to get to Hanover in June.

The Muchmores were in San Antonio Feb. 21 with plans to go to Florida later. Harrie, in a note to Beck, mentioned that Bobbie Fletcher used to say, "It's a country of magnificent distances."

Brayton is still at his daughter's, 2140 Charlemagne Ave., Long Beach 4, Cal., where he expects to remain until early May when he will return to Idaho Falls accompanied by his daughter who will be enjoying her vacation by May first. Bascom says he has looked up some of the California group but cannot see a spot in the six-lane highway where he can nose his car into traffic.

Curly Bob Brown, who was with us our first two years and went to New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell, N.M., as football coach to remain there as athletic director for some thirty years, died January 7 after a week's illness. Bob was best known to those of us who spent our spare time as fodder for the football greats during the falls of 1900-01-02 coming to us with the Chicago boys. There is little available information other than that he was married in Roswell and is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lucile McGaffey Biown.

To get you better acquainted with BobFiske's new surroundings: "Have moved from Pasadena and now living in the desert 50 miles from the nearest railroad station Palm Springs.' The address is General Delivery, Twenty-Nine Palms, California.

Read about HANOVER HOLIDAY in this issue. Sounds good for June?

Secretary. Canaan Street, Canaan, N. H. Treasurer, Morristown, N. J Class Agent 9 Foxcroft Rd., Winchester, Mass.