1905
At the Waldorf, October 16, Henry Norton was scheduled as one of four speakers on "Sales Opportunities in the Atomic Field," under the auspices of the National Industrial Conference. Henry's topic has the impressive title, "Horsepower and Megawatts." A man of a wide variety of important interests and positions, Henry is now president of the Walter Kidde Nuclear Laboratories.
With all the news of our reunion in the October issue, mention of the eight-class dinner in Boston last May 9 was crowded out. It was a pleasant affair. Under the experienced management of Bob Harding, '05 had the largest delegation, with 16 present. These included: R. Brown, Chase, Cornish, Estes,Grover, Hatch, Hersam and his son, Fred, Loder, McCabe, Nourse, Parkinson, Peyser,Weston, White and of course, Bob.
Walter May has called my attention to the fact that in Raymond Fosdick's Story of theRockefeller Foundation, mention is made of Edmund Day, who succeeded Beardsley Ruml '15, now a trustee of Dartmouth College, as director of social sciences. In referring to Rufus' work, he uses the words, "brilliant and challenging leadership."
A note from Marie, Arthur McClary's widow, states that her health is good and that her son Bill was to be in Albany State Teachers College this summer, working for his Master's degree.
Bill Knibbs underwent a severe operation early in September. Tub Besse, under the date of September 22, wrote that Bill expected to be out the following Wednesday, but Tub was doubtful, as he felt that Bill was still a very sick man. He was at the Mt. Vernon, N. Y., hospital.
A letter from Gib Fall in August tells of the trials of a gardener on the Cape. Bib's gardens usually flourish as well as any green bay tree, but this year not only did he have the protracted drought to cope with; there were stalwart woodchucks that actually climbed over a three-foot chickenwire fence to wreck havoc among his vegetables. He had RogerBrown as a witness to this astonishing fact.
Our versatile Walter Nourse gave a talk in July on "The Lighthouse Establishment of the U. S. and Gay Head Light" as guest speaker at a meeting of the Dukes County Historical Society. He included an interesting account of the earliest lighthouses, including the famous Pharos of Alexandria.
Walter and his wife are now visiting their daughter Dorothy in Los Angeles. The latter, with son Richard, visited her parents on Martha's Vineyard during the summer and persuaded them to drive back with her to stay through the fall and winter.
Early in September Mildred and I had a delightful, though brief, visit with Ned Estes in his home in South Berwick. What a display of beautiful and interesting objects he has brought home from the Near East, after his long and brilliant career at Robert College.
We also attempted to call on Walter May and Andy MacMillan at their homes in Concord, N. H. Neither was at home. Walt, we learned, was teaching in the high school in Rochester, N. H. Andy was probably at his summer home in Sunapee; it was a lovely Sunday afternoon. Mildred, however, had recently had the pleasure of having lunch with Beatrice MacMillan. She reports they were in excellent health.
Funny thing happened recently, Fred Chase tells me. The wife of a classmate wanted to make a gift to her hospital. Next thing the husband knew she had already signed a check and was about to send it along. He persuaded her to tear up the check and instead to transfer to the hospital several shares of stock owned by her on which she had a big paper profit. The result was that the hospital received several hundred dollars more, the wife had that much more of a charitable deduction for her income tax return and she legally avoided the payment of any tax on the increase in value. Everybody happy!
Fred, you will recall, is our Bequest Chairman.
Don't Miss It
The annual 1905-'06 dinner will be held this year at the Dartmouth Club in New York City on December 12.
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