1911
George Morris, on returning from his last trip to South America in the interest of the International Bar Association, found a letter awaiting him from Jack Marks. Jack had been engaged in the management of a hotel in Joppa, Mo., but because of a sale of the property was leaving for Florida to continue in the same line of work. George and Miriam have been traveling for the past six months in connection with the International Bar Association.
Classmates will be sorry to know that LibbyButts is seriously ill in a Boston hospital.
Pat Sprague, Rath and Marion's daughter, was recently married.
An additional note must be made about Jim Malley who was referred to in the last edition of the MAGAZINE. He has recently been appointed by the New England Governors Conference as the New Hampshire representative of a committee representing each of the six New England states to study possibilities of improving the textile industry in New England and to recommend procedure for establishing a permanent New England Textile Industry Conference.
John Poor's daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Poor Middleton, is asking the aid of any 1911 men who have any material or memoir which they may contribute to a memorial for John Poor, whom we all remember with respect and affection. Her address is Box 359, Lenox, Mass.
On a visit to Florida during Christmas vacation, Bee and I had the pleasure of calling on three classmates and wives, namely, SatanK. Sanderson, Bones and Esther Tindall and Bill and Mrs. Herron.
It will interest classmates to know that Bones is getting a great kick out of his rapidly expanding business of handling fruit and other delicacies, largely because it gives him a lot of pleasure to help a number of causes in which he is interested, as the profits from his sales go to support such worthy institutions as his colleges, fraternity, hospital, etc.
We found Bob Sanderson to be a busy member of the Palm Beach community. He is chairman of the Playground Commission of the city and has been honored by election to the Old Guard Society of Palm Beach Golfers. This is. an organization, founded in 1921, in which the membership was limited to 75 members, later increased to 100. His signal honor in this highly-distinguished organization is that of being its president. Satan and Kay have an attractive home near the shore in a beautiful part of the city. Both boys are active in school, where the older one was a member of the football team and last year was selected as an All-Florida prep school end.
This was my first meeting with Bill Herron for many years. Bill's story is one of self- success and will be of interest to all of you. First, let it be said that he is now retired from active business, has an attractive home on the edge of Lakeland, Fla., where he has five acres of citrus fruit and what is said to be the largest live oak tree in the state of Florida. It's a beautiful example of Florida's famous tree on the corner of his front lawn, covered with the beautiful Florida moss. Bill busies himself taking care of his property which he owns in Lakeland, enjoying his little wood-working shop, where he indulges in his hobby of making furniture and other attractive items. Bill's story begins after college when he, with Al Wheeler, Dave Fitz and MaxEaton all went to Florida, although only Dave and Bill stayed to spend most of their lives there. Bill first bought a small orange grove and enlarged that, then indulged in his love of engineering by taking a contract with the Government during the first World War to cut hickory in one of the southern swamps, which was called by wiser men an impossible job. This wood was much needed by the Government for military purposes. Bill did the impossible and actually got the hickory to the Government in larger quantities than they really wanted it. Then he set up saw mills in some cypress swamps and marketed this wood. This was followed by his entrance into the construction business, first in Birmingham, Ala., then back in Florida. He built large areas of residence property as well as many industrial and commercial buildings before he retired to enjoy life with his attractive wife. Flis two twin sons were in the war, both as officers in the Navy. Jack was chief ammunitions officer in Hawaii, where he was killed in action. Bill Jr. likewise was in the Pacific, but is now married and an executive in one of the oil companies in Texas. Probably few of you know of Bill's history at Dartmouth which is indeed interesting. He entered with our class, was here two years, then was at M. I. T. for 1½ years. He returned to Dartmouth in February, 1911, and needed 24 hours to graduate. He asked permission of "Chuck" Emerson to take eight courses. "Chuck" told him it couldn't be done but Bill secured permission from the instructors to sit in on these courses, then at the end of the semester he took the examinations, passed all eight courses with a credit of 25 hours. Even then he was told by Chuck that he wouldn't be able to graduate because such things weren't done but that he would present his case to the administration. Bill did not know until the morning of Commencement that he was finally to be granted his degree with honors.
Any of you chaps in Florida or going to Florida would enjoy seeing Bill and he would love to see you. His address is 2320 New Jersey Rd., Lakeland, and you'll find his name in the telephone directory.
We didn't know that Bud Schell was in Fort Meyers as we drove through or we certainly would have stopped to see him.
We regretted not being able to see DonCheney in Orlando, but did not get to that part of the state.
Congratulations to Stan and Billie Macomber on their first grandchild, Frederick Elder Wood Jr., who arrived in Quincy, Mass., last October. Stan reports that Doc Bond still remains in the pink of condition; says he knows because he sees him practically every day at Thompson's Spa for lunch.
Word from Helen Russell tells us of her enjoyment of reading the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and keeping in touch with Newton's classmates.
DARTMOUTH TREND: Les Hawkridge '11 is proud of his son Ed '42, and has great expectations for his grandson, Les II.
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