1908
4STH REUNION JUNE 13-15Col. Dick Peebles passed away in Ashland, Ky., on February 19. Jack Corcoran passed away at his home in Brookline, Mass., on February 29.
Richard R. Peebles was born in Ashland, Ky., July 11, 1885. He was a member of a family long active in the industrial and business life of Ashland. In College he was a member of Delta Tau Delta. After graduation he was associated with the Lloyd Adams Shoe Cos. of Portsmouth, Ky., the Ashland Steel Cos. and the Ashland Iron and Mining Cos. Together with Leo Meehan he organized the Peebles-Meehan Cos. which operated as a foundry and machine shop and engaged in steel erection work. This firm was dissolved upon the death of Mr. Meehan. In 1940 Dick was appointed City Auditor. Thereafter he was successively appointed to this position by the mayors of both parties. He was recognized as an able public official, and as one who completely knew and understood the detailed business of the city's finances. He was a former president of the Ashland Rotary Club. In 1915 Dick was married to Hilda Seaton who died in 1923. A son, Richard R. Peebles Jr. '42, lives in Boston. In 1932 Dick married Nell Paxton who, with their son Phillip P. Peebles, also survives. Surviving also are two brothers and four sisters.
As the only man in the class from Kentucky, Dick promptly was given the nickname of Colonel, and he carried this title well as a representative of the South.
The Colonel was a modest, kind, gentle and thoughtful individual who will be greatly missed by the men in the class.
John W. Corcoran was born in Clinton, Mass., on May 21, 1885. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy before entering Dartmouth and subsequently was a graduate of Boston University Law School in 1911. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi. Jack was married to Katherine M. Spence at Rutland, Mass., September 17, 1918. Surviving are his wife and his son John W. Corcoran Jr. Jack served as an assistant to Attorney General Henry C. Attwill from 1917 to 1919; practiced law in Boston after his admission to the bar until the date of his death.
The funeral was held at his residence followed by a Requiem Mass in St. Ignatius Church. Always a very loyal Dartmouth man Jack was active and faithful in his attendance at Dartmouth affairs in Boston, and he was regular in his attendance at reunions. With a son in college he made frequent visits to Hanover during the last few years. His illness dated back to the Christmas season when he contracted an infection which brought on uremic poisoning. His health had not been good for a period of several months although he was active up to a short time before he passed away. Art Lewis, Art O'Shea, PercyGleason, Pete McCarty and Gene Jordan represented the class at the funeral. No man in the class will be more missed than genial, kindly, loyal Jack. The sympathy of every one goes to his widow and son.
Parson Bill English, Jack Everett, PercyGleason, Gene Jordan, and Pete McCarty attended the annual dinner of the Baaston Association on February 26. They were joined at their table by some young men from 1910Maurice Blake, Ray Gorton, Charlie Fay, Haywood Jones and Arthur Lord.
Pete Carns from the open spaces of the great Northwest reports a family reunion of his four children last September. They came from nearby points and from Long-view, Wash., St. Paul, Minn., and Ft. Worth, Tex. For a year and a half Pete has been working at the Gunderson Engineering Corp. in Portland which, with his acre of strawberries, keeps him out of trouble. Whether or not Pete jogs back and forth to work, our reporter did not learn.
Arthur Western, one of the most loyal members of the class, reports in from Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
Walter Furman and wife are planning to leave at the end of March for a trip abroad, to be away for about six months. His son David is with the law firm of Stryker, Tarns & Horner in Newark and is doing some teaching in the New Jersey Law School.
Henry Stone is in St. Petersburg, Fla., for a six months' stay. He has seen a lot of Lifeand Mabel Greeley, and has had a ride in Life's motor boat. He reports that Life is in good shape but was banged up a little recently when the ferry all but ran him down one day when he was out in the boat fishing.
Art Rotch spent two days in New York in February at the meeting of the National Editorial Association and did some research in the library of Editor and Publisher looking for historical data for the 150 th Anniversary Edition of the Milford Cabinet. (Commercial.) It seems that there are only 15 weekly papers and a few more dailies that have been in continuous publication for 150 years. While in New York Art met with Secretary Larry and Chairman Mike and discussed plans for the reunion. Mike and Annis were planning to leave on a trip to South America on February 29. Art's seventh grandchild arrived the first week of February. When recently someone told Art he had no chance in the Grandfather Derby he countered that he thought he was doing pretty well with only one son and one daughter working for him.
The February 11 issue of Life Magazine gave the very interesting story of the work of Weband Priscilla Evans' son, Major Bradford Evans, in the Islands, illustrated with many pictures. The story appears on page 51 of that issue of the magazine and will be of interest to any who did not catch the story at the time it appeared.
Raymond Marsh's trip to Europe last summer took him chieoy to Sweden with briefer visits to Norway, Denmark, Germany and France. His objective was the study of private forestry practice in its relations to Government. He then took a trip to Italy as a sightseer.
Sumner Crosby, who practices law in Falmouth, is also President of the Falmouth National Bank. Our reporter learned that when the spirit moves him, Sumner takes a few hours off to engage in skeet shooting, at which he is said to be somewhat of a dead eye.
Class Notes Editor, 602 Central National Bank Bldg. Rockford, Ill. Secretary, 115 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y Treasurer, Taftville, Conn. Class Agent, 125 Walnut St., Watertown, Mass.
