1908
Please note what can happen to a classmate who fails to respond to a request for a few well-chosen words to be used in this column. I wrote to Mort Hull requesting such and the silence was terrific. Mort said that he had no news. He did have a 40-foot cruiser down off New London. He could have made news by taking it out of the water and so reporting, but he didn't do it. As a result of such neglect, along came Edna the Hurricane and smashed that water chariot into whatever hurricanes smash things - a total loss. Yes, sir, it's much safer to write when requested - or before by preference - even if you have to make news. Protect your property.
A story of the annual meeting of the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Program as recorded in the magazine American Forests lists Dana Parkinson as chairman of the executive committee for information and education. This organization has now been adopted by about every segment of American life and industry in a list much too long to mention. The Class of '08 seems to have the cream of foresters in this country.
In further support of this statement, you should read the 75-page booklet by RayMarsh, Asst. Chief Emeritus of the U. S. Forest Service. It is entitled, Public Policy Toward Private Forest Land in Sweden, Norwayand Finland. Ray gets around, or did. It is full of maps, pictures, diagrams and experience, and would dwarf the thesis of an aspirant for a Ph.D. degree. It is an interesting document which those interested in forestry will want to read. If so, write to Ray.
Wink Fiske is in the news again. This summer he discovered a new location for an operation, and where do you think? - he broke his heel in three places. Wink spent a vacation at their place on the Cape and was on the point of leaving when friend Edna struck and severely wounded some of his trees. So Wink, being a woodsman anyway, took his saw and stepladder and proceeded to pretty up the remains. On the top step Wink, forgetting his strength, took a mighty heave on the last cut of the saw, losing both it and his equilibrium, which resulted in a tangled mass of legs and ladder. The picture, like a man ham- mering his thumb is fanny, but it was no fun to Wink who at last writing had his leg in a cast after spending some time in the Phillips House in Boston. Life Greeley sends this interesting letter from Florida and let this be an example to you. They sure live 'em long in Haverhill.
"Mrs. Greeley and I recently attended our 50th reunion for both: Stevens High School in Claremont, N. H., for Mrs. Greeley, and Haverhill High School, Haverhill, Mass., for me. Henry Stone skippered the Haverhill reunion and did a wonderful job. About 96 graduated in our Class of '04, and over seventy were there after the fifty years. How Henry persuaded so many to attend from all over the country, I don't know. With no idea of being presumptuous, I suggest that he be appointed consulting engineer for our own 50th. Good luck to you and all of '08."
Larry Symmes sends in a resume of his summer's trip of 8000 miles through the South to the Coast and return by automobile. The letter should be published in full but space forbids. Larry mentioned delightful visits with the Merrills and Jimmy Nortons, Don andMrs. Frothingham, Dolly Gray and Dick Carpenter '10. He missed Dick Danforth and Chick Currier. They returned over the direct route through the desert, got stuck in the middle of it, and were towed ten miles by a truck, in the cab of which the temperature was 120 degrees. Wish those Coast folks would come on and let us return their wonderful hospitality which would be hard to do, but we could try.
Syd Ruggles sends in a change of address, which please note below. He further says that he expects to take in the Army-Dartmouth football game, so be on the lookout. ArtWeston was recently the successful bidder for a survey of the Winthrop water and sewage system. In case you didn't know his many accomplishments you will be interested to note them as they were listed in the paper announcing the award. They follow:
1. is former chairman of the Committee of Conference of state sanitary engineers on national water policy;
2. is a former member of the committee of engineers of joint council on water policy;
3. is a former engineering advisor and member of the Mass. Legislative Committees relating to water supply, water power and flood control developments;
4. is a consultant to the U. S. Public Health Service;
5. is a member of the advisory committee of national sanitation foundations;
6. is past chairman of the committee on water supply, Mass. Commission on Public Safety.
New Addresses
Get out your little green books, please, and note the following changes: John S. Everett, 39 Summer St., Hallowell, Maine; Eliphalet A.Greeley, 1410 13th St. N., St. Petersburg, Fla.; Walter C. Rich, Rt. 2, Box 817, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Sydney L. Ruggles, 110 Grand St., Newburgh, N. Y.
Noting the customary bashfulness of our classmates to say anything about themselves, may I suggest that they relay any news of any other classmate that may come to them? This "waiving of immunity" should produce results, and will, if you'll do it.
EDNA'S WORK: Mort Hull '08 found his 40 -foot cruiser mauled beyond repairt off NewLondon, Conn., after the hurricane of Sept. II.
Notes Editor, 119 Parker St. Newton Center 59, Mass.
Secretary, 115 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y.
Treasurer, Taftville, Conn.
Bequest Chairman,
