1908
The class has lost another loyal member. Ray Sherburne passed away January 29 at the Lowell General Hospital. A quiet, sturdy friend, his life was crowned with honors. Following his graduation, he entered Harvard Law School and graduated in 1916. He was town treasurer of Tyngsboro for thirty years, member of the board of selectmen and board of education, director of the Lowell Institute for Savings, Trustee of the Aged Couples Home, Past Master of his Masonic lodge, among other honorary offices, - really one of the town fathers. Surely, he lived a completely useful life and did honor to our class. He will be missed by all who knew him. I believe that he and I were in the same classes right through the four years.
Word from Walter Furman contains the news that he went into the hospital the first of December for, as he puts it, a plumbing job, from which he emerged with such success that he and Gertrude are soon sailing for a European trip which will keep them out of this country until the first of June. He took in the Yale and Princeton games but found neither of them satisfactory. Walter expects to be in Hanover for our informal gathering in June.
More news of the scalpel. George Fine reports from Merchantville, N. J., that he was hospitalized for a month to mid-January for a surgical operation, but recovered successfully and was to take off early in February for Orlando, Fla. That's not far from Vero, George. Get on your horse and come over after March 15. That's where they effect the complete and final cure.
You may recall mention in these yere columns of Henry Stone who conducted a 50-year reunion of his high school class of Haverhill, at which so many of those long-lived Haverhillians were present that it was a subject of amazement. Well, did you see the copy of Life in which this magazine joined in the applause? Hats off to Henry, who also records the fact that he has ten grandchildren.
Syd Ruggles reports: Without Syd's faithful reporting of the news, as he calls on our classmates in his travels, this soap box would be pretty lean pickin'. Syd recently had a good visit with Art O'Shea in his department store at Laconia. Yessir, everyone who visits Art O'Shea has a good visit. From there he visited Art and Marguerite Anderson at London Center, N. H., where Art is sales manager for the Arthur S. Brown Co. of Tilton, manufacturers of high-speed fabric belts. Art has been there since 1936, which seems to suggest that he likes the job and the country. How about a trip to Hanover this June, Art?
The College Records Office advises that Dr. Harold Rugg should be addressed at The Darlington Apartments, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. The class would be interested to hear about your work there, H.O. How about it?
Mark the dates - June 13, 14 and 15. The place - the campus in Hanover. At that time those of the class who feel so inclined will gather round the stately ellums in informal reunion, there to grow younger as you grow older. No program, no schedule, but just another opportunity to get together in complete relaxation. The College will provide dormitory accommodations for those who wish to attend - details later. Reuning at the same time will be the classes of '09, '10 and '11, in official reunions, while '07 joins in informal meeting as we do. Be thinking about it; we may mention it casually again.
The line is forming for Vero Beach - March15 and on. Unfortunately, you will not have received the request to advise regarding your plans about the above before this - copy must be in Hanover, so I can only list those who filed early letters oF intent. There will, of course, be many others, maybe yourself. To date those who expect to be there during some or all of the period are Mike and AnnisStearns, General Knox, Dick and Helen Merrill from Pasadena, Pop Ghesley, Larry andDorothy Symmes, Gordon and Esther Blanchard, Bert Thorpe, your humble scribe and bride, Leon Farley '09 and Virginia. We are working on Cully and Dorothy Pierce '07. Of course there will be ye keeper Larry andHelen Treadway. We suspect that those of the class who are wintering in other spots of Florida will be there, along with several others whose names are at the moment not recorded. May we suggest to any others interested that the occasion is a Dartmouth one, and those of other classes will be most welcome and can count on a good time. Get together a gang of your contemporaries and hop aboard. You need only advise the Royal Park Inn at Vero Beach, Fla., of your coming and everything will be taken care of.
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