1913
Mildred and Bob Conant made the news this past November via the 65 th wedding anniversary of Mildred's mother and father in Lynn, where they have made their home for the greater part of their lives, coming from Nova Scotia originally. They both observed their 90th birthdays this past year.
Shirley Macdonald Shepard, Jack Macdonald's daughter, has presented to the Thayer School of Engineering, as a memorial to her father, a set of pictures of Jack's projects from the Walsh Construction Company. They are 18" by 24" enlargements of the Delaware Aqueduct, Queens-Midtown Tunnel, Brooklyn Navy Yard Drydock, the Downsville Dam Division Tunnel and of the Walsh-Kaiser Ship Yard. One is a Lili Rethi etching and the others black and white photographs, framed, and with engraved plates, "Gift of Mrs. Ralph H. Shepard." It is a thoughtful and generous gift.
Walter Nolan is feeling better. Son Harvey, whom all met at our reunion, reports best wishes to all and word that Walter and Irene are really getting along well now. . . . BillGumbart says he is losing hair, but otherwise in wonderful legal condition. . . . Vic Dunbar, in the Department of Air Force, Comptroller, Auditor General, reports Marjorie has been in the Union Hospital but all is well. Next gathering in Hanover will find them among those present. . . . Eddie Sides retires in another year. He's headed for Florida now for the winter.
Notes have been coming in with class dues checks to Bob Conant, some so brief it is exasperating, for we would like "news." The West is represented by short lines and remarks by Rockioood Eddie Edwards in Chicago and Fred Neumeister in Muskegon, Mich., and Joe C. Grout who writes from Evanston, Ill., that he and his wife Cleo are in good health. Joe is gardening.
Joe Barnett was heard from, expressing the thought that so many of us in the past, and so many now, appear to be resting somewhat on the laurels won when Sherm Ward's generous contributions to the Alumni Fund, the Memorial Fund and class finances kept the Class Agent in the Green Derby competition, and high in the list of all contributors to the Memorial Fund and Bequests. Joe simply wrote of the Fund.
George Davidson is one of those living the perfect existence, moving business and home back and forth: Florida in the winter, Connecticut in the summer. Hurricanes moved them in Florida on their five-acre ranchette - flower ranch - a real home. Call 7472 Palm Beach.
Red Spillane says that his island on Lake Sunapee was too cold last summer and too rainy to spend all days comfortably. The Secretary was unable from his camp thirteen miles away up on Ragged Mountain to find them at home.
Ned Crawford and Sallie are planning on Hanover in the near future. Hope many in the class will be in town, for we had a real time when they attended their last reunion.
Herman Parkinson is retiring as chief of the book delivery division of the New York Public Library at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. He has been guiding 3,500,000 books from the stocks to readers. He has had a staff of 105 men and women. When you ask for a book the request shoots through a pneumatic tube and the book is picked out of the eighty miles of volumes on the shelves by one of these 105 workers. The operation averages nine minutes, due in large measure to Herman's efforts. After graduation he studied librarianship at New York State Library School in Albany and then went to the Brooklyn Public Library, later to the Newark Public Library and tri New York in 1927. He served overseas in France and Germany in World War I.
Kill Terry is a member of the N. Y. Caledonia Curling Club, and they were hosts in February to some twenty clubs in the U.S.A. and Canada at a Bonspiel celebrating the 100th anniversary of the club Few clubs have that enviable record. Bill first joined the Royal Montreal Curling Club, founded in 1807 and still going strong. . . . Bill Davis, another Curling enthusiast, has recently been hospitalized for an operation, but is now curling again.
Buck Freeman attended on February 2 the luncheon meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Washington when Sherman Adams, assistant to Ike gave a vigorous boost for freedom of Government information. Harry Semmes Jr. was present but not Harry Senior.
Secretary, Box 2057, Boston 6, Mass.
Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
Bequest Chairman,
