1908

About the time that you should receive this MAGAZINE, it will be reunion time - regular and rump - in Hanover. The class of '08 representatives will hold forth from June 8 to 10 in some dormitory to be provided but as yet unannounced. If you feel like coming, come along. There'll be room in some bed or under it.

Dr. Wink Fiske retires. Word reaches us that Pittsburgh is to lose its leading orthopedic doctor, or surgeon as the case may be. Wink has thrown down his tools and as soon as he collects a few more hard ones and gets rid of his house, he is coming back to live where he has always wanted to be, on Cape Cod. He and Dot will be welcome additions to the Boston contingent to whom they will need no introduction. Welcome home, Wink. We'll be looking for you. New address later.

Speaking of Harry Rogers who was down at Vero and who will be in Hanover for the reunion, and who is, furthermore, president of the Suncook Bank in Suncook, N.H.... In the course of human events, I came across a post card, brilliantly colored and showing a picture of said bank. Talk about a modern bank - it would attract attention on Broadway or in any of those wealthy suburbia of New York. You just can't imagine such a bank in a small New Hampshire town. But there it is, and I suspect that Harry had something to do with it. It sure is a credit to him and is a monument to the town. Wasn't it "nice work," as we used to say?

Art and Juliet Soule are on a visit to Denver where they are having a family gathering and they report a perfectly satisfactory trip, according to a post card showing Pike's Peak. They expect to be in Hanover in June. They were at Vero also.

"Friends of the family "This year and last at Vero, Pop Cliesley brought two old friends, Walter Jones and Jim Douglas. Gordon Blanchard also entertained an old friend, Albert Perry, and they all added a lot to our pleasure. Perhaps you remember that we "elected" them as honorary members of '08. Anyway, we did, and we're proud of it. The class has reason to be proud of their loyalty, for 10 and behold, each of them left a good contribution to our quota in the Alumni Fund drive. Now if they will only come to Hanover, we'll give them an honorary '08 degree, magna cum generosity.

In his magazine, The Vagabond, TomDreier pays tribute to his friend and ours, ArtRotch, in such a warm way that you can see the twinkle in Art's eye. In it he says:

The late Arthur B. Rotch, for many years editor and publisher of the unusually workmanlike New Hampshire weekly, The Milford Cabinet, was not one to force his personal ideas on his readers. His rare sense of humor gave him a balance rare in editors.

His able son, William, who has owned and run the Cabinet for the past five years, told in an editorial tribute to his Dad how Art wrote both the editorials and "The Observer" column. Often they expressed opposing views on the same subject. Art was polite to the people who asked him as editor why he tolerated the contrary views of "that Observer," and to the people who congratulated him for being so broad-minded as to allow such differences of opinion in his paper.

Not by a twitch of an eyelid did he indicate that he wrote both columns. Young Bill says many of the leisurely appearing Observer columns, glowing with gentle humor and self-depreciation, were actually written at top speed amid the thousand interruptions of a Wednesday morning.

Art was actively associated with his paper for 45 years - a paper that has been in the Rotch family since 1809. Now the work is being carried on by his able, courageous, creative-minded son, Bill.

New Address: The College advises that Clint Bills can now be reached at 450 Breckenridge St., c/o Hanlon, Buffalo, N. Y. So put that in your little green book. Hy'a, Clint.

If my memory is as good as my English, there won't be no more class notes until October. Newspapers, however, will be published as usual, which will help. In the meantime, I'll get a haircut and mow the lawn. Have a good summer.

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