1940

Secretary, 177 Leroy Ave., Darien, Conn.

Treasurer, 88 North Main St., Concord, N. H.

Another year of the 1940 Alumni Notes, opens and for me it opens with deep gratitude to all of you who have sent news of yourselves and classmates. Your efforts make this column possible and palatable.

We start the news with a wonderful and meaningful note: Reverend Larry Durgin, who moved us all so deeply at the Memorial Service at the last reunion, received an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Brown University last June. His citation read by President Keeney follows:

"In the five short years since you became minister of the Central Congregational Church (Providence, R. I.), you have aroused your congregation to examine their consciences and their beliefs, thereby fortifying both; you have become a friend and an inspiration to the students and faculty of this University; and as President of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches, you have proved again that cooperation among groups of various doctrines need not mean the abandonment of what any of them hold dear."

Fred Davidson has been appointed vice president of Chesebro-Whitman Co., Inc., of Long Island City, N. Y., scaffolding manufacturers and contractors. Fred is a Thayer School graduate and past president of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers. Prior to his new appointment he had served for seven years as an administrative engineer with Eggers and Higgins, architects in New York. He and Ellen have four children.

Dwight Flanders has been elected assistant branch manager of the First National Bank of Boston. Dwight graduated from Harvard Business School and joined the bank in 1951. He resides in Maiden, Mass. He and Eleanor have two sons, David and Donald.

Elmer Browne has forwarded two letters from Heinie Heinz which, although old, bring a voice from the past. Heinie is a doctor in Johannesburg, South Africa, specializing in parasitology. A 7,000-mile trip by car through central Africa which had been scheduled to continue north and finally to Europe to visit his family was finally abandoned because of the breakdown of the car. On his voyage he managed to study several forms of parasitic diseases as well as to see much beautiful and rugged country. He states that he took some beautiful pictures in Africa, some suitable for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Let's see one!

Doc Blanchard has been made superintendent of schools in Westford, Mass. He had been administrative assistant for business in the Darien, Conn, schools since 1950.

Dick Kidder suffered severe damage to his summer home on Webster Lake, N. H., when lightning struck it last summer. Lightning apparently struck a tree some 60 feet from the house and traveled along a root to the house. No bodily harm, luckily.

Fred Pillsbury, as president, is making every effort to revive the efforts of Beautify Springfield, Inc. (Mass.), a charitable institution which has largely lost its fervor since its founder died; Fred's vocation, we believe, is that of an attorney.

From time to time we learn that some of our better physical specimens are still at the fore athletically. That stalwart freshman tennis player, Jack O'Shea, was last reported in the finals of the Laconia, N. H., men's doubles championship while wife, June, concentrated on the new house. No further report, so we assume that Jack is now champ or else died of a heart attack!

And so these short notes come to a close. There is much more news, but because of the important and voluminous reporting of the Convocation on Great Issues of the Anglo-Canadian-American Community, dominating this issue, the class notes must be short. We were fortunate enough to be able to attend this inspiring convocation. Others besides Gina and yours truly on hand were: Jack Moody, Bob and Trudy Williams, Lewand Dodie Lambert, Elmer and JoyceBrowne, and we are told Moody Dole, although we did not see him.