1911

The Harvard game party has come and gone with the sixteen members of the class who attended looking forward already to next year. For the record, here is the list: Burleigh, Briggs, Crooks, Farrell, French, Chick Jordan, Lovejoy, Mayo, Spim Norris, Pearson, Sanderson, Seaver, Smith, Dick Stevens, Wheeler and Whitman. Now let's talk about them and a few others who have been with us in other years.

Syd Beane has been absent several years and we miss seeing him. He has retired as Superintendent of the Municipal Water Works in Weymouth but keeps his residence there.

Paul Briggs represented Winchester as Ed Chamberlain and Art Jackson could not make it. Ed's wife, Grace, is still,confined at home and has been unable to get to football games. Art Jackson is the busy doctor as usual and finding it difficult to retire from attending his patients who just do not want any other doctor.

During the weekend Bee and I called on those who were at home on the Cape, meaning Dick Chase and John Learoyd, and who passed up the dinner. Dick and Mary have a delightful home in Osterville where they can entertain their fourteen grandchildren, though not all at one time. This winter they will spend two months at Clearwater, Fla. John Learoyd was kept away by a meeting of the Sylvania Quarter Century Club. John is established as a Management Consultant and recently returned from several months' work with the Reynolds Metal Company in Atlanta.

An attack of pneumonia kept Josh ClarK, who had made all the arrangements, at home. However you cannot keep him down and he was shortly back on the job.

We missed Jim Conroy, always with that radiant smile, as he had promised to be along.

Fred and Marguerite Eaton had to cancel plans as they were leaving their summer apartment in Cohasset to return to Scarsdale. Also they had an engagement in Fairfield, Conn., where Esther was surprising Sarge with a meeting of the Eaton clan and birthday dinner to celebrate a day that occurs only at ten year intervals.

Jack Crooks had just returned from Rome where he had been with the Ancient and Honorable Artillery on a Pilgrimage (or something). Jack reports that he has cut his working week down to about three months in the-year. He and Grace are about to leave for Florida for a good part of that other nine months.

Gabe Farrell keeps his hand in by accepting some of the many invitations to preach in some pastorate such as at Lake George where he was temporarily this summer.

George French, barrister from Nashua, is another man whose clients will not release him, so he continues his service to them.

Bendy Griswold took time off from collecting class dues to sneak off to Pinehurst, so we had to collect enough money to pay for the dinner without drawing on the treasury. He was smart.

Jack Ingersoll sent regrets and best wishes to the boys. Jack is busy as Director of Public Relations at Hillyer College in Hartford, Conn.

Chick Jordan looked hale and hearty but was going into the hospital in three days to get rid of a gall bladder.

" Jake Lovejoy was the only varsity football representative present as Boli Sherwin had just returned to the old home town of Fitchburg. His address there is 107 South St.

Shorty and Muriel Mayo will soon be leaving for Florida, but probably to a different location as the Red Sox have left Sarasota. At this point it looks like St. Petersburg.

Spim Norris, whose presence in a sick room is in itself enough to make the sick well, says his retirement plans seem to move slowly.

John Pearson, long absent from these occasions, was warmly welcomed. John is now completely retired, having discontinued his association with Senator Flanders who also is about to retire.

This was the last public appearance of Bob Sanderson here in New England as he and Kay were about to leave for their home in Palm Beach. Their two sons are at St. Anselms in Manchester, N. H.

The insecticide king, Hen Seaver, always finds business in Boston each fall at this time. He said business was good but collections were awful.

Henry Smith is taking it easy at present, having had cataracts removed from both eyes. He is living in Medfield, Mass.

Dick Stevens, now a retired school principal, reports that his wife, Althea, is having the same trouble as Henry, but sings the praises of contact lenses.

Al Wheeler tried to get Walt Greenwood to come on from Cleveland as he did last year, but was informed that he was in the hospital with a serious heart attack.

This was Dutch Whitman's maiden appearance since his accident over a year ago. Dutch fell in the hospital while visiting his wife, receiving a bad knee injury that kept him confined for months, with a longer period spent in having to learn to walk all over again.

The day of the Harvard game was a miserable rainy one and it separated the men from the boys. The home hearths were much more comfortable and less likely to produce pneumonia.

Stan Macomber gave his tickets to a '26 man who said he would be honored to sit with a class with so much spirit. This was the first Dartmouth-Harvard game played in the Stadium since 1906 that he has missed. Surely a string of 51 games is quite a record. His daughter Jean's husband completed the four-year course at Boston University in three years and is working for Dun & Bradstreet. They live in Framingham near her sister Anne whose husband is district sales manager for the Studebaker-Packard Corporation.

Those of us who still have our health should be thankful, and try to pass some of our cheer on to a few who have been less fortunate. This column has not carried much news about the ill and infirm, but perhaps it is time we did so that we may have information about a classmate who might be cheered in hearing from his old friends.

In this spirit here is news about two good friends. Mort Grover retired from his law practice in Chicago and bought a home for his old age in Asheville, N. C. Jim Irwin writes of Mort's wife's having been in a nursing home there following a crippling shock two years ago. Mort had had a mild shock a year earlier and now he himself has had to join her there, and sell his home. His address is Frady Nursing Home, 381 Mount-ford Ave., Asheville.

The Walter Morgans have moved from Bedford, N. H., to Sunapee where they are living on North Road. Walter had had an infection in his foot for some time which did not respond to treatment. The last of September he entered the New London, N. H., Hospital where they amputated the right leg below the knee.

Tack Steeves and Dorothy send word from Switzerland that they are taking the trip late this year so that they will be primed for Whitefield next year. They were about to leave for Spain.

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