1905
Our annual July reunion took place at Hanover Inn July 10-12 with forty members of the '05 family present and enjoying themselves. As several expected guests arrived during the evening on Friday class meeting was postponed from after the dinner at the Ski Hut Friday to our Saturday night collation at the Outing Club, where also "was staged our Sunday noon dinner. Those present were: Stanley Besse, Charles and Jessie Brooks, Roger and Jane Brown, Carrol and Clara Campbell, Fred Chase, Walter Emery, Ned Estes and Etta Estes Oliver, Fletcher and Alva Hatch, George Hersam and Mrs. Marion Foye, C. C. and Isabel Hills, Walter and Ethel Lillard, Frances S. Merrill, Bea MacMillan, Frank McCabe and son John, Royal and Ida Parkinson, George and Mildred Putnam, Anne Reid, Ed and Mary Alice Richardson, Walter B. Small, Richard and Margaret Tolman, John and Marion Tuck with son John, Ernest and Hilda White.
C. C. Hills has been made our regularly constituted reunion chairman with voting position on the Executive Board of the class. He started his official career by suggesting for class consideration the idea of celebrating our bigger and better 55th reunion, which would ordinarily come at crowded Commencement time in June, in July instead. Accommodations, parking space and eating facilities are very, very scarce in June and we'd have to take what we could get without elevators or private baths; whereas in July we can have any places our hearts desire that our exchequers can pay for. A reply postcard will be sent to each member of the class about your preference on this. Please return replies P.D.Q. For other items of interest at the business meeting, see Fletcher Hatch's interesting '05 Reporter of August 4.
After the business meeting Jack Tuck, whom we scarcely recognized without his much photographed black beard, gave us a most interesting talk on some unpublished experiences of his South Pole expedition. With rare discernment, he talked for about ten minutes and then let us ask questions about the things that interested us especially. The result was that he got away with great difficulty a full hour later. How proud the whole class is of having such an outstanding young man in the family!
We are happy to say that Elsie Grover's illness turned out much better than first reported.
Cy and Hilda White had a fine trip West and South last winter. Besides their usual California visits, this year they did Texas, New Orleans, and the lovely ante-bellum houses and gardens of Natchez, Miss. In May Cy developed a critical illness from, of all things, an infected finger. Without antibiotics and modern medical science, we don't like to think what would have happened. He's fine now.
Your scribe is also thankfully enjoying the benefits of modern surgical procedures and is in hospital at the present writing. So his other half is doing these notes with a few distractions to contend with. Don't blame him if there are mistakes - take 'em and like 'em, better luck next time.
Word from Ed Gilbert reached us after reunion that he had several business meetings in the Morristown area during that weekend and was sorry he couldn't be in Hanover at the same time.
Bill Blatner was presented with a silver plate at ceremonies honoring him on his retirement after 38 years as executive vice president and treasurer of the Associated Retail Confectioners of the United States. A highlight of the ceremony was the announcement of a $1,000 gift in' Bill's name to the Geneva (Ill.) Public Library which is one of his pet projects in his home town. Bill had announced last spring that he would retire in June, as he was arriving at the last stage of Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man." He had planned to attend reunion up until a few days beforehand. We were all sorry he couldn't be with us. He has done much for the city of Geneva especially, and there were laudatory editorials in his home town papers at the time of his retirement. Somehow I'll bet he'll keep busy. Congratulations and best wishes, Bill.
We regret to report the death of Eugene Musgrove's wife, Eva, at East Orange, N. J., on July 4. The sympathy of the whole class goes to her husband and family.
We note with regret Charles J. Weston's death on August 10 at Brimfield, Mass. He entered with the class of '04 but graduated with us in '05.
Your scribe has been appointed to the executive committee of the Class Secretary's Association. He doesn't quite know what his duties will be there, but he's on it!
Note the following changes of address: Dr. Halsey B. Loder, 400 Commonwealth Ave., Boston 15, Mass.; Mrs. Andrew J. MacMillan Jr., 18 Pleasant View Drive, Concord, N. H.
Secretary, 358 North Fullerton Ave. Upper Montclair, N. J.
Treasurer, Box 91, Cambridge 40, Mass.
