1908

The undersigned is substituting as class news editor for George Squier while George is spending three months at Vero Beach, and will endeavor to get some news from classmates "North of Boston" but will also appreciate news from any classmates from other quarters.

Get out your little green books and change to the following addresses: Philip R. Flanders, Route 8, No. Swanzey, N.H.; Allan M. Perkins, 7154 Olivetas Ave., La Jolla, Cal.; Sydney L. Ruggles, R.F. D. # 8, Concord, N.H.; Arthur T. Soule (winter), 3010 Sebastian St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Laurence M. Symmes (office), 120 Broadway, New York 5, N.Y.; (home) 50 Popham Road, Scarsdale, N.Y.

Classmates will be saddened to learn that "General" Benjamin Knox passed away in his sleep on the morning of January 26, at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was a loyal and beloved member of his class and of Dartmouth and will be greatly missed. Percy Gleason, Gene Jordan, Harry McDevitt '07 and Bill Smart '07 attended the funeral at a Catholic church in Watertown. Larry Symmes sent a memorial in his memory from the Class to the American Red Cross. In a will made shortly before his death he provided "handsomely" for Dartmouth and the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. He leaves a sister Helen who is in poor health and under a nurse's care. More details will be found in the In Memoriam section.

Paul Batchelder of Austin, Texas, left in January for a winter vacation with friends in Manizales, Colombia.

Chick Currier writes that he and Allan Perkins get together once in a while. Chick still keeps swinging at the elusive golf ball, but Allan pushes the shuflle board.

From Montpelier, Vt., comes a report that Fred Munkelt is teaching advanced mathematics in the local high school and that Joe Blakely has received a 50-year pin from his Masonic Lodge.

Win Griffin recently visited Harold Hobart and reports that a few weeks after he attended the 50th reunion Hobey suffered a shock which kept him in the Nashua Hospital almost three months. He came home with three nurses who have been with him since. His mind is clear, he reads papers and watches television but tires easily. Hobey would enjoy hearing from classmates but would not be able to answer letters. So let's get out our pens and paper and send out a cheering message to good old Hobey.

Last summer Edward Bartlett attended a meeting in Wilmington, Del., for retired members from the Experimental Section of the Ammonia Dept. of the E. I. du Pont Co. and enjoyed meeting former associates. Ed, before his retirement, was in charge of the process development of ammonia synthesis which developed lucite, nylon, polyethylene and related products. He and Eleanor live in a big New England type homestead in Belchertown, Mass., built by his grandfather.

Harry Rogers of Suncook, N.H., was re- elected in January as President and one of the Directors of the Suncook Bank. Last fall, partly as a result of a political fight with the Governor of New Hampshire, Harry suffered two coronaries and in November had to go to the hospital with flu and removal of a gall bladder, but he is recovering and regaining his strength.

Arthur O'Shea is Chairman of the Board of the Laconia National Bank. He can be found occasionally at his desk at the Dennis O'Shea dry goods emporium still, but has turned over most of the administrative details to his son John '40. Art's sister, Elizabeth, passed away early in the winter.

Your scribe recently came across a word (new to him) which intrigued him and wishes to state that he is the official class necrographer. However he would much prefer to get news from more of the live classmates during the next two months.

Notes Editor, 16 Clovelly Rd. Wellesley Hills 81, Mass.

Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N.Y.

Treasurer, 17 Harland Place, Norwich, Conn.