1908

Another classmate has left us. Fred E.Hanson passed away at the home of his daughter in Wollaston, Mass., on October 12 after a long illness. He had been blind for several years. He entered college with the class of '07 but was absent for one and a half semesters and graduated with our class. More details will be found in the In Memoriam section of this or a later issue.

Some of the boys and girls are heading south for the winter. Art and Juliet Soule left for their winter home at 3010 Sebastion Street at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Henryand Blanche Stone for Anna Maria Island where they will have as neighbors Horace Kidger '03; Roger Brown '05; Allan Brown, Bob Kenyon, and Don Houghton '07 and Seymour Rutherford of our class.

Henry Stone reports that he has three great-grandchildren and another expected soon so he has a head start in the "greatgrandfather derby."

The Bristol, Conn., Press of August 23 had a picture and article on Cleveland Amidon who has come to the Dewitt School of Business Administration as Dean and Chairman of the Department of Accounting. Ami was one of the co-founders of the Bentley College of Accounting in Boston and served for many years in the Graduate School of Business at New York University's School of Commerce. He is also the author of several widely used business texts.

Harold and Ethelyn Clark of Chesham, N. H., celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on September 24 at the Wells Memorial School with guests present from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. The couple have two sons, Harold Jewett of Augusta, Me., and Richard Frederick of Melrose, Mass., and seven grandchildren, all of whom were present except three away at college.

David Currier of Amherst, N. H., a grandson of our Ralph Currier, qualified as a semi-finalist in the 1961-62 Merit Scholarships Program.

Jack and Gladys Everett decided that the homestead in Hallowell, Me., was too big for an elderly couple so they sold out and moved to 122 Maple Street in Bristol, Conn., to be near their daughter and four lively youngsters. It is also near the Yale Bowl.

Walter Furman sent me a picture of himself and son on a badminton court where he claimed to be "overwhelming all opposition." Unfortunately the picture is in color which cannot be reproduced. His son David, now Attorney General of New Jersey, was recently elected president of the Attorneys General Association of the U. S.

John "Rosie" Hinman, addressing the American Forestry Products Industries, of which he is president, in Washington, D. C., in September, sounded a warning against increasing encroachments on American forestlands and foresaw the day when forestlands would not be adequate for the nation's needs unless steps were taken to diversify and multiply the uses to which such lands are put.

A letter from Percy Gleason reports that Gene Jordan went through an operation at the Maiden Hospital in late September but was back at home and getting along O. K.

John Thompson reports that he and Lucille had an interesting trip around the Mediterranean and visited several of the adjoining countries. He added that some of the ruins looked like he feels occasionally but he and Lucille are both here.

The Holyoke Transcript-Telegram of September 22 reports on a visit to his old home town by Prof. Earl Wiley of Ohio State University in which he tried to stir interest in Holyoke's basketball background. "Holyoke's place in the origin of basketball de- serves recognition in the Hall of Fame," he clearly pointed out. "Holyoke was the center of basketball in the early days and it was the No. 1 winter sport. Y. M. C. A. players were used to teach clubs and groups in the game. .. . Steps should be taken to see that Holyoke has its place in the Hall of Fame." During his stay Earl paid a visit to George Reardon, one of two living members of the Holyoke High School basketball team that played at the Pan-American Exposition in 1910 at Buffalo. Earl played basketball at Union College and at Dartmouth.

Class Notes Editor R.F.D. 1, Laconia, N. H.

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