1923

News of Bill Kelly's widow Anne arrived during the Christmas season. It will be remembered that Bill passed away November fifth after four months in the hospital and then home in bed. It seems Anne was waiting up for her youngest son Bob to return from a party. She was dressed in a bed jacket and nylon night gown. She scratched a kitchen match with her finger nail, a spark ignited her gown and she received third degree burns on 55 per cent of her body. Anne lived five days. Those who attended the past three reunions will never forget Anne and Bill Kelly.

Francis Donovan has a very well-equipped and spacious office in a building adjoining his lovely home in Peterborough, N. H. There he handles the insurance problems of his friends and neighbors in that famous ski country of which Peterborough is the county seat, in the capacity of District Agent for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. His pipe line of information is one of our best. This time he reports an accident in which he was involved:

Although very fully scheduled for the entire week, there was strong reason to keep an eight o'clock appointment in Jaffrey Monday morning. You probably recall it as the day of the year's first blizzard. I got to Jaffrey without difficulty, kept my appointment, and made it about half-way back. At that point through the swirling snow I saw another car, less than 75 feet away, on my side of the road and heading toward me. Because fortunately both of us were traveling at very low speed, the net outcome of the head-on collision was practically total loss for both cars and, for me, one day of hospitalization and probably a week of partial disability attributable to a broken rib and facial lacerations. It was providential that neither of us had a passenger. The other driver, being younger, bounced back faster, although it took him longer to exit from his car.

Dot Hopkins (Mrs. Edward Hopkins of Ayer, Mass.) is the correspondent in that family. Her latest report follows:

You are such a loyal classmate and it is so nice to receive your many messages during the year. Ed, I think, has been so many years devoted to his work that even with Bart back he still feels he can't take time off. He spends every evening either at hospital meetings or catching up on records. I realize more and more that we just have to get miles away to get him away from it. Our second son is starting four years of surgery at Rhode Island Hospital and Edward Jr. is at Sun Valley, Idaho, working as desk clerk in a Union Pacific Hotel for the winter. He wants to have a place of his own some day. David is at Fort Dix for six months.

En route to Texas on some matters of business Carl Gray celebrated his recent birthday skiing at Rustler Lodge, Alta Via Sandy, Utah.

Bill Rice, after a long stretch as a chemist with McGraw Edison, retired in November with a medical disability. His walking is painful due to poor circulation. Otherwise he reports he feels fine.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer Pictorial Magazine, dated December 4, 1960, features the recent 16,000-mile-trip to Equatorial Africa sponsored by the Cleveland Zoo. This expedition consisted of eight persons which included one Raymond M. Barker of the Class of 1923. They brought home with them 18 birds, monkeys and chimps, 400 slides and hundreds of feet of color film of the vanishing animals. The trip was made to learn first-hand whether the cries of alarm from animal collectors were real or imaginary. They came home convinced that within three to five years many of the species of animals they saw on the plains - lions, zebras, gnus, rhinos, baboons, hippos, gazelles, giraffes, and leopards will be extinct. Some of the rarer animals such as the bongos are being reared under the Cleveland Zoological Society's trusteeship in the United States. What a wonderful experience this must have been for Ray!

Cap Palmer writes that Sid Stevens of Hotel Delmonico fame has deserted his chemical business in New York City and is now selling business real estate for Lawrence Block Co., Inc. of Beverly Hills, Calif., and is doing well. Sid spent one year in Hanover and then moved on to Harvard, but he always has been proud of his Hanover associations.

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Jock Osborne, our old hockeyer, who runs the Y and O Coal Company in Cleveland, is proud of the fact that his son James Jr. was the first son of a '23 Dad to graduate from Dartmouth. Young Jim is a member of 1947.

Cap Palmer writes that his Parthenon Pictures of Hollywood, Calif., is as busy as ever making movies and, this fall, its first "live" show. As executive producer he has brought out this year TV spectacular, "Headline for Harper," for International Harvester Company and a "live" three-act Musical Comedy, "Work of Art," which show was "built" in Hollywood, using the fresh Hollywood talents and techniques, and toured ten cities to introduce the 1961 Cadillac to dealers. Cap wrote this, both the script and the music. He himself toured the ten cities after opening in Detroit. He says such a tour, from Boston to Houston, to Seattle, is for younger people. Another show was "The Next Seventy," a report type documentary for Standard Oil of Indiana. It clarifies the drastic reorganization of this major industrial corporation to its employees, and convinces them that the loss of their feather-bed security will be more than made up for by the personal opportunities in the revitalized new organization.

Bob Whittinghill saw a few classmates at the Princeton game. He reports that CharlieRivoire sold his house in Glen Ridge and built himself an ultra-modern snazzy one in Upper Montclair.... says Clint Wells had a heart attack some time ago but is back on the job now at three-fourths the speed and apparently doing all right.... saw Sam White a few times recently, who is not far from retirement and looking forward to it. . . . and and mentions that he and Dot bought themselves a place in Center Conway, N. H., recently, rented it out for the ensuing year, and hope to get up that way on a permanent basis within two or three years.

Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.

Treasurer, 960 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow, Mass.