1908

Another of our best-known and well-be-loved classmates has left us after a heroic fight for more than two years. Harold"Home Run" Hobart suffered a shock soon after attending our 50th reunion from which he never recovered. Hobie received his sobriquet in 1908 when he made the longest home run on record on the Brown field with a man on base and won the game. He was on the varsity squad for three years and regular third baseman in his senior year. In his early days with the Vt. Marble Company he directed the company baseball in the summer league as player and coach until he was forty years old and even then he could still "slug 'em." Further details will be found in the "In Memoriam" section of this or a following issue.

Harold Snow reports that he retired from Decatur-Hopkins Company in 1949, at that time the oldest director. Since then he has developed a green thumb and raises many kinds of flowers, fruits, and vegetables on his two-and-a-quarter-acre home on Holly Hill in Marshfield, Mass. He and Abigail celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last Novem- ber. They have two sons, Samuel '40 and John and three grandsons.

George Fine reports that he suffered a heart attack on June 1, which left him housebound and a recurrence on November 1 which sent him to the hospital for six weeks. He is now at his New Jersey home under restrictions.

A letter from Dick Merrill reports that he is also restricted as to diet and heavy exercise and will have to pass up a trip to Vero Beach this winter. He and Helen are trying to keep themselves fit for their 50th anniversary next July when their children plan a big blowout.

Jack Everett's oldest son, John Jr.. was married on December 23 in the Navy Chapel in Washington to Miss Nancy Wentz Marshall. John Jr. is, an attorney with the Federal Power Commission.

Harry Rogers has been re-elected president and one of the directors of the Suncook, N. H., Bank. He is in and out of the hospital at times but still quite active.

Art Wyman, who also reported Hobie's death, proudly writes of the birth of his first great-grandson, Henry Wyman Hazen, in Waldport, Ore., on December 2.

Interim Editor R.F.D. 1, Laconia, N. H.

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

Treasurer, 17 Harland Place, Norwich, Conn.