1908

As usual the Dartmouth reunion at the Treadway hostelry in Vero Beach was a big success but not as many attended as usual. Following are chose present at one time or another. Ex-president Hopkins '01 and daughter; George and Mrs. Dow '02; Ned and Mrs. Robinson '04; Art and Juliet Soule, Larry and Helen Treadway, Art and Naomi Lewis,George and Thelma Lowe, Amos and LeitaLanphear, Bert Thwing, Pop Chesley, George and Dot Squier, all of '08; Brad and Mrs. Harwood, Al Perry, and Jim Douglas, honorary members of '08; John and Ruth Packard, Mr. and Mrs. Dutch Schroedel of 1925. Larry and Helen Treadway and John and Ruth Packard were hospitality itself and made us feel that we were being entertained in their own homes.

The Dartmouth Club of Merrimack County held a Dartmouth dinner at the Highway Hotel in Concord, N. H., on May 3 at which Coach Bob Blackman was the principal speaker and ex-president Hopkins was present. Invitations were statewide and there was a large attendance.

George Squier and Dot have returned to their home at 79 Wyman Street in Waban after spending the winter in Florida.

Park Stickney had an operation for hernia in March but has recovered. He and Stacey Irish were awarded "Fifty Years and Over" certificates at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Founder's Day dinner in Evanston, Ill.

Larry and Dorothy Symmes spent a month in April-May in Europe.

A new bridge on the U. S. route #20 bypass south of Rockford, Ill., was named by the supervisors of Winnebago County and the City Council of Rockford the "Bradford A. Knight and William D Knight Bridge" in honor of our Bill Knight and his father.

The International Paper Company has recently issued a new booklet "Yankee Loggers" by Stewart Holbrook giving the history of logging in New England by the I.P.C. and its components. It is a work of art, well written, beautifully printed and illustrated. It is dedicated to our Rosie Hinman.

The New England forests logged fifty years ago by John Hinman, as a young contractor working for the International Paper Company, no longer know the colorful personalities brought back to life in the pages of this book. To some of us it seems that this chapter of our history has been closed. But the forests are still there - green, healthy, increasingly productive under modern forest management. A truth John Hinman recognized many years ago, that trees are a crop and can be harvested repeatedly is today universally accepted. The policies of improved forest management he urged as he rose to become President and then Chairman of the Board of International Paper have had a widespread influence. It seems to me that this book might well be dedicated jointly - with respect and affection — to The Woods, and to a man who has done so much to insure that they will always be there, John H. Hinman. S. H. H.

Larry and Helen Treadway celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on April 10. It was also the 50th anniversary of the Treadways' arrival in Williamstown where Larry forged the first link in the present chain of Treadway Inns.

Earl Wiley is the author of "Reflections from the Retired, Number Six, Lincoln's Analysis of a Grave Moral Issue" discussing Lincoln's views on the Missouri Compromise and on the slavery question compared with the three prevailing views of various segments of the United States. Lincoln while agreeing in some particulars with planter, with abolitionists, or with neutralist, could not, on the whole, find sanctuary in any one group but regarded the preservation of the Union as most important consideration. Morally he hoped for the ultimate end of slavery.

Earl, in addition to his attainments as an educator was also quite an athlete according to a clipping from the Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript-Telegram of Dec. 28, 1960 under Bill Keating's column, "Merely Musin."

Earl Wiley, who never forgot his Holyoke roots, believes that the late Bill Hardman and Ed Wachter should be voted into the Hall of Fame. Wiley, one of Holyoke's top grade athletes, later a Union College star, lives in Columbus. Wiley has had an illustrious career, in sports and in the education field but I like a statement he made in a letter I received from him relative to athletics. "I have always entertained a high interest in sports and I think it is one of the best therapies for what we call juvenile delinquency that I know of." Wiley graduated from Holyoke High School in 1904. He quarterbaoked the team for two seasons and played forward on the basketball squad. After two years at Union Wiley left to enter Dartmouth. After graduation he became a teacher in Oklahoma. He was a successful basketball coach, also coached in baseball and in track. It was Wiley who popularized basketball in Oklahoma. In his early coaching career he was president of the Oklahoma Collegiate A. A. But Wiley preferred to stay with his English work and in 1915 became instructor of English at Ohio State University where he taught for 42 years. In 1947 he retired with the title of Professor Emeritus.

Erastue B, "Tat to us" Badger also receives a tribute in the July 30, 1960 issue of the "Percolator" of the Chemist Club. In part it is quoted.

"Tat" Badger, as he is affectionately known by intimates, comes of a family whose company played a major role in the development of the modern rational design of process industry units. Graduating from Dartmouth in 1908, Mr. Badger spent his entire business career in the service of E. L. Badger and Sons Co., first under his grandfather, then his father and in the latter years as president. The family firm was originally founded in 1841 as a small copper working shop in downtown Boston. Before the turn of the century it had established itself as a leader in process equipment principally in the distillation field including industrial and beverage alcohol.

Mr. Badger's service of over 45 years covered the period of the emergence of chemical engineering equipment design from the "dark ages" of empiricism to its present high state of development. While never pretending to be an engineer himself Mr. Badger can be said to be a prototype of the present day engineering manager. His keen sense of appreciation of coming requirements was a factor in his company becoming a pioneer in the transition of the petroleum refining industry from "shell still" techniques in the early 1920's. The same foresight led him in the late 1930's to become identified with the Moudry process, the first large scale commercial application of catalytic cracking to petroleum fractions. This business acumen was always combined with a high sense of human values. A generation ago when engineers had not risen to their present status he was always quick to appreciate the engineer's problems and give them full recognition.

This is the last call for the Alumni Fund drive, which will end on June 30. The total objective is $1,000,000 of which our share is $6240. At this writing the last report available (April 20) shows 17 members of 1908 out of 97 had contributed $2400 or 38% of the objective. Now it is up to the other 80 to contribute the remaining $3860. Let's dip down to the bottom of the tea caddy and put it across.

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