1908

New address: Rev. J. Albert Hammond, 1 Emery Street, Sanford, Me.

The Alumni Endowment Fund reports the following for members of 1908: Anonymous Fund No. 17; Warren Currier; Harold L. English; Benjamin C. Knox Memorial; George E. Squier; Malcolm Stearns, Philip L. Thompson.

Quoted from the '09 Diddings of December 12: "In looking through some college mementos, John Hinman ran across an old Musical Club program, season 1907-08, when he was manager. The program featured songs by the Glee Club. The Mandolin Club went to town on selections from 'The Red Mill' and 'Big Chief Battleaxe.' Austin Keough '11 gave a couple of readings, Charlie Warren, also '11, rendered a cornet solo, and the string quintet, consisting of Bob Rugg, Porter Smith, Gene Prentice,Tat Badger, and Danny Watson '09, conducted itself with distinction." Tat and Warren only are with us now.

Fred Hodgson writes to Ed Bartlett, "I am remarkably well for one approaching an 80th birthday. I retain my position as botanist to the Institute of Allergy at Roosevelt Hospital but have eased up a little on some of the harder parts of my collecting. I still serve about sixty hospitals and clinics however." Fred also enters the great-grandfather Derby with three runners, grandchildren of his son Francis, who was the 1908 class baby.

In looking over the files turned over by the previous news editor I find a letter from George Butterfield written in 1958. As he has been a rather silent member of the class I wish to quote one paragraph of his letter. "I went to work for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. in the spring of 1906. I was appointed Manager of the Marlboro, Mass., Exchange District in 1908. In November of 1911 I was made Manager of the Fitchburg, Mass., Exchange. In March of 1915 I resigned to go into Trade Association work and organized the Knife Information Bureau at that time. I organized several other national trade associations and remained active in association work until 1932. I organized the Fitchburg Taxpayers Association in 1932 and resigned the next year to manage the Glazed and Fancy Paper Manufacturers' Association during the NRA days, until 1935. Toward the end of 1935 I established my own insurance agency which I operated until the fall of 1949, at which time I sold my agency because a serious automobile accident made it necessary for me to curtail my activities. I have stayed with the agency since then and now spend my mornings there. For several years I have been with the Fitchburg Engineering Corporation afternoons taking care of their governmental affairs." We are glad to get your record almost to date, George, and hope to hear from you again.

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

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