1908

The class of 1908 lost three of its best known members during the month of March with the passing of Bob Blanpied on March 2; Charles DeAngelis on March 9 and DickDanforth on March 27. Bob's obituary appeared in the April issue of the MAGAZINE and details of the memorials for the other two appear in this issue.

Charles LeMoyne DeAngelis, of Holland Patent, former district attorney, Republican leader and prominent athlete, died March 9 in Faxton Hospital in Utica, N. Y., after a long illness. In College he played on the freshman football team in '04 and left end on the varsity football team during his last three years. Once considered one of Dartmouth's greatest ends he was a master tackier and in his senior year a member of the untied, unbeaten eleven of 1907. He was on the 'OB junior prom committee and a member of Psi Upsilon, Turtle, Casque and Gauntlet, and Palaeopitus.

In later years, as a referee, he officiated at football games at Colgate and Hamilton, and refereed hockey games at Clinton and on other Central New York rinks.

He was a prominent Republican leader in his home city of Utica and served nine years as district attorney of Oneida County.

Richard S. "Dick," Danforth, known to us as the "Anchor Man," widely known yachtsman and inventor of the Danforth anchor, died March 27 in Berkeley. Calif., after a long illness. Soon after graduation from the Thayer School in 1909, Dick went to Oregon in engineering work and spent most of his active life on the West Coast, returning often for summer visits to his native Maine.

In 1939 he .invented a new light but powerful anchor with tremendous holding power, for which he founded his own company to manufacture. Starting with anchors for small sailing ships his business expanded to large commercial ships and in WW II the Navy made extensive use of these for landing craft and to position pontoon bridges and secure LSTs. He was prominent as a yachtsman on both coasts and in 1949 won a transoceanic race to Honolulu with his 40 foot sloop "Gitana."

Paul Batchelder writes from Austin, Texas, that he is planning a trip east in time to be at the informal reunion.

Sumner Crosby reports that he has gradually retired from his law practice and for the past eight years has been devoting most of his time to the Falmouth National Bank where he became president in 1949, and still goes to the bank each day for two or three hours.

Art Lewis and his wife spent about three weeks in Florida in April.

Arthur Sides has been researching college records of gifts credited to the class of 1908 and reports a total of $381,363 to March 1 of this year, distributed as follows: Current Use: Alumni Fund, $17,216; Interest from class memorial funds, $10,764; Other current use gifts, $6,116; total, $187,096.

Endowment and Plant: Class Memorial Fund, $20,650; Gifts and Bequests, $50,711; Capital Gifts Campaign, $122,906; total, $194,267.

Grand total of known giving: $381,363.

Harry Lyon of Lyonsden, the navigator of the Southern Cross, the first to fly across the Pacific in 1925, reports he will try to make the lune reunion but he had just amused himself by falling down his cellar stairs and cracking two ribs, a most lubberly act.

Larry and Dorothy Symmes flew to Honolulu in April to attend the wedding of a niece, and used the wedding as an excuse for going westward beyond California, where they have never teen before.

Plans are being made for an informal reunion of the class on the weekend of June 8-10 in Hanover. Gile Hall, the same as last year, has been reserved for the class and reservations should be in Hanover by June 1. Last year thirty classmates and wives attended and preliminary reports indicate more this year.

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

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

Class Agent, North St. (R.D.), Medfield, Mass.