1908

Warren "Chick" Currier, our Bequest Chairman, has achieved one of the most notable records in service club history. Last March he received from the La Jolla Rotary Club a 40-year perfect attendance record pin. He and Mrs. Currier recall one time when he almost missed accomplishing this feat. While traveling from the East to the West they arrived at Lincoln, Neb., when Chick realized it was his last day to make up a missed meeting and maintain his record. After a few telephone calls he learned the nearest place where he could attend was 300 miles away at North Platte. The couple departed Lincoln at 8 A.M. and arrived in North Platte at 12:45 in time to make the meeting.

Leon Woodward reports receiving a letter from Royal "Nick" Carter, our Philippines planter, recently. Nick writes that he travels quite a bit around the Islands to his various plantations and reported on the operations. He seemed to be in good spirits so Leon guesses he is O.K.

Henry Stone reports that Howard Cowee has suffered a heart attack and was in a hospital. Your editor wrote a letter of sympathy but has received no reply.

Henry Emery writes concerning the reunion. "I am pretty certain that I will be there. I entered the hospital on Feb. 11 and came out on Feb. 27, sixteen days. I had my gall bladder removed. I was very sick at the time but I seem to be coming along in good shape now."

Web Evans writes. "It will not be possible for me to be with you fellows at our 55th. Priscilla and I are both in fairly good health but we realize that we cannot do what we could ten years ago. Lawn bowling three or four times a week and attemptting to keep the weeds from taking over, with whatever help I can give my better half to keep the house in order is about all that I am accomplishing. Give my regards to the boys at Hanover."

Rosie Hinman sent your editor a copy of the 1962 International Paper Company report, filled with statistics and some unusually excellent pictures of the equipment and piping required in modern paper manufacture. The list of officers is headed by JohnH. Hinman, Honorary Chairman of the Board. Here are a few notes: The chemistry of paper is intricate and demanding, the machinery for its production is complex, massive and costly, up to a fifth of a mile long and able to return out a continuous sheet of paper at a speed of 2500 feet a minute. The rapid increase in the use of hardwoods is an important development in the field of forest conservation, making it economically possible to utilize more completely the products of the forest as a result of continuing research in our company's woodlands and laboratories.

Invitations were out for a reception on May 19 in honor of the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wyman to be held at the Boston Yacht Club in Marblehead.

Your editor regrets to report another death in the class, the sixth this winter. Mason A. Lewis, eminent lawyer in Denver, Colo., died on January 31, after four years of severe illness. Further details will be found in the In Memoriam section of this or a subsequent issue.

On a beautiful day in 1907. long before hikingt had the nod from the White House. group of Betas set out on a ten-mile jaunt. See '09 notes for .more details.

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.