1908
Your editor's Christmas was saddened to learn through classmates of the passing of Howard Williams on December 19, at Phoenix, Arizona, and of Lee Marshall on December 20 at Manchester, Mass. Obituaries of each will be found in the In Memoriam section.
He has had the sad duty of writing memorials for nine classmates during the past year but to his best knowledge there are 87 loyal members of 1908 still living and four more non-interested, more than one third of the original count of 260.
Larry Treadway has returned to his winter home at the Royal Park Inn at Vero Beach, Seymour Rutherford to Anna Maria Island, and Art Soule to Fort Lauderdale, all in Florida.
Harold Cogswell underwent an operation for hernia on November 11 but reported that he was gaining strength and planned to come east over the holidays for a visit to his brother's home in Lexington, Mass.
Martha Fine writes to your editor regarding her husband George, who passed away in November: "He was very fond of Dartmouth and through him I came to love it too. The reunions gave us both great pleasure and we were both so sorry that we could not attend the 55th. I spent Christmas with our daughter and had a very enjoyable time. It is such a wonderful family, with three charming daughters, I could not feel sad, there were so many interesting things going on. I know George would want me to be happy and that is what I am trying to be."
Larry Symmes forwarded the following from the First Presbyterian Church of Camden, N. J.: "This is to acknowledge with appreciation a check for $10.000, a memorial from the Class of 1908, Dartmouth College, in memory of Mr. George B. Fine. Augustus D. Whitney, Minister."
Walter Furman writes: "Yes, I had anxious moments during the Dartmouth — Princeton game. In fact my anxious moments started at the first kickoff and lasted until within about two seconds before the end of the game. It was truly a great game, one of the highlights in Dartmouth's football history. I had watched the Princeton team all fall and was full of admiration for their prowess. That a Dartmouth team, behind fourteen points in the fourth quarter, could rise up and win the game seemed impossible. The tackling, blocking, and running of Dartmouth in this fourth quarter was vicious; Princeton was knocked galley west. I'm glad these old bones were hale enough to let me see this fine game. I didn't see any other 'oBers there."
George Grebenstein 'O7 writes: "I find it quite hard to get news for the MAGAZINE. It seems time is running out on us all. . . . I have just returned from the Milford (Mass.) Hospital after having spent four weeks there and having two operations, hernia and then prostate gland. . . . It's a great life but I think I'm feeling better now that I am back with my girl friend Ethel."
Allen Perkins reports from La Jolla: "I see Rocky Hazen 'O7 most every day at the Shuffieboard Club and Bill Jennings (also 'O7) who lunches every Monday with Rocky, occasionally - the same with Warren Currier. Dick Merrill and I have spurts of correspondence which always carries news of Jim Norton.
Your editor attended the wedding December 28, in Concord, N. H., of Laurence Hale, younger son of "String" Hale, and Miss Daisy Eleanor Peirce, an employee of the State Planning and Development Board.
Art Hopkins reports: "I have now been actually retired for a year and three months. Am here in Spencertown most of the time. Have a mass of dope acquired during 53 years as a forester which I am trying to get organized- and put where it may be useful.
Class Notes Editor R.F.D. 1, Laconia, N. H.
Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y.
Treasurer, ARTHUR B. BARNES 17 Harland Place, Norwich, Conn.
