1908

Katherine Blakely reports that JessieMunkelt has been ill with shingles. Katherine is planning a short trip to Europe in April with a group from the National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier by K.L.M. from Montreal to Amsterdam.

Harold Cogswell planned to fly in December to visit his brother in Lexington, Mass.

Don Comstock reports that he and Grace are both in good health after a series of operations two years ago. He is supposed to be retired but is called upon by the local marble contracting firm to assist in estimating and closing contracts. "I am glad of something to do as I have found that this retirement is not all it's cracked up to be."

Ralph Currier, whose wife passed away last spring, reports that he did not feel able to make it to Florida this winter and expects to put his place there on the market after this season. His grandsons are well scattered in their college affiliations: Colby a junior at Colby, David at Dartmouth, Peter at Harvard, and Bruce at Columbia.

Velma Flanders writes that she is spending at least part of the winter with her oldest son, Philip, at 1018 South Finley Road, Lombard, Ill.

"Life" Greeley reports receiving a letter from "Dolly" Gray, so full of pep and "get up and go" that for a while he was back in his twenties. Dolly wrote that he and his Mrs. were in such good health that they were almost ashamed of themselves. "That's Dolly, all right, he roomed next to me in Wentworth Hall freshman year. Even then he was unafraid, undaunted, and unlickable. But for that I can't seem to remember anyone in 1908 who was exactly a timid soul."

Fred Hodgson writes: "Again gesundheit. I am well and still singing in both church choir and local chorus. I got a wonderful birthday card from Treadway more highly than deserved complimentary on my work."

Thelma Lyon wrote enclosing a clipping showing the memorial flag pole dedicated to her husband, Capt. Harry Lyon last Independence Day, with Lyonsden in the background. Thelma is one of the group participating in the ceremony. Unfortunately it is a newspaper clipping and not capable of clear reproduction but we hope to obtain a glossy print so that it can be reproduced in the next '08er.

Alanson "John" Alden forwarded a letter from Ray Marsh part of which is quoted. "This has been a very difficult year for Lillian. On June 20 she was badly scalded in an accident. Six weeks in the hospital were followed by three of day and night nurses at home. Then we got down to a day nurse. On November 15 she fell and broke a bone in her arm. The arm will be in a cast for at least 4 weeks altogether. All of this, understandably, has been a severe shock."

Helen Merrill writes to your editor. "I would like to feel that I am an '08 female member and keep alive Dick's devotion to his college and class. He loved them both and I'm so happy we could be at his 50th reunion."

Another recent widow, Mrs. Charles Severance, writes. "I shall always be interested in Dartmouth and hope that some day another member of the family will choose to go there to complete his higher education."

After more than 119 years in business in Haverhill, Mass., of which Henry Stone has been president since 1933, the D. D. Chace Lumber Company has been in liquidation and was expected to close on December 31.

Dorothy Symmes also fell and broke her arm about Thanksgiving Day and Larry expected she would have a cast on it until about the first of the year.

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