1908

1908 HAS PASSED A MILESTONE

When Roger Hill reached his 80th birthday anniversary in September our class of 1908 passed a milestone. Every man in our class is now over eighty. The biblical term of life is usually quoted as three score years and ten from Psalms 90, verse 10, but verse 10 continues "or even by reason of strength fourscore" and 1908 has that strength. Of the 257 who entered in 1904, nearly one quarter, 66, were still living on that date. In a mortuary table calculated by Frederick Munkelt and an insurance actuary friend in April 1965, there should be in 1967, 56 of us alive but your editor's roll shows 66 alive or 10 "to the good." 1908 is indeed a rugged class. Our patriarch, Pop Chesley, is well over 86 and the median age of the class is 81½, which means that 33 are over that age and 33 are between 80 and that age.

'08's SIXTIETH REUNION JUNE 14-15-16, 1968

Plans are advancing rapidly and favorably. Headquarters, as announced, will be in the Lounge in College Hall. Arrangements for all other items in the program are near completion. A more detailed account will come with our next. Watch, too, for a circular and return card in October; FrederickMunkelt, Chairman.

Arthur "Ted" Barnes wrote to your editor. "During the summer months my large flower garden is my hobby, and in the winter some travel, photography, and my workshop where I work with pewter. Some of my pewter pieces were part of the Connecticut exhibit at the New York World's Fair."

"Life" Greeley reports on September 1 that he was just out of the hospital after a cataract operation; not allowed to write, ride in a machine, sneeze or cough. We wish him a quick recovery.

"Win" Griffin reports on a consolidated school for which he had been chairman of the building committee. The school is overflowing and the current committee is doing a good job with hopeful prospects of regionalization of twelve grades for four towns and building a new three million dollar high school and using the present plant for a Middle School with grades 5-8 inclusive. But Win decided not to run again for chairman when his term expired two years ago and feels it was one of the best decisions he had ever made.

From Paul Batchelder's notes for the 60th class book. Since his retirement in 1954 he has continued to live in Austin. About 1961 he bought a spacious two-story house, which he shares with two young business men who operate a small bookstore near the University.

Henry Emery reports that his son, David, who is carrying on his father's business, was made a vice-president of the New Hampshire Order of Eagles.

Amos Lanphear to your editor. "The years since '58 have been years of retirement, which have been occupied with routine home activities with occasional excursions into local politics. My service in this department consisted of a five-year term as chairman of our first Town Planning Committee before I retired and later in organizing collection activities for local and national campaign expenses for the Republican Party."

In a news-letter of July 27 I quoted from a book "Ancestors and Descendants of Havilah Burritt Hinman of Stratford, N. H." by John Hinman and his brother Harold '10, giving John's story of his early life. Following is the continuation of the story. "My father died in January 1908 during my senior year. Since my oldest brother, Harvey, was in the railway mail service, and my brother Burritt, was practicing law, I took over the family lumber business. Three years later I was married to Jennie C. Drew of Colebrook. We have raised four sons and have had a very happy life. We lived in North Stratford, N. H., until 1927 when we moved to Pelham, N. Y. On May 1, 1913, I went to work as woods manager for the American Realty Company, an affiliate of International Paper Company, which had large holdings in the New England area. Since that time I have been associated with what has become the world's largest paper company. Moving from North Stratford to New York in 1927, I became manager of all the company's woodlands in the United States and Canada, and in 1928 was elected Vice-president of International Paper Company. In 1925 I went to Montreal as General Manager of the Canadian International Paper Company, and became President of that company in 1938. While in Canada I was made a director of International Paper Company in 1936. Returning to New York in 1939, I became President in 1943, and was chief executive officer from 1948 to 1959 and Chairman of the Board from 1954 to 1961. In 1961 I became Honorary Chairman, and retired from active duty in October 1965 but still continue as a director."

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