1908
A very dear friend of your editor who recently passed her 90th birthday anniversary sent him the following poem. As all of us in 1908 are approaching that ripe old age he believes it will be of interest to classmates.
I can remember when I thought That ninety years was quite a lot; But I've concluded that it's not Since I've reached ninety.
Before that time you've been erratic, And full of bunk and prunes and static; There's not much wisdom in your attic Before you're ninety.
Your judgment's often in reverse, Your self-control is even worse, In fact you almost need a nurse Until you're ninety.
No need to dread the day, forsooth Nay, just keep faith in love and truth, And you'll be still enjoying youth Long after ninety.
A weather report from "Dolly" Gray. "As I sit here in beautiful sunny California getting up enough energy to go out back to finish planting my winter garden, I can't help thinking of you poor people living in cold desolate New England. What a liar a man gets to be when he becomes aged. It's freezing here and blowing like hell while this morning's weather map shows that you don't even have snow back there. Jane and I are still healthy and happy and full of beans." Cheer up, "Dolly," our weather has changed since then and we have plenty of snow and windy weather.
Dorothy Fiske, Wink's widow, wrote to your editor in December. "Sorry I haven't written sooner to thank you for the newsletters, I do enjoy them. My only excuse is that a few weeks ago I was in our local hospital with pneumonia. Thank goodness I am on the way to recovery now." We certainly hope so, Dorothy, and wish you a new year of good health. Dorothy has a new address, 302 Admiralty Apartments, Scranton Avenue, Falmouth, Mass. 02540, and we suggest that some of Wink's old friends send New Year's greetings.
Seymour Rutherford writes from his winter address, 280 North May Street, Southern Pines, N. C. 28387: "In 1923 in Philadelphia I organized the wholesale lumber firm of S. S. Rutherford and Co., which I operated for 29 years, retiring January 1, 1952 and moved to our present home in Waddington, N. Y. During our retirement we have spent the first twelve winters in Anna Maria, Fla., and the last three in Southern Pines, N. C., where we are located at the present time.
"We have three living sons: Seymour S. Jr., Dartmouth '39, Tuck '40; William W. '40. Tuck '41; Edwin K. '48, University of Michigan, Graduate School of Business '48. A fourth son, Donald, had a notification to Dartmouth but enlisted in the Naval Aviation Corps and was lost in a training accident. We have nine grandchildren."
Raymond E. Marsh has been the recipient of three presentations and decorations from foreign countries for his services to them while an officer of the U. S. Service. These and other decorations were impounded for many years by the Forest Service as a result of legislation enacted by Congress and only recently were these restrictions lifted.
On June 27, 1967 Raymond Marsh and Richard E. McCardle were presented with medals by Edward P. Cliff, Chief of the Forest Service at the Cosmos Club, in Washington, D. C., with the following citations. "This is an important occasion for the Forest Service. At long last we can honor in full the foreign achievements of two of our most distinguished retirees of our Forest Service family. Ray and "Mac," the decorations that you earned so well are in hand at last. You have had a long wait for these medals to be released. We all know the story of how these and other decorations were impounded by the State Department as a result of legislation enacted by the Congress."
Ray was also in 1958 made an officer of the Royal Order of Vasa by the Swedish Ambassador Gunnar Jarring. The Order of Vasa was established by King Gustavus III in 1772 to honor the Vasa dynasty, which began in 1583 with Gustavus Vasa, the "Father of Modern Sweden." This decoration was awarded in recognition of outstanding achievement — in this case in appreciation of services in making Sweden forestry better known in the United States, and as a symbol of friendship." As far as we know Ray is the only American forester ever to be so honored by the government of Sweden.
Ray has also been given an award as Knight, first class, of the Finnish White Rose for his services in making Finland, and particularly her forestry, known in the United States. This order is granted for important contributions of a civil nature.
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