1908

1908 is still a pretty rugged class. According to Fred Munkelt's 1966 life expectancy tables we should have 49 classmates living but your editor's list of classmates shows there are 63 surviving and all over 80 years old. In 1967 we lost three classmates; Harold Joyce, Arthur Hopkins, and Ralph Wilson.

Fresh news has been scarce the past winter so your editor is forced again to extract some from personal histories for the 60-year class-book.

Larry Symmes, our secretary since senior year, and has been associated with P. W. Brooks and Company of New York, decided with older associates to merge with Blair and Company, a firm even older. The merger took place on September 30, 1966, and with it Larry moved to 277 Park Avenue, a scant two blocks from the Grand Central Station. At his request in the merger arrangements his executive duties were reduced and he is concentrating on a group of accounts which he has managed for many years.

Chester Nichols, whose active life has been associated with Telephone and Telegraph companies, retired from the New England Tel. and Tel. Company in 1951. During W.W. I. Chet was with the 317 th Signal Battalion, First Army, A.E.F. Chet never married. After returning to New England in 1920 he lived with his sister Hilda in the homestead in North Wilmington, Mass., but in 1941 this was sold and he and Hilda moved to Duxbury, Mass., where they now make their home at 115 Bay Ridge Lane.

"kid" Richardson reports that since V.J. day he has been in real estate and associations, with an office in suburban Hawthorne and he and Florence make their home at 521 North Highland Avenue in Los Angeles. He wrote, "Some farewell duties in closing out an insurance business and dabbling a bit in real estate have kept me pleasantly occupied and contributed to a very necessary wherewithal. I am now semi-retired and our health is just perfect."

Seymour Rutherford reports as of December 1967. "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 sons: Seymour S. Jr. '39, Tuck '40; William W. '40, Tuck '41; Edwin K. '48, University of Michigan Graduate School of Business '49. A fourth son, Donald, had his notification of admission to Dartmouth but enlisted in the Naval Aviation Corps and was lost in a training accident. We have nine grandchildren, only two of whom are of college age and registered at Penn State.

Arthur T. Soule, our class president, who was in military service in both world wars, and rose to the rank of Colonel in the First Service Command, received a letter of commendation from General Mills, C. G. of the First Service Command and a citation for award of the Legion of Merit. Art wrote in February 1965. "For 50 years Juliet and I have had a very happy life together. We spend about six months at Shelter Island, N. Y., on Long Island and six months in Southern Florida where we play golf together a number of times a week. We have four children, all happily married and eleven grandchildren. They are attending Vassar; Univ. of Penn; Colorado College; Univ. of Denver; Univ. of Colorado; Choate School, and Greenwich.

"I have a hobby that keeps me young and active. I spend and have for years about five hours daily making petit point pictures primarily of famous houses. These include President Eisenhower's farm, Lord Leverholm's Garrick Fergus Castle in Northern Ireland, and other well-known places."

Charles Walker reports that he graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1903, worked one year, and entered Dartmouth with our class, but had to leave college in senior year because of the death of his father and he assumed management of C. E. Walker, fuel dealers. He was in the Army as a private in 1918, stationed at Camp Upton on Long Island. He was married twice and has eight children. In 1934 he received an A.B. degree from Dartmouth. He is still in business and does not expect to retire. The city took their wharf and buildings for a park and their business is now at 338 Pleasant Street in Portsmouth and their home at 705 Middle Street.

In June 1963, George Squier and his wife gave up city life and moved to Bristol, Vt. In 1965 George wrote to your editor. "I had no trouble adjusting to country life. In fact I sought it and love it," and he brought forth the following poem:

Here in the country where snow is clean And things move slowly in ways serene And days are full of comfortable ease, We do whatever we doggone please.

We read and think as we watch things grow And find how little we used to know In hurryup days of long ago.

Class Notes Editor 13 Pembroke Rd. Danbury, Conn. 06812

Secretary,: Blair and Co., 277 Park Ave. New York, N. Y. 10017

Class Agent, Care of John H. Lewis 125 Walnut St., Watertown, Mass. 02172