1908

Harold C. Clark of Chesham, N. H., wrote to your editor last September. "My wife, Ethelyn, and I are living quietly and happily here in Chesham, most of the time from June to October at our cottage at beautiful Silver Lake, where we have the pleasure of visiting with our two families who come there for vacations. We have been busy all the time with plenty of work and pleasure at the lake."

Harold Cogswell has a new address: 47 Thoreau Street, Concord, Mass., where they moved "lock stock and barrel" from Oak Park, Ill. This is a permanent address and Harold has assured us that it is his last big move with all of his furniture except the piano which he sold for $25.00. Harold's brother lives in Concord and thought Harold should be back in the old "Bay State" where all of his relatives live. It is a modern 3½-room apartment about 4 minutes' walk to the B. & M. station where 17 commuter trains run for Boston daily. The main business section is only 15 minutes' walk. Concord and Lexington history goes "back to Revolutionary days. We lived in Chicago and Oak Park 54 years. Harold is one of the few classmates who sent me news this past winter which your news editor greatly appreciated.

Jack Everett noted at the 60-year reunion that the Thayer group of 1908 had stood the gaff better than the others and enjoyed the letter about the Thayer life and Prof. Fletcher.

I congratulated Dolly and Jane Gray on their 53rd wedding anniversary and he replied: "It doesn't seem that long since Dean Clark tied the knot in Manila at 8 o'clock in the morning: (that's when the boat landed) and we are healthy as Hell and still enjoying life."

In reply to my congratulations and request for news on his 82nd birthday, Crosby Hoar sent the following contemplations.

Yes, I'm 82 years old. In our group that is no distinction. Others are equally old or young, if you prefer; fortunately we age at varying rates. It would be very boring if the aging process were the same for all; so that each, by inquiry or observation, could assess his precise position and progress in an inexorable scheme of things, much better as it is, with each person harboring such hopes and aspirations as he may cherish while events unfold. As many sages have pointed out, age is favorable to contemplation. What better subject for contemplation than friends, and particularly one's own family?

Thinking thus, I count my assets, or better, my blessings. First, my good wife who for 54 years has done more than her share in our partnership. Next our children, daughter and son; both doing honorable, if not distinguished, work and something for humanity. And then the grandchildren; one is just out of college and graduate school, about to enter the armed service. The second, a girl, is still in college, seems to have found a future husband; perhaps we shall have great-grandchildren. The third Is a boy, to whom football seems important Just now. There are many friends; some going back to Dartmouth College, others gathered along the way. In Professor Lord's Latin class we read of the poet Horace who in his vineyard was enraptured by the view of snow-covered Mount Soracte. I think of him as I survey the years that are gone and look forward in anticipation to what may lie ahead.

Stacey and Bernice Irish celebrated their 56th wedding aniversary on December 26 With their grandchildren and their families, including their only great-grandchild whose mother, D'Arcy, is the daughter of their Marian who died in 1955. Another happy element was the fact that Bernice and her two sisters, Mrs. Homer Hunt and Mrs. Jack Summerskill, both of Montreal, were together on Christmas Day for the first time in more than 25 years.

On September 6, 1968 I received a letter from Gertrude Morrissey reporting Tom's death on August 14 after an illness which had weakened him for the past three years. His doctors, after many tests, considered his affliction pernicious anemia. He was taken to the emergency room of the hospital on August 12 and passed away two days later. Mrs. Morrissey's address is Glen Oak Drive, Springfield, Mass.

Arthur and Juliet Soule retired to their winter home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., November 7 for their 21st year. Arthur reports there is quite a large and very active Dartmouth group there "but most of them are about the age of my grandsons and I am getting tired of being treated like an old man."

Bert Thwing sends in a weather report on January 17 from St. Lambert, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal. "On Nov. 10 I was picking roses. On Nov. 12 there arrived a heavy snow storm and very cold weather and it has kept that up ever since until January 15 when we had the first real summer day. Nothing like it since records have been kept. Maybe it's the start of another ice age."

Arthur Wyman sent this editor what WinGriffin calls a "solid gold picture frame" for a June reunion class photo. Fred Munkelt, Larry Symmes, and Grif had sent to Art their class plates and Art supplied the frames for the pictures which were returned to them. Art's direction to your news editor was to have his picture taken and put in the frame for which your news editor expresses great appreciation and pleasure.

John Thompson wishes to make a correction to my newsletter of September 26, 1968, which stated that John designed the original masthead for "The '08er" in 1948. John claims no credit for the masthead but believes the original was drawn by a commercial artist in Chicago, probably by arrangement with Park Stickney. However, several years ago, possibly 1960 or 1965 it seemed that the war message in the original be substituted by something more closely related to our own college traditions. So at your request and with this in mind, I revised the masthead drawing to the nostalgic form now regularly reproduced at the head of your newsletters.

Lauris G. Treadway and his sons have sold their interest in Treadway Inns Corporation to a new corporation; Treadway Inns and Resorts with headquarters in Rochester, N. Y. Larry will continue to live in Williamstown and his address is unchanged; c/o Treadway Inns Corporation, Williamstown, Mass. 01267.

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