1914

With Christmas and the Near Year so near, these notes have the double purpose of offering not only special greetings to the nine members of our Class born in the month of December—five in '91, three in '92, and one in '93—but to every member of 1914, every wife, and all their children and grandchildren.

The December birthday list includes Howard Curtis, Fred Davidson, Frank Donovan, Carroll Edson, Arthur Emerson, Gail Gardner, Howell Hallett, Charles McLaughlin, and Arthur Wheelock. Of these, Gail was our Christmas baby.

Though very likely incomplete, we have a report that at the Princeton game were Lay and Ruth Little, Loring andMarjorie Nichols, Cathy Remsen, BertSymonds and his daughter, and AbeNewmark and his nephew.

With Mat Hallett's name fresh in mind, it was arresting to find among old records passed on to me a letter from Dick Lane '07 dated May 15, 1956 reporting Mat's retirement as vice president of the Kendall Co. of Charlotte, N. C. and as general manager of their cotton mills division. This was on Mat's 65th birthday.

It is good to hear from William R.Holway who, though with us only three years before going on to M.I.T. for final engineering training and his degree, made us proud to share in the many honors and wide recognition he won in his profession. We note also that Bill's younger son William Nye was in the Class of 1942.

Bill lives in Tulsa, Okla., still active in his consulting firm of William R. Holway and Associates. He lost his wife of 52 years in 1968 and in 1970 married a lifelong friend, Helen Thayer, a professor of anthropology at Merritt College in Oakland, Calif.

Win Snow of Epping, N. H., himself no mean lecturer in many subjects, has lured Lay Little from his home in Plainfield, N. H. to give a November lecture, presumably on historical matters, to a distinguished group in Portsmouth, N. H. of which he is an active member.

Jesse Stillman, who may hold a class record for the incredible number of organizations he has served in his active life, reports that after the 38 years he has lived in the same nine-room house on his one acre of land he has moved into a five-room apartment where he says "we are settled and enjoying it." The address is 8 Colony Blvd. Apt. 333, Wilmington, Del. 19802.

From Walt Daley of Pelham Manor, N. Y,. has come a letter I must share with you. He writes, "My wife Gertrude suffered a stroke on September 6, went into a coma from which she never recovered consciousness, and died on September 13th."

They had celebrated their 50th anniversary in a memorable family reunion. Walt, whose own 80th birthday was on September 24, is in reasonably good health, drives his own car, and plans to remain in Pelham, saying, "Home is where the heart is."

Time has taken toll of four more of our classmates. Dr. Henry Haywood, for 50 years City Physician in New Brunswick, N. J. died in his 88th year in his home on September 16. Also must be reported the death of Clarence W. Pierce in Mt. Holly, N. C., on September 1. More on the lives of these men so outstanding in their respective medical and engineering professions will be found elsewhere in this issue. And as this column was about to be mailed, I belatedly learned of the death on July 16 of Lawrence Kingman in Brockton, Mass., and of Kenneth Grant in Camden, Me., on October 6.

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