1935

By the time you read these notes, written on a warm August afternoon, many of you will have attended and enjoyed our fall reunion and we'll be halfway through the football season! More on the meeting next month, but here are news gleanings from the summer.

During the summer we haven't seen as many classmates in the Hanover area as we might have hoped. Unfortunately missed a visit from Fred and Dottie Haley, who were here to see the graduation of son Evan '77. We were in Ohio at graduation of our daughter Martha from Wittenberg University.

Jack and Dorothy Irish were registered at Alumni College, but our paths didn't cross. Boband Gertie Smith were in town briefly, over from Stratton, Vt. They seem to skip from there to New Canaan to Vero Beach and back! Bob is still acting as a consultant, spending most of his working time at Lee-Jofa in New York.

In July Hank and Lou Hawkins gave a luncheon party for local New Hampshire and Vermont gentry at their beautiful home near Claremont. It was great to see Ernie and HollyDraper and Bob and Henrietta Hage, our College administrators, together with Nick andGeraldine Jacobson, Jack Gilbert, Morry Heller, and Ted Steele. Bob and Lois McLellan were houseguests. Beth Cameron came from Hanover and Don and Ibba Hagerman from their new condominium in New London. Al and JeanBrush were in the area, too, checking construction progress on their new condo near Don.

Class treasurer. Hall Colton, is one of the best sources of class news and we enjoy seeing him frequently when he's up this way from his home in Nashua. Recently Hall lunched with PaulCummings and Bob Lewis in Peterborough. Paul, who is editor of the Peterborough Transcript, has moved his plant into a fine new building built after fire destroyed the old one. Bob has settled in Peterborough and operates his own business, with a partner, doing acoustical engineering work reducing the noise of manufacturing equipment.

A brief report came from Jake Jacoby in East Lansing. He's thinking about partial retirement from the accounting firm where he's been for 24 years. Two children are grown and on their own.

Bill Bonner has retired from the Torrington Company after 37 years of service progressing through various posts to the position of international services manager.

Like those of a lot of people we know. HerbKnowles' 65th birthday arrived in May. Consequently, he has, retired as vice president for international sales of Ozite Corporation but will work as a consultant on an abbreviated schedule. Sales trips overseas will continue and he "might even get back to Hanover." Herb will remain in Deerfield, Ill., with children nearby and Bernyce glad to have him home for necessary errands without his being around all day.

To my knowledge, two classmates have died during the summer. Will Sparks in June, and Bob Millane in August. More on the loss of these good friends in a later issue.

While reading the Boston Herald American the other day, I came across a very interesting three-quarter-page article on Boston's first cemetery, King's Chapel. How surprised I was when the author turned out to be classmate GaloPutnam Emerson. Put, according to the editor's note at the close of the history, is "a retired North Shore businessman who has done exhaustive research dealing with this topic and is a founding member of Friends of Boston's Ancient Cemeteries."

Probably not many of you saw the July issue of Massachusetts Physician. It carried a brief biography and tribute to John Jewett. As associate clinical professor at Harvard Medical School and in private practice John is following his father's footsteps in a distinguished career in obstetrics and gynecology.

John and Lee Howe spent the summer at their cottage in Orange, Mass. Earlier in the year they spent a couple of months touring the Pacific coast and later visited their first grandchild in Virginia.

John Bryant is celebrating the arrival of a fourth grandson. No granddaughters yet!

Barney Tomlinson writes they are retired and firmly established in Bradford, Vt., 30 miles from Hanover and within walking distance of all three sons and families, golf, stores, church, etc! How's that for the ultimate in retirement convenience and comfort?!

To George H. Colton '35 last June went,with special honor, the Dartmouth AlumniAward, given in recognition of his "endurance, enterprise, dedication, and wisdomas the College's chief fund raiser."

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