PLANT RESEARCH NEWS
By Dona Wright
Harold P. Vannah, Jr., was graduated from
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, September
18, 1948, with an A. B. degree. (Due to his
service record he is a member of the class of
1946). Harold is the third member of the
Vannah family to have been graduated from
Bowdoin. Mr. Vannah was graduated in 1912,
William in the class of 1941. The three of
them are members of the Zeta Psi fraternity.
Mrs. Vannah has returned home from Maine
where she attended Harold’s graduation. During
her return she visited friends and relatives in
Massachusetts, New York and Washington.
Mr. Vannah is really "fattening up” now that
Mrs. Vannah is back to cook for him. (No re
flection on his cooking, of course). By the way,
he celebrated another birthday October 11th.
Mrs. Nicholson reported a nice vacation which
she spent in Narragansett, Rhode Island. She
spent most of her time sight seeing and fishing.
Believe me, she is "strictly on the ball” where
there’s fish to catch. She caught a striped bass
thirty one inches long.
We miss Oscar Summey who has been trans
ferred from our department to the landscape
crew. Oscar boy, as we call him, will always be
remembered by us as a nice "little man” and a
good worker.
P. T. Barnum had the reputation of always out
witting anyone with whom he dealt. But a man
from Vermont once turned the tables on him. The
Vermonter wrote a letter to Barnum, saying he
had a cherry-colored cat which he thought should
be added to the Barnum Museum, the price
being only $200.
Barnum immediately sent a check for $200 for
the cat. In return he received promptly a large,
coal black cat, with a conspicious note attached to
its neck: "I neglected to tell you that Vermont
cherries are always black.”
Neiv Fi Ye ar
Service Club
Officers
This is the first formal picture of the newly-
elected officers and directors of the Five-Year
Service Club. Dick Landeck, pres., is at head of the
table. On the left are Mrs. Roy Head, secretary;
Roy Head, vice-president; Nat Townsend, director,
and Wilson Gregory, director.
On the right, starting from the head of the
table and coming forward, are Earl York, direc
tor; Roy Carter, director; Tom Conley, director;
and Brtice Cassell, treasurer.
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