CLASS OF 1905

Our Tenth Reunion was held in Hanover in June in connection with the 1915 Commencement. There were present sixty-nine members of our class, twenty-four wives, (also a sister of one of the Class and her girl friend), and six children, making a total of 101 souls. We had our headquarters in Hitchcock Hall, a new dormitory just back of Crosby, facing on Tuck Drive. This building is the last word In dormitory construction, and when it was properly embellished with three large 1905 banners about twelve feet by five feet each it was a perfectly satisfactory place to spend three days.

Most of our crowd came on Saturday afternoon on the Commencement Special from Boston, on other trains, and in autos- great many of the Boston crowd came over the road in machines.

The first official function was a sort of reception or gathering of all members and all women-folks in the Assembly Room at Hitchcock Hall after dinner on Saturday evening. We all got acquainted, and later in the evening many of the class strolled down to the so-called "Lodge."

The next class event was the ride to Woodstock for Sunday dinner the following day. Automobiles lined up in front of Hitchcock at about twelve o'clock, and we all started down the road to West Leb and up over the hills to Woodstock Inn. It was a good ride and they gave us a good dinner. You can just imagine what those hills looked like on that June afternoon as we came back into Hanover about five o'clock—just as good as they were in 1905, and it seemed as though they looked even better.

The committee had purposely arranged nothing for Sunday night, and left each person to shift for himself for a few hours. Most of the time was spent in "talking it over" and listening to the wonderful tales of "Sliver" Hatch's experiences in the tropics.

Monday morning we got into our uniforms and marched down the street. The uniform was that of an Irish peasant,— green suit with red vest, and cocked hat and shillalah. The class had a fife and drum corps playing "It's a long, long way to Tipperary" as we marched around the College, looking over the buildings old and new and making our official tour of inspection. With the exception of the band Which the graduating class had for their exercises, our fife and drum corps was the only music there, and even if "we do say so as oughtn't to" it added a lot to the Commencement festivities, and if we had only had Cap Kelley there to lead us our success would have been complete. As it was, modesty does not forbid us from saying that we were the best thing there.

Monday afternoon our baseball team licked the 1900 baseball team by the usual large score.

Monday night the class banquet was held at the Commons. The class sent the womenfolks to see the Dramatic Club performance. At the banquet it was voted to substitute for the existing one man organization the so-called "three-man" system for administering class affairs. Edmund E. Day, Fletcher Hale, and Lafayette R. Chamberlin were elected as an executive committee to take care of all class affairs,Day to act as treasurer, Chamberlin as secretary, and Hale to devote his attention to the question of a permanent class fund and to work with the other two members.

Tuesday morning the class marched, together with the other reuning classes, to Alumni Oval, and watched the varsity baseball game. On Tuesday evening the class marched with all the classes in a monster torchlight parade. Our class, in addition to the ordinary kerosene torches, had a large number of red and greenfire torches which were burned throughout the parade. Again we were the best thing in the parade.

Wednesday morning some of the class attended the Commencement exercises, some spent the morning saying good-by. The Alumni Luncheon this year was served in the new Gymnasium, and after that function was over the special train filled and left for Boston, and by night most of our class had left town. Day, Merriam, Lillard, Norton, and some of the others, with their wives, remained in Hanover for a few days for a sort of post-reunion together.

Bob Falconer, who is now pastor of the College Church, and Mrs. Falconer, live in the parsonage where "Pa" Leeds lived when we were in college. Mrs. Falconer, together with Mrs. Day and some of the other wives, were an informal committee to take care of the womenfolks, and the class certainly appreciates what they did.

Of the men present at the reunion, "Sliver" Hatch probably came the longest distance, viz., from South America. Henry Norton came from Los Angeles. Ed. Richardson had fully intended to come from Italy, but at the last minute was prevented by the fact that Italy joined in the European war. "Jake" Atwood came up from Panama to be on hand at reunion, but was recalled and had to send his regrets.

(A full unexpurgated accounts of the reunion will appear in the Class Report which is to be published shortly, and if there are any details in which you are interested which do not appear above, be sure to get in touch with the secretary so as to get a copy of that report.)

Following is a list of those present at the reunion:

Agry, Balph, Besse, Brockway, Brown, D. F., Brown, F. H., Brown, R. W., Campbell, C. A., Chamberlain, W. E., Chamberlin, L. R., Chase, Clough, Conley, Cornish, Day, Donnelly, Ela, Elliott, Emery, Falconer, Fall, Fleming, French, Fromm, Frost, Getchell, Gilbert, E., Gilman, Goodrich, Greenleaf, Hale, Harding, Harwood, Haskell, Hatch, F. A., Hersam, Hills, Hobart, Lillard, Loder, Luce, McCabe, McClary, McFeeters, MacMillan, May, Merriam, Moore, Newick, Norton, Nourse, Parkinson, Peirce, J. W., Peyser, Pierce, C. W., Piatt, Preston, Proctor, Putnam, Reed, H. M., Smith, A. C., Smith, H. E., Smith, L. 8., Stevenson, Tolman, Tuck, Watson, Weston, F. S., White. Mrs. Agry, Mrs. F. H. Brown, Mrs. R. W. Brown, Mrs. W. E. Chamberlain, Mrs. Chase, Mrs. Clough, Mrs. Cornish, Mrs. Day, Miss Donnelly and friend, Mrs. Ela, Mrs. Emery, Mrs. Falconer, Mrs. Harwood, Mrs. Haskell, Mrs. Hills, Mrs. Lillard, Mrs. McCabe, Mrs. McClary, Mrs. Merriam, Mrs. Newick, Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Parkinson, Mrs. Peyser, Mrs. C. W. Pierce, Mrs. Putnam.

The children present were Master Day, Master and Miss Harwood, Master and Miss Lillard, and Master Putnam.