CLASS OF 1916
Battle Mountain, Nevada, is the new habitat of one Ernie Cutler. Ernie says Battle Mountain is stuck in the middle of the desert, and that he is up in the mountains in a mining camp about twelve miles away. Here we have it: "I have fixed up a hen coop and have the best shack in camp. Wonder what a white collar feels like or a good napkin seems like? Saving up my hard-earned kale to get back next June."
Harry Goldman thusly from New York: "You're only partially right! Others at the Dartmouth-Pennsylvania game were Zip Conley, Bill Biel, Larry Davidson, and yours truly. The last three traveled back to New York and had a good confab together. There were other Sixteeners, also; I recall seeing "Pawtucket" Anderson up from Washington, with some chicken. By the way, Sixteen probably had the best representation at that awful slaughter." Right, Harry!
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Merriam (Joe) Cheney are the parents of a son, Joseph Merriam, Jr., born in Chicago December 24, 1920.
Ed Craver is secretary of the A. J. Bates Company, shoe manufacturers. His home address is 44 Crosby St., Webster, Mass.
News from Dan Lindsley: "I am now a co-partner in the Ford Agency of Coeur d'-Alene, Idaho, and have been there since June 20. Am living there, my partner and I, having a housekeeper and very comfortable. Both of us are bachelors, and no future prospects."
The December issue of Stress and Strain gives the following whereabouts of the devotees of the rod and chain: "Paw" Anderton, U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. C.; "Pa" Gove, Easton, Pa., in the engineering department of the Ingersoll-Rand Co., "Gummy" Gumbart, Chicago, with the Bethlehem Steel Company; "Bob" Harvey, also in the Patent Office at Washington; "Dan" Lindsley as above; "Hiram" McLellan, Humble Oil and Refining Company, Houston, Tex.; "Rupe" Perkins, Buckingham, Que., on a water power development job; "Ken" Ross, with George F. Hardy, New York; "Dave" Shumway, up in St. John, New Brunswick, with the Nashwaak Pulp and Paper Co.
Dick Ellis is superintendent of the board of public works, North Andover, Mass. He was married in, November, 1920, to Miss Violet Appleyard of North Andover. His new address is 24 Railroad Ave.
Twenty-five of the class were on hand for beefsteak and cider at the annual get-together of the Boston alumni, January 27; Howdy Parker, Alec Jardine, Rod Soule, Charlie Creesy, Rog Morse, Bob Steinert, J. Gile, Bill Caldwell, Dan Coakley, Dick Parkhurst. Jack Welch, Bill Mott, Charlie Belknap, Clifi Bean, Gran Fuller, Tog Upham, Carl Holmes, Frank Bobst, Don Hosmer, Howard Renfrew, Don Fuller, Bert Phinney, Ollie Barr, Jack Curtin, Ernie Gioiosa. Some turnout! Take notice, Gotham Sixteeners. New addresses: Dan Coakley, 45 Kilby St., Boston; Jack Welch, 76 Baker St., Lynn; Bill Mott, 1469 Beacon St., Brookline; Charlie Belknap, 241 St. Botolph St., Boston.
Things are stirring in South Africa, according to Jess Fenno. He writes from headquarters, Col. Cummings Volunteer Corps, Port Elizabeth. "Last week the natives of all South Africa agreed to go on strike November 3. Yesterday morning the president of their local union was arrested for something or other and placed in the court house gaol (you know how we English spell jail). The Kaffirs after several meetings in the square around the monument sent in word at noon that if their president was not released at 5 p. m. they were going to get him out at 5.15 p. m." At about that point Jess joined the volunteer corps as per above, and prepared for the fray. "I fired only three shots, and then stopped, lest I pot some whites, of whom there were many in the street. My three shots were aimed at two birds below who had been pelting us with rocks, and, their ammunition gone, had started off after the crowd, swinging their sticks madly in the air. The first one fell and my second shot knocked down his companion, who soon got. up and ran off hell-bent, this time forgetting to take his stick along. I fired my third then, and missed him. You can imagine a little what it was all like when I tell you that the killed and wounded totalled 150. The sad part of it is that the whites who were in the street did not have sense enough to get out of the danger zone when they knew what was coming. Two white men and one white girl are among the dead, the girt being killed by natives with sticks in front of City House."
Secretary, Richard Parkhurst, Winchester, Mass.
