CLASS OF 1899
Mrs. Elmer W. Barstow, widow of 99's first secretary, and her daughter, Marie, spent the first three weeks of September at Round Pond, Maine. Marie passed her first year college work with high credit at the Junior College in Springfield, Mass., worked in an insurance office during the summer, and is now a member of the sophomore class at Smith.
Pauline L. Joy, daughter of Clarence L. Joy, superintendent of schools at Hartford, Vt., graduated near the top of her class last June from the Hartford High School. This year she is attending Simmons College, Boston, and living at 62 Cypress St., Brookline.
The family of Pitt Drew have had more than their normal share of troubles mixed in with their summer vacation this year. First the older girl, Caroline, was taken seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia in Lancaster, N. H., Mrs. Drew followed with influenza, and when they reached home in Newton the younger daughter, Sally, did likewise. But we are glad to be able to report recovered health in every case now.
Prof. Herbert A. Miller and family spent the summer in Berkeley, Cal., where Ped lectured every morning to two classes,- one of a hundred and fifty and the other of a hundred and eighty. August 20 he wrote: "It is a wonderful place to be in the summer. Never rains, and so cool that you never go without a vest and sleep under two blankets. Over the Fourth we went to Yosemite. Our trip was great. ... I met Bob Leavens on a lovely road a hundred and fifty miles south of here Saturday. He is minister of the Unitarian church in Berkeley." A week or two later, motoring home through the Northwest, he writes of seeing Dr. Walter C. Woodward in Seattle, but missing A. H. Brown in Portland. And the wonders of the' Yellowstone Park soon after made a fitting climax to a most impressive trip.
After the Harvard game on October 28, sixty-six of the men, women, children, and friends of Ninety-Nine sat down to dinner together in the Portrait Room at Young's Hotel. As Donnie had written in his last notification postal, "drawing rooms, withdrawing rooms, smoking rooms, and beauty parlors" had been provided, in which to "doll or dicky" ourselves up,—which meant, as everybody knew it meant, just that informality of dress and fellowship which makes '99 get-togethers comfortable and chummy. Joe Gannon had been in general charge of arrangements, and with the cooperation of the Boston crowd had done a workmanlike job. Mrs. Jim Barney and Mrs. Charlie Donahue with their husbands looked after the very effective decorations, -Dartmouth and '99 banners, red berries and evergreen on chandeliers and pictures, and on the E-shaped table long runners of red and green crvepe paper with dainty individual green baskets of salted peanuts, and cleverly decorated place-cards, the work of Wendell Barney. And finally a large basket of giant chrysanthemums, at the center of the longest table. When everybody had fed, cheered, and sung himself into a state of helplessness, the entertainment committee ran off a fake play of electing a toastmaster. The place-cards were ceremoniously collected, elaborately shuffled, and then Jack Donahue, climbing to the table top to do everything in full public view, drew out a name. Everybody shivered. "Roberta Kendall!" Warren's thirteen-year-old girl! Here a stagy protest was entered against imposing this onerous duty on a guest, and presently Owen Hoban was duly installed in the high office of toastmaster. And the secret of his having planned the whole thing and personally coached his team of speakers was skillfully concealed until the Secretary somewhat later responding to his name read some original but obviously not impromptu verse from a pocket notebook, and thus "gave away" the whole trick. Professor Jim Richardson was the first regular speaker. He spoke of the successful development of the new advisory coaching system in football at Hanover, of the wholesome attitude of Dartmouth athletes towards their studies, and of the hope that a year from this fall the Cornell game might see the dedication of the Memorial Field stands. His tribute to Joe Gannon's long period of effective service on the Athletic Council was followed up by the toastmaster's reading from a resolution passed by the Council at the time of Joe's resignation last June. Joe's response was featured by a neat allusion to the attention that Hobe's Americanization speech has attracted (it is to be included in a volume of "Modern Eloquence" soon to be published), and by the clever recitation of a poem in Italian dialect about "Carlotta" and "Giuseppe." Mrs. Guy E. Speare responded wittily to the toast of " '99 Women's Rights," closing with some original verse, the last two stanzas of which went as follows:
"You share with us every frolic, With us, every merry time, You make us glad we married Some member of '99.
"And as we journey on through life Down the long, long trail's incline, We are proud of the right to claim as our own The class of '99."
As Mrs. Speare is second vice-president of the New Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs, she certainly has some right to speak of women's rights; but when Charlie Donahue took up the theme a little later of "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight," he developed among other novel and entertaining themes the following: That an elaborate and formal ritual is invariably followed in the selection of '99 wives,—the secretary, the executive committee, and the entire class casting secret ballots, which must be absolutely and unanimously favorable before a '99 brother shall positively go under the yoke of matrimony. Thus with his genial humor did Donnie whimsically receive Paul Osgood's bride of last June into the fellowship of '99. And with many other "quips and cranks and wanton wiles" did he so warmly and aptly give expression to the spirit that binds the family of Ninety-Nine together that Hobe reflected everybody's feeling when he said at Donnie's concluding, "Let's call it a night." And with the singing of Charlie Graham's Class Ode and the old Dartmouth Song, one of our happiest reunions ended. Present: Win and Mrs. Adams; Ed and Mrs. Allen with Theodore; Bill and Mrs. Atwood; Jim and Mrs. Barney with Wendell; K. and Mrs. Beal, with Arthur and Malcolm; Frank Cavanaugh; George Clark and cousin, Prescott Morse; Bob Croker; Hale Dearborn; Charlie and Mrs. Donahue with Jack; Bill Eaton; Joe and Mrs. Gannon; Spade Heywood; Owen and Mrs. Hoban; Joe Hobbs; Arthur and Mrs. Hopkins with Faith; George and Mrs. Huckins; Warren and Mrs. Kendall with Roberta, and with their friends, Mr. and Mrs. George M. Gray and Mr. R. Howard Curtis; Tim and Mrs. Lynch; Carl and Mrs. Miller; Paul and Mrs. Osgood; Dave and Mrs. Parker; Jim Richardson; Mr. Charles W. Robie; Herb and Mrs. Rogers; Ernest and Mrs. Silver; Ed Skinner, with friends, Mr. J. Albert Julia and Miss Ursula M. Dowd; Alvah Sleeper; Guy and Mrs. Speare; Fred and Mrs. Walker; Weary and Mrs. Wardle with Gratia; Harry Wason. And a cablegam from Ted Child in Bordeaux, and numerous postals and letters from others showed how gladly many more would have been with us. and were indeed present in spirit. Also, though not present at the dinner, we have reason to believe the following were present at the game: Charles and Mrs. Adams with Elizabeth; Marie Barstow; Bill Colbert; Bob Johnston; Pauline Joy; Mot Sargeant and Howland; Jim Walker. "Some day!"
Herbert L. Watson is at Lockport, N. Y., for several months, engaged in building a paper mill.
Joseph H. Hartley is temporarily in Lawrence, Mass., where his business address is 97 High St., and his house address 227 Bailey St.
Albert W. Boston began with this school year the principalship of the high school at Sanford, Me.
Albert B. Tootell is at 13 Fifteenth St., Great Falls, Mont., engaged as salesman for educational books. His wife died in the fall of 1921.
Secretary, Kenneth Beal, 55 Botolph St., Melrose Highlands, Mass.
