CLASS OF 1906
Arthur W. Chapin was married to Catherine Mitchell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Browne Mitchell, at the bride's home, Great Falls, Montana, on Thursday, June 22. Art and his bride are living at 23 Radford Lane, Dorchester. Congratulations, Art—that will add one more for the big 20th reunion.
Harold Rugg has been elected vice-president of the Vermont Botanical Club. Harold has been a member of the Club ever since he graduated, and has a record of having attended each annual meeting, with the exception of one, for the past sixteen years.
Members of the class will be more than glad to know that Francis Lane Childs, who had been enjoying the summer at his home at Henniker, N. H., is much improved from the breakdown he suffered while doing several men's work at Hanover.
Massachusetts has no monopoly oil being on the side of "Law and Order". The New Hampshire Blue Laws may be counted on to furnish amusement at least once every year. This is what the Boston Herald recently said about classmate Herb Rainie and a Sunday baseball game:
"Last Sunday, Herbert H. Rainie, solicitor of Merrimack county, started the ball rolling with a coup d'etat on the baseballers of the Sunset league. Having received complaints that on the previous Sunday 1000 fans had seen a ball game, Mr. Rainie and the Concord police marshal, backed by the bluecoats, put in an appearance at the baseball park and summoned the 18 players into police court for violating the law. This was in the first inning. The game was interrupted, papers were served, and it looked like a lead-pipe cinch for the strong arm of the law. The game was apparently over.
"After the authorities left the park, however, through some misunderstanding on the part of the baseball promoters, the game was resumed and at the end of the nine innings, the score was a tie. The tie was played off. The 2000 fans left the field with the feeling that through the closeness of the game and the appearance of the police, they had received as much, at least, if not more, for their money than they ordinarily get at a Sunday game.
"But" Monday the baseball players showed up in court. There was also no playing on the golf links, all the flags at the Beaver Meadows Golf Club being at half mast."
The biggest '06 round-up held for many a day took place at the City Club, Boston, on Friday evening, Oct. 27, on the eve of the Dartmouth-Harvard game. Many faces were in evidence which had been out of touch with the class for some time, and all who attended took a solemn oath that they would not miss another round-up whenever the call was issued. Among those present were: Bailey, Brooks, Carpenter, Chapin, Ghellis, E. E. Clark, Cogswell, Cooke, Connell, Davis, Dennison, Frazier, C. French, Ned French, T. Gray, Greenwood, P. J. Holmes, Jones, Legro, Leverone, C. Main, Marden, Meservey, Neal, O'Brien, Patten, Paul, Perry, Powers, Rugg, N. Russell, Joe Smith, Swasey, Scribner, Tarr, E. A. Thompson, R. Thompson, Warton. and Whittemore. From the dining room, the gang attended the smoker, where seats in the balconies had been reserved. Here Jack Downey, Johnny Burtch, A. D. Holmes, and Eric Kelly joined the crowd.
A number of other '06 folks got to town Saturday in time for the game, among whom were Elon Pratt from New York, Count Dondero from Portsmouth, N. H., Roy Merchant, Edgerton from Hanover, Ned Herr, T. Brown, and George Loff, who had come all the way from Wyoming. After the game, a small dining room leading from the main dining room of the Hotel Bellevue had been reserved for the members of the class and wives. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Frazier, Mr. and Mrs. Powers, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Warton, Mr. and Mrs. Dennison, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Patten, Mr. and Mrs. R. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Hartman, Harold fiugg, and Ike Paul.
Jack Downey, formerly in the Philadelphia territory of the Aetna Insurance Company, has received a well earned promotion by being appointed assistant superintendent of the Special Risk Department, with headquarters at the home office in Hartford, Conn.
Babe Crane has for sometime been connected with the $2,000,000 Emergency Building Fund of the Pennsylvania State College. Babe's address is in care of President's Office, State College, Penn.
Brack Hazen, formerly of the Southern New England Telephone and Telegraph Company at New Haven, now makes his headquarters at the New York office, IS Dey St.
Everett Clark has resigned from the Americanization work connected with the Everett school department, and is now connected with the State Board of Education at the State House. Clark is living at 11 Katharine Road, Watertown, Mass.
Elon Pratt has left the marts of finance to engage in the publishing business, and is now president of Elon G. Pratt, Inc., publishers, at 200 Fifth Ave., New York.
Ike Paul has returned from a six months' trip through the Orient in behalf of the Bennett Day Importing Company of New York. Ike, as might be expected, found time in his travels to look up Dartmouth connections and follow up the work of the Morrill Allen Gallagher Fund, as shown by the following excerpt from one of his letters from Java:
"I am a 'buyer' of China, 'giver' of the Philippines, and a 'seller' of Java, so far as natives are concerned. In almost every port from Yokohama through Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Java, I have met one or more Dartmouth men, and it has been particularly gratifying to find almost every one—out of college,' say over ten years—in the 'taipen' class, as the Chinese call those in responsible executive positions, and several of them important men in their respective communities, as well as in their own lines of business. Quite a few were making a little money for themselves, but unfortunately most of them have numerous progeny, so can't give or will much to Dartmouth."
While we are dispensing foreign news, the following from "Bobby" Richardson may be of interest. "Bobby" looks after the health of the employees of the Braden Copper Company in Rancagua, Chili, South America, and enclosed in his letter a generous check for the Morrill Allen Gallagher Fund. Three thousand miles and loyal as ever to Hanover. "I am due a vacation this year, but think I shall wait over another year before going home, and then may leave for good, although when one has lived abroad for so long, I wonder if he really would be satisfied back home?"
Secretary, Ralph Thompson, 7 Creedway, Taunton, Mass.
