Class of 1916

In response to a very general request contained in the returned class questionnaires for the appointment of district agents to establish and maintain a closer personal touch between the class organization and the individual members of the class, the executive committee has recently announced the following list of agents for the coming year: NEW ENGLAND DISTRICT Connecticut: John A. Pelletier, 157 Lake St., New Britain. Maine: Robert Clunie, Jr., 539 Penobscot St., Rumford. Massachusetts—Boston and Vicinity—'Eastern: John P. English, 110 Tremont St., Boston. Howard B. Parker, 116 Church St., Watertown. Robert A. Pease, 96 Revere St., Boston. Central and Western: John B. McAuliffe, 66 Fruit St., Worcester. New Hampshire: C. C. Coffin, 18 Stark St., Nashua. Rhode Island: C. K. Lincoln, 29 Bedford St., Fall River, Mass. Vermont: H. W. Abraham, 111 Church St., Burlington.

NEW YORK DISTRICT A'. 1. City, Lower N. Y. State and New Jersey? Justus C. Doenecke, 371 Fulton St., Brooklyn. Park J. Larmon, 34 West 44th St., N. Y. City. K. K. Stowell, 160 West 73rd St., N. Y. City. Upper N. Y. State, Buffalo: W. D. Shumway, 22 Russell Ave., Buffalo.

PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT Pennsylvania and Maryland: Wm. L. Cleaves, Girard Trust Co., Philadelphia, Pa.

WASHINGTON AND SOUTHERN DISTRICT Kentucky, Tenn., Va., W. Va., theCarolinas, Georgia, Fla., Ala., and Miss.: F. Sterling Wilson, 219 First St., N.E., Washington, D. C.

CLEVELAND DISTRICT Ohio and Western Pa.: Fletcher R. Andrews, 2542 Stratford Rd., Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

CHICAGO DISTRICT Illinois, Mich., Indiana, and Wisconsin: Joseph M. Cheney, 7622 Cornell Ave., Chicago, Ill.

CENTRAL DISTRICT lowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska: Lawrence L. Davidson, 1709 Nebraska St., Sioux City, lowa.

NORTH CENTRAL DISTRICT Minnesota, Dakotas, Montana: Stanley M. Lyman, 1936 James Ave., So., Minneapolis, Minn.

SOUTH CENTRAL DISTRICT Oklahoma, Ark., La., Texas, NewMexico, and Colorado: Bailey V. Emerv, 124 West Third "St., Tulsa, Oklahoma.

PACIFIC COAST—ROCKY MT. DISTRICT C. C. Hitchcock, 517 So. St Andrew PL, Los Angeles, Cal.

CHINA AND ORIENT DISTRICT

Roger F. Evans, American P.O. Box 1151, Shanghai, China.

CANADA, EUROPE, AND OTHER FOREIGN COUNTRIES Class Secretary—H. Clifford Bean, 38 Algonquin St., Dorchester, Mass

"Mac" McClure returned from China in the early fall, and has been taking a course at the Harvard Theological School. After the first of February "Mac" will be located at Kittery Point, Me.

"Les" Leavitt is back on the job as principal of the Tripoli Boys' School after a summer spent at an altitude of five thousand feet in the Lebanon Mountains. For the benefit of the near-sighted we hasten to add that it is Lebanon, Syria, and not New Hampshire. Outside of school hours "Les" takes his exercise in the garden, and among his flock of twenty hens, seven rabbits, a dog, a turtle, and three finches. Bill Banton of New York recently pulled a Rip Van Winkle on "Les" by urging him to attend the monthly class dinner at Keen's Chop House. At that "Les" would have come through, if Aladdin hadn't been A. O. L. on the lamp.

"Heinie" George crawled back into "the bush" a few weeks ago, and with disguised handwriting attempted to broadside the Secretary with a salvo of anonymous post-cards. It was in the deer season and way back in that part of the tall sticks where "Heinie" loves to "drop one and carry two." Couldn't be anyone else!

The engagement is announced of Miss Florence Katharine Baker to Ralph Milton Parker.

Mrs. Anna Cipperly announces the marriage of her daughter Alice Marie to Mr. Charles Moore Clarke on December 8, 1923, at Troy, N. Y.

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Haight Stagg announce the marriage of their niece, Miss Sarah Musson, to Mr. Philip West Stackpole on November 3, 1923, at Brooklyn, N. Y.

Announcing to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Ross a daughter, Anne Katharine, Nov. 28 1923.

Announcing to Mr. and Mrs. James A, Shanahan a daughter, Patricia Ann, Dec. 16 1923.

Over the stern of the S. S. Manchuria en route through the Panama Canal came Christmas greetings from "Rog" Evans to the gang —back to Shanghai to work again until our Tenth.

Taking this occasion most gratefully to acknowledge the handsome Christmas greeting card from Bill Hale, somewhere in China, we listen with interest to learn of the date of Bill's next return to the States. And in the same stanza, "Pewee" Marble is about due for the trip back.

The names of Jesse Fenno and Abe Lincoln must be added to the patrons of art of Greenwich Village after their highly successful debut on New Year's Eve.

"Ed" Winters, who has been officially missing on the address list since weighing anchor in China, has turned up at last in New York as a proponent of the new pursuit. We recently received a clipping announcing his attendance in New York, but the exact whereabouts was omitted.

"Mr. Edgar S. Winters, author of 'Ma Cheuk' (Ma Jong) will be in attendance at my shop for a limited time after October 1. He Will give instructions in the playing of Ma Jong and Pung Chow to purchasers of a set of either of these games. Mr. Winters' first book on Ma Jong was published in China. He is considered an authority on the game in its own country where he played it for many years before it became the vogue here." While in quest of three green dragons, a trio of seven bamboos, a couple of south winds, and the rest of the makin's, if you should stumble on to Ed s trail nail him for his next address: we are still that one jump behind'

Charlie Creesy is connected with the sales department of the United States Tire Company of Boston.

"Don" Cobban is general manager of Cobban Bros., Inc., wholesale and retail dealers in wall paper of Lowell, Lawrence, Manchester, and Haverhill. "Don" is married, and makes his home in Lowell.

One of the last questionnaires to be returned is that of "Johnnie" Curtin. John apologizes profusely for his delay, and is all "pepped-up" over the plans for 1926. If the other two hundred men would follow suit by sending in their questionnaires, the whole class would be accounted for and we could publish the 1916 directory.

The first acknowledgment from the Balmacaan Broadcast was received from H. "Burt" Lowe, who happened to catch the envelope as it winged through his office addressed in error to Mr. Burton. This broadcast apparently is the first bit of '16 publicity that has reached "Burt" of late. If we will be sure to add his last name to the addressograph machine, he promises his solid support for the future. We're on!

With the announcement of the Dartmouth-Harvard hockey game and the annual Triangular track meet, both to be held in Boston the latter part of February, Balmacaan's New England chapter will soon be in the spotlight again.

In the recent incorporation of an old firm under a slightly different name, "Gran" Fuller is announced as treasurer of G. Fuller and Son Lumber Co. W. S. Fuller, president, and George Fuller '23, secretary, complete the live Dartmouth triumvirate of the new corporation.

There is nothing more encouraging to the secretary and treasurer than to have a man, who has been out of touch, come back into the fold. More and more of late the Secretary has been receiving letters from men of the class who have not been heard from in several years. It is such bright spots as these m the Secretary's existence that furnish the incentive to keep plugging after the men that have been so long silent. And when the treasurer writes to tell you that so and so has just paid up his three years' dues, your faith in human nature is on the road to restoration. To date at least ten men who had not previously paid class dues have squared their account with the Treasurer and boosted our number of "interested members" toward the goal of June, 1926. More power to them and to those who follow their example for 1916.

if you are an "interested member" of the Sixteen organization and are not receiving a complimentary subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE:, tell your troubles to the Secretary!

Jesse Fenno is already under way on the 1916 quota for the Alumni Fund. If you cannot contribute now, be sure to name a date (before June 30, 1924) at which time you can be counted on for your donation. By thus advising the agent, you save both the time and expense of follow-ups. Last year we showed an advance from 67% to 89% of our quota with one hundred seventy-nine contributors. With two hundred contributors this year we will go over the top and place 1916 where she belongs, among the classes 100% loyal to Dartmouth. Every man behind it!

If you have not already signed up for the field day at Lake Morey, send in that questionnaire now!

Secretary, 38 Algonquin St., Dorchester, Mass.