Class of 1900
Professor Charles Albert Proctor of Hanover, N. H., wishes to announce through these columns that his oldest son, Charles N. Proctor, has succeeded him as the golf champion of the state of New Hampshire. Professor Proctor in his letter expresses the proper amount of enthusiasm that this title still remains in the family, yet regrets that the older generation is passing and the new one taking its place. This means more to young Charlie than the state championship, because he enters college this fall and will be able to compete on the Dartmouth golf team if he keeps up his present rate. It has also been stated that he is undoubtedly one of the best if not the best ski jumper in Hanover, so that the conleadership elusion seems to be quite reasonable that the younger generation will rival if not surpass the older generation in athletic accomplishments. Professor Proctor adds in conclusion that while he will not be in the golf lime-light in the future so much as he has in the past, he is open to challenge for a match with any member of the class on any course at any time for any inducement. It is only fair to say that one cannot be both a golf architect and an exhibition player.
Jonakowski sends this note to the surviving bachelors of the class: "Now that the most hopeless case has won the race, there is no excuse for any one of the class coming to Hanover next year without his wife. In fact, I am willing to vote in favor of levying a heavy tax on any bachelors in June, 1925. I would like to have them know that the hardest thing is to get the girl to say 'yes' and mean it, but it can be done. Let the bachelors imagine as I did how lonesome they will feel in 1925 and how difficult it will be in later years to get any one to darn their socks in just the right way."
Joseph Wentworth has married, at least that will be a fact by the time this notice appears. The banns were published early in September. The bride is Miss Alice M. Smith of Beacon St., Brookline. The note says that Miss Smith comes from New Hampshire. In consulting Mr. Wentworth about this very important step, he states that an article which appeared in a previous class report was the cause of it. This certainly is a proof that class reports are very effective. If we remember correctly, this particular article dealt with the bachelors of the class and attempted to predict whether or not that condition was permanent. Since its publication announcements have been made of the marriages of Mr. Jonakowski and Mr. Wentworth. Mr. Wentworth further adds that the twenty-fifth reunion had a great deal to do with this step. Therefore the program committee will devote one whole day to the welcoming of brides. Congratulations are certainly in order. "You never can tell" is just as true today as it ever was.
The class of 1900 desires officially to extend its heartfelt congratulations to Judge Charles H. Donahue of the class of '99. It certainly is a well deserved honor. We of 1900 appreciate the eminence which Judge Donahue has; attained, because we know perhaps better than any other class the deterring elements he has had to combat. We have therefore always, been most generous in our praise of individual accomplishments of members of the class immediately above us and the class below us.. While we feel that the world as a whole is. benefiting more by the collective accomplishments of a class like 1900, this gives us a broad viewpoint from which to judge and extol the eminence other classes have attained, through outstanding individuals.
Guy Ham has not absorbed the Jamaica Plain Trust Company. Jamaica Plain contains the residence of Mayor Curley and the new Russian conductor of the Symphony Orchestra whose name we can neither spell nor pronounce. Both of these accounts are desirable, and we do not blame Guy Ham for seeking to absorb them.
The class of 1900 will hold its annual dinner at the University Club on October 24. As accounts of other dinners will fill the pages of the MAGAZINE, we wish to state in advance that this will be a characteristic gathering, full of brotherly love, sparkling speeches, and marking the steady progress upward of the class. President Rankin will preside, and there will be several impromptu speeches by Mr. Atwood, Judge Prescott, and members who come from far distant homes to reune with the class. The gathering will not take the personal trend which _ characterized that of a year ago, when one of the members of the class was under grave suspicion. However, this situation was courageously met and the verdict was thoroughly just. The chief subject of conversation will be the twenty-fifth reunion, which is so near at hand. Any further account of this gathering can be obtained by simply summing up the good things which occur at most class dinners of this sort, realizing that they will all be embodied in a 1900' gathering.
Harry Hutchins is wintering at Whitefield, N. H. He reports rural surroundings, but activities both mental and physical which are in every way satisfactory.
Robert Jackson and Mrs. Jackson are both engaged in political activities of unusual importance during a presidential campaign. The that the class enjoys in all the major parties makes our gatherings interesting and at times sprightly.
Harry Marshall we see very infrequently, so we all want to know just what he is doing. We will state that he is still president of the Karen Theological Seminary of Burma. This is one of the oldest if not the oldest theological seminary in the Orient. It has a strong faculty, good buildings, and a student body of about one hundred. Harry is also author of "The Karen People of Burma: a Study in Anthropology and Ethnology," a scholarly volume of more than three hundred pages. Furthermore, he is a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and of the American Oriental Society. When Harry comes on to our twenty-fifth reunion, everyone will know who he is and what he is doing, for his is a life of real achievement.
Secretary, 10 State St., Boston
