Class of 1916
For the first time since 1921 Sixteen crossed the goal on the Alumni Fund with 102 percent of our quota. This alone does not fully represent the showing for the year, since the number of contributors was also materially increased. The cumulative efiforts of Gil Tapley and Jesse Fenno, and more recently the co-operation of the district agents, are responsible in large part for the broader participation of the class.
Now that 1916 is again established among the 100 percent classes, the momentum of success attained and the more efficient functioning of the class organization should go a long way toward maintaining the pace in the select circle. The class takes this occasion to express hearty appreciation to Jesse Fenno, '16 agent, and his district aides for service rendered.
The "1916 Perennials" blossomed for the "unofficial Eighth" at the Commencement reunion. "Chuck" Allison, land baron of Palm Beach, took out his first papers and copped the laurel as the most distant voyager in attendance. Mr. Filene maintained his consecutive attendance record, checking in ahead with "Hobie" Baker on Thursday afternoon. Jesse Fenno deserves particular mention for vigilance and pertinacity in knocking off every '16 head that popped over the Hanover horizon and thereby rolling the class quota safely over the top. Preliminary surveys were made for the 1926 frolic, and confidential reports are now cached in the lower basin of Lake Morey.
Despairing at length of trying to put over any more feature stories of snaring the wily tarpon and baffling the basking bass, Ralph George has launched upon a musical career. It is established on good authority that the erstwhile angler is now whanging the big bass drum in the Concord, N. H., band. And so far from being skeptical of his prowess along these lines, we are ready to argue almost anywhere within the New Hampshire limits that last night's rumbling wasn't thunder, but the boom of the big boy's drum.
By return mail we were courteously informed that our recent special delivery letter to "Dutch" Doenecke had been forwarded at once to his new address. That's service, but since "Donnie" will be trotting the European capitals for the next four months, it can scarcely be called satisfaction.
News from the Orient has been more plentiful of late, and with a single exception, all Sixteeners are checked in at headquarters. "Rog" Evans, as usual, leads the correspondents, but has no changes to report from his base in Shanghai. "Pewee" Marble reports several months A.0.L., but with a wallop nevertheless. "Until November, 1921, I was with the Grace China Company, joining up at that time with the Sternburg Truck and Storage Service. For the past two years I have been with G. N. Marshall and Company, Ltd., a British firm, of which I am at present manager. This is probably the largest truck and transportation business in China, employing between 250 and 300 Chinese coolies, chauffeurs, etc. We certainly will make every effort to get to Hanover for the Tenth. It's a long swim and walk, but we sure will try to make it. With the very best wishes to yourself and all of the boys." Pewee also is located in Shanghai.
"Eskie" Eskeline barks all the way from Harbin, Manchuria, that he will be back in the fall to take in the complete football schedule. "Eskie" will operate out of Proctor, Vt.
Earl Cranston passes the word that he is busting all barriers in his return pilgrimage to the States, where he plans to spend a year, located in California. If you can picture a spot in the heart of the mountains of western China, seven days by rowboat above navigation on the "you-call-it" river, you qualify for a degree in the occult arts. But at any rate, Earl is punting his way back to the land of the Wah-hoo-wah.
Bob McClure, to. maintain the '16 delegation at full strength, is now on his return trip to the Shaowu. Mission, Fukien, China, to continue his splendid work of the past few years. While Bob was supposedly on vacation in this country, he was called upon to travel far and wide to talk on the subject of Chinese missions. We were fortunate enough to hear him in Boston and to run across him a little later at the Chicago Pow-Wow. Dartmouth and 1916 are justly proud of the sacrifice and service of these sons, Bob McClure and Earl Cranston, laboring unselfishly for humanity.
And from Bill Hale in Tientsin nothing since Christmas but silence; but that is Bill, and we know where to put our finger on him when the call is sounded.
Larry May is now located temporarily at 8 Bailey Ave., Claremont, N. H. Larry showed up for Commencement.
With keen regret we report the loss in service of another Sixteener. Angus Splicer, who transferred to a Canadian college at the end of freshman year, was killed in action in 1916 while serving as an officer in the Canadian Light Infantry.
Mrs. James Shields announces the marriage of her daughter, Adele Constance, to Mr. Charles Knox Everett on Wednesday, June 25, at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dutton Little announce the arrival early in May of a daughter, Margaret Gilbert Little.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander J. Jardine announce the birth of Janet Anne on May 27.
Dan Coakley goes the press agents of the "Land of Sunshine" one better in recommending Los Angeles as a harbor of refuge to any Sixteener seeking a change of clime. Failing to entice Ernie Gioiosa into the meshes of filmdom, Dan is now casting a new bait in the form of a local lunch room, where the customers are allowed to help themselves out of the change box when paying the check. There's a spring lock somewhere, but here and now we'll lay the works on Pete Soutar's big mit against the cash register. Dan is with the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, Los Angeles office.
"Doc" Greeley has been officially invested with the title of traveling district agent at large, on his departure for an extended business trip through the Middle and Far West from Mexico to Vancouver. Equipped with an up-to-date 'l6 address list, "Doc" will attempt to reach every Sixteener located in the course of his travels. Heads up, "Doc" is on a dry plank.
Lieutenant Barrett Studley recently returned to duty with the Aircraft Squadrons of the Battle Fleet at San Diego, Cal., after a four months' trip to the' Canal Zone and Porto Rico in connection with the long range battle practice of the fleet. On the return trip ignition trouble necessitated a forced landing from a 3500-feet altitude, but "Stud" headed for the green instead of the blue, and brought the plane safely to rest in an open field. "Stud" is expecting transfer to the Air Station at Pensacola as an instructor within the near future, and then promises semiannual attendance at the New York dinners.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hunt announce the marriage of their daughter, Marjorie Ruth, to Mr. Eugene Forrest McQuesten on June 21, at Nashua, N. H. The ceremony was attended by the immediate families only.
We are indebted to our Washington correspondent for the following gem: "Whit McCoy was standing in front of Huyler's at 11 P-m Friday, May 2, when a tough egg, mistaking him for Ed. B. McLean, lear.ad against his dome with a blackjack, the while demanding a contribution. Whit, remembering what a roll can do when invested at 6 percent for 20 years, yelled and attracted help. Taken to the hospital, he pulled himself together with the aid of six stitches." And then the agent belted him on the other side for the Alumni Fund, so that "Whit" is now all even.
If Gran Fuller, Jesse Fenno, and Abe Lincoln fail to show during the summer months, charge it to the Fourth of July house party, on Winnepesaukee. On Monday, July 7, they were "still sunk without a vestige!
Secretary, 38 Algonquin St., Dorchester, Mass.
