Class of 1905
At the 20th reunion at Commencement in June, there were present 56 members of the class, 25 wives, 16 sons, and 11 daughters, making a total of 109 persons. Headquarters were in Wheeler Hall. The costumes were white duck hats with green brims, white arm bands bearing the class numerals, and walking sticks. The ladies were provided with green and white parasols. On Sunday, June 21, the class went to the Lake Tarleton Club for the class picnic. Sharing the club with the class of 1910, the members of the class and their families spent the day in swimming, golf, baseball, etc., and everybody had such a good time that many have expressed the wish to return to the club at the 25th reunion in 1930.
The class banquet came that evening in the College Commons, with the retiring secretary, Fletcher Hale, as toastmaster. Ned Estes spoke in very interesting fashion of his experiences in Constantinople, where he is professor of music in Robert College. Several others spoke informally, messages were read from several absent members and the class quota to the Alumni Fund was completed, so that 1905 is listed as contributing 100% this year. A new executive committee was elected to hold office for five years; the members are Frederick Chase, secretary, Walter P. Emery, treasurer, and Stanley Besse. Emery and Besse are in New York city and Chase is in Boston. A memorial service was held in Rollins Chapel on Monday morning, June 22, for the deceased members of the class. Twenty-one had died at that time, of whom two died in college. Bob Falconer conducted the service, and Ned Estes was organist. It was a most impressive service, a tribute of affection and respect to those who have gone before.
In the afternoon of Monday the ladies of the class went to the summer home of Mrs. C. C. Hills in Norwich, where she served tea and showed them her house, which she has furnished with many attractive pieces of antique furniture.
Lillard, in his capacity as vice-president of the General Alumni Association, presided at the annual meeting of the Association at Commencement, and also at the alumni luncheon after the Commencement exercises.
Sliver Hatch came all the way from South America to be at the reunion. He is with the United Fruit Company, and holds the longdistance reunion record of the class, although Ned Estes, coming as he did from Constantinople, is in the running.
Fletcher Hale will go to Congress in December as representative from the First New Hampshire District. He was elected as a Republican at the election last November. Mrs. Hale and the boys are to be with him in Washington, where they expect to have an apartment.
Percy Noel has been ill in a hospital in Vancouver. He is chief correspondent for the Far East News Bureau, and was on his way to the United States when taken ill. He sent an invitation to 1905 men in New York to dine with him on August 10, but luck was against them. We do not know any more details, and only hope his illness was very slight.
Ed Richardson expected to be transferred from Peking to Tokyo in September. He has been with the China Electric Company.
Mrs. Agry was sick with pneumonia in June, but is now convalescing.
Jake Smith is conducting a tavern at Newburyport.
Fletcher Hale gave a talk before the Rotary Club of Manchester, N. H., in the middle of the summer.
Graves has been president of the Civic Association and a director of the Y. M. C. A. in the Harlem district of New York city. This is now the largest negro district in the world, and Graves is a pioneer professional man there.
At the meeting of the Alumni Council in June, 1905 was represented by Lafayette Chamberlin, Joe Gilman, C. C. Hills, and Henry Thrall. Thrall was elected to the committee on nominations and alumni projects, and Hills to the committee on schools. Joe Gilman retired from the Athletic Council after six years of service, the last three of which he was president, and Lafayette Chamberlin's term also expired. The Council adopted a very complimentary resolution upon the services rendered by Joe Gilman, and also another resolution expressing with high praise and great affection its appreciation of the services of each of the retiring members. Both resolutions appeared in the August number of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. And the Athletic Council at its first meeting this fall adopted a fine resolution in which it expresses for itself and for the entire College sentiments of gratitude for Joe's magnetic leadership and for his masterly and broad-minded handling of the athletic interests of the College.
Oscar Gilbert has left Hanover, and is practicing medicine in Exeter, N. H.
After the reunion Lillard went on a cruise with his Tabor Academy boys in their own boat, recently acquired. They cruised down the coast as far as the Potomac, visiting Annapolis and Washington. D.uring the remainder of the summer Lil has been busy in Marion building a large new dormitory for the Academy.
Henry Norton was one of the lecturers this summer upon the Norman Wait Harris Foundation at the University of Chicago.
Judge Ralph Reeve of the District Court of Lynn, Mass., has recently confirmed the removal by the board of selectmen of Swampscott of its former chief of police Quinn, on charges of conspiracy to allow rum-running and of inefficiency in the discharge of his duties.
Rufus Day had to leave the reunion early to return to his duties as dean of the new business school at the University of Michigan, which he has been organizing. With Mrs. Day and their two older children, he spent several weeks' vacation in Hanover in August and September, visiting Mrs. Emerson.
Gene Musgrove spent the summer in Bristol, N. H., his old home.
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