Class of 1917

"THE TENTH" is on its way and every effort is being made to so organize plans and prospectuses that the class of 1917 will have a real honest-to-goodness reunion.

Approximately fifty men turned out for the dinner which was held in the University Club in Boston on the evening of October 22. It was a gala occasion with several new faces in appearance among whom were, the outstanding collegiate hobos, Freddie Husk and Roger Merrill. Dartmouth continued its christening habit because the class of 1917 were the first ones to use the main dining room of this attractive new University Club in Boston.

Previous to this meeting there had been a small get-together in New York city, and another dinner is scheduled for the evening of November 11 at the new Dartmouth Club in that same metropolis. Incidentally it is reported with a great deal of enthusiasm that a superficial inspection of the new Dartmouth College Club in New York reveals an institution which is well worthy of the support of any 1917 man who may make occasional visits to the city.

Please don't be reluctant about venturing suggestions for the reunion. We have formulated the major plans as you know, and we are filling in the details as we go, on the basis of the suggestions that are submitted to us. It is your reunion and we are only your spokesmen in the organization of it.

Before these notes are published you will have received several reminders of the fact that we are on the job trying to organize the reunion on an efficient basis, and we want to take this occasion to repeat the request that you will see often during the next nine months, namely, that you support with all your might and main the intensive search for information and contributions to the success of the reunion.

We did not know until just recently that Fat Spears has been laid up as the result of an operation following a severe attack of gallstones on September 20. He was unable to pursue his coaching activities at Minnesota for quite some time, but with his characteristic hardiness he was back on the job just as soon as he could be.

In a very roundabout way we received a peculiar news item in regard to Fritz Ainsmith. It is so indirect that we are not absolutely sure that it refers to our own classmate. Owing to the fact that it is a more or less unsavory report we do not venture to repeat it until it is confirmed. Can anybody give us details of a little episode which involved court action and Fritz Ainsmith?

Johnny Byers sent us a rather belated announcement of the fact that he had taken to wife one Miss Emma Anna Wiedwald of Norwich, Connecticut. Johnny has been such a stranger of late that when we do see him we will have no way of telling whether his appearance is the result of married life or just the natural effect of years. Are you planning to be at "THE TENTH," Johnny?

Charlie Stone seems to have involved himself in somewhat of a campus controversy on the basis of his psychological examinations of the'freshmen. It seems rather funny, doesn't it, to think of a classmate standing up against the acid abuse as handed out via the columns of The Dartmouth? However, we will trust Charlie to make the grade and pacify the rabble.

Sherm Smith announces the birth of Allen Dexter Smith on the 17th of October, and in so doing he lets Allen speak for himself in a novel form of announcement.

A healthy sprinkling of the members of the class were seen at the Harvard and Yale games, but no real news items were gleaned at those two festivities. The secretary was flanked at the Harvard game by Don Richmond, Howard and Dorothy Stockwell, Sam and Lou White, Win and Vera Scudder, and Jim and Ruth Montgomery. It was an enthusiastic coterie and everyone was anxious to hear about THE TENTH."

Please may we have the right to insist after seeing our women folk at these two games that we have a very attractive group to show Hanover in June of 1927? We certainly will be glad to parade them before the connoisseurs of Hanover and say, "Here you are, gentlemen, the ladies of 1917". But remember, girls, you must be in Hanover so that we can perform this little ceremony.

Get the old man to work now, so that the extra cash may be accumulated in time. SEVENTEEN UP!

Secretary, Room 903, 220 Broadway, New York.