Class of 1906
Are you all set for the Twentieth? Among the '06 men who I know are gping to be in Hanover in June are the following: Bankart, Bell, Blood and his family, Brooks, Carpenter, Carr, Chellis, Chidley, Cooke, Cromwell, Davis, Eastman, Gleason, Gray and his family, Hatch and his family, Herr, P. J. Holmes and his family, Keteham, Kingsbury and his family, Kraft, Laton, Leverone, C. R. Main, McGrail and Mrs. McGrail, Milham, R. W. Morse and Mrs. Morse, O'Brien, Owen, Paul, Perry and Mrs. Perry, Powers, Pratt and Mrs. Pratt, Redlon and his family, Page, Brock, Ritchie, L. W. Russell, N. Russell, Swasey, Wallace, and dayman. These include only such as have happened to tell your Secretary in their letters that they are coming. Of course there will be several times as many who will show up when the time comes. Can you resist being one of them?
Edwin E. Warner is a member of the sales department of the L. S. Starrett Company, manufacturers of fine precision tools and hack saws, Athol, Mass. His home is at 70 Pleasant St., Orange, Mass.
Cliff Perry is purchasing agent for the Wetmore Savage Company, dealers in electrical supplies and automobile equipment, with stores in Boston, Worcester, and Springfield. He is also a stockholder and director in the company. He and Mrs. Perry live in the old Perry homestead in Danvers, in a house that has been in Cliff's family for a hundred and fifty years.
George Swasey has recently returned from a vacation in Florida. He is still with Jordan Marsh Company of Boston, where he serves as their very efficient sales personnel manager. Roy Merchant, Jr., aged seven, is a sure Dartmouth prospect.
Dr. Edward A. Herr of Waterbury, Conn., has published three scientific papers during the last year: one on the "Gall Bladder" in the Next/ York Medical Record, one on "Blood Transfusion in the Boston Medical and Surgical J our rial, and a third on "Blood Transfusion to Date," in Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetries.
Elon G. Pratt is with the Corman Advertising Agency at 49 West 45th St., New York city. Mrs. Pratt has a musical1 studio at 10 East 9th St., where she coaches singers; she broadcasts frequently from stations WEAF and WNYC. L;sten in, radio fans, and be proud of '06.
Erlon H. Neal is still in the lumber business in Rochester, N. H. Shorty has three fine youngsters.
Walter Dakin is sales manager for the John A. Logan Coal Company of Chicago, with offices at 33 South Clark St. His son Philip will enter Dartmouth next fall.
Dr. Marshall L. Ailing is surgeon at two of the three hospitals in Lowell, Mass., and serves as medical examiner for his district.
Carlton M. Soule, of Soule and Zepp, Inc., consult ng engineers, 322 North Charles St., Baltimore, has had a very busy winter designing and supervising the erection of a cement manufacturing plant at Zanesville, 0., for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
Wilder P. Montgomery, Jr., will be ready for Dartmouth in the fall of 1927. He will be the third generation of Dartmouth men in his family, be'ng the grandson of Scott Montgomery '78. Montie, Sr., is still teaching in the Dunbar High School in Washington.
George J. Seager is special agent for the National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, at South Barre, Vt., and also continues in his position of superintendent of schools for Barre.
Converse A. Chellis, who is still with the Baush Machine Tool Company in Springfield, Mass., suggests that each man in the class write a personal letter to some other member of the class who has never been back to a reunion, urging him to attend the Big Twentieth. A good idea, Con. Act on it, fellows.
William T. Bell is vice-president of the Page Belting Company of Concord, N. H., in charge of sales and manufacturing.
Earle J. St. Clair is general manager of the Franklin County Telephone Company and the Citizens' Telephone Company, at St. Albans, Vt. These two companies are subsidiaries of the N. E. Tel. and Tel., and cover about all of northern Vermont.
Louis W. Russell is a bond salesman for the Union Mortgage Company of Cleveland. He lives at 17437 Norton Ave., Lakewood, O.
Charles R. Main, who is still engaged in engineering work in partnership with his father, Charles T. Main, designing and supervising the construction of textile mills and other large industrial plants, is an active and busy citizen in a variety of fields. Just at present he is serving as chairman of a committee appointed to build and equip a new elementary school in his home city of Winchester, Mass. Since 1923 he has been a term member of the corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the governing body which corresponds to the board of trustees at Dartmouth. For ten years now, he has been secretary of his class (1909) at Tech, and is also one of the members of the board of government of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers.
Norman Russell, president of the Albert Russell and Sons Company, brass and iron founders, of Newburyport, Mass., is an active Rotarian. He served as the first president of the Newburyport Rotary Club in 1923-4, and as delegate from his club attended the last three national conventions—at St. Louis in 1923, at Toronto in 1924, and at Cleveland in 1925. As we all know, Norm is also finding time to do splendid work as our class agent for the Tucker Alumni Fund.
Charles H. Kraft is president of the K-M Supply Company, 123 West Eighth St., Kansas City, Mo., manufacturers of school wardrobes and swinging blackboards. Bucky writes that he and Maynor Brock (a teacher in the Country Day School of Kansas City) are the only '06 men in that city and are both planning to come on for the Twentieth.
Arthur F. Libby is practicing law in Norwich, Conn., with an office at 63 Broadway.
Percival J. Holmes, who continues to adjust freight claims for the Boston and Maine Railroad in the North Station, is the father of three happy children, all of whom he is planning to show us at Hanover in June.
William F. Gleason is in the sales department of the Industrial Acceptance Corporation of South Bend, Ind., financing Studebaker dealers exclusively. Bill is still a bachelor, and makes his home at the LaSalle Hotel in South Bend.
Frank H. Eastman is a member of the firm of Gannett, Seelye, and Fleming, Engineers, Inc., of Harrisburg, Pa., and serves as manager of their construction department.
John W. Cromwell Jr., who is still teaching in the Dunbar High School in Washington, finds time to do certified public accountant work on the side. Cromwell always was a shark at figures.
For the past two years Herbert W. Cummings has been assistant to the director, Division of Social Hygiene, New York State Department of Health, located at the Capitol in Albany.
Since last October Philip B. Paul has strayed a long way from the rest of '06, but he is coming back to tell us all about it at the Twentieth. Ike is now resident general manager of the Louisiana Coast Land' Company of Chicago, and is located in the marshes of Louisiana. His address there is Main Camp, Belle Isle Ridge, P. O. Abbeville, La., and he writes that he has 120,000 acres of marsh and ridges, six motor boats and twenty horses to play with. He sees a great future for the place, however, and appears to be thoroughly happy.
News has just reached the Secretary of the death on November seventh last of John Knox Marshall, Jr. at White Plains, N. Y. A more extended notice will be given later.
The reunion distance record this year will undoubtedly be held by Dr. Robert W. Richardson. Bob is coming all the way from Rancagua, Chile, South America, nearly 6000 miles, to be present with us in June. He is surgeon in charge of the hospitals connected with the plant of the Braden Copper Company at Rancagua, the thii'd largest copper mine in the world, and is to have a well-earned vacation from April until August. He writes that he plans to be in New York city during most of the month of May, and will stay at the Waldorf, where he will be glad to see any of the class who may happen around.
Assistant Secretary s Hen- niker, N. H.
