Class of 1906
We seem to have started something when we stated in the April number of the MAGAZINE that Dan Hatch held the unique distinction of having sent a son back to college in record time since graduation. When we made that statement, Dan and the assistant secretary of '06 and the registrar of the College all believed that they were telling the truth. But behold, a letter comes from Bertrand C. French of Sandwich, Mass., with this interesting information: "Ac- cording to your statement Hatch's son is a sophomore, which makes him a member of the class of 1928 according to my figures. If that is right he graduates twenty-two years after his father. Not to enter into any discussion or detract from young Hatch, but to correct the College records if they show that fact in your note, I submit the following: My father, Louis H. W. French, received his A.B. from Dartmouth in 1888. I am the class baby of that class, being born on July 1, 1889", and receiving my degree of B.S. from Dartmouth in 1909, or twenty-one years after the graduation of my father." So 1906 and its Hatches take our hats off to 1888 and its Frenches, and if any other class can beat this record, we'll take off more than our hats 1
Besides Dan's boy, 1906 has one other son in College; Walter D. Bowlby, son of Rev. Noble O. Bowlby of Meriden, N. H., is a member of the junior class. He cannot compete, however, in our quickest graduation competition, for his father was already a married man when he entered college.
Edward E. Clark is an agent of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, directing Americanization activities in the state. He has been engaged in this work since 1922, and has his office at the State House in Boston. The "Kid" is going to be with us at reunion.
"Lucy" Howard is vice-president of the lowa Loan and Trust Company Bank in Des Moines. I suppose with all that dignity we ought to call him Charles S. Howard, Esquire, but he still signs himself Lucy.
Ralph H. Kingsley is general sales manager for the Elco Company in New York city, with offices at 247 Park Ave.
Malcolm J. Edgerton is now a member of the firm of Green, Ellis, and Anderson, 100 Broadway, New York city. Mike has a summer home at Stamford, Conn., and a winter residence at 161 East 79th St., in New York.
The Secretary has had good letters from both the Cushing brothers. Joe is a certified public accountant in Springfield, Mass., with a prosperous business, and Steve is doing a lot of different things in St. Albans, Vt.—helping run a store, a bank, and several public organizations. Steve has a five-year-old son, but Joe's family still consists only of dogs.
South Carolina at last has acquired the distinction of having an '06 man resident within its borders. Windy Winship is professor of modern languages at The Citadel, the military college of South Carolina, at Charleston.
Ned Redman is on the staff of the BaltimoreNems and American, where he has been for three years. His work brings him in touch with all of the Maryland politicians, and he says he and the governor are quite chummy. Needless to say, he is coming on to the reunion, and will bring Mrs. Redman and their two daughters with him.
Harvey Whittemore, whose business as a florist in Waltham, Mass., continues prosperously, is planning to make quite an interesting family affair of the reunion. Harvey is coming back for his twentieth, and he will be accompanied by his father, Henry Whittemore '66, returning for his sixtieth, and his father-in-law, Frank H. Hardison '76, who will attend his fiftieth. That ought to establish a record for one family.
Ralph Glaze is athletic director of St. Viator College at Bourbonnais, Ill. Pitcher, who is planning to drive on for the reunion, writes the first news we have had in a long time of Chief Myers. He says the Chief is a boxing promoter in San Diego, Cal, is married and thriving. Myers has been on our "lost" list for several 'years, and it is good to get track of him once more.
Ivan A. Greenwood is senior member of the firm of Greenwood and Greenwood, real estate investments, 818 Guardian Building, Cleveland, Ohio. Ivan has two sons headed Dartmouthwards, but as they are but five and three years old respctively, it will be some time yet before they enter.
Harry B. Ladd is a rural mail carrier in Belfast, Me., running a little dairy farm on the side. He is married and has two daughters and a son; the eldest daughter is now a junior in Crosby High School, Belfast.
John A. Legro is in the clothing business in Bath, Me.
Edward N. Pearson is a specialist in investment trusts, with the First National Bank of Long Beach, Cal. Ned gets down to Los Angeles occasionally for a meeting with the alumni association there.
South America is going to be represented in to to at the Twentieth. In the last issue of the MAGAZINE we chronicled the fact that Bob Richardson was coming on from Rancagua in Chile, and now comes word from Bug Gardiner that he will be with us as well. Bug is in charge of construction work for Winston Bros. Co., who are building twenty-five miles of exceedingly heavy and difficult railroad construction for the State of Antioquia, Colombia, and his headquarters are at Medellin, Republic of Colombia. Bug is coming back to the United States in June on a vacation, and will bring Mrs. Gardiner and their three children on from Minneapolis, where they reside, for the reunion.
Bug and Bob are our only members who reside in South America at present, but last year they had a sort of long distance neighbor in the person of Harold Fish. Fish, who is head of the department of zoology in the University of Pittsburgh, has had the unusual opportunity for the last two years of sending small classes of students to the celebrated laboratories of William Beebe, author and naturalist in the jungles of British Guiana, and Fish went down to visit them himself in the summer of 1925. He had many interesting experiences, including an exciting trip to the wonderful Kaietur Falls, 225 miles inland. Previous to Fish's visit, only two hundred white people had ever seen these falls, and only four had ever been to the base of them. They are one of the greatest natural marvels in the world, being five times the height of Niagara. Fish writes from Columbia University, where he is doing research work this semester while on leave of absence from Pittsburgh. He plans to be at the reunion..
Rev, Percy E. Erickson, who is engaged in religious work in New York city, has been spending the winter in the South.
Dr. Paul R. Felt is in charge of the female department of the Connecticut State Hospital for the Insane at Middletown, Conn.
Ralph Scott divides his time between his law office in Tallahassee, Fla., and managing a dairy farm outside the city.
Gene Smith, who has been engaged in various forms of law practice in Washington, D.C., for many years, is now a special attorney in the office of the Solicitor of Internal Revenue, engaged in tax work and in representing the Commissioner before the United States Board of Tax Appeals.
Rev. Frederick W. Walsh, pastor of the First Congregational church of Bethel, Conn., had the misfortune to have his church damaged by fire on the night of March 18 to the extent of $11,000. The loss was covered by insurance, but it will be several months before the build- ing will be ready for use again.
A signal but well-deserved honor came to Norman Russell on April 19, when he was elected governor of the newly created 38th district of International Rotary at the annual meeting of the eighth district held in Manchester, N. H. The new district which Norm will head takes in all of the state of Maine and parts of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Clyde D. Souter, who is practising law in Reno, Nevada, and serving as lecturer on law in the University of Nevada, writes that he plans to come East for the reunion. If Clyde can come all that long distance, what about you fellows who never get west of the Hudson River ?
Charles W. French is instructor in ancient and United States history and faculty manager of athletics at the Boston Latin School.
Thurlow Gordon, who is a member of the firm of Cotton and Franklin, corporation lawyers, of 43 Exchange Place, New York city, has been connected with several very interesting anti-trust litigations brought by the federal government during the last two or three years. Just now he is giving practically all of his time to work in connection with the case of the Federal Trade Commission against the Radio Corporation of America, the General Electric Company, the Telephone Company, and others.
The Secretary hopes that by the time you read these notes the class report will be in your hands; it will if the printer and the fates are both kind. If you haven't it yet, watch for its coming soon. It contains news from more than half the men of the class, both grads and nongrads, and would have had more if you had answered the Secretary's letters! In the meantime, we are all enjoying to the full Nat Leverone's bi-weekly News Letter, with its peppy articles. Nat is certainly doing all one man can—and more than most men could—to make the Twentieth Reunion of the class of 1906 a grand success. Here's hoping every man in the class will follow his worthy example; the way the rest of us can help to make it a success is to come, bringing wives, children, slaves, and retainers.
Assistant Secretary, Henniker, N. H.
