Class of 1905
Jake Smith was married July 1, 1927, to Edith B. White of Detroit. He is now a salesman with the Chamberlin Metal Weather Strip Company at Detroit.
Walter H. Lillard, Jr., who is now a sophomore, played in the Allegheny game for a while as substitute quarterback.
Stanley Besse has recently gone into business for himself as an insurance broker, and is associated with Veitch, Shaw and Remsen, Inc., at 45 John St., New York city.
Walter Rogers, has another son, Walter Couden Rogers, born last August. Walter is now father of five, and one of the few members of the class who can claim that distinction.
Lew Wallis' son, Herbert Wallis, won the singles tournament for boys under fifteen held at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston early in October. Young Wallis eliminated Nathaniel W. Niles, Jr., and in the finals defeated Walter Levitan, who is the City Boys Singles Champion. Lew Wallis coached Nathaniel W. Niles, Sr., while the two were boys at the Boys' Latin School, and was the Dartmouth champion in 1904 and 1905, while Niles became the leading tennis player at Harvard. Herbert Wallis is the regular quarterback on the football team of the Winchester Country Day School, of which his father is headmaster.
Sixteen members of the class and one guest turned out for the class supper at the City Club in Boston on October 21, the night before the Harvard game, as follows: Bedell, Besse, O. T. Bourdon, L. R. Chamberlin, Chase, Donnelly, Dorothy, Emery, Harding, Hersam, Loder, McClary, Cliff Pierce, Walter Rogers and guest, Jake Smith, White. The program was purely informal except for a few minutes while the officers of the class told of the plans they have in mind for this college year; then Halsey Loder told us a little about his yachting experience in Plymouth Bay, and spoke of the wisdom of acquiring one or more hobbies not only as a means of pleasure but also as a matter of health for men of our age group; and finally Jimmie Donnelly lectured to us about Harvard football of the current vintage and Dartmouth prospects in the Stadium. The meeting then adjourned to the big mass meeting downstairs and listened to Coach Hawley and Rip Heneage, the new supervisor of athletics, and also saw moving pictures of last year's Harvard game and the activities of the class of 1927 during its senior year.
Congressman Fletcher Hale of New Hampshire late in October addressed the worsted and woolen manufacturers at Manchester, N. H., ancLis quoted by the Boston Transcript as stating: "There is no indication that the next Congress will tamper with the tariff, but it is probable that there will be a reduction in the corporate business tax so that it will not be more than 10 per cent."
The class group at the Harvard game was seated well up in Section 3, where the view of the play was very good. Several members of the class for one reason or another had seats in other parts of the Stadium, so it is impossible to tell how many of the class attended the game.
Lillard was one of three speakers at the first "football night" at the University Club in Boston on October 26. Dr. W. R. P. Graves, Yale '9l, who played on Heffelfinger's team, told of the early days, and George Owen, Harvard '23, explained the modern theories and tendencies in the development of football. Three reels of the slow motion picture, "Football Sense," were also shown; these pictures were compiled by Grantland Rice and "Chick" Meehan, head coach of New York University. Lil reminisced about the days of Joe Gilman, Cupid Lindsey, and Heinie Hooper and the teams which he coached at Andover.
John H. Bell is headmaster of Darlington Seminary, a long established school for girls at Westchester, Pa.
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