Class of 1916

Boston's annual Dartmouth dinner was staged at the Copley-Plaza on January 29 with the following '16ers on hand: Don Fuller, Fred Bailey, Ken Tucker, Ernie Cutler, Park Hayden, Bob Pease, Ted Walker, Shorty Shaw, Joe Carleton, Duffy Lewis, Cliff Bean, Paul Goward, Jack English, Rod Soule, Max Bernkoipf, Stan Reynolds, Tom Lawson, Hobie Baker, Carl Holmes, Gran Fuller, Dick Ellis, Jess Fenno, Louie Gove, and Bert Phinney. Bert was trying to high-hat us, as he did not sit with the gang. Mr. and Mrs. A. Lincoln Filene dropped in for a few minutes. A. L. has been ill, and is just recovering. The singing was led by our own J. Patrick English with his usual pep. After the speeches were over, the lights were turned off and a spotlight, directed to a corner of the hall, showed us an Outing Club cabin with two men sitting in front of the fire, talking over the day's trip on skis. One of the pair was Duffy Lewis '16. Soon, out of the darkness behind us, came a noisy horde of campers led by Jack English. They swarmed in and around the camp, allspeaking their little parts at once, but none of them loudly enough to be heard. The settingwas quite effective, but the acting abortive. After much booing from the audience, some member of this troupe happily remembered the bunch could sing. So a song was started and the spotlight turned off. And we all felt better.

Last fall we asked the boys to let us hear from them, so that we could pass on the news to the other members of the class through these pages. As a result, lots-a news. We learn from Lititz, Pa., that Chet Woolworth is still in the land of the living. Early in Janury came a large envelope from that city containing a New Year's greeting in the form of a catalogue of the Animal Trap Company of America. If any of you are trappers or are troubled with rats, get in touch with the Pied Piper of Lititz.

And from the Elm Orlu Mine comes a letter from the bellowing bull of Butte, Ev Parker, telling of his trip to Spokane in the fall as the representative of the Montana Section of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. There Ev delivered a paper, "The Development of the Contract System in the Elm Orlu Mine." This paper has been published in Mining and Metallurgy for January, 1927. At the Butte Chamber of Commerce on October 11 Ev spoke on a similar subject. He has promised to write a paper on "Gold Diggers" for the next issue of the "1916 Bachelors' Bulletin," now edited by the big sex-appeal man of Fall River, Abe Lincoln (which reminds us that Abe has just returned from another of his hunting trips. This timehe went to the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec.)

While we're on this subject we should mention that Ernie Cutler with his new mustache bids to wrest from Hobie Baker his title of the Sheik of the Newtons. Hobie, however, will put up a good fight. He recently went to Atlantic City to get a few pointers from the board-walk beaux.

Art Fiske has been transferred to one of the Lowell mills of the American Woolen Company, and Gran Fuller has finally pumped the water from the cellar of his new house, and the Boston 'l6ers are now having their Wednesday lunches at Jackson's (Washington St., near Avery) at 12:30 P.M. Come there and sit in with us as often as you can.

Secretary, 24 Dale St., Newtonville, Mass.