Class of 1899
Some mention has been made of Marie Barstow's approaching marriage. It now appears that she stuck to the old college. She is to be Mrs. Bob Sharp, 1925.
Speaking of approaching weddings, Genevieve Gannon has announced her engagement to Mr. Winters Standish Read, New York. The young man traces his ancestry back to Captain Myles of Plymouth fame. The engagement was announced on November 12, which is the birthday of both the young people.
The Secretary got a letter from Joe Hartley the other day, which stated that he and his wife were well and happy.
Young Joseph Huckins is a senior in Exeter, and a member of the track team. He hopes to enter Dartmouth this fall.
Warren Kendall's boy William plans to enter Dartmouth in the class of 1932.
Speaking of the next generation, I wonder if the class knows that the class baby, Ronald Leavitt, is now a married man supporting a wife.
George Prescott's boy Allan graduated from the Maiden High School, and is now a freshman in M. I. T.
Charlie Risley's oldest girl is private secretary to a corporation president. His oldest boy is a teller in a bank.
Freem Sewall and his wife are starting for the Rotary International Convention at Ostend. They are to spend June and July in Paris and London.
Harry Wason writes that Mrs. W. and Floyd, who is now nearly twelve years old, are going abroad for the summer. "Was" himself will spend his vacation in New England.
Galush's boy Ranney is a junior at Cornell in the electrical engineering course. He was on the lacrosse team, and is a member of the Student Council of the Christian Association, besides being vice-president of his fraternity. Ruth Galusha is a senior in high school, and was made president of her class, the first time in a good many years that a girl has had this honor.
Tedo Chase, Jr., is beginning to grow up He plans to follow his sister, Mary Lee; into St. Johnsbury in 1928.
Doc Norton writes that his two daughters recently starred in the San Antonio county athletic meet, capturing two first and two seconds.
Heinie Berger sits up and takes notice at Ray Pearl's book on "Alcohol and Longevity". Heinie thinks that Ray must be improving since his college days !
Hawley Chase's oldest daughter, Janet, is working in the editorial department of Harper Brothers, publishers.
Fat DuBois writes that his son is not to enter Dartmouth next fall as reported. Fat gives a list of his business connections which sounds like the interlocking directorates of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Walter Eastman writes from Chicago that Cush is the only '99 man that he ever sees, but that Cush is so busy carrying his fees down to the bank that Walter very, rarely sees him. No doubt some day we shall read that Kenneth Malcolm Beal has been elected professor of the Latin language and literature at Dartmouth College on the Cushman Foundation.
Danny Ford, dean of Lake Forest University, has had a sabbatical year granted. He intends to start for Europe and spend fifteen months putting the British Museum in proper shape.
Montie Fuller is the truly hard-worked member of the class. He maintains a shop on week days and preaches in three different churches on Sunday. He bemoans the fact that he is the only minister in the class, and wonders what Kit Carson, Bob Johnston, and Guy Corey might have been if they had followed in his footsteps.
Secretary, 88 Lowell St., Manchester, N. H.
