CLASS OF 1905
Judge Ralph W. Reeve of the District Court in Lynn, Mass., has been somewhat occupied with the campaign in that city for the enforcement of traffic regulations. According to the BostonTranscript early in June, he refused to issue summonses to 763 jay-walkers after he had made a personal investigation with a stop watch of conditions at 38 crossings in the city. The Judge found that in all but two cases it was impossible for a person to cross the street in the time allowed for the pedestrians before the light was changed.
John Tuck of Auburn, Mass., paid a record price of $1225 for an eight-year old Holstein cow weighing an even ton, at the co-operative Holstein sale on the Eastern States Exhibition Grounds at Springfield, according to the BostonHerald of June 3. Bossie came from the Yakes Farm in Orchard Park, N. Y.
The (Haverhill, Mass.) Shoe Workers Protective Union has petitioned Judge Braley of the Massachusetts Supreme Court at Boston for an injunction to restrain Edwin Newdick, chairman or neutral member of the Haverhill shoe board, from holding further meetings or hearings on matters pertaining to the shoe industry, according to a news item in the BostonHerald of June 1. The Union charges that Newdick has disqualified himself for further tenure of his office and has destroyed his usefulness to the industry by issuing recently an open letter criticising union practices and proposing the abrogation of the existing agreement and the making of a new agreement. Newdick points out the serious situation of the Haverhill shoe industry at present, with failures, liquidations, and removals and prospective further reductions of productive capacity. He states that in his opinion wages must be reduced in order to keep the business in Haverhill under existing competitive conditions, and any new agreement must provide that there shall be no strikes or lockouts, constitute the chairman of the Shoe Board in a real sense an administrative officer, and provide that all parties will abide by the decisions of the arbitrator. The case was still pending early in July.
Tom Keady and Fred Chase were in Hanover for Commencement Day, and attended the alumni luncheon in the Gym.
Eugene Musgrove and family are spending the summer at Bristol, N. H.
Rufus Day and family are in Hanover for the summer, occupying cne of the suites in the Ledyard Apartments. Rufus is to be on leave of absence from Michigan for the next college year, and will be with the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial at 61 Broadway, New York city. .
Ernest T. Gregory is now associated with John Munroe and Company at 100 Broadway, New York city. The company is an old established one with its main office in Paris, France, and as more and more American money is invested in foreign securities, the company with its connections in all foreign countries expects to be in an unusually advantageous position to handle foreign as well as domestic investments.
Several of our non-graduates who have'for some time been on the "lost" list have recently been located by the college alumni office, as follows:
Fred Daniels is pastor of the. Methodist Episcopal church at Groton, Vt.
Thomas F. Eastman is building inspector with the State Line Generating Company, and lives at 7919' Merrill Ave., Chicago.
William A. Luey is director of production with the Worcester Film Corporation at 130 West 46th St., New York city, and lives at 92 Bayview Ave., Port Washington, N. Y.
Waldo S. Palmer is a salesman located at 43 Somerville Ave., Somerville, Mass., and resides at S Durham St., Boston.
Charles F. Sweeney is assistant superintendent of the Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company at 470 Main St., Fitchburg, Mass., and lives at 43 Lunenburg St., Fitchburg.
At the meeting of the Secretaries Association in Hanover in May, Frederick Chase was elected vice-president for the ensuing year. The president is William D. Parkinson, secretary of the class of '7B and father of Royal Parkinson.
Dean Raymond R. Marsden of the Thayer School furnishes the following interesting information about Charles F. Goodrich, which was also published in the Daily Dartmouth of May 7:
"During the erection of the recently constructed toll bridge between Crockett and Vallejo, Cal., two particularly difficult and hazardous operations were successfully completed under the direction of Charles F. Goodrich, a graduate of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering. The bridge, which is of the cantilever type, spans Carquinez Strait and is approximately 4500 feet in- length.
Mr. Goodrich, as engineer for the American Bridge Company, was assigned the problem of re-designing the structure to meet the requirements of shop work and of devising erection methods. and devices. He later superintended the making of all drawings in connection with the work.
In August and September, 1926, he was called to California to superintend the work of connecting the north cantilever span to the river tower. This span cantilevered for more than 250 feet over deep water. Again in March of this year his presence was required to direct the raising of the two suspended spans. These spans, each 433 feet' long and weighing 620 tons, were floated from the shore and raised to a position 135 feet above the water. Both of these operations were completed without a single mishap.
Mr. Goodrich is at present engaged in giving a series of illustrated lectures on this project before various engineering societies."
During the year just ended the class of 1905 had 43 subscribers to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE from its graduates and three from the nongraduates, or a total of 46. The graduate subscribers constitute 34 per cent of the total number of graduates in the class. The classes of 1887 and 1907 have 100 per cent subscription, as do the classes of 1910, 1923, and 1926. Many of the classes after 1910 have a "class subscription" at a reduced rate, buf do not send the magazine to all the members of the class.
Lafayette Chamberlin's family are spending the summer as usual at Barnstable, Mass., on Cape Cod, where he will join them for his vacation.
George W. Putnam has recently been appointed assistant principal of the high school at Montclair, N. J. He will also retain the title of "head of the foreign language department," but except for one class in Greek will not do much classroom teaching.
Dr. Halsey B. Loder is commodore of the Pilgrim Yacht Club of Plymouth, Mass., and in his little gaff-rigged centerboard knockabout, which is named "Swift," he heads the Club fleet of twenty-five of the famous Bay Birds. The Club was started by Dr. Loder three years ago, after he had discovered a decided taste for yachting among his summer neighbors on Pilgrim Heights. Several boats had been acquired and a number of races held four years ago, and the next year the Club was formed and practically the entire fleet of Bay Birds taken over from the Duxbury Yacht Club across the bay and others'of the same type from Wollaston. Twice a week the fleet gets into racing action, and early in August come the mid-summer series of races of the Duxbury Yacht Club, where there will be a full hundred boats in the racing squadron, second only in numbers to the fleet which will assemble at Marblehead the following week. The new Pilgrim club house has been started, about a mile below the village of Plymouth; it is hoped to open it before the end of the summer and it will then be ready to serve Dr. Loder's famous clam chowders and clam fritters.
Oswin T. Bourdon, one of our "lost" nongraduates, has recently been located by the Office of Alumni Records. He is in the retail hat and dress business at 657 Boylston St., Boston.
Rainford G. Taylor, another ex-'O5 man out of touch with the College for several years, is a broker in Seattle, Wash., with his business at 714 Lowman Building, and his home at 736 11th Ave.
The class of 1900 held its annual outdoor round-up at Marion, Mass., from Friday to Sunday, June 24 to 26, as the guests of W. H. Lillard. About thirty members of the class attended, and they were quartered in the building of Tabor Academy. Saturday was spent on a cruise about Buzzard's Bay on the school yacht "Tabor Boy," and on Sunday there was an opportunity to play golf. Natt W. Emerson, the secretary of 1900, writes about it as follows:
"Everybody said that it was the best time we have ever had; the sailing trip was especially appreciated. I cannot tell you how much these round-ups have done for the class and how they have served to keep the men together and enthuse them in making regular gifts to the College. I wish that you might try it with your own class, because if you once got them to Marion it would knit them together as nothing else could.""
Judge Ralph W. Reeve of Lynn, Mass., is an ardent golfer and with a Mr. Sprague of Lynn as his partner has been playing in the four-ball matches at the Oakley and Winchester Country Clubs this summer.
Secretary, 511 Sears Building, Boston
