CLASS OF 1898
The Secretary was in Hanover August 30, and had a pleasant call on Fred Lord and Mrs. Lord. Their only son expects to enter Dartmouth next fall. While in Hanover, I met Bill Ham '97, and he was full of some very interesting ideas as to how to improve the old college. He was especially in favor of keeping the streets looking neater, and of having a parking place for automobiles so that they would not mutilate the strips of grass along the streets as they do now. He also had some very clever ideas as to how best to house the eating clubs of Hanover. The next morning, I took that wonderful ride on the New Hampshire side from Hanover to St. Johnsbury. As I went through the village of Piermont, I was reminded of how Ben Marshall '97 used to supply the small church there when he was in college, and since then he has been the successful president of one of our largest women's colleges, the Connecticut State College for Women. He is now acting pastor of one of the largest Congregational churches in Worcester.
Joseph P. Carney and family have spent a very pleasant summer at their summer home near Hyannis on Cape Cod. Charles Ernest Clark is home on his sabbatical year from missionary work in Talas, Turkey, and is enjoying life with his family in East Lansing, Mich. Denis Crowley is engaged in reorganizing the United Oil Heat Systems, Inc., 236 4th Ave., New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Bartlett spent July and August visiting England, Scotland, and Wales. Joe tells me all the spots were high spots. In other words, their outing in Britain was thoroughly enjoyed.
Charles Duncan sends me the following news concerning two of our good classmates. May the Duncan tribe increase! He says, "I went up to Hanover Commencement, partly on business, but of course also to look around at some of the '96 boys but, believe me, I didn't pay much attention to any of them, for wonder of wonders, I found there Middleton. His first trip to Hanover since graduation. I just buckled on to him, and stayed with him the greater part of one day. I sure rode him some for not showing up at some of our reunions, but then I guess I didn't need to, for he was having the time of ...his life and realized what he had missed. He will be with us after this, I know. Middleton was just lapping up everything in sight, and, believe me, he has the type of mind that gets it all, and I know that every Dartmouth man he meets for the next ten years will get an earful of the wonders of the new Dartmouth. He made me almost wish I had not seen it grow year after year as I have, but had waited to get the great perspective of it that he got after waiting thirtyone years. I felt I had met a long-lost brother, and have been happy over it ever since. I also saw Monty and Mrs. Monty and that fine young daughter of theirs. Monty looked fine, and spent some time with Middleton and myself."
"Little Indian" Hewes has been distinguishing himself, as we all knew he would. This information also comes by way of Duncan. The legislature of California introduced and passed a resolution of appreciation of the work done by Dr. L. I. Hewes, deputy chief engineer in charge of the eleven western states, and two of his colleagues, thanking them for their courteous and helpful participation in establishing the fine standard of highway construction now in force in California. We all knew Hewes would make good in a very real way, and this only confirms our estimate.
At the annual meeting of the Eastern States and Dairy Exposition held in Springfield, Mass., in September, Clarence E. Sibley was in attendance with Mrs. Sibley, and met George Farley, who is always very active in this organization, for the first time since the two left old Dartmouth. A talk-fest was at once in order.
Capt. John Gilman appeared recently in a prominent Washington paper as being particularly helpful in experimenting with various grasses to anchor the sand dune at Kitty Hawk, N. C., where the Wright Memorial is to be located. The picture in the Washington paper shows John standing before a large glass jar, in which is a goodsized watermelon that he had inserted when it was about the size of an olive.
The Secretary recently called on Ernest Gleason at Ayer, and found him opening up another year of the Ayer High School, which Gleason has served in that capacity for the longest period of any high school principal that Ayer has had, and also the most acceptable.
Dave Macandrew rang the Secretary up last night, and assured him that he was thankful to be able to use his own football tickets for the Dartmouth-Harvard game this year, and did not propose to pass them along to the Secretary or anyone else. Good for "the Indian"!
Seth Moody writes a good note from Lamont, Idaho, sending a double subscription for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
The Secretary and his wife sailed from Montreal, June 14, for the British Isles. We landed in Glasgow, June 23, and had four delightful days in Scotland, visiting the Lady of the Lake region, Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, also Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, and many other interesting places in the city. We then slipped down to Carlisle, the border town where President Wilson's mother's father preached a number of years and which gave him the freedom of the city in 1919. We saw there our first game of cricket, and also the game of bowling on the green. From Carlisle we went to Leamington Spa, visiting Kenilworth Castle, Warwick Castle, Stratford-on-Avon, and the Shakespeare country. Our next objective was Windermere and the English lake region, which was very beautiful. One day was spent in Oxford and one in Cambridge, and we were duly impressed with the culture and antiquity of these two great educational centers. Then two weeks in London, every day of which was full of interest. A trip to Canterbury Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, and Stonehenge, then to Exeter, Plymouth, and Falmouth, where I met some of my English first cousins that I had never seen before. Then a wonderful trip through Dartmoor, Ilfracombe, and Bath. Then back to Chester and to Carnarvon, and a trip up Mt. Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales. Then across to Ireland, where we enjoyed Dublin, then to the south of Ireland, where we spent two delightful days in the vicinity of the Lakes of Killarney. We sailed for Boston from Queenstown August 8, and all I can say is, I wish every classmate and his wife may have a similar privilege sometime.
Elliott Perkins writes of a very pleasant visit with Mr. and Mrs. "Ich" Crane last winter, and also of hearing Bishop Sumner's pre-Easter sermons in Los Angeles. At the annual Dartmouth dinner on the Pacific Coast he sat with "Pete" Adams and Walter Sumner. This summer he met Bill Hewes for the first time since graduation. By a singular coincidence his father passed away this summer and also F. W. Perkins' father, who was John W. Perkins, one of Harvard's oldest graduates.
The Sunday Olobe of September 29 had a most interesting article in it about Frederic S. Pope, which gave an interesting summary of his life, stating that it is a far stretch from shoveling coal into the mouth of a rickety hot-air furnace in a country schoolhouse on Cape Cod to directing the investment of $30,000,000 of the people's money, as he is doing at present as administering vice-president of the Chicago Trust.
Bradley C. Rodgers was married June IS, 1929, to Miss Ruth Whitehouse Potter of Somerville, Mass. The ceremony took place at" the Leyden Congregational church, Brookline, and they are now residing at 40 Orkney Road, Brookline.
Walter Taylor Sumner was the college preacher at Dartmouth on Sunday, October 7. Fletcher Harper Swift has returned from a year's leave of absence in Europe, and is again resuming his professorship in the School of Education in the University of California. He was in Europe studying the policies of financing public educational institutions in England, France, Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, this research being made possible by a grant of $3500 from the General Education Board.
I learned recently that Chester F. Williams of Milford was chairman during the war of a draft board that had the finest record of any similar organization in the state of Massachusetts.
Last week, the Secretary visited the island of Nantucket on a business trip, and had a pleasant ride back on the boat with Dave Maloney '97, who has a law office on that fair island in addition to his office in Boston. He was much pleased to hear of the joint reunion of '97 and '9B that is to occur the night before the Harvard game. He would like to see a system of reunions at Hanover that would bring back at the same time those classes that graduated near each other in point of time. At North Falmouth I had a pleasant call on Governor Tent '97, who lives very happily on his beautiful country estate. His two girls and one boy are all married, and he is happy in the fact that one of his married daughters lives next door.
In the Sunday supplement of the New York Times of October 6 appears the picture of William J. Witte as one of the prominent Episcopal laymen in a group of Episcopal clergymen and laymen consecrating a memorial gift to a church in Yonkers, N. Y.
Thursday, September 19, George Lockwood of Naco, Arizona, took dinner with the Secretary in Boston, and he said that during all the years since graduation, Guy Griffin was the only classmate he had seen. George is occupying a responsible position for the government at Naco with the bureau of im migration.
Bill Hewes's daughter Mary graduated recently from Mills College, and then secured the degree of A.M. from the University of California.
"Semp" Smith '97 has recently been elected a trustee of Mills College, one of the most well-known women's colleges on the Pacific coast.
Seth Pope took lunch with the Secretary, October 7, and is in New England to spend two weeks' vacation at his old home town, Sandwich, Mass.
Two classmates have sons in the freshman class in Dartmouth College. They are George A. Green, son of our very much beloved George Green, and Charles L. Snow, Jr., son of classmate "Cupid" Snow.
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Secretary, 57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass.
