CLASS OF 1909
Our twentieth reunion was attended by the following men: Phil Avery, Reggie Bankart, Frank Bartlett, Tubby Bird, Max Bonter, Chet Brett, Bull, Bob Burns, Harry Burroughs, Fred Carroll, Phil Chase, John Childs, Frank Cory, Cad Cummings, Jim Driscoll, Ben Dudley, Clarence Dunbar, Emile Erhard, Mike Farley, Harry Floyd, Ned Ford, Hal Foreman, Bert French, Deac Graves, Herb Hawes, Jess Hawley, Sid Hazelton, Jim Hitchcock, Bob Holmes, Bill Holzer, Sandy Hooker, Fred Johnson, Knuck Kennedy, Plum Leighton, Dick Locke, Dick Lord, Bill Loughlin, Leon Marshall, Jake Mason, Mickey McLane, Moody, A1 Newton, Roscoe Pearl, Pete Peterson, Russ Pettengill, Hal Pratt, Pat Preseott, Mary Rogers, Phil Rose, Clark Saville, Ben Scully, Curt Sheldon, Bob Stone, Craig Thorn, Dick Wing, Ced Wellsted, and Joe Worthen.
We started with a tea, Friday afternoon, and combined with the class of 1914 for a dance at the Trophy Room in the evening. Saturday morning many of the fellows played golf, while some of the more decrepit members of the class toured Hanover with their wives or others. Saturday afternoon we had the class picture (of which copies can be obtained by sending $1.25 to White's Studio at Hanover), followed by the class meeting, at which the following were elected: president, Philip S. Avery; secretary and treasurer, Robert J. Holmes; class agent for the Tucker Fund, Harold E. Foreman; executive committee, Philip S. Avery, chairman, Max K. Bonter, Robert A. Burns, Jess B. Hawley, and Richard J. Lord. Sunday the whole class went on a picnic at the Lake Morey Club, Fairlee, Vt., where we had a marvelous luncheon, played golf, went in swimming, and told stories. Some of the latter were good. Monday morning we paraded in costume to Memorial Field and saw Dartmouth beat Cornell 1 to 0 in one of the best college ball games ever played. Monday noon came the prize feature of the reunion, a clambake, put on by A1 Newton in a meadow near the river, a few miles from Hanover on the road to Lyme. We had clams, lobster, chicken, watermelon, and all the various things that went with them. A1 Newton, Harry Floyd, and Dick Lord started work ,on the pit at four o'clock in the morning, with one of A1 Newton's men, and served the bake promptly at one. About ninety of us consumed what would be considered ordinarily as a very generous allowance for one hundred and twenty people. Needless to say, there was no more class activity for the rest of the day and evening. Most of the crowd departed that evening and next morning, but Avery, Hooker, Hawes, Mason, Holmes, and Newton, and their wives, and Harry Floyd and his fiancee, went up Tuesday to the Lake Morey Club for a house party. It was too bad that more of the class could not go, as it made a wonderful wind-up. It was the happiest crowd that I ever had the good fortune to be with.
Many pictures were taken during the reunion and the house party, including several hundred feet of motion pictures. It is proposed to have a class party sometime early in the fall, when every one is back from vacation. This will probably take the form of a dinner dance at some country club near Boston, at which the pictures will be shown. As soon as the photographs are finished and collected, there will be sent to each member of the class a class report, giving a full story of the reunion and such information about the various fellows of the class as we have been able to collect.
We were disappointed in that Sam Bell, Bob Eaton, Hal Hall, Hal Murchie, and Art Swenson, although expected, were not able to attend. Emile Erhard came up for part of a day. Arthur Swenson is just convalescing from an operation. Knuck Kennedy got there barely in time for the clambake.
Roy Abbott has left Respro Inc., of Providence, R. 1., and is now in Boston with the New England Distributing Company (radios) at 68 Brookline Ave. His new business is going so fast he could not leave. Joe Graff sent regrets.
At the class meeting those present agreed to send in to the Secretary, Robert J. Holmes, Room 729, 100 Milk St., Boston, news items concerning themselves and other members of the class with whom they came in contact. Regard this as a pressing bill from the class to each member, payable on or before the tenth of the month, not in money but in something of far more value, every bit of news you have, and send it in.
Secretary,
