CLASS OF 1905
Walter Lillard, Jr., spent the summer in Europe, and has recently taken a position with the telephone company in Providence, R. I.
Bill Chamberlain's family spent the summer at Chatham, Cape Cod, Bill spending the last three weeks in August with them.
Rufus Day spent the summer in Hanover, as usual. In the latter part of August, Rufus and his son Emerson and his nephew climbed Mount Washington, encountering a severe storm, which bothered them but did not prevent their making the summit. During the summer Emerson was a counselor at Camp Mowgli, Newfound Lake, N. H.
Charlie Borden's daughter, Ruth, is to be married on November 8 to Henry (Hank) S. Embree, Dartmouth 1930. "Hank" (that's right—he's a class son-in-law) was one of the five members of his class who had the honor of winning a fellowship. Ruth attended Bradford Academy and later the University of Chicago, where she was a Mortar Board. The prospective bride and groom will spend their honeymoon in Honolulu.
Jim Mulally's father died in June of this year. Jim was on his way East to attend the reunion when he received the sad news. He has the deep sympathy of every member of the class. Jim's eldest daughter, Judith, is a sophomore at the University of Minnesota, and his youngest, Joan, starts kindergarten this fall. Two boys are in high school and one in grade school. All of the boys are headed for Dartmouth, of course.
Jim Vaughan is the new president of Wyman, Partridge, and Company, pioneer Minneapolis wholesale dry goods house, after the consolidation of the original company of that name with the Ely and Walker Dry Goods Company of St. Louis last June. Jim was vice-president of the old company.
Clarence Barton took several kodak pictures at the reunion, and has promised to send prints to the Secretary. They will surely be appreciated, as will pictures taken by any other members of the class. They become valuable as the years go by.
One man writes: "Halsey Loder, the only 1905 man I see regularly, talks nothing but boats. I think by the present symptons that next summer he will increase his fleet from three to four, and include one he can cruise around in himself. Heaven knows he needs it, because he is called so much by the doctors in Plymouth that his week-ends mean very little in the way of rest or recreation." Doc's "Blue Jacket" and his son Halsey, Jr.'s "Quawk" sailed in the midsummer series at Duxbury in August. Doc finished fourth in his class.
George N. Proctor, Jr., is also a sailor of much promise. His "Curlew" finished a very close third in a race in the midsummer races at Marblehead in August, and showed up well in other events.
Ed Day was elected a member of the corporation of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital at its annual meeting on July 31.
Frank E. Beckley, Jr., graduated from Vermont last June with the degree of B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He was awarded the A. Atwater Kent prize of $250 for "progress in judgment, development of personality, and promise of success." He was a member of Delta Psi fraternity and Kappa Mu Epsilon, honorary engineering society, and last year was president of the student branch of the A. I. E. E. Also cadet captain in the R. O. T. C., and received his commission in the U. S. Army reserve at graduation. At present he is with the General Electric Company. Frank's younger son, John, graduated from Great Neck High School in June, being valedictorian of his class, and has entered Vermont this fall. Frank is still in the lumber business in New York, being sales manager for a retail lumber company.
Fletcher Hale was one of five congressmen named as members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony tercentenary commission in July.
Henry Norton had an article in the Forum for June entitled "Staggered Holidays"; also an article in the spring issue of TheCentury Quarterly entitled "An Age of Alarums."
Edwin Newdiek's new address is 15 Mt. Vernon Terrace, Newtonville, Mass.
E. A. Silha is now living at 7830 Kingston Ave., Chicago, and his business address is 7605 South Halstead St., Chicago. Ed Richardson is located at 17 Cushing St., Dover, N. H.
Harry Preston can be found at 22 Appian Way, Keene, N. H. (Our memory is faulty; we thought that was a state road in Italy.) Ed Hazen's address is now 91 Howe St., New Haven, Conn.
The class round-up at the City Club in Boston, the night before the Harvard game, was a happy occasion with several members of the class present, including nearly all from the immediate vicinity and a few from quite a distance. The comparative strength of the two teams was discussed by Jim Donnelly and others who knew, all of whom predicted a hard fight, but were too cautious and tactful to predict what actually happened the following day. In the interest of accuracy further details of the dinner will be reported next month, as the notes for this issue of the MAGAZINE had to be sent in early in October.
John R. Post, having been assigned the duty of looking after class affairs on the West Coast, sends an urgent invitation to every member of the class to come out and attend the Stanford game, November 29. If all he says is the truth, we ought to go. Johnny says in part: "California is at her best during November, cool, dry, and as near Heaven in climate as it is possible to be. We 'Ooers living on the Coast (some ten in number I guess) are planning on having a rousing, rip-roaring time with the rest of the bunch, and it is up to some of the old dead-heads who have never seen the United States to make the supreme effort and come out at that time. Preliminary plans call for a big stag dinner Friday the 28th for the men, and a bridge party for the women; then after the game will come off a big co-ed dance at the biggest hotel in the city of San Francisco. It's going to be a wow of a time, Mac, and I hope you can corral a bunch and come out. At any rate do your best, and put in a good live invitation to the class to come out. P.S. If you have any dope about the Dartmouth team, send it on." If you can make it, write or wire Johnny at 1203 Spruce St., Berkeley, Calif.
Johnny also reports that Bill Billman is now a professor in the Eureka High School in addition to being an apple rancher. On June 25, 1924, he married his present wife, Gladys I. King. One daughter, Geraldine Katherine, was born September 17, 1925, and another one, Anna Mae, on July 22, 1927. They are all living together happily, in spite of Bill's mustache and beard.
Also that Stillman Batchellor is still on his ranch at Venado, and reports bigger and better prunes than ever. And that's going some, for last year he had the finest, sweetest, juiciest prunes in the whole state, and California beats the world in prunes. (10% discount for Californiaitis. Ed.) He also has a lot of grapes, which he sells for sacramental wine, and this year his Gravenstein apples are beginning to bear. So in spite of .hard times Batch is coming out all right, and is a credit to Dartmouth and '05.
Ike Maynard's wife has just returned home after an operation performed in the Henry Ford Hospital, and is getting along nicely toward complete recovery. Betty, 17, is attending Choate School, Brookline, Mass. Ike says that while visiting his daughter at her camp at Thetford this summer, "I dropped in at Hanover and put in a little time at the library to make up for some of the time I did not spend in the library when I was in college." Ike looks after the Graybar Electric Company's business in his part of the country, and lives in Detroit.
Out of 53 sons of Dartmouth alumni in the freshman class, 1905 leads the other classes with a total of seven: James S. Adams, Jr., Chicago; William P. Clough, Jr., New London, N. H.; Emerson Day, Bronxville, N. Y.; Walter E. Keady, Melrose, Mass.; John W. Knibbs, 3d, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; Nelson A. McClary, Malone, N. Y.; and Robert E. Wilmot, Jersey City, N. J. Seven upperclassmen, Joe Clough, '31, Proctor '81, Gage '32, Harwood '32, Hobart '32, Peyser '32,and Worthen '33, make a grand total of fourteen. Shouldn't we get a blue ribbon, or a cup or something? The Daily Dartmouth was gracious enough to say: "Class of 1905 tops list with seven." That's some recognition.
"C. C." writes: "Ed Richardson showed up in Hanover this summer with his wife, and we had a pleasant dinner together at the Hanover Inn. Ed has left Japan, and is, presumably, now in Belgium. He looks like an English financier, and ought to be able to sell the king of Belgium anything he has in his grip. I tried to tell him of the appreciation the class feels for his most valuable and constant support of the Alumni Fund. Probably we shall see more of him now that he is nearer home. His coming was a most delightful surprise."
Also: "Ross Wilmot was at the Norwich Inn for several days this month, and both he and his wife look prosperous and happy. He tells me that he now has a son in college, Dartmouth '34."
Betty Newick came through to the finals in the Wellesley spring golf tournament, losing out by a score of three and two. In the New Hampshire women's state tournament she also was successful to the same point. At the end of 18 holes the score was even, also at the end of an additional nine holes. They went to the 34th hole before she was put out by the winner, Mrs. Ordway.
Frank Peyser won low net score in the Portsmouth Country Club fall tournament in a field of 75 contestants. His net score for the 36 holes was 130.
Bill Knibbs was elected a member of the board of governors of the Dartmouth College Club of New York in September.
The Hanover Gazette, July 10, states that C. C. Hills is building a filling station near First National store on Main St., Norwich. (Nothing is said as to the nature of the contents of said filling station.)
Secretary, Malone, N. Y.
