CLASS OF 1899

Way back last summer there was a big Twilight Play Festival conducted by the Summer Playgrounds of Somerville, Mass. The attendance ran to twenty thousand or so. The fact that George Evans was chairman of the Recreation Commission that was responsible for it all helps to explain its success.

If you have a sudden impulse to write that long-deferred letter to Albert Tootell, send it to Junius, S. D.—not to Madison. More information later.

One smaller grows the dwindling bachelor membership of '99. Dr. Hale Dearborn married Pearl C. Casman on August 2 at Brooklyn. The ceremony was performed at the Flatbush Presbyterian church.

Joe Gannon is still helping to keep metropolitan New York in good order. He's now one of the thirty-seven members of the Mayor's Committee on Taxation. This committee is to have ample power to devise sweeping changes in the present methods of assessments, and to place the system on a scientific basis.

More detailed news of the marriage of Joe's daughter Frances in September will be presented soon.

Peddy Miller gave his lecture on "The Great Unrest" before the Plymouth, N. H., Rotary Club recently. The same Ped will be this year's chief speaker at the New England Superintendents' Association, of which Louis Benezet is president. The whole story of last year's trip around the world with Mrs. Miller will be featured in the next Class Report.

News from the younger folks of '99 as usual these days is as abundant and interesting as that from the veterans. One new Dartmouth 99 freshman, George Beal, had a chance to see Roger Benezet set a new record for the three-mile cross-country course one weekend, with Captain Joe Huckins second; then the following week-end he saw Joe turn the tables by leading Roger in to a new record over the four-and-a-half-mile course. Meanwhile they both saw George play King Solomon in one of the Delta Alpha freshman dormitory stunts put on at the Norwich game.

Here's congratulations to Arthur Wiggin and Mrs. Wiggin on the baby girl born October 17.

Next on the scene is one of the grown-up girls of the class family. Sarah Ellen Hutchinson graduated from Penn State last June, and is teaching home economics in a Pennsylvania high school this fall. Her brother William, captain of the Penn State soccer team, intercollegiate champions last year, wishes they had a game with Dartmouth. Their father, Bill Senior, is very much on the job on the farm in Cecil as usual. He saw the railroad in a traffic jam with water tank cars for other districts, but was fortunate enough himself to have a sufficient supply.

Ikey, alias A. B. Leavitt, can tell a tale also about his girl Norma. She just graduated last June from the Sargent School, now a unit of Boston University, leading her class of 125 girls with the highest scholastic standing since the school was founded in 1888. Now she's after a B.S. degree next June, and the youngest in her class at that.

Ikey has seen Joe Hartley recently. So before long we look for a word direct from Joe himself.

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