CLASS OF 1914
Things are looking up a bit in this secretary business. During the past month I have received no less than six communications from members of our class, as against not one single one during the previous month.
Red Davidson sends us a cute little directory of the Philadelphia Association, in which we are interested to note that the following are listed; Dick Barlow, Red Davidson, Souther Mead, Dick McAllaster, Gum Sargent, Jesse Stillman, and George Gilbert. I have clipped the following paragraph from his letter, and will call particular attention to the last sentence:
"I ran across Dick Barlow at Trenton some time ago, and saw Dick McAllaster at the Navy game for the first time since we left Hanover. Gum Sargent never shows his face around at any of our luncheons, and therefore I having nothing to report on him. Our annual dinner will be on March 8, and Jesse Stillman promised me sometime ago that he would play the piano for us. At our annual dinner last year we had to import Arch Earle from New York to furnish the music for the dinner, but this year we are going to have local talent. This is all the hot dope about Fourteeners in this locality, but this is a darn sight more than you're getting from some."
A 1 Richmond, who is busily engaged with the American Society of Civil Engineers, passes along the following:
"My family is now here in the city in an apartment at 415 West 115 th St., which is in the neighborhood of Columbia University. My mail can be addressed there, or perhaps more expeditiously in care of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 33 West 39th St., New York, N. Y.
"The other day I sent you a clipping from the New York Ilerald-Tribune, which listed J. Theodore Marriner as one of the five members of Mr. Stimson's staff on their way to the London Conference.
"The New York 1914 monthly dinners have come on the one night a month when I have to be on duty with the Society, so that except for the October gathering, I have been completely out of luck. Also, the annual meeting of this Society occupied from Sunday through Friday of the week of the general alumni dinner. I attended the Thayer School banquet on the preceding evening (at which 72 Thayer men greeted Prexy Hopkins and Bobby Fletcher), but was too exhausted to round out the week with another banquet.
"You know how much these class contacts mean to me, and can appreciate how keenly I miss seeing the gang."
I quote herewith from the New York Herald-Tribune of January 9, that portion of the article in which "Al" has referred to Ted Marriner:
"Secretary Adams will be the only official delegate to use the special train from Washington today. On board with him will be the following members of the party; Advisers: Admiral William V. Pratt, Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones, Arthur Wilson Page, J. Theodore Marriner, George Rublee."
A letter from "Page" Junkins received a few days ago contains the following paragraphs :
"A letter in late November from Herb Gridley made known to me an addition to his family named Margaret Jane, somewhere I judge about the middle of last August.
"I dropped in for a few minutes chat with Butch Fonda at New Rochelle day before yesterday, repeating my performance of sometime in October, and found him O.K. as before." Butch is a dealer in Cadillac automobiles."
Page is located at 92 Hope St., Stamford, Conn.
If any of you fellows want to see some real fast action you should drop in at the University Club in Boston most any Saturday afternoon and see "Snatch" Wilkinson play Badminton. To most casual observers this old game, which has taken root in Boston and is attracting a tremendous following, seems extremely simple and easy, but when played by experts, I believe that "Snatch" can be so •qualified, it assumes an entirely different appearance and is most strenuous. I might add that the new devotees to this recreation are feeing recruited to a large degree from the Dartmouth ranks.
"String" Austin reports that the response to his appeal for dues has been gratifying, but there is still room for lots of improvement. Less than fifty per cent of our graduate enrollment have signed up so far, and the worst part about it is that the delinquents are the heavy losers, as they do not receive the MAGAZINE and accordingly are not kept in close touch with their classmates.
For the following echoes from the New York dinner, held January 18, at the Plaza, I am indebted to Mart Remsen. Seated at the 'l4 table were: Dwight Conn, Bill Hands, George Tilton, Jeff Beals, Marshall Picken, En Voorhees, Sig Larmon, Howie Fahey, Jim Heenehan, Doc Haywood, Jack McCullough, Johnnie Palmer, Page Junkins, Bob Hopkins, Walt Humphrey, Dalton Baldwin, and Mart Remsen. "Good turnout for Saturday night, which was an innovation."
Bill Hands, Chuck Kingsley, and Mart Remsen interviewed a batch of applicants for next year's freshman class during the •Christmas holidays.
Baldwin presented the following: Ann C. Baldwin arrived December 10, 1929.
We mentioned in our last issue that Gordon Sleeper was back in New York, and is now in a position to add the following more definite information. After eight years in the radio industry as a set manufacturer, for the past year as vice-president and sales manager of the Temple Corporation of Chicago, he has returned to New York to enter the security and investment business with Bauer, Pogue, Pond, and Vivian, a New York stock exchange firm. He is living again in Scarsdale.
Secretary, 159 Devonshire St., Boston
