CLASS OF 1903
Byron Matteson is still following Horace Greeley's advice. Matteson has been a useful citizen of Ogden, Utah, for some time, but a note in the Engineering News-Record of February 27 reads as follows: "B. W. Matteson, senior highway engineer for the Federal Bureau of Public Roads for Utah and Idaho, has been made regional director of the bureau, with headquarters in San Francisco." Let us have a letter from you, Matty, telling all about the change, and whether or no you have in mind Honolulu or the Philippines as a place of ideal residence.
"Queech" Safford, dear old Queech of Houston, Texas, is still laboring under a delusion. He also went West, conquered the state of Texas in terms of the cotton market, raised the price of raw cotton to the point that the fair sex insisted on silk hosiery, and now blames the Farm Bureau and the federal government for trying to take all his business away from him. A letter from you, "Queech," in retaliation.
For the past several years Morton French has quietly and efficiently gone about the collection of the class contribution to the Alumni Fund. He has made a splendid record for the class, but not without giving unstintingly of time and labor. A personal appeal to you he gladly makes, but when he has to write two and three letters, then that smile of his lessens in expanse. Let's keep him smiling by answering with a check, large if you can, small if you must, but at once.
"What a great and glorious feeling," just when you are anticipating an avalanche of criticism for having wasted the class moneys, to have letters from Maurice Avery, Chauncey Colton, Clayton Erwin, Herbert Kelley, Brutus Luce, Harold Hess, Roy Bergengren, Dan Hinckley, and last but not least, Mort French, Lord High Something-or-other of the Exchequer, commending the idea of a class letter and especially the privilege of reading Jack Crowell's last effort in behalf of the class. So far in this poll of the class it resembles the Literary Digest poll, for the west seem to be in the lead. Come on, you drys, with some sharp criticisms of the idea, if you feel that way. If there are too many carbohydrates and starches in the diet, we are ready to make proper changes. We want you to have a balanced diet on which to grow. Vic Cutter says, "Add bananas." Haven't heard from Vic, either.
One fact that has come to light from the effort is, that your Secretary needs information as to the addresses of six of our class. James B. Cresswell, George D. Ford, Clarence G. Howes, Philip E. McKee, J. A. Mc- Vicar, and Guy E. Smith.
Chapel Hill, N. C., Feb. 2—Miss Catherine Groves, assistant managing editor of the Elizabeth City Advance and daughter of Professor and Mrs. E. R. Groves of this place, was married at the home of her parents on February first to Joseph Peele, member of the advertising staff of, and the junior partner in, the Daily Advance, and son of Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Peele of Clarksville, Va. Rev. Mr. Peele officiated.
In recent class elections Edwin H. Grant '3O, son of Billy, was made sachem orator.
William W. Grant '31 has been chosen a member of the 1931 delegation of Casque and Gauntlet.
Charles T. Hall, Jr. '33, played on the hockey squad of his class this winter.
Bertram Mudge '33, son of "Oat," is mentioned as good material for the varsity line next fall. He made his class team last fall and played a strong game. Hockey is also one of his favorite games, and we shall hope to hear the serious minded "Oat" yelling his head off at the Garden within a few years.
Another son, Edmund, is at Tabor Academy, just ready to enter Dartmouth in the class of '34. He is reported to be the scholar of the family as well as a football and hockey player.
Secretary, 198 Humphrey St., Marblehead, Mass
