CLASS OF 1909

We have received the following letters

The Souhegan National Bank Milford, N. H.

Dear Bob: Have received your letter of February 17 asking me to write you.

In reply would say that I have been with the above bank ever since I left Dartmouth. I am now cashier. I am married and have three daughters. I don't know of any news about myself that would be of interest.

Harold C. Bales of our class lives here and is superintendent in this district of schools. I see him quite often.

Sincerely, MAURICE G. JEWETT

Dear Bob: Thank you for yours of the 17th enclosing the news of '09. I have always been sorry that the Class Report was discontinued, as it served, for me at least, as the only means of keeping in touch with the widely-scattered classmates. However, your letter in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is a good substitute.

With the exception of frequent visits to the Saguenay River region in Quebec unraveling French titles for the Aluminum Company, I have been practicing law at 15 William St., New York, since my return from foreign fields. The only '09ers I have seen are Ben Dudley and Maurice Readey, Jerseyites, and occasionally a New York classmate at the Dartmouth Club.

I note that I am one of the five remaining bachelors in the class, and would appreciate advice as to who the other four fortunate "independents" are, so I could congratulate them on their continued "power of resistance." As I recall, Jimmy Hitchcock nominated himself as class bachelor some time ago.

With best regards to all '09ers in and around the Hub, I remain

Sincerely yours, Brownie Foss

Dear Bob: I have just received your letter of February 17, and the attached copies of the reprints from the December and January issues of the Alumni Magazine. I was talking to Curly Blake recently on one of our nightly commuter migrations from the Pennsylvania Station to Rockville Center and Freeport, Long Island, and we both agreed that you should have a letter of thanks for the little directory which you recently distriuted. The receipt of the Alumni Notes decided me to let you know how much.l appreciated both the directory and the notes by return mail.

Sincerely yours, R. H. COLLEY

Dear Bob: With reference to yours of the 17th inst., asking for information about myself, etc., I shall have to write that there is really nothing of a very startling nature to report.

I am still with the Internal Revenue Bureau of the Treasury Department with division office at Boston, and territory, the State of New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts. Am in Washington occasionally, in fact was there during all of July and part of August, 1929. In this connection, I would like to state that I hope I may never find myself in a hotter place than that city was at that time.

In my work I come in contact with a goodly number of Dartmouth men, from the oldest to the youngest alumni, but regardless of what they are doing or how busily they are engaged, there is always time to talk about the old College and the chances of licking Harvard in November.

I was particularly pleased with the 1909 directory which I recently received, and I am certain that it will be much appreciated by others of the class who find themselves obliged to travel. I anticipate using my copy a great deal.

Sincerely, FRED S. BROCK

Dear Bob: I have yours of March 17, asking if I had seen anyone in the class lately. I had the great pleasure a couple of weeks ago of seeing Reggie Bankart for an afternoon and evening. He was in Los Angeles on business and called me up. I drove in for him and was sure glad to see him. We took a drive along the ocean with my three children, then back to my house, where he seemed to get a kick out of eating an orange off of my trees. We had a little snifter before dinner for old times' sake, and decided that neither had changed much in looks in the twenty years. He left for San Francisco the next day on more business, but his chief object seemed to be to look up Bill Patterson. It is a rare treat to see any of the old crowd, and especially so as I see so few. With best regards, I am as ever

Yours in '09, Merkill M. Follansbee

Al Newton lectured at Cornell this spring in connection with the course in hotel management.

We are informed that Leighton Mitchell Company (Plum Leighton's outfit) built all of the better constructed buildings at the huge East Boston Airport.

Curt Hilliard is chairman of the board of health of the town of Wellesley; Scully is a member of the Stoneham, Mass., school committee; and Dickie Lord is chairman of the park committee at Melrose. Dickie's boy Jerry, well known to many members of the class, is evidently a real chip off the old block. He played football last fall with back muscles so badly injured that it was thought at first that he might have a broken back, but the youngster didn't mention it until afterward and was one of the stars of the game. He has completely recovered. We can well remember Dickie himself making interference in his football days, and sending on their ears fellows weighing 80 pounds more than Dickie.

Louise Philips and Harry Floyd are to be married the latter part of June, and are planning to go to Europe for a month or so on their wedding trip.

Among the extraordinary laws quoted in the issue of Judge for April 5, 1930, we note: "In Winchester, Mass., a young girl may not be employed to dance on a tight rope except in church."—Joe Worthen is a member of the prudential committee of the Congregational church in Winchester, Mass.

Charles Pearson, the latest of our class to get married, has a daughter Frances Kathleen, born March 22, 1930.

The first round in the annual summer golf battle between Burns and Avery went to Burns by a wide margin. Phil had teed up and was waiting on the first tee for the preceding foursome to clear the road. Finally Phil took a beautiful swing. The ball went about thirty yards and exploded!!!!!!!! Phil turned around with the most surprised, startled, and amazed look upon his countenance that we have ever seen. Burns staggered feebly to a near-by bench and collapsed, with tears of joy rolling down his cheeks. He had been waiting some sixty days for this very event. The ball Phil hit had been substituted by Burns while Phil was watching the preceding foursome, and was made of soap. We hope to be able to announce the results of the next round in the next issue.

A duplicate has been made of the moving picture film showing part of the activities of the class at our reunion last June, and of the following house party at Lake Morey. This film will be loaned briefly to members of the class in order of application. Any of the fellows who do not own a moving picture projector should find it possible to borrow one or to rent one over night from stores who have them for sale. Some of the fellows are planning dinner parties for neighborhood classmates with the film as the after-dinner attraction. The "film was shown to those members of the class who attended the class dinner in Boston the evening before the last Harvard-Dartmouth game, and has been shown at several get-togethers in and around Boston, resulting in much delay in the preparation of a duplicate. With the duplicate made, we can now have further duplicates made for any classmate who may desire to have the same, at a cost of $20.00. The reel, after cutting, contains about 350 feet of film..

Secretary, 729 Atlantic Bank Building, Boston