CLASS OF 1898
Professor Fletcher Harper Swift of the School of Education of the University of California at Berkeley delivered an address in connection with the exercises commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the College of Education of the University of Minnesota on April 16. The subject of his address was "The Increasing Professionalization of Educational Workers." On April 17 Professor Swift addressed the School of Education of the University of Wisconsin at Madison on the subject of "The Relation of the National Government to Public Educational Institutions, a Comparison of American and European Policies."
The class of '98 was well represented at the commencement season this year. Buck Chandler was present for the final meeting of the Alumni Council, which completed his second term. He was also on hand to attend the graduation of his son Josiah.
Ted Leggett was elected president of the Alumni Council, having completed his service as chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee on June 30.
Bishop Walter Taylor Sumner was present to attend the Council meeting.
At the impromptu dinner on Sunday at the Woodstock Inn the following members of the class were present: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bartlett and son Charlie Bartlett and his fiancee Miss Barbara Hastings; Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Chandler and son Josiah Chandler, who is a senior, and their two daughters Mary Louise and Catherine; Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Leggett and their daughter Marjorie; Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Jones; Bishop Walter T. Sumner; Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Crane; and Dr. Fred Lord. A very goodly number of '98ers when no special reunion is on the docket.
Fritz Robbert has been nominated on the board of governors of the Dartmouth Club of New York to serve until 1933. The election takes place in September. Fritz is one of the most popular figures in the Dartmouth Club of New York.
Captain John A. Gilman has been in the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C., for an operation for appendicitis. He has been getting along of late in splendid shape, and complete recovery is fully anticipated. While lying in the hospital he had his wife mail Ted Leggett his annual check for the Alumni Fund. This is surely a splendid dence of the Dartmouth spirit.
It is interesting to note among the distinguished scientists who are to assist in the work of Professor Robert H. Goddard of Clark University the name of our classmate "Pete" Adams of Mt. Wilson Observatory. Dr. Goddard by means of a fund from the Guggenheim Foundation is going to experiment by means of powerful rockets in the space beyond our atmosphere, and it is hoped that the experiments will have a large and practical value in the fields of meteorology* astronomy, radio broadcasting, and aviation.
Fred Bennis and his sister motored to California in January. They went out by way of Florida and returned in May through Tennessee and the Shenandoah valley, visiting four national parks on the way back, Yosemite, Sequoia in the High Sierras where they found over a foot of snow, the Grand Canyon, Hot Springs, and other interesting places. They ran into a bad flood in Arkansas which held them up for a little while, but the trip on the whole was most enjoyable. "Ben" saw "Pete" Adams and Patterson, and regretted that he was unable to look up Hewes and Swift.
The class of '98 ranks today as one of the most loyal classes among the alumni in its contribution to the Alumni Fund. Those of us who are members of that class need not be told the reason why. If anyone is in doubt, let him try to expand the initials P. H. L. '98 has 100% contributors in this year's campaign, and turned in 115% of the quota.
In the Worcester Sunday Telegram for July 13 appeared a good picture of George L. Farley and also a part of his address before the Kiwanis Club of Worcester. George asserted that there were 770,000 boys and girls in the United States who subscribed to their obligation to do some service for their community and country. George is state director of the 4-H of Massachusetts, and he maintains that the 4-H Club is the only piece of work undertaken in this country that says to the nation's boys and girls, "Go home, do something at home, and learn that home is the first place where you begin your service in this country."
Secretary,57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass.
