CLASS OF 1909
Hal Pratt writes that he hopes "to sojourn in Hanover during a few days in June, going up with a 1925 boy for his Fifth. Will report if their deportment does not conform with the high standard of a certain other class." We assume of course that Hal has in mind the noble standard set by the class of 1909 last year and we doubt the ability of any other class to equal it. Nevertheless, in an attempt to keep abreast of current fashions, we have asked Hal to report on present standards of propriety among other reunion classes at Hanover and make a report as to any improvements and new ideas for our next reunion. We trust we will have to censor part of the report, but we will give you as much of it as is possible. We have received the following letters:
The Rumson School Rumson, N. J. May 5, 1930 Dear Bob
No other Ought-niners live in this corner of New Jersey, and as I have not happened to meet any of them lately I fear I can not respond to your appeal for class news except to tell you a word or two about what I am doing.
This is my fourth year as head of the Rumson School, a private day school started by a group of New York business men who wanted to leave the city with their families and give their children good schooling in the country. We start children in the kindergarten and keep them until they go away for their last three or four years in boarding school. Ed Blake, Dartmouth '25, has been my very efficient assistant since the beginning, and we have watched the school grow from 23 the first year to 76 this year. It certainly is an interesting and absorbing job.
Rumson is a beautiful spot, in the highlands of the Jersey coast, and free from mosquitoes (in the winter). If any of you Dartmouth men in New York want a good place in the country to live, you had better move down to Rumson and take advantage of its educational facilities.
We were abroad last summer at the time of the 20th reunion, but I hope to be present at the 25th with my wife and a son, who should be ready for Dartmouth in two or three years. Come to think of it, he will be in college by that time. It hadn't dawned on me till just now.
With best wishes and the hope that others will give you more news than I can. Sincerely yours, HAROLD S. CLAKK
Dear Bob: You certainly are to be congratulated for the results you are getting in 1909 News. Since you want a few facts about myself, here they are.
For the past four years I have been in charge of the department of commerce in the College of Engineering and Commerce at the University of Cincinnati. Our students work under the co-operative system, which originated here, that is, they work turn and turn about a month in a shop or office and a month in the classroom. When our boys are graduated at the end of five years, they are quite familiar with the tough old world in which they will have to earn a living. They know they have got to deliver the goods, and some of them are quite successful at it.
I am still employed in an advisory capacity by the United Typothetae of America the trade association of the printing industry, with which organization I was associated for seven years before accepting my present position. This past year I have had a very interesting experience as a member of the Cincinnati Permanent Committee for the Stabilization of Employment, appointed by the city manager. Cincinnati is, I believe, one of the few cities in the United States which has been tackling the employment problem on a long-time basis and which actually had machinery set up to handle the unemployment emergency which the country has been facing. As a result, there has been a striking absence of hysteria and communist demonstrations. There has been no attempt to avoid the facts, instead they have been faced in an intelligent way.
One of my very good friends here on the campus is Fred Luberger, Dartmouth 1927, who is making an excellent reputation for himself as a professor in the Law School. He has a charming wife and two girls and a boy, of whom he can well be proud.
My own family is growing up. My little girl of ten is nearly as tall as her mother, and my boy of seven can deliver a wicked left to the jaw.
With best regards to all of my classmates, I am,
Sincerely yours, "Tubby" FRANCIS H. BIRD '09
New college honors have been given Craig Thorn, Jr., in his appointment as chairman of the executive council of the Outing Club and director of carnival for next year.
Your Secretary attended the annual secretaries' meeting in Hanover over the week-end of May 2, and accumulated much information about the conduct of the affairs of the College and much helpful information and instruction in the work of a secretary. Also I had a very good time indeed. Sometimes I think this job has some little advantages after all. At least it gives me a good excuse, every now and then, to bat up to Joe Worthen for my absence from the office.
Hal Murchie dropped in to the office the last of May and asked me to recommend a good lawyer so that he could bring suit against me for libel for saying that he and Sam Bell failed to show up for their bridge match at the time of the Boston alumni dinner. I recommended my esteemed partner, the Honorable Joseph W. Worthen, and hope that I can make arrangements with Joe to charge Murchie for legal services twice the amount that Murchie collects from me, and then go fifty-fifty. Murchie stated that he would admit that his old college partner, Al Schofield, but only Al, might be able to dig up a partner in the class and give Sam and himself a real battle at the time of the next alumni dinner. Murchie also claims that the only reason he didn't attend the last dinner was his failure to receive notice. We are going to send him a telegram collect, stating the time of the next dinner. We know from others that he has been a potent factor in Maine politics for some years, but it is impossible to get anything out of Murch himself as to his past and proposed activities. Perhaps he is afraid we will tip off the opposition. He did admit, under pressure, that he had no cause to complain about the size of his practice and his golf game.
We understand that Ed Chappelear returned to the New York office of the Bankers Trust Company in March, after representing them abroad for some three years, and that he is now in charge of the foreign department. He is living at the Plaza Hotel, and it is rumored that he is to be married in the not too distant future. Just before he returned he spent several months making a survey of economic conditions on the continent. We are glad to have him back within reach.
Art Stanley lives at Wellesley Hills, and has a daughter seven and a son two years of age. For the last ten years he has been with the Scientific Equipment Company of New York city, manufacturers of Cenco laboratory apparatus, planning and equipping science laboratories in New England, in colleges, industrial plants, and schools.
Art Spaulding is the first member of the class, so far as we know, to acquire a private golf course. Perhaps he is most in need of one. We haven't been able to get him out to a class golf party in years. Anyhow, he and his partner have acquired the Indoor Golf Course and School in Boston. We are planning to hold a class indoor golf party if we can persuade Art that there will be any part of the. Indoor Golf Course left after the party.
Bull is minister of the Oxford county united parish at North Waterford, Me. Phil Cole is in the cranberry business at North Carver, Mass.
Lindley Dean is professor of classical languages at Denison University and lives at 116 South Plum St., Granville, Ohio. He sees Clement of Dayton occasionally, and they enjoy talking over old times.
Dole is with the Mascoma Savings Bank at Lebanon, N. H.
Ben Dudley is a civil engineer with the New York Central Railroad, and lives in Bergenfield, N. J.
George Dwenger is registrar at the Long Island College Hospital, College of Medicine, and lives in Garden City, N. Y.
George Hinckley is a member of the law firm of Hinckley, Hinckley, and Shesong, of Portland, Me. George was judge of the South Portland Municipal Court from 1919 to 1927, at which time he became city solicitor.
Louise Phillips and Harry Floyd were married Thursday, June 19, at the bride's home in Watertown, and sailed on Saturday from Montreal for Europe, to be gone until the last of August. I understand that some of the girls from Harry's office went down to the train at Boston and decorated the drawing room. If the class committee had been given a chance, a delegation would have been furnished to assist, and this offer remains open to the next fellow of the class who gets married. We have several eligibles left.
Ben Lang leads the class with nine children, their ages ranging from five to twenty-one. Freddie Carroll comes next with six children and ages running from three to thirteen. Ben's are all girls, but Freddie's oldest is a boy.
Freddie Carroll was operated on for appendicitis the latter part of May and had a rather serious time of it, but has recovered nicely.
Secretary, 729 Atlantic Bank Building, Boston
