CLASS of 1898
Every '9B man will be sorry to hear of the passing of our good classmate Guy C. Griffin in Tucson, Arizona, under date of July 27. An obituary notice appears in another column of this magazine.
The wedding tour of Ilda, daughter of Seth Pope, was up the Saguenay River in Canada. Her married name is Mrs. George C. Giles. Mr. Giles is connected with the Phoenix Hermetic Company of Chicago.
Dorothy Pope's husband, Mr. C. E. Butler, is a successful coach and athletic instructor of a large suburban high school.
Professor Fletcher Harper Swift of the School of Education of the University of California at Berkeley has completed a biographical study entitled "Emma Marwedel, 1818-1893, Pioneer of the Kindergarten in California," which is now in press. The importance of her work may be inferred from the fact that she trained Kate Douglas Wiggin and other early leaders in the kindergarten movement in the West. She also inspired, in her kindergarten in Hamburg, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody to devote the remainder of her life to an effort to extend the kindergarten throughout the United States. Professor Swift's study will be published this fall as Vol. VI, No. 3, University of California Publications in Education, and a translation will also appear in Germany. Fletcher Harper Swift's volume, "Federal and State Policies in Public School Finance in the United States," was published in June by Ginn and Company.
Judge Sherman Moulton called in June on C. W. Littlefield in Providence, and they had a pleasant chat on Dartmouth affairs and other matters.
Ev Snow and the Secretary rode one day in July to North Brookfield, Mass., and had a pleasant call on C. E. Sibley, and found him happy and contented and doing useful work in that beautiful Massachusetts town.
The San Francisco Chronicle comes out with a large picture of Sir James Hopewell Jeans, British astronomer, in company with Dr. Walter S. Adams, director of the Mt. Wilson Observatory. The picture is taken on the top of Mt. Wilson, where Sir James was visiting the largest telescope in the world.
Miss Elizabeth C. Spring, daughter of Judge John R. Spring of Nashua, was recently appointed state activities director of the Girls' Friendly Society. She sailed this summer on the S. S. Rotterdam for England, Europe, and the Mediterranean countries. During her tour of Europe she will visit, as the official representative of the society, the principal cities and countries, and will conclude her journey with a Mediterranean cruise and visit to Egypt. She then takes up her work in this country as director of activities.
Dorothy F. Marden, daughter of our genial Bob Marden, is now twenty-three years old and studying art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and is in her third year in the studies. She does well at illustrating and portraiture, and Bob says she could make a living likeness of the handsome physog of any '98 man with a few pencil strokes. She is athletic, being a lusty golfer and tennis player. Bob's second daughter Barbara, now ten, is in school and he says she bids fair to be much more of a real student that he ever was. He also says she has promise in athletics, art, and music, including the piano and violin. He states that the generation we are bringing up has much on us old birds.
George A. Green, son of our classmate, is re-entering Dartmouth as a sophomore this fall after spending a year working his way around the world as an ordinary seaman.
Eleanor Duncan, daughter of our classmate, graduated from Radcliffe, and is now Mrs. Walter P. Brockway. Walter is a Harvard man 1930, and also Harvard Theological 1932. They live in Salem, N. H., where the young man has started his first pastorate in the Congregational church. Dune says that a minister to the family is a fine acquisition.
Lawrence Duncan is practicing law in Concord, being connected with the firm of Upton and Donovan, with whom he began after graduating from Harvard Law last year. Dune is especially pleased to have a minister and a lawyer in his family.
The third child, Margaret, goes to Colby Junior College, New London, this month. Dune rather hopes she may marry a dentist, for then he says the family would be all set for proper care by all professions, he himself being a doctor. Dune states that the Duncan family has been particularly fortunate in having all arrive at maturity blessed with good health and happiness and the father and mother enjoying the "youth of Old Age," as Brother Snow calls it.
At an annual dinner of the Dartmouth Association of Northern California occurring in May, there were present from '98 Bill Ilewes and Fletcher Harper Swift. At this dinner Fletcher Harper gave the address of the evening, and the report of the dinner states that he is now a very popular professor of education at the University of California and that the entire company enjoyed his able handling of the subject of education in which he emphasized the great need of an educational policy in our schools of today.
Warren Kendall '99 on August 28 gave a little dinner to some of the Chicago Dartmouth men of his time at the Union League Club. Albert Smith and Seth Pope were present as representatives of '98.
Charles W. Bartlett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bartlett, was married Saturday, June 20, at Cohasset, Mass., in St. Stephen's Episcopal church to Miss Barbara Hastings. They had planned to have the marriage on the anniversary of his parents' wedding, which was June 21 and also which is the son's own birthday, but the 21st occurring on Sunday rendered this inexpedient. The young couple went on their honeymoon to the northern coast of South America, through the Panama Canal, and to Havana. Their address for the summer was Plymouth, Mass.
One of the very happy social events of interest to '9B men and also to many living in Greater Boston was the 25th anniversary of the marriage of Marie and Buck Chandler, held on June 12 at the Eel River Beach Club, Plymouth, Mass. It lasted all day, and there were 155 present, neighbors, friends, and classmates. Among the classmates were Dr. and Mrs. Harry Goodall, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Marcy, Robert Marden, Mrs. Joe Carney, and Mr. and Mrs. Philip Patey. An attractive, unique, and original invitation had been sent out, and a most enjoyable and happy time was had by all.
Buck and Marie's six children were present, as were many of their friends. The weather was favorable and the place excellent, for there were opportunities for bathing in a nice pool or in the ocean itself, also for tennis and golf nearby. The children had surprised their parents by having Bachrach take a group picture, which was presented to the parents. The children are as follows: Josiah, 24, graduate of Dartmouth '3O, Tuck School '3l, now in business: Katherine, graduate of Wheaton and now taking a secretarial course at Bryant and Stratton; Mary Louise has been a student at the Connecticut Women's College and is now taking a secretarial course at Katherine Gibbs School; Edith is now a sophomore at Wheaton: James, the next, is a student this fall at Tabor Academy; Joan, the youngest, who is twelve, is in the Junior High at West Newton.
Harriette W. Patey sails on October 2 for Italy and England to study further her profession of landscape architecture and domestic architecture. She secured this privilege by means of a fund granted by a New York society for further study by American artists in Europe.
Philippa Patey returns to Chicago in September to enter the business world after completing a secretarial course. Richard Patey starts his sophomore year in the Wharton School of Business Administration in Philadelphia, and Bob and Barbara, age twelve and eleven, help keep the home fires burning at 57 Grove Hill Avenue, Newtonville.
Fred Bennis has been spending the summer at his ancestral home in West Sullivan, Maine. He came over to visit the Secretary one day at the Appalachian Mountain Club Camp on Echo Lake, but, much to the Secretary's regret, he had decamped a day or so before.
Mary Elizabeth Irish (Polly) was born July 21 in Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, daughter of James C. and Elizabeth Crane Irish and granddaughter of Ephraim (Ichabod) and Mary Crane. This is the third grandchild.
Ichabod and Mary Crane, his wife, spent a very enjoyable August Saturday and Sunday at Hotel Pilgrim, Plymouth, and were guests at Sunday dinner of Buck and Marie Chandler at their cottage near by. Ich and Buck played 18 holes of so-called golf, and Buck was terrible and Ich was worse, but a good time was had by all.
Fred Lord took a month's trip with Harold Rugg, assistant librarian at the Baker Library in Dartmouth, immediately after Commencement. They went especially to the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina, and saw much of the southern Appalachian region. Each of them brought back a large number of plants and flowers for his garden.
Seelman writes: "Mrs. Seelman is well, better looking than ever, Mrs. Odquist (Viola Seelman) happy, and Constance, theyounger daughter, looking forward to an- other year in high school and then the college which she can make."
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Secretary, 57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass.
