CLASS of 1898
In the early part of September the Secretary rode to St. Johnsbury, Vt., to attend the annual meeting of the trustees of St. Johnsbury Academy, Mrs. Patey accompanying him. We stopped at Dover, N. H., to call on the Batchelders. We had a very fine visit with Mrs. Batchelder, but the doctor was operating that morning in the Dover Hospital, so we failed to see him. We then went on to Rochester and called on Mush Jones, where we were nicely entertained for an hour in his beautiful home. We met again his charming wife and lovely little daughter Joan and saw some very wonderful antiques in practically every room in the house. Mush is a connoisseur on things antique. At North Conway we called on Dr. Dryden Snow, the brother of our classmate E. W. Snow, and were happy to learn that his son Dryden, Jr., is now a senior in Dartmouth and hopes to enter the profession of teaching.
In St. Johnsbury we met E. O. Grover, Dartmouth '94, and Harold French '99. On the way back we had a pleasant visit of two hours in Hanover calling on Fred Lord and Mrs. Fred. Their son completed successfully his freshman year at Dartmouth, but this fall is entering the University of Michigan. At Brattleboro we called at the Crane residence and had a good visit with Mrs. Crane, but Ich was out gambling with nature in the form of a golf game. I learned that the three grandchildren were husky and well.
Last Sunday, October 3, the Secretary learned that our classmate Harry W. Clark was visiting his niece, Mrs. Bickford, in Melrose, and so he had the pleasure of driving over and taking Harry for a ride to his home and having a splendid visit with him. Harry is looking tip-top, his courage is good, and he is the same noble fellow we knew in Hanover. With Harry was his wife, who is a Virginian, and their daughter, who just graduated in June from the State College of Oregon in Corvallis. They are spending two weeks with his sister, Miss Edna A. Clark, in North Weare, N. H., then go on to Washington, D. C., where Harry will make his headquarters in the future. So we New Englanders will have more opportunity to see him.
Harry told me that a few years ago he met Guy Gary in Santa Ana, Cal. He learned his whereabouts by calling on a son of Guy's first wife. Guy Gary had a very trying time in the business world in the mining game, and it wore him out completely. About the time the mine went under he lost his dear wife, so he has had a hard experience. Harry thinks there were three children by the first wife. Later Guy married again a relative of the chief of police of Santa Ana. In the second family there is a little daughter of Mrs. Gary's by her former marriage, Harry thinks. I hope that every classmate will keep his eye open so we can get in touch with Guy Gary again. He brought great credit to Dartmouth with his bicycle riding, and completed his four years at Dartmouth and secured his degree.
This morning the Secretary met Archie Kendall on Washington St., Boston, and, although business breaks have been trying with him as with us all, his courage is still good and he looks forward to the future with optimism.
Harriette W. Patey sailed for a year's study in Italy, Spain, France, and England, Friday, October 2.
Fletcher Harper Swift was in New York in September and had a very pleasant call on Ted Leggett. Swift has two daughters, aged fourteen and twelve. His home is in Berkeley, Cal., where he is professor of education at the University of California. His presence in New York was in connection with his appointment by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur as expert consultant in connection with the national survey of the financing of public education in the United States for which Congress had appropriated $350,000. On the way home to California Swift stopped at Denver, Colo., where he is making a financial and sociological study of the Denver Opportunity School, which is the most successful trade school for adults in the United States. This study is being made for the American Association of Adult Education. Swift also has under preparation reports of the policies and methods of financing elementary, secondary, and higher education in France, England, Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. He had the field work abroad for this study in 1928-29 under a grant from the General Educational Board of the Rockefeller Foundation permitting him one year's residence abroad. Swift has been asked to present the final report of the committee of which he is chairman on a plan for an equalization fund for the state of California at the annual meeting of the California Public School Superintendents' Association to be held at Riverside, Cal., October 5
The Secretary attended the Eastern States and Dairy Exposition in Springfield, and at that exposition our classmate George Farley always plays a prominent part, for he has charge of the 4-H Club, a splendid group of young people, extending throughout the state of Massachusetts. George told me that he and his wife were announcing the engagement of their second daughter Caroline to Mr. Laurence Peck of Sharon, Mass. Thus the young people of the class of '98 are making history.
There will be a round-up of the class of '98 at the University Club the night preceding the Harvard game, which will be Friday, November 6. We are in hopes that it will be the best round-up the class has ever had. The wives are cordially invited to attend.
Mushy Jones told me that our classmate Dr. Belknap's widow is living at 40 Woburn St., Reading, Mass., and the fine lad who was born after Belknap passed away has this fall entered Dummer Academy.
Yesterday the Secretary and his wife drove up to North Weare, N. H., and spent a very pleasant time with Harry Clark and his family and sister Miss Edna.
Secretary, 57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass
