CLASS of 1909
Roy Abbott has purchased a tanning factory in Walpole, doing business under the name of R. K. Abbott, Inc.
Phil Avery reports that Bunk Irwin is as husky as he used to be and is breaking 80 regularly on the golf course of the Portland Country Club.
From Emmett Naylor: My dear Bob:
There are many amusing incidents one can recall from the callow but hallowed days at Dartmouth—incidents from the bacchanal shades of Mink Brook or spring cavortings in the vernal moonlit groves of the Vale, some indiscretions during a "peerade" to urbanic allurements; but our more mature judgment now is apt, fortunately, to select some worthwhile memory to the dimming of the recollections of the frivolous events, even though the latter hold a greater portion of humor.
As I look back and appraise my years in college, it is the fine personalities with which I came in contact, which did me the most good and have had the greatest influence on my life. Studies were but a necessary pathway to travel to greater visions pointed out by certain men.
No one could have known Chas. Francis Richardson (Clothespins, a beloved sobriquet) without gaining from his spirit some degree of inspiration. It was through his friendship for my family that I went to Dartmouth, and so my contacts with him ex- tended far beyond the classroom, as he was my firm but gentle mentor through all my four college years. A number of times I was called before his warm hearth and heart of an evening to be given some personal advice that I appreciated then but reverence now, for I can see by the test of time and experience how sound it was.
And this affectionate interest on his part held to his last days with regular letters to me at Columbia Law School and a delightful group of notes during a subsequent post-law graduate year at Harvard. My memories of Dartmouth and of Prof. Richardson are one, as is the influence I took from college.
And yet, Prof. Worthen in various courses in advanced math., Chas. D. Adams in Greek, Bobbie Bartlett in chemistry, dear old Gabe Campbell in philosophy, and a far different individual than these, but every bit as influential and inspiring to me Homer Eaton Keyes in art—each of these men opened to me, through his personality and the incidental medium of his subject, a different door to that realm of the spirit wherein lie after all the more enduring realities of life.
And so when I think now of college days, my memory rests more with individuals than with incidents, and were I to write about them it would be to break personal confidences, which I would not do. So I am therefore taking rather this opportunity to express my gratitude to them and leaving, by the mere mention of their names, the same opportunity to other members of the class to recall many a happy and fine hour from contact with such enriching personalities.
Very sincerely yours, EMMETT
There are four sons of class members in the freshman class this year: H. R. Bankart, Jr., H. E. Foreman, Jr., R. M. Moody, and G. B. York. Reggie, Jr., weighs about 170 pounds, is about 5 feet 11 inches tall, and is playing end on the freshman football team. Hal Foreman, Jr., is a former Andover football and baseball player, weighs about 210, and is also playing on the freshman team. We understand that the freshman squad has a wealth of good material this year, but believe both boys have reasonable chances of being first string.
Due to the size of his present family and his numerous activities, Mr. J. W. Worthen found it necessary this fall to buy himself a much larger house with larger grounds, and he is expected to be located, for the next few years at least, at 29 Wedgemere Ave., Winchester.
Secretary, Atlantic National Bank Bldg. 100 Milk St., Boston, Mass.
