CLASS of 1898
The '9B round-up held November 6 at the University Club in Boston was a real success. There were over thirty who sat down to a good supper a little after six. Those present were as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Chandler, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Goodall, Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. Everard W. Snow, Dr. and Mrs. Batchelder, Mr. and Mrs. David Macandrew, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Carney, Dr. and Mrs. E. O. Tabor, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Patey, Doc Nolan, Denis Crowley, Charles W. Littlefield, Bob Peck, and E. M. Gleason. As guests of the class were Horace Moulton, son of Sherman Moulton, George Green, son of our late classmate George Green, Margaret and Elizabeth Snow, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Snow, and Miss Dorothy Marden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Marden. We were entertained by some very fine music by Franklin Field, a well-known baritone. He was ably accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Wallace Ross, wife of Wallace Ross, Dartmouth 1909. Harry Goodall performed at the movie machine, and we were delightfully entertained by movies from Hanover, including athletic events, buildings, professors, and the procession of class secretaries as they appeared at the meeting last May. It seemed very interesting to us to see Professor Charles Darwin Adams looking so vigorous, and also our good chemistry professor, Bob Bartlett, and the well-known figure of Professor Fletcher. Telegrams and letters were read from those who were absent and those present only regretted they could not be there to share our good time. All the telegrams and letters showed the splendid '9B and Dartmouth spirit. One letter from Seelman was especially interesting, so I am enclosing it below,
Dear Patey: It must be grand to have a home Aroundabout the Hub, To be on hand to meet the boys And talk and sing and grub. It must be good to shake the hand, Each eye must brighter shine. It must be fine to see the team Charging the Harvard line. But we who live so far away In times so bad as these, Must do the things we have to do And not the things we please.
So when you men of 'Ninety-eight Are clasping hands you like, There's one away who thinks of you, Your humble classmate, "IKE" I am also enclosing Fred Lord's letter for the perusal of '98.
Dear Phil:—- Following your instructions I do here and now sit down to tell you that Mrs. Lord and I should like immensely to be present at the '9B round-up at the University Club in Boston Friday night; after which celebration we should like to see the Harvard-Dartmouth game. There is one small matter which makes it difficult for me to do so, and that is the fact of my job of teaching at Dartmouth College. You may be surprised when you understand there is a holiday for Dartmouth at that time. This is however somewhat of a misconception. The Medical School has no such holiday. It is so hard to manufacture doctors that we are compelled to seize such opportunities as this in order to instill into the embryo medics sufficient skill and information to make them competent physicians to look after the other Dartmouth men. Yes, we have no holiday, and I shall hold classes as usual, while you fellows are roaring around Boston and Cambridge before the game. I shall not be too busy, however, to listen in on the game Saturday afternoon in Hanover, but alas I cannot learn that the '98 round-up is to be broadcast. I suggest that another time we have that meeting sent over one of the national hookups for the benefit of those who cannot attend.
I will make a venture that the Yale game last week will bring to Boston this week a larger crowd than would have otherwise come. It was one of the most remarkable affairs in football history I have ever heard of, and I hope the spirit that pervaded this team then will hold over for next Saturday. [lt did.]
I therefore end with regrets at my inability to be with you in flesh, but my greetings are hereby sent through our able secretary to the men of '98. May they continue to feel young, and have the ability on occasions to act as young as they feel!
Yours in '98, FEED P. Lord
Telegrams and letters were received from Harry Clark, Bobbie Brown, Ted Leggett, Fletcher Harper Swift, John Eckstorm, W. J. Witte, 0. P. Tabor, Dr. James P. Leahy, John A. Gilman, Dr. Duncan, George Lockwood, Everett Hoyt, Hugh Mitchell, Sherman Moulton, Albert Smith, Clarence Sibley, Fritz Robbert, Fred Bennis, Charles Reuel Carter, W. H. Middleton, and Ephraim Crane. Those present were especially interested in the telegram of Bobbie Brown, which read as follows: "In hospital awaiting operation. Would rather be with Dartmouth gang tonight. Greetings and best wishes. Robert D. Brown." We at once sent him a telegram expressing our sympathy and our best wishes for a speedy recovery. I trust the various classmates may write Bobbie Brown at his address, Rev. Robert D. Brown, 2601 Center Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. We all decided he was one of the best sports in the class.
Ted Leggett told me he was appearing in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE SO much he did not want me to put anything in this time, but inasmuch as I am putting all I can in about the children of the members, I am pleased to quote from Ted's letter the following: "Regarding your other letter about something concerning my children for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, go after the other fellows and get something about their children. My name appears often enough in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE without hogging the '98 space for my progeny, all of whom incidentally are well and happy."
Bobbie Brown has one child, a daughter named Ruth Allison Brown, aged 24 years. Ruth graduated with the A.B. degree from Wellesley in the class of '28 (just 30 years behind her dad). During the next two years she was teaching Latin, history, and English at Brick Junior College, Bricks, N. C. Last year—September, 1930, to June, 1931—she studied at Columbia in New York city, and received her A.M. degree with several credits on her Ph.D. This year she is teaching Latin, English, history, and commercial law at Virginia State College, Ettrick, Va.
Guy Gary has been located at 111 McClay St., Santa Ana, Calif., and I hope the fellows who knew him in old Dartmouth as the best bicycle rider in the New England college and as one who brought great fame to Dartmouth along those lines, will write him a line of cheer.
Fritz Robbert s only child, Helen, is now studying at Columbia College for her Ph.D.
In Albert Smith's home Catherine is 21 years old. After finishing her sophomore year in Carleton College she decided to take a course at Moser Business College in Chicago. She may finish her college course later. Frederick, 19 years old, is a freshman at Dartmouth. He reports that the board at Commons is very bad, that his studies are hard, but that Hanover is a great place.
Everett Hoyt was present with his two sons at the Harvard-Dartmouth game.
Jimmie Leahy has three children, one young lady aged four and two boys, seventeen and fifteen respectively (ball players par excellence).
Pete Adams sends the following: "You can hardly expect any extended description of the doings of the concentrated bombs of energy represented in the person of my two young sons, Edmund aged seven and John aged five. Apart from a mild interest in reading and writing, their lives are devoted to climbing, digging, and the supervision of the activities of their mother and father. We hope to introduce them to New England next summer."
Bill Hewes has five children. Laurence Isley Hewes Jr., A.B. Dartmouth '24, is with Chase Securities and Harris Eorbes, San Francisco. Mary Calhoun Hewes, A.B. Mills College '24, A.M. University of California '29, graduate fellowship student University of Bordeaux, France, 1927 and 1928, is head of the French department, Redding High School, Redding, Calif. John Alden Hewes is senior engineer inspector, U. S. Bureau Public Roads, District I, Portland, Oregon. He married Miss Verna E. McLaughlin of Portland, Oregon, March, 1931. David Danforth Hewes, A.B. Dartmouth '31, with the Guaranty Company, New York. Calhoun Seabury Hewes is a student at the New Mexico Military Institute.
In regard to the Carney children, Betty is a senior at Smith College, Catherine is a junior at Vassar, Ruth is a senior at Dana Hall at Wellesley, and Phil is in the second year at Middlesex School, Concord, Mass. Joe says that "beyond this they have the usual frailties, weaknesses, and merits of all other children, and I guess you know as much about them as might be desirable."
Warren Gilman, son of John A. Gilman, is now 22 years of age. He had an attack of infantile paralysis three years ago, at which time he was preparing to enter Annapolis under a Congressional appointment. After spending somewhat over a year at Walter Reed Hopsital, Washington, D. C., he entered George Washington University and completed the freshman year last June. He now has a position with the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va., and likes the work so much that he decided to stay out of school for one year and continue his work. The other Gilman boy is John Schaefer, aged 15, a junior at Central High School, Washington, D. C. He is a corporal in the Corps of Cadets, and a member of Boy Scout Troop No. 43.
The only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Montgomery is Ruth May Montgomery. She is now in the seventh grade in the Jackman School, Newburyport, Mass., and is fortunate to be put in the "A" division. She has very fine health, and is fond of swimming and outdoor life in general. She is eleven years old.
The Lockwood children are as follows:The oldest child, Marion Evelyn, is now 81. She went to the grammar school in Naco, Arizona, then entered the Southern Arizona Normal School at Tempe, and also the Northern Arizona School at Flagstaff. In 1930 she married Earl H. Mack, assistant cashier of the Railways Express Cos., El Paso, Texas, where she is now living with her husband. The next child, Charlotte Ruth, is now 26 years of age, and after graduating from school decided to stay home and help with her mother, who is not very well. Genevieve Frances is 24 years of age, and is married to William C. Fenderson, a railroad man, and has two children. Lockwood's son, Arthur George, is now 22 years of age. He was a student at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and is now in the diamond drilling trade, and hopes to become a diamond drill contractor as soon as mining conditions return to normal.
Sherman Moulton's son Horace graduated from Dartmouth in '28 and took his degree cum laude at Harvard Law School last June. During his third year there he was on the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review. He has passed the Massachusetts bar examinations, and is now in the office of Brown, Field, and McCarthy, 185 Devonshire St., Boston.
Secretary, 57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass.
