CLASS OF 1908

There is just as much news of the class this month as usual, and just as little has come to the attention of the reporting de- partment.

Here's glad tidings from Minneapolis. Bob and Winifred Blanpied and daughter Nancy announce the arrival on December 12 of Bertha Abigail, which makes two-of-a-kind in the Blanpied family.

Ev Marsh, the big policy man of Chicago, is familiar with pineapples, machine guns, and sawed-off shotguns, but he doesn't see many submarines. So he sends as his contribution of news about Chicago classmates a picture of an underwater craft which has the distinction of being designated the 0-8. This was the craft that sent a National Radio broadcast from the ocean's bottom. Ev suggests that 'OB isn't quite at the bottom, but a broadcast might be sent from 'OB urging an immediate response to appeals for the Alumni Fund. The picture of the submarine, clipped from the brown section of some Chicago newspaper, may have given other classmates a reunion feeling, for the numerals 08 are the most conspicuous thing in the picture.

The election of Jack Clark as editor-in-chief of the Daily Dartmouth last month was news for most of the metropolitan dailies, which also carried information of his scholastic accomplishments, preparation at St. Paul's School, membership in Alpha Delt, Green Key, Cabin-and-Trail, etc., etc., but usually omitted the important fact that he is the son of John Alexander Clark '08 and Hazel McLane Clark, sister of "Judge" McLane '07. Many classmates will remember Jack Junior at the 20th reunion. The lad is a credit to his ancestors, and shows what a 100 per cent Dartmouth background can do.

Jack Senior pretends to be really modest about his distinguished son, though we all know he's very proud of the boy. Daddy Jack didn't say much about the lad in a letter of January 6, but he does give some interesting facts about classmates, for which thanks. Here is the letter: Dear Arthur:

Your report in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE voiced such apparently genuine despair that I hasten to send you the following news items.

Arthur Soule and wife were seen at the Columbia game. His oldest son, Turner, is in school in Providence, where he has two more years, but they expect to give him a year abroad before he enters Dartmouth. This, I think, would bring him into the same class with my younger son, Alexander, my nephew, John McLane, Jr., and also Kendall Stearns, oldest son of the redoubtable Malcolm.

Allan Perkins, I understand, recently resigned as vice-president of the Underwriters Trust Company of this city to become president of Mico Textile Company, 2 Park Ave., a subsidiary of Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates, Inc. Allan's two fine boys are at the Gunnery School in Washington, Conn.

Larry Symmes reports that his family is all together for the first time in some years at this season, as one or more have in recent years spent the winter with Mrs. Symmes' family in California. They have given up their Brooklyn apartment and are living in Scarsdale. Larry is still giving a great' deal of time to the work of sifting local candidates for admission to Dartmouth.

Malcolm Stearns has just joined the organization of Drug, Inc. (with which Arthur Soule is also connected). Mike is just starting out on a market survey for this corporation, which he expects will take him into every state of the Union, so he should soon be able to furnish you with many news items. His oldest son, Kendall, is at Hotchkiss School in Connecticut.

With reference to myself, there is little to report. I have, of course, been enjoying my second four years at Dartmouth which I have been experiencing through the person of my older son, John.

With kind regards to your family and yourself, I remain,

Sincerely yours, JACK CLARK

In Fitchburg last month we learned that George Butterfield is in much better health. George never was an invalid, but for a year or so his enthusiasm for golf began to stutter. This winter he is feeling fine, he says, and much better than for the past two years. He'll be hitting 'em long and straight when the drifts melt off the Fitchburg golf pasture. And Porter Lowe of Fitchburg is reported to have left the Fallulah Paper Company, which has claimed his attention for quite a few years. We did not learn what he is doing now. He has a new address, 93 Atlantic Ave., Fitchburg.

There are a number of new addresses. H. A. Morey is at 1537 McKay Ave., Montreal. Ralph Pease is a chemist with Rich Art Color Co., at 31 West 21st St., New York, and lives at 865 First Ave., New York. Allan Perkins now hangs his hat at 325 East 57th St. in the Big Town. Dr. Clayton Royce, formerly of Bethlehem (Pa.), now has an office at 1022 Park St., Jacksonville, Fla., and lives at 2628 Herschel St., in the same "Gateway to Florida." Charles Severance is with Brockway Motor Truck Co., at Cortland, N. Y. Cleve Foote is now living at 11 Calvin Road, Newtonville, Mass., and his office is at 60 Batterymarch St., Boston. And John Cushing, the class newspaperman, is publishing at 165 Congress St., Boston, and living at 536 Walnut St., Newtonville. There are several other new addresses yet to be reported.

Assistant Secretary, Milford, N. H.