CLASS OF 1907
Jim Reilly temporarily relinquished Ms trial duties with Messrs. Gaston, Snow, Saltonstall, and Hunt on February 1, and went to the Sanitorium at Battle Creek, Mich., for treatment and a rest. He was accompanied by his brother Walter, 1911. Jim hoped that a sojourn of three weeks or a month would restore his weight and health.
In the first part of January, while skating with his son Robert, Harry Pelren was unfortunate enough to fall, breaking his collar bone and five ribs. He spent two weeks in the hospital and is now back in his office selling securities for Paine, Webber, and Company.
Victor King's son who is a senior, has been conspicuous in the Outing Club, and was in charge of the Outdoor Night at the Winter Carnival on February's.
To what extent the College has changed in the past twenty-five years is indicated in the following letter from King Angus LIX:
"There is no news concerning myself. My family is still limited to one wife and self. I see very few classmates, although once in a great while see the little Brooks boy and Dr. 'Dinny' Black. My occupation is the same, home and business addresses same. Recent trip was one to Cuba a few months ago, and had a wonderful time, most of it being spent at 'Sloppy Joe's.' No changes in business. No particular hobbies, but do like to play poker once in a while; have no children, so cannot give you their names and ages nor how far advanced in school they are, but when they do attend college, whether boys or girls, they will certainly go to Dartmouth. I did get a little kick out of riding down town this morning with a man who has a son in Dartmouth. He told me that Dartmouth had changed considerably; that now they drank and gambled and raised hell up there.
"I cannot imagine, after the four years I spent up there, how a college could possibly get to the stage where drinking, gambling, or raising hell could be tolerated. If you remember correctly, in our day such a thing was unheard of, with the exception of Brooks, Hale, Jim Reilly, Bill Jennings, Judge McLane, yourself, and a few other rummies, who certainly did bring considerable disgrace to our class by the way you fellows conducted yourselves.
"Without doubt, you fellows are now sorry for the way you acted, and in these after years must often wish that you had lived as Dinny Black and I did. I see Dinny once in a while, and at such meetings we rejoice that we led a godly, sober, and righteous life while in college, with the result that we now have no remorseful memories such as you and the others mentioned above often have."
John Jewett, who is now director of guidance in the Brookline public schools, is among the first of the class grandfathers. His two daughters are married. One has a child a year old, "a perfect boy," and the other a child three months old, "a perfect girl." His son John is a junior at M. I. T., taking the aeronautical engineering course. His son Vernon, who is a sophomore in the Brookline High School, hopes to enter Dartmouth.
Bob Cochrane, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, is assistant professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School, and is on the associate staff of the New England Deaconess, New England Baptist, Faulkner, and Newton Hospitals. Bob is also consulting surgeon in the Morse Hospital, Natick, Mass. the Framingham Hospital, Framingham, Mass., and Boston Lying-in Hospital, and is visiting surgeon at the Boston City Hospital. In addition to general surgery he specializes in thyroid surgery. Robert, Jr., 14, is attending the Rivers School in preparation for Dartmouth. He made his letter in football last fall.
Jack Hammond is assistant professor of pediatrics at Yale University Medical School. Jack married Miss Adelaide Meara of New York and New Haven, June 1, 1929. They have a daughter, Patricia Southworth, born June 4, 1930. Last August Jack visited Hanover for the first time in fifteen years, and he was much impressed by the growth and changes since his graduation.
Herb Mitchell has two boys, 14 and 3, who are already entered at Dartmouth, and he expects his daughter Jane, 11, will go to Smith. He reports a recent trip to the hospital because of a bursting appendix.
Sam Bartlett, who is construction engineer with the Hastings Pavement Company, New York city, has two daughters, born in 1917 and 1920, who hope to go to Wellesley.
Mike Smith, who .is practicing surgery in New York city, is an associate attending surgeon at St. Luke's Hospital and at the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital.
Dick Lane, who is vice-president of the Kendall Company, now spends the most of his time at their office at 80 Federal St., Boston. Dick reports that a nephew, Richard F. Lane, will enter Dartmouth next September.
Harry Haley writes that unfortunately he is still in the cotton mill business, which is tough going. He is president of the Royal River Mills, at Yarmouth, Me. He hopes that his three boys will enter Dartmouth in the classes of 1941, '43, and '47. The indications are that one will be a football player and two will be on the track squad and will run in the quarter, as their daddy used to do.
Tom Field, who is practicing medicine in Jacksonville, Fla., is a fellow in the American College of Surgery, and he is consulting gynecologist to Duval County Hospital and to St. Vincent's Hospital. His daughter Shirley, 16 and son Peter, 7, hope to enter Wellesley and Dartmouth. Tom writes, "Haven't been on any trip. Too broke since the boom. Own a lot of Florida real estate I'd like to sell some of you birds."
Percy Evans is at present making a trip around the world.
Robert P. M. Lewis is an associate of the P. Bacon Richardson Company at 149 Broadway, New York city, which is an advertising concern in the direct mail and display field, and in connection with his work he says, "Outside of idea, plan, copy, and contact work, I have little to do.'' He also writes, "Keeping a hopeful, even optimistic census of the top hairs is probably my keenest hobby."
Don Williams, who is a news correspondent at Keene, N. H., with the Sentinel Printing Company, says that Mrs. Williams is a lay preacher and conducts services every Sunday in Roxbury, N. H. His daughter Lena is a junior at the University of New Hampshire, and his daughter Doris is a junior in the Keene High School.
Ned Barker has a daughter Agnes who is a sophomore in the high school, and he hopes his son Craig will be in the Dartmouth class of 1941. For twenty-two years Ned has been with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in their long lines traffic department. Besides his interest in golf and civic work he has been a trustee of the Rutherford Congregational church for five years.
Like the Class Secretary, Sam Barnes writes that he is unfortunate enough to be in various kinds of lumber business. He and his wife attended the Stanford game and had a wonderful time with the Dartmouth crowd. His daughters, Barbara and Sally, 18 and 14, are in the Bishops School for girls at La Jolla, Cal. Barbara expects to enter her mother's college, Mount Holyoke, next fall. Sam writes of the day that John McLane spent with them in Seattle just before Christmas, when he got the low-down on some of his classmates of the Effete East. His closing remark is, "I want all 1907 men to know that the Barnes house in Seattle is always open for visitors, if they get within striking distance of Puget Sound."
George Dalrymple is now with the Equitable Life Insurance Company with headquarters in Boston. He lives in Haverhill, Mass., where he develops his hobby for floriculture, and says, "If any of my old friends of Dartmouth happen through Haverhill I want them to stop off and see the roses and glads."
Harold Niles, who retires as chairman of the board of selectmen for the town of Wellesley in March, will still have some occupation in managing his real estate and insurance business, which is located at 80 Federal St., Boston. His son, Louville F., is enjoying a year at Tabor Academy and enters Dartmouth next fall. His daughter Katharine, 16, may enter her mother's college, Wellesley.
Ted Foster is vice-president of the Richard-Young Company, tanners, at 36 Spruce St., ew York city. His daughter Lois is a sophomore at Sweet Briar* College, Sweet Briar, Va. His son Freddy, Jr., is a sophomore at the Great Neck, L. 1., High School. Ted writes: "We visit Cambridge and New Haven each autumn, and spend the summer vacation in New Hampshire. Drive to Hanover once or twice just so the College plant won't become entirely unrecognizable. Isn't it a marvelous institution? To my mind Hoppy's administration is the soundest, most progressive, and forward-looking of any in this or any other country. It's a real joy to observe the lines on which Dartmouth College is being developed."
Hermon Hill is an attorney in the office of general counsel, U. S. Internal Revenue Bureau, and lives in Washington. He has two sons who are in high school.
Fred Lena was granted the degree of Master of Arts at Columbia in 1915. In 1930 he was awarded by Fordham the Ph.D. degree. He says, however, that his most cherished scholastic award is the A.B. with Prexy Tucker's signature affixed. Fred is principal of the Longfellow High School in Yonkers, N. Y., which he says is a beautiful school, ultra-modern in every respect, and one that is worthy of a visit from 1907 men.
Albert Tibbets was recently appointed professor of otolaryngology at the George Washington University Medical School. He is also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has two boys, fifteen and ten.
Bill Minsch, who is a banker and the director of the Alumni Fund, has a daughter Dorothy in the freshman class at Smith College. His daughter Elizabeth, 12, expects to go to Smith. William, Jr., is at Taft School, and Bill says "next year goes to (don't be silly)."
Albert Hazen is with the firm of Bulkley, Vallance, and Company, 120 Broadway, New York city, which deals in investment securities.
Earl Richards is connected with the firm of J. F. P. Sheldon and Son, in Providence, R. I., industrial engineers and architects. He is in charge of costs, estimates, specifications, and appraisals. His son, Earl, Jr., 17, is a junior in the Hope High School and is 6'1" tall, weighs 180 lbs., and is a guard on the football team. Planning to enter Norwich University. Earl also has a daughter Ruth, 10.
Walter Leighton is the chief accountant in Electrical Research Products, Inc., 250 West 57th St., New York city. He lives in Maplewood, N. J., and has two daughters, 10 and 4.
Arthur Winslow, who has been with the Hollingsworth and Whitney Company, paper manufacturers, for a long time, is now in his second year as manager of personnel, which work he finds both interesting and exacting. His son Robert, 16, entered Worcester Academy last fall and hopes to enter Dartmouth. In February Arthur attended an executive committee meeting of the paper and pulp section of the National Safety Council by virtue of his being regional director for Maine.
Ralph S. Perkins, whose occupation is orthopedic surgery in Worcester, reports that his family is increasing, and that he has two boys, who are now 5 and 1. He hopes his boys will at least attend Dartmouth with some of the "grandchildren" of 1907.
To date there have been received fifty-two payments for class dues, including subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for the year 1931. This is good, but it ought to be better. Please mail payments promptly.
Secretary, 131 State St., Boston
