CLASS OF 1899

The regular Boston round-up of '99 was held for the thirty-second consecutive time on the first Saturday night of March. Present were the following: Rab Abbott of Manches H., Ed Allen, Bill Atwood, Jim Barney, K. Beal, Louis Benezet, Nelson Brown, George Clark, Hale Dearborn, Charlie Donahue, Percy Drake, George Evans, Gus Heywood, Owen Hoban, Joe Hobbs, George Huckins, Warren Kendall, Tim Lynch, Frank Musgrove, Dave Parker, Herb Rogers, Mot Sargeant, Ed Skinner, Alvah Sleeper, Bill Wiggin, and Phil Winchester. Exactly half of these twenty-six men had come from considerable distances to keep the traditional date, notably Drake from Hartford, Conn., Kendall from Chevy Chase, Md., Musgrove from Hanover, Sargeant from New Bedford, Wiggin from Pittsburg in northern New Hampshire, and Winchester from Syracuse, N. Y.

The largest number of greeting cards ever received from fellows unable to attend made the sense of fellowship deep and intimate. John Ash said "Hello!" from Corvallis, Ore., Willis Hodgkins and Walter Foss from California, Doc Norton from San Antonio, Texas, Rodney Sanborn, just back from Florida, and Fod Martin from the wilds of Maine, not to mention fifty others.

Ed Skinner, class treasurer, announced that a start had been made on the Special Reserve Fund, and that it was in the bank. Benny reviewed the experiences of the fourteen sons of '99 that have been or are at Dartmouth, Rab Abbott gave vivid glimpses of the class "hegira," "higera," or what have you, to Weary Wardle's home in Canada last summer, and there was a general demand that every year henceforth the fellows and their families shall take to the road and make gipsy-like descents upon unsuspecting classmates. Bill Atwood, however, maintained that they could not take him by surprise, and that, "Come one, come all," his barn on the old family farm in Hampden, Me., would more than cover every wanderer.

Partly through contacts at the round-up and partly from other sources come these other bits of news.

George Rounds is advertising manager of the Michigan Builders' Trade Journal. He got a great thrill out of hearing Benezet and Silver speak at the N. E. A. in Detroit in February.

Genevieve Benezet has been awarded the Belle Skinner Fellowship by Vassar, and will spend next year studying history in French universities, not in Paris.

Bobby Howe has a new summer home at "Rollins Farm," Newington, N. H., on the Piscataqua river. Ninety-nine friends and others are expected to stop in.

This stands for Rodney Sanborn also at Ossipee.

George Evans in his second year as president of the Massachusetts Library Association closed up a two-day convention at Springfield just early enough to make the round-up.

At Boston University, on the basket-ball squad all season two of the girls have been Norma Leavitt and Louise Musgrove, both seniors. Friday, March 6, just by chance they discovered that they were Dartmouth cousins, with '99 fathers and a host of things in common. Louise is finishing her preparation for teaching French and English after having had two years at the Keene, N. H., Normal School and two years' experience in teaching at Newport, N. H.

There were many letters and postcards and remarks at the round-up that will find fuller mention in the Class Report when the next issue comes out. Meanwhile, year by year, the significance of the round-up grows, and is one of the most treasured means of binding the men of the class more closely together.

Secretary, 41 West Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Md.