CLASS OF 1905
In the February number we asked for the address of Tom Eastman. Came a letter from Mrs. Clarence L. Joy ('99), stating that the Eastmans are spending the winter in Verdugo City, Cal. (care of George Hansen), and suggesting that we could always get his address from Mrs. Joy's daughter, who is a next-door neighbor of the Secretary. The world is truly small.
Wayland Dorothy also responded to the same appeal, giving Eastman's present address, for which we are very grateful.
The Reverend Owen A. McGrath (Muggsy, as was) frequently preaches to a radio audience from WLWL, New York. We heard him one Sunday evening in the program of the Paulist Fathers' church, and though more than 25 years have passed since last we heard him speak, there was no difficulty in recognizing his voice, which was clear and resonant, with certain inflections and pronunciations which sounded familiar. We recalled his reciting in Freshman Latin, and his more important encouragement to his pitcher on the baseball diamond, and the lapse of the years was as nothing. Muggsy wrote an interesting letter in response to a request for news, and we expect to publish it in another issue if space will permit (and if we can find it).
Sliver Hatch comes through with a real letter. This is what we call co-operation, and is a good example for each of you sixty-odd subscribers to the MAGAZINE to follow:
Santa Marta, Colombia, S. A. (United Fruit Co.)
Dear Mac: Your note of January 7 should have been answered before, but was put in the wrong basket or something like that. All alibis are more or less the same in a question of this kind, so why bother to think up a new one.
You have the correct address. I was in Guatemala last year and was planning to make it at Hanover for the 25th, but a sudden radio message from the G. O. brought me back to my old stamping grounds here in Santa Marta early in June, and I have been here since. Was sorry to miss the reunion but, que se hace.
I enjoyed reading of your blizzard while the glass here was around 90°. We celebrated New Year's day with a bathing party at 4.30 A.M. Not much like Malone, N. Y.
The family is coming along. Josephine is now thirteen, Fletcher, Jr., eleven, and Dolita eight. The two eldest are in school in New Jersey and are enjoying their first winter season at home.
I hope to get north this spring for a few weeks and shoot a few rounds of golf up at Hanover. Am getting to where I shoot a mean ninety with an occasional eighty-five. This isn't anything to make Bobby Jones jealous, but I get a kick out of it.
Had a long letter from Tom Keady the other day, which I enjoyed a lot.
So long for now and best regards.
"SLIVER" HATCH (Not any more. I weigh 165 now.)
Bill Knibbs 111 ('s4) as Percy was one of the principals in the cast of "500 Gallons" presented by the Dartmouth Players in Webster Hall during Carnival Week. The program included several musical numbers in which Bill featured; "I Go Wild," Percy and Betty; "Things I Shouldn't Do," Percy and Agatha; and "The Older They Get," by Percy alone. The pictorial supplement of The Dartmouth showed an interesting picture of Percy with other principals.
A recent Worcester paper contains the announcement of the engagement of John Tuck to Miss Marion Elizabeth Robertson, daughter of Mrs. James D. Robertson of 69 South Lenox St.
We are informed that Emerson Day '34 leads his class, with all A's at the end of the first semester. We all extend our heartiest congratulations.
Robert E. Wilmot '34 is a member of the business board of the Freshman Green Book. This is a most interesting publication, new since our day, giving a picture and the prep school record of each member of the class—a sort of "Who's Who."
We acknowledge the graceful compliment to our 'O5 News paid by Ned Burbeck 'O3 in his column in the MAGAZINE for February.
The annual appeal for contributions to the Alumni Fund will be made very soon. Each member of our class will receive a letter from C. C. Hills, our class agent, urging a prompt and generous compliance with his request for a check. Last year we made our quota, but the reunion helped. This year we have no reunion to supply the necessary enthusiasm at the last minute, and thus will need some very large gifts to make up the quota. This simply means that if we are to hold up our end, we must make our checks larger than we did last year. And for C. C.'s sake, to save him an immense amount of work, respond promptly, please! And do not be confused about the class tax. That pays for class expenses, 'O5 News, etc. No part of that fund is available for the Alumni Fund.
Miss Martha F. Emerson entertained the freshmen sons of 'O5 and 'O6 at dinner at the home of Professor Meservey Monday evening February 23. Miss Emerson's niece, Miss Caroline L. Day (Rufus' eldest daughter), was also present.
We have endeavored to get more details as to the death of Alexis D. Pelletier. A letter from Mrs. Pelletier acknowledging the sympathy of the class indicates that it was sudden and unexpected, but gives no further details. She says that they had hoped to attend the reunion last June, but that other plans interfered and made it impossible. Their second son suffered a nervous collapse shortly after his father's death, and for a time they were much alarmed, but now are confident of his complete recovery.
Fred Chase reports that the banquet of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston March 7 at the Copley Plaza was an unusually fine occasion in the quality of the speeches and the music provided, the opportunity to visit around, and the general atmosphere pervading the gathering. The following 'O5 men attended: L. R. Chamberlin, W. E. Chamberlain, Fred Chase (with guest, John Carroll Chase, M. I. T. '74), J. C. Donnelly, L. C. Grover, Herford N. Elliott, John H. Furfey, Halsey Loder, J. Winslow Peirce, Royal Parkinson, and Harry Wilkins.
Brick Reeve's father, Frank Place Reeve, died on March 5 at the Phillips House in Boston, following a three weeks' illness. He had been living with his son in Lynn for the past ten years. Brick has the sympathy of the whole class.
James C. Donnelly, once known as "Jim," was appointed by Governor Ely a judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts on March 11. The nomination must wait over one week and will then go to the Governor's Council for confirmation. There seems to be no doubt as to confirmation, and we are safe in announcing that at the time this magazine is issued, Jim will have become a fully fledged Superior Court judge. The class of 1905 extends its heartiest congratulations to one of its best loved members; we know that he will bring honor and dignity to the bench, and that he will be recognized as a fair and conscientious judge. Jim graduated at Harvard Law in 1908 and has practised law in Worcester ever since. At one time he served as president of the Worcester County Bar Association. We take the following from an article in the Boston Herald, of March 12:
"In 1909 he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for alderman-at-large, and was appointed alternate delegate to the Democratic national convention in Baltimore in 1912. Mr. Donnelly is a cousin to Senator Walsh and is the second member of his family to be named to superior court judgeship, his uncle, John W. Corcoran of Clinton, having been appointed by Gov. Russell.
"For many years, Mr. Donnelly has been performing many of the duties that fall to the lot of judges. He has been in demand by his fellow lawyers to sit as master or auditor in cases that are so involved or that require so much time that they were not sent to juries.
"He is a close personal friend of many of the judges of the Superior Court. Among his closest friends is Judge Nelson P. Brown, at one time one of Donnelly's college instructors. Judge Charles H. Donahue is another, also a Dartmouth man. Judge Thayer, who won fame as a great Dartmouth baseball player, is also an intimate friend of Donnelly's.
"While Mr. Donnelly is best known in and about Worcester as a lawyer, he is probably better known to the outside world as a football authority. He is a close personal friend of Jackson Cannell, Dartmouth coach, and has served as scout for his college during the football season, assisting the Dartmouth coaches in preparing for objective games.
"He is a member of the Worcester County Bar Association, Knights of Columbus, University Club, Economic Club, Worcester Chamber of Commerce, Worcester County Dartmouth Alumni Association, and the Wachusette Country Club."
Secretary, Malone, N. Y.
