CLASS OF 1908
At the Boston alumni dinner March 7 there was one crowded table of '08 gentry, and Joe Donahue, who came late, had to sit with the adjoining class of '88. Besides Donahue there were present Art Lewis, Pete McCarty, Abe Lincoln, Paul Vaitses, Percy Gleason, Jack Corcoran, Rotch and son Bill, H. T. Pierce (Thayer School '08), and John Wilson, a guest of Lincoln's. And there was one other, introduced as Mr. Brown, a friend of Art Lewis.
This Mr. Brown was a good-looking man with a distinguished manner and some funny stories. He did not preserve his incognito long, whatever else he may have saved from the party. "Mister Brown" was identified as John Gushing. John T. (Himself) Cushing, publisher of the Boston Advertiser and Record, and joint owner with Mr. Hearst of that scintillating tabloid. Since leaving Hanover he has flourished as a publisher in St. Albans, Vt., and later in Washington, D. C. He has attended few if any of the class reunions. Now he is in Boston as owner and publisher of the tabloid, which is making money under the management of 'OB John.
Mrs. McCarty and Mrs. Gleason were also at the Boston dinner—in the gallery along with other Dartmouth ladies. But after dinner they joined their other, if not better, halves, and swapped greetings with the classmates.
W. M. Lynde is living at 118 Elm St., Barre, Vt. He is in the general insurance business, and finds time to swat the golf ball in summer and roll the bowling ball in winter. He missed the last reunion, but writes that he'll miss no more.
John Thompson, the New York patent lawyer, now has his office at 75 East 45th St., and a new firm has been organized under the name Janney, Blair, and Curtis. (Not so awfully new, we understand, but within a year or two.) John says his visible evidence of successful achievement in life is lengthening waistline and shorter temper, with increasing baldness. We'll ask the New York delegation to check on this.
Larry Symmes, now calling Scarsdale his home, missed the New York dinner because of grippe—his own case. His two girls are preparing for Smith or Vassar, and the boy for—you guess. As to changes in business, he says, "used to be good, now terrible." Under head of recreations he says, "Wife and children ride horseback and old man tries to stick on. Fine skating this winter." Probably he means just that. Larry says he sees Fred Munkelt and Don Frothingham occasionally, and expects Gen. Knox is about due from Brazil on the next revolution.
A class bulletin was due some time ago, according to the program. But lack of material has made it seem foolish to attempt one. Two months ago Jack Clark kicked in with a little class news, and a month ago Bob Marsden dropped a letter in the plate. We hoped their good examples would be followed and this month a lot of news would filter in. But nothing like it has happened. So as we reach the March 10 deadline on MAGAZINE news a request has been mailed to all classmates to furnish a bit of news, gossip, scandal, dirt, or plain information about themselves, their families, wives, porcupines, children, or any classmate of whom they have knowledge or suspicions. So now if you want a bulletin and news section in the MAGAZINE, send back that news sheet.'
Assistant Secretary, Milford, N. H.
