Class of 1897
Thirty-Fifth Reunion
Present for whole or a part of the Commencement were:—Woodworth, E. K.; Watson, M.; Watson, A. P.; Ward; Tuttle; Tracy; Thyng; Temple; Smith, E. T.; Sanborn; Rowe; Rollins; Pringle; Poor; McFee; Marshall; Kelley; Johnson; Holt; Ham; Gibson; Foss; Folsom; Drew; Christophe; Butterfield; Bolser; Heald.
Present also were these lady members of the class:—Ward, Tracy, Thyng, Temple, Sanborn, Rowe, Pringle, Poor, Kelley, Gibson, Foss, Folsom, Christophe, Butterfield.
Present also were these junior members: —Woodworth—1; Watson, M.—1; Ward—2; O'Brion— 1; McFee—2; Thyng—2; Rowe—1; Gibson—3; Butterfield—3.
Of these, members of the graduating class were:—Watson, M.; Ward; O'Brion: Butterfield.
We lived together in South Fayerweather and talked until the morning hours. We had our class supper at the Outing Club and the first course was planked brook trout enticed at daybreak from mountain streams by Bill Ham and Erdix Smith. We spent a day once again at Lake Tarleton, most restful of New England lochs.
The formal exercises of Commencement were impressive, but from the Baccalaureate Sermon to the Valedictory Address all speeches were so somber in tone that they would have delighted Jeremiah and other professors of pessimism and practicers of ululation. Someone must have told the faculty that there is a depression outside. When the exercises in the reconstructed Bema closed, a bird in an overhanging fir tree was singing, "God's in His Heaven, All's Right with the World," but no one heard him.
Rev. Theodore H. Bacon is now field secretary for Shurtleff College, a denominational institution of distinctive service located at Alton, 111. His home is at 4030 Arsenal St., St. Louis, Mo.
S. C. Smith, in charge of the western office of Ginn and Company, has spent vacation weeks with the members of his family at his summer cabin. This is at Dartmouth Cove on Echo Lake in the High Sierras.
Professor John M. Poor has had a busy summer due to two events which an astronomer could readily predict. One was the total eclipse of the sun on August 31, 1932. The other was the marriage of Dorothy Noyes, his older daughter, on August 14 to Edward H. Hazen.
Ed Cass, after nearly forty years of school teaching and administration, is living in retirement at his home, 61 Thayer St., Manchester, N. H. Except for his eyes and a few other minor physical defects, Cass is as active and alert as ever.
Tully Thorne has recently visited Dartmouth for the first time in thirty-five years and has written: "What a transformation!The old Dartmouth had almost completelydisappeared, and the new Dartmouth withits graceful, its wonderful buildings, withtheir beautiful settings, enthralled me. Intouring I have visited many college towns,but none excels Hanover in its quiet, dignified, majestic, academic tone." After graduation Thorne prepared for teaching in Columbia University. He has since taught with marked success in the schools of New York city, and is now head of the English department of the Paulding Junior High School in the Bronx. To Mr. and Mrs. Thorne have been born seven children:— Letitia Ella, a kindergarten teacher in the city schools, married to Allen Kniffen, an engineer from Rutgers; John Stocks, an electrical engineer with the Western Electric Company, married to Annie Jacobsen; Cecil Barre, now a steel engraver with the American Bank Note Company and married to Cynthia Church, a teacher in the city schools; Francis Plumeau, a surveyor for the New York Title and Guarantee Company; Marie Louise, deceased; Paul, deceased; Charles Ferrette, now a student at a private college preparatory school.
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Thirty-Fifth ReunionCLASS OF '97 AT WHEELER HALL.
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