Class of 1909
We had a very quiet but very pleasant class dinner the night before the Harvard game, in a private dining room at the University Club. There were present: Sandy Hooker, Art Swenson, Gordon Weinz, Sam Bell, Chet Brett, Cad Cummings, Bunk Irwin, Herb Hawes, Howard Moody, Plum Leighton, Phil Avery, Reggie Bankart, Jake Mason, Bob Burns, and Ben Scully. Although we had less than half the usual number present, we were able to keep the charges, everything included, down to two dollars. The dinner was most excellent, the singing atrocious, and Reggie Bankart's stories worse yet, but the crowd stayed until after nine o'clock and enjoyed visiting and reminiscing.
Reggie Bankart's son has obtained high ranking in his studies and is generally interested in them, and in outside activities such as the Outing Club. As a result he has dropped football for this fall to give himself more time for his other occupations. Vividly remembering Reggie's deeds as one of the best linemen we have ever had, it was rather interesting to find that Reggie heartily approved, and we thought it a good example of the far saner attitude of the present undergraduate towards athletics than the attitude prevalent in our time.
Frank Solomon is now at the New York office of L. Grief & Bros. Co. at 200 Fifth Ave., New York city.
Taintor Parkinson has become a member of the physics department at the University of Michigan, and his home address is now 500 S. Fifth Ave., Ann Arbor, Mich.
Trescott Griffin has moved his office to 141 Milk St., Room 250, Boston, and his residence is now 46 Randlett Park, West Newton, Mass.
Harold Clark is still head of the Rumson School at Rumson, N. J., which has this year the largest enrollment it has ever had. Harold and his family spent the summer at Sagamore Beach, Cape Cod, where he had a reunion of the Clark family. On a trip to Maine he visited Wilbur Bull, and reports him very busy in his Oxford county parish and much beloved by everyone. Harold's son Francis is in his last year at Choate School and is headed for Annapolis.
Dick and Phyllis Lord are running a restaurant at 535 Main St., Melrose, Mass., where they are serving extraordinarily fine food. Jerry has graduated from New Hampton and is trouping with his band. My most vivid recollection of Jerry dates back to the time when he blew reveille one morning at our last reunion.
There are only two sons of members of the class in the freshman class this year, so far as I know, i.e., Freddie Reed's boy Bill, and Lynde Tucker's son Richard W. Whereas there are eleven sons of 1910 in the freshman class. (?)
Henry R. Bankart Jr. has been pledged by Deke. Gordon B. York went Phi Sigma Kappa.
R. A. Burns, Esquire, spoke at the October meeting of the International Milk Dealers Association in Detroit, and has been elected chairman of the Sales and Advertising Section. We understand that the meeting next year is at the Chicago World's Fair, and we have already put in our application for appointment as Mr. Burns' private secretary.
We ran into Russ Pettengill between the halves at the Yale game with just the results that one would expect. Russ is as active and energetic as usual, perhaps even more so. Prescott, Sheldon, Avery, Burns, and your Secretary were also among those present, but we were unable to arrange any real get-together.
Secretary, Atlantic National Bank Bldg. 100 Milk St., Boston
