CLASS OF 1902

George Elderkin sailed on February 23 for Beirut, Syria, on his way to Antioch, where archaeological excavations will begin' in March. He will be general director of the work, which will continue every spring for five years under a concession granted by the Syrian government to Princeton University and affiliated organizations. The latter consist of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Worcester Museum of Art, and the Musees Nationaux of France. The object of the excavation is to recover monuments of various kinds which will elucidate the culture of the important Seleucid capital in the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Christian periods. Lucky George to be able to engage again in the work he loves so dearly. When George reaches Beirut and drops around at the little observatory on College Hill presided over by Julius Arthur Brown, we predict there will be an old-time 1902 reunion on the eastern shores of the blue Mediterranean with the snow-capped Lebanon Mts. and Damascus looking on in the distance.

At last we have found a Californian who can look at his state without using rosecolored glasses. Carroll Davis writes from Orland, Calif., that so far as he can observe his state is no better than any other to be caught in when a depression grips the country. Carroll is engaged in the real estate business with the raising of fancy poultry as a side line and hobby. His two children are both grown up—Flora, who took a course in a private secretarial school and is now employed in Seattle, and Morton, who has followed an engineering career, at present specializing in Diesel engines. The only member of 1902 with whom Davis comes in contact is Charlie Kircher, who is over in Tiburon, Calif.

P. P. Edson is vice-president of Cushman and Wakefield, Inc., 30 East 42 St., New York, real estate dealers, and specializing in the management of office buildings in the Grand Central district. His oldest son, Andrew L., is manager of the Trans-Lux News Reel Theatre at 49th St. and Broadway. His younger son, Lefferts P., is now a sophomore at Dartmouth. The Edson family own a cottage at Brookfield, Vt., where they spend their summers. P. P. states that he has attended every reunion of the class since graduation, and expects to be at the thirtieth in June even if he has to steal the money, which he says is rather probable in view of present business conditions.

President Hopkins spoke in Springfield recently at the meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Western Mass. Our class was represented by Dorr, Taylor, and Holmes. .Taylor has been practising law in Springfield for about four years.

Bob Leach is one of five men to represent the state of Massachusetts at the New England Regional Meeting of the American Legion united employment campaign, sponsored by the American Federation of Labor and Association of National Advertisers as well as by the Legion.

Contrary to the experience of most men in these days, the months of depression have tended to increase the work of Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles, superintendent of the Butler Hospital, Providence, R. I. He specializes in nervous and mental diseases. Dr. Ruggles has been asked to give the Colver lectures at Brown University. This is an annual series of lectures provided by the Charles K. Colver Fund, and will be given in March of this year.

Percy Dorr is vice-president of the ChaseHarris-Forbes Corp. of Boston and the representative of that corporation for western Massachusetts, with headquarters in Springfield. Percy's elder daughter, Dorothy, who has been attending the Bennett School at Millbrook, N. Y., for the past three years, is now taking a course at the Garland School in Boston. His younger daughter, Betty, is now a junior in Springfield High School and preparing for Smith College. She was recently awarded first prize for outstanding work in French, covering the three years that she has been in the high school.

Harry Davis, who was a member of the class of 1902 for three years or so, has a lengthy but most interesting article on the wool trade in the Commercial Bulletin of Boston, date of January 23. He has charge of wool transportation for the Boston and Albany railroad.

John Gilman is superintendent of schools, Laconia, N. H., and for the last three years has been a member of the summer faculty at the University of New Hampshire. The Gilman children are three in number—two boys and a girl. The older boy, a junior at the University of New Hampshire, won his numerals in track his freshman year. Last year he was a member of the Varsity team, but because of an injury was able to compete in only one meet. The daughter, Barbara, an honor student in the class of 1931 in Laconia High School, was awarded a cup for being the best girl athlete in her class. She is a freshman at Russell Sage College. The youngest of the family is eleven years old, and has not decided whether he wants to go to Dartmouth or to the University of New Hampshire.

If "Billy" Hill was not conspicuous for activity or interest in athletics and sports during his undergraduate days, he has amply made up for it since. In 1927 he served as president of the International Skating Union of America. In 1928 he founded the Amateur Skating Union of the United States, and served as its president for two years, at the end of that time being elected honorary president for life. He has been on the board of governors of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States for three years, and is a member of its Olympic hockey committee. At the present time he is a member of the American Olympic Committee, one of the subcommittee of four having in charge the speed skating Olympic events at Lake Placid, and served as one of the finish judges for the speed skating events at Lake Placid during the recent Olympics. Incidentally he has been secretary of the New England Skating Association for the past twenty years or more.

And here's one from our old classmate "Shorty" Sanborn, now Dr. Harvey B. of Providence, R. I.:

Dear Squash: Although your letter is of course a general class appeal, I see in it some personal touch and so am answering in a rather personal way. I regret that I have no news items to give you of great value. There has been nothing in my life very unusual or exciting, or of particular interest to the class.

I stick pretty closely to my private practice, specializing in diseases of the nervous system. I remember one day in our freshman year Professor Emery gave us a little talk on the value of an avocation. It made a considerable impression upon me. As my chief avocation I have followed the art of fishing. I try to get to Maine about every year for this purpose. I have never tried to emulate Zane Grey by angling for swordfish. Trout, bass, and salmon can give me all the thrill I want.

I have three boys ranging from fifteen to twenty years of age. The oldest one most resembles the old man in length of legs, being six feet four inches. He is taking a business course, and hopes in about a year to be able to definitely help bring about a reconstuction in the business world. The second boy will probably enter Brown next fall; and the youngest boy two years later. The oldest boy, Norman, has shown considerable ability in cross country runs, and two years ago held the city school championship. You see there is nothing much here of news value, but I have shown you that I am not too busy to answer your letter promptly and that I still have the price of a postage stamp.

Modesty is certainly a comely- virtue and doubtless all too rare in these changing times, but like many another such can be carried to an extreme that profits no one. As an illustration of how reluctant some men of 1902 have been to mention any facts about themselves, even though such are highly creditable and of great interest to the class, take the case of a certain member who, although he sent a very cordial reply to the Secretary's class letter, yet failed entirely to mention the fact—first, that he has a son who is at present an undergraduate in Dartmouth, and—second, that he himself is mayor of the city in which he resides. Can you beat that! We feel that by rights he should be exposed and placed on the pillory of class censure, but he is such an all-around good scout that we haven't the heart to do it. We shall just let him down easy in a later number.

Arthur L. Eaton is teaching Spanish and Latin in the Boys' Commercial High School, Brooklyn, N. Y., and resides in the same city. "Pa" and his wife spend their summer vacations on a small island in Bow Lake, Strafford, N. H.

E. K. Sawyer, affectionately known to the class as "Fat," is carrying on the grocery and provision business started by his father many years ago in Franklin, N. H. He and his wife spent last fall in Europe, where they became something of enthusiasts in aeronautical trips. Fat reports that it seems a very long time ago since he and Bob Leach and Squash Elliott used to wend their way on Sunday evenings up to Maggie Morse's to enjoy one of her delectable oyster stews. Around her two tables were gathered such celebrities as Bunker Bishop, Joe Raphael, Jean Leach, Johnny Ward, and others, and the hash-slinging was adroitly attended to by Edgar Hunter and A. P. Fairfield.

My dear Bob:

My sympathies are with you in your undertaking of substituting for George. Statistics show that only an average of 20% of a secretary's efforts being results. Here's my contribution to help make that percentage better.

Married three years ago—about three months after meeting you and Mrs. E. on the street in Lowell. Have two girls, Nancy Jane and Jacqueline. Picture of the latter—taken at 4½ months—enclosed. Nancy, topping two years, has Jacquey beat a thousand miles, at this writing, in looks. Use your imagination.

Jack is employed by a book concern, and lives at 1247 Bender Ave., East Cleveland, Ohio.

This MAGAZINE goes to press the tenth of each month for the following month's issue. The Secretary has practically exhausted his supply of news items with the present number, and hopes the members of the class who have not recently written him will put their shoulders to the wheel for old 1902. It will not be necessary to censor the letters, as none will be published verbatim without express permission, and the Secretary will endeavor at all times to use "discretion."

Secretary, 319 Stevens St., Lowell, Mass.