CLASS OF 1916

"Sees All—Knows All." Believe it or not but that is Pathe News and not your Secretary. There is Just one more edition—Junefor this year. All my material has been used for this number. So tell me what you have seen and what you know about 'l6ers.

May 6 and 7 are the dates set for the annual secretaries' meeting in Hanover. All things being equal and the heel of big business being light, here is one secretary that will be on hand. In addition to the business at hand and the various ways and means to extort a reply from some of you men who think that letters are a chain of mountains in China, there will be two baseball games and we hope that these will be staged in that May air for which Hanover is remembered. If you have any news send it to me in Hanover, as notes have to be in May 10.

Bob McClure has written a very interesting letter from China. But he has asked that I do not publish it. But suffice it to say that Bob still holds a very great interest in Dartmouth and the class. This in spite of the fact that he was with us only the two last years in college. Bob with other American college graduates is certainly doing a very splendid work in helping to provide an education to Chinese youths who are eager and anxious to better themselves. Fukien Christian College has grown from a very small unit to an institution of 200 students. It has been handicapped in its expansion by that ever present reason—lack of money. In times such as these it is especially true, and in addition to serving this institution with their life work, they are also giving one month's pay to help overcome this shortage.

Cap Palmer, who spent only his senior year at Hanover in Tuck School, writes that he has a brother in the senior class this year, and that five years from now he will have a son to enter in the freshman class. How does that make some of you young lads feel? Brundage, Woodward, Story, and Rose, 90 Broad St., New York city, introduces Charley Brundage as the first named member of this firm, which is an investment council service for individuals, insurance companies, banks, and other institutions. Success, Charley.

Ken Stowell has been in the architectural field since his graduation. Started as a teacher, then as a designer for several architectural concerns in New York city, and at present as editor of the ArchitecturalForum.

Congratulations are in order for the Bob Steinerts—a girl last February. So we take it that business in pianos and radios, at least in Bob's company, must be good, in spite of the fact that Bob adds that parked in the front hall the baby protects the family funds by yelling so loud that the wolf and bill collectors are frightened away.

Harry Goldman crashes through with some hot news from New York city. Harry makes the second correspondent from New York city, so that I still hold some hopes for that group. Harry reports that he has seen Bill Biel, one of New York's lawyers. Then to set at rest any fears that you might be holding for the welfare of Charlie Jones and Reg Gough, be advised that they are still counted as part of the vast multitude of that great city. Also that they frequent places where letters can be written should the urge appear. Harry reports that he returned from the West Coast in August, 1929, expecting to enter into a business which at the last minute did not work out as he had planned, so connected with The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S. His family was augmented by one last June, bringing the children to a total of three, two boys and one girl.

From a clipping from the New York Evening Post of March 23 (also furnished by Harry Goldman) we learn that Reginald F. Chutter, export manager of Sharp and Dohme, delivered a talk before the meeting of the Export Managers Club at the Hotel Pennsylvania.

The Cedar Bar, Bermudiana Hotel, Bermuda, is the picture that greets my eye now. It shows only one man at the bar and two bartenders. That one man in front with his foot on the rail is none other than Marty Linihan—so there are advantages in this bachelor business. "What a place for a Balmacaan reunion," is Marty's only remark. The rest speaks for itself.

From Gran Fuller comes word that Gil Tapley under pretense of business has sailed for Cuba. Of course the United Fruit, for which Gil is auditor, is a very large concern and has factories in Cuba—but it seems odd that business should appear for Gil just as we hit the only real winter weather that we have had this year.

Some folks will not admit there is a depression on. Here is Joe Newmark, Salem's authority on what the well-dressed woman should wear, just returning from Florida, stopping on the way back at Jacksonville to see Nat Harris, who is manager of the W. T. Grant store there. Joe certainly must keep busy in that city of his—vice-president of Rotary, director of Chamber of Commerce and Family Welfare Society. Still Joe found time to attend the festivities in Boston at the time of the Stanford game.

It was my opinion that our all-round athlete, Gene McQuesten, was the only man that we had in the wool business. But in this I find that I am wrong, for Bob Dana claims the wool field as his scene of action also. Says that he is still working, so we have two in that field.

Alex Dean is at Yale, trying to repay them for the good deed that their graduate, Eleazar Wheelock, did for us. Alex is assistant professor of play production and also a director of Yale University Dramatic Association. In his off-time edits play collections and short plays, and at present is working on a textbook, "Drama."

When you hear the expression "Clean from Boston," you will know the Freddie Bailey of the Regal Laundry Company of that city has made that an actual factthough I am at loss to know what made it possible before Freddie entered this service. He also reports that the Boston gang have been all washed out for the past five months, but that that could not be attributed to him, as he has been too busy in other ways. He and Bert Phinney gather for luncheon once or twice a month (depending on the general condition of the country), to settle national affairs. The latest solution offered is a trip to Keene, N. H., with Bert and Bill Mott. (If the executive committee were invited, they might be able to be present to obtain some of this good solution.) Then Freddie has stepped out into local politics—Ralph George must have had something to do with this—and, yes, was most successful—elected to the school committee by the largest vote ever cast for a single office in the history of Dedham politics. Congratulations are in order. Then in addition to this has interviewed 15 boys who have applied for admission to Dartmouth.

It seems impossible to garner a letter from certain of you men who read this column. But perhaps you will sit down and write to Don Fuller, 36 Campau Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. Don needs some first hand news from you men.

Think this through: Present readers of this column accounted for 83% of the class contribution to the Alumni Fund last year, but we never have had a finer opportunity to demonstrate our belief in all that Dartmouth is and stands for than now. Let's keep that faith and mail our checks today.—ROG EVANS.

Secretary, 3589 Avalon Rd., Shaker Heights, Ohio