Class of 1897
The Secretary has just returned from a business trip to Indianapolis. Most satisfactory of all was a good visit with Walter Kelly at his hospitable home facing the civic circle which is the center of Indianapolis' choicest suburb. Most of us have posthumous colonial furniture, but in this house we find equipment which Kellys and Drurys have used and cherished since the days of the Massachusetts settlement. Is Kelly a success? Here is the evidence: (1) President of the Medical Association of the capital county of Indiana. (2) An automobile number under 100. (3) The most prized of all telephone numbers—1000. (4) More friends than all the bankers of his city combined.
As to bankers, Heald has his opinion. In 1929 he had §500 to invest, and so asked advice seriously of his banker and jocularly of his washwoman. The former advised New York Central Common. The latter, the safety of the spare mattress. Heald lost §400 by not following the financial advice of the laundress. Heald has moved, but not as the result of his experience, to a new home at 5 Kendrick St., Amherst.
There may be gloom, but none gets into Ted Bacon's letters. He is a living proof that a clergyman can be happy. Mrs. Bacon came from Danbury, Conn., and daughter Olive returned to her mother's city, where now she is at the city hospital, professionally employed in an administrative position.
In Washington recently the Secretary called on Mrs. Arthur Dascomb, and found a charming matron who, except her husband now deceased for fifteen years, had never seen a member of the class of 1897. Mrs. Dascomb holds a responsible position in the United States Department of Commerce. The only child, Edmund Brooks, and his pictures show a close resemblance to his father, graduated from Annapolis and saw service with the fleet. Afterward he took up news reel work with the Paramount Films and has had repeated promotion. Now he has charge of the European interests of the company with headquarters in Paris and branch offices in other capitals. He has recently married a New York girl.
When a class has been 35 years from college it feels deeply chagrined that any of its members must be declared "missing," and it seems unnecessary. Dartmouth men are scattered all over the world and ought to be able to locate errant members. 1897 is hunting for three:—
Remus Grant Robinson came from Bermuda and after graduation went to Georgia or Alabama. There is a rumor of marriage and at least one son. There is an unquestioned record that, in 1906, he had a teacher's certificate for a school of his own race in Birmingham, Ala.
Ralph Henry James came from Bangor and Concord. In 1899 he married Myra B. Shepard of Lebanon. He was living in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1900 or 1902 and working as a commercial salesman. Then he disappeared.
Ernest Norman Smith came from St. Albans and the University of Vermont. For some years before 1912 he was ranching in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. In 1926 he was in Lynchburg, Va., for a short time. Before this he had changed his name to E. N. Fay. Where is he now?
Everybody write to Franklin B. Goodenow. He is very much alone in Portsmouth, Va., 531 Main St. He never sees a classmate, and Dartmouth has become to him only a series of memories. His birth date is December 24.
Write also to Professor Harold B. Shattuck at State College, Pa., and make him put back November 16 on his personal calendar.
Finally, write to Burpee C. Taylor, 151 Wesley Ave., Evanston,Ill. The Secretary cannot get a word from him, and mass action is necessary.
Secretary, State Capitol Hartford, Conn.
