Class of 1906

The never-failing custom of holding the 1906 dinner at the Parker House in Boston on the eve of the Harvard-Dartmouth football game was again successfully observed. Eleven members of the class were present. Gott Brooks, Ray Butterfield, Tommy Connell, Randall Cooke, Lymie Frazier, Charlie Main, Harold Patten, and Ralph Thompson showed up from Boston and its environs, and in addition Nat Leverone from Chicago, Joe Story from Washington, and Earle St. Clair from St. Albans, Vt., put in an appearance. Ray Herman's son, Grant, who is now a junior at Dartmouth, dropped in to get acquainted with his father's classmates, and was invited to have dinner with them. As a result of this happy circumstance, it was decided next year to have a father and son's dinner. Let's all start right now planning to make it a big success.

As an aftermath of the dinner, your Secretary is able to pass on some bits of information about members of the class that came to light through Charlie Main's efficient circularizing. First, there is this telegram that Bug Gardiner sent to the diners from Astoria, Oregon:

"Regret being too far away and busybuilding rock jetty at Columbia Rivermouth to make Friday night class dinnerbut tell the gang I am surely with them inspirit and wish them the best and wouldgladly join in a Jucche for Oughty-Six.Give one for Bug Gardiner."

Then there was this fine letter from Warner White at Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y.:

"Your card inviting me to dine Oct. 27 with the elect was forwarded to vie inNew York's 'Siberia.'

"I hope you will not be too astonished atthe above address. I always write it withfear and trembling, and expect people toask me my number. You must remember,however, that in this year of our Lord onedoes not quarrel with a job. Our familymotto now is 'Stone walls do not a prisonmake—use reinforced concrete.'

"I am peacefully engaged in making thegrim, gray walls of Dannemora higher andstronger, and in adding bullet-proof glass,machine gun placements, gas-tight towers,and so on. We have an office in the bowelsof the prison, and No. 2.1792, a forger withtwenty years to go, for a clerk. The forgerseems tractable enough as long as I findhim cigarettes and matches. A man whoshot three policemen is office janitor, andthere are three barred and locked gatesbetween the office and the free air. If anyone is inclined to be philosophical, ask himif he ever imagined me as destined to walkthe wall of Dannemora Prison with aThompson gun at my right and anotherat my left.

"Permit me to apologize for writing youin illegible script, but the above-mentionedconvict seems to have taken the typewriterto the machine shop for attention—or atany rate got a pass from, me for that purpose and I am too lazy to require guardsto open three barred gates to let me intothe outer office; and also I like to sit hereand watch the first snowfall of the winter.

"If you wish, I would like to have youexpress to the diners my regrets, to say thatI expect to go to Hanover for the Cornellgame unless some con knifes me first, andof course ask them all to visit me, but suggest a short term. Eighty years seems toolong—a breach of hospitality."

Many of the seventy-three cards returned to Charlie contained brief words of regret and greeting. Two of these are of general interest to the class. Frank Eastman writes from Harrisburg, Pa.:

"I shall not be present at the class dinneror the game, much to my regret. I plan tosee the Penn, Princeton, and Yale games,and possibly Cornell and Chicago. Givemy regards to all the boys present, andparticularly Walter Powers should be congratulated on account of the fine showingWilbur is making. Buckbee, Page, and Iall send greetings."

And from Pullman, Wash., Fred Welch writes:

"Have invited Bug Gardiner over to theWashington State College vs. University ofWashington game at Pullman November 25.1 have not seen a Dartmouth man sinceBug and I got together a year ago in September. Best regards to the gang."

The Dartmouth Outing Club recently received a gift of ten sets of andirons from Ned French. The sets, which are intended to replace those now in use in the cabins, are constructed of scrap rail (B. & M.), and should be well able to support the heavy logs burned at the cabins every week-end. They will be distributed among the more popular units of the D.O.C. chain.

When I listed last month the names of 1906 sons in the present freshman class, I did not know of the enrolment of George Prestridge Loff, son of our own George Loff of beloved memory. This makes five sons of Ought-Six in 1937.

Here are two new addresses: Ralph Glaze, 78 Highview St., Melrose, Mass., and Eugene G. Smith, 1841 Columbia Rd., Washington, D. C. Gene's business address —law office—remains unchanged: Internal Revenue Bldg., 12th St., N. W., Washington.

Secretary, Hanover, N. H.