Class of 1897
The Class of 1897 feels that a Commencement is lost when some son of the class does not win a Dartmouth diploma. Since 1922 there has been a break only in 1928. This year the class will be represented by nothing more than a Thayer School diploma, but next year we shall rejoice with Brown, M.F., and Ward. For 1937 one candidate is in plain sight, Herman Holt 3d, and for 1938, John King Adams (G.A.). Both boys are athletes. Adams is on the football team of his home high school in Salamanca, N. Y., and Holt has won his letter at the academy which he attends in Marion, Mass.
The classmate whom we affectionately called Pa Brown died in 1907, and this is a report of his family. There were two children, Velma, two years old, and Cynathia born after her father's death. Velma graduated at Radcliffe and married Haviland McKeel, Harvard, A.B., Chicago, A.M., Yale, Ph.D. Professor McKeel is now research anthropologist at Yale. The McKeels have one daughter. Cynthia is a graduate of Simmons and a technician and office aid for a physician in Springfield. Mrs. Brown also is a graduate of Simmons and in recent years has served as preceptress of Thayer Academy, Kimball Union Academy, and Gorham State Normal School. This was followed by social service work in Boston. Since 1924 Mrs. Brown has been director of the South Side Day Nursery and Nursery School on Dover St., Boston.
After leaving Dartmouth, Hotchkiss, whose early home was in Peoria, Ill., entered the University of Illinois in the College of Architecture. In 1896 he began work as a draftsman in an architect's office. In a few years he became a member and then head of the firm. Hotchkiss is a member of the American Institute of Architects, and is engaged in general architectural work in Peoria under the firm name Hotchkiss and Whitmeyer. Mrs. Hotchkiss was Miss Mercereau of Brooklyn, and there are three sons. George is an architect; Robert Jr. is an engineer; and Lawrence is now a student in architecture at the University of Illinois. You recall that Hotchkiss, when still a freshman, was a member of our varsity football team. At the University of Illinois he played varsity football and baseball and was football captain.
Joe Towle is Newmarket's most substantial citizen. Joe drives autos for business, and when he wishes to make one of his occasional tours across the continent to see nature and visit class and college mates, but for pleasure he always has a fast-stepping horse. He also keeps a good hunting dog or two, and recently he has bought a two hundred acre farm in Strafford county. This active man is selectman, school board chairman, health officer, and has been moderator for twenty years in a town where town meetings resemble Blenheim in carnage. Why not enjoy life while you are living?
All members of the class are now engaged in a free-for-all hunt for Ethan Allen Smith. His real name was Ernest Norman Smith, and he came to us from the University of Vermont with a home in St. Albans, Vt. For years he was in Montana and Wyoming, a sheep and cattle man, stage coach driver, prospector and miner. At some time during this period he changed his name to Ernest Norman Fay. Ten years ago, he was reported in Lynch- burg, Va. To the classmate who will locate Ethan, two paragraphs of these alumni notes will be devoted.
The Secretary takes modest satisfaction that he was once "dear teacher" to the eminent pundit and gracious scholar who has accepted the presidency of America's largest institution of advanced learning, New York University. Harry Woodburn Chase graduated at Dartmouth in 1904.
Secretary, State Capitol, Hartford, Conn.
