Class of 1904
The outstanding thing in 1904 doings in the past year is the chore done by Ring Master Robinson. Topped only by the classes o£ '79-'71-'98-'84, who were 100% or better, nineteen hundred and four rates fifth in the Alumni Fund for 1934, having 105 contributors out of 114 living graduates, giving us a contributor percentage of 92 and a total of $1811.10. We may well be proud of the "contributor" showing, which more than anything else is a fittting tribute to the untiring efforts, pleasing method, and unselfish expenditure of time by Robbie. Here's the appreciation of the class' for your big job, Rob, and also a promise for a larger total in 1934.
Early in January, Robbie spent a few weeks in a Boston institution, developing, while there, an appetite for a fluid which he always carries in a thermos bottle. A few weeks ago at- the Concord Country Club, while playing a foursome with Ned Willis, Ned Kenerson, and Jim Worthen, he pulled the bottle out of his golf bag. Ned called over some of his clubmates from an adjoining fairway, rather proud to introduce the visiting bottle toter, but when Ned asked Robbie to pass it Rob said, "Ask the cow in the other pasture, she's got more than I have."
BILL GRAY REPORTS
The current issue of the Hanover Gazette will probably say that Dean Gray of the Tuck School is golfing in the Waterville Valley. Bill says it's vacation for him and he doesn't know anything about the College, but he thinks there'll be some freshmen, and because of the general lack of jobs, feels quite sure all the faculty will be back for the coming year. Mrs. Gray is representing the family in London.
A 1 Hastings writes, "my oldest child" (probably a son) enters Dartmouth this fall; evidently he has fully recovered from the attack of measles he enjoyed at the 1924 "reunion. There are four more college prospects in the family. Lucky All he helps Uncle Sam grow trees.
We missed Earl Herman at reunion, but many of us enjoyed the privilege of meeting the New Edition in the person of his son, Laurence, who was graduating. Laurence is a fine boy. He showed rare tact and judgment in kidding along some of our crotchety old members, as well as having an eye for beauty. He's a good job, Earl.
Henry Hall has a son in Dartmouth, but was obliged to go to Nova Scotia with a bunch of Canadian miners during our reunion period. Wonder if they have anything on American gold-diggers?
Grandfather Withey—Yes, he's a second degree granddad—is "Professor of mechanics at the University of Wisconsin. Not onlyis he well known for his research and teaching, but to an ever increasing degree hasbecome influential in administration work.During the year 1932-1933 he was chairman of the University Committee, a facultycommittee charged with reviewing thebudgetary policy of the University, andlargely through his wise leadership muchhas been done to mitigate the financialdifficulties that have come to the University with the depression. He has also playedan important role in seeing that fundsspent on relief projects also benefited thestate through the usefulness of the workaccomplished." This brief account evaluates our contribution to this Western university.
Bob Brown, the curly haired football player, is now director of athletics at New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, N. M. Seems to me they have already named the town for him, but he isn't allowed to get far off the reservation. Bob spoke feelingly of the death of John Vose, who roamed with the Secretary during his brief sojourn with our class at Hanover. I'm sorry to say I did not see him after leaving college, but I have always remembered him as a carefree, wholesome chap, with a lovable personality.
Dan Colesworthy, in a characteristically worded letter to Robbie before reunion, says the family are well and getting on, though the only words he has been able to fit to the N R A tune are, No Remuneration Again.
Gil Moulton at York Harbor, Me., guiding hand in two successful summer hotels, the Marshall House and the Emerson, with time enough for many local activities, is a landlord, you should all know. The minute you see him, you know that his business success is built around a successfully managed and well supplied dining room.
Unable to attend our reunion, King Woodbridge and Tick Andrews journeyed to Mount Holyoke to see their daughters graduate. Rumor has it that they saw each other, but were each so chagrined to be found in such surroundings at a reunion period that they remained incognito. King and Mrs. Woodbridge later went to France to visit their daughter Janet.
Freddie Root, writing from the headquarters of the American Insurance Company of Newark, N. J., in San Francisco, sent regrets for his reunion absence and best wishes for all. At the bottom of his business stationery appears the slogan, "With everything AMERICAN, tomorrow is Secure." There's faith for you.
JOHN FLETCHER VERY BUSY
C. C. Hills and Murray Parker had a pow-wow in Columbus, Ohio, July 10, and since then Murray has visited his old home in Littleton with his family.
Percival Cobb, feeling fine, and younger than when we graduated thirty years ago (he says so), is working hard in the dahlia business. Heigh-ho! Dahlias for Youth. Perce says he's beginning to see light ahead. Fireflies—we have them in our garden.
Beck and Mrs. Johnson were coming up for a week-end this summer, but it has been postponed, as he has been too busy in the Pittsfield office of Tifft Bros. The Johnson home is still in Springfield, Mass., and it is needless to say the latchstring is always out for Dartmouth Men of any class.
John Storrs Fletcher modestly admits being trustee, executive committee member, endorsement trustee, treasurer, and counsel Cor the University of Chattanooga; a trustee for Dillard University, a Negro institution in New Orleans, and for a preparatory school in the mountains of Alabama. These plus a busy law practice and much churchwork indicate the spread of our Nineteen Four influence southward.
Ike Charron and his good family made us a flying visit early in September. During his vacation period, Ike has been hopping from Massachusetts to New Hampshire to Maine and back again, enjoying life and friends in his accustomed manner. Still helping Uncle Sam settle disputes, he mentions a six-day week a possibility after vacation. Sounds as if his political affiliations were right—and wrong.
There's genuine pleasure in spreading the news that Sid Rollins is back in Newport. Whether Sid or his New Hampshire friends get the most satisfaction from this fact is hard to judge, but it has been good news to everyone, for the Rollins family have been greatly missed in their home state.
Bill Gray and Ned Willis bring good news of the attractiveness and comfort to be found at Tinker Gale's Eagle Mountain House. With his natural North Country shrewdness, Tinker has had the laugh on some of us by having his flock of sheep care for his golf fairways. This flock of sheep gained notoriety for themselves and Senator Gale during the first week in August, by appearing as a live wool exhibit at the New Hampshire arts and crafts exhibit in the Crawford Notch. There's a boomerang to this publicity, and now the Senator is being criticized harshly for displacing manual labor and the use of mow- ers. His sheep cannot wear the Blue Eagle.
Ned Bartlett left the Pacific Coast September 13 for Japan, expecting to spend several weeks in Tokyo on business, and then spend some time sight-seeing in Japan and China. He hopes to see Whit in his travels, though our international banker is now serving a sentence in Manchuria.
Pen Mower spent a few hours in Niagara Falls with Ned early in September. The information was incomplete, so we are wondering whether Pen's excuse for a visit to Niagara Falls was the usual one. May we congratulate you, Pen?
It has been my good fortune since the reunion to see Robinson, Charron, Gray, Willis, and Rolfe, and through them to hear from several other fellows. Carl Woods visited us, but I was not at home. Florence Jackson, with Dick, Jane and Delbert Jr., has spent much time with us at the Inn and our camp on Lake Winnepesaukee.
Reunion news is being saved for the class report, but it must be noted here that Ralph Sexton and Rosie Hinman staged a fine get-together. The conviction grows with each reunion experience that we have a little something on most of the reunions that are going on around us, and it will be a great personal satisfaction if the class report and the news in this column may bring this fact so strongly to all the class that our numbers may be doubled in 1939.
Whether or not this column stimulates your curiosity for more and better news of the class, subscribe to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. You'll have more interest in the College. Only by being well informed can you do your duty as an alumnus.
Freshman in both secretarial and editorial work, my entering bow is made with a proper sense of unfitness for the job. To be successful and pleasing to everyone, it must be a cooperative enterprise. Let's make it so, and we may be fortunate enough to find interesting class news in unsuspected places.
Secretary, Waterville Valley, Waterville, N. H.
