Class of 1908
Reader response, so far as 1908 is concerned, isn't so hot. Perhaps the fact only 35 per cent took the MAGAZINE last season accounts for the tepid returns. It was the belief that nearly 50 per cent subscribed until Natt Emerson came along and set Rosie Hinman, 1908 circulation manager, straight.
John Alexander Clark's son, John McLean Clark, discontinued publication of the New Canaan, Conn., Gazette during the summer. John M., Dartmouth graduate of recent vintage, shouldn't be without a job long, if he really wants one. Plenty of people are looking for young men who have proved their mettle by getting out of the newspaper business.
Conversely, some of the boys who don't get out of the magic realm of printers' ink are able to turn up something. Take the case of John Thayer Cushing, who wandered over to Hanover from Laconia, N. H., thirty years ago and joined up with the i9oBers. A recent issue of Sales Management prints John's picture and several columns relating his success as publisher of the Boston Record. For example, the circulation of the Record, since John went after it four years ago, has increased from 192,657 to 393,462. She stands second in the New England field, tenth in the whole U. S. A. "A. B. C." figures, too.
From Miss Charlotte E. Ford, alumni recorder in Hanover, who gives out a lot of good tips on news notes, comes word that a list of the sons of 1908 entering Hanover this fall will not be available for the October issue. Gordon Blanchard had a son pointed toward Norwich and Hanover station, and so did Jack Clark (son's name Alexander), but you must wait until next issue for the complete dope in this respect.
Late flashes include one which says Eugene M. Prentice Jr. entered with the class of 1938 (Thirty-eight up! Thirty-eight up! God help us!!). The flash adds that Gene Sr. has taken up farming as a side line to banking and spent his week-ends and the month of July at his country place "up in the northwest corner of New Jersey. Otherwise he commutes from Montclair to the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York."
Freddy Munkelt, who recently added to his lines the account of the Dayton-Dowd Cos., makers of centrifugal pumps, passed his vacation in New Hampshire. He spent a day with Tommy Mason 'O9 at Warner, and arrived at Hank O'Shea's home at a time when the estate was swarming with guests on the occasion of the playing of a tennis final. Freddy couldn't find Hank. Fred and the family—it is presumed the report says "we"—were at Centerport, L. I„ during August. So never mind worrying about Freddy.
Jack Clark spent July as a freshman in the George Pearse Ennis School of Art, Eastport, Me. Here's his alibi: "A year orso ago, after reading 'Life Begins to CrackUp at Forty,' I took up water colors as anavocation and have been splashing aroundever since, to my own enjoyment and edification, if nobody else's."
Delayed information from the Essex Country Club, East Orange, says Mike Stearns was re-elected to the board of governors of the Dartmouth Club of Northern New Jersey. Mike is reported to be back in Baltimore after a term spent in Boston as sales manager for an investment house. But the Baltimore report is two weeks old. He probably has something in another city by now.
Miles C. Gardner lives at No. 57 Belmont St., Rochester, and is having a terrible time trying to meet his living expenses. (That's the other side of the picture.) Wrote Miles, "Should any of the classmates need agood man, just have me in mind." Miles was with the class only during freshman year, but he retains plenty of the old spirit.
From 1908's edition of Walter Winchell comes this: "Donald Yeardon Frothinghamwas located by your leg man while en routeto his summer home near Darien, Conn.His lap was full of motor maps and he explained that he and the Missus were planning to drive to the Adirondacks to bringback their younger son, age 13, who hasbeen spending the summer with Don'sbrother's family in Normandy. He crossedon a freighter, which, needless to say, hefound more to his liking than the mostluxurious liner. When asked for an expression regarding the Administration, Don,like most of the 'tooth and claw' boys ofWall St., indicated faint enthusiasm."
Bob Marsden, former dean of the Thayer School, whose address is now Manchester Depot, Vt., postcards as follows: "Plentyof Dartmouth men about Concord, buthave seen no new 'OB faces or picked upany items since tne last issue."
Recent address changes of the brothers in 'OB include these: Seymour S. Rutherford to No. 617 Strath Haven Ave., Swarthmore, Pa.; he is in the wholesale lumber business. Crosby A. Hoar to the U. S. Forest Service, Amherst, Mass. John S. Everett to No. 39 Summer St., Hallowell, Me.; he's an accountant. Walter F. Furman to No. 50 East 10th St., New York. Florence J. McAuliffe to No. 5 MacDougall Alley, New York.
Charley G. Bennett continues as manager of the Detroit office of the Wallace Press, Inc., of Chicago. His address is No. 810 Stephenson Building.
Old Doctor Jack Detlefsen is at it again. Recently he gave a lecture before the "Reading Clinic Club," says a medical journal note, on "Recent Advances in Our Viewpoint on the Etiology of Disease and Defects." He was elected an honorary member of the club. Dr. Jack went down to Hot Springs, Va., where the Southern Association of Orthodontists was in session. As guest speaker, the doctor gave the conventioneers a mental workout based on "The Problem of Proportionate Part Which Constitution Plays in Maldevelopment and Disease." He gave the same paper in Paris, France, last spring, our overseas correspondent advises.
Jack Detlefsen, Dartmouth 1937, spent most of the summer with nine other Hanover transients working around the Alumni Cabin project at Mount Moosilauke. Miss Ruth Detlefsen, Jack's sister and likewise the progeny of '08's Dr. Jack, was a guest during the summer of her aunt, Mrs. Jesse Gage, whose husband is the well-known stalwart of the class of 1906, Dartmouth College.
Chip Farrington of Norfolk, Conn., Art Sides of Bridgeport, Jack Clark of New Canaan, and his son John attended the Connecticut Alumni Association's annual dinner at Bridgeport late in May. Chip appeared to have quite recovered his health and proudly displayed a snapshot of a fine-looking son who put in a big year at Tabor Academy, which is operated at Marion, Mass., by Lillard '05. Sides is principal of the Bridgeport High School and was one of the men in charge of the gathering. President Hopkins, Dean Laycock, and Coach Blaik were the speakers Our eagle-eyed and hawk-eared reporter, regarding the speakers, writes: "So far asI recall, they repealed nothing that theysaid at the New York dinner."
New Yorkers became so imbued with the spirit of Dartmouth. Flossie McAuliffie's birthday party in MacDougall Alley, Repeal and all that they staged a party at the home of John Thompson in the metropolis. Those present included Allan Moore Perkins of Watertown and points east, Flossie McAuliffe, Jack Clark, Freddie Munkelt, Homer Eaton Keyes, and Rosie Hinman. "We had a very pleasant evening," dictated Rosie under date of May 22, "and the principal topic of conversation was Art with Allan Perkins and I being the two non-voting members of theartist colony." Art who?
Miss Kathryn Symmes of Scarsdale, N. Y., daughter of Larry, recently won a full scholarship in music at Vassar and a "very substantial" general scholarship based on high rank for the first semester of her freshman year. In this connection Larry writes: "I am told there is no chanceof inheriting such ability, particularly fromher father, so I am giving all the credit tothe girl and her mother. However, thesituation is very helpful in times like these,and I am cheering my daughter on aslustily as possible."
Harriet, daughter of the Larry Griswolds of Batavia, N. Y., is a freshman at Smith (Class of 1938. How does that sound, ye '08ers?).
Editor, 421 East Main St., Batavia, N. Y.
