Class of 1899
In this pre-Christmas column we're going to put all the good news we can think of. If some of it is a bit older than new news, it may be still good news to those who didn't know it. So here goes.
Jim Richardson hadn't been to a Harvard-Dartmouth game for seven years, but he told Charlie Donahue that the celebration of October 27, 1934, was well worth waiting for. Why, certainly, Donnie was there, too.
The Owen A. Hoban-John S. Derham contest for the district attorneyship of Worcester county was almost as close as it could be without being a dead heat. With a total of 160,000 votes cast, Hobe won by a margin of 317. There might be a recount before you read this, but the above was the record as we went to press.
In Keene last August 18 a fire did $150,000 damage to business blocks in the center of the city. The fire was worst right on the north and west sides of Charlie Adams' Geurnsey Brothers & Co. plant. But here's where the good news we spoke of comes in! The double walls the company has, prevented any serious damage to either building or business. Incidentally, Charlie took in both the Virginia and Yale games.
So much for athletics, politics, and business.
Next for our wayfarers, in brief. Warren Kendall in one of his long cross-country swings saw, among others, California Rab Abbott, Willis Hodgkins, Walter Eastman, John Ash, and Bones Woodward. Rab's throat is better; he's living in Banning, . Calif., one hundred miles east of Los Angeles, near the top of a hill facing towards Yuma. Address him at 707 North San Gorgonio Ave. Change Willis's address also; now 600 West 41st Place, Los Angeles.
It's no use trying to get John Ash to talk about anything except the Thirty-Fifth, so let the Report tell the rest of that. Bones, meanwhile, has annexed or filed or otherwise dallied with such activities as being president of the Dartmouth Club in Seattle, president of the Inglewood Golf Club, and of some medical society also, which certainly makes him sound like real presidential caliber.
Other travelers include Dr. Charles E. Cushman, coming East to visit his sister in Vermont last summer, Peddy Miller and his wife, traveling South to see Frank Surrey and his wife on their plantation, and Judge Nelson P. Brown, traveling by proxy in headlines and front-page pictures to be glimpsed by Colorado and California classmates. Ped has also done some firsthand investigating of the Muscle Shoals region, and indeed of the whole Tennessee Valley project. There'll be more about that later.
Meanwhile Horace Sears traveled intensively all summer, if not in a single straight line. "To save the exorbitant $10.37 commute rate on the N. Y. C. R. R., he used the trolley and subway to New York proper from Hastings-on-the-Hudson for four months." If you haven't seen Horace's "Daily Dud" in the American Banker, look it up. Put any question concerning trust beneficiaries or letters testamentary or similar interrogations insoluble to the laity, and he will lucidly and dexterously inform you.
And as for our new and lusty second generation of Ninety-Niners there's no lack of good news either. Alfred Sears snared a good though temporary job as master of a small freight steamer. Herbert Adams is in the forestry service in the White Mountain district. Elizabeth Oakes has entered Vassar. Walter Woodward Jr., University of Washington '33, is a "legger" for the Seattle Times, and his brother Robert has entered the same university this fall. John Ash Jr. has matriculated at Oregon State University. And best news of all, Bob Huckins came triumphantly through an emergency operation for appendicitis in October that brought the family back in a hurry from a vacation week-end at Meredith.
You'd think that we'd reached our climax, but wedding bells still retain their right to superlative emphasis in copy of any kind. So, though many may already know the facts, all will enjoy being reminded of Martha Atwood's marriage to Richard Rankin Sherman in June; of Sally Drew's marriage in June to Robert Satterlee Hurlbut; of Genevieve Benezet's marriage in September to Richard David Butterfield; and of Roberta Kendall's marriage in November to Rolfe Mason Kennedy. If we've overlooked anybody, please let us know.
Secretary, 31 Parker St., Gardner, Mass.
