Class of 1904
It has been my privilege during many years of New Hampshire life to feel that I am a neighbor of the College, learning perhaps more than many of you how it is being done in Hanover. You learn the result, but have little knowledge of the actual work. Maintaining Dartmouth Standards during the past five years has been a real job, probably one impossible of accomplishment but for the thorough and sincere co-operation of the faculty, trustees and alumni with the keen forward-looking management of President Hopkins and those of his associates concerned in the financial administration of College Affairs. The treasurer's report, made public October 23, shows a surplus of 13,023.66 for the fiscal year ending June 30. The accumulated deficit from previous years, amounting to $43,205.50, was washed off the slate when this year's Alumni Fund produced $73,031.50, an amount sufficient to take care of this year's operating deficit and the one carried over from the lean years. Average income per student was $353.89, while average instructional cost per student was $446.83 and average total expense $660.02.
We (the alumni) aren't quite as good as this sounds, for the reduction in instructional expense and a smaller obligation for sabbatical leave through the voluntary act of the faculty was primarily responsible for the year's financial success.
Our 1904 contribution of $1,811.10 is a sizable factor in that three-thousand dollar surplus, and I'm glad that my dimes and your dollars went into it.
How many of your 1934 dollars brought as much satisfaction as your relatively small investment in Dartmouth College? What do you say if we decide now to underwrite college expenses in the coming year for at least two thousand dollars?
Beck Johnson found it necessary to forego the Harvard game and the roundup because he was made head man at the branch office of Tifft Brothers in Pittsfield, Mass., and was just transferring from Springfield at the time of the game. Beck has been with this Springfield firm for a long time, and it's a real pleasure to spread the news of this expression of confidence and appreciation for his work.
New Hampshire's appeal has another pioneer. Li'l' Arthur Charron has been spending week-ends and muscle wrestling with trees and stumps on the shore of Island Pond in Washington, and has now reached the point where the clearing is large enough to lay out the ground and put in the foundations, so that actual building may be started in the early spring. Looks like a chance for a good old house-raisin' some May week-end, and a house-warming about Commencement time. If we don't help Ike any, some of you birds may learn that there are other tools besides hammers needed in the world's construction work.
DISTINGUISHED MATT BULLOCK
We think of Matt Bullock first as a real football player and an interpreter of Dartmouth songs, then as an educator and lawyer, but relatively few of us know of his service to his home state of Massachusetts. In April, 1927, after serving eighteen months as special assistant attorney general, Governor Fuller honored him with an appointment to the Board of Parole and the Advisory Board of Pardons. Matt was reappointed by Govenors Allen and Ely, and now in point of service he is senior member of the Board. Matt says if he were a younger man he would give much time to this subject, and considers it a great privilege to be a small part of the parole movement at the present time.
MRS. SANBORN DIES
Mrs. Emily Brace Sanborn, widow of Federal Judge Walter H. ('67) Sanborn, and mother of our own "Spike" Sanborn, died in St. Paul, Minn., November 5, at the age of 81. Mrs. Sanborn and "Spike" celebrated her eighty-first birthday in St. Louis a few months ago. If I remember correctly, Mrs. Sanborn's early home was Epsom, N. H., where "Spike" used to spend some time in undergraduate days.
Santa Claus started early this fall. See what he brought Ned Willis: "Willis Named Head of
Loan and Trust Savings Bank"Concord, Oct. -jo. This morning at aspecial meeting of the officers and trusteesof the institutions, Edward S. Willis waselected president and trustee of the Loanand Trust Savings Bank of this city. Mr.Willis was born in Warner, Dec. 22, 1881,but he has been a resident of Concordsince his graduation from Dartmouth in1904.
"He is treasurer of the Page BeltingCompany, vice-president of the NationalState Capitol Bank, and has been for several years, ending today, a trustee of theNew Hampshire Savings Bank.
"His parents were Mr. and Mrs. HarlanWillis, and his father was a well-knownpublic man."
Myron Witham spends his summers on top of Mount Washington, and the balance of the year at Burlington, Vt. His son Paul "Bud" Witham is captain of the Burlington High team, and his daughter, Mary is a student at Traphagen School of Fashion in New York.
The recent Democratic flood of votes, caused no worry to the present senator of this district, Arthur P. "Tinker" Gale, Esq. He was elected a member of the next New Hampshire legislature from Jackson. 1929 Constitutional Convention; 1931 House of Representatives, 1933 Senate, 1935 House again. There's a Republican who is still appreciated.
Today—Sunday, November eleventh—is the dead line for December magazine notes. And what a day for the job—had I the ability of a writer or the brush of an artist, I could make you yearn for Hanover winter days to the point of dropping everything and trekking to the Hanover plain for at least one breath-taking day. Outdoors we are having a real honest snow storm, the cheerful kind; it began last night during the return home from the New Hampshire game, and now with a temperature of 38°, the big flakes are so thick it's impossible to see clearly more than a hundred yards; all the hardwoods are outlined to the tip of the tiniest twig with fluffy cotton, and the evergreens have cotton wads outlined with the green we find symbolical of the College. Roofs, paths, the road, all are covered with a clean white blanket.
By the fire in the living room remi- niscing about Dartmouth as I write, are Ned Willis, Joe ('29) O'Leary, and Bob ('29) Monahan. Mrs. Willis, Mrs. O'Leary, Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Austin, and our two daughters complete the group. Joe is here with his bride, a Roanoke, Va., girl, on their honeymoon. He is Bill ('01) O'Leary's son and works for Larry ('08) Treadway, the collector of hotels. Bob Monahan, a member of the group of young observers who spent the winter of 1933 on the summit of Mount Washington, wrote the deeply interesting log of the adventure, published under the title of "Mount Washington Reoccupied."—Now, we are going to eat a New Hampshire turkey and then enjoy the snow in various ways. It's the life!
THREE O'LEARY BOYS
By the way, Bill O'Leary has three sons, all Dartmouth. Have we anyone who can tie or beat this record?
At the Boston luncheon, Thursday before the Yale game, Ike, Rosie, Harry Ham, and Matt, with the Harvard game as a background figured out a satisfactory Dartmouth-Yale score, but with an Army man in the group there was also a JINX.
At the New York Dartmouth Club smoker Friday night before the Yale game, "Jig" Leverone, Tom Streeter, Carl Woods, Harry Chase, and King Woodbridge had a fanning bee-Carl was one of the spellbinders. The following day at the game, our class was conspicuous for their absence throughout the afternoon. I did not see anyone, but just as I was leaving the grounds I found Carl.
The New Hampshire game attracted Tinker Gale, Sid Rollins, Bill Gray, and this game-chaser.
The roundup before the Harvard game was a good one. "Jig" Leverone and Herb McKennis got the brown derby and the tin hat for distance, and Hayward Rolfe, who hurried home from Europe to get a good feed, felt repaid for the trip. Cloyd Maynard, Gil Moulton, and Gene Sewall of Portsmouth, N. H., came up from Maine; Massachusetts' best were represented by Ham, Charron, Brennon, Bullock, Hinman, Lampee, Maguire, Hobbs, Slayton, Woods, Mower, Sexton, and Robinson. For New Hampshire, Manchester, Jackson, Newport, and Waterville had a one hundred percent attendance, with Norton, Mangurian, Edgerly Gale, Rollins, and myself. Jack Doonan came up from the Connecticut state with a pocket full of nutmegs. Count 'em up—twenty-six. Incidentally Matt Bullock showed a few younger reuning classes what songs to sing and how to do it. It was a good reunion, so good that we are hoping to have another one before spring—More of this later—Beck, Bob Brewer, Zeus Marshall were prevented from coming by other duties. We are out to break the record for 1904 good times at these gatherings, so drop your tools and come a-running when the next notice reaches you.
Secretary, Waterville Valley, Waterville, N. H.
