Class of 1906
The annual 1906 dinner was held at the Parker House in Boston on Friday, October 26, the evening preceding the Harvard game, as has been our custom for now many long years. It was a particularly successful reunion this year, with a good attendance, excellent food, and a general atmosphere of well-being. Charlie Main had sent out invitations to make this a "Father and Sons" dinner, with the result that eight of the second generation of Ought-Six joined us. Nat Leverone exhibited some of his nationally celebrated skill as an after-dinner speaker by introducing everyone present, so that the youngsters might realize what a swell class they belong to. Herb Rainie and the two Main boys furnished music, with some slight aid from the rest of us. At least half the group sat on until the end of the eve- ning, in delightful, informal chatter about the past, the present, and the future. Joe Chase from Roanoke Rapids, N. C., and Nat Leverone from Chicago held the record for distance this year, but "T" Brown, Tubby Gray, and Lonnie Russ came over from New York, and Arthur Cragin from Kingston-on-the-Hudson; Earle St. Clair of St. Albans represented Vermont; Bung Jones, Herb Rainie, and your Secretary from New Hampshire, with eight men from Boston and vicinity—Tom Connell, Randall Cooke, Lymie Frazier, Ned French, Arthur Holmes, Charlie Main, Norm Russell, and Ralph Thompsonmade up the quota. The sons of 1906 present were Grant Herman, now a senior at Dartmouth, Robert Jones, Samuel and Charles Main, Edward Meservey, and William Patten, all of the freshman class at Dartmouth, Robert Rainie, still in high school at Concord, and Robert Russell, who is a freshman at Northeastern University this fall. Two other guests were Alexander Jones Jr., Sam Main's roommate at Dartmouth, and Ray H. Goodman of South Carolina, a friend and business associate of Joe Chase's.
PROFESSOR KELLY HONORED
On November 9 Ambassador Stanislaus Patek gave a luncheon at the Polish embassy in Washington in honor of Eric Kelly, during the course of which the ambassador presented Eric with the Cross of Polonia Restituta in recognition of his interest in Poland and Polish affairs. This cross is given by the president of Poland to such persons as the Republic of Poland wishes especially to honor, and is the highest award bestowed upon foreigners." I do not need to remind '06 men how fully deserving of this decoration Eric is, for you will all recall his Y. M. C. A. service in Poland during and immediately after the war, his teaching at the University of Krakow in 1925-26, his Polish studies carried on at Vilno and Lwow in 1929-30, and his three successful novels on Polish subjects: "The Trumpeter of Krakow," "The Blacksmith of Vilno," and "The Golden Star of Halich." The first of these novels, for which Eric was awarded the John Newberry Medal for the best juvenile book published in America in 1928, has gone into its tenth printing this year.
Norman Russell has forsaken the making of bronze tablets, and has established a Dodge-Plymouth sales and service station at 119 Merrimac St. in Newburyport.
A card from Max Hartmann states that he is now a professor of economics in Boston University, 525 Boylston St., Boston. His home address is 1213 Beacon St., Brookline, Mass.
Dan Hatch has joined the ranks of the grandfathers of 1906, for on October 26 Dan Jr. and Mary Alice became the parents of a seven-and-a-half-pound girl, named Katherine Peters Hatch for her grandmother.
Another grandfather is Fred Welch, whose son Wilfred was married in August, *932, to Verna Robinson of Davenport, Wash., and became the father of Nancy Gail Welch on May 11 of this year. Wilfred, whom the class will remember as the tall young man who spelled his father in their record-breaking drive across the country to attend the twenty-fifth reunion, graduated in civil engineering at Washington State College in 1933, and is now a junior topographical engineer with the United States Geological Survey.
Fred Jones's eldest child, Eleanor, was married on October 19, at Newark, N. J., to George W. Bennett of South Orange, N.J.
Charles Harold Pierce, Cap's oldest son, was married on October 27 in the First Congregational Church of Springfield, Mass., to Miss Betty Joyce Beckwith of that city.
George Boynton was elected on November 6, representative to the General Court of New Hampshire from the town of Hillsborough. This makes George's fourth successive term as representative from his home town.
Fred Welch spent his usual two weeks in July with the National Guard at Fort Lewis, Wash. He writes that this year he drew the job of battalion commander and had lots of fun.
Gott Brooks is on his way, at the moment of my writing this note, to the Pacific Coast by sea. I'd give you more details, but that is all I have learned from Gott.
Walter Dakin's son Philip, Dartmouth ex- 30, is now in Hollywood. The first picture in which he has appeared is "Wake Up and Dream."
And I will close this month's items with a list of some of the sons and daughters of the class who are in other colleges than Dartmouth this fall. Norm Russell's son Robert is a freshman at Northeastern University; Shorty Neal's son Robert is a sophomore at the University of New Hampshire; Dan Carr's son Daniel Jr. is a sophomore at Norwich University, whither he was led by his desire for military training; Arthur Holme's daughter Mary is a junior at the University of New Hampshire; Arthur Cragin's daughter Helen is a sophomore at Mt. Holyoke; and Ned French's two daughters are at Wellesley, Janet a senior and Helen a sophomore.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
