Class of 1908
So far as the 1908 gatherer of notes is concerned, the Dartmouth item of the month is this one: Craig Thorn 1909 is a grandfather.
Gene Prentice, the silvery thatched banker, is now chairman of the auditing and finance committee of the Dartmouth College Club, New York.
Queech Safford postcards from Springfield, Vt., to say: "With my daughter I hada most enjoyable trip to Hanover for theWinter Carnival. One of the most enjoyable incidents was a visit with Rosie Hinman, who was there for the week-end. Business is better here—and there is plenty ofopportunity for more improvement. Allrecords for cold and snow have been brokenin these parts. As compensation for the coalbills and labor of feeding fuel to the fireit's been many a year since we have hadso much fun skiing. Well, 1934 Vermontmaple syrup is just around the corner, andthat is an annual event of note. Along withour general feeling of optimism the newregime in Dartmouth football has its sharein the picture."
Jack Everett, writing on embossed stationery bearing the notation "9 Green St., Augusta, Me.," says he cannot dig up any real hot news, but he sends his best to all the boys and would like to see them in Augusta any time.
Larry Treadway hasn't taken big space in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE as yet to advertise his string of hotels, but he ran a flash in a recent issue of the Daily Dartmouth. It might have been on an exchange basis, but, at any rate, it listed the following hotels as now being under Tread's management: Ashfield, Mass., House; Dorset, Vt„ Inn; Long Trail Lodge, Rutland, Vt.; Mount Holyolce Hotel, S. Hadley, Mass.; Nichewaug Inn, Petersham, Mass.; Norwich Inn, Norwich, Conn.; Outpost Inn, Ridgefield, Conn.; Toytown Tavern, Winchendon, Mass.; True Temper Inn, Wallingford, Vt.; Botsford Inn, Farmington, Mich.; Dearborn (Henry Ford's) Inn, Dearborn, Mich.; Kingsport Inn, Kingsport, Tenn.; The Nittany Lion, State College, Pa.; The Thayer, West Point, N. Y.; Middlebury Inn, Middlebury, Vt.; Williams Inn, Williamstown, Mass.; Lord Jeffrey Inn, Amherst, Mass.; The Northfield Inn, East Northfield, Mass. Looks as though Tread were being given a free advertisement, but the thing works both ways. Any classmate who puts up at one of the above gets an extra good break, it's an old Treadway custom.
This department of the world's greatest alumni magazine has reached the high state where it now receives anonymous contributions. Here is one which will stand the white light of publicity: "Happy is theclass that has no history. At least let ushope so, in view of the dearth of 1908 items.As, perhaps, the next best thing, I can mention some of our near contemporarieswhom I see now and again.
"Diller Ryan, who spent his sophomoreand junior years at Hanover in the class of1909, is now one of the chief psychiatrists,resident at the palatial New York Hospital.Diller took his bachelor's degree at Harvard and then served his medical apprenticeship at various universities here andabroad. In recent years he has been on thestaff of the Massachusetts General andJohns Hopkins. He is still a bachelor.
"Russ Pettengill 1909 has been living inNew Canaan, Conn., this past winter. Hisbusiness headquarters had been in Chicagoand he lived at Barrington, 111., but he nowhas a New York office also. He has built upa unique type of service to large corporations, acting as consultant in connectionwith printing problems. In his New Yorkoffice he has installed paneling and furniture from various sections of New England,which Homer Eaton Keyes, who advisedhim on it, says is one of the most interestingbusiness lay-outs that he has seen. Russ hasa young son who hopes to go to Dartmouthand be a hockey player like his dad.
"Bill Minsch igoy, who ivas once bestknown to fame as a book merchant inpartnership with our classmate Vietor, isstill in business for himself. Now it isMinsch, Monell if Cos., investment securities. Bill has been president of the NewYork Alumni Association and of the BondClub and he is active in the InvestmentBankers Association. He has a son in thesophomore class at Dartmouth.
"Mike Edgerton 1906 is a partner of theStock Exchange firm, Green, Ellis & Anderson. He has a son at Groton and lives atStamford, Conn.
"Clarence (Tubby) Gray 1906 is assistantUnited States manager of the EuropeanGeneral Reinsurance Cos. He has a son atTabor."
If there are any other classmates who can nose out news like the above and desire to have their names withheld as reporters, shoot it along. The confidence will not be violated.
Dick Merrill's son Jack is quite a kid and then some, if you take the word, and you should, of George Trevor, sports writer for the New York Sun, who recently had this to say under the heading "Dartmouth Freshman Ace":
"Today The Sun presents anotherfreshman wing phenom with the predictionthat he will follow in Camp's footsteps.Jack Merrill is the new prodigy's name. Heweighs 180 pounds, is an inch over sixfeet and got that way under the stimulating ultra-violet rays of the Pasadena sun.For the benefit of skeptical Columbians,it should be said that the sun really doesshine in Pasadena occasionally, even if theStanford team doesn't.
"Jack Merrill escaped the Trojan dragnetbecause his dad wore Dartmouth Green before him and turned a deaf ear to NativeSon propaganda. Jack might have beenkidnaped by U. S. C. scouts, but what's onegood end more or less out in HowardJones's country, where they peel 'em off anyhigh school team like the bark from aeucalyptus tree?
"A Pasadena high school end here inthe chilly East, however, is news and Merrillmay make the headlines next fall. A cageydiagnostician, Jack can anticipate a pass orreverse and act accordingly. He is exceptional on defense with a knack for slidingthrough interference to ferret out the carrier. In order to win himself a starting berthMerrill must outplay two of last year'ssubstitutes—Dick Carpenter and EarlArthurs. Carpenter, towering 6 feet 3inches, is built like an extension ladder.Try and cover him on a high lob pass!Arthurs saw considerable big game service."Hard-bitten little Tony Muello, barely 5 feet 7, is the opposite extreme in stature,yet handles a hulking tackle like a copperhopping a barrel. Bill Mack, anotherholdcjver end, is the power-house type, his isypound frame giving him a thirty-poundbulge on Muello. Still, if beef on the hoofwere the sole criterion of football ability,Frank Hinkey would have gone unsung.
"Sam Johnston, Merrill's freshman colleague, is an end of the Hinkey mold whocan sift through a phalanx and hamstringthe ball toter despite his scrawny physique.Sam uses his bean for something besidesa helmet rack. Fast down field he is nervyand dependable under pressure. From thebatch of pickets Red Blaik should be ableto dig up a pair of competent flankers, notforgetting Joe Tardiff, a flashy freshmanwho dislocated his shoulder early and saton the bench thereafter."
John Alexander Clark and Mrs. Clark (the former Miss Hazel McLean, sister of Judge McLean 'O7, now a trustee of Dartmouth College) were in Bermuda for Easter. Jack thought he caught a glimpse of Harold "Bishop" Niles 'O7, in Hamilton, "but couldn't reach him."
Harold O. Rugg is a name you are likely to run across when the higher-salaried educators of the eastern seaboard go into a huddle. Time, the news magazine, recently mentioned Harold in connection with a program he set before Philosopher John Dewey, dean of Columbia University progressives, in regard to immediate action deemed proper in furthering the educational change which some of the more advanced thinkers would be easily put over right now. Wellesley College, for the second summer, is to be the scene of an institute for social progress. Harold, likewise for a second summer, is one of the governing board of bigwigs which determines the institute's policy. His best bet in the way of an address is "Teachers College, Columbia University."
Larry Symmes, the well and favorably known secretary of 'oB, under date of March 13 writes: "Last night, thanks to the energyof Fred Munkelt, the following members ofthe class had dinner together at the Dartmouth Club here in New York: Larry Adler,Gordon Blanchard, 'T. I.' Dunn, Art Eberly,Fred Hodgson, Don Frothingham, BillMiller, Florrie McAuliffe, Fred Schilling,Gene Prentice, Fred Munkelt, John Thompson, Phil Thompson, Mike Stearns, andLarry Symmes—a pretty good-sized groupgotten together on short notice.
"The general opinion seemed to be thatdinner gatherings like this three or fourtimes a year were a very successful andconvenient manner of getting together.Since most of the men live in the suburbs,it is important to have a comparativelyearly break-up, as the suburbs of NewYork are different from those in almostany other city, as it takes so much time toget there.
"After the dimier, McAuliffe went upstairs and brought down his sculpturegroup depicting Eleazar Wheelock and afew of his early students. Mac gave hisgroup to the club some years ago. Apparently there was some drinking in Hanover even in those early days, as at least oneof the Indian 'students' in Mac's group appears to be pie-eyed.
"We were particularly glad to get FredHodgson out to a class meeting. He is stillan important factor in the schools in Montclair and vicinity. He is a specialist in biology and does considerable lecturing. Hisboy, who was the unofficial class baby,attended Pratt Institue and now is inradio work.
"It may be that some of the others whoattended the dinner will write a line ortwo about it. When I left, Phil Thompsonand Stearns and one or two others wereheaded for the card room and, I dare say,the session was a long one. We were sorrynot to have Jack Clark, Walter Furman,and Rosie Hinman with us, but the absence of your two star reporters has inspired me to take this feeble effort at reporting the incident."
No feeble effort and no incident, say we. Come again soon, Lawrence, we add. Jonh Alexander Clark of Wood, Struthers & Cos., 20 Pine St., New York, is a member of the railroad securities committee of the Investment Bankers Association of America, it is gleaned from the 1933 report of that august body, which runs into quite a bit over 200 pages.
Theodore Ira Dunn, the Rockport, Mass., flash who used the basketball lore he picked up at Gloucester High School to make the Dartmouth varsity basketball squad back in days when a "D" might almost stand for "Devonian," is with the Eastman Cos., which has its main works down the line a bit from Batavia. "T. 1.," commutes from Rye to New York for his toil. He has a son who is a sophomore at Williams and on the hockey team which practiced in the shadow of Greylock last winter.
Big Boy Rosie Hinman, the classmate who has borne the brunt of the expense for sending out postcards soliciting the news items which made possible the 1933-34 flight of the class into the stratosphere of publicity as set up by the magazine you are now engaged in reading, sends the following words, thereby saving some kopecks for the class treasury and the Hinman pocket-books when, as, and if, to wit: "It seems to me that in your nextissue you could make a request askingeveryone to write to you who is interestedin the magazine and would like to have theclass news continued for the next year.This would help take up some space and, atthe same time, it would be a general appealand interesting to see the reaction to it."
If anyone is really interested, let him send along some news. It must be in hand by May 10 to be of any use.
Late comers on the subscription list for the year ending next month are: Art Anderson, Erastus Beethoven Badger 11, Jack Corcoran, Joe Donahue (the Count himself), Percy Gleason. This makes an even seventy as against twenty a year ago, reports your only vice-president in charge of woodlands of the International Paper Cos., Mr. Hinman.
Editor, Batavia, N. Y.
