Class of 1898
In a recent letter from Ted Leggett he writes as follows:
"I saw Dick and Florence Marcy a weekago on their way back to Lincoln fromFlorida. They spent the night with us, andwe had a good old rag-chew far, far intothe night. Neither one seems to havechanged in the several years since we haveseen each other.
"I saw Ich Crane at the class agents' dinner a month ago. He is feeling a lot betterthan was the case last Commencement.
"Bob Marden, the poor fruit, nevercalled on me on his way back from Florida.I am thinking of making him raise hisAlumni Fund contribution to square himself with me."
In a recent call on one of the supervising principals in Newton he told me that Fred Pope's sister, a teacher there, has the reputation of being the best teacher in the city
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Chandler are announcing the engagement of their daughter Catherine to Mr. Earl Bourne of Newton.
At the invitation of Bob Marden, his old cronies, Joe Bartlett and Buck Chandler, were the speakers at a Lowell Chamber of Commerce dinner at Lowell, May 9. joe talked on municipal affairs and CWA, and Buck retailed a grist of his choice stories. Joe has been making a reputation as a speaker in various places recently. He has a splendid view on municipal affairs, due to his fifteen years as city solicitor of Newton and his work as CWA chief.
The Secretary was unable to attend the Hanover meeting of class secretaries May 11 and 12, and his understudy, Bob Marden, substituted.
Joe Bartlett, it transpires, was not dumped out of his CWA job in Massachusetts. He resigned at the completion of his original enlistment. Joe Carney has put his usual business tactics into effect as successor to Joe Bartlett on this job. He is doing a fine bit of work.
Fletcher Harper Swift writes from California:
"The General Education Board, a branchof the Rockefeller Foundation, has grantedme a fund to cover the cost of publishingmy remaining studies in 'Financing European Educational Institution.' The first ofthese studies, 'The Financing of Institutions of Public Instruction in France,' waspublished by the University of Californiain January, 1934. My manuscripts onAustria and Czechoslovakia are now in thehands of the printer; and I hope to complete my reports on England and Germanyduring the summer and fall. Owing to thecut in the university budget, there was considerable doubt as to whether these lastfour studies could be published, but thegrant from the General Education Boardhas saved the day."
It has long been known to the members of the class that Harry (Dr. Harry W. to others) Goodall is one of the great physicians and this fact has now become better known throughout the country. In the May number of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the leading magazines of the medical profession, there appeared a very lengthy article, "Thoracic Stomach by Dr. Harry W. Goodall." I do not know very much about thoracic stomach, but I have learned that Harry has made a very important medical discovery and has shown that many cases heretofore diagnosed as gall stones, ulcers of the stomach, and various other things, and in very many of which surgical operations were recommended and had only to then find that the diagnosis had been wrong, were not surgical cases but were cases of thoracic stomach, which is a medical disease and not a surgical one. As I understand it, this thoracic stomach is a congenital condition, due to the fact that the esophagus did not grow to its normal length with the result that the stomach protrudes up through the diaphragm when it should be below it. I do know that immediately following the appearance of the article Harry began receiving requests for copies of the reprint from prominent physicians in all parts of the United States. A Boston doctor of world-wide renown recently referred one of his own patients to Harry with the statement, "Dr. Goodall knows moreabout hernia of the stomach than any manin this country." This doctor thus confirms the general opinion had by a large host of Dartmouth patients.
Bucky Chandler opened his summer home in Plymouth about the first of April. Bucky and Marie certainly are not Pilgrims, but I understand that in the near future they propose making their permanent home in the historic town where the Pilgrims first landed.
After several years in preparation the book, "Libel and Slander of the State of New York by Ernest P. Seelman," was published a few months ago. The book is a most comprehensive work on this subject and was prepared with all the thoroughness those of us who know Ike so well would expect. He and the book have received the highest praise from the judges and lawyers of New York. I understand that it has met with an excellent sale, commensurate with the careful work and time taken in its preparation.
It seems that once started they cannot he stopped, for honors continued to come to members of our class. Harry Goodall is the latest recipient of public honor by being elected a trustee of Berwick Academy, South Berwick, Me. This academy, which is one of the oldest in Maine, was the fitting school for Harry, preparing him for admission to Dartmouth. Is it possible that it may now serve as a finishing school for him and train him to be a trustee of Dartmouth?
Members of the class have now received the annual message from Ted Leggett. Ted has the unusual faculty of being able to make even a touch for money welcome. In the past, in good times and in bad, he has •succeeded in registering '98 as a one hundred per cent contributor to the Alumni Fund, and so this year with conditions better and growing better we should, every man of us, send in some contribution to Ted at once, so that at the roll call at Commencement time he may report "'98 is one hundred per cent present."
Secretary, 57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass.
