Class of 1899
Much interest in Boston has been shown in the Irving and Casson—A. H. Davenport Company removal sale of fine furniture and interior decorations. The new location will be announced soon, but Arthur Irving is too busy at present preparing for the Thirty-Fifth Reunion to be over-much concerned about a small matter like rearranging the set-up of a million-dollar stock.
Tim Lynch, likewise preparing for the big show in Hanover, has found time recently to direct his second extravaganza by the Woodrow Wilson Intermediate School pupils in Dorchester. The presentation included a fashion show, radio impersonation and living pictures from long ago, together with folk songs, dances, patriotic drills, and a grand finale entitled "The United States, the Melting Pot of All Nations."
George Evans, as chairman of a group of Somerville, Mass., library and educational experts, has begun publication of the Somerville Historical Monographs. This series is a continuation of the well-known Somerville Historical Leaflets. The first number is entitled "George Washington in Somerville." A unique feature is provided by the use of a photostat copy of the littleknown Trumbull plan of the Charlestown fortifications.
Joe Gannon, as always, continues to be good copy. His son-in-law, Winter S. Read, having resigned as treasurer of the George B. Galbraith Company in order to accept an executive position with the BigelowSanford Carpet Company, had to move to San Francisco in March. Hence the family circle in New York must miss daughter Genevieve and granddaughter Patricia.
The latest business yarn about Joe is also too good to keep. The Casino de Paris last spring sought to print in the decorous columns of the Times a blurb introducing the "twenty hottest girls this side of hell." Censorship expert J. W. G. neatly converted this into the innocuous but striking proclamation of the "twenty most alluring maidens this side of Paradise."
Peddy Miller and Charles Bonney represented '99 at the Philadelphia Dartmouth dinner, and—believe it or notwere among the oldest alumni at that occasion.
Not age, but youth, however, is served in the pages of the new Class Report with its irresistible picturing of the gay doings at Hanover from June 15 to 18. Nor, when this column is read, will there be any further secret as to the tempting sequel that is preparing when the main Commencement program ends with the graduation exercises at the transformed Bema.
"See you in Hanover, in Hanover in June."
Secretary, 41 West Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Md.
