Class of 1908
Whatever cheer this consignment of 1908 notes may reflect, let it be known the genesis of any such collegiate happiness is due largely to a broadcast heard yesterday in which the announcer told of the "Big Green" completing a fifty-odd yard pass for a touchdown and another which went to the 2-yard line and resulted in a score. The particular "Big Green" happened to be Notre Dame at Los Angeles, but the announcer called the Irish that. Somehow it did seem good.
John C. Merrill 1937, son of our own Richard Brackett Merrill, was awarded a football "D" in Hanover on December 5. There may be other '08ers with sons wearing the top insignia of Hanover Plain, but the sparse records at the disposal of the writer show them not.
Alexander Clark 1938, another son of one of our boys you know well, John Alexander Clark, one-time varsity football manager and now a water-color artist of New Canaan, Conn., is wearing a set of numerals as a result of his soccer activities. John G. Osborne, nephew of L. W. Griswold '08, has a set reading "1937" which he secured on the soccer field. Osborne was on the soccer squad last fall.
Perhaps, in connection with the notes on the Yale game due to appear in the December issue—The MAGAZINE hadn't reached the Niagara Frontier country at this writing—a fleeting glimpse of Louis Clayton Grover '05, better known as "Elsie," was recorded. Apollo that he was, he still is and it looks as though he always would be. An encounter like the one with this gentlemen is a grand incentive toward keeping one's chin up, realizing that, if you let the thought of growing older get you down, you're quitting.
Don Erion 1936, the new captain of the Dartmouth football team, comes from Buffalo. He played only one minute during the 1934 season because of injuries. His election set a precedent—he's the first Dartmouth football captain from Western New York. Of course, Captain-Emeritus John Baldwin Glaze 1908 lives at the Falls, and, it is probable, he set a precedent, too, by not jumping into the cataract when news of those Cornell touchdowns came wafting over the ether on a rotten Saturday afternoon last November.
Flossie McAuliffe, 1908's best sculptor, is again at No. 5 MacDougal Alley, New York. He recently found time to acknowledge a prepaid telegram of birthday congratulations sent on the occasion of his memorable studio party attended by Rosie Hinman, Freddy Munkelt, John Thompson, Larry Symmes, and other metropolitan intelligentsia.
Some of the better minds of the class, after devoting protracted thought to the question, "What do you think of the New Deal?" put up to them via prepaid postcard, have replied, and the answers are given herewith: (It should be distinctly understood the question was submitted before the 1934 football season was fairly underway and refers to the activities of the Washington, D. C., Administration).
It's not what 1908 thinks of it; rather what2008 will think of it—Honk Joyce, Newtonville,
Mass.Better than Hooverism —Albert R. Chandler, Columbus, O.My opinion of it is not suitable to sendthrough the mail.—P. M. Batchelder,
Austin, Texas.I could be arrested for what I think of it.John M. Tatterson, Portland, Me.Personally, it has increased expenses without corresponding increase in income.In many respects the trend is in the rightdirection. Destruction of crops and paying farmers and others for not workingappears unwise. In so far as there isbetter distribution of commodities andbuying power, I approve.—Edward P.
Bartlett, Wilmington, Del.Corning years will call it worse than anything I can ever think of to call it now.It's a wonderful political instrument,however.—George Squier, Boston.Robbing Peter to pay Paul—and I'm sittiyig
in the middle holding the empty bag.Wink Fiske, Pittsburgh.I don't, if I can help it.—A. B. Rotch, Milford, N. H.Terrible. Who is going to pay for it all?Gordon Blanchard, Grand Central Annex, N. Y.
It's hell, and then some.—Pop Chesley,Vtica, N. Y.
May cause a lot of headaches, but shouldhave a good, long chance to work out itsprogram. The old deal didn't seem to bedoing such a swell job itself, giving us,alternately, a feast and a famine—PercyE. Gleason, Boston.
I have been all for it, but am beginning tobe doubtful.—D. L. Comstock, Vermilion,O.
Utterly putrid.—Fred O. Copeland, Randolph, Vt.
Looks as though someone forgot to shufflethe cards.—Scott Mann, Wells River, Vt.How does anyone know what to think?Perhaps we are getting over into a newerorder of things. Anyway, if we are not,we ought to be.—Doc Detlefsen, Swarth
more, Pa.Rotten—Chester W. Melville, Boston.Space too limited.—A. S. Hopkins, Albany.Would not go through mails, if I said whatI thought—Frank Gordon Cook, Missoula, Montana.
In the November issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, Hamilton B. Mitchell 1938 was featured among alumni notes as being a son of 1907 and 1908. As might be assumed, young Mr. Mitchell is not a descendant of both classes. His papa is Herbie of 1907. We have a Mitchell, from the same town, Cleveland, as Herbie, too. The 1908 man, non-graduate, is Harry Wilbert Mitchell.
Harold Clark is working in the methods department of the Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper Co., Nashua, N. H., and will be glad to see any of the classmates at any time.
Mrs. Kenneth W. Smith of Shelburne Falls, Mass., is none other than the former Miss Betty, daughter of that Miles Standish of the Mink Brook sector, Mr. John Morris Tatterson of Portland, Me.
Porter W. Lowe, denizen of Richardson Hall in the days when it was considered way uptown, is now office manager of the Hampshire Paper Co., with headquarters at South Hadley Falls, Mass. His son Brenton is a junior at M. I. T., and his daughter Constance is attending the Chamberlain School of Art in Boston.
David Robert Blanpied, the squire of St. Paul Academy, St. Paul, Minn., gets to New York once in a while to correct college board examinations. He and his family spend their summers on the south shore of Lake Superior. He was in New England for two days, some months ago, but didn't see any classmates.
Edward P. Bartlett, from Wilmington, Del., confesses to being another one of those birds who started to build a more imposing nest just as the big crash started. He and his family continue to occupy the property. "To us this is good news andimportant," he writes. "Hope all the restof the class can see the end of the hardtimes." He lives on "Lore" avenue in Wilmington, which may account for the flight into fancy relating to the end of "hard times."
G. Edwin Squier, reinsman of song and story in the 'OB epoch, spent a week in Hanover with the wife, football team, and the golf course. "Came away," confides Mr. Squier, "homesick not to be ableto spend more time there. Played golf withDick Southgate and had a fine reunionwith him." Perhaps that is why Mr. Southgate changed residences in Hanover ancould not be located when your well-in-tentioned correspondent tried to locate him (Mr. S'g'te) during the Squier spell in Grafton county. "New maid due in twoweeks," postcards Georgie S.
Dr. Eben Winslow Fiske, it is hoped, has recovered from his automobile smash-up of last spring. Some time ago he wrote he had just returned from Pittsburgh from a stay on Cape Cod. While at the Cape, Eben indulged in a seaplane ride over the America's Cup races. Later he spent some time on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay.
Major Arthur B. Rotch is authority for the statement that Art Soule's boy, Turner, Dartmouth 1938, is rooming next to Bill Rotch, he by Arthur 8., Dartmouth 1937. We understand Turner is a swell kid, and know Bill is, having met the latter at a Sunday breakfast.
Erastus Beethoven Badger, Art Soule, Art O'Shea, and Art Rotch foregathered in Hanover momentarily one day last autumn. This is old stuff and we know it. If you want faster news, boys, send it faster. The meeting took place on the occasion of the Norwich game. But, you know, a magazine likes news when it's history and history when it's news.
Gordon Blanchard, 1908's only Chrysler Building tenant in New York that we know anything about, has a son in 1938, Dartmouth, who is keeping up the family tradition for class by rooming in Massachusetts Hall, Room 409. Gordon doesn't mind if we again remind classmates he is living at 13 Cohaway Road, Scarsdale-on-the-Hudson, Westchester county. Pretty good for a Phillips Exeter graduate from Brookline, eh, wot?
Roland (Me Boy) Edward (Pop) Chesley of Box 302, Utica, N. Y., gives his latest family news in this fashion: "Have added a'Scotty' pup."
Under the classification "Family Additions," Freddie Copeland of Randolph, Vt., lists, "tiny yacht and tiny wine cellar."
"Glad to have my boy away from homeonly because he is in Hanover" says John A. Detlefsen, the accomplished physician and surgeon of Swarthmore, Pa. Guess some of the other boys will be able to read a wealth of wistfulness, too, in that terse statement from the doctor.
Frank Gordon Cook continues to live in Missoula, Mont., where he is employed by the Northern Pacific Railway. His daughter Margaret is a student at Montana University, and wishes Dartmouth were co-educational.
At no expense, except for time and effort, the 1908 department of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE will soon present excerpts from "Who's Who in America" pertaining especially to our classmates. The idea, which is expected to provoke considerable interest, was suggested by John Alexander Clark. This note is set down here for two reasons: First, the idea offers all you can learn about 1908 for $16, if you buy a "Who's Who." Second, if some other class comes across with "Who's Who" listings, you will know where the plan originated. Not that we are touchy. Only because we fear, unless classmates crash through with notes, at once, 1908 contributions will be absent, unless some book is copied almost bodily.
Miss Harriet Griswold, Smith 1938, took the long ride on the Connecticut Valley division of the B. & M., attended Dartmouth parties incident to the New Hampshire game, and resumed her Northampton activities promptly. This note is thrown in here for the benefit of any 1908 parents who are withholding definite answers from loved ones who are teasing to make the long trek to the 1935 Winter Carnival in Hanover.
Harry Lyon of "Lyonsden," Paris, Me., known to aeronautics as the navigator of the famous Southern Cross when that venerable airplane made her historic dash across the Pacific from Hawaii and hit the Fiji Islands right on the nose, was in California to greet his old pilot, Captain Kingsford-Smith, when the latter reached the golden shore of the U. S. A., after a historic flight from Australia a few weeks ago. This information comes from the Associated Press—William D (no period) Knight Service of Rockford, Ill.
John Holmes Hinman, Dartmouth 1908, vice-president of the International Paper Co., in charge of lands and forests, with headquarters in the Daily News building, East 42d St., New York, is also president of the American Pulpwood Association, which labored high, wide, and handsome in connection with the working out of a code for the papermakers under the eye of the Blue Eagle of the NRA.
Editor, Batavia, N. Y.
