Class of 1904
Wa Hoo Wah—Wah Hoo Wah-Da Da Dartmouth
Wah Hoo Wah—T-I-G-E-R! Robbie— Robbie—ROßßlE!!
With this unanimous cheer, we show our respect and sincere appreciation to Robbie for getting us to do for the college what we have always wanted to do, yet what we consistently missed doing. Now,— thanks to this Robinson chap—we find ourselves, at the beginning of our thirty- sixth year of association together, a well co-ordirtated class doing a heads up job for the fund, and—through his fine type of news letters—rediscovering men who have been individually lost for a quarter of a century. Hats off to Robbie.
The story of the Alumni Fund will be found elsewhere in this copy, but there are a few family facts such as the gain in per cent of contributors from ninety-two in 1934 to one hundred and ten in 1935, with a total of one hundred and twenty- five contributors rating third in fifty-nine tabulated classes, with a total contribution of $1886.35 rating eighteenth.
My June notes mentioned the keen anticipation with which I looked forward to spending two spring days in Hanover at the meeting of secretaries. The day arrived, and with the Ford at the door and lunch on the table, a fire was discovered on the roof which resulted in the complete destruction of the house. I haven't had those spring days in Hanover yet.
Discussing various matters at our thirtieth reunion, some of us felt that the penalty of waiting five years to see other members of the class was too long a sentence. We consequently staged an off-year reunion at Commencement last June which was so thoroughly enjoyed by everyone present that many of us are sure to be found on the Hanover Plain each year. There were present a grand total of thirty- one. Here they are: Pen Mower, Rosy and Mrs. Hinman, Hay Rolfe, Sid and Mrs. Rollins with two daughters, Beck Johnson, Ralph Sexton, Edge and Mrs. Edge, Myron Witham and his big boy Bud, Artie Bolster, Jig Leverone, Bill and Mrs. Gray, Leon and Mrs. Webster, Carl Woods and Jim, Squid and Mrs. Lampee, Ned Bartlett, Bill and Mrs. Roby with Mary Elizabeth, John T., and William J., Dartmouth '38. Yes—l was there too. We were quartered, in Bill Gray's school for the commercially minded, and it was a fine location for a lot of old dodos too feeble to stand the excitement of a location nearer the Campus. The ceremony at the Tomb was observed by Rollins, Bartlett, Roby, Lampee, and Rolfe, led by Beck Johnson. This was Bill Roby's first appearance at a reunion since graduation, and it was a real privilege to spend a few days with his fine family. We greatly enjoyed the opportunity of reuning with the 1905 group. It was a fine week-end, and it has a moral.
Robbie couldn't join us in June as his daughter Betty was graduating at Wellesley and sailing almost immediately after for Germany. This is the last straw. I'm for a movement restricting women's colleges to May for their commencements.
Rev. John Harrison Jack Nolan received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the American International college at Springfield, Massachusetts on June nth.
Louis W. '06 Russell, brother of Walter, died suddenly at his home in Concord, New Hampshire the latter part of May. It was my privilege occasionally to enjoy a brief visit with him in Concord.
75 or More October 25th
Remember this is the date for the time- honored round-up the evening before the Harvard game. There are nearly 100 of this crowd who first gathered in Hanover thirty-five years ago now living within 100 miles of Boston. Last year's notes carried news of more than seventy of the Class group—ninety-four subscribed to the '34 fund and one hundred twenty-five to this year's fund. Let's keep this thing up and have a real 1904 party of seventy-five or more on the eve of the Harvard game. Check in you long distance fellows who are attending the game so your New England buddies may be properly prepared to welcome you—time and place later and perhaps an occasional report as to the men signed up. Rosy Hinman is already on his way from Washington for the party, and the committee are looking for a suitable room with doors enough for Rosy's act. Liverone from Chicago, Streeter and McKinnon from New York, and perhaps Sugar Granddaddy Woodbridge and Long Distance Educator Chase. If enough will join up to make it worth-while, we'll bring President Durgin up from Maine. Remember it's your chance to have another big get-together. From now on let's make this a big 'O4 week-end annually with the game as an attraction. The obvious duty for you Boston chaps is to get busy now with your country cousins.
Here are two items of more than ordinary interest regarding Matt Bullock. One —a fine recognition of his straight-forward, honest interest in community affairs was shown by his unanimous election as President of the Community Church, a congregation of some 1400 members which meets every Sunday in Symphony Hall, Boston. The leader of the Church is Dr. Clarence R. Skinner, Dean of the Tufts College School of Theology. The other—the filing of a petition in the legislature requiring consideration by the Advisory Board of Pardons of the cases of life prisoners on the question of extending clemency. The act as passed by the legislature provides that "In every case where a person is confined, in any penal institution exceptBridgewater State Hospital under a sentence for the term of his or her naturallife, the Board of Parole, acting as the Advisory Board of Pardons, shall, withinsixty days after the expiration of fifteenyears of such sentence, consider carefullyand thoroughly the merits of such caseson the question of extending clemency
Matt said he saw so many lifers who did not deserve consideration receiving executive clemency while others went unnoticed because of the lack of friends or influence that he decided to make the attempt to aid the latter group. The law resulting is a real contribution to the system of penology in Massachusetts.
The Jacksons—Florence, Dick, Jane, and Buddy—are spending a few September days with us. Dick got a track "A" in the high jump at Andover in June and returns there this year.
Ike Charron, greatly improved in health since last winter, has been building a summer home in Washington, New Hampshire. There were big trees to fell on the lot, and Ike was lucky to get the services of an old time chopper, Ned Willis, to drop the trees in the right place. Stimulated by this professional woods work, Ned has dropped his golf and is spending his spare time in improving a wood lot in Warren—the town of his birth. There's a bit of community interest in this that will be real news later.
We shall miss neighbor McClary '05. His notes recalled vividly the likeable qualities of many good friends in his class. Greetings and a hearty welcome to his successor.
This magazine needs the support of every one in the Dartmouth family and gives in return news of valued friends in our own and others' classes, notable and notorious graduates of the College, and all the news of the College and undergraduate activities. You cannot get this service from any other source in the world. Canyou afford to be without it? Cannot you better afford to send a copy or two to some less fortunate members of the class?
Why not send a card to me when you send in your applications for all of the big games. I'll try and make it possible for all class members to know whom they may find at the different games. We should be able to have an '04 lunch in Hanover at the Cornell game. Shall we do it?
Mat Bullock '04 One of Dartmouth's best ends
Secretary, Waterville Valley, Waterville, N. H
