Class of 1895
Jesse Marden accidentally met Mrs. Laura Lord Scales in Athens. She was there last spring. It will be remembered that Mrs. Scales is the widow of Burton T. Scales, whom we all knew so well. She is also sister of John K. Lord Jr.
Echoes from the reunion have been coming in steadily. "Dud" West had never been back to a reunion. This is what he says of the Fortieth:
"Our reunion at Hanover was the highspot, for the girls of our trip, and for me ofmy life. Seeing all the old familiar facesand greeting them with 'smiles that mightas well be tears' is unforgettable. The girlsnow feel that Hanover is their heaven. Andhow glorious is Dartmouth to wife and me!"
"Dud's" young married son made a tour of the East in August with his wife, taking in Washington, New York, and Boston. The girls" are "Dud's" daughter Margaret and her friend Mary Railsback. Margaret has a responsible position at Marshall Field's, Chicago.
fom Hack and Mrs. Hack motored over from Rutland to the Vermont-Dartmouth football game. They report that their family is well and prospering. They expressed great pleasure in receiving a call from Joe Ford as he was motoring through Vermont this fall.
Einest Gile seems to have the homing pigeon instinct for returning to natal haunts. He seems to take solid pleasure in roaming over the ancestral farm in Lebanon during his vacation days and weekends. There are two unusual and distinctive features of his record as an absentee landlord. His farm has been occupied and cultivated by a tenant for twenty-three years. The friendly relationship between Gile and his tenant indicates contentment and prosperity for the tenants and a continuous welcome to Gile whenever he drops in. The other distinctive feature is the construction of a swimming pool on Gile's land by a banker friend of his, who seems to delight in spending his vacation in a cottage he has built on the farm. It is unusual for one person to expend a considerable sum of money building a swimming pool on another man's land with no lease or title of any kind except the landlord's hearty and sincere verbal consent. Gile and Ford recently met together in New York.
Dr. Baketel writes: "I have received your note with the report of the reunion and it is very interesting. I see how much I missed by being tiedup with the worst case of laryngitis fromwhich I have ever suffered. I promise youthat if the Lord is good to me I will havea good speaking voice at the 45th, no matter what may happen to the contrary."
Genial Joe Ford seems to be going places, these days. He was present at the dedication services at Whiteface Mountain in September with the Conservation Committee Club of America. He writes—"lf youwant something that you can never forgetand never describe it would be well totake your fair wife and drive across to theAdirondacks during the next two or threeweeks and go up the new highway to thetop of Whiteface Mountain, where, asPresident Roosevelt stated on Saturday inhis speech up there, you can see the wholeof the Adirondacks for a dollar. There isnothing else in the eastern part of theUnited States to compare with it"
Dr. and Mrs. Newhart returned to Minneapolis late in June after a four weeks' vacation trip by auto, which included the Fortieth Reunion in Hanover. Writing of the reunion, Horace says:
"We shall never forget the pleasure itgave us to meet you and the old classmatesand see the new Dartmouth." (He had not been in Hanover since graduation.)
"The photographs have just arrived, andwith the exception of my own likeness, theya) e excellent. They will help to keep freshthe memory of our classmates of collegedays."
It will be noted that the doctor didn't express his pleasure in meeting me and the other old classmates, but "to meet you. and the old classmates." This seems to classify the Secretary with the young alumni, which is satisfactory to the Secretary.
"Dud" West reports receiving a postal fiom Willie Wilson from Copenhagen, and "Doc" Newell reports receiving a letter from Wilson from Helsingfors.
Secretary, White River Junction, Vt.
