Class of 1908

If you are interested in reading about the other members of the class, and a good many appear not to be, send your little notes to L. W. G., Batavia, N. Y., before the Ist of each month. The battle for 1908's place in the alumni sun has now taken on international aspects with Br'er Rosie Hinman in Montreal, No. 1155 Beaver Hall Square. Rosie is to endeavor to boost subscriptions this year. For the 1934-35 season 1908 had 58 subscribers for a percentage of 35. Contributors to the Alumni Fund numbered 84 or 51 per cent of the class. If we could get each one who contributes to the Alumni Fund to subscribe to the magazine we would be getting somewhere. Other classes we know and their subscription percentages are: '04, 45; '05, 44; '06, 38; '07, 56; '09, 39; '10, 95; '11, 76.

Do you finger through the Sunday papers, giving special attention to the lists of officials at the big football games? Sometimes you find mention of Bankart, Knight, and other old-timers.

Requests to this department are almost as infrequent as contributions, but one recently received asked for the names of the six members of 1908 who are listed in "Who's Who." Despite an exhaustive treatise on the subject in the June issue of this MAGAZINE, the names are hereby repeated, viz.: Detlefsen, Blake, F. G.; Hopkins, L. B.; Rugg, H. O.; Marsden, R. R.; Cushing, J. T. The order named is the sequence in which they made the book.

Clarence Clayes Talcott, ex-08, who was in college in 1906 and 1907, is the only classmate listed in the alumni records as "Inactive. Addresses Unknown." Edward Flagg Sweeney, another ex-'08er, has written to the Hanover office that he is not interested in Dartmouth any more.

And now the time has come to realize there may be something in the recent Park Ave. slant on Dartmouth in the New Yorker, which allowed its football expert, "J. W. L." to refer to the Greenies as "a full-fledged associate member of theBig Three."

One of the impressions of a summer on Cape Cod which persists concerns a visit to the home of Mrs. Frederick Field Bullard near Chatham. Mr. Bullard wrote the music of the "Stein Song," "Hanover Winter Song," while Richard Hovey of Dartmouth wrote the words of the former. Mrs. Bullard recalls Hovey's visits to the Bullard home vividly and has been urged to write her reminiscences for publication. Although the Hanover Winter Song is typical of Hanover, neither of the producers was connected with Dartmouth. Richard Hovey has a son living on the Pacific Coast. He did not go to college.

Kenneth Everett Kimball, a member of 1908, died on May 25, 1935, at Jackson, Miss. He was probably best known during undergraduate days through his organization of the Kimball eating club, a rather de luxe enterprise of those far-off times.

From Mrs. Maud Shipley Leach, Drake Tower, Chicago, comes an announcement concerning one of the departed classmates, it says: "Many friends of LieutenantGeorge Shipley have, through the years,requested me to put into permanent formthe story of his life. I have just completedarrangements with Willett, Clark, if Company of Chicago to print privately a limitededition. I want you to have the opportunity of subscribing to one of these books ifyou wish to have it. The cost will be $3.The book is now ready for distribution."

Clinton I. Dow, with 1908 freshman year, has lived many years in Manchester, N. H. For some time he held an executive position with the Amoskeag Mfg. Co., but in recent years, since that company curtailed its activities, he has been active in the organization and supervision of the CCC in New Hampshire. His family consists of a wife and one daughter.

Howard Hilton, vice-president of the Great Lakes Mortgage Co., Chicago, took the wife, Carolyn, to South America last spring and to Bermuda in September. They have a daughter who entered Penn Hall, Chambersburg, Pa., this fall, and two girls in Stevens Institute, Columbia, Mo.

This time the Chicago Alumni Scholarship, which is run along lines somewhat similar to a Rhodes Scholarship, went to young Bob McLeod, advices from the capital of Cook County, ILL., state.

The Chicago alumni held a picnic on the Louis Leverone estate, Park Stickney and Ev Marsh representing 1908 at the function. Among the other guests were Messrs. Bill Bingham and Eddie Casey of Harvard, whose nephew is in Dartmouth.

Ev Marsh's daughter, Virginia, on a visit in the East, was a guest at the home of Dean and Mrs. Bob Strong, Hanover, N. H. Ev's boy, George, was on the road early this fall with a Shakespearian troupe which played various locations in the prov- inces, including Boston.

Oh! Oh!! Bill Knight, the Rockford, 111., flash who is the only man, so Bob Ripley says, with a middle initial (D) which stands for nothing at all and, hence, the period after the letter is always omitted when the name is correctly used, attended the Leverone soiree given in honor of Chicago alumni on the Leverone grouse moors near good old Chi.

Continued perusal of the New York Herald Tribune was rewarded by a Swampscott, Mass., dispatch relating the activities, in part, of the New England Hotel Men's Association. Our own L. G. Treadway of Williamstown was listed as a director of the organization which, as a board, accepted an invitation to spend January 20 to 29 in Bermuda as guests of the Bermuda Hotel Association, sailing from New York January 18.

Everett T. Marsh of Suite 2107, 120 S. LaSalle St., Chicago, is, according to his nicely embossed stationery, a "MemberGroup Millionaires' Club" thus keeping up an old Richardson Hall custom.

From a roundabout source comes a copy of "The New Hampshire Troubadour" with the following excerpt marked: "'What a lake region New Hampshirehas!' " exclaimed Editor-Major-Judge Arthur Rotch, Milford, after he had scooted around in the air in Colonel Clarence Chamberlain's giant plane. "See it on themap. Then see it from the sky. Miles andmiles of island-studded water. Sandybeaches, scudding motorboats, pretty villages. From a mile up the old steamer, Mt.Washington, looks like a toy. And allaround to the north and west the raggedskyline and towering mountains. It is ascene of incredible beauty.' That from aDartmouth man and editor of one of thebrightest weekly papers in the state ispretty good." The marked copy was not forwarded by the genial editor-major-judge.

Art Lewis' son Jack is quite a polo player, working out, or whatever it is poloists do, with graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton at the Dedham Country and Polo Club. Jack is undergoing his last year at the Rivers Country Day School, where Clarence Allen 1910 is headmaster. And Jack, despite Hanover's limited polo facilities, is going to the old college next fall, willy nilly.

Art Lewis ran into Hal Snow in Medfield not long ago. Hal was covering the Medfield front for Decauter & Hopkins.

Sandy Stearns, son of Mike, had a tutoring job in Maine last summer. Sandy, a lad right up to the Stearns' high standard, was said, at last accounts, to be preparing for Amherst.

Harold Rugg '08, who received a doctor's degree a Hanover last June, in addressing a Columbia University audience, said it is becoming increasingly difficult for students to study society scientifically. He cites as reasons for this: First, the emotional drive of this period, which "sways us." Second, the complicated nature of our economic and social system; third, the "patrioleers, who are organizing toprevent us becoming scientific students." Dr. Rugg assailed as "patrioteers," the Daughters of the American Revolution, who, he said, "would deport all who disseminate disruptive ideas."

Freddie Vietor's name consistently appeared in the October, 1908, items as "Victor." So just to square the records, let it be known that the dodderer who writes these lines hasn't forgotten Freddie's real name. At the same time, since the item in question was chronicling Freddie's purchase of a State Exchange for some $140,000, probably the proofreader felt "if his name isn't Victor, it should be, anyhow."

Recent address changes as furnished by the Alumni Records Office, Hanover, include the following: Joseph L. Richardson, 54a S. Broadway, Los Angeles. Joe is a broker, head of Richardson & Co.

Allan M. Perkins, Box 203, Greenwich, Conn. Perk is in reorganization work "as an individual."

Andrew L. Nichols, Pine and Fulton Sts., Chicago. He teaches law in Austin High School, Chicago.

Harold B. Cogswell, 328 South Euclid Ave., Oak Park, ILL. He is unemployed.

Arthur D. MacMillan, 247 Park Ave., New York. He describes himself as a campaign

manager for Leo L. Redding & Co.

Harold W. Joyce, 65 Adella Ave., West Newton, Mass.

Edward P. Bartlett, Experiment Station, Wilmington, Del. He is a chemist with the research department of the E. I. Dupont de Nemours Co. Business looks bright, say we.

Clayton E. Royce, Box 2098, Jacksonville, Fla. He is a physician in the pathological department of St. Vincent's Hospital.

Seymour S. Rutherford, 617 Strath Haven Ave., Swarthmore, Pa. He is in the wholesale lumber business.

Charles C. Severance, 16 Melvin Ave., Cortland, N. Y. Charles is factory manager for the brockway Motor Co., Inc.

Edwin W. Smallman, 831 Allison St., N. W., Washington.

Willard C. Winkley, 15 Jefferson St., Winthrop, Mass. With Lockwood Greene, Engineers, Boston.

John H. (Dolly) Gray, 845 Sutter St., San Francisco.

Herbert Thomas, R. F. D. 4, Box Bao, Turlock, Calif.

Fred S. Stripp, 2805 Stuart St., Berkley, Calif. Fred is an insurance broker with leanings toward the Equitable.

Wuextry! Wuextry!! Alexander S. Shoniger, 85 Devonshire St., Boston, which is the address of the Massachusetts Distributors, Inc. Sounds intriguing.

Editor, Batavia, N. Y.