Class of 1905
The 1934 Yale football team had nothing on our champion 1920 baseball team, which played its whole series without substitution and licked everything in sight. The iron men composing that team, and shown in Exhibit "A," attached hereto and made a part hereof, are Harding, Gage, Conley, Clough, McCabe, Lillard, Vaughan, Hatch, and Donnelly. At least we are pretty sure it is Hatch, though we had forgotten he could play ball. Most of these stalwarts will be present at the 1935 reunion, but it has been suggested that they may be generous and permit our sons to represent our class on the diamond this year.
"C. C." Hills seems to be getting uneasy. A while back he moved out to Columbus, Ohio, for the winter, or so, and took up his abode at 26 Wilson Ave. Now we learn that he has moved to 35 N. 9th St., Apt. C, in the same city. In the very near future we expect to report that he has moved back to Norwich. Many people find it convenient to change their living quarters in the interest of economy these days, but his recent change has the earmarks of prosperity.
Tubby Besse reports that Bill Knibbs has been elected president of the Exeter Club of New York. Bill was already the vicepresident of the Dartmouth Club of New York. From various reports it is evident that these jobs entail not only considerable honor but a lot of hard work. Bill has been very active in Dartmouth and Exeter affairs in New York for some time.
To continue our report as to the cordial reception given by the Atwoods to Nelson McClary upon his arrival at St. Petersburg, Fla.: Jake was good enough to give Nelson a job in his warehouse, thus providing a living for the time being. Naturally Nelson thinks more of the class of 1905 than ever before. He says the Atwoods are peaches. Jake has been sick for the past three weeks, but is back on the job again.
When you read this there will be but four months to go to the final plans for the 30th. Drop your Christmas Club account in the bank and open a 30th Reunion account, so you will have enough for car fare or gas. Then figure out some way so the reunion dates will be closed to other engagements; avoid sickness, weddings, and funerals, and plan your family vacations in such a way that you and your whole family will be at Hanover for the two or three days set apart for this big family reunion. Not many of us can become proud fathers of five babies in one year, but we all can have one reunion every five years. Let's give ourselves and our families a break, whether we can afford it or not. We'll make it up some way, some how, some time. And this particular opportunity will never knock again. And don't forget to bring the grandchildren. (That last is just to make you feel your age and want to get in under the wire.)
In the American Press for December there is a thrilling news story written by Charles F. Eichenauer, our Quincy, Ill., editor, dealing with present attitude of Germany toward the world in general. Says the editor of that publication: "It is astory which, more simply, directly, and convincingly than all the tons of books andarticles which have been printed about theEuropean situation, reveals the essentialdifference between the European outlookand that of America. The story which thisAmerican-born, Americafi-trained editorhad sought in vain in Berlin, in Moscow, inVienna, and in Geneva, came with the suddenness of a lightning flash from the lips ofa German cousin, in the little town of Garbenheim. As the kinsmen, one of whomhad worn the 'feld-grau,' and the other thekhaki, talked of peace and war, the newspaper man suddenly realized he had gotthe story he was after It is an example of good journalism as well as adramatic interlude in an American newspaper mail's life, and a satisfying interpretation of the underlying causes of muchthat has seemed puzzling to American observers of the European scene."
Word comes from Washington that the President, shortly after the advent on the scene of our own Fat Newdick, has made an address to Congress in which he turns decidedly to the right, thus giving more hope for a speedy return to normalcy (whatever that is) than we have had for nearly two years.
Secretary, 45 East Main St., Malone, N. Y
