Class of 1906
Dan Hatch's Christmas card this year was a marvel. It portrayed Dan himself, big and smiling, dressed in rough sportsmen's garb, holding fishing rod and rifle, with a beautiful dog by his side, and at his feet two baskets, one brimming over with long, fat trout and the other displaying a fine wild duck. Dan and all this paraphernalia stand on a rude wharf behind which a prominent and perfectly legible sign stands out against a row of pines. It is the wording of this sign that made all Dan's friends who were so fortunate as to receive a copy of the card wonder if Dan had joined a gang of outlaws, for it reads "RESERVE INDIENNE: Defense de pecher ou de chasser ici." Well, Dan and Kitty came down to Hanover to see their granddaughter during the holidays, and I got from the hunter himself the story that set my fears at rest. It seems Dan has a cabin on Lac Marois, forty miles north of Montreal, where he spends many vacation days with rod and gun: forty miles further into the Laurentians is the sparselypopulated St. Lucie de Doncaster Indian Reserve. With the Iroquois who inhabit it Dan has become firm friends, and last summer the chieftains of the little tribe initiated him into its full rights and privileges, giving him the name of Ralu Kawana, which in our tongue means "Chief Big Trout"—certainly a compliment to his fishing skill. Now, not as Dan Hatch, subject of King George, but as Ralu Kawana, Iroquois chieftain, he may do as he pleases on his tribal reservation, even to having his picture taken. Wah-hoo-wah, Ralu Kawana!
Brief notes: Ned Redman is now in the employ of the Department of Education of the City of New York Ben Twiss, who graduated at Dartmouth last June with Phi Beta Kappa rank and who is this year pursuing graduate study in political science at Princeton, was one of the two New Hampshire candidates for the Rhodes Scholarships, but unfortunately lost out in the New England finals Tubby Laton has a new address: 1913 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
