Class of 1895
We all remember "Honest Dan" Watson, and it is safe to say that not many of us ever thought of him as Edward S. Watson. College names stick fast in our memory, and real names of classmates grow dim accordingly. Dan has recently recovered from a severe attack of grippe. He is teaching in his home town, Pittsfield, N. H. Owing to the condition of his health he does not expect to attend the reunion next June. He expresses his personal interest, however, and would be glad to hear from classmates telling about the reunion next June.
John K. Lord Jr. (he still retains the Jr.) is hoping to be present at the fortieth reunion, but is unable to make definite plans so far ahead. John lives at 125 North Woodlawn Ave., St. Louis, Mo., in the Kirkwood District. This has been his residence for twenty-three years.
He was married several years after he graduated. His wife died in 1905. Four years later he married Irma St. Vrain Cole, originally of Fargo, N. D., later of Chester, 111., where the marriage took place. He has two daughters, the elder, Elizabeth, born in October, 1902, now Mrs. G. Fred Driemeyer. Both she and her husband are graduates of the University of St. Louis. Mr. Driemeyer is employed as a sales engineer for the General Steel Castings Cos. John has two grandsons, Clark McAdams Driemeyer, three years old, and Derick Lord Driemeyer, not yet a year old. The second daughter, Virginia Cole Lord, is a senior in Webster College at Webster Groves, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis.
John has served as alderman in Kirkwood. He has not been East since before his mother died. He is a member of the Commercial Law League of America and is said to be the oldest living Dartmouth graduate in St. Louis.
DR. MARDEN WRITES
Dr. Jesse K. Marden (Krikory, as some of our Dekes used to know him) maintains keen interest in Dartmouth and is especially interested to hear about '95 men. In a letter from him received about Christmas time he writes as follows:
"Prof. Truxal of Dartmouth has beenin Athens for nearly a month. He seems tobe a very fine type of man. I am glad thatDartmouth has men of that type. He andProf. Stearns, who was here a year ago, area credit to any college. I was glad to getsome up-to-date information about theCollege.
"Lippmann had an article in the lastParis Herald which seemed to me verysignificant. He feels that we have turnedthe point, and the more intelligent peoplethe world over have been able to see thatthe future is not with dictators of Moscow,Berlin, and Rome, but with countries withfreer government, where there is scope forinitiative and individuality. If this ideais really gaining ground specially inAmerica it is a very hopeful indication. For,he adds, the profit motive is fundamentalto human development. It has troubled mevery much to see our religious journals sofull of the idea that the profit system mustbe abolished, that it is un-Christian, etc.
"There are certainly enough wild ideasrepresented in the bills which will be submitted to Congress this winter. The question is whether we have men with commonsense and courage to handle them. Manyof our congressmen seem to be like sheep,willing to follow the leader that makesthe most noi{se.
"You probably will smile when you readthis, but after all, one's judgment, whenhe is 5000 miles away and has to dependon newspapers and periodicals, is likely tobe warped. You are all in the thick of thebattle and must help to steady the ship ofstate."
Jesse has plenty of common sense mixed with the grey matter beneath his almost red hair. He hopes to be present at the reunion next June, but is doubtful whether he can arrive in America before June 25.
John Gault has been a successful teacher in the public schools of Manchester, N. H., for many years. In 1910 his address was 700 Pine St., Manchester, and it still is. A year or two ago he had a severe attack of rheumatism from which he entirely recovered.
During the warmer months of the year Percy N. Folsom motors about New England and elsewhere and in his travels he calls now and then on "Dan" Watson at Pittsfield, N. H., and runs across Ernest Gile, John Hayes, "Doc" Newell, and others. Folsom's address is 169 Bridge St., Manchester, N. H. He is planning to be present at the class reunion next June.
Since his graduation at the Baltimore Medical College in 1900, Dr. Harry W. Newell has lived in Canada and Seattle. He returned from the West a few years ago to his former residence at Derry, N. H., where he lived with his mother. Due to failing eyesight he entered the Masonic Home at Manchester, N. H., where he now is. He is able to get about town alone, but is greatly restricted because of his eyesight.
Carroll A. Davis, "General" Davis in other words, and John Gault accidentally met at the Hotel Statler in Boston last fall during the week of the Harvard-Dartmouth football game. A few years ago Carroll succeeded the Hon. Curtis S. Emery as head of the custom house brokerage business in Newport, Vt. He has recently been appointed a member of the State Liquor Control Board of Vermont by Gov. Charles M. Smith. He succeeds the late Ex-governor Franklin S. Billings.
Editor, White River Jet., Vt.
