Class of 1905

News of the tragic death of Fred Priest was a shock to the members of this class. After reading the brief account of his life and death in the obituary section, written by Art Rotch 'OB, revealing as it does an apparently hopeless struggle to satisfy a lifelong ambition, it almost seems that possibly some of us, his classmates, might have done something, sometime, to avert this tragedy. We never can tell when a kind word, a smile, or a bit of friendliness will help another to face his problems with more courage and more determination to win. Art Rotch says: "Fred was a curiousfellow, and a much better man than mostpeople realized. The story of his early life,struggles, and jolts was rather romantic. Ithink he considered himself a failure in recent years. I think his grip on himself andhis mind have been slipping for sometime." C. C. Hills says that Fred always did his share for the Alumni Fund and was a loyal Dartmouth man. Funeral services were held at the Universalist Church in Winchester, N. H., on February 8, and the body was interred in the family lot in Evergreen Cemetery in that village.

Henry Norton has been appointed assistant to the president of Radio Corporation of America. Since last April he has been treasurer of the National Broadcasting Company, in which position he was engaged in the important work of network reorganization, involving problems of rates and station compensation, and upon the preparation of the NBC operating and financial budget.

C. C. Hills, reporter plenipotentiary for this column, is basking in Florida sunshine at this February date. He writes from Miami, after making a call at St. Pete, and makes a report from which we glean the following: "We found Jake Atwood,his wife and your Nelson, sorting out gladiola bulbs one day after lunch, in front ofJake's warehouse. Nelson looks well, andthe Atwoods are very much interested inhim and fond of him. For all you knowNelson may develop into one of the leading gladiola raisers in Florida. Jake is running true to his regular form. Despitemany years in the South he retains a complete New Boston, N. H., accent; will noteat 'grits' (the leading Southern cereal),which he disdains as an imitation food;has the leading storehouse in the city, andraises gladiolas for the northern markets.A bad freeze last December caused himconsiderable loss, but he is right at theplanting again. The Atwoods are bothwell, and have a very promising youngson nearly fifteen years old. At Nashville,Tenn., we had the pleasure of a very happyvisit with Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Campbell,whose new residence address is 1907 Convent Place. Camp is president of a theological seminary affiliated with VanderbiltUniversity, and is reported to be doing avery fine job of it. Many of his studentsare from the more remote sections of thatpart of the country, and have very littlecash to get through with. Despite two orthree hard years recently, Camp reportsthat his institution is now well 'out of thewoods, and the future looks promising.Both he and his wife are, and look to be,in excellent health, and I predict somevery fruitful years ahead of them both. AtTallahassee I looked up Ralph Scott 1906,whom our class will remember most agreeably. Ralph lives on a 1000-acre plantation ten miles north of the city, growstobacco, and has a herd of cattle. He moveddown there over 25 years ago, and hismother lives nearby in a fine old housefilled up with her antique Massachusettsfurniture. Ralph is well and most comfortably located, is married and has threechildren." C. C. also says that he and Mrs. Hills will be in Florida until about the middle of February, and will then work back to New York for a short stay, and will finally land at Norwich and Hanover on the Passumpsic Division of Ned French's railroad in time to greet us on our arrival in June.

C. C. sent along a letter from Shank Graves in which the writer hints that the alphabet has worked no miracles in the medical profession yet. Shank expressed his appreciation of the good work C. C. has been doing for the class and College. We are certainly with him on that score. He also had a kind word for the Secretary, which comes a ray of sunshine through a dark blue cloud.

Percy Noel also wrote to C. C. from his same address in Paris. Evidently Percy is still on the same old job. We wish he had added as a postscript, which he didn't: "We'll be with you in June." Wouldn't it be fun to have a good long visit with this almost Frenchman, after so many years?

We think it is safe to announce that Bob Harding will be chairman of the reunion committee. Bob has not actually, in so many words, accepted the post, and in fact we have not yet hung the ribbon on his chest and kissed both cheeks, but we know from experience that he will accept and do a good job. Of course he will have a brain trust behind him, but as they will not be' billion minded, you needn't worry. We expect the class dinner will be held Saturday evening, June 15, at 8:15. Further details will be released whenasancLif planned.

Last summer C. C. called on the Chester Moores at Schenectady, and sent us a report, but it got mixed in with a lot of unpaid bills and so of course was forgotten.

"Chester has a daughter engaged in medical work in New York City, and a son whois enrolled at Union College. Chester is,as you no doubt know, a research man atthe General Electric, and has, from outside reports, done a very good job of it.He is looking forward to coming to our30th reunion next June, and particularlyhopes that John Laing will be there."

Fat Newdick wrote a while back, among other things: "The children are magnificent . ... at least so it seems to a parent with no other equally adequate excuse for conceit. Ann will enter Wellesleyor the Leland Powers School of the Theaterthis fall, I hope (she has done her partit is up to the old gent to do his). She wonthe lead in the se7iior play and won a veryclose second in the prize speaking contest—both in Newton High School, which,with its 2500 students, furnished considerable competition. Edwin, now ten, gets topmarks and seems to be quite gifted insports. He has taken only a scatteringlyfew music lessons, but bangs out a bigvariety of tunes by ear, with both hands,on the piano, a thing which his father always longed to do but couldn't. I thinkthere is a very deep satisfaction in seeingones children accomplishing some of thethings that we longed for but did not attain. Lila (my wife, you know) does considerable professional entertaining withplay reading, monologues, etc. Ann hasalready made a modest beginning in thatfield with about a half dozen engagementsQt small women's clubs, church societies,etc." (We got this last April, but somebody hid it on us. Good thing you are to have a new Secretary this year. This one is wearing out.)

Harold F. Lane, Washington editor of Railway Age, says that his Dick is a senior at the University of Maryland, and a member of Tau Beta Pi. Says he meets many Dartmouth men but seldom an 'O5 man. Also: "I am in the same job I have hadfor 18 years, and have a more or less ringside seat on some of the performances ofthe New Deal, many of which are notespecially encouraging to observe. I hopeto get to the reunion next June."

Emerson Day recently had dinner with the Fred Chase family, and reported that his father had so fully recovered from his operation that "he could take me on."

A letter from Harry Dennison appeared in the Daily Dartmouth of January 12. Harry makes an earnest plea for the practice of daily Bible reading.

Commencement exercises will be held Monday morning, June 17, 1935, which means that we will be meeting each other in Hanover on Friday the 14th or Saturday the 15th, and will be busy in getting acquainted with each other's families. Will it be fun?

Secretary, 45 East Main St., Malone, N. Y.