Class of 1911
Well, the old newsbag is pretty empty, and unless something happens soon the 1911 news column will become one of the things of the past!
However, my good friend, Abe Winslow, is becoming one of the main contributers of 1911 news. This time it is with regard to a party being sponsored by Ray and Cora Taylor for the Dartmouth Association of Northern California. It seems that there are hot springs and petrified forests and other such freaks of nature not far from the Toyon Ranch where Ray and Cora reside. In addition to furnishing hot springs and so forth Ray and Cora are to produce a barbecue for the crowd.
The Outing Club Carnival followed by the Alumni Carnival on February 22 furnished an excuse for a few '11ers tohit the trail to Hanover. Frank and Mary Dodge, Walt and Tib Reilly, and John and Margaret Pearson were the "in town" visitors at the Carnival goings-on. The Hawkridge family were the only 1911 guests in Hanover for the Alumni Carnival. At this time it leaked out that that steel man Leslie has become an author by proxy. His sister Emma, who spent last year in India, has just produced a book published by Houghton Mifflin Company entitled "Indian Gods and Kings." It may be that the next bills issued to the class will contain two items. (1) Class dues are $3.00. (2) "Indian Gods, and Kings," price unknown.
It is probably known by this time by most members of the class that Jim Mathes is a member of the committee appointed by President Hopkins to investigate the social conditions of the College. The chief item of investigation is that of the fraternity situation in Hanover.
George Thurber deserves the sympathy of the class in the recent death of hisfather.
Here is a letter from that gentleman of the eternal summer, who lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota during the
summer and in Southern California during the winter. The one referred to is Troy Parker, who writes from La Jolla, Calif. Please note what he says in the first and last paragraphs. May he be an inspiration to all of the rest!
"May I add that I would rather losemy left leg than the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. I certainly don't have many points ofcontact with the College these days, butthe monthly arrival of that good document is a real event.
"We are on the Coast again. There isa charm to Southern California that ishard to beat. Tex Morris runs the'Chevy' agency here, and I see him at adistance frequently. We hear many rumors of his son's success at Hanover.
"This summer we will go back to theBlack Hills, where the Palmer GulchLodge, now operated by the undersigned,made such a hit last year. Roily Hastingsand family blew in on us and spent goodmoney for a one month's vacation, andthey did not ask for their money back.If any of the Hanoverites are comingWest to see the Geographic StratosphereBalloon ascension, mention my name. Weare only fifteen miles from the spot. Alsoonly seven miles from Gutz Borglum'sgigantic and monstrous carving on MountRushmore.
"Best regards to you all. My wife was sothrilled by the exciting accounts of Hanover 1911 reunions as narrated by Mrs.Hastings that she has promised to go back,much to my delight."
Ann Agry was a guest at Carnival of Bob Morris, son of Tex Morris, referred to above. She reported that her mother and dad were taking a month's trip to California Inspired by one Al Wheeler, no doubt.
Jack Crooks has become a regular snow train tripper to Hanover. Each winter the Boston and Maine operates a snow train from Boston to Hanover, and among the first to be seen trudging up over the hill are Jack and Grace, usually accompanied by a couple of their attractive daughters.
The name of Fred Harris was a prominent one during the recent Carnival, since he received general credit for the institution of the event of twenty-five years ago, and this Carnival was advertised as the Silver Jubilee Carnival.
Bob Sanderson is playing an important part in the New Hampshire legislature, where the Democrats are in the saddle this year. Bob is chairman of the Forestry Committee, a member of two or three others, and is frequently being appointed by the speaker of the House to various investigating committees.
A number of new addresses and positions have been received from the Alumni Records Office. Willard Connely, 1, Gordon Square, London, W. C. 1, England. .... Alfred Hormel, 26 North Clinton St., Chicago, sales engineer (leather belting); home address, 3953 North Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, Wis Chet Jenkins, professor of physical education and coach of track at the University of Maine, Orono, Me.; residence, 75 Bennoch Road, Orono Forrest Owen, commercial manager of the radio station WELL, Battle Creek, Mich.; residence, 93 Harvard St., Battle Creek Mac Rollins, who in a business way is promotion manager in the advertising department of Cosmopolitan magazine, resides on Stanwich Lane, Greenwich, Conn Paul Ayer, 77 Martin St., Cambridge, Mass Ah, here is one: Tom Loughlin, chief clerk of the personnel department of the Michigan Liquor Control Commission, Lansing, Mich Les Waldron, on the banks of the Hudson, 325 Riverside Drive, New York City A new advertising service, namely, B. C. Wheeler Company, 215 South Market St., Chicago, Ill.; home address, 715 Lake Ave., Wilmette, Ill Clarence Young,,manager of the StraffordYork Gas Company; business address, 15 Wakefield St., Rochester, N. H.; residence, The Tavern, Rochester George Y. Young Jr., residence, 550 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, Mass.
From Boston Herald, March 9, 1935;
G. F. THURBER HEAD OF NASHUA, N. H„ BANK
NASHUA, N. H., March B—George F.Thurber was this afternoon elected president of the Second National Bank ofNashua to succeed his father, the lateLester F. Thurber, who died suddenlyFeb. 6.
Mr. Thurber has been associated withthe bank since 1914 and vice-presidentsince 1921. He is a graduate of Dartmouthand has long been prominently identifiedivith business and social life in Nashua.
From The Bulletin, Dartmouth College Club of New York, Mar. 1, 1935:
DARTMOUTH CLUB BRIDGE CHAMPIONS GET PLAQUE
The Dartmouth bridge team, piloted byHarold D. Halstead '11, has concluded itsseason with flying colors, having capturedthe intercollegiate club title. A handsomeplaque, inscribed with the team's membership, may be seen in the card room. Clubsin the bridge league include: Harvard,Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania, and Williams.
The only defeat suffered during thetournament came at the hands of Columbia. The team hung up a record of sixvictories.
The 19141 members of the team besides Capt. Halstead, were Mac Rollins, those two Steeves boys, and Al Eiseman.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
