Class of 1908
The class of 1908 was represented at the annual Dartmouth dinner in Boston by Art Lewis, Sherburne, Vaitses, Percy Gleason, John Cushing, Jack Corcoran, Art Soule, Art Anderson, and Count Donahue. The Count, as the press has copiously chronicled, was ousted as a member of the Finance Commission of Boston after that body stood in a good position to show up the Curley administration. But Right may ultimately prevail and, if it does, the Count will be Johnny-on-the-Spot to escort her into the halls of administrative Justice. A letter to your correspondent sums up the ouster proceedings as follows: "The peopleof Massachusetts are aware that the governor's council is made up of a spinelessgroup that Curley can control whenever hewants to, and the people of Massachusettsand, particularly, the state officeholders,have become aware that when Curley attacks he observes no rule of decency butdeluges his opponents with false chargespublished in the press that his opponentdoesn't have an opportunity of refuting.And, since Story and Donahue have beenremoved, no official in Massachusetts hascontested removal proceedings brought byCurley. They are preferred to resign ratherthan endure the humiliation and vileabuse that Curley would launch againstthem."
Old Jess Harding comes across with an account of his status as follows: "Helen isnow in her junior year at ChamberlainSchool. Frederic is a sophomore at Springfield College, Faith is in the sixth gradepublic school at Melrose, and Mrs. Harding and I still make an attempt to keepyoung and frivolous."
The item about "Mary" Dillon '05, which appeared in these notes in the March issue, caused the critics to rise en masse. "Mary," it appears, was not a brother of "Dolly" of Princeton. One of the close readers, who prefers to remain anonymous, writes: "First I should report that I think youerred in thinking Judge 'Eddie' Dillon wasMary's brother. The latter (called 'Polly'}played in the line and, I think, was a yearor so before Eddie, who was not related, sofar as I ever knew. Mary's brother wasabout that time, either '06, '07, or 'OB, Ishould say." Another Dillon commentator put it this way: "I must call your attentionto a slight inaccuracy. It concerns the Dillon family. I am quite sure Eddie Dillonwas no relation of Mary. Eddie was a quarterback, and Mary's brother, HerbertLowell Dillon, called 'Dolly,' was a lineman, and they both played on the samePrinceton team. I well remember the gamein 1906 at Princeton. It was a hot, Indiansummer day and, in addition to a smalldelegation of Dartmouth rooters, our sideof the field was occupied by the coloredpopulation of Princeton, who seemed tosympathize with the Home Town club asthe score rose to some 63 too. That was thegame, I think, where Gig Gallagher originated the 'moral victory' idea when he senta telegram back to Hanover to the effectthat we were 'defeated but not vanquished.'Also, I think that was the day that a Dartmouth fan named Stern of Albany remarked 'that fellow Wellman did not usehis head when the score was 48 too, hehad to sing "Dartmouth's Going To WinToday."'
"Dolly Dillon is of the stock exchangefirm of Eastman & Dillon, and is hale andhearty. I have not seen Mary since we bothfought the war for a time in Washington,and he looked just as smart in his major'suniform as he did in his turtle-neckedsweater."
Quite a bunch gathered for the New York alumni dinner early in March, the 1908ers observed by one reporter including Griffin, Munkelt, Stearns, Perkins, Blanchard, Symmes, Prentiss, Jack Clark, and Rosie Hinman. Griffin had as a guest a business associate named Whitmore who has a son in the junior class at Hanover. John Thompson intended to sit in at the doings, but had to leave for Washington to conduct some litigation.
Dick Treadway '36, son of Larry, was among the juniors in Hanover recently elected to Casque and Gauntlet; Larry is a Dragon. Mike Stearns' son Kendall, Dartmouth 1937, is a Psi U. Mike's a Theta Delt.
The 1908 era, and thereabouts, produced the cream of the present crop of post-collegiate bridge players in the New York metropolitan district. With Harold D. Halstead' 11 as captain, the team recently won six straight victories and first place in a league composed of Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Williams. Among the Dartmouth players were Nick Bernard, T. Brown, Malcolm Rollins, John Hancock (Jack) Dowdall, Lonnie Russ and '08's own Long Tommy P. L. Thompson. "The only defeat suffered bythe team was at the hands of Columbia says the Bulletin of the Dartmouth College Club of New York from which the above info is cribbed. The prize awarded to the winners—Craven please note—was a plaque.
Underclassmen home for the Easter recess failed to shed much light on such bromides as "What are the prospects, etc. They are all enthusiastic, however, about the skill, adroitness, and all-around capability of the Outing Club representatives in intercollegiate competition. They thought the idea of sending candidates for the Olympic team out to Mt. Rainier was "swell," especially the part of the campaign which included the raising of a generous sum for expenses among the townspeople of Hanover. Hanover will be organizing a Chamber of Commerce next. It has a Rotary Club, according to signs erected at the village limits. Old-timers may be interested to learn that the favorite card game of the modern Dartmouth undergraduate is "Black Jack."
Bob Marsden has the sincere sympathy of all the classmates who learned of the death on March 30 of his wife, Mary Gilmour Warnock Marsden. Mary was born in Montreal. When a child her family moved to Newport, Vt. She went to the New Britain, Conn., normal school, and after graduation taught in Asbury Park and Englewood, N. J. In 1913 she was married to Bob, and from 1919 to 1933 they made their home in Hanover, where Bob was dean of the Thayer School. Since leaving Hanover they have lived in Concord, N. H., where Bob is acting director of the work relief of the New Hampshire ERA. Mary and Bob always kept open house for the classmates in Hanover. She was as enthusiastic '08er as ever lived.
Jack and Hazel Clark, after the winter season in New York, motored into the Southland to Charleston, the mecca of artists, stopping by the way, it is presumed to visit John McLean Clark, comparatively recent Dartmouth graduate, who is now on the editorial staff of the Washington Post.
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Moore Perkins, formerly of Watertown, expected, by the time this is in print, to be back in their old home at Greenwich, Conn.
Flossie McAuliffe, '08's greatest sculptor and fullback, recently changed his address from MacDougall Alley to No. 14 Christopher St., New York.
George Edwin Squier, the Holyoke hellion, gives an account of his immediate interest in this wise. (It would save the day if other classmates would take George's example as a challenge and follow through during the summer with something along this line in order to help 'OB through another hard winter—Ed.):
"Barbara, our 'little girl,' graduated fromColby Junior College one of the Dartmouth co-educational departments—and isnow busily engaged at the Catherine GibbsSchool in Boston learning to be a 'secretary' you remember we used to call 'em'stenographers.' Bill is a junior at NewtonHigh School and is entered for Dartmouthin 1936. Just a good all-around hid theapple of his papa's eye. I suspect that bythe time he gets to Hanover he may be amodern Art Kotch at tennis. I can think ofno higher compliment-Art never turnedpro, did he? I'm sending him up there tocorrect all the mistakes I made in college.Boys are handy that way.
"The next chapter is about Ethel goodold Ethel she of the famous beef stewwhich so many of you have not yet enjoyed, but should. There is a beautiful stylewhich one can employ in writing of one'swife which I now wish I knew, but insteadI'll use English. Twenty-two years married,and not a flatiron has yet passed throughthe air.
"Every letter should have a P.S.I'mthat. Honestly, if I were to pass in reviewbefore myself I wouldn't recognize him.I'm all muddled up over the last few years.I don't know whether to save what Ihaven't for a rainy day or whether I shouldbe making hypothetical purchases of goodsand commodities against inflation. Whatwould you do?
"Honestly, I don't see how we're evergoing to get out of the depression becauseas soon as we might get out, there'll be anew one caused by government workersout of a job. It's what I call a very wicious(Ok) circle.
"By way of family support, I may say thatI am one of a group called Thomas Dalby,Inc., of Watertown, Mass., which groupmanufactures infants' and children's underwear. Our slogan is 'more and biggerand better babies' We stick to the children's end of the business because childrenstill wear underwear."
John W. Thompson, Larry Symmes, and Freddie Munkelt served in New York on committees which operated in connection with the interviewing of applicants for admission to Dartmouth College as members of the class of 1939.
Heeding, somewhat, the economy cry from Hanover but being actuated considerably more by the failure of the class- mates to send in jottings, we are bringing the May consignment to a close at a point where it will not be necessary for the editors in Dream Village to cut our stuff. Next month, the last for the 1934-35 season of the MAGAZINE, it is planned to present the "Who's Who" listing of 1908 men. The publishers of that important book have something real to say about several of the brethren;
Editor, Batavia, N. Y.
