Class of 1906
The annual 1906 class dinner was held as usual in Boston on the eve of the Dartmouth-Harvard game. Twenty-two members of the class and one son sat down around a large table in the corner of the main dining-room of the University Club at seven o'clock, and most of them did not rise until very late in the evening, after having spent several most enjoyable hours in reminiscence and laughter. Those present were Gott Brooks, T. Brown, Con Chellis, Randall Cooke, Arthur Cragin, Roy Denison, Ned French, Thurlow Gordon, Max Hartmann, Arthur Holmes, Tom Ready, Nat Leverone, Zing McGrail, Charlie Milham, Mike O'Brien and his son Smith, Walter Powers, Harold Rugg, Lonnie Russ, Norm Russell, Harvey Whittemore, Bob Wallace, and George Swasey.
Charlie Main, who has taken such effi- cient charge of these class dinners for many a long year, was unable to be present last month, being detained by his work in Danville, Va. But he and Rose were able to get away at the time of the Dartmouth-Columbia game for a trip to Hanover to visit their sons, who are members of the junior class in the College. At the meeting of the board of directors of the Thayer School held in Hanover on November 6 Charlie was elected a member of the board to fill out the unexpired term of Edwin J. Morrison 'go. Congratulations, Charlie; we know you will do a good job.
Arthur Cragin's daughter Helen is now a student at Simmons College, to which institution she has been transferred from Mt. Holyoke.
George Alley's correct address is 14 Summer St., Southbridge, Mass. He is foreman in the manufacturing plant of the American Optical Company in Southbridge.
Many members of the class have visited Hanover this fall at the time of the various football games. I have no full list of these visitors, but among them I have seen Shorty Davis, Herbert and Ruth Rainie, Cap and Esther Pierce, Roy and Rachel Merchant.
Arthur D. Holmes, in collaboration with three other scientists, is the author of a monograph, "Cod Liver Oil—A Five-Year Study of its Value for Reducing Industrial Absenteeism Caused by Colds and Respiratory Diseases," reprinted from the July, 1936, issue of Industrial Medicine.
At the autumn meeting of the board of trustees of Princeton University the degree of bachelor of arts was granted to Thurlow Marshall Gordon Jr. The New York Herald Tribune for October 27 contained a lovely photograph of the other youthful member of the Gordon family—Miss Frances Gordon. She received this deserved publicity as chairman of the debutante committee of the Russian students' ball to be held at the Plaza in New York City on November 13.
When Nat Leverone was on his eastern trip in October he followed his usual delightful custom of looking up as many classmates as possible. In New York on his first attempt to see Ned Redman he found that worthy gentleman engaged in giving Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt an all-day personally conducted tour of the various educational projects which the government has been sponsoring in New York City. But a few days later Nat found Ned in his office at the Mott Street School, where he is managing project supervisor of one of the most interesting WPA experiments in the city. The south wing of this school has been turned into a five-story factory for the production of visual teaching aids, the first of its kind in this country. This factory is designed to provide students from kindergarten through high school with the concreate counterparts of the things they study. School authorities have felt for many years that city-bred pupils, most of whom have never seen any of the things their textbooks spoke of, lost academic stature through inability to translate their lessons into life terms. For the past year officials of the PWA school project have kept 200 re- search workers, artists, technicians, and metal workers busy planning and constructing models to correct this condition. Now, with an appropriation of SBOO,OOO and an authorized personnel of 628, they are ready to attack the problem on a mass production basis. Thirty-five class rooms have been turned into workshops, laboratories, and storerooms. For further details of this interesting experiment of which Ned Redman is, as I have said, managing supervisor, I refer you to an instructive full-column article which appeared in the New York Times for October 12.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
