Class of 1899
The first month of the New Year brings mingled news of activity and forced inactivity among the members of '99. Fortunately, the "inactivity" items are of only temporary importance. Billy Greenwood came back for a home Christmas from a six weeks' visit in the hospital, but is now at work for at least a part of each day. Ed and Alma Allen were rather seriously injured in collision with a taxi in Manchester, N. H., December 28. Both are getting on satisfactorily, we're thankful to say. And finally, Montie Fuller's daughter Miriam is gaining steadily, and will be herself again soon.
Frank Surrey has moved from 593 to 765 Riverside Drive, New York City; correspondents and visitors please take notice. Dartmouth Louis Benezet has made the Glee Club, so watch for the winter schedule, everybody. Also watch for George Clark's next delivery of his travelog on "Modern Russia," delivered originally at the Plymouth, N. H., Congregational church in November. Lantern slides, prepared by George himself, and Russian melodies on the organ added to the effectiveness of this meeting of the church men's Club, Guy E. Speare (know him?) president. If you fail to connect with any of the above, drop in on Governor Landon of Kansas and learn why he places Peddy Miller's book, "The Beginning of Tomorrow," on his list of favorites.
Another of Warren Kendall's railroad travelogs west, northwest, southwest gives us flashing, friendly glimpses of a host of people. Warren's younger son, Gordon, for the first time made the trip also, which more than doubled the enjoyment. Dinner in Chicago brought Walter Eastman, Harry Wason, Leonard Prouty 1900, and Fred Pope and Albert Smith '98 around the same table. Harry is enthusiastic about the work his Roebling firm is doing on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco; also about his son Lloyd's 10,000-mile auto trip last summer to San Diego and Seattle.
At Minneapolis the Oakeses and Tommy entertained them. They just missed seeing Betty, who was due home from Vassal- within several days. Both in Minneapolis and in Seattle Warren missed by a single day the local holiday Dartmouth function; doubly to be regretted because in both cities the festival scene was the home of a '99er—Luke Oakes in one, Bones Woodward in the other. The older Woodward son, by the way, Walter Jr., was recently married to a Seattle girl. They met while he was doing newspaper work in Juneau, Alaska, and she was teaching there.
Telephone conversations by Warren in Oregon with John Ash's daughters Mabel and Alice were followed by a trip from Los Angeles with Willis Hodgkins to spend an afternoon with Arthur Kimball and his wife in Pasadena.
Yes, '99ers find each other everywhere. Last summer Luke Oakes of Minneapolis was strolling along the streets of Los Angeles and met Frank Staley's wife from Washington. And in Boston, Warren not long ago met Sam Smith, northward bound to Hanover.
But there is one cordial, friendly contact that many '99er is going to miss sorely in the future, and that's Natt E-merson of 1900. If ever anybody has shown how to be both a superlative class loyalist and a hundred per cent Dartmouth man at one and the same time, Natt was that man. The members of '99 extend their sincere sympathy to Natt's family and to his classmates. Thus they would pay their affectionate tribute to one of the rarest, most lovable, and most serviceable men of his Dartmouth generation.
Secretary, 31 Parker St., Gardner, Mass.
