Class of 1906
The class of 1906 crashed through with flying colors at the New York alumni dinner on February 27. There are seventeen members of the class living in the New York area; sixteen of them—all but one—were present, giving the class a mark of 94% to win the attendance cup by a huge margin. Their nearest competitor was 1908 with an attendance of 47%; the best class record in any previous year was only 43%. The whole dinner party gave 1906 a cheer and had everybody stand up. Ned Redman, Thurlow Gordon, and Brack Hazen did a lot of personal work in getting everybody out, and stirred up an enthusiasm that should carry over to bring all these men to Hanover in June for the Thirtieth. Here is the list of 1906 men at the dinner: Adriance, Bankart, Barker, T. Brown, Dr. E. A. Bullard (Medical School 'O6), M. J. Edgerton, Gordon, Gray, Hazen, McGrail, Mathes, Morse, Pratt, Redman, Russ, W. B. Smith, and Don Mclntire from Chicago.
The Boston alumni dinner two days earlier also saw a loyal group of the class in attendance: Brooks, Randall Cooke, Connell, Ned French, Hartmanri, Charlie Main, O'Brien, Patten, and Powers.
Crawford Bishop is an attorney for the Special Mexican Claims Commission with offices at Room sis, Barr Building, Washington. He was appointed to this position last year by the Secretary of State, after ten years of work in international law in connection with the General and Special Claims Commissions, United States and Mexico.
Becky Hatch, born in Hanover on March 3 to Dan Jr. and Mary Alice Hatch, makes our Dan twice a grandfather.
A recent issue of Surgery, Gynecology,and Obstetrics announces the invention of a pelvic heat tube by Dr. Edward A. Herr of Waterbury, Conn. The tube, a surgical instrument designed for applying local heat for the treatment of pelvic irritations, inflammations, and infections, has been constructed for use in the professional office and hospital gynecological service. Ned completed the instrument two years ago, but has been giving it thorough clinical testing in his own practice and that of gynecologists of the University of St. Louis before making it available for the profes- sion generally.
Bob Adriance will complete in June his twenty-fifth year as head of the Social Studies Department of East Orange (N. J.) High School. His younger daughter, Evelyn, is a sophomore at the University of Maine; his elder daughter, Jane, takes her degree at Oberlin in June, a fact that may prevent Bob and Florence from attending the Thirtieth. Both their daughters have made the honor lists at their respective colleges, and Jane is already a Phi Beta Kappa.
Bucky Kraft writes thus of his four children: "Mary is taking a degree in philosophy this June. Annette is in the KansasCity University. George Herbert is in Pembroke Country Day and. is star center onthe football and basketball teams, and ispretty good in his studies. Arthur is quitean artist-musician and is attending South-west High School in Kansas City." Bucky, you will recall, is president of the Prosemaco Schoolkraft Company in Kansas City. Ray Herman's boys have divided their college allegiances. Grant, you know, was graduated at Dartmouth last June; Randolph is a junior at Hobart, and Hamilton is a sophomore at Williams.
Roy Owen, still in the insurance business in Detroit, is just now taking a wellearned vacation in Florida. If he gets as far as Miami Beach, he will probably run across Shorty Davis, who under doctor's orders has been in South America, Bermuda, and Florida since October. Shorty writes me that he became president last summer of the largest Greyhound Racing Company in the world.
Athalie Eastman, Frank's daughter, will be graduated from the William Penn High School in Harrisburg in June and is looking toward Smith. Frank expects to bring her as well as Mrs. Eastman to the Thirtieth.
Art Libby has a son, Arthur Frederic Jr., born in Norwich, Conn., November 4, 1935. And Charlie French, whose marriage to Elvira M. Badaracco on Aug. 22, 1933, has never been reported in these columns, is the father of Robert Joseph, born Jan. 3, 1936.
Harry Higman writes from Seattle: "BillGardiner and his family live quite near me,so I see them often. Bill has a fine boy,"Bud," who is going to Dartmouth nextyear. Bud is in a Rover Scout Crew forwhich 1 am adviser and I see a great dealof him. We have been skiing many timestogether, and he is developing rapidly andshould be first rate in another year. Todayis Sunday, and Bud and my boy Chet andmy nephew Bob are in the Cascade Mountains, and at this time are very probablypoling up towards Silver Peak preparatoryto taking the five mile run back. Bud is agreat out-of-doors kid and will certainlylike Dartmouth."
And Gardiner's letter contains this paragraph: "I see Harry Higman every so often,as we live near each other and business relations bring us into frequent contact. Always the same wonderful fellow. Have himto thank for a great deal of the development of my boy. They generally go skiingtogether on week-end trips to SnoqualmiePass and Mt. Rainier." Thus 1906 sticks together on the West Coast.
Here are some of the offices held by Con Chellis in Meriden (and one wonders what the town did before Con came back there to live four years ago!): deacon of the Meriden Congregational church; clerk of the Plainfield School District; clerk and director of the Meriden Water Company; president and director of Meriden Electric Light and Power Company; chairman of Meriden Branch of the American Red Cross; treasurer of Kimball Union Academy.
Eric Kelly, whose health is improving rapidly at the hot springs o£ Ojo Caliente, N- M., is doing his usual lot of writing. Just now he is engaged on a pageant for 11.000 American Legion units before the FID AC convention in Warsaw in June.
Henry Ladd writes that his oldest daughter, Margaret, was married last June "to a fine young Swede, Hugo Eckman,whom I am pleased to count as my son.They live in Bar Harbor, Me." Her sister, Virginia, is making a very good record in scholarship at the Lowell (Mass.) Teachers' College-
Charlie and Rose Main have just spent a week end with their sophomore sons in Hanover. On their way up from Boston they called on the Cochrans in Andover, and report that Bert's son Robert will be graduated from the University of New Hampshire in June at the very time that we shall be holding our reunion, thus preventing the Cochrans from participating in the Thirtieth.
Warner White writes that he is still in prison. As senior superintendent of construction for the N. Y. State Department of Public Works he has headquarters in Clinton Prison at Dannemora, but the family lives at 106 Court St., Plattsburg, in order to give his son a better environment in which to grow up than is possible in a tough prison town.
Charlie and Alma Milham are touring California, and on February 10 Charlie talked at the Monday luncheon of the Dartmouth Association of Northern California in San Francisco.
Tubby Laton's daughter, Margaret, was graduated from the University of Southern California in 1935, and is back this year getting her A.M., with expectations of a Ph.D. later.
Harold Smith writes that his daughter Helen is to be graduated from Athol High School in June, that his wife has her twentieth reunion at Middlebury, and he his thirtieth at Dartmouth, and that they are going to try to attend them all!
George Swasey, who you know is proprietor- of a summer resort, Lakeside, at Bristol, N. H., writes: "My place is locateddirectly on Newfound Lake, where thereis wonderful fishing, and as I open April15,1 would be pleased to see any who thinkthey would like to try their luck on asalmon or a trout.
Virginia Herr, Ned's daughter, who was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1934, now holds a position with How- land and Hughes, a department store in Waterbury, Conn. Her brother Ned, after completing two years at the University of Vermont, accepted a position with the Cadillac Sales Co. in Waterbury.
Since the last issue of the MAGAZINE the following men have signified their intentions of attending the Thirtieth if it is humanly possible: Bishop, Chellis, Cooke, Davis, Eastman, Charlie French, Gardiner, Hatch, Herr, Percy Holmes, Eric Kelly, Kraft, Ladd, Laton, Libby, Morse, Owen, Powers, Harold Smith, Swasey, Wallace, and Warner White.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
