Class of 1914
PRESIDENTIAL YEAR
Through a fortuitous series of circum- stances we were present at both the New York and Boston Alumni Association dinners in a single week. We did full justice respectively to turkey and steak with all the trimmings, and particularly saw more 1914 fellows than we have in many a day.
And our class has gone presidential in a big way. President Larmon is also president of the Dartmouth College Club of New, York, who sponsored their dinner, and in Boston we had President Burleigh. And are these two fellows smoothies when they get on their feet postprandially!
In Boston we had twenty-two men present: Slater, Saltmarsh, Kimball, Hal Brown, Drake, Larry Day, Cap Lawrence, Ev Barnard, Pattee, Clyf Chandler, Gregg, Burleigh, Perkins, Fuller, Rice, Hallett, Lowell, Loveland, Cole, Burnham, Newmark, Leech. Some of the faces we hadn't seen for a long time, for example: Larry Day up from Portland in great form with his family and business in excellent health. Luther Pattee attending his first Dartmouth function since graduation. Lute is one of the presiding gentlemen at Boston's famous Thompson's Spa. He hopes that if any of the boys find a bone in their fish chowder they will tell him about it, but he doesn't expect them to, because their specialty is fish chowder without bones.
Paul Perkins down from Lowell. He has put on quite a lot of weight since last year.
Matt Hallett in Boston from Charlotte, N. C., attending a sales conference . . . Getting a bit of "yo-all" and so forth, into his conversation .... but still the same old smiling Matt.
Dutch Burnham recently come to Boston from Philadelphia. He dragged along Sam Cole, both of whom we were glad to welcome.
We had a nice letter from Hod Potter, regretting his inability to be present. He says he is still a bit disabled to venture a trip to Boston. He wants to be remembered to all the boys and certainly expects to be around to the next dinner.
At the New York dinner we saw the following: Dwight Conn, Chuck Kingsley, Rudy von Lenz, Bob Hopkins, Bill Hands, Marshall Picken, Lize Wheelock, Jim Heenehan, Howard Fahey, Bill Breslin, Jack Conners, Walt Humphrey, Gordon Sleeper, Vos Lyons, Sig Larmon.
We had a pleasant conversation with Dwight Conn, whom we hadn't seen since graduation. Dwight has put on some weight and says he is trying to catch up with Ted Marriner. He is doing musical work with the radio chains in New York and certainly looked well and happy.
Chuck Kingsley is still practicing law and reports things picking up. Lize Wheelock performed the office of chaplain at the dinner in his usual well- poised manner.
Vos Lyons we learn is Doctor L. Vosburgh Lyons. He is positively one of the youngest-looking fellows in the class. He attributes his youthful appearance to a case of arrested development and his practice of neurology, which keeps him awake from sixteen to eighteen hours a day. He promises to be more faithful in attendance from now on.
Walt Humphrey, Jack Conners, Howard Fahey, Bill Breslin, and the rest were all looking fine and there seemed to be an air of departed depression among the group generally.
We learn from Gordon Sleeper that Win Ross recently suffered the loss of his father, who was a famous landscape gardener. Among other extensive projects he laid out Norumbega Park and the Brookline Water Works. At the time of his death he was park commissioner at Portsmouth, Va. The class extend their sympathy to Win in his bereavement.
Howard Fahey told us about his rapidly growing son, who is now in prep school learning football under Harvard's Eddie Mahan of our generation, and he expects to have a tackle wearing the green in the next few years.
We learn that Fred Davidson has taken over sales distribution for the General Electric Air Conditioning Systems in West- chester County, New York, and is making excellent progress.
We had lunch at the Dartmouth Room at the Parker House the other day and ound a note from Fred Weed, who had been in town on a day when no Fourteeners were present. We were all sorry to have missed him.
1914
Jack Conners tells us that Dick Pritchard has been out on the West Coast for a couple of months and is expected back about the middle of March.
Jeff Beals has been laid up for a couple of months with arthritis, but from latest reports he is now convalescing.
At both dinners there was universal inquiry for Judge Taft, and diligent inquiry fails to reveal the latest news. Bill missed the Boston dinner for the first time in the memory of any one, and there was universal regret at his absence.
PRESIDENTIAL TRIPLETS
We shall start by saying that whereas all presidents are not Hopkinses, nevertheless all Hopkinses, at least all ours, now are— or are now— (this doesn't read right but is factually true anyway). Everybody of course knows President Ernest M., while perhaps a few less are acquainted with President Lewis B. of Wabash College. Now we are pleased to let you know that there is President Robert C., just recently installed president of the Worcester Academy Alumni Association of the City of New York.
Congratulations and a nice big basket of pine cones, Bob.
From H. B. Johnson, ex-secretary of the class at '04, we learn that Ken Fuller has recently been elected vice president, and now enjoys the double title of vice president and trust officer of the Agricultural National Bank of Pittsfield, Mass. Mr. Johnson adds that Ken is coming strong in this town and well merits the confidence.
Congratulations, Ken, and more power to you!
John Pelletier '16 sent us a very interesting clipping from the Hartford Courant, describing the formation of a state unemployment insurance measure for Connecticut. Dick Pritchard, who is vice president of the Stanley Works of New Britain, Conn., was appointed a member of the committee, to study the whole unemploy- ment situation in Connecticut and report to the Governor ways and means of developing permanent relief.
Recently Jack Conners was clearing out his attic, and sent along a batch of stuff including the Class Roll and the Fifth Year Report gotten out in August, 1918, and 1920 by Ted Marriner, aided and abetted by Ray Trott.
We never had received copies of these, and very belatedly want to pay our respects to Ted Marriner's very complete report, particularly difficult under the circum- stances with so many men in war service. There are some amusing squibs therein: For example, John Peppard was general purveyor of hay, grain, and feed to horses and mules, and so forth, at Camp Devens. Win Snow was teaching the intricacies of parallex deflection difference, obliquity, and ballistics to artillery officers at Fortress Monroe. One of his star pupils was Bill Barnes.
The boys were all over the place. Henry Koelsch was in Vladivostok, Siberia. Ted Marriner was in Stockholm. Larry Day was somewhere on the high seas.
A summary of our war service shows we had one major, five captains, two navy lieutenants, twenty-five first lieutenants in' the army, six ensigns, thirty-nine second lieutenants, thirteen sergeants, three corporals, and eighteen enlisted men.
Clyde Buckley was out at Manitoba, Canada, and George Briggs had just written from Buenos Aires. Nate Farwell had just received the Croix de Guerre. Paul Applin was more or less lost in western Texas, doing geology. Herb Austin was wandering about Guatemala for Roger Babson. Derby Hall was a first-class private and company clerk down in North Carolina.
Lay Little, who was in Shanghai at the time, was a member of the Volunteer regiment made up of foreign residents suppressing riots in that remote section of the world. Walt LeCount was his nearest neighbor in Singapore.
Al Richmond had just returned from Puerto Rico. George Tilton had just joined the Naval Reserve, and Lize Wheelock was running a canteen somewhere with the French army.
Again we say that Ted Marriner did a grand job in getting these remote fellows together in a class report, and we only wish that now they have settled down we could get them to reply as ably as did Ted. Thanks, Jack Conners, for sending them along.
Secretary, 367 Boylston St., Boston
