Class of 1906

This month I am going to divide my news into three sections: classmates, their children, their grandchildren. Nothing impresses me more with the swift passage of time than these letters from the boys I used to play with devoted mainly to the doings of the second and third generation!

Gus Ay'ers, chief engineer for Six Companies, Inc., on their Boulder Dam contract, writes: I have recently had the satisfaction of assisting in turning that jobover to the government completed sometwenty-six months ahead of contracttime. As there were many controversialquestions in settling a $54,500,000 contract, my office was moved to Oakland inJuly, 1935, and I have spent the time sincethen in commuting between Oakland,Boulder City, Denver, and Washington,D. C."

Herbert Moore is just entering upon his ninth year as a member of the school board of Peterborough, N. H., and this year as its chairman.

Dave Thomas, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Perry, Okla., served as moderator of the Synod of Oklahoma in 1933-34.

Two IN WHO'S WHO

The 1936 "Who's Who in Commerce and Industry," edited by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale, Dean Joseph H. Willits of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, and others, and published by the Institute for Research in Biography, Inc., New York, contains, modestly inserted among such names as Henry Ford, J. Pierpont Morgan, Walter Chrysler, etc., the names of two 1906 men: Ned French and Dave Main. Charlie Main's father, Charles T. Main, is also included in this volume.

Fred Welch, besides carrying an exceedingly heavy teaching load in the engineering department of the State College of Washington, has been city engineer of Pullman since 1930 and also city wiring and building inspector. Fred and his family held the record for distance in attending our Twenty-fifth, but his own college work does not end soon enough this year for him to make the Thirtieth.

Homer Brown has been taking an enforced rest cure of several weeks from the Jefferson Mercantile Agency, 300 Walnut St., Philadelphia, that he founded in 1933 in competition to Dun and Bradstreet, with whom he had worked for the preceding twenty-seven years.

The first of this year Norman Russell formed a partnership with Oscar Dole of West Newbury, Mass., under the name of Russell and Dole. They are located in a new garage, corner of Winter and Merrimac Sts., Newburyport, selling Dodge and Plymouth cars and Dodge trucks and repairing all makes of cars.

George Seager, who is in the life insurance business in South Barre, Vt., has as his hobby the raising of garden flowers, and has been particularly successful in growing prizewinning peonies, gladioli, and delphiniums.

Bill Page writes from Harrisburg, Pa., that "Frank Eastman and his wife Barbara held open house for Dartmouth menon Dartmouth Night, when fourteen men,ranging in years from '96 to '33, reunedand had a very pleasant evening at Frank'svery nice home."

Dan Carr, who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage two years ago, has been steadily improving and is now able to do some work and soon expects to do more.

Jack Slack is judge of probate court in Bethel, Conn.

Fred Walsh has been pastor of the Congregational church in Groton, Conn., since 1935.

Eliot Cogswell is roentgenologist at the Hartford (Conn.) Municipal Hospital and at the Hartford Dispensary.

Toot Bourne's present address is 1844 Effie St., Los Angeles, Calif.

A rather severe illness has compelled Nat Leverone to take a vacation of several weeks at Biloxi, Miss.

Now for some of the children who are in college. You have been told before about the ones at Dartmouth; therefore here I shall list a few at other institutions Ruth Spencer is at Mt. Holyoke; Esther Merchant is a sophomore at Smith; Elizabeth Blood a senior at Wheaton, where Betty Neal expects to enter in September- Winifred Whittemore a junior at Simmons; Louise Whittemore a freshman at Framingham (Mass.) State Teachers College; Louise Warton a senior at Antioch; Mary Page a senior at Temple; Ellen Seager a senior and Phyllis Seager a sophomore at American International College at Springfield; Rachel Moore expects to enter the University of New Hampshire in September. Dan Carr Jr. is a junior at Norwich University; Bob Carpenter Jr. a senior at the University of Virginia; Robert Neal a junior at Williams.

Albert Heyhoe writes of his children: "Our oldest boy, Gordon, is with theclaim department of the Los Angeles Railway Company, at Los Angeles; the secondson, Kenneth, is teaching high school; theyoungest, Winston, is finishing his work inpreparation for interior decoration. He isin Los Angeles."

Gus Ayers, whose family consists of six boys and a girl, writes: "Our family issomewhat scattered. Five of the boys haveworked on Boulder Dam at one time oranother. John is with the designing section of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation atDenver. Jim is doing everything frommucking to assaying in a gold mine atGrass Valley, Calif. Bill was until recentlyan electrician at Boulder Dam and is nowcompleting an engineering course at theUniversity of California. Tom is workingon the business end of a jackhammer atBoulder for the government after completing high school at Pasadena. Ben is takinghis last year in high school at Pasadena,and hoping to get a job on Parker or Imperial Dam this summer. The two youngest are at home. So far we have onegraduate from California Institute of Technology, one from University of SouthernCalifornia, one probably from Universityof California, and the rest uncertain. Iwish some of them could go to Dartmouth,but it's too far away from the Pacific Coastto check with our budget."

Bill Bell writes: "My oldest daughter,Barbara, was married last June to JohnE. Conway of Watertown, Wis. She is living at Madison, Wis., where her husbandis enjoying a fellowship at the UniversityLaw School. Mr. Conway is a graduate ofthe University of Wisconsin; also finishedhis law school and was admitted to thebar in Madison. My second daughter,Elizabeth, finishes her course at LesleySchool, Cambridge, Mass., in June."

Now for the third generation. Cary Smith writes: "My grandchildren, MarionC. and Virginia E. Smith, are both inschool, Marion in second grade and Virginia 'in kindergarten."

Clarence Tourtellotte's daughter, Joyce (Tourtellotte) Piro, has a daughter Katharine Anne, born Jan. 25, 1936.

And Fred Welch records that he has acquired a daughter-in-law and has been grandpa to Nancy Gayl Welch for nearly two years now.

For further news of all these interesting young people and many more for whom there is no space here, see the forthcoming class report, which I hope will be in your hands in a short time now.

Since the last MAGAZINE appeared the following men have added their names to those who hope to be present at the THIRTIETH: Bell, Blood, Carpenter, Carr, Cogswell, Connell, Steve Cushing, Kingsbury, Dave Main, Merchant, Page, Patten, Perry, Scott, Eph Smith, Spencer, Warton, Whittemore.

Secretary, Hanover, N. H.