Class of 1897
Ben Adams, long a resident of Washington, D. C., and interested in the civic affairs of the city, has an administrative promotion and becomes a tax assessor for the District. It is reported that his salary is doubled and is also merited. This, in Washington, is an unusual combination. Ben will report for the fortieth reunion of his class.
In our college days no member of the faculty ever dreamed that 1897 would produce a college professor. Therefore, with pride, we present Harold B. Shattuck, for 35 years professor of railroad engineering in Penn State College. At a recent meeting of the Engineering Society of the county, he was presented with a scroll for long public service. "Bureau Engineer for 27 years;County Engineer for 12 years; public spirited citizen, kindly neighbor, warm-heartedfriend." Shattuck is a member of many professional societies, all the Masonic bodies, and is director of both the local water company and the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Shattuck died about a year ago, and this has been a year of ill health which has necessitated a semester's leave of absence from regular duties. In a generation, Shattuck has hardly seen a classmate, but all of his plans are made for the class reunion in 1937-
Edgar David Cass from Manchester reports "nothing new or exciting here." As Cass is living in retirement, this means that Manchester is moving sedately, as he would know i£ there were any excitement. He too will be at Hanover a year from next June.
Frank E. Drew lives in Maiden, has a summer estate in New Hampshire, and practices law in the Old South Building in Boston. Drew never misses a Dartmouth- Harvard football game nor a class reunion.
Fred Shaw, lawyer in Lynn, Odd Fellow, Elk, Episcopalian, and now president of the Republican City Committee, says that business is bad but work is plentiful. He has had to have another series of operations, but none of these things discourages him. "I (we) shall be present in June, 1937, forthe reunion."
With profound sadness the Secretary must report that these five men have no children, for Dartmouth or even for Vassar. As a more fortunate group, we will now note the men of 1897 who have achieved paternity most repeatedly. Daniel Stickney Coombs leads the class. He cultivates a wind-swept farm in East Sutton, Mass., and lives in a colonial home with a family of Puritan size, four boys and four girls. Coombs was a freshman with us and roomed in Wentworth Hall with Eastman and Christophe. For a complete college course, he transferred to another institution.
ANOTHER LARGE FAMILY
John Tully Thome ranks second with four sons and three daughters. Tully came to college from New York and returned to the city for a life's work in the field of public education. He is a high school department head and a church warden. All of his children are in professional pursuits. Ralph Parker Folsom is a vigorous third. For some years he has been superintendent of the Hudson River State Hospital at Poughkeepsie. His teaching and professional affiliations are extensive. There are six children, evenly divided, Barnard for the first, Mt. Holyoke for the second, and Dartmouth for Ralph Jr., now a sophomore. Next comes another daughter, and then two young boys, William and Richard, who will be recent graduates when we gather for our Fiftieth.
George' Martin Lewis, big farmer and ranchman out in Manhattan, Montana, boasts of two sons and three daughters. The oldest is a Smith graduate, and the next two are in Montana colleges. I have met the school teacher of the Lewis children, and she has told that the Lewis home is one in a thousand and the Lewis children are scholarly and competent, wholesome and happy.
Allen Johnson Smith died in Oklahoma in 1928. He was a frontier pastor, editor, poet, postmaster, and realtor. Smith entered Dartmouth a married man with two children. Three were born to him later. The oldest daughter is a graduate of Smith and two of the other children are students in Oklahoma colleges.
These are the class leaders, but this' goodly group boasts four children each— A. A. Bacon, Butterfield, Coakley, W. S. Hardy, Hilton, McFee (all girls), Marshall, Meserve (all boys), S. C. Smith, E. K. Woodworth (all girls).
Secretary, State Capitol, Hartford, Conn.
