Class of 1907
Runt Martin contributes the following most interesting letter from Bruno Kimball:
"This is not a very prompt anwser to your letter of the sth of February, but it was put away to be answered at some future date and I guess this is the date. This is a pretty good time in my career to report to the class, as just last week I severed my connection' with the Ford Motor Cos., after being their dealer here in Ogden since July, 1916, just three months less than twenty ye'ars. No, I had no trouble with them. It was necessary during the depression to reorganize and this did not pan out very well, so I decided the easiest way out was to get out, and here I am.
"I have no definite idea just now what I will do, but if I change my home will let the class know. It would be fine, I think, to jump in the car and drive back to Hanover, though perhaps I had better save that until next year,' and then never get back I suppose I am one of the few men in the class who has not laid eyes on Hanover since 29 years ago this month; I left early on account of my Thayer work. No, in 1910 I could not get out of Mexico in time to get back although I had my trip, via Vera Cruz, New York, and Hanover all mapped out. I was invalided home with typhoid instead, later in the year. In Igl2 I was detained out here in Utah, on engineering work. If I had not been detained I probably would never have met Mrs. Kimball, a Utah girl. So my class's loss was my gain, not her's (my wife's). In 1917 not many were going back to reunions. In 1927 I was too busy waiting for that long expected Model A, and in 1932, old man depression had me in his grasp. What excuse I am going to give for next year I do not know.
"My family. I have already mentioned Mrs. Kimball. By the way, her father was one of the small group of men who formed Six Companies and built the Boulder Dam, being one of the presidents of the company until his death. So we have had a very close contact wtih that huge engineering project, and this illustrious Thayer man was selling Fords all the time the job was on.
"Our daughter, 21, is a junior at Stanford, and is one of the three women who make up the Women's Council.
"Our son, Wm. Rice Jr., is a junior in high, and while he should go to Hanover is at present pretty partial to Stanford. He had one year of football, but is too slight to go on, but is quite active in other school activities.
"Earle Fowler, wife, daughter, and father spent a few days with us last year on their way to Jackson Hole country. I had hoped he would come out again this year, but did you hear he had two round-trip tickets presented him, in some raffle, through the Canal? I am glad I am not writing this as a theme, for I fear I would disgrace my Dartmouth training in grammar and English. Somehow one gets out of touch of the finer side of life wrestling with secondhand cars in these davs.
"Well, that is all, there isn't any more. If any part of this is published, I want to urge any 1907 men or any Dartmouth men who go through Ogden, to give me a ring. There is always time between trains for a brief visit. Also, that applies to anyone flying through Salt Lake City. I am only 40 minutes away from there. Dana Parkinson, the only Dartmouth man in Ogden as far back as our class, has just been promoted to a bigger Forest Service job in Washington. Best regards to all the men of 1907."
Mrs. Rachel Smart, wife of our classmate Bill Smart, died on March 31, 1936, at the Phillips House of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Funeral services were held at the A. E. Long Memorial Chapel in North Cambridge and burial in the Wells cemetery, Canaan, N. H. Bill's many friends will give him their deepest sympathy.
Secretary, 80 Federal St., Boston, Mass.
