Class of 1899
Ninety-nine turned back the clock at its ad interim reunion held in Hanover June 11-13. Thirty-one of the faithful came back to help in the operation. As a novelty in class assemblies the ad interim takes high rank. The idea of holding some sort of class gathering between scheduled reunion years was born of the imagination of Jim Richardson, and with his advice and help was carried out with great success.
The program had three scheduled events, so spaced as to give ample time for personal visits and renewing old acquaintances with classes in our generation. The reunion really began on Friday, the eleventh, with the arrival of the Secretary and the establishing of headquarters at the Tuck School. There, before evening, sixteen faithful ones arrived and registered and spent the night in talk and other diversions. Saturday, at noon, twenty-six men marched in the alumni procession and occupied tables at the alumni luncheon.
As a prelude to the main events of the day, there was a wet-down on the lawn of Jim Richardson's home at 5:30 P.M., held in a lilac-screened corner under a larch tree planted by "Chuck" Tibbetts. Jim and Louise, with the assistance of the ever present Gannon, entertained the whole reunion crowd of thirty-one. It was a delightful and fitting prelude to the real and serious business of the day, the class dinner at Villa Clara on the Lyme Road, and at that haven of joy and seclusion thirty faithful souls assembled promptly to spend as joyous and satisfying a night as could be imagined.
While Ninety-nine did not turn back the clock actually, it did figuratively. James P. Richardson presided, and with song and story to which George H. Evans, David W. Parker, Joseph W. Gannon, Kenneth Beal, Louis P. Benezet, Arthur D. Wiggin, and Charles H. Donahue gave point in our attempts to re-study the books, re-eat the meals, re-play the games, re-hear Dr. Tucker, remember the faculty, re-prank the pranks, and re-live the life of the days of Ninety-nine as undergraduates in Dartmouth College. It was a night long to be remembered and no doubt will be by the thirty-one faithful souls who made it a point to be present. They were: Barney, K. Beal, Benezet, N. P. Brown, G. Clark, H. Dearborn, C. H. Donahue, Geo. Evans, Gannon, Hartley, Hoban, Bill Hutchinson, Ed Hyatt, Joy, Kendall, Leavitt, Lynch, Miller, Payne, D. Parker, Richardson, Sears, Silver, Sleeper, Speare, Storrs, Winchester, Wardle, Wiggin, Varney, and Jordan.
Joe and Madge Gannon spent three weeks of July and August at the camp of Dr. Robinson W. Smith, Lake Wicwas, Meredith Center, N. H., where they enjoyed visits with Geo. Clark, Peddie, and Mrs. Miller at Tuftonboro and with Dave Storrs in Hanover.
Peddie Miller, as a side line to running the ancestral farm for the summer at Tuftonboro, N. H., filled several speaking engagements in nearby Carroll County towns.
Hawley B. Chase was a New England visitor during the summer, making a call on the Secretary at Gardner, Mass., August 86.
Bill Hutchinson's daughter, Sarah Ellen, was married June second at Cecil, Pa., to Mr. William McDill Class.
Frances Hawkes, daughter of Ralph W. Hawkes, was married August 18 at York Village, Me., to Mr. Robert Sheldon Tracy.
Old Dr. Cushman of Chicago visited Jim Richardson at Hanover the week of August 1.
K. Beal and family pulled up stakes in Newton Highlands and moved into Boston. The new address is—Suite 7, 44 Clearway St., Boston, Mass.
Changes of address: George Evans from Somerville, Mass., to Fryeburg, Me. Alvah G. Sleeper—business—from 53 State St. to Room 70-71, 89 State St. His home address remains- the same.
Secretary, 31 Parker St., Gardner, Mass.
