Class of 1906
Since the last issue of this MAGAZINE the class has suffered the loss of three of its loyal members: Percy Holmes, Harold Patten, and Ralph Beetle. To the families of all these men goes the heartfelt sympathy of all the class. In each case flowers were sent to the funeral in the name of the class; Holmes's services were attended by Howard Chidley, who officiated, and Charlie Main, Patten's by Herbert Moore, and Beetle's by Childs, Edgerton, Guyer, Parker, and Rugg.
We are also grieved to record the death in Concord on August 20 of Mrs. Williamina Burt Russell, widow of our classmate Louis Russell. Since Louis' death two years ago she had continued his bond business most successfully. Lyman Frazier acted as a bearer at the funeral in Concord and at the interment services in the Russell family lot in Plymouth, N. H.
Donald Jones, Bung's younger son, was graduated in June from Worcester Academy, where he won his letters in both football and basketball.
Other June graduations of the younger generation of 'O6 included those of Winifred Whittemore from Simmons College, Ellen Meservey from Smith, and Laurence Brooks, Arthur Guyer, and George Loffi from Dartmouth.
As usual the summer season finds various members of the class on their travels. Arthur and Anne Meservey had a two months' auto trip to the West Coast, with a most delightful camping expedition into the high Sierras in California for a climax. Nat Leverone and his family spent three months on the Continent, covering several countries. Charlie and Alma Milham have been on the other side since the middle of June, touring England, Scotland, Holland, and Germany in their own car; they expect to return about October Ist.
Shortly before he left for Europe Charlie wrote me of a pleasant visit in Williamsburg from Crawford and Luella Bishop of Washington. "This was my first glimpse ofCrawford in more than thirty years/' writes Charlie; "he has not changed a greatdeal. I berated him mildly for failing to bein Hanover last year, and he seemed regretful that he had not been there."
Charlie further writes that he has joined the ranks of the grandfathers, a son, James Vance Prather Jr., having been born to his daughter Virginia in Pasadena, Calif., on May 11. Another new 1906 grandfather is Bill Page; his daughter Hazel (Mrs. Robert B. Hamor) gave birth to a daughter on May 17.
Prospects look good for future increases in the Grandfathers' Club, too, for I have six weddings to report this month. First place goes to the Adriance family, with a double record. Bob's younger daughter, Evelyn Buck, was married in Maplewood, N. J., on June 17 to Dr. Edwin Kenneth Miles of Orono, Me. She is to be a senior next year in the University of Maine, where her husband is an assistant professor of German. Bob's older daughter, Jane Wheeler, was married in Wilkinsburg, Pa., on September 2, to Mr. Robert James Ailey. Jane was graduated from Oberlin College in 1936 and last June received her M.A. degree in sociology from Columbia University. Mr. Ailey is engaged in busi- ness in Pittsburgh.
On June 19 Elizabeth Chidley was married in the First Congregational church of Winchester, Mass., to Mr. William John Speers of Winchester, her father performing the wedding ceremony. She was graduated last June from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, and her husband is a graduate of Yale in 1931 and of Harvard Law School in 1934.
Bill Bell's younger daughter, Elizabeth, was married in Concord, N. H., on June 26 to Mr. W. Albert Rill of Syracuse, N. Y. She is a graduate of the Lesley School in Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Rill was graduated from Yale in 1933 and from Harvard Law School in 1936; he is now a member of the law firm of Melvin and Melvin in Syracuse.
On the same day, June 26, in the chapel of Boston College, Charles Ward French Jr. was married to Miss Grace Muriel Hickey of Chestnut Hill, Mass. Charlie Jr. was graduated from Dartmouth in 1935 and is now a sales representative for a New York chemical house. He and his bride will reside at Kew Gardens, Long Island.
Barbara, daughter of Helen and the late Ralph Beetle, was married in Hanover on September 4 to Mr. Edward Stickney Brown Jr. of Newburyport, Mass. Barbara is a graduate of Wheaton College in the class of 1931 and of the Simmons Library School' in Boston. Mr. Brown, who was graduated from Dartmouth in 1934 and from the Thayer School of Civil Engineering in 1935, is to be an instructor in the Thayer School during the coming year. They will make their home with Mrs. Beetle on North Balch Street in Hanover.
Fifteen of the seventy-seven rooms in the new Radcliffe College dormitory, Ella Lyman Cabot Hall, which is to be opened for use this fall, have been named in honor of living alumnae. One of these rooms is named in honor of Pauline Sawyer Gordon 1911, president of the Radcliffe Club of New York and wife of our own Thurlow.
Gus Ayers of Oakland, Calif., and Ogden, Utah, spent a few days in New Hampshire in August as consulting engineer for the new aerial tramway which the state of New Hampshire is building in the Francoma Notch. Your Secretary had the pleasure of a few minutes' chat with him in Concord between two of his busy conferences with state officials, and found him looking hale and hearty.
Bug Gardiner writes interestingly from Lucerne, Wash.:
"Since spring I have been occupied to the exclusion of most everything else in a most interesting construction job in the wilderness adjoining Lake Chelon on the eastern slopes of the Cascades in more or less central Washington, a country of rare scenic beauty. It has involved building docks, highways on steep mountain slopes, and a concentrator mill for a large copper mine.
"Being mainly a summer job and having some room for unskilled but willing labor, we had a chance to use a few college boys, and among them have been four from the 1940 class at Dartmouth. One is my own son, who prefers to be called "Mac," instead of the given name of Edward we thought he would find handy to use. A second is his roommate, Jack Chisholm, from Duluth; third is Roy Merchant Jr., of West Newton, Mass., whose father was in our class; and fourth is Fred Field of New York City, with whom Mac spent part of last Christmas vacation. All have done well and been well liked and it has been a great summer for them. All of them came out here, most of the way from the Central States, driving new factory cars for a Seattle dealer who is the father of another Dartmouth 1940 lad
"Not much vital statistics of my family of interest to you. Our eldest daughter Sue now lives in Livermore, Calif., where her husband is getting along nicely in the construction industry. Some prospect of their returning to Seattle soon to go on a job near there, which pleases us. Their two children are about to start school this fall, so the rising generation is well sprouted. Dorothy has been happily working for the State Department of Labor and Industries at Olympia, Wash., this past year and spending the week-ends at home, which pleases us all and keeps us from feeling that all our children have quite left the home nest. Edith is fine and enjoying life in Seattle, which we hope will always be our home, in spite of its political jumble. Yours truly seems to change little and feels young and fit."
Walter and Genevieve Dakin moved this spring into a fine new home which they have built at 4110 Mandan Crescent, Madison, Wis.
George Terrien also has a new address: 412-13 Central Bank Bldg., Tulsa, Okla.
Two recent monographs by Arthur Holmes and collaborators which have come to the desk of your Secretary are "VarietalDifferences in the Vitamin C (AscorbicAcid) Content of Tomatoes," reprinted from the April number of the Journal ofHome Economics, and "The PracticalApplication of the SpectrophotometricMethod for Assay of Vitamin A"; from the June number of Journal of the AmericanPharmaceutical Association.
The rotogravure section of the Boston Sunday Herald for July 11 contained two pictures of interest to 1906. One shows Shorty Davis with his arms around two beautiful greyhounds, and the caption refers to him as "well-known Dartmouthalumnus, one of the pioneers in the greyhound racing business here, president ofthe Old Harbor Kennel Club, and a loverof the racing breed." The other picture shows Tom Keady, "newly appointed racing secretary of Wonderland."
Dr. Marshall L. Ailing of Lowell"Misch" to you—has recently been reappointed medical examiner of the fifth Middlesex district of Massachusetts.
Just as I am preparing this for the press, I have run into Langdon Powers '34, who with his younger brother, Walter Jr., is spending a brief vacation in Hanover. He tells me that his dad has acquired a kayak and is enthusiastically emulating the Eskimo. Recently he paddled in four days from Boston Harbor to Onset, Mass., via the Cope Cod canal. Walter had a grand time, aroused the curiosity of the canal officials as to the nature of his strange craft, and acquired a brilliant crop of sun-blisters on his back.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
