Class of 1903
After the 1937 Commencement Ned Kenerson wrote informingly of the high lights of the three days. Six sons of 'O3 received their degrees this year: Bennett, Cohen, Douglass,, Kenerson, Murphy, and Geraghty. Looking back on the records of their fathers, we seem to feel assured of the success of these boys in life. Vic Cutter, Bill Grant, Bolz French, as representatives of officialdom, Charlie Luce, E. L. Brown, Meat Hanlon, Oat Mudge, and Jake Smith, the cheering section, formed a good representation of the class for a non-reuning year.
A letter from Bob Follett of Palo Alto, Calif.,-told of the serious illness of Dr. Tim Lyman of Sacramento, Calif., and a subsequent report of O. W. Smith, the Boston attorney, who made a business trip to the Pacific Coast, gave the good news that Tim was up and about and well on the road to complete recovery.
"From little acorns great oaks grow." The Mills College Endowment Fund and how it officially slid off the ways.
No, not here, boys, but in the next class report. Bob reports that personally he has been so busy in his new store in San Francisco that he has not been up for air for six months. (Some advantage in being small in an anatomic sense, comment Vic Cutter, A. K. Smith, and Meat Hanlon.) Good luck, Bob, and may you receive a goodly share of this returned prosperity.
John Pray Wadham of Harrisburg, Pa., wrote a splendid letter expressing his regrets for not being able to attend Vic Cutter's family party in August. John foresees a large and enthusiastic attendance at the 35th reunion in June as a result of these yearly family gatherings. Pardon the interpolation. If only the entire class instead of a paltry few subscribed to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and read the account of the picnic, there is a possibility that the same thought that John expresses in the words, "I envy each of you who are able to join inthe family gathering," might stimulate a purpose to return to Hanover in June, 1938. John P. saw the purpose in mind of holding these parties, and now with the ALUMNI MAGAZINE management urging class subscription we have the way pointed out for reaching regularly with a magnet of Dartmouth spirit the entire class roster. Let's have it a matter of the first order of business for class meeting in June.
CHEDEL MEMORIAL
On May 12, 1937, Hospital Day, the Middlesex Hospital of Middletown, Conn., dedicated a new hospital entrance in memory of Dr. Charles B. Chedel. Over the entrance is a bronze plaque, reading: "This entrance given in memory ofCharles Brigham Chedel, M.D., by hisfriends and patients." In the address of presentation Ansell A. Packard said among other things: "He came to us from the rugged hills of old New Hampshire, bringing with him something of their refreshing calmness, rugged strength, and inherent nobility. For a quarter of a century freely and unhesistatingly he offered his all in the service of his fellow men. Although quiet and unassuming in his manner, he took an active part in the affairs of the community. Up to the time of his death he was a member of the board of directors and of the executive committee of the Middlesex Hospital, and was a leading member of the medical board, of which he was vice president at the time of his death. He had served as secretary of the board of directors and as a member of the training school committee.
"He also organized the pediatric department, served until his decease as its chief, and was an acknowledged authority in Middlesex County upon diseases of children.
"He had served as a trustee of the Connecticut State Hospital, and in addition to membership in the American Medical Association and its component societies he was also a member of the Central Medical Association and the Hartford Medical Society.
"His religious affiliation was with Trinity Episcopal church, and fraternally with the Masonic order."
Digging through the files for the name of some conservative clam who had not been heard from for a long time, the name of Sherman Smith came before me. I took pen in hand and wrote him most of the things I knew about you millionaire mill owners, you hard working WPA political organizers, you land gentry of New England,, educators, publishers, and the like. I told him of the Vic Cutter picnics, the Boston before-the-Harvard game round-ups, of the Frank Wentworth dinner, and: sure enough my psychology was correct. A fourpage letter telling of the career of the assistant superintendent on the Calgary Division of the great Canadian National Railways was the result. I'll save it for you in the pages of the Class Report. Just to whet your appetite, I'll quote a small part. "It was in 1907 that I came to Canada fromthe Union Pacific to help build the GrandTrunk Pacific Railroad from Winnipegwest, which road was amalgamated in 20with all the other Canadian lines, exceptthe Canadian Pacific, into a governmentowned system, the Canadian NationalRailways, with a mileage of about 23,000.In 1918 I was transferred from the engineering to the operating department, andtoday am assistant superintendent on theCalgary Division with headquarters atCalgary. It is located only about eightymiles east of Banff, Canada's most famousmountain resort, visited by thousands fromall over the continent. Surely some of theclass of 1903 icill be making a trip there,and it would indeed be a pleasure if theyivould let me know of their coming, so thatI might meet them at Calgary when passing through."
Secretary, 198 Humphrey St., Marblehead, Mass.
