Class of 1899
Hon. Charles H. Donahue, justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, was one of the guest speakers at a dinner of the Law Society of Massachusetts held in Boston, October 28.
P. Winchester is still the photographer extraordinary. His pictures of the boys at the "Ad Interim" are good, and if you want some of them, drop Pete a line.
Dr. Herbert A. Miller, our "Peddy," delivered a lecture before the Graduate Club of Bryn Mawr, November 3, on "Masaryk, Practical Idealist, Teacher of Men and of Nations." Peddy was a personal friend and co-worker of Masaryk, and no one here-abouts is better able to evaluate that great personality than he.
A news item in the Manchester Union of September 30, announcing the election of officers and committee chairmen of Sturtevant chapel, recalls Charlie Sturtevant, now departed, and his earnest, helpful labors in the religious life of his native city memorialized in the name of a permanent institution.
Prof. James P. Richardson, our Jim, delivered a paper on "Recent Tax Decisions of the U, S. Supreme Court" before the New England Tax Conference, September 29. The full paper will be found in the TaxMagazine for November. It is not only informative technically, but is good reading as well. Jim can still say a lot with a few words. The last sentence of the paper is characteristic: "Gentlemen, in the languageof another rebel, 'if this be treason, makethe most of it.' "
FAMILY PARTY
Promptly after the great victory of Dartmouth over Harvard, October 23, the almost impromptu family party of '99ers and friends assembled at the University Club in Boston. As duly advertised, it was a great night, both in numbers present and the enjoyment all had in unexpected thrills which developed as the evening passed. First of all, Bones Woodward, the cause of it all, didn't show up till 9:30 P.M. Advertised to be the first to arrive and the last to depart, Bones just didn't reckon on the New England weather, which grounded the plane on which he was flying and he was forced to grope his way to Boston via the New Haven, full of ham sandwiches and fears that he'd be late. Then, unheralded and thought to be lost in the wilds of Maine, Tony Willard was discovered to be at a meeting of astronomers at the Hotel Victoria in Boston, where Tony was captured by Charlie Donahue and Bill Wiggin just as he finished delivering an illuminating address on the conduct of the moon, and ushered in haste to the '99 party, where Tony assured one and all that the moon is behaving all right. For the first time in nearly forty years of letter-writing, the Secretary reported a reply from Guy Corey. There were songs, all the old ones by Benezet and T. Lynch, with a few new ones fresh from the fertile mind of Dave Parker, and speeches by all and sundry, especially by Bones, who kept all of us convulsed with laughter with his drolleries.
In the midst of it all the class of 1896, also having a class dinner at the club, sent us its greetings by none other than the Hon. Louis S. Cox, justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. "Louie," as we all know him, made one of those gracious and charming speeches for which he is justly famous, to which our Donny and Hobe responded; then we sent the delegate back to his own on the arm of the Hon. Charles H. Donahue, justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, who conveyed our felicitations to 1896. Thus were renewed the fraternal bonds which bound seniors and freshmen in a common front, forty years ago.
Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Donahue, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Lynch, W. C. Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. Hale Dearborn, Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Benezet, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Parker and daughter, Frances, Jim Barney and son, Wendall, Bill Wiggin, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kendall and friends, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, G. G. Clark, Myron Clark and Miss Ingalls, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Oakes and daughter, Betty, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Hoban, Dave Storrs, Guy E. Speare and Tony Willard, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Kennedy, Warren's son:in-law and daughter, thirty-six in all.
Married: Ethlyn Ruth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Perkins Jackson, to James Greenwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Greenwood, at Springfield, Mass., October 16, 1937.
Secretary, 31 Parker St., Gardner, Mass.
