Class of 1904
Clarence Wallace Gormly, Democratic boy orator in the campaign of 1904 in which another Roosevelt was the winner, is now living at 136 N E 9th St., Miami, Florida. At the close of that campaign the Middlebury College football team which I was coaching had a few days' stay in Troy, Gorm's home town, and Schenectady where we played Rensselaer Tech and Union College. Three magnificent evenings of democratic barn storming in the wards of Troy, Van Vliet, and other suburbs weren't quite enough and Gormly though carrying his ward, lost to Theodore Roosevelt by a substantial majority. The engagement of Miss Marion Slay, ton to Mr. Herbert Rowell has recently been announced. Miss Slayton is the daughter of Bill and Mrs. Slayton. They still live at Waltham, Mass., where Bill is Big Boss of the City's Schools.
On the evening of January 25th the entire personnel of the Department of Correction for the State of Massachusetts to the number of 150 tendered Matt Bullock a dinner at the Miles Standish Hotel in Boston. The occasion was a fitting testimonial to Matt's long time service on the Parole Board of Massachusetts. At the Head Table were Hon. Frank A. Brooks, member of the Governor's Council, Former Chairman of the Board of Parole, Hon. Arthur T. Lyman, Commissioner of Correction, Hon. William L. Reed, Executive Secretary to the Governor and Council, Hon. Richard Olney, Chairman of the Board of Parole, and Mr. P. Emmet Gavin, and Dr. Silas F. Taylor the other two members of the Board, Mr. Francis J. W. Lanagan, Warden of the State Prison, Mr. Michael Dee, Superintendent of the Concord Reformatory, Mr. James Warren, Superintendent of the State Farm at Bridgewater, Mr. Maurice Winslow, Superintendent of the Prison Colony at Norfolk, Mr. George Mulcahy, Master of the Deer Island House of Correction, Mrs. Matthew Bullock, Mrs. Richard Olney. Mrs. Bullock was presented with a beautiful bouquet of flowers and Matt received an onyx desk set on which was engraved "From your friends in the Department of Correction, January 25, 1937." Matt served as the appointee of three Massachusetts Governors on the Parole Board and I believe bears the distinction of being the last of many fine citizens of Massachusetts thrown out of the ring by Jim Curley before he was dethroned.
1904 IMPROVES HARVARD UNDERGRADUATE BODY
During the mid-year vacation it was my privilege to entertain a good number of Harvard undergraduate skiers, among whom were Bob Brewer Jr. and Tom Streeter's son, Frank. We enjoyed showing them the mountains their fathers have climbed in former years, and better still the favorable opportunity to know them well. Our group have made another contribution to Harvard. Bob Sr. came along too, and not to be outdone by the boys, we were able to get 4½ miles in'o the woods and enjoy a meal in the open-
On January 22d Rev. Arthur W. "Dutch" Wylie was appointed Chapla'" of Aleppo Temple, Nobles of the MystlC Shrine.
January 28 th—The Annual Alummi Dinner in Boston found Tinker Gale an myself in the big city worn out with effort to secure a little snow for New Hampshire mountains. Pen Mower, Ralph Sexton, Hay Rolfe, Squid Lampee, Carl Woods, Perce Hobbs, Zeus Marshall, John Cronin and Harry Ham were not there, and Robbie was used as one of the decorations at the Head Table, but Tinker Gale, Babe Kneeland, Pete Maguire, Matt Bullock and I had a fine evening together. The speakers were unusually good, all speaking in a reminiscent vein stimulated by Henry H. (90) Hilton's talk on the Dartmouth he has known. Hoppy was at his best, and I hope his discussion of the place of the College in today's changing world may be printed elsewhere in this magazine. The only thing to mar the evening was the difficulty we had in seeing the head table, because of an unusual glare of light a little in front of us. Investigation showed that the reflected light was coming from the highly polished domes of Halsey Loder, Bob Harding, Jim Donnelly, Lafayette Chamberlain, Midge Reid, Cliff Perry and Sam Wilkins. 1905 should provide its delegates with black silk skull caps.
The Chicago Daily News of February 10th contains this interesting paragraph, "James 0. Mc Kinsey, Chairman of theBoard of Marshall, Field, and Co., andThaddens R. Benson, President of theChicago Stock Exchange, are among thenew members of the executive committeeof the Chicago Asso. of Commerce. Otheradditions chosen, for this year by C. L.Rice, President of the big trade body, areF. W. Armstrong, L. E. 'JIG' LEV- ERONE, John L. Clarkson and Rufus W.Putnam. J. H. Fall Jr., of Benjamin Elec-tric Cos., has been re-elected chairman ofthe committee. Harvey G. Ellerd of Ar-mour Cos. will continue as vice-chairman." Modest Jig doesn't say anything about ap- pointments of this kind which so well show the esteem in which he is held by Chicago's business world, but my special windy city reporter, has a great eye for 1904 news.
Secretary> Waterville Inn, Waterville Valley, N. H.
