Class of 1906
If anyone in '06 failed to note the illustration in last month's MAGAZINE of the prize-winning fraternity snow sculpture, let him hunt up the issue and look at it carefully. The statue was conceived and executed by Richard Brooks '39 for his fraternity, Delta Tau Delta. Richard has evidently inherited some of Gott's artistic ability. In the old days no one ever thought of snow as a medium for art, but if he had, Gott would have used it.
Last fall I announced with joy that Robert W. Wood, lost from our lists for nearly thirty years, had been located in Philadelphia, but that somehow we were unable to get any more definite information about him. Well, we were barking up the wrong tree. The Robert W. Wood whose address had been sent us and who would not answer our letters turns out to be a Carnegie Tech graduate with no Dartmouth affiliations, and our classmate by the same name remains as great a mystery as ever.
Although the 1936-1937 edition of "Who's Who in America" appeared from the press last October, I have just had the opportunity of going through it with an eye out for 1906 names. I found six of them. I am not enough of a statistician to compute the ratio of six out of a class of 197, graduates and non-graduates, to the total percentage of college men now living in the United States who have been listed in this distinguished volume; I am sure, however, that we make a good showing.
The 1906 men included in this latest edition are Howard James Chidley, clergyman and author; Halsey Charles Edgerton, treasurer of Dartmouth College; Edward Sanborn French, president of the Boston and Maine railroad and trustee of Dartmouth; Eric Philbrook Kelly, teacher and writer; Walter Powers, Boston lawyer; and Clyde Douglas Souter, Nevada lawyer. In each case a condensed biography is printed, which I am not reproducing here, since nearly all the information there given has appeared in our class reports in one form or another. Eric Kelly, with his varied career in journalism and his six books and two dramatizations, rates the most space. Chidley is also listed as the author of five books and the editor of two hymnals.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
