Class of 1907
"Will you get word through the ALUMNI MAGAZINE that plans for the Thirtieth Reunion in June are rapidly taking shapeand that reports already received make itcertain that we shall have a largely attended and successful Reunion?
"The committee has had several meetings and has reached personally a greatmany in the class. We do not intend toburden ourselves with a complicated orover-balanced program, but in keepingwith the mellowing years we shall haveample opportunity for visiting togetherwith classmates and their families, an allday outing at Peckett's on Sugar Hill, anda class dinner which should be the highspot of the week-end. Final details of datesand places in the program will appear inthe next number of ALUMNI MAGAZINE."
Early in April the Secretary asked a selected list of classmates to reply to the following questions: 1. Are you planning to return to 1907's THIRTIETH? 2. How many members of your family will be with you? Here are some typical replies: Bill Cummings: 1. Yes. 2. One wife (the original). Frank Crocker: 1. Yes. 2. None. Ted Greenleaf: 1. Yes. 2. My wife.
Ted Foster: "I regret I shall be unable to make the Reunion as my daughter is getting married at that time to James B. Moore Jr., Dartmouth 1932. My son, Fred Jr., is a freshman at Colgate, where he seems to be supremely happy."—We shall miss Ted and Helen Foster at our THIRTIETH, but his excuse seems to be valid.
liarry Haley: 1."Of course I'm comingto 1907's THIRTIETH. As you may possibly remember, I have never missed a reunion. 2. I expect to bring the whole family, wife and three boys."
Bob Stokes: 1. "Looks promising for the THIRTIETH"—a reply which suggests strongly that Bob can conceive of just one answer to the Secretary's question.—Bob refers to the query propounded in the April class notes with reference to the first boy born to a 1907 father and asks, 'Wasn't 'Dutchy' Braun the father of the 1907 class baby?"
Bob's older daughter takes her M.A. at Mt. Holyoke in June and will go on after her Ph.D. at the University of California. His younger daughter takes an A. B. at Mt. Holyoke in June. Two years hence he hopes the Dartmouth Band will acquire a good trombone player in the person of his son.
Frank McDonough's letter in the April MAGAZINE reminded Bob of lots of things. He roomed with Frank in Hallgarten, 1903-1904. "I can remember when Frankwent Sigma Chi and—more thrilling—whenhe was socked by a sophomoric egg at theclass picture on the steps of old Butterfield—and after 33 years, I can still smell hispipe."
George Grebenstein: 1. Yes. 2. Victoria Francis, her mother and Greb.
After making a suggestion that he, Charlie Ryder, and the class secretary amuse our classmates by returning to the basketball court for a work-out (a suggestion which the Secretary vetoes positively), Greb reminisces in a vein which will appeal to all classmates as their thoughts turn to 1907's THIRTIETH:
"Just a word, Dick, in retrospect. As theyears roll by they seem to increase theirspeed, but of one thing I'm certain, andit's that those jour happy years at Hanover were close to one's heart, and thefriendships made were never to be forgotten, even though some of our paths havefailed to cross since Graduation Day.
"I believe that every member of ourclass will attend who can possibly do so. Irecall my own feelings when I left Hanoverthe June of igoj. Others will recall theirs.Trunks were packed and shipped. We wereready to take the coach to the railroad station—to home and out into the worldwhen someone in the group said, 'Let'swalk down the hill to the station out ofrespect for, and at the same time biddinggoodbye to, dear old Dartmouth.' This wedid, hats in hand, tears rolling down eachrobust and rugged cheek. We were proudof those tears then, and I am now!
"Some of those classmates have gone'Down the River' to stay. Sturdy sons werethey. The others we'll meet in Hanoverthis June."
O. C. Davis: 1. "I hope to be present for 1907's THIRTIETH."
Bishop Niles' only daughter, Katharine Bosworth Niles, was married to Franklin Peabody Parker at the Wellesley Hill Unitarian church on Saturday afternoon, April 10. Miss Niles graduated from Sweetbriar College, Virginia, in 1936. During her college career she spent one year at St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland. Mr. Parker, who graduated from M. I. T. the same year, is employed by Charles T. Main Company, Boston.
Bishop and his wife plan to be at the Reunion.
It is a sad duty to announce the death on April 6 of our classmate, Francis B. Boyer, at the Palmer Memorial Hospital, Boston, Mass., following a brief illness. Francis' good friend, Rusty Wright, has prepared a brief summary of Francis' interests and activities, which appears in another section of this MAGAZINE. The sympathy of all 1907 men is extended to Mrs. Boyer and to Francis' two children.
Secretary, 140 Federal St., Boston, Mass Here is a message to the class from Judge McLane, chairman of the THIRTIETH Reunion Committee:
