Class of 1906
Spring has come at long last to Hanover and various old-timers have returned along with the birds. Some I've seen and more I haven't. One week-end Herbert and Ruth Rainie and several of their family came up from Concord in order to hear their son, Donald '40, play one of the pianos in a two-piano number at the last of the spring series of College Sunday afternoon concerts. That same week-end Charlie and Rose Main were in town to visit their sons, both juniors now; they are glad to be in New England again within easy driving distance of Hanover. And although I did not see them, Roy Merchant Jr. '40 tells me that his father and mother were here also.
Charlie Milham went down to the Dartmouth-in-Dixie PowWow in Atlanta on March 31 and on the train ran into Ned French, who was off for four days' fishing in Florida. At Atlanta the Dartmouth clubs of the southern district decided to issue a news sheet from time to time, and Charlie was unanimously elected to be its editor. Details as to when, where, and how big this publication is to be have not yet reached me, but with Charlie to push it, I know its success is assured.
Gus Ayers, formerly chief engineer for Six Companies, is now associated with the Utah Construction Company, Ogden, Utah. His family remain in Oakland, Calif., and Gus commutes when possible.
Harold Rugg spent two weeks recently in Washington and Virginia recuperating after a sinus infection that had confined him to Dick's House for a period. It was the annual Garden Week in Virginia and Harold was Johnny-on-the-spot.
John W. ("Oliver") Cromwell, certified public accountant in Washington, recently sent in his contribution to the Alumni Fund apd included a little about himself in the letter which accompanied it. He writes:
"Work has been a little better this season, but there is still room for improvement, for up to now I have no regular employment. I have a suit against the District of Columbia School Board to restore me to the teaching position I resigned some years back to enter the service of Howard University as controller. As you recall, for political reasons disguised as economy this position was abolished and I was left out in the cold.
"I got up as far as Northampton this winter to see my daughter, who is a Smith freshman because she has several generous aunts, but I did not have time to visit Hanover. Give my best regards to all '06 men in Hanover."
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
