1899*
As these notes are written, vacation days are at an end, and we take up the yearly round of keeping you informed of such events as have personal and group significance. We would like more personal information for inclusion in this column, but the well-known modesty of most '99ers makes that a hard thing to come by.
The scholastic year of '38-'39 begins with this issue. It will be significant for us, for it is reunion year—keep it in mind, watch the class notes, and begin to plan for it right now.
George G. Clark was elected chairman of the Executive Committee of the General Alumni Association at the June meeting in Hanover. George is also a member of the Alumni Council. At present the class has three representatives on the Alumni Council—George G. Clark, Warren C. Kendall, and Luther S. Oakes.
Louis P. Benezet, superintendent of schools at Manchester, N. H., since 1924, declined re-election to that position in May and left a post which he has filled with distinction, to accept a more congenial place as an instructor in the Department of Education at Dartmouth. Benny will move to Hanover at once and begin his new duties in September. The change will be agreeable and satisfying, especially since his daughter, Mrs. Butterfield, and grandchildren are already settled in Hanover. Congratulations and good luck to you, Benny!
Benezet's son Louis will teach in Reed College, Portland, Oregon, this year, while his son Roger joins an American firm of architects in Honolulu.
Gordon Hall Gerould has been appointed to a full professorship in English at Princeton.
Joe and Madge Gannon spent the summer at Ogunquit, Me., where Mrs. Gannon has recently bought a summer home.
Percy G. Drake, long time associated with the insurance business in Hartford, Conn., has been seriously ill during the summer. A letter of cheer to him will be helpful and encouraging.
K. and Mrs. Beal spent the summer at McKinley, Me. On July 1 K.'s son George was married to Miss Anney Owen of Foxboro, Mass., a secretary in the office of the New England Council, and on August 1 a son, John Davis Beal, was bom to his oldest son, Arthur R., at Melrose Highlands, Mass. Notwithstanding all this excitement, K. gained six pounds net and looks it.
K. Asakawa spent part of the summer with George G. Clark at Plymouth, N. H. Asakawa has already registered for the 40th Reunion at Hanover in June—being second in line. Bones Woodward is first.
The Leon Woodmans from Rollo, Mo., with son and son's wife, were New England visitors this summer. They visited Woodman's old home in Claremont, N. H., and then made a general tour of New Hampshire, Maine, and Canada.
Warren Kendall's family spent the summer at Kennebunk Beach, Me. Warren was a week-ender, between flying trips to Seattle, Washington, St. Joe, and other coast towns.
Neal O'Hara's column in the Boston Traveler of May 21 contains the following: "On the authority of that eminent scholar, Louis P. Benezet, superintendent of the Manchester, N. H., schools, the famous incident of Pocahontas saving Capt. John Smith actually occurred in Maine, near the mouth of the Piscataqua river, and not in Virginia, and it wasn't Pocahontas, the daughter of a Virginia chieftain, that saved the captain's neck, but the obscure daughter of a Maine tribal chief. These facts are set forth in Capt. Smith's original journal, but on its second printing the incident was doctored, its locale switched to Virginia, and Pocahontas written in." With the Earl of Oxford and Capt. John Smith, Benny is in a fair way to upset history a bit.
On Sept. 3 a meeting of the Executive Committee of the class was held at the Boston City Club in Boston. Present were C. H. Donahue, G. G. Clark, K. Beal, L. P. Benezet, Jim Barney, Warren Kendall, and Hoban. The committee discussed plans for the 40th Reunion and group subscription to the MAGAZINE. Reunion plans will soon begin to take concrete form. Be on the alert. It will be the best ever.
The Executive Committee is unanimously in favor of a football family party in Boston on the Saturday night of the Dartmouth-Harvard football game. It will be arranged. Make your reservation of time now. Oct. a a is the date.
Much in the political news of the day is the candidacy of James P. Richardson for the Republican nomination for Congress in the first New Hampshire District. We are all for you, Jim,
Secretary, 31 Parker St., Gardner, Mass.
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