1904*
Wasn't October a fine first number to be enjoyed by all the class? Five pages of notes covering the classes we knew in College, intimate news of our great football team, and all the other live information of the activities and accomplishments of the College.
That cover! ! ! Just the first glimpse took thirty-eight years off my shoulders and left me in the Vale of Tempe with a group of young braves—Morse, Belknap, Benner, Jim Elderkin, and Dondero. They're the same trees through which Morse chased Dondero from branch to branch only to pounce on him with his cupped hand under the spigot of the keg, which has grown considerably during the years. Just to the right is a brook two feet deep filled with water from the fall rains, where Don entertained us with a few Steve Brodies and high dives, while Harry tested the various boulders to see which would make a bigger splash than the diving Don. This matriculation party finished with a wrestling match between Giant Belknap and Pugilist Morse, ending when they rolled out of the ring into the brook. What did Walter '14 Humphrey's Eleazar do to you?
An event of importance and interest to the class occurred at Holderness School, Plymouth, N. H., at the opening of this school year when the new dormitory and faculty house erected in memory of our Bill Gray, long time trustee of the school, was opened to school uses. Bucky Benner, Edge and Walter Russell came to us from Holderness, and our beloved Zeus Marshall was rector there for several years.
The Robys announced the marriage of their daughter, Mary Elizabeth, to Mr. James Caldwell Jr. October first. Many of us had the privilege of spending a few days at one of our recent annual reunions in Hanover with the entire Roby family, and this acquaintance prompts me to congratulate Mr. James Caldwell Jr. for his good fortune in becoming the husband of Mary Elizabeth Roby. Bring them with you to our June reunion, Bill.
At a September meeting of the Hotel Association of Vermont, New Hampshire hotels were ably represented by Tinker Gale, who discussed various joint problems of the industry in these neighboring states. Oct. 19 at Laconia Tinker was elected president of the New Hampshire Hotel Association.
Early this month my mail contained a letter bearing the postmark, Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, and in the upper left hand corner
"WAR DEPARTMENT "Major Burritt H. Hinman, J. A. G. D. "Quarry Heights, Canal Zone"
It looked like a case record to me, and my first horrible thought was that Rosie had gotten into bad habits since leaving Boston and was probably breaking stone in the quarry. Feverishly opening the letter, which I expected to be an appeal to his friends from the Salvage Department, I was relieved to learn that it's a kind of title or designation, not wholly unmerited, wished on him by his alphabet-juggling employer in Washington. The letter,-"After spending about six weeks in New England and Canada, I sailed from New York on August 25 and arrived here September 2d, where I am Panama Canal Department Judge Advocate." Pardon me, your Honor, for having such ideas as I have mentioned, it must have been caused from the resemblance of an intruder at one of our Boston reunions to your distinguished self. This blond, rosy-cheeked individual played hide and seek with himself and three sets of double swinging doors between our reunion room and the corridor, to the great amusement of the old men in '04. Again the letter—"Mike Dailey is due here about December first, and will be superintendent of Gorgas Hospital. Colonel '02 Pillsbury is stationed at Gorgas Hospital. Any of the boys traveling in these parts will be given a fitting welcome. This goes for any Dartmouth man." Thanks, Rosy, and once more, pardon me, Judge.
Winter Vacation thought—We now control the courts and take over the hospital, Dec. 1 in the Canal Zone.
The Sixty-Eighth Squeak from the Golden Gate has nine convincing pages of reasons for attending the National Dartmouth Pow-Wow at San Francisco Nov. 2526-27. Our Pow-Wow class representative is Freddie Root, and we are represented on the General Committee by Belknap, Gibson, Hardy, Perkins, and Root. This information forecasts a good time for any '04 man attending the Stanford game.
On October 13 the memory of Ned Willis was honored by the following action described in the Concord Daily Monitor: "The memorial is to Edward Simmons Willis, one of the small and energetic band which was responsible for formation of the Country Club.
"When Ned Willis died in July, 1936, he was remembered best for his activities as banker and business executive. But those who had watched the dream of a Country Club become a reality recalled more definitely his untiring efforts to give the city a golf course equaling the best in New England. Sturdy green shelters erected at the fifth and sixth holes were the first evidences of the reminiscent appreciation." "They are somehow symbolic of the shelter his counsel offered us when we reached apparent dead ends," was the remark from one associate. This afternoon, with no more ceremony than that offered by a greenskeeper going his accustomed route, two bronze tablets are to be placed in the shelters. The inscription, written by Levin Chase, a lifetime friend and associate, for the tablets tell Ned Willis' story better than could the longest description. "This Shelteris a Memorial to Edward Simmons Willis,One of the Most Active Founders of theConcord Country Club. His ways were waysof Pleasantness, Helpfulness, and SteadfastDevotion to his Friends."
I am sure the simplicity and sincerity of this act of Ned's lifelong friends will appeal in its appropriateness to each of you as it did to me.
Surprised on October 10 by an attractively dressed caller, concealed behind a well-cropped blonde moustache; one of our Boston members identified this fine physical specimen as a former pole-vaulter for the College, one Dan Colesworthy. He is now with Boland and Cornelius, a Buffalo concern in the shipping business, but still resides in New Jersey, and makes his headquarters in New York City. His son is in the shipping business with another company, and his daughter is making a fine record as a senior at Middlebury College.
Dan found our New Hampshire Valley in 1917, and was then in the shipping business. During the intervening 21 years he has found time to grow a moustache, which suggests to many of us the desirability of getting behind something in the way of youthful scenery.
Recent residence address changes are: George L. Scales, 100 Henry Clay St., Pontiac, Mich., realtor; and Walter Russell, 369 Pearl St., Port Arthur, Ontario, contractor.
We were fortunate recently in having Robbie with us for a few vacationing days. We enjoyed a trip to the Cannon Mountain Tramway and spent some time in the nearby town of Littleton, where Bob first saw daylight, enjoyed the top notch mountain foliage and settled all the domestic and international questions which have the unfortunate tendency to crowd the divorces, holdups, and motor casualties from the newspaper headlines. Rob is fine, Mrs. Robbie is improving in health daily, and Betty is enjoying at South Dartmouth, Mass., the satisfaction of creating another American home.
Brown and Dartmouth had their annual encounter, and what a game! I ! Vic Place's '03 victorious 12-6 team and Myron's 62-0 game, both at Manchester, were forerunners of a great race of football players; the tools and equipment have changed in the years between, but the downright unyielding spirit to win shared by both contestants does not in my opinion reach so high a climax in any series of games as in the Brown-Dartmouth one. We were well represented by the Rollins, Edgerlys, Websters, Woods, Sewalls, Moultons, Jacksons, Austins, Beck, and doubtless many others. The day was a perfect one, a little too hot for football, but it made possible the playing of a great game in the most attractive setting I have seen. Recall the social atmosphere of the Commencement ball game and establish it in the larger area of a football field, with a background of crowded stands on all four sides and the space outside the playing field covered with interested onlookers sitting cross-legged on the grass, enjoying from that near and unusual vantage point one of the hardest fought games of the current football season. Sort of a Dartmouth family picnic feasting on bear meat.
Our Boston round-up was attended by Davis, Lampee, Dave Ford, Ham, Hobbs, Gale, Johnson, Woods, Sewall with a body- guard of Maine sheriffs and his personal counsel Hiram (B. U. Law) Willard, Streeter, Charron, Robinson, Edgerly, Kneeland, Moulton, Maguire, Bullock, Leverone, Sexton, Mower, and Austin. The evening was a large one, everybody taking part—led by Ike, who put on a practical demonstration advertising the rare positive qualities of a much advertised "pickup." The Secretary thinks Ike was well subsidized by the maker of this remedy, which is a necessary companion of the T. B. M. in modern life.
Reunion plans were discussed, and the following general committee was elected: Charron, chairman, Lampee, Kneeland, Streeter, Turner, Leverone, Root, Perkins, and Rollins. Official photographer, Johnson. Send any suggestions you may have for our June gathering to Arthur I. Charron, Post Office Building, Boston.
The Boston Herald of November third brought us definite news of our long-lost Indian. "Old Town, Me., Nov. 2, AP. Horace Nelson, one-time Dartmouth student, today held the post of governor of the Penobscot Indians here. Nelson was elected in the biennial tribal election over George Dana." It has already been suggested that a debate between Nelson and Sewall as to whether the Penobscot or Abenaqui tribes have made the greater social contribution to their neighbors would be a reunion highlight.
Paul Gordon Favour under date of Oct. 18 writes that he is on leave of absence, spending fall and winter on the coast. He writes from Hollywood, but will take time off to see the Stanford game at Palo Alto.
Ned Bartlett couldn't get to the Boston party but did see the Princeton game, and the very satisfactory one at New Haven, where he enjoyed a little time with the Logan and Woods families, Sexton, King Woodbridge, and Jack Sanderson. During the past year extra duties and responsibilities have come to Ned, who continues in good health, but says life is a continued succession of work and traveling.
I am sorry to record here the death on November 3 of Mrs. Katharine Ward Stowell after a long illness at Saint Luke's Hospital, Chicago. Frank has two sons and two daughters. Their home is at 720 Green- leave Ave., Glencoe, 111.
The November MAGAZINE was interesting enough to all of you without our class notes. Nevertheless, I am sorry to have been the reason why you did not find the class represented.
Secretary, Waterville Inn, Waterville Valley, N. H
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